Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
OPERATES BIG PLANT
Globe Printing Company
Long in Business.
BEGUN IN THE FORTIES
OCCUPIES BUILDING FULL OF
HISTORIC MEMORIES.
One Of the Best Equipped and Most
Modern establishments Of Its Kind
South Of New York.

Washington lay Just claim to early
activity in the printing and publishing busi-
| ness.
Since the capital was moved here printers
! have contributed to the vitality and pro-
| greSSiveneSS Of business.
| The printing business has become one Of
| the most important industries of the city.
| The increase In the publishing business and
| the enormous growth of advertising have
| placed the printing trade upon the most
solid foundation.
| Some years ago there was little advertis-
| ing done on large scale, and consequently
| printers only needed small equipment to
| handle the work that came in.
| This work usually consisted Of what are
known as dodgers and business cards.
| Then came time when business men
commenced to advertise largely. They used
| thousands of handbills and descriptive mat
| ter.
| Another change came which necesstated,
on the part of printers an almost perfect
| equipment. This change brought in the era
| Of the booklet. These booklets, used for
| advertising purposes, are printed in the
| highest typographical style, and often bound
| in a very attractive manner. Not only In
booklets. but in illustrated desert tiye
| pamphlets Of all kinds, the modern adver-
| tiser finds medium through which he can
| reach the best people.
| In doing the higE-class work demanded
by the wise advertiser of today it is i'm
perative that printing establishment be
thoroughly equipped to handle anything re-
| CURED by the business man in the form Of
printed matter.
| In the history Of printing in the capital
city there is one establishment that had its
L1rri Co.,
grown to an important position in the print
| ing business.
In the business annals of progressive
Washington the Globe Printing Company
| is reckoned as one of the most solid and
| enduring landmarks. Established in the
| fortieS. this old concern has kept pace with
the advancement of the capital city, and is
| today modern and complete in every detail
| Of its equipment.
The company still occupies the old Globe
building, 800 and 341 Pennsylvania avenue,
| around which clusters SO many historic
| memories, and from which was issued the
| Congressional Globe, containing the pro-
1 ceedings of Congress, before the establish
ment Of the government printing office and
| the Congressional Record.
The second floor of the Globe building was
a ball room in the good old days when The
| Evening star llTSt began 10 Snlne, ana was
| the scene of many fashionable assembly
balls and other functions On it's broad ex-
panse of waxed flooring was held the
Zachary Taylor inaugural ball, one of the
most brilliant events in the early days of
| the city The hall was then known as
| Jackson Hall, in honor of "Old Hickory"
| Jackson.
The present Globe Printing Company is
| one of the leading business institutions of
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| south Of New York which is doing an extern
sve pamphlet business for local and out
side firms. To carry out successfully this
important feature Of it's work the COM
pany is provided with special machinery
1t has a great press, built on the order of
the up-to-date newspaper presses, which for
rapidity and excellence Of work has no
equal as pamphlet producer This mar
velous piece Of machinery uses rolls of
paper; prints two colors at one impression,
| folds and pastes AS the roll of paper I'M
mechanism Of the press on one side, it
| comes out on the other IN complete book
form ready for delivery. Pamphlets are
thus printed by the millions and shipments
made by carloads to individuals, firms and
companies in all sections of the country,
some of them being shipped as far west as
! Colorado; northward to Maine, and south to
Memphis, Atlanta, Savannah and other
cities. This pamphlet printing, as If by
magic, Is strong feature of tho Globe
| Printing Company.
| InlS panlpnleI WOrk lOrnS one OF Cne
| largest branches of the printing business,
and this company has the best ard most
modern facilities for the execution of this
very particular and popular class of ad-
vertiSing. Large orders in this branch of
work are received by this company and
turned out completed in a manner that APP
peals to the most captious The growth
and popularity of the Globe Printing Com
| pany has been one of the most pronounced
and deserved in the local history of the
printing business
The officers of the company are: D. E.
| Cadick, president; u. L. Cline, treasurer; F.
B. Cadick secretary, and Thomas W.
| Cadick, manager.
The company has installed a complete
plant. consisting of Mergenthaler typeset-
! ting machines, the fastest and most i'm
proved presses, including the Miehle press,
WHICH does the very finest half-tone work,
and a full line Of the most modern styles
of job type.
This is the only printing company in
| Washington operating it's own stereotyping
| plant. 1t also has a complete bindery and
| manufactures all kinds of blank books In
| fact, 1t is completely equipped for any and
| all classes of book, job and newspaper
| printing. In the output of the establish
ment are several weekly newspapers, print
| ed entirely by the company.
Mr.. Thomas w. Cadick, the manager Of
| this company, Is practical printer Of
| twenty years experience He gives his
| entire attention to the details of the bust
ness, and it is largely due to his efforts and
zeal that this big printing concern has
| reached it's present high stage of prosperity
Mr. Cadick is man of unbending integrity
and master of the art preventative" He
| is constantly on the lookout to add to his
! equipment the Latest styles in typography
and the most improved presses and machin-
cry. Ask Mr.. Cadck what the company he
| represents can print, and his reply will be-
ANY thing from a single-line visiting card
| to book as large as the Bible"
| Punctuality and exactness are rules OF
this modern print shop" and Manager
| Cadick is careful that each patron is suited
| as to the style of types and design. quality
| of presswork and every detail He is care
| full to maintain the high standard which
was set up by the old Globe Company away
| back when homely type and Washington
| hand presses were In vogue, and when the
concern was the official printer for Uncle
| Sam.
| The Globe building was erected by Fran.
| els P. Blair in the early forties. He start
| ed in the printing business on large scale
| for that period, and later took into partner
| ship with him John c. Rives. who became
| sole proprietor of the establishment in 1919
In addition to printing the proceedings Of
| Congress in the Globe. Mr.. Rives did much
| of the government printing in other direc-
| lions, and besides had an extensive private
| trade
| Some Of the iron-clad rules of business he