Enlargement of the Printing Factory
Our temporary factory is being enlarged by an extension, 34x48 feet. This is an addition of nearly two-thirds to the former "shack," which is 48x56. In the first building we have two large presses—one is a Miehle, with bed 46x62 inches, and the other is a C. B. Cottrell, bed 33x46 inches. Both are new and first-class. This paper was printed on the Miehle, which takes the whole sixteen pages. Besides these presses we have a half-medium Colt's Armory job press. We have also a linotype machine, on which the type is set for the Signs and Our Little Friend. In addition to this machine, we have a few stands and cabinets of type of various styles. Other machinery includes a mailing machine, a wire stitcher, a power paper cutter, and a board cutter for binders' use. This material is all new. The book department occupies the remainder of this building. The annex to this structure will be used for bindery, as soon as the machinery arrives, and folding tables, which are now inconveniently housed in a tent, and thus rendered too liable to accident. We have no room yet for an electrotype foundry, which requires more substantial quarters. We are still obliged to use electricity furnished by the public corporation, and it will be some time before our own power-house can be rehabilitated. The wreck of our once excellent engine, boilers, and dynamo, and their roofless and charred and blackened quarters are still reminders of the uncertain duration of the greatest power that man can devise, of its limitations and susceptibility to sudden check by the elements of nature.