Busy Days at the Nashville (Tenn.) Office

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 7, 1909

Busy Days at the Nashville (Tenn.) Office

Reports From Foremen of the Southern Publishing Association

“THE work is surely prospering. The orders for supplies come in thick and fast, and at times we are rushed to get the boxes of books out on time. We expect, however, to keep up with the demand.”

“For some weeks in the past our Fort Worth branch has been giving us warning that they were going to give us something unusual in the way of ‘business, but we were hardly prepared for the ‘shock’ they did give us when an order came in for nearly eleven thousand books, all but 250 of which were our large books. Some of the items may be of interest: ‘Bible Readings,’ 3,500; ‘Daniel and the Revelation,’ 5,000; ‘Great Controversy,’ 1,625. The rest of the order was for ‘Home and Health’ and ‘Bible Footlights.’ Of these about twenty-five hundred were for morocco and library bindings.”

“It will take about one hundred boxes of our largest size, with an average weight of 450 pounds, to ship the order. The railroad companies have heard of the order, and several of the agents have called, soliciting the business. The retail value of the order is $32,868.75.”

“We are rushing an order through the pressroom for 5,500 ‘Great Controversy,’ 6,250 ‘Bible Readings for the Home Circle,’ and have just finished a run of 10,300 copies of ‘The Coming King.’

“In the bindery there are twenty-four workers employed, and they are working many hours overtime every week. Our bindery orders for the present include 37,742 books, nearly a third of which are large subscription books.”

“The battle is on. These ever-increasing orders tell of advance movements along the firing line. We are with the field workers, heart and soul.”