Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1891, Page 2

2 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 180I-TWELVE PAGE teave, friczo and cornice. The fricse | whioh ronder possible communication with | entrance are two great vaults sanding on | with “Teo special’;ghairs and a table upon | vertisemonts, tho supply of which is gen- | always takon another papor fn the morniug | mado by Red Ribbonites upon the observanco is ornamented with circular and | all the departments of the building. On the | each side of a passageway leading to a droess- [ which the packages are to be assorted. erous and Tiir Brr, a8 indicated, in the evening of Sunday by tho Gormans of the aity. Tn o diamond-shaped panels while the cornice 1s | aoposite side of the hall e rooms ocoupied | (g Foom. Ihe car is lowlad with packages of Tne | Noxt morning the papors intendod for | Willinm Wallaco~I was one of tho first | of the thon local papors, tho Rod Ribbon adorned with a dentil ornament. On top of | aigp by sub-editors, the news and sporting The private ofice, or directors’ room, s Bre which have beso conveyoed to it by two | Couneil Bluffs aro sacked at an eariy hour | subseribe d kept on until during the | ple found somo support, Alstadt's papor v the entabiat {sos another pilaster which | aditors,tho special Ber telegraphers, three in | feet square, and fronts on Farnam ond | experienced handipes. Th s are plaoed | and are sent by special express noross tho | grasshopper visitation. 1 then stopped Tie [ published in defonso of the Germa extends through the first and second stories, | yumber, the night editor and bis two nssist- | Seventeenth strocts, It is well lighted, [ fn the order of their destination, thoso for | bridge. In this manner 1,500 coples aro de- | Bk for Mo reasons, but subsequontly | put a flgurativo floa in the oars of t while on top of the samo appears & semi-¢ir- | ants, These rooms are fnished in polished | foored with quarter-sawed oak, the oxtrem: | the nearer statiowsyboing arrangod nearest | livered in that city beforo the citizons have | rencwed the subscription sud am still tak- | traducers. Whilo publishing the Flea, Mr cular arch around the third story, the whole | onk and lighted with electricity and gas. { fues of whick ave ornate in oak and walnut, | tho door. Thiy (arrangement is super- | arisen from their comfortable couches. ine it Alstadt mot Mr. "Rosewater, Tho latter being crowned by a richly moulded modillion | They are supplied with easy furniture, | and finishod in antiguo oak intonded by fFur Bee's special [ This entorprise was introducod by Mr Lowis 8. Rood 1 was fn tho logisiaturo | wantod a canvassor to work tho stato, At cornice, the spandrels on top of the arches | the tacles being of the most convenient pat- | At the northern cxtromity of the counting | messenger. My 1 Goorge Gelloubeck. | Rosewator about ton years ago. It was | with Mr. Rosewater in 1871, He came homo | that timo Tir Brr was scarcely two weeks having intevinced Moorish fret work, T tern. Haif of the rooms front on the stroot, | room is tt of the city circulatorto [ Thotrain1s in echargoof Conductor G. W. | fostered undor all kinds ‘of dificulties. Tho | and startod Tun Bre w tho little effica on ( old. - But the aditor, with tho far-seoi rches again rost on eapitals, moul | the others on the court. Each man has his | which pla carriors have]froe nccoss from | Goodrich, a youug man, most accommodating | Faroads refused to transport Tite Bre.on | Twellth strcot that was burnod down, | dom which has always chiracter: great dolicacy with French dotail orna- | piace, and no oneinterferos with him. The tho rear, 1 one of tho méendorviceablo conductorson | the oarly freights, The paper had accord- | Tik Bey has always come to my oftico and I [ wished to extond its influonce through ments, > | 18 no smell of benzine, of over-heated ‘and B — the rond. His sehodule has boon handed him, | ingly to'bo seut down to the river whoro it | read it daily stat Nobraska was thon but spatsoly The fourth and fifth stories are plainer but | antiquated papor, nor any of @ dozen other EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS. Tho signal is giyem,; On through the dark- | Was taken by n boatman and ferried to the | Cavtain C. B, Rustin—-T havo been in and [ tied, having fewer than one b have vory offective lines of moulded cornices | ghjectionablo adors which but too frequently - s tho train shoots. Thero 18 fno light of | Iewa shoro, Thore it was taken in charge | outof town. I've taken tho paporor bought it [ and' fifty — thousaud — population cacried around the court dominate where writers work. In these eate Figures Which Tell of th . 10 the cab but as the furnace door | by an expressman and hauled, under every | on the stroots almost over siaco it was [ staat was going to travel throuy Tho sixth story has n double row of pilas- | raoms it is u plossure to labor and the men Great Success of The Bee. aro roveal®d the youthful, but deter- | kind of elemental disturbanco, across tho | started b it for tho Flea, —nnd - thought tors, ono set being wido and forming a con- | fecl the privi and advantages which are Py H i e features of wgineer William Clawson, | trackless bottoms to tho Blufts Richard Wildo—I take the morning Bre | could work at tho samo time for Tur By tinuation of the main pilasters below, whil o freely resorved to them. Durine working T'he phenomen s which has at- yclone BIll' as he has been appropriately Finally, the railroad permitted Tue Bre to | hore at my placo of businoss an buy it 1 Ho recoived his commission Mr. Ro: the other sot forms mull between the | hours s are s quiotas path in | tended Tik Bre hich s olsowhoro de- | termed, and the somewhat grimy features | send its edition to that city on a hand car, tho | the evening from a newsboy on the streot | watorand started for Lincoln. Omalin was windows. The capitals moulded and | the for Iy noise noticeablo being the | tailed may by readily approciated by a ’IUM sparkling eyes of Charley Highsmith,the rlnln-wwluw r !M'up.