The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-29
THE NEWS BUILDING.
The New Quarters Being BuiIt ON
Reid Street.

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adapted to the uses of the paper. The
inside dimensions will he s5xi3 feet. On
the first floor will liz the counting room. t
editorial room, store room AMI press
room. The second floor will contain the
composing and job rooms and local e,li
TORS room.
The counting room, the front facing
ON Reid street, will le fitted up with nm
eye TAI neatness and convenience. ami
will lie 2ix2O feet m size.
The next will i. the editorial apart
ment, place To he made as comfortable
and as inviting AS it possibly can la;
furnished nicely and Hastily, and it will
le quite large enough to give the editor
room Ia handle any individual who may
come in To see 1.-THE man who wrote that
piece" 1t will be the SAME size a. the
counting room, viz, alSa0 feet.
The next will H. the mailing room,
which will be loxljfeet, adjoining which
will be storage ar stock room.
The rear room on the ground floor,
30x3a feet, will be fitted up for the pres.
ses and other machinery.
A stairway seven feet wide will lead
from the iirst to the second floor from
the front, and Il similar stairway will
L.,.I M, from, III. ,,,,ua r,.p, ,,;vio,, t,.,.,
lines IL communication between the two
stories.
The first room on the second floor will
he thu composing room which will be 30x
3! feet in size. Over this room the fore.
man and the devil will preside, and
here the intelligent composi,or" will
put in his time and the queer things
that the mind Of man COMPREHENSIVE
not.
Next will be the room over which the
local editor will presi le. II will be made
comfortable and will be neat but not
gaudily decorated. The walls will have
art decorations after the style Of now all.
the-rage cigarette pictures, which will
@ sandwitchcd with other chromos,
such ~ the tra,lcsmen are using in adver-
tising their wares. The size of this room
will liz l5x2j feet.
The job room. 3Ox:a feet, il to be i'm.
me,liately over the press room. or the
rear room Of tho second story. This will
IN stocked with an excellent outfit If
job printing material Of the newest and
most approved style, all perfectly new
from the foundrics. Sev. raj job presses
will be put in, ~ will also such other
machinery IA goes 10 make up com.
plete jobbing establishment.
The bnilling will le substantially built
Of brick; with good. thick walls, and tive
stories high. II will have IN elevate,
running from the press room to the lol
room, for the convenience of handling
the form" and other matter. Speaking
tubes will connect the editorial and com
passing rooms, and copy" box will IL
run from the editorial and counting rooms
to the composing room.
The building will le lighted in every
apartment by gas. The we'll of Col
Harris, Just across the street. will bc put
to use, and water from there will he use,
in supplying tho building. A well ar
ranged sewer has already been connected
with the sewer of the First National
bank, to the river Tho popular archi
tect, MIR. Is. II. Enos. drew the plans fol
the building and has left nothing undont
which would more perfectly adapt it t.
the purposes for which it il to liz used
The contract for the construction has
been let to Mr.. J. b. Williams, who will
complete the work IA rapidly IN practi
cal. Whenever the business demands il
the building can be easily enlarged.
All in all THE News new quarter,
will h" very complete and convenient
II will bc Il molel building of its kind
and when we get into II and get the fore,
in good trim. 1nE News shall improv,
till lts best friends will hardly know it
II " Ill get into new dress Of nice, cleal
type, and when it reaches its readers j
will look as it il had Just had its fac,
washed, and everybody will fall in low,
with it.
The Geographic news service will b,
the very best, and, in short, nothing vii
be- left undone Ia make the News sec
ond tn no paper in the state. The com
pany feel that the field will authorll,
the step, and have taken 1t after due con
sideration. and before IA great while Til
News shall lie the bearer Of the earlies
information Of current events to appreci
alive readers in large portion of tn
state. TnE News. both daily and weekly
will then lc enlarged and made to CORES
pond in size with the best newspaper
printed in the south.
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: The New York Tribune says tina
steamers from some of the southern mort
bring $4,000 to 7O,OOO big watermelon
ler trip. The frcightage is five cents
melon. Last season one company re-
ceiycd $es, 900 for watermelon freight
and carried nearly 600 600 of these juic,