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Show Kxtraordinnry Typesetting. Chicago, November 5. Andrew W. McCartney, compositor in the Evening Post office, for six days, ending yesterday, yes-terday, composed and corrected l.lG.5oO ems. In four of these days he worked six hours and a half; the other two days seven hours each. He thus achieved the extraordinary feat of setting set-ting 95,600 ems in forty hours without any extra "fat." We annex the figures, fig-ures, exhibiting th amounts of each day's work, which for rapid typesetting typeset-ting has probably nevet been equaled : Saturday 17,200, Monday 1.3,400, Tuesday 19.100, Wednesday 10,800, Thursday 13,400, Friday 13,700; total, 95,(300 ems. |