Pittston Gazette

              C/• flHtfefrm JiHk: 6,300 WEATHER. Copies of Today's Issue of the Gazette Were Printed. Rain or Snow Tonight and Sunday. 32d YEAR. IWEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1880. f DAILY ESTABLISHED by THEO. HART 1882. PITTSTON, PA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1902. TWO CENTS A COPYj_ ( 0 PJIHFfi FORTY CENTS A MONTH.» ° The Gazette's New Duplex Web Perfecting Press. \%:1' i-i .'f v ~ sj- ■ j I M , jj f m! "1 "~^^^M W1 & ,jK&aM WC0 jz mv Xm/V |v JH jp%a&gg K .y« • I HB W 1| Bi J  *— \h| «JN iE--- .Jf ••-*. r ■ ' '■»^5fc BRi" . MBV w. ; t.D ft A, •"—« ? * A " J • '*£&& ' I • ■; V3*W% •,; • ♦/D''* " C ■ V •D:VT itk' it 'v: v H.yitjf Cvmjftc/!? ■x:*a i * * ;C?.. •»» - *-w* " *——•» V ■/. X..,, A Brief Description of the Fast Newspaper Making Machine Recently. in Operation in Pittston. jj Placed In view of tlip fact that tin- Uazette D Press. made hy In«- IUiplcx Printing |Daper were put in their proper places, will hereafter be printed on one of the ] Press company, ol Haiti. Creek, Micii.. and the wheel* slowly set in motion, finest modern perfecting presses in I was in every particular tin- lest press each movement being adjusted to a this section of the country, a briel tie- j for newspapers having a circulation nicety so that it: the end all parts seription of the marvelous mechanism nm'.rr the mark, and one of work, together in.harmony for the prowhich has been installed in these machines was accordingly pur-, duttion ol a perfected paper. two or three thousand i»apcrs can.be joined to the main sheet, and together printed or the Duplex Press. they pass over the "former" (a triangu- Mergenthaler Linotype Machine. The now press is nearly sixteen feet 'ar sheet of metal, to be seen at the Ions bv seven feet wide, and its tall »n the end view), which brings est portion is six feet above the foun- the edges of the paper together in shape for the first fold. Passing The above cut fairly represents the s|x different faces of type are set 1 new typesetting mach4ne that has |,y this machine, two at a time. In  been In use in the Gazette office stead : «izes of body, known as nonpareiljfl iiy for several months. The machine is I brevier and long primer. Tfca  called the Mergenthaler Linotype, and ' used in making the lines of type eajfl is of wonderfully Intricate and. ingen- day is kept until a sufficient qoujl ious construction, yet performs its du- has accumulated In the bin ilowdM ties so easily and perfectly that those i the basement, to which a chute coM^ vevs the used lines, when the operadare it to be almost human. jtion of refining and recasting the The machine weighs over a ton. and metal into small bars ready for reproduces at each revolution a line of peatcd use in the type-setting machine dation, the Gazette newspaper plant and chased. This is the style or press re This modern newspaper, maker which is placed In service today, may | cently purchased by James Cordon prints, pastes, lolds, counts and deliyprovc Interesting to readers of the Uennelt for use in printing the Nfcw ers over 6,r.U0 four, six, seven and Bemath the mac hine is a large pit, throu«h rol,s' the folded sheet of by means of w..ich access may he had newspapers goes on to the cutter, to every portion of the press without whic!l ' "ts i( ,,p into Perfected papers, the nC cessity for crawling on one's An improvement in the folding device hack. As to the operation of the press. I ®'moRt C»oes away with tapes York Herald's European edition. A eiyht-page papers per hour, from a paper The determination of the publisher missive Ionization of lirick of the Gaiette to give the people of ; cement iiail been prepurfd foi I'ittston a model home newspaper at ; pr and roll weighing over half a trtn and con the tabling four miles of paper. By mean j anil liability to clogging and makes i possible the development of great who see it in operation generally de win n M arrived. a few days ago. of an ingenious devic e, paper may he —u ' the earliest possible speed. Onlookers who see the papers produced, printed, pasted, cut, folded and counted, in fact, ready for the lected, necessitated the purchase o.f | poKed of aiiout ;en thousand parts antl presV'is running at • I till speed by mere containing all the news carefully col- : eroctin: ami adjusting a machine com her of folds may be changed while th« a fast web-perfecting press. The old CVefc?hiitg in the ncMghl.'orlkootl of fit' press, which was sold as scrap metal, j teen tons w ly torching a button. In the CD1Ct style reader, express wondei at the ease ■ .. ... . r Tl j f S \4M «L b flfc HB '■- D J, ■ ■ ■. » , largo uno, hut was pVessoK. each sheet of paper was fed and beauty of. operation of the Duplex required four boys to feed it, printed performed in a fc ime hv the '•D' hard to a revolving