The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-03
NEW SExTUPLE
PRESS PURCHASED
FOR THE STARS
Continued from First Pnge.)

So rapidly does the press discharge
Its output and SO smoothly do thu
papers slide away from the fingers
that the human y cannot detect G
break in the chain, and the observer
gets only the illusion of a single folded
newspaper gradually withdrawing from
the press. Not even the Rapidly
moving kaleidoscope pictures, which
consist of a long Aim Of separate pic
lures thrown In quick succession on q
screen, move so swiftly. They are
thrown upon the canvas at the rate
OF eight per second. The new press
throws out fully printed papers at al
most twice that rate.
Every page of The Star is 16N inches
wide. The width of the double page
is 1914 inches, and there are three such
double pages, printed on both sides,
to a twelve-page paper. which is the
minimum size OF either the morning
or evening edition. These pages, un-
folded and placed end to end, would
cover a space 100 inches long by %
inches wide, for a single paper. In an
hour the whole so, 900 papers, unfolded
and placed end to end, would make a
continuous line of Stars seventy-ninc
and one-half miles long, very nearly
the distance between this city and Phil
adelphia. 1t takes the fastest express
trains nearly two hours to make the
run. The Stars leave the press almost
at twice the speed of the crack Penn
sylvania fiers.
Run the press continuously for 81
hours "A minutes and ~ seconds and
the result would be a chain Of Stars
reaching across the entire country,
from New York to San Francisco, 5000
miles. 1t requires six days to make
the trip by the fastest trains, travel
ing day and night.
There Is a multiplicity of rollers and
gears, which gives the press a dex-
terity no number of human hands could
acquire. A big roll of white paper,
weighing several hundred pounds, is
placed at the rear of the big machine
and travels through h maze, up and
down, around curves and angles. with
shape of thousands of finely printed
newspapers.
During the operation the big cutting
knives. the paste fountain. the rolls
which contain the stereotype plates
printing the news and the feeding rolls
must do their work accurately to the
t~housandth part of an inch. A single
turn of the big wheels would not make
much difference We're there a slight dis
crepancy; but with thousands Of such
turns In an hour the smallest variation
of a fraction of an inch one way or
the other would be magniied proper
tionately in the last copies which are
run off the press.
There is also a perfect linking device
and a governor for regulating the press
ure of the rolls on the paper. The big
paste fountain, which contains several
must also be gagged to per-
fection. Most newspaper readers nave
never stopped to notice the paste which
holds h printed sheets in compact
yet the cost of paste alone in
the days printing is considerable.
When the paper has run from the big
original roll, through the feeding rolls,
over h printing rolls, through the
folding mechanism, past the paste foun-
tain and received it's allotment of paste,
spread smoothly down the middle of
the white margin of each double sheet,
the big cutting knives snip the copies
apart at precisely the proper point.
There is yet one more operation to be
performed, and that is the counting Of
the edition.
Fitted to a gear wheel attached to
the never-tiring steel fingers propelling
papers constantly forward. there il
a clock-lfke indicator which tells the
number of papers DISCHARGED BY
the press. There is also a device at
tACIe6 IN tho fpoare x,Ii11 oo,,& kLa
number of papers tossed aside by
or twenty-fives. according to the
number desired. This is accomplished
by throwing the fiftieth or the twenty
paper a little further out than its
.neighbors. As papers are sold largely
by these fractions of 100 to newsboys,
men in the pressroom do not have
stop to count out the number of
papers wanted. but tell it by the pro-
truding papers.
The big printing press marks the
last operation In serving the news to
public. 1t is unlike reporters. edi-
and correspondents. for 1t never
makes a mistake. The paper may tear.
or the ink may run out, but the press
Itself never m%iscounts a single paper
or prints a single sheet wrong. 1t is
perfection of machinery, made per-
feet by the minds of inventors, one of
received $500 0 in cash and a
fortune in royalties for devising a
roller which would permit of
being folded crosswise instead
lengthwlse, Dozens of the most
mechanical engineers of the
country and scores of ~high-salaried
craftsmen had set out to accomplish
result, but it remained for a lay
man. a sailor. to solve the problem.
The big printing press. compact,
powerful and marvelousIy perfect, viii
lie delivering the latest news of the
- to Star readers within the next
weeks.
Feel. Of N.e prirt!Eg press Is the