Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-06-27

pany at a select lttle party, 10 look NJ the NEW
LEDGER BUILDING, and take smacks at the Con-
tinental tavern, on the Goth. Mr.. q. had pre-
viously advised us conndentially that the compa-
ny, though confined to some strict limit Of num-
Der in the neighborhood of five or six hundred,
would embrace a large number of influential
journalists beside the COMMERCIAL, and that sew
eral other wclliknown gentlemen such as Cover
nor Ward Of New Jersey, and Mayor Hoffman Of
New York, would be included. ai ri
SO on Thursday We looked at the new Ledger
Building. II was conceived in the brain Of Mr..
Chids, designed by Macarthur, the architect, and
erected by X. ]. Dobbins, the builder, who, hay
ing his country seat in Montgomery county, Pa,
needs no further culogy. Thebulding is shaped
like an 4, has "a feet front on Chestnut street,
and los on Sixth, five stories high, with Man
sard roof. 1t casts kindly glances from Its Sc
Chestnut street windows over toward the Bulletin,
and winlis from 11G Sixth street windows at the
classic walls Of old Independence Hall. It Is, as
a New Yorker told us, Qt must, therefore, be
trte) twice as large as the New York Herald
building, and MS soon the salt air Of that sea-
side village dlnges Benefits white marble, this Of
Philadelphia will be twice as handsome. How
much ii cost, Mr.. Childs did not tell us, but we
are sure our balance In the Bank will not yet
warrant our building one like it. The pile re-
quircd was probably about half million.
The basement, twenty-thrcc feet deep, Is the
press room, and in 1t three monster Hoe machines
will "run of the paper" 1t is magnificent
room for the purpose, well lighted and ventilated,
and John Walter of the London Times, said to
the Ledger proprietor, as he looked ut it, last
fall, "you have the finest press room In the
"world. have seen all that are worth seeing,
"and think I ought to know" QIe Ind not
seen the COMMERCIAL but we waive the point.)
On the first floor is the Publication Office, the
space not occupied by 1t being rented to stores
and Offices. 1t is designed, finished and furnished
In the most exquisite manner, the sides md cell
Ing being deliberately paneled with dark walnut
and butternut wood, in style which probably
exists nowhere else in this country, and but in
very few instances in Europe Among It's best
features Is a Ladies' Department, where patrons
of the female persuasion will be waited upon by
a lady clerk, and a handsome desk has been pro-
vided especially for their use.
The second story is devoted to Mr. Childs book
publishing business, and rented offices. The
third has the Editorial rooms, and their library
Herewith connected. The latter is mngnifcently
sarpeted and furnished. The walls are adorned
with large and excellent portraits of Mr.. Chids,
MrA.J. Drexe, the philosopher of the Tribune"
the Bcnnetts father aud son, tho last being ac-
compancd by the victorious yachtman's auto
graph Of very recent datc-Niayor McNllchacl,
L. A. Cooley, Gibson Peacock, Joseph r. Chand.
Ter and Colonel Forncy, all members of. or CON
nccted with, the profession.
The Compositors' rooms are in the fifth story.
The Mansard roof gives n height from floor to
ceiling of twenty-ono feet The light and yuntl-
lation, apparently perfect, will prolong the lives
of the men working in il, indefinite years beyond
the period which printers lives have hitherto
averaged.
With these few facts and figures we must leave
our description. We hope 10 give IN intelligent
idea, but of course we have not comprised a
1.-THE OF the details which to do full Justice 10
this immense structure, would require relation.
| 1t is a great triumph of business
enterprise, architectural skill, and conscientious
labor, and il is credit and ornament
to the whole newspaper profession of the COIN
try Those of us who are struggling forward In
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