WORLD'S BIGGESTPRINT SHOP

UNCLE SAM, PUBLISHER, TURNS

OUT MILLIONS OF WORKS FOR

DISTRIBUTION AMONG PEOPLE

?WASTE PAPER IS VALUABLE

The recent fight in congress as to

whether the census reports should be

printed at the government printing

office or by private contract, to-

gether with the preparations now be-

ing made at the former place for

printing the millions of blanks which

will be required in the great decen-

nial stocktaking of the nation, serveto remind the public that Uncle Sam

is a great publisher.

Not only is he a great publisher,

but he is by far the greatest publish-er in the world. He starts out with

a printing and binding account of

more than $6,000,000.

Then he has such a vast corps of

authors that his manuscripts are con-servatively estimated to cost him

$14,000,000 more. Uncle Sam, pub-

lisher, spends perhaps $20,000,000 ayear.

Carloads to Farmers.

Does he turn out many books as a

result of his activities? If printingfrom 500 to 1000 different kinds ofbooks every year is not a publishingrecord, what it? And then comes thf>

number of each.The Yearbook of the department of

agriculture starts the list with halfa million copies a year. Each book

weighs about three pounds. One anda half million pounds, 750 tons, 25

carloads ?that is what Uncle Sam

gives to his farmer friends as astarter.

As the birthplace of the millions of

public documents, the number of

pieces turned out annually is so great

that even the much-discussed audit

system, kicked out uncermoniously by

President Roosevelt, lost track of the

count. In 1907, however, there were55,000,000 pieces turned out, 555,-

--000 pages of type to set.

Wast«> Paper Brings $31,000

The waste paper sold last year

brought $31,000, and waste paper atthe government printing office is re-duced to the least possible minimum.

Perhaps the $20 gold piece you gave

away last Christmas came from thegovernment printing office as a part

of its $4555 worth of waste gold leafit sold to the mint last year.

Even the leather scraps from thebookbinding department in a year aresold for more than $5000. It takes

about $14,000 worth of printers* ink,

some 35,000 pounds of it in all, to do

the printing.Enough gold leaf is used to pay for

a fine farm, and thread that costs

as much as a good six-room city home

is required for sewing purposes.

Even money spent on the fly andwaterbug exterminator is as much as

CoffeeJust Coffee, but perfect

Coffee.Your grocer will grind it?

better if ground at borne?nottoo fine.

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would be needed to buy an ordinaryfour-passenger touring car.

Paper Cost Millions.The paper used in Uncle Sam's big

publishing business costs more than$1,000,000 a year, $900,000 of thisbeing used at the government print-ing office proper. A quarter milliondollars' worth of stock is always kept

on hand.The building and equipment where

all these things are done on sucha huge scale is commensurate withthe great work carried on. It is UncleSam's boast that he has the finestprinting office in the world, and hecan reel off figures by the yard toshow that he is ready to make good

against all comers.He points out that in his new

seven-story building he has nine acresof floor space and six acres more inthe old building. He tells you thatthe new building cost $2,500,000 andthat the machinery put into it cost$3,500,000. He values his wholeplant at $16,000,000 and tells you

that he has a pay roll of $14,000 aday.

79 Linotypes in Room.

One room in the print shop has 79linotype machines in it. the largest

number in one office in the world.In another place are the melting pots,

holding 15 tons of metal at a time.In another room he shows presses

whose combined output is more than1,000,000 impressions every eight-

hour day. There are 87 presses andthere is not a pully or a belt in sight.Each machine is operated by its ownindividual motor, which is placed outof sight. They eat up paper at therate of 40 tons a day and ink at the

rate of 350 pounds every eight hours.The card presses turns out 500,000cards printed on both sides every day.

Printer Has Elegant Office.

i The job office is the biggest place jjof its kind in the world. It turns out

more job work every day in the yeai jthan the average plant turns out in ja week. Leaving this place the visitor

lie told that the office of the publicprinted, located on the same floor, isj

I the most elegantly furnished officethe government has. And any onewho has had the opportunity to com-

ipare the public printer's office with

ithat of President Taft's might think

| that Mr. Taft's was a backwoods law| office in comparison.

Uncle Sam, publisher, has finished

some big jobs, but that monumental,

if not highly useful work, the Rebel-lion Records, with its 128 volumesand a 1200-page index, will perhaps

Iremain for generations to come the

greatest single undertaking in theprinting line. Think of it! Over,100,000 pages of history dealing with

one five-year period! Itrequired up-

wards of 80,000 reams of white paper

and more than 3.000.000,000 ems of

type to publish this great work. The

whole edition comprised about 1,500,---000 volumes.

History Is Finest Work.

It is said that the finest piece of

work Uncle Sam ever executed wasthe History of the Capitol. That it is

a fine book may be inferred from the;statement that although nothing ischarged for in its sale but the barecost after the plates were made, it

sells for $10 a volume.A great many valuable works come

from the presses of Uncle Sam's big

printery, btu there is such an abund-ance of chaff with the wheat thateven the libraries designated as de-positories were surfeited with gov-

ernment documents.Perhaps the greatest need that Un-

cle Sam as a published has is a corps

of trained editors, who are masters ofthe art of blue penciling. An exam-ination of the average public docu-

ment reveals the fact that half of itscontents might have been cut outwithout the loss of a single essentialfact, and with the gain of an inesti-

mable degree of interest and service-ableness.

