The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-30
NEWARK'S
| GREAT "NEWS"
gcroWning Event in the His
tory of a Paper That
Deserves Its Splendid
Success.
ia NEW HOME ON TUESDAY.
100000 Invested in the Adorn-
ment and Equipment Of a
Building on Market
Street.
$MEN WHO MAKE THE PAPER
A NEW HOME ON TUESDAY.
MEN WHO MAKE THE PAPER
Honesty and Enterprise Have De-
velOped 5000 Circulation to
10000 in Ten Years.

10000 in Ten Years.
Ten years ago last September newspaper
called the Ne,ca11c Erening NeIes modestly
made its appearance upon the streets OF
r Newark. Journalism i'll that city at that
time was in state of stagnation. The
Daily AdrertiSer, sort of grandmotherly
q blanket which the staid old Newarkers read
i with much the same yeneration they did
4 their Bibles, and which, having once gone to
4 press, would not print another line if the
town burned down, was considered the lead
ing newspaper of the city, while the Neacark
Journal, happy-go-lucky sheet, was its
4 chief competitor. The EDening Ne,us started
in to shake up these journalistic dry bones
with vim which made the wiseacres shake
their heads knowingly and sagely predict its
early demise But business and enterprise
were behind the new venture. Its first edi-
ton was 5000 copies and given away. To-
day it sells over $4,000 copies daily and takes
no returns.
1t started with an editor-in-chief, city
editor and three reporters and eight COM
positors. Today it has large corps of edi-
reporters, besides a regularly paid CORE
spondent in every city and town Of inn
portance in the State. Then there is
. small army of compositors, pressmen, clerks
and other employees which make the total
number of men in the employ of the concern
about one hundred, exclusive OF the out-of-
town correspondents.
HANDSOME NEW BUILDING.
The Erening NeICS viii celebrate the new
year by moving into its new building, Nos.
VIE and 2l7 Market street, four-story
] double brick building which cost $75, ,000
Twenty thousand dollars more have been
spent upon the structure in making it the
largest and best equipped newspaper build
ing in the State. On the ground floor of No.
215 win be located the business Office. This
will have counters and wainscotting of
Italian marble with separate apartments
for the publisher. boolkeeper and business
manager, of quartered oak, ground glass and
polished brass. The cellar has been trans
formed into a press room, thirty-eight by
one hundred feet in the clear and fourteen
feet high. 1t will contain two presses. A
new one which cost S45, 900, is Hoe quad
ruple inserting press, which will print, cut,
paste and fold per hour 81, 900 papers of four
pages: 600 of six or eight pages; "a 600 of
ten, twelve or fourteen pages, and 1900 of
twenty or twenty-four pages. The other
press will print q, 600 six or eight-paged
papers per hour. which will give the NelCs
hour. A 100 horse power Corliss engine, fed
by battery of a 300 horse power boilers made
expressly for this plant, will run the machin-
erv of the building. In this cellar, though
In room apart from the presses, will be 10
Gated the stereotyping foundry, which will
be equipped with all the latest improvements
in that department.
The editorial and city departments Will be
located on the third floor. The city depart
ment will have two large rooms, while the
telegraph and the editors of the various
departments will each have their individual
rooms. All the apartments are well VEN
tilated and lighted by day light The fourth
floor will be occupied by the composing ROOM
1t will have forty-two cases and is said by
competent judges to be one of best rooms of
its kind in any newspaper building.
Although the building is SO constructed
that it can be thoroughly lighted by day
light, it will be equipped throughout with an
electric light plant, embodying all the latest
improvements Elevators will run from the
cellar to all the floors, and there will be
system of eleeric bells and speaking tubes by
which the editor-in-chief can sit at his desk
and communicate with the heads of every
department i'll the establishment.
CAUSE OF A GREAT SUCCESS.
From the second day of its existence, when
1t was first placed on sale the circulation of
the EVENING NEWS has steadily increased
by actual account ian accurate account of
Dne clrculaLIOu udVl0S always 7D6o0. kepU1,
1000 to 5000 copies each year. This re
markable success has been due to three
causes:-THE NEWS enterprise, it's out
spokeness and its disinterestedness. 1t has
never been afraid to attack any known
evil, whether social, political or financial,
and it was not long before the public came to
know that its sole motive was to serve that
public. 1t did much to overcome
the inability of the people to appreciate
truly independent paper Its course
in supporting candidates at first
led the public to look upon it as a Democratic
newspaper. Then when it supported re-
publicans whose election the Netus thought
was for the hest interests of the community
1t was called Republican; but after two or
three experiences of this kind the people be-
came convinced that the Neivs supported
only the best candidates and gave it their
support
The remarkable success which the Ereniaq
Ners has achieved in SO short a time is in a
large measure due to Henry Abbott Steel
the editor-in-chief. Mr. Steel has been the
master mind and guiding hand of the es-
tablishment since its existence began. He is
thoroughly equipped for his work, and may
be said to have been brought up in news
paper office. He began his career as boy
in the office of The Bee. an afternoon daily
of Philadelphia which departed this journal
istic lie several years ago.
Upon the demise of The Bee Mr.. Steel
Went 10 bfle fhliade1plla hscofl1,s Wnere ne
FER aimed eight years in various capacities.
FROM the Record he went to the Times as
assistant to the city editor, and while filing
that position he acted as correspondent of
the Herald and other New York newspapers.
He was with the Times a few years, and
then he came to Newark to take the editorial
management of the Ereniisg Aens. The
newspaperman, like the posT. is born, not
made. and Mr.. Steel can trpthfuliy be said
to be born journalist. He, twas, who
marked ont the course Of the paper, and his
was the masterhand which guided it safely
through the dangers which beset new ven
ture of this kind until he brought it to the
proud position OF the best newspaper in the
xate.
RUSSELL p. JACOBY.
In this work Mr.. Steel has had an able
lieutenant IN Russell p Jacoby, who can be
lunIned up as young man with head full
VI brains which he knows how 70 use. Mr.. !