‘iml;: the machine up to the | and "w\u;v it ‘»m ne, and have done so since it | not -‘. on connected with vhnl. pit li by ral ornamented in the same foeling s are the | ticking of tho tolegraph wires. These, by | sonsideration of the following fizuroes : ireman, 3rondway depot and thero loaving it to Le | was first sol ost conrection was mado by driving t Towaronea, | OYGF thiess bhenirigs Ko BOIE: |- meanb of, spesial Wires, dfe. secordiniy naws: | oo o orauon "‘,'l‘ ”.' Ml figut Thera {s nobody prasent, to witness its de- | ealled for by the circulator. Sam Burgstrom—I took it from the fiest nttsmouth and shence taking the B3, & M eireular arched heads with a label mouldin from every important city in this country Lkl bl parture and the pulling out is made in the This mothod of transmission was laborious | dav it was started oxcept for a short time, | to Lincoln Tha latter is rich in effect with the dentil o »of which is being flashed by cable 3 inn most businoss-like wanner. In a mo- | and dangerous. The work had to be dono | when Ihad a fight with the carcior. Ho co poaking of tho aubjoct Mr. Alstadt say tooth moulding. from every leading city and capital of the | 3 L e ment it hos rounded the bond, passed over | beforo daybroak, Thoro was thon butono | lected twice. T told him I wouldn't take the “In 15711 published a papor caliod Tho court 18 crowned with a deop frieze | world beyond the ocean. In a single night | 1%, v o f 3 | the bridges and under the viaducts and is | track ovor the bridgo. It the messonger had | paper until thoy got another wan in his [ puts it “Tho Duteh Flod, in the bise and dentil cornieo while in the friezo are | the tireless workers who recoive theso m . speeding to the country, South Omaha is | renched tho middie of tho bridgo and dis- | place. They got anodtier man and then L | of Rediield's building, corner of Dodio some cireular opening sages enablo Tite Bre to place befors its passed with a salute of the whistle. But tho | covered a train coming toward him ho was | commenced again. Tn the moantime,however, | Twelfth streets. M. Rosewater « Tn the second and third stories a corvidor | readers 50,000 words which covers every hap wwn is dark and quiet. Brilliant sparks | compelled to zot out of tho way with ox- | I bought the pager on tho streots. at the same timo a shoot which he nam pusses around the court behind tho main pi- | pening of importance for the last twenty-four from the locomotive trail after the flyer, but ition or be run down without merey, but, | C. 1, Goodman. I was one of the very first [ Bri. Tk Ber still hums, stings and fasters, Between the lattor aro bandsome | hours. { v orve only to show (o dense wreaths of without tho knowledgo of tho | subscribers Tus Brr evor had. Mr. Rose- [ ers honoy. The Ilea 1s-woll, das bateonies ontiined with bronze and iron bal This, however, 15 by way of preparation | . . ¥ smoko slowly circling bebind and ascending | trainmen. trequently Tir Bre man was | water has made a great success of his pape ausgeseidnicht, My paper was star! usters, The bronzo balusters are in the | for the morning paper. The same system is | ! bty oy 23V | to tho clouds to add to the density of the | compelled to roturn back and more fro. | I nover had any differonce with him but oneo | tho Gorman I'los, but it soon uc second story, while those in th rd have a | in foree for theafternoon edition, the workers 4 ‘ v gloot quently to pull his car and load off | and that was casily sottled, traditional tlea of the Irishman o antiful design of wrought iron scroll- | for wnich are in the main distinct from tho . s L The limits of South Omaha having been | tho track to allow o train to pass. | Chris Willo—I came hero in October, . | disuppoared forever, night forc Postage. reachied, the eugine 15 allowed to do 1ts best | Once, however, he was unablo to it the car | and have read and subscribod for Tuk By SMe. Rosowator had boe offices on the inner lineof the build At tho north end of the corridor i a door | gyatoment of amonnt of nostage pald and the train specds over the track with the | from the rail in time and the vehicle was | oversinco, Tk Be's all right. [vs tho | canvasser und T thought 1 could do tho job of ing open on this court and are as well lighted | which opens into the composing room. This | jut"vn o "5uee ton yoar: B swiftness of the wind. Shoe has right of way | crushed by an engine into splinters as if it | bost paper in town, tho state -anywhere solling my Flea and his Beg, ty v live. a3 those which face the streots, A onse- | latter covers an area of 43,916 feot, being B 5 IO and a straight teacic. The locomotive is the [ had been ouly a toy wagon I¥'s always been a first-class paper. ly inscets, But, after a littlo wh e B quenco there is not a dark spot to be found | forty-four feet in width and ecighty-nine fect 2 18,1587 one which monthly hauls the pay car. Its | The building of the wagon bridgo has, | I D. Sutphen—Mr. Rosowator from the | Killed tho Flea in the building in length, It is lighted by witdows on two 5 = 451884, ips have brought hundreds of dollars and | however, done away with all this toil and | start, when ho came lbre, impressed tho **Ho oncagad me and I started on tho jour In the glass roof s a large-sized ventilator day and by ricity at nicht. 1t ot 5 15000 § wppiness to thousands of homes in tho stato | danger and o rapid expross now does tho | business men that ho was possessed of a | Boy. [ gotdown to Plattsimouth aftor a t which keceps & freo current of alr passing | is hoatéd by steam, is warm in wintor and G200 9315000010130 of Nebraska. It is now in Tis: Bek, bearin ork. Ou this trip are also_taken about | groat deal of vim and energy and when ho | of Lwo days. ‘Tho weather wis vory hot an through the courtand thus renders the lat- | comfortable in summer. It is weli ventilated AL a wealth of information valued in the thous- | fifteon hundred copies of Tik Bxr oxclusive | started Tie Beg it was thought that it would 15 sandy and dusty. I rodoin n wigon ter cool and pleasant and froo from the smells which so often_ren OBOTINIE Of RWSp P | ands and a means to enable tens of thousands | of those intended for the Bluffs, and theso | bea “go.”" "I subseribed for it from tho be- | With a friond. = A snake or something bit the Tho court will later be embellished with a | der the newsroom almost unbearable, He: Paper. tospend the aay and even their lives in a | aro placed on board carly freights for dis giuning. 