The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-03-17
THE RePusLIcAN's NEW BUILDING.

mHE REPUBLICAN IS pleased TO announce
to its many readers that on or before August
L rst il will be in new quarters. These new
quarters will be the most conlmodious possessed
NV any newspaper in any city in the United
States OF the size of Honolulu The new
building in which the paper will have Its home
will he located on Merchant street, near Alakea-
lust west OF the Magoon Building, and will be
known as The Republican Building.
ON Thursday OF last week deed was passed
TO Judge a. s Humphreys from w. Akana,
transferring the lot next to the Magoon building
for $4,000. The lot has frontage of fifty feet
on Merchant street and depth OF seventy feet,
thus containing total area OF $500 square feet
Judge Humphreys proposes TO erect on this lot
a handsome, three-story and basement, hreproof
building The interior skeleton will be OF steel,
the first story front will be OF cut stone, the same
as the new Hackfeld building and the front OF
the second and third stories will be of Philadel-
phia pressed brick The side and rear walls will
be of Seattle brick.
The Republican has already concluded ar
rangements for the building, and it will be
constructed for the especial use of this
naper. The ground floor will contain the bus-
ness office, leaving one or two storerooms Tor
other purposes The basement will be fitted up
for press and storage room. The editorial and
composing rooms will occupy the second floor,
while the art department OF the paper and the
bndery of the Robert Grieve Publishing Com
pany will occupy the third floor Altogether The
Republican will occupy about 1900 square feet
of the 1900 square feet of the floor space of the
building
Judge Humphreys now has architects at work
on plans and estimates for the building, and con-
tracts for its construction will be let just soon
as the plans and estimates can be prepared. 1t is
proposed TO push the construction as rapidly as
possible in an erideavor to have the building
completed within four months after the letting of
the Contract
Concident with the letting OF the contract for
the new building The Republican will let con-
tract for the construction of new perfecting
press for the use of the paper This press will
be located in the basement of the building. which
will have glass front showing the press from
the street This will afford residents and visitors
ample opportunity to witness the working OF a
modern newspaper press without having to go
into the hot and close pressroom to do so. The
front of the pressroom will be modelled after that
of the pressroom of the New York Herald, fac
ing on Broadway. New York. Besides purchas-
ing new press The Republican, at the same
time will order additional linotype machines and
a new lot of advertising and Job type. Even now
The Republican has the most complete printing
plant in the Hawaiian Islands, but it is proposed
10 more than double the capacity of the present
plant and to continue to add all the latest appli-
ances of a hrst-cass printing establishment. The
art department which will be added will be fitted
to not only do illustrating for the paper. but to
furnish all classes of commercial work for the
patrons of the Robert Grieve Publishing Com
pany.
The Republican was nine months old last
Thursday. In its short career it has made rec
ord seldom if ever, equalled in the history OF
newspapers From its first number it became
what it hoped to become-the peoples paper
and its constantly increasing circulation and pat
ronage have demonstrated that it has the support
of the people. Every reader in Honolulu know:
something of what the paper has accomplished
in the nine months since it was started. and with
new building, new press, new linotype machine:
and new material of all kinds it will be not onl,
the best newspaper in the United States in an,
city of forty thousand inhabitants, but il will b,
the neateSt and cleanest. both typographical,
and in its news and editorial columns.
The Republican goes into more homes toda,
than any other paper printed in Honolulu. anc
its circulation is constantly growing. The in
crease within the last two months has been al
most phenomenal. and with this assurance o
public patronage The Republican proposes L
give the people what it believes they are willing
10 support hive. up-to-date newspaper tina
every resident of Hawaii can be proud Of
WE HAVE NO NATIONAL HYMN.