The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-13
WAR scRAPBooK.
Complete Newspaper Record Being
Made for Princeton; 1877 Volumes

The most recent acquisition of the II
brary OF Princeton university is set OIL
scrapbooks 1t is incomplete, being still
in the making, and cannot, in the nature1
OF things, be finished until after the end
OF the war When complete it will bel
monumental.
1t is the gift OF Benjamin Strong, gov
elnor of the Federal Reserve bank OF Pitts
burgh and chairman of the Liberty loan
committee
At the beginning of the war Governor
Strong conceived the purpose of compll-
ing the work, though he failed at first to
realize its magnitude The design is that
it shall be a newspaper history of the
war. as complete as it is possible to make
it. from the outbreak, July-Auglst, 1914
to the end
The original plan was in order to as
sure the completeness of the work to pre-
serve all matter pertaining to the war
that should appear in The sun, The
Times the Evening Post and the Evening
Mail Afterwards the Evening Mail was
dropped from the list.
The sun, Times and Evening Post, how
ever, remain sufficient sources TO insure
the perfection and entirety OF the work.
| When it is considered that everything
pertaining to the subject that appears IN
| these three papers * preserved in these
scrapbooks the magnitude OF the Job can
| be appreciated Not only the war dis
patches, but all cognate matter editorial
| comment, local news, even stock quota
! tions. when they arc directly affected by
war ncws-is kept.
! 1t is small wonder that the work soon
outgrcw the ability to cope with it Of tn,
staff OF amateur workers whom Governor
| Strong first engaged, that after tim,
lac placed it in the hands of Charles :
Hemstrect, under whose supervision il j,
/ now going on. The details are enormous
but they are of the kind to which his stat
are accustomed. and it is going smoothly
IN To date l27 volumes have been fin
ished and forwarded To Princeton, wher
! they are placed in the library OF the uni
ycrsity, available for daily use.
Each one Of these volumes j. a roy,.
quota OF 100 pages, plainly but substan
tally bound in buckTam. each volum
| representing a cost OF production approx
mating 500, and each page represent
/, ing al amount ot KILLED labor only t
; be understood by those wEo have under
taken the keeping Of newspaper scraps O
q large scale.
\ These pages are 1915 inches in siz,
neatly bordered with thin red lines. Tn
paper is oi superior quality, costing wit
the printed borders more than SIS
!. rcan, ream making ike volumes.
Zach page has -four full columns ,
clippings. the selection and placing ,
{ which requires the work ot a dozen OF
cratjveS. First. the newspapers Us the
D are received 90 to the readers who mar
t each item that IS 10 be preserved. The
. they 20 to the cutters and the clippn.
; to- the sorters. and finally to the pastcl,
, Paste is bought in J0-pound tins. 10 tir
! at time
Each sheet when il is filled is laid aisle
: for at least half a day to dry PARTIAL
before it Is put with a considerable nun
beg OF similar sheets, nearly finished,
a press. where it remains for three wecl
> before the inset is considered proper
fixed
:, It Is then finished aad goes to the bin
| or who gets the sheets 200 at a time al
turns out the complete volumes at the Ia
Of about one a wceli.-Pittsburgh Gazctt
| Times