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from The mail room in front, is placed long, fiat
desk or table, IN the press-room. where the papers
are placed, to be cut counted, and distributed by the
receiver. THIS IS done with amazing curacy by
two persons-one In charge and an assstant-and
considering the great demand and anxiety there is
for this journal, long experience, and tie dexerlty
acquired by practice s only sufficentto perform the
work with ease and regularity. In this desk the
celyer keeps his money and books, pro TEN, until
they delivered to the cashier above. On his LETT
hand, in the wall, are the two apertures through
which bis papers conveyed, as already mention
ed in front is another, through which he passes
the mail papers 10 the mail room whilst, overhead,
there is sui fourth, for similar purpose, in regard
TO the publication office overhead, where numbers
of The Herald are supplied TO transient customers


Behind the press-room is the paper-room, where a
large supply OF this article IS always on hand. Here
il Is damped, and prepared for the press by person
who attends TO this as his particular business.


The mail room occupies the front section of this
basement, and IS separated by partition wall from
the ptess-room. This is an important department,
requiring attention, and method IN Its supervisor.
who has five persons employed IN assisting him Al
an early hour, say O'clock these five persons are
up to their eyes and ears in work-ioding, direct
ING and mailing the morning edition, and by seven
O'Clock the hole is on lis way, each copy 10 its re-
spectlve sdestnatlon, where II II does not arrive
regularly, the fault is In the Post Office. An extern
sive knowledge Of statistical kind is required in
the superintendent OF this department., for he must
have al his fingers end the routes, tune, mode of
conveyance of the several mails, and be familiar
win rdlTodqs, stages, STEAMBOATS,, packets Tor TO-
reign countries; and he must not only possess this
knowledge, but have II ready tor at the earliest
moment, in order that no time may be lost in dis
persing the news, and that subscribers may have no
ground of complaint.


Many other details worthy of mentioning, are
passed over, as II is difficult TO enumerate them all
When all the presses are going at once, il curl
Gus spectacle, and this curiosity is a good deal
heightened by the crowd of newsboys, the departure
of carriers the preparations of mails the cater OF the
machinery, and the OF the newsboys the Streets
announcing the important fact TO all within hearing
and little farther, that the Herald is published and
at their service on very moderate cash terms con-
sidering the value of that famous journal AS this
consideration takes time, 10 do il well, we here
pause for the present