The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-26
THE NEW HERALD BUILDING,

Corner OF Broadway, Park Row and Ann-street,
says the Home Journal, is rapidly approaching
completion. It is marble fronted, one Of the finest
specimens Of the Renaissance style construct
ed in this country. 1t has three fronts, one on
Broadway, facing st. Paul's; ono on Park Row,
facing tho Astor House, and one on Ann-street.
The Park Row front is tho main entrance. The
general expression OF the building is Of mixed
Doric and Corinthian.
ef the Herald, the bullding-not yet completed-
will be fitted up with lnxuriousness iii keeping
With its imposing -exterior-Mr BENNETT propos-
ing to show the New York press, by his own e1-
ample, how editors ought to be treated. The COM
plehon OF this edifice, and the transfer of the
Herdsd to broadway. will in fact, mark an era in
newspaper building, other in London or Paris, to
equal it,
The habitation of the 'Thunderer" London) is
than lilio the homo of tho most influential journal
in England; and the best of our New York build
nngS are eH Dt in Which du
ence, and often fail of snbsisting respectfully 2
Within they are drearier than the dngy, mausolea
people Of Hudes-separated as they are into little
square dens, in every one Of which is shut up
knight Of tho pen or knight Of the paste pot; just
And into these dens, from day to day editors steal
Like goblins; and out Of them, from night to night
steal like goblns thus okng out that kind of COB
LIN existence which is peculiarly editorial and
journalistic.
And, after all this dreariness, shut in from hu-
manity, and looking ut it through Journalistic
:'specs' (Which often magnify and distort exceed
ingy), editors are expected to have souls like
other people who have the beautiful about them
and drink in its wine Of spiritual fruitage. Now,
the soul grows like the body, by secreting the
juices of it's own necessary food and is just as sus-
aeptible OF being starved even unto dwarGshness,
or attenuation, or death, is tho physique it in
habits; and the soul of many m editor has been
Of loi1,
journal mad-houso, since tho day when tho first
daily journal made its debut in New York, playing
the Iago unto tho nows-seeling Othello Of tho
general public
II MIR. Bennett, therefore, shall succeed in
demonstrating that Journalists have souls like
other people, and arc not to be troated like Cir
cassians exhibition, he will have taken tho first
stop in removing tho cause Of that reckless vaga-
bondism which tants the atmosphere Of journal
ism-he will in short, by surrounding members OF
the press with an esthetic pleroma, have done that
which ought at first to have been done, and which,
had it been done, would have saved many o bril-
liant mind from boins wrecked upon the reefs Of
Bohemianism and dissipation. The true way to
make man q man is to treat him like O man, and
no like drivclling 1unatic.
We have dgressed to say that which needed to
20 said and now come back to our topic. The
editorial offices in the buildings will be large, we'll
lighted. thoroughly ventilated, and beautifully
ffescoed and decorated, and no device Of taste or
long neglected cl ,ss will not, as is generally the
case be huddled, pell-me1, into the uppermos
garrett but surrounded with an atmosphere in which
the dtlce-a thing forgotten since tie days OF the
Greeks Will be happily eommngled with tha
utle which is the especial god Of this generation
An editor will no longer be o mummy in his case
nor reporter q wandering goblin who reports 81
regular intervals, to tho king goblin OF a dali,
journal-the autocrat among journalistic goblni
who plays the Gear unto the lesser imps, installed
king in O small room near the attic. The reporto
rial rooms will in fact be modelled after the edi
torinl fashion; andluxurious sleeping rooms will b.
fitted up for the accommodation OF members O
the staff