Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1890, Page 7

——- + THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, —— sani fva nial TF en THE EVENING STAR BUILDING: | THE STAR AT HOME. eer epiontas HOW A NEWSPAPER IS MADE. A Glance Into the Establishment Where “The Star” is Printed. —— The Newly Completed Building—The | Wonderful Development of the News- | paper—What is Accomp’ !shed by Jour- nalistic Enterprise,a Large Force of Printers and Fast Presses—The Dif- ferent Departments of the Paper—How the News is Collected and Laid Before | “The Star’s” Readers_ — Tue Evextxa Srar begins the present year | fm a building or series of buildings so cxtended | and enlarged as to make it practically a new | establishment. The s per has far exceeded the facilities for publica- tion provided when, in June, 1881, Tux E 1x@ Stax Company purchased and remodeled | the building at the northwest corner of Penn- sylvania avenue and Iith street and the ad- joiming structure fronting on 1ith street, although at that time the space obtained was | deemed amplo and the equipment provided was regarded as complete. Th2 composing room, situated on the fourth floor of the main building frouting on Pennsylvania avenue, be- | came crowded as the number of printers neces- employed in getting out Tae Star each dually increased; the introduction of chinery in the press rooins required to meet the demands of a growing circuiation en- croached upon the space needed for other pur- | poses, and the additions to the working force and to the equipment in other departments of the office resulting from the progressive policy and growth of the paper made it necessary to secure more room. ‘The demand was/ met by securing the property on 11th{ street immediately adjoining the build- ings already owned by Tae Star. The old structures occupying this ground were de- moelished, and upon the site thus cleared has been erected a spacious four-story building | having a frontage of 55 feet and a depth of 100 | feet. This building has been completed; the | printers have already taken po ion of the | ew composing room on the fourth floor of the new structure: the presses and other machinery are driven by powerful new engines in the ent, and other changes rendered possible by this generous addition to the floer space of Tue Evesixe Stan establishment have been made. e building are made practically connecting passages and doorw: and, by being finished alike with even cornices on the 11th street side, have the appearance of one long building. with a frontage of 180 feet on that side; but the new part has, in fact, a VEN- | | | much r depth than the old, extending back halt way through the square between 11th and 12th streets. Not only have present re- irements been met but p the continued grow some years to come THE EVENING NEWSPAPER, To give the reader some idea of the extended establishment Tue Sram now occupies and the uses to which the different portions of the buildings are devoted there is no better wa than to take bim on an imagii the office during the bu: should be remarked at the outset that the pub- heation of « newspaper such as Tne Stan gives employment in many diflerent tields to hun dreds of people. What is accomplished each ¥ seems, when one stops to consider it, but litte short the marvelous. It is a miracie performed by ski The news of the but of the whol compiled. set m ty wision is made for th of the paper, at least for last speech reported in Con- | ay aud while the telegraph ith its lust dispatch, Oue can easily see that expedition is required in the work of every department of an eveni newspaper. Fi . however, have been pded and ch day Readers of o pot wait until the next day for the e news of that ady growth of the pa- | N it} ™ that has to be observed to keep orderly account of what is apparently confusion. The business life of Washington is reflected in Tue Star office. There is no other institu- tion in the city which serves the public in as many ways as does THe Star. He who has something to sell relies on Tu Star to tell the people of it. Those who want to buy read Te Srak to learn how to supply their wants, and those who do not know weap they want turn to ‘Tue Star to find out. ate For the business men, great and small, it is the mouthpiece through which they speak toa hundred and fifty thousand people. To the thousands of unemployed it is the means of securing empl: The housewife, in her little domest: nees, goes to Tim STaR for her cook, or nurse, or chambermaid. to supply the place of the one who has just left her without notice. The capitalist. with his thousands, seeks investments through Tue Stan. INTERESTING SCENES. There