“This is lightning work with a vengeance and yet it is possible that there may be some who read this who will live to call it slow. That will probably be when they have found out all about how to put a harness on electricity. No one can predict when inventive genius will reach its limit in the printing press. But for the present this new press marks high water mark. “Before this press was built the fastest presses in the world were Hoe’s ‘Quadruple’ Presses, of which the ‘Herald’ has two. These presses turn out 48,000 four, six or eight-page papers an hour, 24,000 ten, twelve, fourteen or sixteen-page papers an hour, and 12,000 twenty or twenty-four-page papers an hour, all cut, pasted and folded. “This new press has a well-nigh insatiable appetite for white paper. To satisfy it, it is fed from three rolls at the same time, one roll being attached at either end of the press and the third suspended near the center. It is the only press that has ever been able to accomplish that feat. Each roll is sixty-three inches wide, or twice the width of the ‘Herald.’ When doing its best this press will consume 25⅞ miles of sixty-three-inch-wide paper--equivalent to 51¾ miles of paper the width of the ‘Herald’--in one hour, and eject it at the two deliveries in the shape of ‘Heralds,’ each copy containing an epitome of the news of the world for the preceding twenty-four hours, and each copy cut, pasted and folded ready for delivery to the ‘Herald’ readers. It is a sight worth seeing to see it done. Certainly we know of nothing else which affords such a striking example of the triumph of mechanical genius. “A man turns a lever, shafts and cylinders begin to revolve, the whirring noise settles into a steady roar, you see three streams of white paper pouring into the machine from the three huge rolls, and you pass around to the other side--it is literally snowing newspapers at each of the two delivery outlets. So fast does one paper follow the other that you catch only a momentary glitter from the deft steel fingers that seize the papers and cast them out. “The machine weighs about fifty-eight tons. It is massive and strong, with the strength of a thousand giants. And yet though its arms are of steel and its motions are all as rapid as lightning, its touch is as tender as that of a woman when she carries her babe. How else does the machine avoid tearing the paper? It tears very readily, as you often ascertain accidentally when turning over the leaves. Truly wonderful it is, and mysterious to anybody but an expert, how this huge machine can make newspapers at the rate of twenty-five a second without rending the paper all to shreds.