PRINTING AND MAKING OF BOOKS 



press was far from satisfactory, and soon new presses 

 were produced that trebled this capacity. Thus the 

 press placed in the office of the New York World, in 

 1887, had a capacity of forty-eight thousand papers 

 an hour, "all delivered with great exactness and per- 

 fection, cut at the top, pasted and folded ready for 

 the carrier or the mails." 



A MODERN NEWSPAPER PRESS 



Four years later a new Herald press eclipsed even 

 this monster. It required eighteen months for the con- 

 struction of this press, which was composed of about 

 sixteen thousand separate pieces. It was described in 

 the New York Herald of May 10, 1891, in part as 

 follows: 



"The new Hoe press which is being set up in the 

 Herald Building is nothing less than a miracle of 

 mechanism. To say that it is the only one of its kind 

 ever built and that it throws all previous inventions into 

 the background are facts which 'the following figures 

 abundantly prove. 



"Its consumption of white paper is so astonishing that 

 even the imagination grows tired and sits down to catch 

 its breath. It is fed from three rolls, each being more 

 than five feet wide. When it settles down to show its 

 best work it will use up in one hour nearly twenty-six 

 miles of this paper, or to make the matter more signifi- 

 cant, it will use up about fifty-two miles of paper the 

 ordinary width of the Herald every sixty minutes. 



"Our readers will be startled to learn that it can 



