The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-30
A MOVING TALE.
The Jersey City News Safely
Installed In It's New
Home.
HARD WORK? WELL, RATHERl
Half a H undred Men Worked
Through Light and Dark
ness For Two Days.
Great Crowds Look 0n-All Ready
Today In the New Home
Some Interesting Par
ticulars.
HARD WoRK2 WELL, RATHERl

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THE JERSEY CITY News is safely installed
in its new home, No. 251 Washington street,
and this afternoon and thereafter it will
make its appearance daily from that spaci-
Gus and well equipped building. The ma
jority of people who have only vague idea
of the many accessories and the mass OF
complicated machinery which is required in
these DAYS to produce a first class news
paper like THE JERSEY CITY NEWS: have
but faint conception of the herculean task
it was to move the complete and cumbersome
plant of THE NEWS.
When the great perfecting press upon
which the paper is printed, had quieted down
Saturday afternoon after running Off the
daily edition a small army of workmen de-
scended upon the old office. No. 30 Mont
gomery street, with confused mass of
ropes, pulleys, levers and beams. The men
set to work with will, and almost like
magic, order came out of their apparent dis
order A strong, substantial derrick was
down into the press rooms Ropes
coiled ready for use lay about
the sidewalks and on the floor of the
composing and stereotyping rooms while
tracks of heavy beams ran from these rooms
to the three large trucks which stood In
front of the place. The clash of iron strik-
ing iron, the sounds Of heavy bodies being
moved over the floor and the cracking of
ropes as they dragged great masses OF metal
along soon filled the place and the transi-
ton of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS from the
scenes of its birth and early struggles to the
place which marks its final triumph and
prosperity was under way.
CROWDS WATCH THE WORK.
These preparations on such busy thor
oughfare as Montgomery street and on
Saturday afternoon, too, soon attracted a
large crowd. The rain, which fell at times
with sufficient energy to dampen the en-
thusiasm of the most interested OF curious,
had no effect upon the people who stood
about the place all the afternoon watching
the moving. It was necessary to secure
the service of a policeman to keep a.
passageway clear along the street. The
newsbeys. who were deeply interested in
The NEWS, and looked upon the moving in
to the new building as an event for which
they were more or less responsible, were out
in force. OF course, they were always IN
the most dangerous place. When big,
heavy mass Of machinery was suspended in
the air for moment they were sure to be
directly under it looking up at it with a
carelessness that cprdled the blood of the
nervous beholder. If q beam slipped and
looked as though it was going to fall the
WOTkIu0u WHO Tdu w S4JuSb IL WSIc oOAO w
stumble over half dozen little urchins with
bundle of chooses" under their arms. It
was impossible to keep them away. They
sold 'sde Moose and felt q personal interest
in the event which, to their minds, warrant
ed them In getting their necks broken If
necessary
INTERESTING MACHINERY.
Pretty girls stood about with umbrellas
ever their heads wondering what that could
be for, as curious looking wheel or an ar
rangement looking like an iron Drum with
big corn one side, was heisted up cut Of the
press room. These who knew 1t all, as each
piece of machinery came into aght, told
their neighbors all about the uses to which
1t was put With an assurance that was sub
lime, considering their ignorance. Every
one who passed stopped a moment TO look at
some Of the curious coetrivanoes which were
a word of congratulstion for The NEWS.
The first thing to be done was to take down
the shafting by which the power is COM
municated from the engie to the variops de-
partmehts of the establ bljshment Then the
as gs the hss sD Ss sass 0f 1nes sas
gives life TO the whole, had to be taken
apart The men worked Ike trained army
Each individual and each group had its own
particular task and there was no clashipg
and no confusion The lighter articles OF
newspaper furniture, suck as cases, frames
truck and hurried around TO the new build,
ing Then began tbs work OF taking
out the heavier n1actjnsry. PIECES that
weighed ton or more were picked up by
the tackle and carried along as easily as the
ordinary chair or towel radk Is carried by
the every day mover Great massive steam
tables, upon which the matrix Is baked In the
stereotyping department., was connected
with rope fastened to Mindlass Oh one Of
the trucks at the doors; Heavy planks were
placed beneath the tahles legs, the meh on
che truck began to turn the windlass, and off
The table walked as though it had suddenly
been endowed with life.
TAKING OUT THE GREAT PRESS.
The crowds that were watching the pro-
ceedings stood and gazed with open mouthed
wonder as they saw one man at the derrick
turn crank ana che other adjust rope as
the large cylinder Of the press or the huge
bed of the wetting machine, or the engine,
each Of which weighs not less than $500
pounds, were lifted up from the press room
and placed upon truck without hitch or
break
The most difficult part ofishe work was the
removal OF the press. Those who are unac-
uuainted with the mass OF intricate parts
which 20 to make up the great projecting
press OF the day little imagine how difficult
thas task was. Every ono Of these numer
and carefully marked 30 that It could be put
back again in the proper place. Although
at least q half dozen iren were Kept coh-
binuousiy at this work from noon, 1t was four
O'Clock Sunday morning, when the last piece
was taken out Then the work Of putting
The pins together replacing the shafting and
putting the machinery in the new building
began Fresh relays Of workmen were put to
work and the noise Of hammers and the hum
Of busy men were transferred to toe new
building on Washington street. AL night
long and all day yesterday the ceaseless labor
went on until eight O'Clock this morning.
Then it was announced that the work Of
Ietting up the press was done. The steam
vas turned into the engine the big wheel
everything was working as smoothly as
though it had never been torn to pieces and
yet up again.