{"newspaper_name": "The New York herald.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
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The Press RooM-The engraving which heads
this article, gives view of the interior otsthat de-
partment of the Herald Establishment, known as
the Press Room II is fifty feet long, and the whole
width of the building. Although below the ground
surface 1T is well lighted by day by OF windows,
seen in the cut, which receive the light through
the grating Nassau street In the centre, nearly,
and running the whole length Of the room, stand
four superb double cylinder presses, whose perform
ance is too well known to be dwet on here. Two
of these are used in printing the Weekly Herald,
the other two the Daily Hcraid-the former being
the larger, as is requisite they should IN order to
strike off the immense sheet on which the Weekiy
is printed Sixteen hands are employed TO work
these presses, and five more to do the remaining
work, in which, by subdivision OF labor. each has
his own particular employment. These twenty-one
persons consist of eight 'feeders, whose duty
to place the blank sheet in the press, eight yers,"
who receive it at the opposite end, printed; the
foreman, to supernend the work, and an assistant


engineer, who keeps up constant, proper, and
unfaillng supply of steam; the receiver general and
his assistant, whose duties will be afterwards detail
ed On the interior side wall of the building is
placed an ingenious contrivance for hoisting and
lowering the forms to and from the press and COM
positors rooms. 1t consists Of square wooden
tunnel of sufficient capacity to admit the largest
forms to pass up and down unimpeded; this is done
without any more manual labor than attaching the
form to a hook at one end of chain, which passes
over pulley placed at the upper extremity of the
tube. the weight of the form being exactly balanced
by SO nicely adjusted counterpoise, fixed to the
other end of the chan that gh touch of the hand
serves to communicate the motion requisite to elevate
or lower the form at pleasure. Close by this fixture
is a speaking trumpet, through which, oral commu-
nications are made from the upper to the lower re-
gions-all through the SIX storles with rapidly and
be imposed by going up and down at every call.