The Oregon daily journal., June 26, 1904, Page 28, Image 28

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THE OREGON : SUNDAY JOURNAL', PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 23, 1CC1.
, TWO years ago jaai jaarcn wnen W
. whan The Journal was atarted ita
4 praes facilities eonalated of an
4- old-faahlonad Qoaa, whoae . ax- .
. a treme capacity waa t a U-page
4 paper. While tha ciroulation of
. tha paper waa email and tha
4 paper Itself waa aa experiment ,
it filled tha bill In a sort of way ,
4 and actually s erred its purpose,'
4 But when tha work of astebllsh-
ing a permanent newspaper was ;
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.:FOUR?iCYpINDER yOTA
PROGRESS brings change and im
provement, and The journal is no
- exception to the rule. Bo rapidly
i and substantially has the evola-
' Hon of the newspaper bustness In Or
ton wrought new conditions and larger
MAiiiMmftntfl In The Journal establish-
'ment thet today only XI monthe alms
: tha Installation of tha present Dig tnree-i
'deck straight-line perfecting press in .,
Iti proa room The Journal ia eon
. fronted with the necaeaUy of bavlng a
' larger presa.:' Tha new machine la al- v
ready built and Will ba Installed wltbltt ,
the next 10 daya.' ."V V ' -:V
It . will ba decidedly in the heavy-..
weight claaa, and the most perfect of Ita ;
moneer-lilnd tht la turned out of the
' chop of tha world printing press build- .
ara. Its atyla Is Jtnown .as tha ,Hae;
' "quadruplaVor four preaaee in ona. ' In V
addition to ita four-deck printing capac- '?
Ity it will ba the latest regulation color
' Dreas. capable of printing in four colors
; simultaneously on, tha eama aheet of
:-' paper. ' ,:'.'. .'i :---'
- BUndinr HH feet high, 0 feet in ;'
length, requiring ; borse-power to
drive t. and turning al tha high spaed
required to produce ,t 4,000 complete Is ,
page newspapera per hour, this - harr
nessed giant of tempered steel and pol
lened brass will run ao smoothly that
'only tha slightest Jarring la felt upon ,
the floor dlreqtly oyer itso sclentifie :
Is tha basic principle of Ita construction. ,.
so perfectly ia averjr Journal turned, ao :
finely cut and fitted is every cog. - ; ...
. One could terry aij hour with a. mass
, of figures and mechanical Jargon de- j,
acrlblng 1U beauties in the exact terma :
' ef tha machine's 'architect its 17 big;
printing cyUnders and .their, correlative
devices; its T composition rollers that
are required to distribute tha ink, in--atead
of the half doaen rollers used on. '
tha old-time "cylinder" press generally. .
used in Oregon printing offices for thia
rormorant devours 100 pounds of ink In
a single hour's run, and 1.2S0 pounds,
of stereotype metal are required dally
to cast the printing plates that ' ar;
clamped upon its cylinder! when made -
ready for printing tha pages of. The
: Journal. But only the. appreciative tna,
' chlnlst eader would cara for so tech- -
, hlcal a description.' .Tha average Jour-,
nal reader prefers to turn to some phase
of the machine more eaany witnm nis
jrrasp and perhaps to speculate upon tha
enormous power for good or eviTthat
such a machine may wield. Surrounding
a printing press thert always has been
a halo of aentiment. nothing of which '
is seen about a threshing machine or a -cider
preaa, although tha last-named has
been credited with power of exerting
' ' certain Influence upon tha human brain
If It product be kept in corked pottery
' tor the period of about a three -months'
' T.' subscription. . .i .-j ":,.-Vv
I ,'Iha Old-Tima Couatrjr.rraaa, .
'' Particularly, did aentiment in former
' years play a part in tha discarding of
' tha old press upon which the paper had
built up and expanded its sphere of use- ;
fulness in the community. ; The edUor i,
of a rural daily aome years ago upon
thus parUng with a little old Hoe press ,
that had served the paper 19 years by
grinding out t200 sheeu per hour print- .
d only on one aide at a time, and sup- ,
. 1 planting It with what to him seemed a
- i wonderful machine printing double that
number, was lnspinad' to write tha fol
' lowing touching llnei to the old press:
twenty years is' a long time for a print- ;
, - ing press to go
' Rolling 'round with the spring and fall
time wears thlnga out so
"All her patents dead for 15 years or
thereabout
" But regularly every day she got the pa- ;
per out. '
'. Every bone in her old body's Just aa
true as steel
. Upon my soul I think that press could
hear, and think, and feel
But once in all that time she's paused
to question or to doubt
' The wisdom of her willingness to get
' ' the paper out.
t ' ' 'A letter scoring "progress," by bilious
' , old Gid Byle
Had crept In unbeknown to us things
' ; Will once in a while.
f 'As waa- thir wont, the leaden forms
moved forward on their track,
f The shrinking $ress wnt with chug
'k ' . - ker-chug and started back
a Down agajn, and back again she rolled
, i around, ker-chug, ker-chug
' !An4 then with human skill the big form
, " roller Jerked a slug ,
.Straight into Byles'ea vile address the
, loose alug aankand stopped the
press.
