The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-28
A STEP FORV Ard
The Jersey City News Moves
Into Its New Home
Today.
SPACIOUS, WELL EQUIPPED
A First-Class Newspaper Office
Organized a. No. PSI
Washington Street.
A CHAPTER OF RETROSPECT
Stages By Which Jersey city's
Great Democratic Daily Has
Achieved a Gratifying
Success.
THE MEN WHO MAKE IT.
A CHAPTER OF RETROSPECT
THE MEN WHO MAKE IT.
sketches of Those who Write up its
Lively News Articles and superin-
tend its Mechanical Work.


The JERSEY CRY NEWS will move today.
In fact, while its readers are perusing today's
issue, a large force of men are atwork trans
ferring the presses, engine, furniture, boilers
and everything included in that comprehen-
sive term material, from the old quarters in
the Weldon Building to No. PSI Washington
street, formerly occupied by the Hudson
County National Bank.
When the last copy of The NEWS of to-
& Co., the famous printing press manufac-
turers, stand waiting to pounce on the press
and begin the work of taking it piecemeal
to its new location. Another body of men
are ready to attack the powerful engine
which drives the press and other machin cry.
and proceed to dismember it. Then the en-
tire staff in the composing room will begin
removing the type and composing room fur
niture the moment the forms were made up,
in order that by Monday they will be ready
in the new building.
Downstairs in the business department a
small army is engaged all day in transfer
ring books, papers and the thousand and one
things found in a newspaper office, to their
new abode, while porters and "help" are as
busy as ants carrying chairs, desks, boxes
and miscellaneous collection of stuff which
somehow collects, or apparently grows in
business offices where large business IS done.
No less activity is displayed in the edi-
torial rooms on the second floor OF the Wei
don building. However one small room
could hold such multitudinous gathering
of people and things may well puzzle those
whose labor consisted in removing them to
Washington street. The editorial cat resist
ed with her claws all attempts to move her.
She walked across to Washington street
with tail erect and fur erect with all her
accustomed electric fire.
And SO on will this work of pulling down
this and setting up that continue until Mon
day when il all goes well THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS will be in the hands of its readers at
the usual hour
IT'S OWN HOME
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS is not moving to
a place where it will be cramped up, cooped
In. pushed on all sides and elbowed as it
were into corner Oh, dear mol Nothing
of the kind 1t is removing its Lares and
Penates into roomy structure of its own,
mark you, where there will be room
to move about in, and where the
rapid and continued growth of the business
of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS may not be
retarded by want of space. Just as tight
lacing, tight boots, tight gloves tight any
thing, affects the healthy growth of the hui
man body, SO 90 restraints arising from con-
fined quarters hinder the development of a
commercial body. Being practically inn
pressed by this principal the proprietors OF
this paper have purchased the old Hudson
County Bank Building for $4,000. The
transaction was effected through Mr.. Frank
Stevens. of the Real Estate Trusts Co., whose
knowledge of real estate is such
that what he doesn't know about land,
hereditaments and tenements IA Jersey City
ffar
hminaries having been settled there was
nothing left to be done but take possession
and otristen the building. The first is being
done the second is an accomplished fact
Hereafter and from henceforth the name OF
Old Hudson County Bank Building will dis
appear in the waters of Lethe and the build
ing viii be known to future generations
throughout the State as 'THE NEWS Build
There are few buildiags better known
among commercial men In the State of New
Jersey than the three-storied structure now
to be occupied by THE NEWS. It's imposing
front of Ohio freestone, with the tasteful
adornments and style of the italian Renais-
sance, is familiar object to everybody IN
this city Built forty years ago its solid walls
rose when lower Jersey City was the abode
Of the wealthy and well to do. 1t
was then located right in the heart OF
the wealth of the city, and although the
y
homes have been transformed into commerci-
al emporiums and the building is still the
centre of q circle embracing the most I'M
portant influential business pursuits in Jer-
sey City 1t is significant and worthy OF
notice also that the building has had many
OCCUPANTS. Many enterprises have been
carried on within its walls, and everyone of
these concerns which tenanted the old Hud-
son County Bank Building has since pro-
gressed and prospered. This rule will be un-
eouiyocally followed in the case OF The
JERSEY CRY NEWS, its present owner and
tenant.
HISTORY OF THE BUILDING.
Once upon time, as the story books say,
the lot on which THE NEWS building now
stands belonged to John Grlflth, tnen q
wealthy merchant in the city. The shaped
lot at the rear running out to York street
was owned by the Middleberger estate, and
from these owners, way back in the nIties,
the organizers of the Hudson County Bank
purchased the property THE NEWS build
ing was built by and for the Bank, and
portion of 1t has been occupied for banking
purposes from that time until the handsome
stone pile q few yards east was ready. The
first floor used as the bank proper and
now to be devoted to the business and edi-
toriaI rooms of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS is
remarkably solidly built chamber, with fire
proof walls and supported in front by iron
riIlars On one side of the room was built
in the wall StfOng puISidf-piO0A N1uio.
The steel walls of this cavity are lined with
steel shot. making it impervious to the in
sinuating drill of the gentleman following
the sburg1ing" profession, for as
soon as the drill penetrated the
outer sheet the point of the
tool had no hold on the smooth sides Of the
shot The doors are Of heavy steel, secured
by such an ingenious combination OF locks
chat enc cannot help thinking that the diff
pulty Of opening the complicated mechanism