Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-01
ENLARGED AND IMPROVED
PLANT TO Be INSTALLED
Feature of New Mechanical Equip
ment is Latest Model Goss Perfect
ing Press, Costing Nearly Fifteen
Thousand Doliars-Papcr to Be
Bigger and Better Than Ever.

A contract was awarded yesterday
ty The Daily Press. Incorporated. TO
J. W. Davis. of this city, for the con
struction of a model. brick newspa-
per building at 2i7 Twenty-fifth
street. The building is to be conf
pleted in sixty working days, and II
is expected that The Daily Press will
be issued from its new quarters for
the first time on or about November
16.
In the new building a splendid
plant, probably the finest ever pro
vided for a newspaper of the same
class In the South. will be installed.
The present M cchanical equipment of
the paper will be added to and great
~ Improved. the chief feature of the
new plant being a modern perfecting
press-the new Goss Acme,
straightline two-roll rotary perfecting
press. the last word in newspaper
printing machines.
Davis the Lowest Bidder.
Bids for the construction of the
building were opened yesterday It
boon. They were as follows:
J. W. Davis, Newport News, S9.9SL
(To be completed in sixty working
days..
NJ. w Gayle. Newport News, s10.-
$50 (To be completed in one hun
dred working days..
l. N. Mears, Hampton. sl0.ST2. (To
be completed in one hundred working
days}.
r. II. Richardson 4 Son. Hamp-
ton.. s11.273. Ito be completed in
one hundred working days..
The contract was awarded TO Mr..
Davis, the lowest bidder, and work
will begin just as soon as the frame
building now on the site can be re-
moved. The site was purchased by
The Daily Press, Incorporated, sew
eral weeks ago and arrangements are
now being made for moving the old
building, two-story frame struc
ture.
Ideal Newspaper Home.
Designed w Architect C. I. Holtz
claw. of Hampton, with the advice OF
practical newspaper men, the Daily
Press building will be an ideal news
PAPER home. The structure will be
practically fire proof. II will be
brick, two stories and basement, with
REINFORCED concrete floors, and viii
be % feet in width by % feet in
length.
On the first floor, opening on the
street, will be the business Office. il
which special accommodations for the
convenience Of patrons will be pro
vided. Back of this will be the cir
oulation rooms. communicating Will
the street through a narrow court
In the rear will be located the press
room and stereotyping plant.
The second floor will be occupied
by the editorial rooms. telegraph room
and composing room. In the compos
ing room particular attention has beer
paid to light and ventilation In ad
dition to about a dozen windows
there will be a large skylight and q
vent overhead. An airshaft, runnin;
from basement TO roof, will help ma
tcrisily in lighting and ventilatin,
the entire building.
An up-to-date steamheating plant
coal bins. a paper storage room will
capacity Of two cars or more an,
the brick and concrete foundation 70
the press will occupy the basemen,
An elevator. designed for carrying a
least one roll Of paper. will run from
the basement. through the press room
10 the composing room. and the build
i'sg throughout is to be equipped will
modern timc-saving devices for news
paper plants.
The New Press.
The new press. which Is now bc.n;
built AZ the Goss Printing Press Com