The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-02
JOURNALISM In TILE SOUTH.
THE NEW PUBLICATIO N OFFICE OF
THE CHARLESTON NEJTS.

THE NEW PUBLIC4 TION OFFICE OF
THE CHARLESTON NEWS.
Tho Buildings and their Occupants
Arrangements Of the DEPARTMENTS
Clock.,vork with One Spring that
Never Runs Dovn-rhe Process OF
Renoval-The Finest Newspaper or
foe in the Cotton states-An AuSury
OF tho Future Prosperity OF ohnrIes-
ton.
The present issue of TIE CHARLESTON NEWS
marks an important epoch In Its history as Inc
opening of what promises to be an enlarged
career of usefulness aud prosperity In a new
establishment, purchased by lis proprietors,
and arranged throughout as belts the require
ments OF a great and growing journal. TIE
NEWS Is published this morning from the
premises No. l9 Broad street. which. fronting
On Broad street, stretch southwark a.ong the
whole line Of Gadsden's alley to Elliott street,
and comprise the handsome granite building
long familiar to Charlestoniaus as the South
western Railroad Bank building, a large brick
building on Elliott street, and a cluster Of
smaller but important buildings occupying the
ceutre Of the property. The Bread street
building, with the subsidiary structures In
ITS rear, compose the newspaper olhce'
and form without exception the most
elegant and valuable and the beet arranged
newspaper establishment in the cotton States.
The Ellott-street building accommodates The
job printing business connected with The NEWS
Office, and furnishes space and facilitiss excell-
ed BY but few JOB ofacesin the South. The two
lots forming this properly were purchased from
their respective owners aoout three months
ago, and q force Of skiliul artisans nave been
Steadily employed during that Interval In the
work OF reconstruction necessary to bring The
establishment to Its present creditaole AMI con-
venient condition. The commencement OF
the commercial year was fixed upon as the
opening day of the new publication office, aud.
accordingly, as soon as the pu:sations of the
presses ceased on last Saturday morning. and
the fires were raked out from the furnaces
beneath the engine In the East Bay Office, the
arduous task of removal-commencrd. II was
q work OF no SIN .l m,goitude, aud Its did,
Guilty was not lessened by the rem"rSe-
less necessity for speed that WAS involved.
it being a settled principle that nothing short
Of an earthquake must be allowed to inter.
rupt the publication OF HE NEWS tor Il single
day. The paper was published from No. l4s
East Bay or Saturday m !rnln2, but tbs next
number had TO be throWp of the presses at
No. 10 Broad street In lime for the early mails
on Monday morning. Il WAS no inconsi iera-
BILE LABOR to dl4joiut, transports AMI reconstruct
the heavy but delicate machiaeri; t VISA
difficult undertaking to rsmuve tho Complex
material of the printing Off %, with lis ag1re-
CRATE weight of tons ind lis component paris
of infultes.lmal pieces; 1t was perDlex'ng tn
transfer the heterogeneous impedim MIA
which accumulate In a. editorial OH ia G;lrlng
five years occupancy, aud it req aired skill
aud care to remove the business rec 'rds OF
transactions with thousands CT
but 1t WAS all accomplished smoatnly, SAFELY
and speedily. The workntn were still IL
possession of the buildings and are still em-
ployed in perfecting their arrangement an
completing their adjournment, and 1t will oe
some days yet before all tho details described
below are finished, but the OH e Is now In
working order aud the operations OF each
department have been resumed, with hardly
q trace of the recent Interruption.
The Mnin Building,
as reconstructed Tor 1t. pres ut purposes, has
q bold, striking front Of 35 feet on Broad
street, with a depth oil 80 feet, aud Is tnree and
a half stories high, with a hip roof, M. ked
BY q granite pediment and curnice. 1t is one
OF the few buildings In this city having q gran
ite front, and the general effect OF It's archi-
tectural proportions and decorations is at once
tasteful and massive. The first floor front Is
OF solid granite, with a portico in the centre,
consisting Of two futed granite columns sup
porting an architrave and q broad lrleEe orna-
mented with wreaths and surrounded BY a
pedinent aud cornicp, the apex Of which rises
slightly above the sill of The central window on
the second floor. On either side OF this por-
tioo Is a window 8 feet wide and II feet high,
comprising four panes of plate glass. and
within the portico are the large. double en-
trance doors. These are OF black walnut (as
Is all the woodwork on the front o. the build
ing) and contain large plale.glass windows
The trapsom over the main entrance Is glazed
with one pane oil plate-glass ten feet long,
bearing, In golden letters, the name OF the
Office and the number OF the building.
In the second floor front there are three Of
the largest windows In Charleston, each s feet
Wide and 9 feet high, and each composed Of
4 panes of plate glass In black walnut sashes.
A similar row of windows supply the light for
the third story, and above them Is another
granite archltrsve, ornamented irleze, pedl-
ment and cornices. This cornioe Is crowned
with a carved final, from the apex of which
rises q flag stat rs feet high, tipped with a
golden ball, where will be found flying on
such occasions as are OF importance OF In er-
est to Charlestoniaps, the colors oil The NEWS,
either %jubilaut!y at the peak, or mourufa.!y III
token OF departed worth, at halt mast. Be.
tween the second aud third floor windows,
and stretching across the entire front, is the
largest sign board III this city, bearing simply
the name of this paper, In letters vi gold, on
black sanded ground.
This building has a depth on Gadsden's
alley of so feet, and Is 81 feet high. Au L on
the rear, one story high. ~contalrs u bauk va'iit
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