The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-01


 do the work in vastly less time. but would print both sides of the paper at once. From a recent article on the subject, we take the following notice of Hoes efforts to accomplish the end he had In view:
 With this single idea in mind he Ia bored for years. Other inventors ap- peared to have outstripped nm m Ve. rious designs of rotary presses. put Hoe gained new ideas from the others and evolved new ones for himself. AS a result of his work. the newspaper press of today Is marvel. what IS known as the 1908 model" which Is used in most newspaper ofnces, IS the largest. It uses. when running at full capacity, eight rolls of paper, each four papers wide. At full capacity and driven by l25 horse, power engine; It width of a roll an hour. or 2S0 miles of paper an hour the width of news paper. From c single press of this size are produced s6.ooo papers an And these papers are all delivered folded to half page size, pasted and counted. It was due to MT. Hoes genius that newspaper are now sold at a price that makes them the greatest bargain of any con modity in the world. Intelligence is flashed from every cor ner oe the earth, printed with light ming rapidity and delivered to the pur- chasers at cost so slight that the average man may keep well posted on all the worlds important affairs with out denying himself any comfort or luxury. Hoe inaugurated the era Of cheap newspaper.
 It is not to be inferred that no pow CT press had been invented and used before this time. What was known as the Hoe clyinder press" was built as early as 1S46, but it was only in 1871 that Robert Hoe succeeded in his efforts and turned out the style of printing press that Is now in use by most large newspapers and which turns out complete papers with such marvellous speed. It is true that im- provements have been made. and that other firms manufacture fast presses, but to the man who recently died in England at seventy years of age, is due the credit of conceiving, inventing and building the first of the great ma chimes without which it would not be possible to turn out the monster edi- tions of great newspapers as is now so common. He was the pioneer in the work, and though others have fol- lowed. it may with truth and justice be said that to him. more than to any other man, is due the wonderful print ing machinery of today.
 When we think of good old Ben Franklin laboriously at work with his rude nd-press. printing one side of few hundred small sheets in an hour. we are led to wonder what would be his thoughts if he could now visit one of the frst-class printing offices of the present time and see almost endless rolls of white paper fed into one end of the most complicated of all ma chimes and the completed papers com ing out at the other end-complete and ready for the reader. He would doubt of such a machine as a wizard. and he would not be far wrong so far as hu- man beings can possess supernatural powers. In fact, the average man. looking at one of the most modern presses at work is led to wonder how any human being. or beings, could con- struct such a machine. much less in. vent it. As to that matter, some of the old printers who laboriously ope- rated the hand presses half a century ago cannot even now look on one of the modern machines without a feeling of wonder that such things are possi- ble. And the early rising citizen who must have his big newspaper when he gets out of bed each morning rarely thinks of how much he owes to Robert Hoe