Show WHERE 1 POST WOl ll AL AT CARDS TARDS l Jt ARE ARF MADE Wes s Virg Turn rO Factory Out ir 1 Can O Hourly The United States postal card manufactory manufactory manu manu- factory Is located in a little West VirginIa Virginia Vir Vir- ginia town Piedmont high up among anong I the Appalachian mountains The Government operates the plant b by contract and to make sure that It ItIs Is properly conducted there is appointed a a. a resident United States postal card agent and Inspector who must pass judgment on all of the goods turned it ou tj I It Not only are all the cards printed there but the paper for them is Js man man- red on the spot The sulphite and paper mills constitute one of the j I I largest plants in the country There are branch paper making establish establish- j Davis W. W Va Covington Va I and Tyrone Pa In every step of the process there are Government specifications to be fol fol- I lowed To begin with the paper Is made from spruce trees cut t In the West Virginia Vir ginia forests It must contain 69 per percent per percent cent of sulphite spruce fibre 22 per cent cento o of soda chemical fibre bl bleached ach d. d and 9 per cent of English clay It m must st be I to a uniform weight and thickness and when finished the tint has to be of ot uniform buff x When it comes to the printing th there e is s I still a rigid Government standard to to which the output must conform The I quality of the Ink and its color are and what is known as a water finish Is not permitted Albert Daggett of Brooklyn N. N T. T is the contractor contract r who supervises the factory In the office lie he lias as a force of forty orry e about bo t half halt of of them Women They ar all an skilled Ar Artisans r- r and many are experts whose places could not be filled easily The staff of workers seems surprisingly surprisingly small when their output is con con- The two printing presses have havea a capacity of cards an hour The larg largest st shipment ever made was one of sent ou out from Piedmont on June 16 1900 i iThe The shipments are made to the large city and to the sub postal card agencies The latter are located are located at Cincinnati St. St Louis Troy New York and Washington D. D C. C and are known as distributing offices A full car shipment ship ship- ment means cards a avalue value of i er car Each car has to be sealed with a sp special cial device by the United States Inspector of the postal card factory The cards for every town and hamlet in the United States for Porto Ri Rico o. o H Hawaii and the Philippine Islands are all made in this one nt s |