PRINTING AND MAKING OF BOOKS 



25! miles of sixty- three-inch- wide paper equivalent 

 to 5 if miles of paper the width of the Herald in one 

 hour and eject it at the two deliveries. It is a sight worth 

 seeing to see it done. Certainly we know of nothing else 

 which affords such a striking example of the triumph of 

 mechanical genius. 



"A man turns a lever, shafts and cylinders begin to 

 revolve, the whirring noise settles into a steady roar, 

 you see the three streams of white paper pouring into 

 the machine from the three huge rolls, and you pass 

 around to the other side it is literally snowing news- 

 papers at each of the two delivery outlets. So fast does 

 one paper follow the other that you catch only a momen- 

 tary glitter from the deft steel fingers that seize the 

 papers and cast them out. 



"The machine weighs about fifty-eight tons. It is 

 massive and strong with the strength of a thousand 

 giants. And yet though its arms are of steel and its 

 motions are all as rapid as lightning, its touch is as 

 tender as that of a woman when she carries her babe. 

 How else does the machine avoid tearing the paper? 

 It tears very readily, as you often ascertain accidentally 

 when turning over the leaves. Truly wonderful it is, 

 and mysterious to anybody but an expert, how this 

 huge machine can make newspapers at the rate of 

 twenty-five a second without rending the paper all to 

 shreds. 



"It has six plate-cylinders, each cylinder carrying 

 eight stereotype plates which represent eight pages of 

 the Herald, and six impression-cylinders These cylin- 

 ders, when the press is working at full speed, make 