Advertising Pays U. S.

Xot the least uninteresting part ofUncle Sam's big publishing business isthp work of the superintendent of

documents. To be able to sell thatwhich can be had for nothing is anunusual accomplishment. But thepresent incumbent has been able to

do that very thing and to no incon-

siderable extent. His success hashinged on the doctrine that advertis-

ing pays.That there are documents by the

tens of thousands lying in the storage

rooms of the government, which areinvaluable if placed in proper hands,

is a well known fact. But the public

has been unconscious of their ex-istence and of how to get them.

To inform them of the existence

of these documents and of how toget them he secured from congress

a negligible appropriation for adver-tising purposes. He issued a fewmagazines and newspaper advertis-ing statements, and then got out anattractive poster, which the postoffice

department authorized him to havehung in every postoffice. In this heexplained fully the scope of publicdocuments, their value when intelli-

MillerStetsonMallory

CravenetteHats

gently selected, etc., and gave des-criptions of several hundred of themost valuable and useful ones.

Books SeU for $50,000.

The result was that Uncle Sambookseller, was able to do $50,000worth of business last year, in di-rect competition with Uncle Sam,gratuitous distributor of books. Andthe sale are still increasing.

Nearly all of these sales were ofthe cheaper publications, those rela-ting to subjects of interest to thefarmer being in greatest demand.The majority of the business comesfrom the rural districts.| To the average man the most use-ful work done under the superinten-dent of documents is that of indexingall publications issued by the gov-ernment. The superintendent saysthat what is needed to unseal theveritable treasures which are buriedin public documents is a completedistionary catalogue, but that thisis not now possible at any price, ow-ing to the lack of men trained to doit.

Six Years for Indexing.A former incumbent of the office

estimated that he could, in six years,prepare such a catalogue of docu-ments, and a topical index to the de-bates in congress from the beginningof the government down to 1905, ata total cost of $166,000. The pres-ent superintendent frankly says thatit can not be done in six years,neither can it be done at an autlay

of $166,000. He would probablywant 10 years and more than $300,---000.

The indexes that have been pre-pared in the past have been decidedly

amateurish. One index is called a"Bird's Eye Index to the Torry Bank-rupt Bill," yet it is only a singlepage table of contents, no better andno worse than hundreds of indexes ofone kind and another that congresshas bought at big prices.

Harmony in Print Shop,Things are going better in Uncle

Sam's publishing business today thanin olden days. The gold braid andbrass button spirit that permeatedeverything then is entirely done awaywith now, and one feels he is amongordinary, everyday mortals once morewhen he has business theje.

Haskin.)

Nowhere else in Washington isthere such a splendid example efhow the policy, of those higher upwill reflect down to the lowest em-

THE WENATCHEE DAILY WORLD, WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1909.

ploye. The men who wore the goldbraid are still there, but the spirit

they were then called upon to reflectis entirely gone, and Uncle Sam'sprinting business will perhaps run assmoothly hereafter as any otherbranch of the government. Of coursethe people who lost their jobs by theadvent of printing machinery willstill have their grievances, and willfrequently air them, but otherwiseall will go along as smoothly as if itwere pennies instead of dollars thatare being spent.(Copyrighted. 1909, by Frederic J.

FIGHT AGAINSTTREEPARASITE

WHOLE FORESTS DEVASTATED

BY DISEASE ? GOVERNMENT

LENDS AID AND MANY NEWr

REMEDIES ARE TRIED.

New York, May 17.?A strange dis-

ease has broken out among the trees

of the east. Whole forests have been

devastated. More than 20,000 trees

in Forest park, Brooklyn, alone,

have been destroyed since the open-ing of spring by a peculiar parasite.

Of these, 16,000 were chestnut trees.The Brooklyn park commission is

using thousands of gallons of a germ-icide in the hope of pjreventing the

spread of the disease.The attention of the agricultural

department at Washington was calledto the parasite last year when it hadgained only a slight foothold. Thedepartment assigned a number of ex-perts to the matter and they discov-

ered that the parasite had been im-ported, probably from France, and

that in young trees and shrubs it hadbeen disseminated throughout a largeportion of the United States.

Many, thousands of dollars wasspent by the department in caution-

ing foresters, farmers and othersthroughout the east, the middle west,the south and in advising remedies tobe employed.

So far New York, New Jersey andPennsylvania have been the princi-

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pal sufferers, but reports from Indi-ana, Illinois and the transmississippiand the southwestern states indicate

that the plague is in its incipiencythere'and that heroic measures mustbe employed to save the trees."

WaterviUe Wheat Looking Fine.

Waterville, Wash., May 15.?The

warm weather of the last few daysis starting the wheat throughout theWaterville country and a good stand

is everywhere reported. Althoughthere has been no rain since the snowleft, the crops are not suffering. The

cool winds have tended to preserve

rather than dry up the moisture.

The discouragement thathere three weeks ago, when practic-

ally all the winter wheat had to be~resown, owing to the heavy frosts and*light snows of the winter, has dis-appeared.