Middletown transcript., 1912-08-31
A VISIT TO GOLFERS
A Huge Business Doing A Great
and Good Work

Recently IHE TRANSCRIPT scribe had
the fine treat Of being shown over the
Collier Plant in 416 43O w. 18th street,
New York City.
Collier as the pull sher of many mil
lions of books aud of the great Go ler's
National Weekly" jlurr al whose
mighty influence for good Is natInI.- vide,
Is figure of such commanding ImpoI-
tance, that our readers, many Ot whom
are Il so owners Of G.. liipr books and
readers OF Golfers Weekly, and its her
publications, will Welcnme description OF
that wonderful institution.
The main buildings alone occupy 43
acres # floor space, and there are besides,
81 nrancn houses AMI 96 sub branches,
and advertising Offices ID Chicago, Bos-
ton and Toronto. From the wear 1889 TO
1909 Golfers published $1,000, 600 books,
yielding revenue of $50, 900, ,OO0.00, a.
600, 600 of these books were useful cyclope-
dia-, histories, and snch noble classics as
Shakespeare, Scott. Dickens, Cooper, Poe,
Thackery, &". Golfers "FIve-fOot -, .
shelf wonld reach from New York to St.
Louis, and its pages lail end to end,
wOuld reach to the moon and back ten
times! 1t needs thousands of EMPLOYEES
to do this stnpendOns labor, e. q. ia
1908, besides the 1000 employ ees in the
main plant. there we 5000 statesmen,
with many thousands in other branches
with $1,000, 000.00 yearly pay roll!
In 1907 1856, 000 was spent for new
material, $425. 10000 for freight &C., and
$497 ,000. on head off expenses. The
type SET in one year p. 5.00OOO Sens"
would make row 45 nil g long. Hare
are sore of the quantities used in one
ytar-2i tons of soda, II tors of pumct
stone, II tons of tin foil, p tons of glue,
600 tons ni bindery board, rope and twine,
IL tons, $50 barrels of a.te, 63I, 900 yds.
of cloth. $27, 10000 worth of gold leaf,
Sic, ,OOO.O0 worth of leather, 400 Ii. OF
muriatic acid and s, 700 tons of paper.
The Nam Press Room has $500. 600. 90
worth of machinery in it, and the paper
run on the three weekly web presses every
day, would make sidewalk feet in.
wide from New York to Philadelphia! To
keep these presses clean requires II tons
of rags aid 325 barrels of benzine, and
the value of the waste paper yearly is
$50 10000
Collier has a single color press (the
only one in the country that cost 500, =
600 90. and prints "a 0OO covers each hour,
with - men operating it. Here are some
more big figures. The Government keeps
a postal employee in the mailing r0oIi
looking after the OUTGOING mail whose
postage for the Weekly alone was over
$l06 900 90 in 1908. In the ement are
stored |, 500, 900 unbound books, awaiting
the bindery--a huge catacOmb of learn
ing whose streets and avenues are filled,
not with mnsty dead mems bones, but
with the glorious, immortal thoughts of
the worlds greatest thinkers in all ages
What mass of corresp pondence the Col
lier's must have when it needs in one
year 400, 900 envelopes and over 45 tons
of writing paper to conduct il!
Then if you have something to sell and
wish all the world to know it, Collier
wi accommodate you for $250a line, or
$35 90 an inch; and if you wish whole
page in colors, it will cost you $2200 90
for one issue, or for one years sd. the
snug little nest egg of $ll4, 10000! And
yet you save money in such Collier ad 1,
for it would cost you to reach its $40. 600
readers of the Weekly about 0,0O00 90
for prir ting and postage alOne, or in a
whole year $500, 900. 00-over times the
cost of the years ''ad.' So Golfers high
priced lads" are really cheap after al.
Here's glance at the men and women
who do this work-the living cogs in the
huge Collier machine. 30 editors at a
yearly salary of $lOO,O0OOO, besides con-
tributions from 1l3 authors, 81 artists,
l33 photographers at a further annual
Gust OF 500, 10000. Such is the hasty,
birds eye view of this vast business the
scribe gained with the courteous Mr..
Turner as his guide. But best of all,
Golfers books are good and clean,
equally interesting and useful, while the
grt at National Weekly stands for truth
aud justice TO all men, and is mighty
power in the land, fighting wrong and
corruption-always as the champion OF
the people. In word, Collier stands like
another lofty Pharos, Illuminating with
moral and intellectual light the whole
world or to quote their own modest
words, is-"one more sincere effort to
sea ter light aud know ledge in an efec-
tive, rapid widt -resching way"