Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-11-14

large windows fronting on Second
street. Here are the book cases con
tanning the reference books that are
a necessity in every newspaper Office.
Here also, is library table and here
will be kept the bound files for the
past five years. This room will be
freely open for the use of the public
as a convenient place for committees
of all kinds and classes to hold their
meetings and a cordial invitation is
extended to the public to utilize this
room for that purpose. Folding chairs
will be provided and will be available
for use at any and all times on week
days, during the day or in the even
ing, and no charge whatever, will be.
made for the use OF the room. The
Courier wants all the news and we
know of no better way to get it, than
to make the Courier Office as freely
and generally open to the public as
possible
Publishers Private Office.
On the right of the Courier library
and committee room is the commodi-
Gus private office of A. w. Lee. pub
Usher OF the Courier. and president
of the Lee Syndicate of Iowa Evening
Newspapers. This Office has two
large windows fronting on Second
street and one window fronting on the
alley extending along the side of the
building. Mr.. Lees desk is directly
connected with the public telephone
system and is also connected with an
interior phone system extending to
every room i'll the building.
Interior Telephone System.
The interior telephone system above
| referred to is complete in every re-
! spect. 1t is entirely separate from the
public telephone and. by its use. per-
sons in any room in the Courier build
ing can have direct communication
with those in any other room in the
building by simply pressing the but,
ton under given number and plac-
ing the combined telephone transmit
| ter and receiver to the mouth and ear
| respectively. No feature OF the Coll.
rier's new equipment is a greater con,
venience and time saver than this in
dependent interior telephone system
The Editorial Rooms.
Directly in the rear of the publish
ers private Office is the office of the
city editor and reporters, and adioin-
ing that is the Office occupied by the
managing editor. the associate editor
and the proof reader. These rooms
arc large and superDly lighted and ven,
ltilated. The managing EDITORS desk
is directly connected With both of the
Ipublic telephone systems aud toll lines
iso that the managing editor of the
Courier is now able to talk to nearly
200 special correspondents of this pa,
per in the ten counties adjoining Wa.
lpello without leaving his desk The
editorial rooms are provided with am.
pie wardrobes and in the managing ed
itor's Office is closet which will soon
be equipped with one of the most com.
Iplete and best arranged newspaper
morgues in the country. We might
say in passing that newspaper
morgue" is the place where the photo
graphs, cuts and obituaries of promi
nent people, living and dead. are kept
for use on a moments notice In the
managing EDITORS room is small win
dow opening into the composing room
!. through which the copy is passed tt
Il the foreman and the proofs handed
back to the proof reader. A conven
lent copy elevator also runs from the
managing editors room down into the
: business office on the first floor The
editorial department is cut off from
: the rear OF the building by the fire
wall above referred to. Passing from
: the front hall way through a door int
, this fire wall one comes into a secont
| hallway from which a stairway lead:
: down to an outside door on the allie,
, and another leads directly back int
: the composing ROOM
A Magnificent Composing Room.
The Courier has one of the fines
composing rooms of any newsDape
: in the United States. 1t is 40X40 fee
: in sixe with 70 foot ceiling and
lighted by twelve large windows o
the west and north and also by larg
: skylight thus leaving not dark spo
2 in the entire room. Here is locate
n the Courier's battery of four linotyp
! machines, the imposing stones and tn
Il form tables used by the foreman an
/ the advertising typesetting depar
81 ment There is an abundance {
81 light. splendid ventilation and ampl
: room No newspaper employees i
r the country have better or NOR
A work than have those in the emplo
of the Courier. The elevator shai
running into the press room opens int
the composing room and this openin
: is automatically closed and opened b
u the elevator itself as it goes up c
= down respectively. The elevator run
; by electric power and stops automati
L ally at the desired points in the bas
! ment and on the second floor.
t Safe and HeaIthful Surroundings.
The purpose of the publisher of tn
) Courier in planning this new buildin
= was to provide the most conveniel
. structure possible for quickly and ec
> nomically doing the work necessar
> for publishing a first-class newspape
L Every possible attention was giving
> providing employees with safe an
healthful surroundings. Abundal
light and good ventilation were fe
. lures especially looked after. II
very best toilet facilities were provi
q ed and there is no building in OttuI
d d wat that is supplied with better plum
u ing than the new Courier office. I'll