nected with the business. Rarely does any one give up his position except for reasons that make such a step unavoidable. Loyalty to Riverside on the part of employers and employed is a characteristic feature, conducive to good work and the comfort and happiness of all.
The large increase in the publishing business of Houghton Mifflin Company during the last ten years, and the yearly addition of about 150 new books to their list of over 4000 titles, necessitated the erection in 1908 of a new building, 117 feet by 68 feet, for shipping and storage purposes. It has space for over two million bound books and a stock of three quarters of a million is constantly on hand, including a large supply of Webster's International Dictionary, which for almost fifty years has been printed and bound at The Riverside Press for G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Mass. It also contains a large Shipping-Room, with the necessary offices and with facilities for filling all orders with great promptness. The Mailing-Room, from which the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines, circulars, and mail orders for books are sent out, is on the ground floor of the main building next to the Shipping-Room. In the fire-proof warehouses near the river are stored from two to three million books in sheet form ready to be bound whenever needed.
Within the last few years The Riverside Press has nearly doubled its capacity without impairing the high quality of its work. It is one of the largest printing establishments in the country; for, besides taking care of the publications of Houghton Mifflin Company, it handles a large amount of outside work for other publishing houses, commercial concerns, and private individuals. Houghton Mifflin Company now have in their employ nearly one thousand people, including those at Riverside, at the main office in Boston, and at the branch offices in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco. The Press motto, “Tout bien ou rien,” which was chosen many years ago, is followed faithfully by employees and employers alike.
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