The System Altered.

The new system was sneered at as a « fad » by the older and larger foundries; but met with such immediate and general appreciation on the part of the trade that half-a-dozen or more foundries adopted the new scale, to their own great profit, and to the serious depreciation in value of type cast on the old bodies. The old foundries were now compelled to seriously consider the position; a convention was held, and all, with the exception of Bruce, adopted the interchangeable system. But the influence of two large houses—MacKellar and Farmer, Little, & Co., was so great as to force a change in the standard pica from ⅙-inch to the nondescript and bastard size in use by the Johnson Foundry.