Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-10-01
HHE PRESS WILL GO
= into new HANDS
S. E. Whitman & Sons, New Owners, Will
Take Complete Possession Of VAL
liable Property Oct. II
why A BUSINESS GREW BIG
In A VERY few YEARS TIME

The Pleasantville Weekly Press has
virtually passed under the control OF 5
T. Whitman & Sons, of the State OF
Maryland Until Oct. IL the valuable
plant belonging to the Press Printing
Company will be run as it has been for
the last six years and five months by
6. William Braun under tentative
agreement At high noon on the above
date preliminaries will have been com
!, pieted and the Messrs Whitman viii
assume all responsibility and full con
troll of the large job printing and weekly
newspaper business.
Members of the new firm who also will
trade under the name of the Press Print
ing Company are all men of integrity:
they are well and favorably known In
the State of Maryland and have ample
business experience to fit them for build
ing up the local plant and making it one
to be rcckoned with by competitors i'll
this county and in the big cities. They
are not only proficient in the art of job
printing, but they are past masters III
the conduct of a weekly newspaper bust
ness On March l, 1910, this firm, com
RRrising a father and two sons, sold their
and newspaper property to syn
They had conducted their paper
EN- years and had made it the most
ln1laential i'll their section of the coun-
try. Samuel E. Whitman, the father, is
a lifelong printer and a Marylander by
adoption. He was born in the Gibraltei
of Republieanism, Pennsylvania, and his
SONS, Bertram E. and Walter w. are
skilled in the mechanical and executive
branches of the business. Two or three
months ago the Whitmans entered into
correspondence with Pleasantville's only
printery and as is natural when tive
ties are agreeable to a change 81
,tion a sale was soon made, and
psing portion of this story lies in
that the retiring firm realized fan
fit on the transfer.
etrospection is a pardonable indulg
e. and for this reason a few pages
: al be turned back and look taken at
the under side of them.
On June 2, 1904, Mr.. Hugh Collins
transferred his entire interest in the
plant of the Press Printing Company and
Immediately the work of making the
business conform to modern requirements
was DeSull. IL was SLOW pIoceSS, uut
step by step the standard Of workman
ship was raised and the antiquated
equipment relegated to the type foundry
scrap heaps As the business increased
each year in volume-the inevitable re
suit BY the way of extreme concentra
Mt became imperative to install a
Egentha1ef Linotype. This machine
n.operations two and one half years
it has been one of the greatest
TO the plant of anything in the
hical line that could have been
Red to the other modern appliances.
hotypes are not luxuries, the one i'll
Ie in the Press Printing Company's s
bffice involves an expenditure of over
$4,000, but its value may be understood
when it is known that one Of these ma
chimes is capable OF producing as much
work as four or five hand composltors
at the ceases"
The new firm will of course succeed to
the ownership of this wonderful machine.
and it is probable that they will add
another one of the same manufacture.
and ultimately give Pleasantville an in
dustrv Of no mean proportions. At any
yrate the retiring manager fathers this