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Interesting Facts Concerning the Special Review

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 17, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 51.

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Interesting Facts Concerning the Special Review

By E. R. PALMER

It is difficult for one to comprehend, without careful analysis, what it means in labor to a publishing house to publish such an edition as the seven hundred thousand copies of the Mission number of the REVIEW, which has been produced by the Review and Herald Office for use in the present missionary campaign. A few facts concerning this number, furnished by Brother S. N. Curtiss, manager of the Review and Herald Office, will be of interest:—
Three car-loads of paper, or a total of fifty-six tons, were required for this edition.
These papers, if stacked in a single pile, would make a shaft 2,625 feet high, or practically half a mile high.
If the printed sheets, before folding, were placed in a single strip, end to end, they would reach from Washington to Portland, Maine, a distance of about five hundred seventy-five miles.
Over one thousand five hundred pounds of ink were required to print the edition.
On one day alone, the twenty-fifth of November, seventy-four thousand copies were sent to the post-office. The weight of that one day's mail was about six tons.
Several times during the rush of papers the mail shed at the railway station has been filled with mail-sacks to the door, and several times the mail-car has been unable to take on all the sacks. Several times, also, a heavy dray, in addition to the regular mail team, has been secured for hauling mail.
Two large cylinder presses ran over seven hundred hours each to print this edition, and much of the time they ran almost continuously. Starting at 7 A. M., one shift worked until 6 P. M.; then another shift went on at 7 P. M., and worked until 6 A. M.
The postage paid on this edition amounted to one thousand one hundred dollars, and one thousand five hundred mail-sacks were used.
Even these facts will give the reader only a faint idea of the work required in the Review and Herald Office to produce this edition. The employees have labored energetically and loyally, and almost to the limit of physical endurance. Much credit is due them for their splendid effort. While we rejoice with those who are successful in collecting funds for foreign missions, let us remember also, in our thoughts and in our prayers, this faithful band of workers who have toiled night and day for weeks in order that the field workers might have enough papers for this great campaign.
E. R. PALMER.