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tlons were at onoa manifest and
4 a new presa waa tha first thing .
4 decided upon. It waa than b- '
A, llavarf tha, tia lu thln A An
waa to get tha best press in tha (
' ' market, for that in the long, ruh ' ,
atratghtllna Uoa press with color . 1
4 attachment waa ordered. This .
4 waa Installed, the very first of Ita
kind in Oreron. a little over a . A .
year ago, and tha investment haa
been Juatlfled br tha handsomest ;
printed paper in this section of :
tha country. . . . . .t a '
, But with tha growth In clr-
eulation, with tha exigencies. '
wnicn. nave aruen sinca Tha , .
Sunday .'Journal waa atarted, it 7 .
naa Men rouna tnal tne cress. A
. to fill, -all probable .- needs . ; :
a for ' soma years to coma have
i bean outgrown . and that tha
' conditions now require a four
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L',J- '- VTME JOURL SEW-:PRBSS,; 7 .y ; : - 'I5f
' tfQ . .FIRST, HOE ,WE FRESjg ; :S- r-SS-.-. . . ;
' -ISAAC APAHS'SBEp AND, PLATEN PRESS
; a deck presa with color attach-:
.' a - tnanta. capable, of producing the
. ' e class of work which the greatest
, e Sunday newspapers of ,' -i tha
; United States now boast In
i .... e ' this particular line no. paper wilt
. be batter, equipped, and The Jour-,
iuJ will then be ready to carry
. this claaa of work i to a point
; 4 never before reached in this seo
e tlon. '. ... ,. ......
' Tha naai kaaa - 11 mmImI ! AAA 'v. A.
contiii . AQ-pwt papara in 1 aa
h hour. It wlU prinl I pa 4, , V;
. . , W, J Ul !
: will also print in four colors and" e) -y
. m all their variations, producing. e
'l- " genuine rainbqw effects that will ;
i e be pleasing to the eye and grati-" e ' .
. W tiiia o xam riiaiio anse. . ,
: '.' . No better evidence of the con-'. e .;
tinued growth , of The Journal
i t e could be given, although It may,
- e be added that this la onlr ona of
f - j i vvaeva Wf ut van. aw aaa v v vw . g -
A VHshnrsl tha ma AAMtamn atail
't , VI i ITCH UUUCT Wl. ''','- . ' '
e'e e e ' w ;
uiuvvuitjnii wu vucLiea ii i ns Hf-VHrinsT v
.or tne sneets arter inateaa or before,.
to a sheet filer and flirted alternately! ,
, into the hands of two boys seated oppo-
.site one another on either side of the
. 1 . . . .LI a. n . .
, ventorswere also busy, and the Marlon! I -'
. umviuutj uivuiiu vui, mini liat 1 WllV "
Timea presa. - ; ; .
4 ' . Km Si Hit. TbVT nktn,
In 1871 Hoe A Co., now the makers
' ef Tha Journal's new presa, entered "the
f Hsta and undertook to perfect the web
press idea, and present to. the newspaper
world a machine that would not only
; print both aides at once-from a oontinu-
ous roll of paper, but do it in a practical
s and reliable manner and at greater speed
than had been dreamed of bv nrlnttna
preaa makers. Four knotty problems met f.
' them at the outset :r First, the fresh ink'; 7
7 on ona side of the sheet would leave an
Imprint on that side of th tympan while .
.1 the opposite side was being printed;?
second, the difficulty .of obtaining blank . .
paper of strong and uniform quality In
'." the roll at a price that would enable pub
. . llfthers to use It paper at that time be- ' L
. ing made of rags and being much more ,
expensive than in these days of wood
"pulp paper; third, the necessity for great ')"
rapidity in severing the sheeta afte5r- f v
printing; and fourth, a; reliable and ae
" curate folding and delivery of the printed ' v
' heets aa they came from the press. The ;
Hoe inventors, after long struggle with -
; the mechanical intricacies involved, such
as none but a master machinist can ap
'Predate, at length produced a perfecting .
press that wai a substantial success and ' H.