1 bhad an advertisement which ran | horse and caused him to run aw: I'hy fountain, Aftor tho building shall two corps of compositors work, ono by day, | Tho woight of the paper in pounds re- | most happy manner. It secms conscions of | bution in wostern lowa, Tno remaindor of | init yoarin, yoar out. Iwas then in the | horse turned abruptly aud tho wagon, animal tled the walls of the court,which now present | the other by night, the former numbering | quired to print Tie Bee for the last three | the exalted work in which it is evgaged. | the Towa mail is rushed from the mailing 0ss and had a sport- | and driver went ovoer a bluff Jumped oft the snowy brightness of stucco, will be | about forty and the latter abo v vears was as follows : T rails benind it slip into darkness, but its | room to the postoflice, whencoit is dispatehed ad near Bowman's present | on the other side and was saved. “The wago treatod to'a judicious tinting in soft, warm | ‘The forcmen's desks, as also the adv 5 ¢ AR headlight lights up a pathway which it is | on early passengers to its destination. on Farnam streot. I had a | was broken, the driver injured,and tho rotton ors ing department, are walled off from the mai 7 W LCULIUTEsIT [ anxious to pursue, In South Omaba Tur Bek employs a corps | big pipe which hung over tho door, aiso u | haraoss torn into leathor steaps, The driver The halls of the building are floored with | part by high iron latticed partitions. I . T 1415,614 | The messenger ovens the door on the side. [ of roporters who keep track of éverything | largo gua which was hung up outside. 1 | left the wagon thore and returned to Omaha. tho finest of encaustic tiles of harmonious | floor 1s of marble. Thore aro sixty-elght se of Composition ‘There is the ghmmer of light visible, like a | habpening in tho city and stockyards. The | had cuts of theso and thoy appeared in Tis | I continuod my journoy on foot color and design. The building is finished | doublo cases and these rest upon substantial $ 7.202.08(1880. 000 eerreaees 828 spark i the aistane The messcnger holds | news is tho freshest und fullest in both d Bee, When you opened the papor tho: “1 walked up and dowu the Platte river throughont in highly polished ook. ~ Crystal- | iron frames which are painted ecreen and . BT T e 5 two large packages of Ber's and the next in- | partments, This servico pays great atten- | cuts could bo seen as far off as you could see | bank, looking for a boat to cross and finally fzed plato glass is used in all doors and tran- | kept in o cleanly condition. The *@umps’ | ) 1hae B0/ 16%0. 102481 1 stant projects them scemingly into the dark- | tion to tho cotlection of the most auything in the pape Ihoy” atteacted o | found ono toward evening. When I reached soms faciug the corridors, while the windows | aro of iron and brass of the latest and most | 14 i L AL ness. The spark now appears to have been | market information, o fact which is dai at deat of attention then, but would notof | the other side of the river it was dark, and 1 of tho structuro are of the bost heavy plate pproved pattern, and tables of iron have | Isss [l 207167 tho illuminated window of a station and | noticeaile in Tite BEE's roports. Tho latter | course attract so much attortion at this time, | Stopped in a farmer’s louso and carly next In the plumbing system are contained all the | been substituted for the old-fashioned iw e shines upon tho hundles lying at the door | aro recognized as authority by the eattlo | George A. Hoagland was in my storo when | morning coutinued on my journoy to 1’latts Intest inventions of mogern iius, both as | posing stone. A080:57500 0 S 7 . ....810171.50 | Waiting to be vicked up by the agent. dealers who patronize the yards, as also by ) the canvasser first mado his appearance, and | mouth: I reached there tired and nangry, regards service an' perfect venti- T'his composing room has been admitted by | 18417010 5 i 111 | “That was Papillion,” savs the messenger, | farmers throughout the “country who con- | subscribed for the paper right on the spot bronzed like a Hottentot, and with only lation ch offico is supplied with | experionced printers and journalists to have | 188 ! soeeees WONGL | This station is eighteen miles from Omaha | template the shipping of live stock. Caultiela_—Well, [ really never sub- | couplo of dollars in iy pocket. 1 wanted to | running water and basins of Italian | nosuverior in the country. ki 3 AU and the run is made in twenty-three min- At Lineola also Titz Bee maintains a resi- | seribed for Tue Bk, but it has been on m. Ko to Lincoln and applicd at the ofice of marble, On each floor aro soparate On the west the news room opens into the | 1sss..0 01100000 i (s utes. Nostop is made and the station is | dent correspondent whose time is solely do- uter for sale over sincoit was established, B. & M. road for transportation. Thy tilet rooms for ladics and eentlomen. Th voted to gathering the latest wformation for | that was in ‘71, whon we had the great tole: dquarters were in a1ittlo holo--the-wall building 1s heated by steam and lighted by - - this pap phers stri structure. I can’t recall the name of tho electricity, both of which are supplied by In Chicago Tie Bree has an office in voom | D. T, Mount—Thero's nothing equal to it | man who was in charko at_the time. I toid boilers and dynamos in tho sub-basement. - Rookery buildmng, under the charge of | in the ¢/, now, is there, even consider- | him I reprosented tho German Flea of Whilo the structure is y oly fire- \ ~ \ J S Mr. A. G. Richardson for the handling of ad- | ing what Mr.” itosewater has gono throu wanted a pass to Lincoln. He proof, there are, bosides, sevent . vertisements, It also maintains a nows | whathe has | through, Of ¢ as_an intrader and, if ho had which are in themselves, also indestructibio bureau thero, thn special telegraphic sorvico | I'vo takon Tiik B from - tho timo it was able would have kicked mo from tho of. by fire or heat. P — > from which 1s a daily feature of this paper. started, s seriousnoss made me smilo. That iS04 FiRib on6 ) oL watsE land” fires s Thora'“1s also nb. Washington' 6 speclal | . :JohniBanmer=I took Titn Brn firsy f 1871 m mad. proof. It rests upon heavy iron boams. Between % i p burcau maintamed, the letters of which, over | when it was begun and have kept it right | ‘Say,mistor,' " I said, ** ‘o't vou givo mo these latter arc the Iatest improved hollow s 7 the name of Perry S. Heath, have long been | along, notwithstanding that Mr. Roscwater | & pass to Lincoln, Tam’oditor of the Gor fireproof tiling three and a half inches in di- y 1] i L G 1 familiar to the readers of Titi: BrE. has criticised me. I kept on advertising fn it | man Flea of Omaha. 