Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-14
JOURNALISM AND ART
EFFECTIVE coMs1nAr1oN IN THE
STARS NEW BUILDING.
An Appreeiativs IDe4sription Given
By the Leading American
Newspapers Jearnal.
From Printers Ink.

From Printers Ink. -
The lunettes that adorn the business Of
fee of The Washington Star contain the
finest specimens of mural painting to be
found in America, and not many attempts
at allegorical art Of this sort to be seen
anywhere can be compared with these in
grace and beauty Of design and in excel
lerce of drawing and coloring. The artist,
Frederick Dielman. president of the Ameri-
can Academy Of Design is best known to
many by less fortunate specimens of his
work to be seen in the Washington Con-
gressional Library. This superb room in
The Star building is twenty-four feet high,
tWenty-eight feet wide and sixty-six feet
deep. The walls, faced with marble from
the Italian quarries at Carrara, are Invested
or any cold effect by judicious and for
tunate insertion of slabs of varying colors
which lmpart warm tinge of yellow that
is both pleasing and artistic. The impress
SION OF TINS room, noble in it's proper
tlons and rich in its adornments, is one of
Satisfaction, for, while skill and money and
time have been freely expended, it is rec
ognlzed as an appropriate place for the
transaction Of business
The Most Complete Office.
The claim is made for The Washington
star building that it is the most COM
pete newspaper office In the world. 1t has
frontage or 126 feet on 18th street, fifty
nVe 1eet on Pennsylvania avenue and is
nine stories high, 100 feet from sidewalk to
TOOL massive pile of white marble in the
style OF the French renaissance.
II, II was IN the year 1867 that the men who
later incorporated as The Evening Star
newspaper Company, bought for s1OO, 600
property that has rarely failed to yield
IN yearly profits as much as it's purchase
p prire, ana has for long period now ac
INQUIRIES intended to el5cft definite informa-
tlon on the point appear more effective in
bringing bushes to the faces of the man
can be said to be definite 1t NAV be sa felv
asserted however, that there are not on
the American continent so many as twelve
ualiy newspapers whose net earnings equal
lnose OF Inc Washington Star or that at
a public sale would bring SO great a pur-
chase price.
The Publishing Company.
OF the five men who in 1867 composed
the original company, two shortly retired
disposing of their holdings to the other
three. Later one of the remaining mem
bers of the company terminated his con-
nection by death, and from that time The
Star has, to the world at large, seemed to
be family appendage, belonging to S. H.
Kaufman. president Of the company:
Crosby S. Noyes, editor-in-chief, and their
sons, who, with yonthfuk energy and am
bition, tempered and guarded by the con-
islN tive wisdom e theF seniors, doubt
management than Nsuld OF could have re-
suited from the una1ded and unnfuenced
element alone ~ .
1t is an interesting circumstance that tho
two men, Mr.. Moves and Mr. Kaufman
so closely associated for thirty-five years
were not known to each other until brought
together in the formation of the COMPANY
in 1867 by influences with which neither
had very much concern With their COM
petent sons and trained lieutenants their
business methods and traditions SO well
established and distinctly marked. these
two men have appeared to manage the
parent effort that aaefr. Ritual Inclination ion
for foreign travel hss breYght about periods
the two were not az Tie. ONCE at any one
time and in fact, did not meet.
The Beautiful Lunettes.
Printers Ink is too small a paper, and
The Washington Star is too old an enter
prise, and it's beautiful building too much
talked about already, to warrant any at
tempt to deal with them at length in this
place. The real object of the space here
given has been to direct attention to the
surprising beauty of the pictures that adorn
this most perfect of all newspaper count
ing rooms, and to direct to them the at
tention of every of the Little School
masters pupils whose business or peasur
takes him upon visit to the capital Of his
country.
In a recent article in the Caxton Maya
zine. London, Mr.. Fred A Mckenzie saws
of The Star:
The system of care for the employees has
g.
Star employees resemble nothing SO much
as family clan. Son succeeds father and
grandson son in The Star offices. The COM
positors are not merely human parts of a
machine, but are members of a great BODY
Once printer enters The Star Office he re-
CARDS himself as settled for life, for he
knows that if he keeps up his work he will
be cared for when he is sick and pensioned
when he is old. y
All this, l may be told, is not business
Perhaps not, yet in this case 1t seems to
have answered WELL, even fir bm business
point of view. The Star started in shan
ty, and is now in palace, and the money
for the change was made out of the paper
In the times of strain, which must come
in any journal with a long history, the pro-
prietors have found that they had a body
of men willing to stand by them with other
interests than their weekly wages alone.
After being installed in the new Star
building the members Of The Star chapel
Of the Columbia Typographical Union No
IVl, desiring 10 make open expression of
their sense of enjoyment of the new quar-
tiers provided for their occupancy, on the
4th day of July, 1900, passed the following
resolution:
Resolved, That, being located in the new
and beautiful composing room, with it's
modern and complete mechanical equip
ment and conveniences to facilitate and
make pleasant the discharge of duties, we
express to The Evening Star Newspaper
Company, through this resolution, full ap-
probation of our surroundings, and also
convey to the company our sincere thanks
for the liberal spirit and interest manifest
ed in the welfare of it's employees"