The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-17


$3,5O0,000. He values his whole
plant at s16,O00,OOO and tells you
that he has a pay roll of $4,000
day.
20 Linotypes i'm Room.
One room in the print shop has 70
linotype machines in it, the largest
number in one office in the world.
In another place are the melting pots,
holding Is tons of metal at time.
In another room he shows presses
whose combined output is more than
1 100000 impressions every eight
hour day. There are 81 presses and
there is not pully or belt in sight.
Each machine is operated by its own
individual motor, which is placed out
of sight. They eat up paper at the
rate of 40 tons a day and ink at the
rate of $50 pounds every eight hours.
The card presses turns out 100000
cards printed on both sides every day.
Printer Has Elegant Office.
The job office is the biggest place
of it's kind in the world. 1t turns out
more job work every day in the yeal
than the average plant turns out in
a week. Leaving this place the visitor
is told that the Office of the public
printed, located on the same floor, is
the most elegantly furnished office
the government has. And any one
who has had the opportunity to com
pare the public printers office with
that of President Tafts might think
that Mr.. Taft's was a backwoods law
Office in comparison.
Uncle Sam, publisher, has finished
some big jobs, but that monumental,
if not highly useful work, the Rebel
lion Records, with it's 1913 volumes
and a 1200-page index, will perhaps
remain for generations to come the
greatest single undertaking in the
printing line. Think Of it! Over
100000 pages of history dealing with
one five-year period! 1t required up
wards of $4,000 reams of white paper
and more than 5000, 100000 ems of
type to publish this great work. The
whole edition comprised about 1,500,-
900 volumes.
History Is Finest Work.
1t is said that the finest piece of
work Uncle Sam ever executed was
the History of the Capitol. That it is
fine book may be inferred from the
statement that although nothing is
charged for in its sale but the bare
cost after the plates were made, it
sells for $40 a volume.
A great many valuable works come
from the presses of Uncle Sans big
printery, btu there is such an abund-
ance of chaff with the wheat that
even the libraries designated as de-
positories were surfeited with gov
eminent documents.
Perhaps the greatest need that Un-
Gle Sam as a published has is corps
of trained editors, who are masters of
the art of blue penciling. An exam
nation of the average public docu-
ment reveals the fact that half of its
contents might have been cut out
without the loss of single essential |
fact, and with the gain of an inesti- |
mable degree of interest and service |
ableness.
Advertising Pays U. S.
Not the least uninteresting part of
Uncle Sans big publishing business is
the work of the superintendent of
To be able to sell that
which can be had for nothing is an
unusual accomplishment. But the
present incumbent has been able toll
do that very thing and to no incon-
siderable extent. His success has
hinged on the doctrine that advertis-
ing pays.
That there are documents by the
tens of thousands lying in the storage
rooms of the government, which are
invaluable If placed in proper hands,
is we'll known fact. But the public
has been unconscious of their ex-
istence and of how to get them.
To inform them of the existence
of these documents and of how to-
get them he secured from congress
negligible appropriation for adver-
Using purposes. He issued few
magazines and newspaper advertis-
ing statements, and then got out an
attractive poster, which the postofice
department authorized him to have
hung in every postoffice. In this he
explained fully the scope OF public