IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) A ^^ 1.0 I.I 1.25 £fl^ IIIM .. -,. IIIM 1.4 1.6 V] v: r '<7 V y CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques 1980 Technical Notes / Notes techniques The institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Physical features of this copy which may alter any of the images in the reproduction are checked below. D Coloured covers/ Couvertures de couleur Coloured maps/ Cartes gdographiques en couleur L'Instltut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a 6X6 possible de se procurer. Certains difauts susceptibles de nuire d la quality de la reproduction sont not6s ci-dessous. D D Coloured pages/ Pages de couleur Coloured plates/ Planches en couleur Th< poi oft filn Thi cor orl app The filiT insi D D Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ Pages ddcolordes, tachetdes ou piqudes Tight binding (may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin)/ Reliure serr6 (peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion le long de la marge int6rieure) D Show through/ Transparence Pages damaged/ Pages endommagdes Mai in upp bot foll( D Additional comments/ Commentaires suppldmentaires Bibliographic Notes / Notes bibliographiques D Only edition available/ Seule Edition disponible D Pagination incorrect/ Erreurs de pagination n Bound with other material/ Reli6 avec d'autres documents D Pages missing/ Des pages manquent D Cover title missing/ Le titre de couverture manque D Maps missing/ Des cartes gdographiques manquent D Plates missing/ Des planches manquent D Additional comments/ Commentaires supplAmentaires The images appearing here are the best quality possible considering the condition and legibility of the original copy and in keeping with the filming contract specifications. Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reprcduites avec le plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et de la nettet6 de I'exemplaire fi!m6, et en conformity avec les conditions du contrat de fllmage. The last recorded frame on each microfiche shall contain the symbol — ► (meaning CONTINUED"), or the symbol V (meaning "END"), whichever applies. The original copy was borrowed from, and filmed with, the kind consent of the following institution: National Library of Canada Un des symboles suivants apparaftra sur la der- nidre Image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols — ► signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN". L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grdce A la g6n6rosit6 de I'^tabiissement prdteur suivant : Bibliothdque nationale du Canada Maps or plates too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour dtre reproduites en un seul clich6 sont filmdes d partir de Tangle sup6rieure gauche, de gauche d droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n^cessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mdthode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 vim.vunM fefeiiM.^ Jii:^ ■ ||i|*Rl!mNG. 4s^ ^i:'-'m, II'mT' 'C'S 6' ■ ■ 1 '•-,•%• '^4?^:' »1 OTTM AK :M K 1 IG E NTH ALE K . AN EPOCH IN PRINTING, BY FAUSTUS : L BEING THE FIRST MATTER SET ON THE FIRST LINOTYPE MACHINE MANUFAC- TURED IN CANADA, '/ WITH THE CO:MrLlMEXTS OF THE :MANUFACTUR- ERS OF THE LINOTYPE, LINOTYPE COMPANY, Office, "Witness" Building ; Factory, 25 Bleury street, MONTREAL. , AN EPOCH IN PRINTING. The "art preservative," as it is fondly called, has proved itself the most conservative of arts. Revolu- tions have, indeed, taken place in the printing- i)ress, but the mode of setting type remains precisely what it was in the days of Faust, Gutenberg and Caxton. This changelessness has, however, resulted from no stupid indifference to change, such as has often stood in the way of progress in the case of arts less valuable and more progressive. Probably at all times, and cer- tainly as long as the present generation can remember, the most anxious study has been given, by unnumbered enthusiasts, to deliver the world from the toilsome and limiting task of taking letters one by one out of sepa- rate boxes and placing them in order by the hand. T have known one of these devotees of progress who showed me year by year, as I visited him, always a com- pletely new, but not completed, machine, designed to fulfil in some new way the type-setter's task. Niglit, as well as day, his active brain worked incessantly, till at last it could work no more and he fell a martyr to a noble purpose. In the buildings now in use as the Linotype factory there was found, preserved apparendy by the reverence which true mechanics naturally j^aid it through a sue- sV An Kj)()rli in Printin.ef. cession of occnpancics, a wooden model of a machine for some printini^ process, 'i'he work was jL^ood and trne work. T know not wlial nK.ntlis and years were taken in tlie completion of tlie model, l)ut it is sadder to look on than is a corpse. The one only shows a life ended ; the other shows a life, or a i^ood deal of a