is something pictaresque in the scenes in the business oftice throughout the day—from not, what should be printed and what should not—the degree in which it is possessed gener- ally marking the difference from a professional point of view between one newspaper man and another. Ina large newspaper office like that of Tue Stan it is physically impossible that one man could edit ail the “copy” of different kinds that passes through it during aday. It would be quite impossible for one man to read it all, even hurriedly, not to speak of revising it, cutting it down, writing headlines for ways preparing it it, and in other for the printer. So a corps of men is employed onsuch work. The editor-in-chief and his as- Sociate occupy the front room. The editor ives general direction to the work of the of- ice, inspiring his assistants with his views and determining the general methods to be fol- lowed. He is directly responsible for the ex- | hreasor of opinion in the editorial columns. atters arising out of the news of the day re- quiring editorial attention are submitted to im tor his judgment; much of the large mail coming to the office demands his personal at- tention, and then he is required by his position to keep thoroughly and promptly posted ow all that is being published in- the newspapers of the land, “These general duties aud many minor ones incidental to his office suffice to make every day a busy one for the editor-in- chief and his associate, THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The next room—the one at the head of the stairs—which the visitor to the office first en- ters, is the managing editor's room. This is a sort of connecting link between the editorial department and all the other departments of the paper. Here are located tubes and electric bells by m communication is carried on and the pne matic Spparatue by which “copy” is eeut in small leathern carriers with the rapidity of en arrow to the desk of the foreman in the distant composing room, The managing editor is the executive officer of the paper. Besides attend- ing to many matters of detail coming to his desk he has to superintend the working of the whole news department, adjust clasuing de- mands for soace from different quarters and | finally superintend the “making up” of the | paper, having to exercise rapid judgment in the last half hour, when many columns of mat- | ter are coming in and but a few columns of | space are left into which to crowd it. THE NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. Adjoining the managing editor's room is one the early morning hour,when the peeple on the way to business hurry in with their “ads.” for the day, to th noon, when the depart- uts empty their clerical force into THE NtaR place between home ss and home again, ents are made for and no new adver- tisements that come after 12 o'clock (except death notices). can get in that day's paper. So there is hardly time to get the office well opened in the morning and ready for business before the rush of tho day begins. From 8 o'clock until the departments are opened at 9 there is a rush of clerks and 1 others with 5 an. “ads.” and subscriptions and answers to For an hour it is as much as the fourteen per- sons employed in the business office ean do to wait on the people. Yet only ten years ago five persons were enough to do this work. Between 9 and 10 o'clock there is ashort breathing spell, when there are notas many people to wait on and the clerks can get the things in order for the rash that comes between 10 and 11, the business houses then hurrying in their “‘ads.” before the forms close on’ them at On through the rest of the day it is an active scene in the busi- ness office and there is always something doing until the hour of closing—just before midnight. Between 11 and 12 0’clock in the forenoon the writers of the big business houses are there, ten or a dozen of them, grouped about reading the proofs of long column ‘ads.” which bring pleasure into the feminine hearts of so many ouseholds by telling of bargains and dis- nd counts and how beautiful, useful desirable things can be had best and cheape These writers are employed by the big business es- tablishments to write their long advertisements an unimportant branch of their general estab- lishment—this advertising branch, ‘The rest of the day after 12 o'clock is devoted to the next day's business, many people bring- ing in their “ads.” then, so as to be certain of not being crowded out the neat day, and to taking subscriptions and making business set- tlements of various sorts, About the time the presses start running THe Star office is crowded inside and there is a crowd