- which placed - them in the lead ot the
world' print! ng-presa manufacturers, V :
The problem .of gathering the different ?i
v printed sheets for a U-page paper as
they sassed throue-h Um . v. -i
liverinsr'them in ona omnit '
' "SS4 Ly BtPnn Tucker, a member i
, of the Hoe company and thia masterful
, : invention la today a feature of perfecU ,
. ing newspaper presses. - V ,
' &ondoa Oot tha Tint, ' '
The lirat of these wonderful machines v
waa placed in the office ; of Lloyd's
: Weekly , Newsoaoer. ia limtnn h-
': first one used' in the United 'slaTes wiia
piacea in tne New Tork Tribune office. '
... There was nd limit to their capacity for .i
printing except the capacity of the paper
. wo KiiutH, ii paasea urougn ; .-.:
tne press, which produced, when put to -:!
; ' Peed, 18.000 perfect paper an hour,"
delivered accurately on one feed board.;.
.' Thete printing-office marvels' rapidly -'Is
. came Into use by most of the large ews- ' ;?
papers in the United States and Great 1v
Erltaln. - - , : , . - ::;
. . These "new, machines entirely super- :
' seded their nearest competitor, -which at 'V.
, hat time waa known aa the Hoe Type-
1 Revolving Machine," which had relgndi .
supreme in the. newspaper offices of the S,J;
large citlea for .more than 80 yeara, and : :i
of which J75 had been made. This presa
was composed-of one very large cylinder, ;
upon which the 'type forms ' were made
up and locked; and the feedboards were W '
.built W three stories on each side of the
cvlinder. a man atandlnr unon ach n .:; .
the three ( feedboards and if feeding"; the '" if
papers into it In separate sheets by hand. wS
This idea was later developed Into a web .
1,000 comnleted capers of eight cares the art of newspaper printing. They ex-' hour, and
an.ih timlH rptidh TaiipmaI mbh nMAAai etUIn vVtv Sa Imaa S- flAMfima 1a M ft t fA 4A Itf 14 VaUIVa
prlntlhg and folding 24.000 complete 18- be delivered at your door at a cost to the id was .first auggested.to, 1868. v American. William Bullock. " of Phlla- l"t printing cylinders. This machine Only pne or tnesa 'P8 however, was
the evolution required a period " the f oldin ' up nd ? delivery of the och distances apart as to grasp each press that 'Ped direct from tee type ;: ;
irs, extending frori 1887, when printed, paper. lt . remained if or an! sheet, successively aa it came from the orfm from ' . 'IPf.
page, papers In an hour, printing 82 you of but 10 cents per week, and now, when the first practical working rotary
pages in a single Impression, will thus the advertiser can now secures a clrcu- perfecting preaa was atarted In the of
do the work of practically BOof the old Jation and publicity at one-tenth the pro ; flee -of the Iondon - Tlmea. . The first
'With tender ioy we, extricated Byles'es
- billingsgate
'And substituted for it a selected piece
. ,of plate
And never since:, then has that press
' given pause to doubt,
r' But ' regularly every -day . ahe got the
, paper out U .- .
' J Cause for Wonder.
The wonder of the metropolitan editor
- as well as the rural editor and the lay
man nowadays 1? th perfection that
haa been reached by the modern press
builder as' .typified In, the new press. The
.Journal' is. about 1 to inxtall. When its
firesent effectiveness, as compared With
he old-time printing preaees is compre
hended, it Is good ckuae for amaaemeot
The old-time press, such sg as A most
presses and do it easily, requiring only
three presHmen and one; apprentice in
stead of. the 50 pressmen and 100 ap
prentices that would be required tot pro
duce the same number of papers-with
the old-time flatbed presses . that are
portionate rate he would . have, to .pay suggeetlon came from Sir Rowland Hill,
, were it not for the modern perfecting who had observedi ' the , machines by :
delphla, to construct in 1885 the first wa Put Up In aeveral Offices and. re
press that would actually print from a Jected because,, of its unreliability,
continuous r6U of paper. But his inven-. : especially i the delivery of the papers,
ever ; built in a western- nnwsoaner t iif. W;i
, but it was at. lenarth met. far nnrfected
that it came Into use to a considerable
extent. ... '
Meanwhile the proprietors of the Lon
flee, that of the'Pes Moines fla.1 . stata-ia
Register. ii It was' mechanical success, t
but was1, extremely .: ponderous . arid re- f r
quired ati .enormous power to operate it v
. The Hoe Quadruple perfecting press, of v
the kind Tne, Journal will install next
rtnn Ttmps InnuiriirnfAd TnrlmAnta month, appeared 1U Its first form in 1887.