1t is supposed to be the ameter. Those are covered with one and a e ; S 020G ¢ In New York Tur Bre has still another | too. red ribbon——' 1 half inches of conerete, and on top of this are e i i g oflice, rooms 14 and 15, Tribune bulding, | Philip Lang—I have taken the paper from Sue here,’ ho , it you don't five thicknesses of asphaltum. Then comes = i " sy S el under the dirveetion of Mr. A, G. Richavdson. | the first. When Mr. Rosewater started his | leavo he you put in the jail.) ono and a half inches of Portiand cement in | Jas 3 i No paper west of Chicago is so well sup- | Biv, thero was another paper started from | *Lsaw it was no use to talk to hin about which are impianted 60,000 vitrified brick, " . =4 SRR et bR g plied or can afford to waintain so many | the Republicau ofice to oppose him But ho | the Flea so T told bim I also represented Tii the cuter surface of tho roof. ‘The last men- 3 > . ¥ = means of receiving reliable information, ) ran them out. ‘Thoir ofico was over Heafey | B, You ought to soo him look at mo then ! tioned is s0 smooth and solid that a batallion s [ & Heafey's. “ii Bee has always had moro | His eyes stood out like those round piecos of of infantry and a battery of artillery might HE: OLD GUARD. l 150 won. Mr. Rosowator used to | £1ass they havein colored church windows. manwuyvro thero with eise. The weight of e it almost overy month, Ho thoughtl guess, at one. time, that [ was this roof has beon estimated aut 875 tons, ST Pt Tt s Hellman—I have taken Tir Bee from | fooling him and again that I was an escaped In the sub-basement, 126 feet square, are Recollections of Harly Subscribers | ¢, first day whon Mr. IRosowator throw tho | inmato of the insuno asylum. Aud I didn't the evgine, boiler and electric dynamo rooms, Who Always Stood By The Bee, paper around for a few weoks or months for | hardly blame him, bocause, who ever heard s oo olitielolloe o s o fuamonifthy Papors chango but readers, donot,as a rule, | Bl and then chargod, [ thinic ) conta | of " panor callia tho Ple, “and 1 guvss engine-room of stone tiling and the aynamo. RS o! v N er 1o ve kepf er sinco, had tosewator v o st man Yoom of hard wood, Thero aro thrce boilers T = change with them. Now journalistic candi- | {15000 amant in the firss. numioe oo 1 I paper Tue Bee T smilod each fect in length and five feet ir, | Stereotyping department. This is also lighted Annual Cost. hardly in sight befdre it again !caves the | dates rise up, claim, anda perhaps, merit lib- | was in business right on thisspot. [ think | again anyhow, though not very much, bo diameter, with a capacity of suppiying a 200. | On two sides and rivals tho composing room “The total cost of publishing Tie Bre an- | range of vision, eral ronage. { Rosewater has done more for the com- | causo I thought it was about timo to show rs0 power ongine, onc-third more than is | it beauty and the perfection of its appoint- | nyally for the past clevea years is as follows: | _ Millard, twenty-threo miles from Omaha, | i Ber, howover, doos not change. 1t 15, cial prosperity and prozgress of Omaha that L was really in earnest. rquired for operating all the machinery, | ments. The floor is covered with boiler iron 50.700.19. is reachod iu thirtysone minutes, and off flies | yoqac n'it was twenty years ago, devoted | than any ono individual. Ho certainly do- Mistor," I said, *if you will give a tickot Tho boilers aro 0 arranged that any ono or | Securely riveted upon onken plank. There is a S ODSAL large bundlo;; Tt lands upon the sta- B P Vo LY@ YORISAEO e vOLeC vos credit for his pluck and enorgy, be- | to Lincoln I will advertiso your road in Tk all of them may be employed at the same | fire-proof vauit inone corner in which stand So0,501.81 1d gy the very door. to the city, the state, tho peoplo. Recogniz- | causohe had to fight his way from, the | Bik of Omaba, timo for any specitic use. The heating of the | Martrices which may bo required again. IotoEaTh0 3 pert can throw these bundles | ing this fact, its ranks have not been dosort- | ground up. But now, he cannot be injuved ik Bii of Omaha,’ he repeated, mock- building is accomplished by the one-pipe s; Thero are two sets of machinery and each 1881, .. 801,40 and the accompanyiig messeuger is denom- | ed by its early rriends. They are filled with | i tbing ho undortakes for the benelit of | ing me. That sett the matter with him. tem with the latest imbrovements. The | may bo used at an instant’s notice if the Ty oo inated an expert. " Tho packago is thrown in | voterans, aud haye boon increased by acces- Ho know then that I was erazy. Ho callod a power for heatiug, printing and lighting the | other should bocomo disabled. a direction contrary to that in which tho | G TES BRI VS LS elting Tdon'tthink I'vo ever missea | £0od-sized man from somowhoraand told him building is supplied by two beautiful and | South of thestercotyping rooms and con- o BaTa0, train is running which, i & measure, coun- [ Sions of lutor though porhaps less oxciting ce it started. The Herald | to chuc out with tho remark: “This perfect Corliss enging The smaller is of | necting with the nows room are finely fur- o 1. 