about the door, through which people are coming and going.and many hundreds of papers are sold over the counter. Always from 4 until nearly 5 o'clock achanging group of people may in front of Tu Stak bulletin board, and it is after dark before the office inside is fairly cleared of the rush, KE. + THE ACCOUNTS, Before the fire at Tue Sran office the manu- seript copy of any 4.” that had appeared in the paper for many years back could be had on short notice. These were burned, but since the fire the system of numbering and preserv- | ing th ids." has been kept up with perféct reg As soon asthe “ad.” is set up the py issent back to the business office, where itis numbered according to the series of the month an‘l filed aw: The books of the office < e kept ber of every “ad.” charged upon them, and it is easy to get the manuscript if ted. Keeping the books for Tar Star is a difficul and exacting task. i has to be entered, as well as the larger trans: tions, and the books have to be kept posted up to date. But the system is so perfect that a clear statement of every transaction, whether important or not, can bé had ina few moments, All “ads.” that are paid for when presented are marked by the clerk receiving them and sent upstairs tothe composing room. The cash credit is put upon the clerk’s books and the day book is made up from the entries in them. Those “ads.” which go on regular accounts and must be charged are so marked and are sent up to the composing room. When thev are set up the copy is sent back to the book keeper to be entered on his books, THE STAR'S POST OFFICE, An institution of Tre Sran’s business office t t present, The rapidity of modern THE is the “post office department.” In the hitle boxes on the wall are the thousands of answers and to look atter them and itis by no means | THE PRESS * D.C.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11 1890-TWELVE PAGES, THE BUSINESS OFFICE. mounted upon a body and is ready to be put in its place in the “forms” of the paper. The Composing Room. Next in order in the process of making a newspaper comes the composing room. Tur Srar’s composing room occupies the whole fourth fioor of the recently completed building on llth street, Without going in detail into the institution of comparisons it may be said that Tne Star composing room is the finest and most complete in the city and, with one exception, in | ROOM, given up to the news editor and his assistants, In this room all news received by wire or other- wise from outside the city is handled by trained men. Two special wires enter this room and telegraph operators are at work all day beside the editors. Two lines of general press di are coming into the office in addi Sran’s special telegraph service, and, to add to the amount of matter that has to be idly read, revis i | i THE REPORTERS. The next room, which is the most spacions one, is devoted to the reportorial department and is filled with rows of desks at which the reporters do their work when in the of The reporters assemble in the morning at 8:3 Their duties are as varied as is the news of t A WEB PERFECTING PRESS. the country, The amount of-floor space is at | present ample, the apartment measuring 100 feet | in length by tin width. Far different is its appearance from that of the composing room occupied by Tir Stan's mechanical force ten yi even for the little band of twenty-two men who set the type and made up the paper. Tod the great room in the upper story is occupied by fifty-eight men, all engaged in doing what was done in a smaller way by their score of | predecessors. : One of the prime necessaries in a composing- | room is good light, and as much as possible of | this natural commodity is admitted through the twenty-five windows,on all sides of the room and the five large skylights in the roof. Whenever artificial illumination is needed there day. One has the District government buildings | as his field of operation other the Police Court and police headquarters,another the court house, another the White House; others have differeut departments of the government un- der their reportorial charge. ‘There are some | who are detailed for work at the Capitol and others who are not regularly detailed to any point of observation but held in readine to report a convention or a prize fight, to investigate a murder ease or any happening not included within the fields covered by the regular routine of the office. Then there isa special reporter for society news, and besides the regular force of reporters special topics are treated by special writers whose services are employed by Tuz Star. When the reporters assemble in the morning they receive their