New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-28

gained from the fact that the amount of floor
space will be over nine acres; 100000 pounds of
steel and iron will form its bones and snews, TWEEN
ty-fve or thirty miles OF steam pipes will heat It,
$50 windows will let in the sunlight, while at night
100 electric lights will prove good substitutes. 1t
will be entirely freproof the floor arches brick
and masonry, will be covered with hard maple, the
interior walls will be furnished with dados of glazed
brick even feet high the window and door
frames will be of IRON and the only wood used
viii be in the floors, window frames and few
doors. The steps are to be made OF concrete, fin
ished with slate, which will never become slippery
and will always be clean and neat Inside there
will be a court, twenty-nine feet wide. which
win lead a driveway built under the main build
ing. The rooms to have two means of ventila-
ton, one through the twelve huge shafts that run
up through the centres and equipped with
electric fans at the top, and the other by
of air let in through the windows. passed over
steam coil and heated before it is DETECTED into the
rooms
HEAVY MACHINERY.
There are to be twelve electric elevators, whose
shafts be lined with glazed bricks; four stair
ways and $50 doors of exit and 1t is esti-
mated that in case of emergency the building
could be emptied in three minutes. All the presses
are to be by electricity those of any size hay
ing their own motors. The present power houses
will be increased in size to 100 feet by 12 feet: the
dynamos, engines, etc, will have $1,000 horse
power. To carry the numerous currents there will
be about hundred miles of cables of from three
TO four inches in diameter. run from the power
house to the main building.
Three hundred pounds allowed to the Square
inch and in huge building there could be stored
about hundred and twelve million pounds with
out the slightest danger, while its total weight
would be 1913 100000 pounds.
There is no printing office in the world that will
be so we'll appointed, or have so many comforts
and conveniences for its employees this will
have Much thought has been expended this
question and much ingenuity exercised to carry
out the plans. One particularly attractive
rangement is the management of the water supply.
All the Potomac water that is pumped into the
building will first be filtered, then passed through
refrigerating apparatus. whence it energies clear.
cold, free from typhoid germs, and thus does away
with the extra labor expense and general untidi-
ness of ice coolers and filters.
The plumbing is all of the most modern char
acter. and carries out all the requirements of the
strctest methods of sanitary science. There is
also in the building a small crematory to burn the
refuse shavings, paper, etc. that cannot be sold.
The heat thus generated helps to the water
used in the bindery, that nothing is wasted and
force allowed to remain idle Especially fine is
the system of pneumatic tubes and telephones that
connect all the various departments.
MANY KINDS OF PRINTING.
Under the great roof represented nearly all
the branches of the printers art Every sort of
jobbing is done: Illustrated books published
some of the reports, indeed, equal to monthly
magazines, and even the daily newspaper is repre-
scented in THE Congressional Record Orders are
taken for millions of blanks a time, for the
printing office supplies them to every custom house.
land office, internal office, pension
postottice, Navy, War, consular and diplomatic
office in the service of the United States. All the
payrolls, officers commissions mems discharges
millions of envelopes for at the Capitol,
blanks scientific works and reports of geographical
and geological surVeys-al these and more sent
Many books printed, of the largest Jobs
being the records OF the War of the Rebellion, one
hundred and twenty volumes having already been
reduced but before the establishment of the print
ing office the work often extremely elaborate
and expensive. For instance, two volumes of the
Explorations for Railroad from ST. Paul
the cost of book exceeds S20, 900.
One of the most interesting features is the rapid
ity with which the work be accomplished as a
great deal of II is Congressional and everything de-
ponds on the promptness with which 1t is finished
Often piece of work reaches the proofreading
room hour after the copy reaches the compost
tors hands, as II often occurs that hundred
more men are put upon one piece of work, and a
great deal of it is done at night The most strik-
ing illustration of recent execution of hurried or
ders the printing of the Message of the Presi-
dent transmitting the report of the Naval Court
of Inquiry upon the destruction of the United States
battleship Maine The publication consisted of POS
pages of reading matter. with "a full page en-
cravings and one Autograph in colors, and, al
though the originals of the illustrations not
In possession of the office until p m. March 2S
and the manuscript was not received until D. m.
of the same day, complete copies I'm paper covers
placed upon the desks OF Senators and Repre-
Congress has appropriated 81 600 900 for the build
ing and on July "a, 1899. ground broken for It,