Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1901, Page 18

under a high and richly decorated celling and at the foot of two graceful marble stadrcases leading in opposite directions to the counting room floor. These stairways with selected Tennessee sunme material s used In re walnscoied marblo and the the hall on the first floor. This hall is frescoed in colors that blend with the rich tint of the marble walnscoting and us in all the other halls in the building, the floor is laid in encaustie tiles of a color and with the finishing To the to the pattern to harmonize right the first floor hall leads offices of The Bee, the through a magnificent door- antique oak, the upper pancls con sisting of heavy beveled plate glass, The business maln entrance way of lobby of the business offices 18 walns- coted in Itallan marble, with trimmings of I'ennessee marble Four loni pillars wlong the center of the room support the high and frescoed ceiling Along the line of these pillars rous a fifty-foot counter that separates the lobby from the counting room and private offices. The counter |s built on a base of chocolate marble, sup porting russet Tennessce marble pilasters surmounted fn turn by a quarter round section of marble of similar color and texture to that which forms the base The panels are of Flor- entine marble to match the walns coting of the rises a lobby Above the counter beautifully wrought screen worked in Bower Balff iron, in which appear the openings through which the general busi ness of the office is transacted. The count g room s finished in antigque oak, while the floor of the lobby is of marble of Mosai patterns imported from Bergamo, Italy I'he charncteristie feat of the interiox of the bullding is the g t central court affording light and air, which is based on the ground floor at a level with the street and rises in unbroken white to the sky light, 120 feet above. The court s forty three feet square and in the center I8 a large aquarium of marble, to which fresh wator s constartly supplied by a spray fountain rising from its center A\ series of pilasters extending to the third floor divide the court into three bays In the basement story these crowned with an entablatur pilasters are of a severely clasgsic design composed of architrave frieze and cornfee The frieze 18 orna mented with circular and diamond-shaped panels, while a simple dentil design adds to the effect of the corniee The pilasters which extend through the first and second tori rise from this entablature and are urmounted by semi-circular arches around the third story I'he whole is crowned by v handsomely moulded modillion cornies underneath which the spandrels are wrought noan interlaced Moorish fretwork The capitals which bear the arches are beauti fully moulded with a delicate French detail ornament The decorations of the tori consist only of molded cornices and in architectural fifth lines of fourth and simple till courses which are harmony with the elaborate ornamentations below A double ot of pllasters surround the story One et forms a continuation of while the mullions mor: upper or sixth the main pilasters below purpose of other serves the between the window In the second and third stories a corridor behind the open on the court as outlined by balusters of an elegant design At the rear of the court another handsome leads to the rear corridor on the first floor The court must be seen to striking effect The editorfal rooms of The Bee are om surround the court malin pilasters, These balconies and are marble staircase grasp its R OF BEE COMPOSING ROOM the seventh floor, running along the entire Seventeenth street side of the building They are entered through an ante room, from which a long corridor either side the editorial rooms in-chief occupies a opens up on The editor- large and comfortably furnished suite of rooms, with windows opening into Farnam and Seventeenth streets. Along the Seventeenth street side of the building are the offices of the managing editor, the exchange editor, the city editor and the reporters, and across the hall from these are the rooms of the night editor, the telegraph editors and other editorial writers. Stretehing the entire width of the build- ing on the north side of the seventh floor is the composing room, with an equipment not excelled by that of any newspaper in the country There are twelve Mergen- thaler linotype machines, arranged in a row on an elevated platform, each machine facing a large window, which lets in ample light and fresh air for the operator. At night the room is illuminated by incandes cent electric lights, as are all the other rooms in the building On the side of the room opposite the linotype machines are the advertising, or display type cases arranged along the windows that open into the perfectly ventilated central court, On the west side of the seventh story are the stercotyping rooms and the perfectly equipped quarters of the art department, So it is that the working rooms of the men who prepare the various