The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-28
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, October 28, 1865.
'nsc Ne,v Phoenix Office.

SenC numDef OF MS paper is issued
from the new office, on the West side
of Main street, between Camden and
Blanding streets. 1t S Il lhree-story
granite front building, complete ip
every part, and admirably adapted to
the purpose for which it was erected.
The building w2s designed by
Messrs. Kay e Hewetson, architects,
whose designs have given a compact
and complete printing Office in every
department. Their plans have been
carried out in workman-like man
ner by that well-known and compe-
tent builder and contractor, r. W.
johnson, Esq. The granite work
was executed by Messrs. Heath & Co.,
and the iron castings by Messrs.
Goldsmith & Kind; the painting by
Mr.. James Brown, and the plumbing
by Mr.. A. Palmer. These gentlemen
have given US Il complete printing
Office, and are entitled, in their re-
spective departments. to our best ac-
acknowledgements.
We venture to give brief descrip-
tion of the Office. A lofty basement
gives large and commodious press
room. On the first floor, the front
Office will be occupied by the book
keeper. In this room, also, will be
filed the leading papers from all sec
tlons Of the country-to the perusal
of which our friends and the public
are respectfully invited The next
apartment will be the editors private
room, and the third will be large
and well-lighted composing room,
giving ample space to all the COM
positors necessary for doing every va
riety of printing. And in this con-
nection, we take occasion to state
that, with an abundant supply of the
best material and unsurpassed facili-
ties, the Picnic Office is prepared to
execute, with promptness and in the
neatest style, all manner of printing
cards. circulars, hand-bills, pamphlet
work, posters, &c.
This desirable result has been
attained through simple and legiti-
mate means-means which, if applied
to any other vocation or business in
life, will produce like results. It was
not the possession of large capital
1t was not by heavy endorsements of
kind friends, (for there was no money
to borrow 1T was not by over-reach-
ing OR taking undue advantage of the
position the Pheaair occupied for a
year or more-but it was this, and
this only: energy, industry and per-
severance, combined with indefatiga-
bility of purpose, strict business
habits and high business qualifca-
tions on the part Of the proprietor.
These have produced their natural
and legitimate results-results as
natural and legitimate in any other
line of business. But the proprietor
had got possession of another secret
of success, and that was to attend to
his oec7a business, and not to pry into
or interfere with that of others.
F.u.l the day (the Goth of March,
1865, thirty-two days after the de-
struction of the city, when he issued
a slip from small building attached
to his residence, on Gates street, un-
til the present, when he occupies q
handsome and complete printing Of
flee on Main street, in the business
heart of the city, the Picnic has
been the proprietor's only object of
business care-its improvement and
success his highest ambition. Train
ed and educated from early boyhood
In that best of schools-the printing
office-with frmness of character and
earnestness of purpose, matured by
the wholesome discipline of that
school, he has not thrown away any
of the advantages derivable there
from; but, on the contrary, since the
day he entered into business for him
self; he has steadily used them as sure
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