assignments and instructions for the day. Be- sides collecting the regular news, questions of various kinds have to be investigated by the reporters, When they leave the office for their ficids of work they do not return again unless there is a special reason for it until the close of the day when the paper is out, SENDING IN “COPY. They keep up, however, a constant communi- cation with the office by means of messenger Rewspaper work and the great increase in the facilities for gathering and transmitting news have had a marked influence upon the develop- ment of the evening paper and upon the rela- tive positions of the evening and the morning Paper, the latter no longer enjoying much ad- Yautage from the greater length of time af- forded it for colfecting news. The news: aper of the present and future is undoubted ly the evening paper, there being little left in the eld for the morning paper, except leisurely comment on the events of the day. The Business OMce. The business oftice or counting room of Tar Brax is nearest to the public of all the working departments of the institution, but the casual observer cannot imagine the amount of work that is done there and the perfect system neces- sary to accomplish it. The business office oc- cupies the first floor of the main building. It is fitted up with a long counter, behind which the clerks transact business, with stationary desks at which patrons of the paper can write. There are little appartments partitioned off for book keepers and in the rear connecting with the main office are the private offices of the president aud the treasurer of Tue Evexixa Sraz Company. A half hour spent in the busi- Ress office in tha forenoon would afford an in- teresting and aston. ching revelation to one who never gave thought to the geen extent and Widenag rong? of sdvertising the system | to advertiseme: nts. A tremendous business is done there. A single want advertisement in THe Stax will sometimes call forth as many as five hundred answers and from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty answers is quite the com. mon run. By looking at the columns of wants in TuE Stax one may easily imagine that a pretty considerable correspondence is carried on through THE Sran's “post offic The greatest care hasto be exercised i ceiving “ads.” to be sure that they are suitable to publish. Tue 8: is careful about this matter and all doubtful “ads.” are submitted to the president or the treasurer of Tur Evne- ING Star Company. Personal” column has to be watched with especial care and very few of those presented in the office are ac- cepted, The Editorial Rooms, The editorial rooms occupy the entire second floor of the front or main building. Few people who have not been employed on mewspaper work understand just what an editor is or know that the production of a newspaper is largely ‘the result of the application of the same gen- eral principles that are required for success in any business where large numbers of men are employed. Organization, intelligent super- vision and, especially in the case of an evening paper, expedition are There isa certain kind of judgment, also required—dis- ctunination be tween what is news and what is boys, who bring in the news “copy” as rapidly as it is prepared by the reporters. Sometimes this “copy” is written on the reporter's hand, for he can take no desk with him, sometimes it is scrawled on his knee ina jolting cab, It is written some way, the reporter's main idea being to get the news as quickly as he can and then get it written and transmitted to the oftice with all possible haste. The reporter represents largely in himself the spirit of modern journalism, To be a successful re- porter one has to be alert, discreet and enterprising, have what is ‘called “a nose for news” and withal be able to compose rapidly in fairly good English, often under the most trying circumstances. ‘The reporters, who have been widely separated during the day, assemble again at the office when the paper goes to press, receive assign- ments for the night and then disperse to meet again the following morning. ‘The bustle in the news and city department of the office dur- ing the day is quite confusing to the visitor. Messengers are constantly arriving with batches of “copy” from different parts of the city or from telegraph offices, A special telephone connecting Tur Stan office with the Senate and House press galleries and with the District offices is murmuring out news, and telegraph keys are rapidly ticking forth ‘portions of the history of the 'y. Reports of a score of dit- ferent things are coming in at once, piece by piece, and ail are kept in order, rapidly revised