Middletown transcript., 1881-10-28
To Remove,

The TRANSCRIPT hopes to move during
November to the commodious brick build
ing on Broad street, one door south Of the
/ Citizens National Bank. built expressly
for this paper by our enterprising citizen,
Mr.. Robert A. Cochran. 1t is quite big
| establishment in comparison to the one
we now occupy, and after the change we
Shall probably feel for a while like year
ling colt turned out to pasture. The
building is a two story brick with a man
sard, and is arranged expressly for a
printing office. The first room in front,
opening off the hall, will be the sanctum
of the baldheaded editor and will be fitted
up regardless OF expense. The furniture
will be the very best we can buy Con
credit), and the walls will be covered by
the finest chrolnos of the Old Masters.
Everything in this room will be Gu fGit.
it is mighty good word. We got it from
an uncle who was born in Paris-Ken-
lucky. Our French education is very
limited. It was planted in a dry season
and didn't come up. Just back of the
editorial room will be the press room,
engine room and mailing department,
where we shall continue to print some
thing less than ten thousand TRAN
SCRIPTS weekly until further notice, and
go right on making people mad at two
dollars year in advance. Ascendingone
flight of stairs you will reach the compos-
ing room, where the compositors will
wrestle with spring poetry in long metre
and put in type the obstruse theories of
the editor and his faithful correspondents
and contributors. This room will be
connected with the press room and editor
ial room by speaking tubes, down which
frequently and often will be heard gently,
persuasively calling a still small voice for
"CoPY! All, that word "copy!" It is
a mighty little word Of only five letters,
and yet how often does it come with such
crushing effect upon the poor tired editor
with only one idea about him, and that not
handy, that he feels as though he wants to
go out into some vast wilderness and sit
on log, with nothing to disturb him but
the song of the katvdid, for about hun
dred-and-filty years. But we wander. To
go back to where we switched of, we shall |
aim to have model newspaper office. |
We shall have all modern conveniences |
and luxuries, except velocipede and a |
brass band. We are yet too poor to afford |
these. During business hours the editor
will wear a seven-by-nine smile and a
button-hole boquet, and the devil will be |
instantly bounced if he appears without
clean face and his hair parted as straight |
as a column rule. We have also leased
from Mr.. Cochran small piece of ground
in the rear Of our office for aprivate grave
yard. 1t is not large lot, but it is vast
enough for our present needs. We shall
add to it as time and increasing business
may demand. We shall commence at
once on tree agents, map pedlars, light
lecturers and agents for patent
manufacturers who want their
advertisements at the top of column and
next to reading matter. In a few years
we hope to have collection of well-kept
mounds out there to which we can take
our friends and visiting journalists and
point with pride.
We shall say something more about our
new office and our honorable intentions
for the future, after we have moved.