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EVENING LEDGEltPHILADELPHlA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1D15;
(pj I V"e day's supply of paper for the Curtis publications. Tjfj
Si I (it the warehouse on Eleventh Street 'W,k -'
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Over on Eleventh street, at Washington avenue, there is another
Curtis Building.
It is a warehouse for the storing Qf paper, made neccssarv bv
the huge supply used to print The Ladies' Home Journal, The
Saturday Evening Post and The Country Gentleman.
A fleet of automobile trucks is maintained, and they are carry
ing hundreds of rolls daily from the warehouse to the main plant, on
Independence Square.
If all of the paper used by the Curtis publications in one year
were made into a ribbon as wide as The Saturday Evening Post,
it could be wound around the world forty-five times.
Every day a hundred and seventy-five tons of paper are fed to
the big presses in the Curtis Building.
From the mills in New England more than 2300 carloads oY
paper are shipped annually to this company.
Freight cars loaded with paper are shunted directly into the
Curtis warehouse day after day. Often there are a dozen.
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And when it is impossible for the machines to unload all of the
cars before night, the rest are locked up in the building until next
morning.
Extreme care is exercised in the handling of the paper before it
is put on the presses.
hor paper, like all material adapted to delicate work, is subject
to climatic conditions.
Heavy canvas covers protect the rolls of paper.
In the warehouse an even temperature is maintained, so that
when the covers are removed at the plant the paper will be ready
for press consumption.
One of the impressive sights in the Curtis Building is to see
these hundreds of tons of paper being drawn into the presses and
dropped out, at high speed, completelyprintcd publications.
Another is to watch the flat sheets go in white and come
through, exquisitely printed in four colors, at one operation. K
These and many other interesting features of this plant may be
seen on any business day by Philadelphians and visitors to the city.
Well-informed guides will gladly point out and explain the
processes. ' v
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THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA
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