The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-19

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spok We now turn our back on this mass d
granite to watch The working n The ingcnio,s car.
, dispatcher IN sending or in .ihe -nick Of time
the numberless street cars, reschng this the Ter
naians sppOaite- Tia and Of Eheae railroads E0rm
By the course ofsheir diEsrenb tracks. delta cx-
actly Ike mans hand minas the thumb, the
four fingers indicating the foos different track.
The driver OF 4, IL, A, or any other numbered
car enters one Of these forks, snd with his hook,
drops the support to the singleiree or .ie car on
arvolving surface, about say I've fee, 10 ,liame-
ter, which support strikes the figures ON the top
OF this surface representing tue number of his
car, and in striking this revolving surace it teIe
graphs the number Of the carte the dispatcher
who sits in his htte Office, say twenty steps
away. The indicator always before him shews
that this numbered car has arrived, and If he
wants that or any other car to start at once. he
pulls spring KEY -rI>i~L. ~ssss~E sHHt
ne 70 10 leave and not only ifaf arts that infoF
| nation, but gives the car sufficient headway 50
| as to relieve the horses, and ahey well know
that starting street Car requires more steady
pulling and needs more forcA than hauling il
any distance after it gets in lngtioa. This little
| open space (Astor House SqriaFp) is network
| bells, halloing of trucl-neu, lodging of
pedestrians, ''hot-corn and '-zvc a shine" cries
| ofthe hatless urchin, the news3o5 The telegraph
runner, the mock auction man he rzor strap ven
DOR the amond-eyed Celestial selling manila che
roots, clearing the way for the anost flying steam
IRE engine, tend to make up the cosmopolitan
crowds which al all hours Of lie day are to be
seen and heard in Astor Square
Park Row comes next, and ,xcnds only .
few yards, ending at Printing House Square.
This street, or row. or square i one-sded, the
the City Hall and Park is opposite to<ihe side
On which the houses Il L eanld only give
names of all the daily and weekly laf fers, news,
scientific and illustrated the Sun.hY papers, the
story papers, the magazines &nd her period
Gals that are printed in these buildings, from
Hudnut's Pharmacy, on AstorP Park, to Frenchs
Hotel, on Printing House Squlre. il v ould take
half column of the FLoR1ppAS to Print them
Those of most note viii ratntion. On the
corner of Broadway and the Square, stands the
finest newspaper building, perhaps in the world
1t is owHed by the Rroprietor Of the New York
Herald, James Gordon Bennett, and has front
age of white marble above the. ground for seven
stories. Two of these stories ~ foo.s are in the
French roof, and are lighted bs The most beau
tiful dormer windows Between each pair of
windows of the four floors facing B.ualway is a.
niche, adorned with marble figure represent
ing the advance Of printing and printing ma
chimes from its earliest historydown 10 the pres
ent day. Beneath the surface OF the street,
blasted out of solid rock and extending forty
feet under the street, are yet Two more flats,
where all the machinery Is resting on solid
bed, and the larger size OF these presses, and
their swift motion, send forth a fOllc,. Tor dis
trbuon in the city and mailing TO all parts of the
habitable globe, as many as f{y thousand cop
les of the Herald ner hnrr Ts 49, a.s 80 Uv-
meath the part of this floor. not occupied by the
presses and engines. is where seeming giants,
showing muscles like STEEL have to, al certain
hours of the night take their places, sledge
hammer in hand, and with The strength of a
Hercules by blaze almost like unto The picluFes
of hell-fre, perform the electrotyping OF the
forms before the paper can "go TO press" The
Herald is a great paper Printed, as ii ofentmes
is, in languages little understood by any but the
savants " of our country, it finds its way into
offices, reading rooms and societies which
the sun shines, while we are sneozng ia the
darkness of midnight.
From this monument of iIsn and marble we
turn up the street to indulge. ia an ocular in
terview of the other houses 10 that portion OF
Park Row. 1t is but few years ago when all
of New York doing business in that section of
the city, made its way to this locality for re-
feshments 1t was there that Crook, Denon
ica and Victor, now the princes Of rsstauraieurs,
handed their first SOUP lobster salad AMI Ian
dres Chico cigars across the coAnter to tickle the
palate and accompany the siesta Of the fast New
Yorker, at that time just etaerging from the
steady habits and cold formalAies OF the New
Amsterdamers." 1t was here. that three brass
balls, held in sight by iron wires, curved in u
semi-circle, told in unmistakable words that You
could pledge your hundred dollar Geneva watch
or costly garments for one-tepth their value, dc
Quoting discounts and interest Il was here that
Lovejoy converted FIVE of the most costly brick
residences into hotel on the European plan,
and served all meals Ia carte. Ii was here that
wires stretched frem Hddnlts Pharmacy TO
French's hotel, revealed tho mystery Of the
telephone, and II is now here that the steam
with the mammoth printing presses send forth
to the imagining worid.not only the happenings
Of each day in our own country, but has place
in every nation from Christian Europe, Pagan
Asia to Heathen Africa, from The victorious en-
try of the brave Chilian army into Lima amidst
the palaces of the Incas; from the disputed
boundary line separating the home of Horace
and Of Hemer from the city Of the DardanelIes
and the serAglis of the great Byzantum empire
Indeed, while the most of mankind is wrapt in
sleep, the contents of these GREAT metropolitan
daily journals are taken from the insulated cables
lying on the oceans bed, and wires stretched
through great valleys and over mountain tops
and placed in type and forra for their presses
Editors, with the dOings ard sayings Of the
parliaments of the werld ON that day before
them, comment on and give speh advice through
their editorial columns a. ,sflentimes changes
the destinies of . nation, ard points out the
road TO its glory, greatness ard wealth, or sinks
it to the that
Bourne from which no triyeler rstuEus.u
There is NJ stopping to review the past except
- matter Of history but instead, each and
all toll upward and onward, t.luiehing
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