Evening star., 1912-01-07

ready one hour after congress ad1ourns
for the day. the strain becomes doubly
severe
With the completion of the copy at the
CAPITOL. messengers stand ready 70 whisk
it off TO Uncle Sans BID pr ntery. There
it runs up against such complete and
detailed system of handling t is pos
sible to tell at any moment just where
a particular. portion Of the days pro-
ceedings is located.
First it goes to what they term tne
Jacket room," which contains system
much like that of huge card ndex.
It's time of receipt is recorded. and from
then on it is effectually hobbled
But the hobbling does not retard the
forward pace. 1t is thrust into the hands
of editors who look to its perfected con-
dition, and then run up through pneu-
mate tubes to the great linotype ma
chimes. 1t is only a brief time thereafter
that it reappears in proof sheets.
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Herein again comes the effectiveness of
the system of entry used at the govern
ment printing office. Each section of the
Record which contains the remarks Of a
senator or representative must go to that
official for final revision. If he remem-
bers what he has said on the floor during
the day he corrects any errors which he
may find. Three messengers are kept
N,
ing the proof sheets to the various mem
bers as soon as they are completed. Thus
the Record for the day may be sNit uo
in a score or more of parts, but wher
each proof IS returned the compositors
in charge know exactly what forms need
the corrections which may have been
made and just where to lay their hand.
on them.
1t is a strict rule provided by the join
committee on printing of Congress that
matter revision
be returned to the office by m dnight
Until recently this rule has Possessed q
great deal of laxneSS. but the CROWN,
amount of material which emanai es from
Congress has so taxed the already over
worked time limit that Publ Printe:
Donnelly has inaugurated Il strict observ
ance.
What is termed the makeup, or tn
rearrangement of the corrected pages as
they will appear in the Record, begins
promptly at midnight Over All hour has
been saved in thus adhering to a rule
which, added to the time saved by the
new stereotyping plant which the public
printer has recently had installed, insureS
the Records issue at least an hour and
a half earlier.
1t would be difficult to locate a printing
plant which could accomplish such feats
on the same class of work as those which
are frequently performed with the pub
lication of the Record. The issue for
the Sd of last March ran to 1872 pages, the
largest in it's history, and larger than
the average issue by over a hundred
pages. Yet this same force, by supreme
efforts. turned out the completed edition
by o'clock the following morning and
established the record for quick work.
Twenty-eght thousand copies, bound
in pamphlet form, are issued daily, and,
according to the public printer. the force
and machines are now so efficient that
be handled than that which constituted
the record breaker
Like ali other appliances for the ma
tiOn'S SOlOnS, two presses are set aside
especially for this work. With their daily
polish and rundown they look like the
we'll groomed horses of some royal SOW
ereign, ready after each feat of expert
ment's notice. The smaller press, run
ming at 10000 revolutions an hour. turns
out 10000 sheets, and iS used for the
lighter editions Of the daily Record. The
larger machine stands ready for those
heavier outputs, the result of strenuous
days in Congress. Its capacity runs up
to 100000 sheets in one hour.
While the whirring of the presses is
still in the air the printed sheets are
hustled off to the assembling room, where
they are piled in regular order Just be-
yond this room there are several long
trOlley-l.ke affairs over which the gath
cred portions of the Record travel one
after the other to the stitching machine,
where, with two short and vicious jabs on
the part of stitcher the wire staples are
thrust through the completed copy. The