cylinder which | Press, and those who have the me only one side at a time, requiring each ■, representative of tire Duplex t Dmpany type was rolled to and fro beneath held it while the chanleal instinct admire the workman- loss of time and labor. Besides this. s|gted by the Gazette's pressman. Ed each sheet had to be printed damp. \agle. and skilled local machinists sheet to be run through twice at mucfc Mr. Arthur Will n. Mr. Wilson was as taking the imprint. This anti ship and finish of the machine. A ten-horsepower Westinghouse method is far too slow for pa (electric motor supplies the necessary and in this way the fin: power destroyed and the paper hail a crinkled ;imi their thrift -eighlng 21500 llDs.. ('C-s l*HVday. The proer S o( atlTCDtV]) Tlic Gazette's new linotype machine rough surface. Inasmuch as tlje press is the central : tn«- wall had In !D torn away to allow 'n't necessitated a deli were too larse tor the doorway, and waR designed to y of about half kIvch tlio paper newly cast tyiDe each feature of a newspaper plant, and ev- j jt to enlek First, the heavier portions for tile prepar :ilion of stereo ELECTRIC MOTOR, lay. adding greatly to the clear-cut erything depends on its speed and; ol t|„. ;n,me were liolted together, typo r'atcs. which tat efficiency, the question as to which then smaller attachments were added, | type. and the process H glance at the two illustrations, out appearance of the printing. A new supply of the latest styles of is very covtl; Ian end view and the other a vtew of advenising type has been added to the si'lc, wilt make it clear, llie sim- by the way, employs | pllclty 01 the Duplex Is one of its union ,al)or t;lrollRhout create., advantages. The sheet of pa- Th(. Gazette wl„ now be able to | per. or "web." as it is called, is drawn acl.ommodate advertisers with extra rapidly by "coaxing rolls" around the spacp and w|„ a)so be aWe to  two i ylinders, which are moved back a„ a(WiUona, amount nowg owlng I:llM' -forth over the upper and lower lo thc facihty wUh whit.h more ,)ages I,,.is ou wliicti the type Is placed. The (an b(, aCJded as lre„ and „ action resembles that ot a locomotive . , , , of the Oazette will now be furnished i ngine. and so well is the machine. , . , „ . more and later news than ever before, balanced that a lead pencil may be When desired, the paper can be print ed in several colors, at will. Half-tone engravings can be successfully treat| ed, and both In type and Illustrations, The web is printed cn one side onilho res,"t!i of the new pres8 are su" perl). v I placet* perpendicularly on its busiest uflieient to topple it over l ortion and the vibration or jar is not With this improved facility there I no longer exisits an excuse for papers and passes around the upper | being "late.'' By halt-past Ave o'clock cylinder, where the other side is then j 2" our subscribers in the vicinity of • ■nt i , .1. ,.„n„ ' Pittston should receive their papers, i rin'cd as the cylinder rolls over the . , , ' ' ' and readers not receiving this kind of upper bed. 1 he slack is taken up by | serv|CP wm confer a favor on the Ga- ENP VIEW. , a very pretty device, known as the ; zette if they will notify the office, make of machine to buy was most care.; until the machine gradually became jand Vexatious, requiring furnaces, cir- comp«nsator rollers. These move up personally, by letter or by telephone, fully considered. After collation of the ready ior the adjustment and testing C-ular saws, planers and complicated and down in harmony with the motion as all complaints will receive vigorous opinions of users and examination and of its working parts, and appeared as | paraphernalia galore. The Duplex ot the cylinder. The Inaide pages are attention. - , inspection of many different styles of thown nfthe WW illustrations accom-' Press does away with all need Tffcr now cut oft from the main sheet, and, 8"°r8 to pre®» room Jj® presses In operation, it wto seen paying this Srtlejte. When all was stereotyping, and While an expert passing around the angle bars, and SStaTlin that the liiplex Angle Bar Per(*fting rejMy, ink. type and a huge, roll at fCtei eot.vper is preparing his 1)1 at is, through the pasting machine, are noon. HK/jJBIHBHIL- ■ " ■ • 1 « ■- ■ . v. .. t, A. ■ - ■ *' y .' itiU-'-A.:, ■- , rh'lWt: ■ ■*[ l lie lower bed. then, running over some rollers at'the end of the press, revers type, from which it came to be called takes place. The Octette requires a a Linotype (line o' type). The Lino- supply of more than a ton of this lira type Is really .composed or four ma- type metal, but by means of'It has a chines., the operations of assembling, beautifully clear, new dress of type Justifying, casting and distributing be- each day. This machine Is driven by ing Independent, yet avtiog together, a small motor of two horsepoj^^^^^