and sent to the composing room, the first part of a report of a upeech in Congress, for in- stance, frequently being vas into type before the speaker has finished. In the same room with the reporters are desks occupied by spe- cial editorial writers, THE ILLUSTRATING BRANCH. Another department on the same floor and under the supervision of the managing editor is the illustrating department, which occupies a large room separated from the reportorial room by astairway hall. This departme: fitted with \ photographic apparatus and dark room and all the appliances for zine etching. ‘The illustrations are first drawn by an artist black and white, then they are reduced or enlarged by means of a camera to the size {and the foreman. Here, too, is the terminal is an abundance of gaslight, properly dis- tributed, THE FOREMAN’S “PULPIT.” The most striking object in the room, and one that would at once attract the attention of a visitor, is the big box immediately opposite the entrance from the stereotype room,. This box is about eight feet square and more than five feet high. Three sides of the structure have no apparent breach in them, but admission to the interior is through a narrow doorway in the rear, ‘fhis box—termed by the more deeply pious compositors “the pulpit—is the foreman’s throne and from its noticeable alti- tude the foreman dispense: i The interior of the ulpit” nished with a plain, broad-topped table and a couple of chairs for the use of the fore- man and ins assistant, Here they reign supreme throughout the morning, but generally abdicate a little in the afternoon, when the managing editor projects his avoirdupois and his lungs into the great diurnal afternoon contest with time and an overwhelming mass of copy. ‘This copy, or rather so much of it as the news editor decides shall be put in type, is cut up into the smallest possibles takes” ‘and placed in a shallow tray alongside the table. - ‘The compos- itors secure the copy by pushing in a little swinging door which is in the front of the “pul- pit” and immediately in front of tue tray. THE PNEUMATIC TUBES. On the left-hand side of the “pulpit” and within it are two speaking tubes, through the medium of which conversation is kept up be- tween the business office, the editorial rooms of the system of pneumatic tubes through which “copy” is sent from the offices below. Steam connections will be fitted to these tubes to furnish power for producing the necessary air pressure. ‘These pneumatic tubes are more than 200 feet long and through them are car- ried the advertising and news matter which make up Tux Srar. The old system centdred about the often irresponsible messenger bo and he was frequently most deliberate in his movements when haste was most needed. The rattling, knuckle-skinning aud profanity-breed- ing “copy box” working in a shute with a rope Passing over a pulley wheel was an attempted improvement, but there is no room in ‘tHe Sran office for anything other than the speediest and best means for attaining a given object. OTHER OFFICE EQUIPMENTS, In the rear of the “pulpit” and near the 11th street front of the composing room isa row of “tmakeup stones”—used by the experts who ar- range the reading matter as it is to appear when printed. On both sides of the “pulp it,” but with ample space between, are rows of four- wheeled tables, known to the craftas *‘turties,” each of which supports one page of ‘Tae Stan in type. Forming one side of a quadrangle im- mediately in front of the foreman's subdivision isatable and an upright rack on which are three rows of hooks, On these hooks the com- ositors place the copy which they have set up. 1e f y other sides of the quadrangle are made up of galle; and racks, the banks being the on which the compositors “dump” the results of their digital agility. The center of the room down stock will be kept outside of the office in addi- =e this pes ing is amply a Every precaation has'been taken’ without re- fe rom backing up. foods oat In order 10 free the cellar of water in case the traps should fail there is a powerful Knowles duplex pump of sufficient ca) eject as much water as the sewers cot bi capacity of 24,000 four-page bt i an hour, or 12,000 eight-page papers. us one hour the ample plant is capable of Producing 72,000 four-page papers, or 36,000 eight-page papers. nowned Hoe ier as “fast web printing machines,” it is necessary to place the printed within reach of its thousands of readers, when the enormous task of setting up the fifty- six colums of an eight-page Stan is completed, the work moves along without any noise or ap- parent friction. from any possible hum of business, are the proof readers, The