The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-01-19
THE CHICAGO GLOBE.

lishment. This daily is elassed among the
phenomenal newspapers Of the country on
account of its rapid advancement Ia pay
ing" basis. This may Toe owing, how ever, in
degree. To it's inheritance of an established
character and reputation Ii is both the
youngest in one sense, and, in another, one OF
the oldest dailies in Chicago. A a merely
mechanical print bearing the name of The
Globe. its first issue appeared the 9Th of April.
lSSS. But the literary product of it's "edi
torial faculty" a term with which II has re
placed the more common bat less appropriate
editorial star. 1t was widely known during
fourth part of the century 10y the name of
the Times. From about the beginning of the
Reconstruction" epoch down TO the sale Of
the Times printing establishment 10 an Iowa
syndicate" that daily Was produced 10y an
editorial faculty in which Andre Mattcson,
now editorial director of The Gfots, was the
leading political writer; HAYDN X. smith now
of The Globe faculty, was the leading economic
writer, e. L. bennett. now managing editor OF
The Gtobe, was managing editor, and Frank
Il. Wilkie. now contributor to The Gtobe, was
also a principal member. Besides, Austin &.
Patterson. now business director of The Globe,
wac, during the same period. business manager
of the Times. If newspaper is. like book,
the brain product of its authors, rather than
the mere mechanical work of some printers.
then the remark that the 7hs Gfobe Is the
brains of Story's T,meS is correct, and the
habit of its authors IL speak Of The Globe
themselves collectively a moral entity
that has existed many Years IN the mode ami
character of new paper, Is correct, too.
This transmigration of the soul and charac-
ter of a famous new paper from an old to a
new material body may explain the fact that
The Globe has taken already the position of
the leading and representative Democratic
new spaper of the northwest that is. the posi-
ton and character of tho work CT the same
authors by another title. Certainly the char
acter of the work has suffered no detTiment
by the change of name
WHERE TIE GLOBE Is MADE.
AS our engraving shows, The tslobe building
Is double fOur.story marble front edi1ce in
Fifth avenue, midway between Washington
and Madison streets. The tAEg Easements.
connected as shown are occupied. one by the
presses and mailing rooms, the other by the
engine and for the storage of paper. ne
presses are of the latest "web-perfeeting''
pattern, from the great mandatory of Hoe
4 Co., New York. Web-perfecting means that
the paper is supplied to the press in an an
broken web from great rolls. and that the
fected, l. e, printed, both sides, cut and
folded. OF course, the printing is done by
means of stereotype plates fitted upon iron
cylinders in the machine.
THE OFFICE.
The business Office. occupying the principal
floor, is one of the most elegantly fitted mp
new spaper Offices III the world The arrange
ment is like that of a banking house, with the
panels and counters of variegated marble
black walnut and ebony, combining beauty
and richness of material with high architect
ural taste. The walls and ceiling are deco
rated with the new, novel and exceedingly
rich tapestry If that Is the proper word.
called "pacrusta," in the most tasteful and
rich design. The small engraved sketch of
this handsome per Office gives an mad
equate idea of its real beauty.
THE NEwsMEN's DELIVERY.
Beyond it, with an entrance from the alley,
is the delivery room, shown in the picture at
the bottom. The intense life of this room
with it's mob of eager, noisy new sboys is to
the great public an invisible life. The news
boy is an early we'll active bird lie
swarms in the delivery room of the morn
ing newspaper before the world is awake
While yet the merchant the mechanic,
the politician and the Anarchist are in the
land of Nod. the young Arab of civilization be
gins his daily labor. While the well-fed eccle
siastic 10 still dreaming of the anat hema mara
natha that he has prepared to deliver against
the Sunday edition, this selfdependent and
self-conhdent infant terrible is fulfilling the
scxiptural injunction by earningI his daily
bread with honest and honorable work. Would
10 be betterl that he should go a-nshing, or