life, sacrificed. The tradition is, thouj^h no one knows how old the story, that die maker, after spendin^f much precious time upon his ])rol)lcm, discovered that some of his essential ideas had been anticipated and that all his work was lost. Such stories, doubtless, tell the tale of a thousand ear- nest lives. Few of the nineteenth cei iry's monumen- tal inventions rest on so larq^e a heap of dead men's bones as docs the Linotype which has at last solved the Sphinx's riddle. Does its inventor, and do his enterprising coadjutors, deserve their success ? There is in the Linotype not only the happy idea which has proved the key to the problem of the ag'es, but there is the result of pro- dij:»-ious thinking' and working on the part of the inven- tor, Ottmar AFerf^i'endialer, of Baltimore. There is also the fruit of the most daring investment of all available means, not only by him, but by a number of enterpris- ing- men, whose insight and faith supported them through the anxious adventure. Some two millions of dollars were, I understand, added to Mr. ?^Iergenthaler's investment of brains before the first Linotype machine of the present make became a material actuality. Part of this was spent on acquiring the rights of previous An Epoch .n Printing. inventors, so tliat these or their representatives received the market vaUie of their inventions, and, i)rol)ahly, in most cases, a good deal more than conld otherwise have been reahzed upon them. 1'he carher Linotype machine was completed in 1887, and a large number of macliines of that ]iattern, now entirely superseded, came into use in the L^nited States and Great liritain. The first completed machine of the new pattern was sut to work in 1890, and already more than two hundred of them are in successful operation, making a tt)tal exceed- ing four hundred of these machines in daily use in the United States, Canada, (ireat 1 Britain and iM'ance, the number being added to week after week. The factory in Brooklyn for the manufacture of the Linotype is just now being enlarged to an enormous size, and another factory is at work on them in l>alti- more. An inunense factory is also in operation in Manchester in England, The factory of the Canadian Linotype Company, Xo. 25 lUeury street, Montreal, was secured in May, 1891, and was in full working or- der in July in the construction of the first lot of eleven machines. Each machine is constructed of 3,500 parts, and every i^art nnist be so perfectly made that it will fall into place in any one of the machines. The perfec- tion of workmanshi]) recpiired for this is such as is sel- dom needed and seldom met with. Vor nearly seven months parts have been in process of being cut into shape by means of a nuiltitude of very exact machines, and by means of many special tools which had to be 8 An Epoch in Printing. made for the purpose, and have been stored away in sets, ready to be assembled together when the time should come. When at last the time for assembling came the pieces went together as perfectly as the dry bones in the projjhet's vision, and everything fitted to ])crfection. The first of these machines is complete to-day, and the present is the first work that has been done on a Canadian made Linotype machine. The Linotype Company ask hereon the congratula- tions of all interested in the progress of the printer's art. The work is here submitted as it drops from the machine. It could hardly be nuich better and need never be worse. The secret of the Linotype machine is that it casts a line of letters in one solid slug, the matrices and spaces from which the line is cast being previously arranged by tb.e machine by means of a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter. The average rate wliich lias, so far, been attained in practice has been about 4,000 ems an hour, but this will be exceeded as expert operators are developed. The matter thus set is easily handled, and is ready as it comes from the machine either for the press bed or for the stereotype foundry. Corrections are easily made by recasting lines, the time occupied being much less than that occupied by making similar corrections in the ordinary manner in movable type. FAUSTUS. Montreal, Feb. 19, 1892. SHOP STAFF ON FEBRUARY 17, 1892. David A. Poe, Manager. William H. Scharf, Superintendent. George H. Giles, Storekeeper. 'LANER FLOOR. P. , McGee, foreman. To I 1 Traynor. S. Paquette F. Auburn. C. R. Curtis. J. D. Smith. Fred. Deslaurier. James May. J. P. Bingen. Joseph Matte. N. A. Hartley. Chas. A. Weed. ENGINEER. Albert E. Bishop. f MILLING FLOOR. William Bitrnie, foreman. Henry J. Cregeen. George Fisher. Jabez Taylor. Robert Foster. William Melville. Joseph Hiiddell. James Coyle. Thomas Brown. P. Lefebvre. William Mitchell. Philip Cramer. Napoleon Menard. Duncan Dewar. TOOL ROOM. Thos. S. Walker. John Goodhouse. Fred. Moeser. ASSEMBLY FLOOR. Chas. M. Gardiner, foreman. John Poole. George Gibb. William King. A. Martel. Samuel Huddell. Chas. Malmford. OPERATOR. A. J. Pickard.