Stereotyping Foundry. The work of preparing Tur Star for the | press room has not, however, been completed | | “4 in pages, | Means of deljvering. Ifasubscriber fails to when the type. has boon “locked up" in pages. | Mesne oe paper he complains at the office and | The eight origina! pages have to be multiplied three times before they will be sufficient for the three great presses which are necessary to print the edition of the paper. This triplica- tion is accomplished by stereotyping, and in order that the process consume the least possi ble time the latest methods and most skillful operatives are necessary. As each page of type is locked up it is wheeled through a wide door- way into the stereotype foundry adjacent. Here the stereotypers and their assistants with surprising rapidity make from each page as it comes to them a matrix formed of prepared paver. This is an exceedingly nice operation, ut it requires only a few minutes for the expert operators employed on Tuz Srar to produce a matrix. This matrix is placed in a casting box semi-cylindrical in form and from it three plates are casi, curved to fit the cylinders of the press. Whenit is taken from the casting box it is passed rapidly from one machine to an- other, all the time deftly handled by the opera- tors, by which means it is perfectly trimmed, routed, its edges bevelled and its concave side groov ‘Then it is cooled by immersion in a bath, placed on a little elevator or slide and rapidly lowered to the press room, three floors below. The length of time occupied by the com- plete operation of making both matrix and plate varies # little according to circumstances, but as a rule it amounts to about nine minutes. The | best time ever recorded is remarkably rapid— | 6m. Especially hurried is the work on the last form that comes from the composing room— thefifth page of the paner—for Tu Star prints allthe news thatcomes in up to the time of closing the last page, and it has to be on the street without the waste of a moment of time. The Press Room. In the pross room, on the ground floor, while the inst page is being stereotyped everything is.in readiness for the final act in the making of arsago, Then everything was crowded, the paper, Every rod about the three huge | printing machines is wiped, every roller clean, every bit of steel polished to brillianey. In the basement of the new building back and to the north a giant engine is throbbing and communicating its energy to the whirling shafting overhead. ‘The foreman of the room goes from press to | press inspecting the various shafts and arms, turning serews here and there, lifting the ink fountains to see if they are full. adjusting the huge roils of paper that loom up high in the air like enormous bobbins. Soon the ringing of asmall bellis heard and the rattling of a box. It is 3:45, and the first plate made from the ls page has come from the stereotypers. In- stantly all is activity. A pair of strong hands litt the curved piece of metal from the box and thrust it into place on one of the presses the pressm: on the other side instantly ad- justing the screws and clamping the plate upon the cylinder. STARTING THE PRESS. All is ready, A lever is carefully pulled, there isa slight hum inside of the press, and the wheels begin to move. Faster, faster, faster whirls the great white bobbin, unwind- ing its seemingly endiess sheet of blank paper to thi s Almost immediately down at the corner of the machine appear scores and hundreds of Stans, neatly folded for delivery. They come faster than the eye can follow i a beautifully regular succession. An attendant quickly gathers an armful and tosses them into an opening in the wall on the opposite side of the room. In a few minutes still other plates come down from above and all three of the presses are put in motion, making STARS with incredible rapidity, BOILERS AND ENGINES, During the summer the machinery that was formerly used was supplanted by a new and much more powerful equipment, consisting of a pair of twin boilers, built by the famous Whittier Company of Boston, each capable of producing 72 horse power, which ean be used either separately or together. This improv ment was accempanied by a contract fora pair of engines of the celebrated Corliss type, built by the Harris-Corliss Company of Providence, ELL. They are so adjusted as to be capable of running singly or together, the force ranging from 60 to 220 horse power. In addition to these engines the establishment keeps on hand, ready for use, a Sprague electric mo- tor, to be utilized in case of emergency. ‘There is also in the new building, communi- cating with the press room a SPACIOUS STORAGE RooM, where a