158,56, teracts the momentam which it receiv times. and Republican were both old papers then, | fellow savs Tk Bei of Omaha —and he S0-horse power with & [2xi6-inch_cylinder, a | hished toilet rooms, and still further” south chif et from the train. While Tz Bre glories in the support | The Itepublican has winked ont. The Herald | omphasized those words—‘wants traus drive-wbeol of 10 foot diamoter, 23-neh | i3 the room in which the mail lists are pre- g 5 Elkhorn, “thirty-one miles, is passed in | which it has always been accorded, it yot ed with another, but Tue Bee still | portation for advertising. Now you trans faco und woight of 11,000 pounds. This | pared and printod. Hero thero aro cases of . . g minites and-theee anotlicr bundlo f1ics | yuicas special prida in the old gunrd siieh Mr. Rosewater has mado a great suc. | POt him out of doors and with your boot if operates the presses, stercotyving machinery, | iron reaching to the ceiling and in them are MICIAL TRAINS awaoy from the cararil - B LooI0. DESS e iy Of couarse, there was some doubt | You want to. He's an imposter, 'he only pivor-wotting apparatus, plate elovator and | deposited in type the namo and address. of SCIAL TRAI Waterloo, and Valloy aro. treated in like | Das stood by it from the start. Death and % @ sudeess when it was started, | PADOrs in Omaha are tho Heeald and Kepab day dynamo. The other engine has a cylin- | every subscriber to Tie Bie. The appoint- 3 4 % manuer and there is an energetic pull for | change of residence have reduced the num- auso there had even then been so many | lican and they don’t amount to much.” der 16x44 inches, 150-horse power, witha | menis of this room arc also perfoct and on- | Thousands of Dollars Paid for the | remout, the morning in the meantime rid- | ber, but change of soutiment never. To pub- s among tho papoers. But we all pat- “The mar ho callea was a big fellow and 1 drivor of eloven feot in diamter, 2-inch faco | blcs the work to bo perforued with tho Earlicst Delivery on Record. ing on wives of light beind tho iron hotse. | lish, howover, tho names of all thoso who | ronized it was gotting ready o run botween his fogs and weight of 17,000 pounds, This is intended | greatest ease and rapidity. s S S 5 niy the elements, however, can excel this s beyc SIS o >. E. Iler—I can't romember now that T | and throw him over whon I said: prioipaily for the othor dynamos, though | . Tho press room is situated on the basement l'lv“"v R .l"“’:l °L' l"“i _“’u‘“ '1“‘5 ‘;““ stead and wheu, at last, panting and thi still remain is beyond tho possibilivy of THE | o\p0ribed for Tur BEE just at tho start, bug | * ‘Hold on, mister. You are mistakon, oach engine is so arrauged as to be used as | floor, but above ground, opening off the tiled | Always has felt, that that it is the duty of a | ho gallops into Fremont, he finds e has been | BEE In thisissue. Appeaded howover, aro | T know I did soon after. I went into oyoery- i3 Pue Bu, and T took a eopy of tho may be desired. fioor'of the court. i great journal to not only gather all tho news, | aistanced by the dawning. tho names of a fow who rejoico with Tit: | thing that camo along in those days. 1 kuow r from my pockol and sproad it upon tho Tho electrie light is supplied by dynamos In the sub-basemeat is located the paper | but also to place that news before tue reader Here e comes toa stund and takes a copious | BEE on this anniversary of its birth. as invited to take stock in it. I might | pine counter.” This provented war and both of the United States cleotric light compary’s | Wetung machine.. This works with but lit- | g tc earlicst moment possible. This fact s efreshing draught of water, Mean- | . John D. Croighton I didn't move my_fam- one of the original stockholders if | the superintendent and tho big bouncer I AveIBIoADARE o attention, The paper i vound 5 sible. s ito T fofaz S ¢ here 572 That was just about a . 5 oIl By asai WAL patent. Two of these have a capacity of 600 | e attention. The paper is unwound - from | £¢ U8 R BRI DORE Hee, L3 TRE 18 Tt Bie's enorgetic agent has rushed [ ily here until 1 L B & dod, but I declined and Tam | well, they didu’t know what a bouncor was, Diktoen-candlo power lamps. while the | ono cylinder, drawn across a metallic tablo | exemplified by o : BVENING | yp o the car with @ handwagon and oo | Yeur after Mr. Rosowater staried his Bir, 'y now that I did, bocauso I think it | 10 thoso days, but that fellow kuew what smaller has a capacity of 300 lamps. The | receiving a spray as it does which dampens it Bre within a few minutes after 4 o'clock at | copies of Tz Bee are doposited in the recop- | Put we havea’t parted company since except je mone; was expocted of him—looked at that paper larger ones make SX0 revolutions, while the | and enables it réadily to receive the ink on | thousands of homes in this city, and the de- | tacle. It is now 4:13 a. m. o'clock. The | When I was off in Kentucky ou o iong busi- | ~Miton Rogers—I crossed tho river in *50 | and lwughed. smaller ono makes 1,00 revolutions per | the press. It is then wound up on another | jivory also of Tie MokNixG BEE in timo to | #gent has no time to talk with the trainmen, | ness trip and thou Tuk B somotimes fol- | and received the first copy of Tue Bei and | ***Say, what you follows laughing at? " T minute. These dynambs supply 1,500 lights | 5pool on the other side of the machine. O T T nor have thev with the agent, because the | fowed m { A it has boon coming tome over since. Mr. | asked. " *:Dudn’t [ tell you I was coaneccted for the building, but the number may be | The floor rosts upon twelve-inch steel et 3 3 5 ¥ latter and the train leave the depot at the John Drexel--I'vo been subscribing for | Rosowater has done a great deal for Omaha, | with T | 1d horo sho is.’ rendily increased. steel beams, arched with brick and covered | This idea muy be still further emphasized | samo moment. At 6 o'clock every Bi Tur Bre only for the past ton years, but my | and I have stuck up for him foe certain sood The paper was about the size of a baby's Connected with the aynamo is a pony | With a bed of concrete. 'The prosses, how- | by the distribution of the paper on the | been deposited atits destination in I'remont, | father took it from the first press. 