Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
THE new YORK WORLD.
A Remarkably Newspaper Establish
ment.
From the Scientific American

From the Scientific Americana
There is no bette: proof of bust
ness talent than liberal enterprise,
and the judicious expenditures
which our contemporary and for
mer neighbor the World, has been
making upon the new building
Unto which it moved Just in time
to escape the Park Row fire. and
upon new and extensive mechan-
ical appliances, bear witness to the
prosperity of that Journal, and to
the ability with which its interests
are managed.
The World, for twenty years, has
held a foremost place in American
journalism as scholarly. acute and
courageous newspaper; and since 1t
passed, in 1876, under the control of
its present editor, Mr.. Hurlbert, it
mas added to its editorial brilliancy
and shrewdness a notable develop
ment of its news features, and a
steady improvement in its mechan-
ical department, the full effects OF
which are only now beginning to
be perceived by the public. Now
that the work OF reorganization has
been completed, and the paper pro-
vided with offices and apparatus de-
signed especially for its occupation
and use, and in convenience and eff
iciency absolutely without parallel
in America, the harvest time of the
World has clearly begun.
The organization and administra-
tlon of a great newspaper like the
World demand the exercise of the
most varied abilities. 1t is proven
,ially difficult to run hotel" but
1t is much more difficult to conduct
a public journal, for while the Ia
Ter enterprise involves as scrupulous
an attention to a host of all-essentiat
details, It is exposed to more unex-
pected and severer tests. The ne
cessity for always working at the
highest pressure, of always keeping
a link of speed ready yet to put
forth, and the closeness with which
the product Of this arduous labor IS
scrutinized in every respect find no
parallal in any other calling. Over
and above all this, a great news
paper demands the combination OF
a rigid administration in details with
a lavish gross expenditure. The Sc
cret of success lies in the saving
of time at every possible step i'll the
preparation of 4 newspaper. for
nowhere else is the saying 50 true
that time is money!" aud this in
wolves at least keeping abreast of all
competitors in the matter of me-
chanical appliances, upon which the
ingenuity of the whole civilized
world is being exercised without
.ntermission. and which represent
sums of money that a generation
ago would have been regarded as
fabulous.
An inspection of the World build
ing, at 81 and 80 Park Row, and
IF the appliances there employed i'll
the publication of the World, will
convince any one that our contem-
pory has fully grasped the problem
of successful newspapering, and has
brought to its solution the highest
skill and the wisest liberality.
The building, erected especially
for its occupation, is handsome
and massive five-story structure,
with frontage of fifty feet on Park
Row and depth of ninety feet to
Theater Alley. 1t occupies perhaps
the very best site available for the
purpose, standing as it does within
a stones throw of Broadway and
directly opposite the General Post
Office. The greatest pains have
been taken to meet all the desiderata
Of ample space, solidity, light, VEN
tilation, and security against fire,
and the handsome suites Of offices
into which the floors, not needed for
its own use, have been converted,
are not likely ever to lack tenants.
The whole of the basement, from
Park Row back to Theater Alley, is
occupied by the Worlds newspaper
and job presses, sterotyping, and
other apparatus. The whole of the
ground floor is given up to the
counting room and mailing depart
ments, while the whole of the top
most story, with part of the third
floor, accommodates the editorial staff
and the large force of compositors.
The arrangements for eommunica-
ton between the various depart
ments Of the journal and for the
handling Of every thing, from what
may be called the raw material of
the paper, copy" and forms of
type, up to the finished product of
the daily and weekly World, leave
nothing to be desired that ingenuity
and experience could devise or
money secure, while pneumatic
tubes make the offices of the tele-
graph company and the Associated
Press practically a part of the build
ing, and complete telephone sys-
tenn links. The World Building not
only with the general system of the
and its suburbs, but with
its editors residence, with its up
town branches and employment
bureaus, and with its special office
at the Police Headquarters.
The counting-room offers novel
and agreeable departure from the
general rule which has heretofore
the proprietors of newspa-
per buildings. They usually rent
all the most eligible portions Of
their edifice, and coop themselves
up in such scanty space as they can
not otherwise dispose of. The
Worlds counting-room, covering the
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