The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-03

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Our New York Letter.
Business Paldees-Sights and Scenes from
Trinity Church.

Business lldeeS-SightS and Scenes from
Trinity Church.
NEW York, July 2s, 1874.
Editors OF the IntellIgeneer:
Well, here we are In New York at last,
bent upon investigating the city as thor
Oughly as II we were q Congressional
committee and the metropolis had had q
very severe attack OF Credit Moblierism.
THE ST. NICHOLAS.
After psrtaklDg Of the Inequalities oil
the 81. Nicholas, q large and handsome
hotel very much frequented by Southern
and Western men, we sailed forth, the
morning alter our arrival, and emerged
through the spacious corridor and double
doors, q feature Of hotels here, upon
BROADWAY.
Everybody has heard OF Broadway, that
magnificent street, fourteen miles long, In
which the treasures OF the world are
stored, so we will not attempt TO describe
it, except 10 say that 1t is broad, well
paved and lined on either side, from the
battery 10 Thirtyiourth street, with
handsome buildings, mostly dry goods
palaces: All the big hotels, several the
aires, and innumerable agencies, offices,
banks and insurance buildings cluster on
Broadway, in sections to themselves,
which, by the by, seems to be peculiar
ity Of business in all large cities.
Srolling down Broadway, we stumbled
into the
upDATD MN rpn
and were invited 10 inspect the premises,
which invitation we gladly accepted. We
were shown, into the press rooms, the
mammoth elght.cylinder presses, which,
with the six and four cylinders, work
off the entire Herald edition Of 10000
copies daily, in from two TO three hours.
The pressrooms arc In the basement.
Up stairs are the countiug-rooms. as
handsome as those oil any bank, and on
the floor above are the editorial rooms,
each editor having room to himself, In
which he Is locked secure from any in
trusion.
A POLITE REMINDER
There Is reception room for visitors,
In which placard hangs, begging every
one to getthrough his business as soon as
possible and take himself OF, though not
exactly In those words. In this room
files of all the daily papers are kept. On
the floors. above are the job printing
room, the stereotype room, and on the
top floor the composing rooms oil the Her.
aid and telegram, which is the Rerdld's
bantling and Mr.. Benefits pet The
Herald has an immense staff, and It's pay
roll is as heavy as that OF all the other
great dailes combined. It's
A JOURNALISTIC GIANT,
whose place no paper has vet been able TO
usurp, and II has the monopoly Of adver.
Using. 1t Ia model newspaper Office, i!
not Q model newspaper. The Herald pays
well, Tor news especially, and has q large
number Of correspondents and men as
signed TO special duty. II pays some Of
It's editorial writers as high as $3.50 per
week. Bidding the Herald people good.
bye we passed on up
PARK ROW,
which, with City Hall Place, or, as 1t is
called, Printing House Square, contains
nearly all the newspaper Offices. Within
radius Of q quarter Of mile there are
100 papers and periodicals and job Offices,
many Of them In handsome buildings oil
their own,
THE NEW PosToFFICE,
which will cost about 100000 before
the contractors get through with 1t, Is Q
handsome building, and very large and
imposing. 1t occupies the southern por'
tIOn Of City Hall Park, and the site Il
worth over million dollars. II 10 to be
fire proof, being built Of granite, and will
have mansard roof oil two stories. 1that
cellar aud sub cellar, and mail mater
will be driven into the building through
an archwaY. The present poStofiice Is il
what used TO be church In Nassau
street, and Is the most patched up, crazy
looking, complicated concern you evel
saw, a sort Of architectural Joseph's coat
THR TnrEs OFFICE
fronts on Printing House Square, at RICH
angles to the gigantic barn which thl
Tribune folks are building, and which i
to be the biggest and the ugliest building
in America, II we except the new off1cl
Of the Western Union Telegraph OF
Broadway near Dey street. Opposite thl
Times office, plain building OF BROW
stone trimming-on the first floor
which are the advertising offices Of Gee
?. Rowell s. Co, where there are tilet
away over 5000 newspapers-is D
Groots bronze Of the
PHILOSOPHER FRANKLIN,
as he appeared in ambasSadorial costume
with parchment in his hand. The Ty'
biographical Union put him up. Oles
across the square Is the new building G
the
STATS zETTuEG,
the leading German paper. II isol gran
lite, handsome, substantial, well fitted q
inside, and the finest newspaper huildip
outside, In the United States, and perhar
10 tho world. II cost, with the site,
million ead q half Across tho way 10 ID
worn and tho old, dilapidated, rusty Cit
Hall, OF discolored marble, and behind
the ,lr Hs1.'. .-.1
NEW COUNTY COURT HOUSE,
on which the Tammany magnates squal
dered millions without producing an
visible effect, That was possibly Il
fault Of the public and not OF the arch
tect. Their Is not yet finished, thong
the building 10 occupied, and the cost L
repairs arising out Of this neglect amour
10 as much as the root will cost when Il
finished, Il 1t ever will DO, This buildin
which already looks stained and old, Is
A arANnTNn nrcauIcp