Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-19

Max Meyer. Andrew Rosewater, George b.
Tzschuck ard N. 2. Fell.
The cost of the building complete, includ-
ing all machinery and electric light plant,
will approximate $4,000.
There are about nineteen miles of electric
wire in the building, 1,s00 electric lights and
1000 gas jets.
The power for presses, dynamos sterco-
typing machinery, etc, is furnished by two
new Corliss engines.
In the east and south front there are 140,-
! 600 pressed brick and about 1,0O0,0 brick of
other kinds in the entire building and $4,000
feet of encaustic tiling.
OF the ten strictly fire proof buildings in
Omaha the Bee building is the only one that
has polished plate glass windows in all out
side walls.
The floors of the first, second, third and
fourth stories are of three inch seasoned
quarter sawed oak with black walnut and
oak borders. About 100000 feet of flooring
was used in the building. The upper floors
are OF narrow hard pine with walnut bor-
ders
Pneumatic tubes of the most improved de-
signs lead from the Office in the first
floor to the composing rooms in the seventh
There are 465 windows in the outside
walls of the building, of which sixty are in
the court. All of the glass in the interior
and exterior windows is polished Clipped
and hammered plate.
Sixty-tive thousand vltrified paving bricks
We're required to cover the roof and $50 bar
rels of Portland cement were required to lay
the brick.
The Bee building is the first structure of
any kind to occupy the corner lot at Far
nam and Seventeenth streets. The 66-foot
lot adjoining on the west, covered by the
ncf hnIf fnft n li,r for
pied by the residence of Mr.. Rosewater
There are $50 tons of structural iron, "a
| tons of sash weights, 14S car loads of tilng,
| and lOO5 tons of granite used;in the construc-
tion of the building.
The editorial floor is at an altitude of 100
Feet above the level of the river
Over forty eight contracts were made and
signed by Mr.. Rosewater in the construction
| of the building.
A large fountain of artistic design will oc
| cupy the centre of the tiled court floor.
There are lS1 offices and rooms, great and
| small. not including toilet rooms, meter
rooms or ianitors' closets. The largest room
| is S9xl4 feet and the smallest Skis.
The plumbing, gas and drainage works
| rank among the finest and largest Jobs of
| this kind in the west.
| No building in Omaha can be compared
with the Bee building in point or thorough
| ness and finish of it's plumbing work.
! The Durham system of wrought iron
| drainage is used and is carried out complete
in every part of the building. Beside this
there are special ideas illustrated in this
building which are entirely original.
| There are between one hundred aud fifty
and two hundred marble wash stands, about
seventy-fve water-closets and nine lava
tories complete il every detail.
| Some idea of the extent of this work may
| be had when it is considered that there are
about fifteen miles of pipe laid in the
structure Every detail has been closely
watched-and nothing has been left undone
which mechanical skill and ingenuity could
| devise to make the job perfect.
The United States flag floats for the first
time to-day from 50-foot staff above the
| building.
The smoke stack reaches height of lao
| feet above the side wall, is eleven feet in
| diameter and is of octagon shape. 1t IS pro-
vided with an ample ar-draft and patent
smoke consumer 1t is lined with fire brick
up to within forty feet of the top, and orna-
| mented with terra Gotta cappings.
The door locks were specially designed for
| THE BEE. The knobs are miniature bee hives
| and the top of each escutcheon is also of the
some design. They are made of Bower
| Balff iron.