The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-09-21
s|0W THE "NEWS' CAME.
PROVIDENCE GENEROUSLY VEL
CoME6 A YOUNG ENTERPRISE.
MS = Rather Complicated Affair TO Set n
Great Modern Newspaper In Motion, but
Here we Are-The Progress of the Work
Tho Outlook for the Future.

Buildings are rather scarce" said Mr..
w. II. Wood. meditatively turned over the
pages OF his list book. "Here's one one on
Dyer and Pine streets that might do"
That was considerably less than three weeks
ago.
The building referred 10 proved TO be
strongly constructed and spacious. A big Ice
chest tiled half the floor space, meat hooks
danglod from the ceiling and spiders spun
hlmy suspension bridges between the massive
pillars But. there was plenty Of light, or
would be when the windows were washed,
and there was more than room enough. IL
There were, molasses barrels in the the
began rolling out, suitable propulsiye power
being applied. and carpenters tore down the
ice box. Things looked worse and "wusser'
Meanwhile the News man was working the
telegraph wire. Press and type had been or
dered before the selection OF tee oIhlidng % 0nt
places twenty or thirty tons OF machinery with
all the supplies necessary for the making OF a
the be' press ae sas oT before Mr. George
E. Gill, master machinist from X. Hoe & Co.'S
works Then the cellar suddenly became full
Of great wheels and cylinders and cogs and
bolts and things that are Greek to ordinary
Inortals but that Mr.. Gill knows all about.
Six brawny laborers began lifting these into
place under his directions By this time folks
who passed often stopped and asked: What
sort OF business is this going TO be-"
Then came Mr.. Thomas jackson with his
ehaftiug and pulleys and fixings generally.
Wnen Mr.. jackson gets his face and hands
IIhnraIly pmeared with oil, backing and grease
he's es happy as child with a mud pie and
ID get ahead of those New York men," as he
described the Hoe experts, and 10 accomplish
Il be fairly worked himself lean. Pitkin put
~ the boiler for steoreotyping, Brown Bros. x
90. stretched the betting In a iify, and the
4hurston Company connected the Thomson
HOUSTON motor with the Narragansett wires,
# Then. when the crank WAS turned that Hoods
<he works with the mysterious power snatched
|r0ru tho skies, the wonderful little machine
ke1An purring away, and all the ,pulleys and
@hAffs noiselessly turned in obedience 20 its
{1npefious will And jackson and the "New
York man. slapped each other on the back
and mutually declared that never did new
machinery work so well.
Ali this time carpenters were at work up
afalrs Sitting up the printing Office People
Iooked In ~ the open door curiously. They saw
new type shining, new cases and frames and
desks, new chases and stereotyping tables And
aoIne-some who had voted with the Wing
sw be hPasyd so%e snse Of e%ssr
'but equally fervent faith--wished the new en-
'1efpxine 0Odspeed. Advertisements came rap
.ldlY IN response 10 the solid inducements held
ont BY the papers agent, and an experienced
.10coI stan was .engaged-all Rhode Islanders
&re III pleased TO think their fortunes with
<I1osc Of the lusty young journalistic giant.
y That brings the story down 10 saturday,
when all but the last things" had been done.
And two newsboys danced on the steps with
visions Of bright gold double-eagles before
their eyes, and yelled "Prov-e-dunce
'1e~e-s-wsr by way of practice to see how 1t
Z Tie rest or the story of the NEWS Is in the
future tense. To determine what IL will be
rests largely upon the community to which it
arpcals for support and OF whose interests IL
VIII endeavor TO become a staunch and fore
most champion.
Do ycS Ike the NEwss Yes9 Then order it
Of your kew6icaler.
Not Perhaps II 7ill suit you better as ac-
ouninfanco lengtbens.