editions of The Bee for the press are all on the same floor and contiguous to each other The immense perfecting presses are in the sub-basement, to which the forms are rapidly lowered on special elevators Two rapid and commodious passenger ele- vators at the entrance of the central court afford access to the upper floors of The Bee building The corridors and ofMices throaghout the building are equipped with every convenience The trimmings are of antique oak and the hardware is of a spe- clal and unique Balff iron The office doors are paneled with crystal lized plate glass and large transoms of the same material open to the corridors The sanitary arrangements are perfect and in keeping with most modern demands Most ot the offices are furnished with Italian warble with running water, and each floor has its own toilet rooms There are combination fixtures for gas and Incandescent light throughout the building and electrie current is furnished from a special plant in the basement In every particular the building is absolutely fire- proof; its safety having been enhanced more lately by removing the into a separate building erected for the pur nose on the other side of the alley to the north, avolding even the possibility of damage from boiler explosion Pointed design in Bower basins boilers and furnaces thus 2aragraphs Chicago News It is almost impossible to cure a stage ham When snow ceases to come down ice begins to go up Some men are made by circumstances and some are unmade King Edward VII is a busy gets pretty falr wages It is difficult to deal shufMed wolf is at a man, but he with a man who refuses to be When the man's isn't troubled with book agents door he When a man asks a woman to be his wife it 18 merely a cateh question The smaller the pocketbook the oftener the called upon to all it wife's husband Is High Water Marks in Circulation The first issues of The Bee, thirty years ago, consisted of 1,000 copies run off on a hand pres half o f which were dist ributed free of charge among the business houses and the at the old Academy of Music, Tod coples, to paic other half handed out as programs The Bee issues daily 26,000 to 29,000 delivered or malled 1 sub- scribers in all sections of the country. For yea s The Bee has printed every day a sworn accurate schedule of its circulation, including the number of papers printed by its presses and the number unsold and re- turned and the actual net circulation. The Bee's statement takes the public into its confidence, the ecirculati comes down, the seasons. telling not only on goes up, but also w with The circulation constitute a thermometer of the all the variations completely when hen it during figures of a newspaper public in- terest in pending questions about which the people are eager reliable new wiate to have the latest and most 8. From this standpoint it s interesting to study some of The Bee's high circulation marks er 7, election 1888 wemlb IS91—January 11 . Woman's edition Logan wreck il I'rom this By comes immedijately tional campaign, w latest and B wr 4, e . battle of Manila lhl\ f s oficial report.... , battle of Santiago Nove mh. r1 e Dewey most r wd-Thayer contest retion . lection Hlection fon it will be seen that the after an test lll‘“llllhl for the newspaper usually exciting na- hen everyone wants the eliable election f igures The Bee has achieved a reputation for re- liability in it supremacy Up to last its ele over year ction service that glves all contemporaries the high water m The Bee's circulation had been set Woman's Ma entire plant to th loca paper for th Presbyterian y day I women, who he day hosp ark of by the edition in 1895, when the was turned over free ¢ for the benefit ital, distributing it cost conducted the of the 48,000 coples and turning into the hospital fund as the net profits $2,221.31 This high water mark new record the day after the recent dential election, November 7, 1900, was passed by a pres| when The Bee turned out the unprecedented num- bor of 68, 20 copies, to a news-hungr say that no the country Highest Wages other public. It is need all of which were sold less to paper in this section of ever equaled that feat It is not generally known, but it | the less the » fact, that the salary 2aid § none list of T'he Bee's employes gives the highest aver- age of any Omaha or Nebraska the industri the federal authorities indu al cen ules for The Bee wages than the s strial establishme This was disclosed by nt in sus, taken last year by in which the showed hedules turned ir any other establishment Happy Retort Leslie’'s W about a hard work fuced woma you," “Gee!" sa I ain't had but T didn't like that." story eekly misfortune an’' er, 'n’ TR ¢ id Dis nothin’ know w, don't wantin' sald the right th all that,"” can see mal Dawson 1 to eat for three it had thinned me tell me sched higher rates of 1 from to be hard 1irough know days, down 7‘ l\Ill l'.%' B~ \\\\\\ \anunEN ll/hlllll The Bee Building--Magnificent Home of The Bee T a4 1N 7 | pamn /I"’A GRAND COURT oF BEE BUILDING, -