Evening star., 1900-06-30

-rhe newspaper men of Washington, In
clu1ins all the representatives of the local
papers and the correspondents of the jour-
nais published elsewhere, were invited by
The Evening Star Newspaper Company to
visit and inspect It's recently completed per-
nanent home last night. The attendance
was large. and its composition made it
peculiarly fitted to pass opinion upon the
new building from the two most important
points of view from which it can be re-
garded. In the first place, the visitors were
practical newspaper men of experience,
whp were familiar with the system, COM
pick as 1t is, which Is requisite to the en-
terprise of publishing a great afternoon
newspaper where rapdity is such i'm
portant consideration in every department.
In the second place, they were men of cul-
fure who were eminently able to judge the
structure from the aesthetic standpoint.
They were therefore unexcelled umpires in
this instance. where the practical and use
fnl were SO closely allied to the beautiful
and artistic to be necessarily considered
In conjunction.
To every guest who made the tour of in
spection, and there was none who failed to
have this pleasure, the new Evening Star
building WAS IL revelation In both partic-
nlars from the cellar to the roof. There had
been naturally very high expectation
aroused IN the minds of those who familiar
, with the modern enterprise that character
izsd The Evening Star Company in all its
movements. had also watched tho pile of
steel and marble rise skyward, but there
was none 10 whom the visit did not as
q surprise exceeding even expectation.
But complete as the structure seemed to
b. lest night. it Is regrettable to note that
it was stiIl incomplete in some important
particulars OF an artistic character, and
useful ones as well. The seven lunettes
which extend around the business office
interior above the sumptuous marble lining
ara yet to be made tho abiding places of
exquisite mural paintings executed by
Frele.iok Die!man. the president of the |
American Academy OF Design, and to be
shortly put IN place. The brass wire grilles |
around the private portions OF the !
counting room are also but temporary, and |
will be replaced as soon as possible by |
gTtlles OF bronze, the prevalence OF strikes |
among the bronze workers having prevent |
ed their delivery In the time specified. But |
these insuficlenc,es did not IN any degree |
mar the enjoyment of the inspection |
groups, there being such a wealth of per- |
fectlon to command attention and admira-
ton.
shown Through the Building.
AS the visitors arrived they were taken |
in charge In groups of four or Ave by rep |
resentatives OF the various departments Of |
The Evening Star and introduced to the |
new home Of the paper. The itinerary COM !
prised an inspection tour Of the ground |
floor and elevator flight to the top |
story, where the artists room and the |
lockers. 'avatory and shower baths for the |
use of TIE co!npositors are located
The locker room where the composing |
department. employees will deposit their |
street for the.r working clothes. with It's |
rows Of porcelain wash bowls and other |
conveniences, with the shower baths near |
b. equipped with every appliance from u
needle spray TO a shampoo spout, caused |
one rbServant scribe to remark with mean
Ing emphasis: THE S:ar people have prac-
t.ci,.y erected a monument to the truth of
tn ddiEe tnat cleanliness Is next to Cod
l.uc~s.
The artists beautiful apartment in the
west L extension was next visited and |
admired. and then descent was made to |
7he Composing room, on the floor below |
at-l ihe natrix room in the rsar where the |
impression of the forms Of type are made |
fEd then shot down in u chute TO the lowest |
e,yry. This chute. so novel. was a. particular
point Of interest, az was the pneumatic |
tube battery IN the composing room. by |
which copy is sent to the printers
Going down another story, the editorial |
floor was reached, and here new revelatio' s |
in the practical and artistic awaited the |
visitors. The theme OF the adornment Of |,
the apartments Of the editors was univer- |
leal'y praised. and the oommodious news |
room was as generally admired for the per- |
fection Of It's fittings In the aesthetic sense |
and the unrtvaled mechanical arrange |
snents by which the desks of the city, news |
and telegraph editors were connected vo- |
cally no. only with svery other department |
i OF the paper, but with the outside world as !
far as the long ns-distanoe telephones at the |
editors elbow extend. The pneumatic tubes