The herald., 1897-12-10
Thousands Inspected the
New Home
OF THE HERALD YESTERDAY
MACHINERY, PICTURES, MUSIC
AND FLOWERS
All Served to Interest and Entertai-
the Invited Guests-The Mys-
teries of Matrices Explained

The Herald entertained fully 1000
guests yesterday afternoon and evening
n it's new home in the Hellman block.
Early in the week about $500 invita-
lions were issued for an inspection of
the business, editorial, composing, press
and art departments, which are now Tor
the first time in the twenty-five years
existence of the paper, adequately
housed and completely equipped for all
possible requirements.
No attempt was made at decoration
in either the press or composing rooms,
or in the business Office. On all the desks
In the editorial rooms were arranged
clusters of beautiful roses of different
colors, heliotrope, callas, geraniums anu
chrysanthemums, and Mrs. Charlotte
L. Wills, with kind thought, sent q
quantity of papyrus and umbrella grass,
which was placed here and there about
the rooms, making effective masses OF
green against the walls
A very beautiful floral design. the gift
of Mr.. and Mrs. Carlyle Claiming Davis,
was a mammoth pair of shears. The
blades were made Of purple violets. the
handles of jonquils, and for the screw
that holds the two blades a single
tiny pink bud was used. The device
was particularly appropriate for news
paper office, and was hung against the
wall in the reception room opposite the
main entrance.
A reception committee of ladies met
the guests as they arrived and, assisted
by all the editors, writers and active
workers connected with the paper
showed the many points of interest that
a newspaper office holds for the layman
Questions innumerable were answered
concerning the mechanism of the va
rious departments. The presses,
stereotyping anl linotype machines were
all in motion; the mysteries of matrices
were explained, and small sections were
given as souvenirs.
Upstairs and downstairs poured the
steady stream, most of the time as VIDE
as the hall and stairways would admit;
and the art department. where a pen
and-ink sketch was converted by cam
era and electricity into Photographic
negative, which, treated with chemicals.
was again converted into an etched
pate, ready for use in the forms. was
crowded to suffocation the whole time
A program of particularly pretty and
popular music was finely rendered
afternoon and evening by the Seventh
Regiment orchestra. ]. Fred Schmeiser,
conductor The piano came from the
Bartlett Music house; and Geo. Cam, the
able director of the Seventh Regiment
band, lent his moral support and that
of his flute and piccolo to the orchestra,
and the latter bore no small part in its
successful results.
The music, both afternoon and even
ing, was especially fine and infectious.
The work was spirited, even, well-bal-
anced, and showed the orchestra to be
second only to the band which bears
the same name. and which is far and
away the best brass organization in this
part of the state
Mrs. William A. Spalding, assisted by
the following ladies, made up the recep-
ton committee: Mines W. W. Stilson,
r. H. Hay Chapman, Jay B. Arnold,
George A. Dobinson, Carlyle Claiming
Davis, C. Y. Barton, K. T. Galpin, E. II.
Enderlein, M. M. Bowman, Frances
C. Wood, e. M. Cook, L. NJ Holt, F. ].
Cooper, A. J. Patton, Misses Jessie An
thony, Eva Langworthy and Mary Dob
tpson Among the many hundreds pres