DIVISION" OF PUBLICATIONS. 271 



This department maintains, in the Superintendent of Document's 

 office in the Government Printing Office, 421 individual mailing lists 

 containing 523,435 addresses. AU additions, removals, and other 

 changes made at the Government Printing Office are ordered from 

 the mailing list record room, and the amount of detail required in 

 connection therewith is veiy great. Another important feature of 

 the work of this room is the revision of the mailing lists controlled 

 by this division, to which are sent the Monthly List, Weekly News 

 Letter, Crop Keport, and Press Notices, etc. More than 200,000 

 addresses on these lists were revised last year. 



Statement of work on addressing lists. 



Addresses written for different divisions 363, 922 



Miscellaneous addi-esses written 160, 498 



Work prepared for Government Printing Office 137, 124 



Carding on typewriter for general index 200, 000 



Mailing 201, 185 



Folding 913, 911 



Addresses revised 202, 771 



Indexing 400, 000 



Addresses compared 200, 000 



LABOR-SAVING MACHINES. 



One of the most important subdivisions of the document section 

 is the machine room, wherein the labor-saving machines are installed 

 and operated. Here the work of stencil cutting, addressing of 

 envelopes, folding, and duplicating work is done. The work done 

 in this branch of the office is of great magnitude. Last year 95,343 

 new stencils were cut, while 40,014 stencils were removed from the 

 files, an increase of 100 per cent in cutting and 50 per cent in removals 

 over similar work done last year; 5,256,281 envelopes and franks 

 were addressed, an increase of over 2,000,000 above the number 

 addressed during the previous year. More than 700,000 congres- 

 sional franks, received in this office in sheets, were cut. In addition 

 to this, 1,100,000 sheets of paper were cut for the various bureaus, 

 offices, and divisions of the department. A total of 2,242,418 

 circulars were folded on the folding machines. In all, there are 

 180,798 stencils containing addresses in this office. These addresses 

 go to make up the department mailing lists of the various bureaus. 



The flexotype and mimeograph work has become a most important 

 feature of its activities. Requests were received from the various 

 offices of the Department for 2,226 jobs of this character during the 

 year ended June 30, 1915, under which 3,530,832 copies were made, 

 containing 5,218,727 pages. 



