The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-11
WAR scRApBooK.
Complete Newspaper Record Being Made
for Princeton; 127 Volumes Ready.

Complete Newspaper Record Being Made
for Princeton; 1T Volumes Ready.
The most recent acquisition of the IL
brary Of Princeton university is a set of
scrapbooks. 1t is incomplete, being still
in the making, and cannot, in the nature
of things, be finished until after the end
of the war. When complete it will be
monumental.
1t is the gift of Benjamin Strong, gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve bank of this
city and chairman of the Liberty loan
committee
At the beginning of the war Governor
Strong conceived the purpose of compil-
ing the work, though he failed at first to
realize its magnitude The design is that
it shall be newspaper history of the
war, as complete as it is possible to make
it, from the outbreak, July August, 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 Even
ing Mail. Afterwards the Evening Mail
was dropped from the list.
The Sun, Times and Evening Post,
however, remain sufficient sources to in
sure the perfection and entirety of the
work When it is considered that evsy-
thing pertaining to the subject that APP
pears in these three papers is preserved
in these scrapbooks the magnitude of
the job can be appreci ted. Not only
the war dispatches, but all cognate mat.
ter-editorial comment, local news, even
stock quotations, when they are directly
affected by war news-is kept.
1t is small wonder that the work soon
outgrew the ability to cope with it of
the staff of amateur workers whom Gov
ernor Strong first engaged, so that after
time he placed it in the hands of
Charles S. Hemstreet, under whose SUI
pervision it is now going on. The details
are enormous, but they are of the kind
to which his staff are accustomed, and it
is going smoothly.
Up to date, 1877 volumes have been fin
ished and forwarded to Princeton, where
they are placed in the library Of the uni.
versity, available Cor daily use.
Each one of these volumes is royal
quota of 400 pages, plainly but substan-
italy bound in buckram, each volume
representing cost of production APP
proximating $780, and each page repre-
senting an amount Of skilled labor only
to be understood by those who have un-
dertaken the keeping Of newspaper scraps
On large scale.
These pages are l3xl5 inches in size,
neatly bordered with thin red lines. The
paper is of superior quality, costing with
the printed borders more than SIS a
ream, reatn making five volumes.
Each page has four full columns Of
clippings, the selection and placing of
which requires the work Of dozen OPP
eratives. First, the newspapers as they
are received 60 to the readers, who mark
each item that is TO be preserved. Then
they 20 to The cutters and the clippings
to the sorters, and finally to the pastors.
Paste is bought in 50-pound tins, 10 tins
at time.
Each sheet when it Is filed is laid
aside for at least half day to dry par
TALLY before it is put with consider
able number Of similar sheets, nearly
finished, in a press, where it remains for
three weeks before the inset is considered
properly fixed
Ii is then finished and goes TO the bind
err, who gets the sheets 200 at time and
turns out the complete volumes at the
rate of about one week.--Pittsburg
Gazette. Times.