supply of paper is kept sufficient to | print Stans for a month or six weeks, Ar- rangements have also been made whereby al | COMPOSIN | very nearly half thousand individuals, For } circulation or distributing purposes the city is divided into districts of about equal proportions |” In the northeast corner of the room, away | °f Population, and in these sections the papers are delivered to the regular, permanent subscri- | bers, including the main circulatton. by route | deliverers, who purchase the papers from the | office at wholesale rates and distribute them by means of salaried carriers. Thus the Company has nothing directly todo with the actual | the delinquent carrier is notified. In case the error occurs repeatedly and no remedy is ap- | plied the carricr’s privilege is taken away and | transferred to another person, These persons, | acting solely on their own account, hold what is virtually the good will of the Company over certain parts of the city, in which they are pro- ected while faithful to duty. There are about | | te 150 ROUTE DELIVERY Bors, These do not ail start from Tue Stan office, but the majority of them are stationed in va- rious parts of the city, whither the papers are | | A STAR WAGONETTE. | taken by a rapid wagon service, recently en- larged by the introduction, for the first time in this city, of handsome carts, built expressly for Tue Stak by the Gurney cab company of Bos- ton after a design furnished by Tur Star Com- pany. These little two-wheelers, neatly painted and bearing Tue Srar’s name, are whirled swiftly from THe Stan office to the depots and the distributing stations that have lately been established. These stations are located as fol- lows: Bridge street, Georgetown; 18th and M 16th and H streets north- | west; 22d rlvania avenue northwest; | lith and 8 streets northwest; 12th and Q streets | northwest, Thomas circle northwest; 5th and K streets northwest; Ist and H streets northwest; 9th and H streets northeast; 10th and B streets southwest; Ist and East Capitol streets; 2d and Pennsylvania avenue southeast; 7th and Penn- sylvania avenue southeast; 9th and B streets southeast. Two more of these wagonettes are now being built, and there are, besides those now in use, | four larger wagons, two for the city service ' and one each for Anacostia and the 7th street jroad. Thus Tae Sram reaches its regular readers through the medium of eight swift | vehicles at present and this number will soon be increased to ten, IN THE DISTRIBUTING Rooms. When the bundles of papers from the presses |eome sliding down the chutes there is the greatest activity in the delivery rooms in the basement, Thousands of papers have to be counted andsent out of the office, hundreds of |them in wrappers, to catch the 4 o'clock trains, While the Srars are being dumped through the chutes and hurried off in various directions there is au interesting scene in the main part of the delivery room in the front building. In this long narrow room are fully three hundred news boys, of all shades and ages. There are many unique characters in this gathering, a huge amount of grit and pluck, and «” more “than ordinary quantity ‘of that American quality called “cheek.” They are hardy boys, most of them shrewd and enterprising, and they drive a thriving trade on the streets with their wah-yeah!” The are loosely or- ganized into a body politie by their own ne- cessities, forming in line every day and reach- ing the office in processional order, checks being distributed for places in line, the univer- sal rule being “first come, first served.” At 3 o'clock the motley throng comes trooping across the avenue with a whirlwind of sound and pour down into the front basement, policed by a couple of Tur Stan's assistants and by half a dozen strong fellows selected from the leaders, ‘Tbe boys pass in front of a de counter, to the edge of which some scarcely reach, and band the money over toaclerk perched on a high stool on the other side in front ofa box anda tray full of celluloid various colors. *-Ten, lease,” iy Stans here,” “Fifty here,” “One hundred, please.” ‘they cry, and, as they get their checks entitling them to the number of papers they have paid for, around the room and take seats astride of long benches that run up and down the room in the order to which they are entitled by their check above referred to. Soon the papers are brought into the front room and exchanged for the checks, the boys making bee lines for their favorite routes? making the air resound with their cries, Many young men in this city now occupying respon- sible positions and rising to places of import- ance in the community started in life and re- ceived