The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02
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The largest printing establishment Of
Savannah is undoubtedly the Morning
I News. Its newspaper plant employs p
! hands every day in the year 6 OF which
/ are skilled mechanics. Twenty-one ma
| chimes, consisting of the most complete
newspaper plant IN the south are in daily
/ operation. The job printing plant employs
% hands, forty OF which are skilled me-
/ chanics or operators Forty-two ma
chimes Of every imaginable DESCRIPTION are
I IN use for printing, lithographing. book
/ binding, ruling paper. cutting paper and
/ books, the manufacture OF blank books,
ana Tor numerous other technical pur-
poses.
Messrs. Kennickle & Co run job print
ins press in connection with their sta
! tlonary store. artists supply and picture
I frame business. They have four machines
/ apd employ two expert printers. They are
\ DOING fairly well. and receive a share Of
! savannAh's work
Mr.. J. Stern has been established for
| many years In Savannah. and is an ex-
/ pert printer himself He has very good
/ plant with eight machines. and two men
/ are employed. Mr.. Stern has a well-estab-
/ hshed business, which he has no trouble
| TO retain, as hrs work is always well done
/ and reliable.
R. 2. Purse is probably the youngest
/ boss printer in Savannah. He moved from
| Guyton 10 Savannah about a year ago.
1 with the ambition and earnest desire TO
succeed characteristic Of young men He
/ has met with fair success, which he de-
4 serves. Mr.. Purse employs hanus, and
has a good plant and is capable OF exc
cutting all job printing work
". B. Francis Is also newcomer and
young printer who has entered the com
mercial printing business. He has four
machines and employs two hands. and is
ready and able TO execute any order for
printing in his line
Proably one Of the first questions that
a stranger will ask In order 10 size up a
town IS. How many daily newspapers
have you In your city?" As far as Savan-
nah goes the answer Is three one morning
and two evening papers. and unless the
stranger halls from Kamschatka or neigh
borhOod ne knows the Savannah Morning
News, and If he will read the evening pa
pers, the Evening Press or Evening Bullc-
tin, he Will find that the evening papers
have every indication of thrift. and of
liberal patronage from the business men.
The Evening Press has been established
three years. 1t started with a capital Of
$4,000. 1t gives employment to thirty-four
hands, and its payroll is $50 600 a year.
The Evening Bulletin is 1-cent evening
paper and has just started and apparently
has a fair prospect of success.
Mr.. William Orr edits and publishes
weekly paper, The Independent, which is
well recognized as the organ of number
of secret organizations. Mr.. Orr does also
a general printing business.
Savannah has three colored newspapers,
all weeklies, edited and printed by colored
men. The Tribune. which is edited By
Col J. II. Deveaux. probably the most
prominent colored politician and newspa-
per man In Georgia. The Tribune is a we'll
gotten up and well patronized paper by
the colored people The Masonic Eye is
also a colored organ, whose sphere is clear
ly indicated by It's title There is also an
other colored paper The Southern Weekly
News. edited and printed throughout by
cOlored men. All of these colored papers
llso do job printing and receive their share
Of patronage mostly from the colored peo-
Pile.
The Morning News was established II
'850. 1t was a small sheet; its reading mat
ter in a month scarcely cqualling what is
COW printed in a single issue. 1t may be
said without Boosting that II has kept fully
abreast with every Improvement in journ
tlism, and that to-day, in everything that
constitutes a good newspaper IT has no SUI
1criors and but few equals. In 1876 1t re-
moved to its present quarters. the massive
building on Whitaker street, and Bay lane,
he whole of which. with the exception OF
wo rooms is used for the purposes of the
N,rning News.
There is not another establishment south
T the Ohio river where so many branches
4 the art prcservative of arts" and its
kindred businesses, are carried on under
one roof, and it is fact there are but few
If Its kind In the union.
The Morning News as a newspaper, with
It's two and three daily editions and its
double weekly edition; it's perfecting press,
stcreotyping department; its Mergenthaler
rype-Setters its Editorial corps, and its
business Department, is a distinct institu-
ton from the Morning News Manufactur-
ing Department, with its book and job
printing rooms, press rooms engraving
and llthographing rooms; its bindery and
/ blank book mandatory; IL stock rooms,
etc Each IS a bus'ncss itself; united as one
| in everything that Is necessary to advance
the general prosperity Of the Morning
| News, but separate and distinct in bust
ness management
The pay rolls Of the Morning News
amount to 1925 per day, counting seven
/ days in the week, 90 per cent of which, it
/ may be asserted, is spent as soon as it is
| paid out among the retail dealers and
/ house agents. That is over $1OO000 d year
is supplied to the buying and paying capac-
! ity of the people of the city by the Morn
/ ing News. This, of course, does not in
| clude another 100000 distributed in pay
ment for supplies, a large portion of which
| is purchased in Savannah.
The manufacturing departments of the
Morning News draw a large trade not only
| from the territory Immediately contiguous
| to Savannah, but from all parts of the
state, and the states of Florida, North and
South Carolina and Alabama and even as
| far as Texas on the south and Missouri in
/ the northwest. This establishment does a
| large amount of railroad work. printing
| and binding competing with the largest
concerns in the north and west. showing
that such work can be done as well and as
cheaply as in any other city in the coun-
| try.