1 was Lv- | reasons which his paper has always sot forth, | bib and was then abont two weeks motor which operates tho dlower that works | €ver, stand upon walls which are built into | earliest trains throughout the state, and it | Sonberg, Ames, North Bend and Schuyler | ing on a farm then and T heard my fatnor say T, J. Beara—I huve taken Tur Bk sinco | old. Honestly, I was ashamed of tho the pneumatic tube which conuects the busi- | the ground in the sub-basement. As a conse- | may be still more strongly attested by tho | 8 passed by and off ut each one goes sey- | When the secoud copy reached bim, “Well, | it was startod. and, with almost overybody, | little thiug, " but I kuow it was full of ness oftice with the news-room and by means of which copy of advertisements, manuscript and proof may bo expedited from one dopart- ment to the other in half a dozen seconds. The clevators are worked by two immense Crane cylinders, 11 feet in length and 30 mches in diametor. These aro supplied with water from a gank on the roof 10 feet wide, | 16 feot long and 16 feet deep. This tank is discharged by the working of the elovator: into another large tank in the sub-basement from which the water is again pumped buck to the roof by a Worthington compound duplex pump, witomatically work- od by u float in the tank. Thera is a freight elevator in tho north part of the building worked in tne same manneras all the passen- gor clevators, Tho elevator which carries tho stercotype plates to aud from the stereo- typo room o tho press room is worked by rope transmission of pow All this machinery is of thg finest and most expensive kind. It is kept in the best condition by compotent engincers and u no more noise when in_motion than does average sowing machino. It is visited by hundreds who invariably cohsider it one of the greatest wonders of tho west. LATIAL QUARTERS, Where the Editorial nnd Mech Forces of The Bee Work Daily. Twenty years ago today, when the oditor of Tik Brk wrote ns salutatory ho was en- vironed with imposing stones, gruesome cases, broken furniture and jostled by overy- body from the galley boy to tho propriotor of the job oftico. ‘Today the humblest employe of Tue By counected with tho editorial department is in the enjoymont of accommodations which only u palatial office can offor, The clovators noiselessly ascend to the sixth floor. A little tothe loft1s tho en- trance to tho editorial quartors, Inside the entranco is the ante-room, divided Into two compartments by a bigh brouze rail. Behind thisrail is o stenographer, who is & news compiler and whose auty it is to allow noone | to pass to tho editorial” rooms without in- structions to that effect. 1his regulation is strongly enforced. Otherwise the corps would * bo at the me of many callers, who, 1t 13 said _regrotfully, loso sight of the fact that timo s not an ele ment to be considered by the beam workers of the forco. Peoplo who have news to iw- part will find the younyg man iu attendance capable of propariug it. Those who wish to 80 the edilor must state upon what grounds tho aesire is basod. Theso grounds are some- times not valid ones as is frequently the caso with respect to other members of the staft upon whow calls are wado. When, howover, it is urgent matter, the request is nover deniod. Sehind this rail a door opens iuto a capa- cious hall, On either sido of the latter are the rooms of the writors, The first room 1s that of Mr. E. Roséwater, editor-in-chief. It | opcuples the coruer of Seveuteonth and Far nam, aud overlooks the city to the east, south and Southwest. It is riohly furnishod, among its most intoresting features being sutograph vortraits of celebrities in politics, ~litor- ature and song. Adjoiuing on the north is the editors private library. Thia is supplied with a limitless vaviety of referonco books which are required on a woll establishod journal. Then comes a room on either side, occupied by associate editors. Next is the roow of the managing editor connecting with that of the city editor. In the latter is a telephone. Next on the samo side Is the reporters’ and night proofroaders’ room, large, well venti- lated and admirabiy lightod and as cloan s a plo. This is suppliea with runnmg wator basin of Itulian marble, mirror, toilet ar- ticies, aud a series of tubes and e quence the presses work almost noiselessly, and the rotation of tho cylinders ana m chinery has no effect upon the structure. Light enters through large windows opening on the wost, and the court and artificial light is nover neoded save before daybreak and after nightfall. Thero is no overhoad shaft- ing. The belts come from the engine below. T'he presses are two in number, of what is known as the Scott web perfecting class, Each of theso has a_capacity of 15,000 por fectod eight-page copies, or 30,000 four-page sheets per hour. ‘Together, thoir capacity is equal to 50,000 full papers or 60,000 half ~pa- pers, folded, per iour. Adjoining the press room on the north is tho mailing room. _This is also well lighted. The walls are lined with marble top tables with holes and supports at intervals for mail bags. A double marble beneh auns through the migdlo of the room, On these tables Tie Brr's aro delivered as rapidily as they come from the pross for tho worning, evening and weekly editions. The papers are taken by tho mailing clorks, and with the rapidity and precision which come only from long practice are developed, bagred and earried to the wagon in waiting, by which they are hurried off to tho waiting trains at the depot, Tho corps of mail clerks must necessarily bo rapid in its work and almost as fast ns the sheets leave the press they are scnt on the way to their destination, THE MARBLLE COUNTING ROOM. Where the Business of Tho Beo is Daily Transacted,* The richest apartment of Tie Ber build- ing is the counting room. 1t is at tho eastorn extremity of the corridor which leads from the graud balustrado, overlooking the ca- trance on Farnam street. Tho doors are of antique oak with panels of beaded plato gluss with a large transom of the same ma- terial. The room is $5 feot 1n length and 33 foot in width, This latter includes a publio lobuy which looks through several imposing windows into the court. The cdiling rosts on four massive pillars with Ionic capi- tals, Thoro aro five massivo chando- liors, pendent from which are thrty incandescent lamps and a similar number of ias jots. Around tho room are hung a dozen moro doublo-light incandescent brackets, Upon the Seventeenth street side are nino large plate glass windows which admit a flood of light by day. The counting room proper, or that which is devoted to elerical purposes, occupies the space behind the counters. Thé tioor Is of oak, bordered in ornamentation with stripes of black walnut, the wainscot- ting boing of sutiquo ok, ke counter runs from the south wall to a line east and west from the wuorth wall of the public lobby, It 15 erected on @ baso of chocolutd marble, supporting the russot Tennesseo warble pildstors that m surmounted by a quarter round section of marble of the same color as that of the buso lying immediately bolow tue marble crown, Botween the pilusters and the upper aud lower courses of russet marblo which run | along the side of the counter are panels of very dark mottlod Ilorontine marblo, Abovo the marble is a very artistically sbuped screen worked in Dower Barft irou, and at various iutervals in it appear openings for the advertising, subscription and divers other dopartments. 