Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-18
SUN IN ITS NEW HOME
UP-To-DATE NEWSPAPER BUILD
ING FOR BALTIMORE.

In what is regarded as one of the hand
soonest and best equipped newspaper offices
in the world the Baltimore Sun now
makes it's home. The new building, posses
sion of which was taken yesterday, was
planned after the Sun iron building, Balti-
more and South streets, destroyed in the
great conflagration of February 6, 1904, and
Is located at the corner of Baltimore and
Charles streets, in the heart of the bust
ness section of the city. Its construction
was commenced soon after the fire and
yesterday morning. November II, the paper
was issued for the first time from the
structure.
The new Sun building is four stories in
height and is used exclusively by the
newspaper company. 1t fronts a little
more than 80 feet on Baltimore and Ger
man streets and POI feet on Charles street,
each floor having an area of about 10000
square feet The basement is used for the
presses, which rest on a solid foundation.
On the first or ground floor are located the
business and circulation departments. the
second floor is given up to the use Of the
editorial department, the third floor to
the composing room and the fourth to the
Sun job printing office.
Did Not Miss an Issue.
The burning Of the old building. the oc-
cupation of temporary quarters and the
moving from those quarters to the new
building caused much Inconvenience, yet
the Sun was issued daily without single
omission.
The new Sun building naturally attracts
the eye. A row of gigantic pillars. sur
mounted with Ionic capitals are features
of three sides. Next to the top of the
building, above the entrances on Charles
and Baltimore streets, are two huge clocks
with circumference of more than twenty
Gt-a foot ha fra ar rr1it tn
large, airy room. 4Sx51 feet. finished in
marble, bronze and mahogany. The
counter is Semcircular. In rear of it are
the offices of the bookkeepers circulation
manager and his assistants. Pneumatic
tubes, by means of which the business
office is in touch with the editorial and
composing rooms, have been provided.
The second floor embraces spacious
quarters to the officers of the A. s. Abel
Company the editors of the paper and the
staff of reporters. A library and record
room for the use of the editorial stan
are also on the second floor.
Equipment Of Composing Room.
The composing room. which occupies
the entire third floor. is equipped with "a
typesetting machines Of the latest pat-
tern. At the copy-cutting desk are pneu-
matte tubes. A repair shop with extra
parts for machines and necessary tools
is feature.
In the basement are the combinations of
cylinders, cogwheels. ROLLERS. etc. known as
Newspaper presses. Each of the four
presses is Of the quadruple type with a
capacity Of 24,O00 twelve, fourteen or six
teen page papers an hour. or total ca
pacity Of 96.00O per hour. The roll paper
which Is fed In at one end of the press and
which comes out at the other end the
folded newspaper passes through at the
rate of thirty-two miles an hour. Also
in the basement IL the stereotyping room.
Electricity is the power used for all the
machinery. 1t Is generated in the build
ing. Should any accident occur to the
generating machinery. however, connec-
ton could be made with the city's cleo
trio power supply almost instantaneously.
Among the first to inspect the new build
ing were Gov. Warfield, Judge Harlan and
former Representative w. w. Mcintyre