With a view to makinr a roUry perfect and was a step in advance of everything
mg press. -and finally atarted on in that nai , naa ; :. improvements
From . the .Youth's j Companion. ;
: Last year the truit-ralaerr held A con
vention, in a western city, w it was 4e
prlotera of today knew when they were 1 largely to a aiscussion. pro ana
bora, nrintlna nerhaps 2.000 aheets 4n mainly ion'-as - to1 .the 'Ben
, , a, . - . 1 n.bi 'ttnnl. WA,
mjl flour, rCMtirm ie,Mnia fi .ir
'prentlce, and another apprentice to feed
the printed papers intOjthe folder or
practically two full hands t . produce
tlon was Inherently weak from the fact
that the Cuttlnar of the rianer Into Hheeta
which cloth manufacturers wera Drfnt-' waa dona in th machine before the
Bow They Ara Evolved. i , ing ton both sides r cottofi, stuffs, the ' paper . passed between the printing
It was -a far cry from the stmpte cylinders for this purpose -being en- cylindere, and he was confronted with
cylinder nresa ' with a maximum ca graved and the cfotn? reeled uPi after the problem jf a davlce that would
SI tilt- f VI m.lrf 1w tiAaftw nrAiW MAtroMaLaM h At ' O ftAA Aa -V mm kbImaJ KalMSf firtAA i V"Kah - ' Sli I sf cfAstf I An hAtfL.' liakn4lA J aank J ahaa mm 4 . amm a. . . tftoinl
office outside of the large cities. -These only n one Side of the sheet, to the ever,- was accompanied, by no practical through the v cyllrfders. which he at- office in 1868.: It was similar to the upon, tne origmat nave been many: and .
comparisons .should ' not be taken as rotery press printing both ides of the "knowledge as to. the details and, abova tempted by meana of tapes and mechaijl-' Bullock press, so far as the- printing ..important, ana , w now regarded as the
invidious but simply Interesting as - sheet at once from a continuous roll of 'all," no provision for the rapid cutting -cal fingers and a scries of automatia apparatus was concerned, but , the : acme or perrepuon for newspapers hstvlng;..,,
showing the marvelous " development of ? paper, at a. speed of , 1,000? or more an Off r the sheets af fast as printed and metal nippers placed upon leather belts cylinders were all of one else, and were ' daily cjrouiation of, from JO.OOO to 0,- v5
' 111 1 I' 1 ',.,,,.'11 W"." .M. .,-." i...i.,,.ni,. I,',. iim.II J"1 HI Hi HiHiM. 'I'll I I' ' ' ' .' .I!"" "LI linji.imw i ,il I llMi. iij .n ..n.,1 ,im . ,ww IMF' i,i,m ., u I 1. ' r- - . -w ' . wwv.. , , ..
or tne wens ot paper this press 4s made 4
to producer-page, papers at a running ;
speed of 48,000 an hour, and 24,000 per hour v
of either 10; 12, 14 or ls-page papers, all
delivered with great exactnese and per- . '
fectlon. out at tha top, pasted and folded '-'
ready for the carrier and the malls.-' t
An idea of the rapidity , of the , per- "-ci
formance of this machine vnay be -gained f1
from the fact that 84.000 inches,- or more
than half , a mile, paper from the con-3;
tinuous roll passes through It per min
ute, and 83 worth of the blank paper is
consumed by it in. that brief spaoe. - ''
FAILED TO , SURPRISE HIM
Davis apple. Now the Ben Davis, by
reason of its being Jarg. red, fine-look-lng,
a prolific grower end an excellent
keeper, la a favorite apple among wes-
terners who false fruit for the market;
but ; the coarseness of its flesh and it
lack of flavor, and . sweetness make' II
strongly disliked by those who judge aa
apple by Ha qusJity.- sUi-'i'
,: Among the apple-growers ' In, attend'
ance at the convention was anteaaifrn
horticulturist -who- had been -especially
severe in hie denunciation of the, Ben
Davis, ' He presented figures showing
that the exportation of American apples
to Europe had fallen, off lamentably, of
late years on account of the fact that
the most of them were of this particular
variety, and that -tha people Over there
coald not be brought to regard them
With favor; and he urged that the con
ventlon set the seal of its condemna
tion on the Ben Davis and discourage
its further growth and exploitation, ,
A fruit-grower who had an orchard
of several thousand apple trees, all of
them' of this particular kind, one morn,
ing. handed .him' a magnificent-looking
specimen, bright red and of the largest
else". . ' , - .,.. -, . ., .
"Tou think you. know ' a good deal
about apples," he said, with' a sly wink
at the others wha wara landing, about.
"Taste ihat ami see if you can tell what
variety it la." .
-;The eastern-man bit -or tried to bite
Into it. He found that its exterior
was a thin shell of papier-mache, wwle
Its interior confuted entirely of cork.
"Tes,' he said, -with, a countenance
wholly unmoved, "I know what it la
It's a Ben Davis, but it's the best one
I avar tasted.' ,
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