their first insight into the ways of the world of business as Sar news boys, ROOM. The cellar of the new protected against floods. ard to expense. At exery sewer pipe or out- t of water is a back-water trap to prevent the This is to keep the ity to possi- let in and even more rapidly. THE THREE PRESSES, ‘The presses are three in number, each with a are from the world-re- and the other from the presses fe aay ore all designated in the The Distributing Department. After the presses have begun their work z As stated above, the bulk of Taz Srars distributed each day through the regular carriers. The copies that go out on average a little less than 1,500 a round, or short of five per cent of the circulation. There are about 1,400 copi are otherwise disposed of outside o: a. — a thousand —_ over the daily and an average copies on nary days and about 9,000 on Saturda their way to readers by the hands of ne ws ——___— A Toronto Mystery. Jane Speers, an old woman, was found in house in Toronto Thursday so badly assaulted and choked with a rope that she died a few hours later at the hospital from her injuries, Miss Speer was unmarried, She lived «lone 3 53 i FH g 5 ilk ¥ | | il i PASADENA WINES are SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA grapes hignest grade of maturity and ripeness fore, the best Wines in the market, | i i é i j j . B. A SELIGSON, or 2200 and 1202 Penna. ave. aw., WASHINGTON, D.C, am the sole agent for the Pasadena Wines and Brandies And sell at marvelously low prices. I have orders from rich and poor alike and all cheerfully ae- knowledge that the Pasadena Wines and Brandies are by far the best and purest in the District, motwite standing the fact that my prices are the very lowest. My 20 per cent removal discount will be indefinitely: contbued, PLEASE COMPARE MY PRICES WITH THOSE OF OTHERS, PASADENA WINES, Claret, extra quaiit Burgundy... ‘Augelica Muscatel. Malaga. seal Champawne, quarts, Chambague, pints, 2 dozen z 320 | Sweet Catawba (dest quality) Bo Icarry the largest stock of Imported Wines, Cog nace, G Jamaica and St. Croix Rums and all the | French Cordials, including the celebrated after-dinner | cordial, CREME DE MENTHE «Cream of Minty, ereen or orange. ‘The oldest Rye, Bourbon and Imported Whiskies cau always be foundat my store. I enumerates few: Jrimble Pure Rye. jontic re oe Demijohns oF Haus - Kod Bottles, very low, ro 90 ig oo 6 vo . seo 4 lish Whisky, very ol 750 = 800 Ineh Whisky, very, very old ayo 09 German Koxweu Brautwein. rr) 400 and I make a specialty of Bigh-flavored Cooking Jelly Wines and Brandies, B. A. SELIGSON, THE WINE AND LIQUOR MERCHANT, 1200and 1202 Penna. ave. n.w. Telephone Call 112-3, d18-wks Bex To Tu Besr Abvawrace, Which cau be done at F. 8, WILLIAMS & Co.'s, DEUGGISTS, UNDER MADONIC TEMPLE, Cor. Sth and F sts. now, CALL, EXAMINE Qk c BOOS AND BE CONs ) PRESCuLPLiONS, Our prices for prescriptions: Proportion to other s ‘e use only the purest drag ana chemicais trom the most relisble manu- tucturers. We choertully invites careful of this departuwent by physicians, i ‘4 i 5 Red. Reg. Allcock’s Porous Plasters. - iv 15 German Porous Plasters, - = rs Sarsapariila - b—} i Shel - e Pills, 2 > bay Kum, Unported, .arme bottles, Bovinine, wiz. Bovinine, large su pall's Cough Rens rowe's dam. Ginver. Williams? Jaan, Beuson's G 's Soluble Food, wed. Soluble Food, lange, ry Sarsaparil Horrtord’s Acid Phosphates, sinall. Horstord’s Acid Phosphates, iarze Hon’s Malt (1 o x eee GUSESSSSESLSETETLULSS UUSTUSSEVTETS Hanson's Corn Iron Bitters, ver t ae “ ~ or potiie. ~ Poua’s Pise's “e GRE SSESSEVS GSES UVES TUS, ered ee 8S €8 ¢; Phosphatic Emdlsion, the Dest, (fresly iu pant bottles... . Seer ‘of Ammonia, Full iiliauus’ Comp, Sarsapari is. Villiaiue’ Rowe Tooth Powder . Wi.tains’ Quinine and Rua ‘onic Handoline 18 unegualed as a beaut Hexion: an indispensable requisite to oilet: it renders the skin white, smooth — chappiug. Every lady should tle, 2 Sed 8 exesnsseg: v4 8 Ha feFeRRRE 233 WER P = Kheumalgia, an infallible external ralgia, Heatache and Tootuache Ie osver tells oP et Se a= relief iu the most ol a - ead QUININE. 1 dozen 1-grain Capsules 1 dozen "cram Capeul 100 5-grain Capsules. 4 100 grains Quinine, Por Don't mistake the place—THE TEMPLE @ STOLE. Under Slasouic Tempic. conser vt and Bate ry Jad-eo ¥. 8. WILLIAMS & ©O., Proprietors, BRSES PUREST IN THE WORLD. CONTAINS no CHEMICALS;or ADULTERATIONS, Paris Exposition, 1889, {3 OtEP4 Prizes 40 CENTS—A POUND—40 CENTS. ask your Grocer for MENIER CHOCOLATR: (Yellow Wrapper). BRANCH HOUSE, UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK. GEATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPs's COCOA