The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-05

much reason to be proud of their business
Office as has the Morning News. In the
first place, it is a large and commodities
office, well lighted and handsomely fur
nished 1t is a busy place, for it takes
large number of employees to conduct
the affairs of the Morning News They
find here comfortable and conveniently
arranged office where each employee has
his, or her own private compartment, with
desks. files, drawers and everything that
is needed to facilitate work. as well as to
avoid confusion and complications. The
business Office is connected with each
floor by private system Of telephones
and call bells which save many hours
during the day, and to a newspaper,
hours are dollars, and very often each
moment is priceless.
Besides the business office, the first
floor contains the stock room where the
large assortment of stationery is kept for
the various branches of the business. This
stock is well selected, 1t keeps pace with
the demands of the most progressive bus
mess people and one is sure of finding
what he wants at the Morning News.
The second floor contains the Autograph
department, the artists room, transfer
and press room. Here is where the beau
tiful color work and the finest grade of
printing is done. The Morning News has
one of the first establishments in the south
~ w lAllIOSAdpiliiiS Ill us own DuHQln2.
The expense of maintaining such an en-
terprise has checked it's development in
the south. The Morning News is proud,
and justly so, of it's enterprise in this d.
rection. It's business has steadily in
creased as the demand for higher class
OF stationery was created by business men
who realized that they were judged large
ly by the paper they sent out.
The third floor contains the newspaper
editorial nd bo Of II
egraph operator who receives the reports
of the Southern Associated Press. The
cylinder job presses are also on this floor
five in number, the latest improvements
in the printers art for rapidity and cor.
'rectness of work.
The small job presses and the job and
book composing room are on the fourth
floor
The fifth floor is taken up with the ex.
tensive ruling and binding machinery
This branch of the Morning News bust.
ness is probably the most extensive in the
south, and runs the whole gamut of bind.
ing, from the simplest pad to the largest
bank ledger.
The sixth floor is the composing room
containing the Merganthaler linotypes
and the linotype department. In all the bis
building there is not an inch of space t.
spare. 1t is all occupied.
There are in the neighborhood of 90
| employees connected with the Mornine
| News and each represents a family o.
two or three, which means that abou
500 people are fed every day and clothed
! and housed by the Morning News. 1t.
pay roll amounts to about 100000 per year
practically all of which finds it's way i'm
mediately into circulation IN the city O
| Savannah.
This, then, is the Morning News of to
| day. 1t has always been found in the fore
| most ranks of journalism and printing
and each successive revolution in the ar
and science of publishing a paper will finc
! it awake to it's interest and to the inter
est of the city it represents. 1t has strivel
| to deserve the confidence and support o
| the people and will strive as hard to main
| tain it, mistaken.