'The lobby or publje portion of the counting room outside the counter ls tloored with a mosaic pattern of marble im- ported from Bergamo, Italy, and wainscoted with very durk mottied Fioreutive marble, touched off at tho edges by the russet colored warble, A pnoumaticl tube carries copy between tho composing Foom and the business depurt mont. Entrance to the regr of the room can bo effected from an east and west corridor reached by the graud stairway at the north d of the court. To the right of this rear chartering of special fast trains, some of which run every day and others only on Sunday, for the purpose of reaching Tug Bex's readers all over the west. ial trains loaded with Bres, by flying locomotives at a speed oxcecding that of any regular special train in tho west! And vet that is what Tue Bee's enterprise nowadays cmploys to supply it readers first with tho news of the world. This is the achievement of the paper whose auniversary is today colebrated and which twenty yeurs ago did not have a singlo paid carrior. Ono of these trains runs overy morning to Plattsmouth at 2:45 o'clock. At 2:85 o'clock T Ber's wagon loaded with mail sacks fillod with Tini; Brr, dashes up to the train at the union depot. At 2:40 . m, the vemcle is unloaded and driven back to town, and five minutes later the mpatient engine, oue of the ficotest on the B. & specially sclected for this purposc il oxpress and passenger conch attached, dashes out of the depot. To Plaitsmouth is a run of twi miles, and tho distance is made in winute There is found the . & M. from Chicago for tho west. It pass through the states of Nebraska and Colorado and connects with all_south-westorn points, At all these places, Tue Be: has readers. Some of thom will yot bo 1 thoir beds when the great papor will bo delivored at therr post offices and in some iustances at their very oors. ‘Titi: Bees aro hurridly transforred o tho oxpress car of the passenger tean, and at ) o'clock . m., the tatter pulls ot ou its journcy to the mountains. Ashiand, by this ronto 72 miles from Omaha, is reachod at 4:15, m., and oft flies a package of Bres, Lincoln tho capital, by this routo 107 miles from Owmabn, is reachod at 4:18 o'clock, before the morning pap: at that place has'mado its appearance on tho streots, Then follow Creto av 5:37, mont, 625, Hastings 7:35, Holdroge 0113, Mc- Cook' 11380, Culbertson’ 11:55 o, m., and Deaver, the capital of Colorade, by this route ne: y 600 miles away, at 6:15 in the oven- ing, This servico ono of tho finest in tho world, and, with its connoctions aud Tug Bes special courlors, is oxcolled only by tho other spocial train on Sundays of Tiik: Bk on tho Union Pacific which supplios the contral, northern aud northwestorn sections of Nebraska, Tho lateer special traiu comprises an engine and car, aud is oxclusively coutrolled by Tue Brr. Its run extends 154 miles, terminating at Grand Island, The train reaches that place at 7:80 in tho morning. At that hour, thousanas of Omaha's citizons are yet abed, with Tue Bee lying on their porches. AU that hour, hundrods of citizens ara at tho depot and ou tho stroets of Grand Island roading that morning's Ber. No botter ser- vico was ever enjoyed. No botter servico was ever given in this or auy other country, No other puper of Omaha, or indoed west of Chicago, could standjthe oxpense of such an enterpriso. Some of the feoble, sloepy shoets | imagined at one time they could bear the ex penso of an enterprise which did not cost half as much, but found 1t was beyond their strength. Thoy gave up, and are now hauled along with ox-cart spoed, some places ten and others twenty-four hours behind Tie Bik. “his special train systom is in keoping with that enterprise of the editor of Tuk Bes which has given to the world tho bost tole- graphic service, the greatest variety of news and misceidany, and tho largest and most beauti ful journalistic building 1 the worid. Like all' of these features, Tue B flyer, as it is dosignated, possesses details which are not familiar to the people, At 3o, m, the train shoots westward from tho Union depot on the road montioned. It cousists, as has been wtimated, of an engine, eral bundles, no_stop being made save fora | — coupie of railroad crossings until Columbus is roached, Into the suburbs of this city, as if desiring to show herself worthy of the atteution she reccives from the citizens at the depot, the train skims along at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The Columbus kages are uuloaded. as also others consigned 10 the nurth. The latter are placed upon & passenger train waitivg especially for them and subplying Sunday reading matter for the towns of Platte Center, Humphroy, Madison and Norfolk. From Columbus also Wayne is supplied. Achecr is given Tig Ber by the enthusi- asts on the platform, who eagerly open the packages and read the papers, and the train is off ugain. There is another crossing stop no Central City, 13 miles, is passed at 6 One more and the last crossing stop is made outside of Grand Island, und av 7:80 o'clock \e minute, the engiover, so to spea rein upon his stced and 'the journoy is ended. Here two trains are in waiting, one a fast freight for tho west and the other the Grand Islund & St. Joe, Ou the former aro placed bags for Bl Creck, Gibbon, Gothenberg, Kearney, Lex- ington, Shelton Wood River aud” North Platte; the last mentioned lacking only six miles 'of being 300 miles from Omaha, is reached by 2:20 p.m, ! 0 lazy competitors of Tur Brr: rouch there at 0:25 p.m, kxactly seven hours aud fivo minutes bohind Tik B! Liko tho competitors, the North Platte people > then sleepy and have gone to ved, and the sleepy contemporaries do not maie their appearance untii Monc hours behind Tue B! At Grand Island, miso, connection with the St. Joe train on which Bee's are piled directel to Bol enport, Doniphn, Bdgar Fairby i and Steelo , Uiy, the sub: which through Tin (BEe's onte treated to a Sumlay:morning luxury not ofton enjoyed in parts Besios, Tne B s cstablished star routes which stll twrthor extond its accom- modations. Tobias is veached by ' way of Fairbury. as are aiso McCool Jugetion and Milligan, while Belvidoro is tha supply place for Heb: ron, horse routes making the delivery reg- ulurly, L ail the west ana indoed in the cast, there is no greater enterprlsw displuyed. Its grand result is in grateful'ngg glorious coutrast to tho feeble efforts of tho littlo sheet whoso birth tweniy yours aga,is today commeimor- ated. SPECIALICORPS. Where They Aré §tftioned by The Bee oG or News, As intimated in anothor part of this issue, Tue Bk has several ' thousand correspond puts scattored all over the western, north and southwestern and eastern parts of the country. These writers, however, act only whoen there 1s news which is known to bo of interest to people in this section to be trau mitted Indopendently of these, however, Tik Brk employs a number of people who devote all, or nemly all, of their time to gathering for it everything that transpires around thom, Among these is the manager at Council Bluffs, who, with @& corps of assistants conducts 10 depart- ment under that nam as It it were a paper distinct from this publication. Al the nows in the thriving and beautiful city | across the river 1s coliected, prepared and transmitted to this city by wire, mail and pssenger and finds its way into Tue Bee of No. 14, 'and 8 spocial delivery car fittod up | the following day. ‘Tac same is tiue of ad that'li last the summer and tnen vl But iv's alive still. I used to help one of tho carly carriers fold aud deliver it Dock Smith—1 have taken Tie Bek sinco itosewater started itin_ . littie 2x) ofce, right over hove on Twelfth stecet. Ho hud o telesranbic arcangement there, [ laud him for his succoss. He has built up agreut en- terprise. I don't tind fault with him becauso he beat we and took the ity hall from JefTer. \square, Ho made a good tight and ho knew how to fight better than [ did, L. M. Bennett—I have vead Tue Bes al most regularly either av homa or in my ofico siuco 1571 —tho yeur it was estabiished Luther Drake—Tie Bet has boon coming 1o our bauk since it was ostublished. 1 had, ofore,no reason to subseribe for it. But | ve read it nearl y day and 50 Lave tho rest of our peop Max Moyer—I Lave beon taking Tne Bee over siueo it started, whon it was little 2x4 Although I um o demoerat, 1 would wot do Without it cither as a newspaper or n means of udvertising. Our &em his had yearly contracts for advertising in it from tho ve ginning and hope to continue them until the i Goodloy Brucker—I have taken it since it wasi’t any larger thun anapkin, Vs the est paper' 1 know of in this country Nat Brown—I've resided in Nobraska for | tho past twonty-five years and I've read L' Bee almost daily over since I learned it was n existence, 10s tho hest paper over pu lished here and [ ha it daily siace [ woved to this ei .. Baton—I was one of the first adver tisers fu Tui Br, in fact my advertisement appeared in the first number of the pape 1t was then about tho of oneof my vig nettes. I'vo read it every day since, Frank Hanlon—1I came” here in 68, Tur Bie wasn't startod till a fow years afte wards, I've taken the paper every day since it was first handed around free” up to the present time. M. wator and I hava't always agreed tain questions but I want Tue Bee all tho sawe. Henry. W. Yates—I wouldn't swear per. sonally that T took T'us Beg from the aturt, but thie First Natioual vank, ln which [ was at the time, took it. 1 know 1'subscribed after sud never discoutinued it since, | bave felt that, for the last fifteen or ¢ tho best paper in Iosewater has always had the sympat nan who' cou fing and do what he has dc body admir ok it like almos L away now also, but it the u price wore ehargad it would still be usider it equul vk Tribune 1 its bost d no doubt that then the id not have io did by his biblc wore angry with testify in tho casc Vandoryoort w0 yoars ago betwe Rosewater then in vaid back o al THE PLHRST CANVASS Intioducs Bee Into the Country is a littlo man, Difticultics ton ot Th s frionds as Uncle Sam ringror and would soon make somebody sneczo, “Tho superintondent took the paper between » thumb and forofinger of each hand and condeseended to hold it up and look at it, 1 | thought surely then Iwas going to gev a ticket, but the feliow said Alid you oxpect transportation on such o tas that! Well, you don't got it 1 tell you, 1 was so mad I could have { ealled nim unamoes. But I didn't. Well, 1 tout of tho oflice and wroto to Mr, Kose: water and told him [ must come back or ho tsond o some moucy. 1 waited and won I had spent almost every eont I had, | o o 1ot ter containing tive dollars from Rosewiter, lusted out of Plattsmoith on tho first jent and traveled nearly all night and reached Lincoln in a vain storm about four o'clock in tho morning. Iho B, & 81, ofiicial later went to Cali i and was lator tickotod to etorhity, He lived, thouih, long enouzgh to kuow that ho would fesl glad 1o bo askoed to deal with Tin | By L went right away after broakfast to tho capitol and showed Tug Ber. Kverybody thoro had hoard of it, but nobody had seei it Jt was not long, though, before” they feit it | s0ld & couplo of Bres it the capitol, and the | fivst one, [ think, was to & man named Co is 50 long since I won't b positive who was then doputy suditor, [ sold it to hiwm for y cash in advanco, &, HOI courso now, I was rich, and didn't care for a pass. 1 went awong my Gormun viends and recoived half a dozen subscripe ions for Tup Bre and a dosen for the Floa, had thon money enough to buy out Lik at the time I went to Nebraska City and to all the 03 on tho Kearney branch of the 1 & and iu all rocelyed about thirty subscript | and what ploased Mr. Rosowator a gre Yes sir, [ was tho first canvas: bad aud I sold tho first paper the city aud Idm & young mau yet if grandchildron old bnough to got married.” & 1 thoso days when money wis scarco Tis was a8 independent of tho roads as ik | wanted no favars from them transportation, it was willing to give cuising, a systom of which the roads are to willlug 1o uvuil thomscives