The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-01-20
TRIBULATloNs or THE
TIMEs-uNIoN

Union very high compliment when
lit says:
The Jacksonville Times-Union has
moved into its new and permanent
quarters, and will be better prepared
to give its readers first class news
paper. We note its rapid advance
ment with a great deal of pleasure.
lit has more than kept pace with the
/ progress of the state and city.
! No higher compliment can be paid
paper than is paid by the Banner
when it says that the Times-Unio
has more than kept pace with the pro-
gress of the state and city, for their
progress has been amazingly rapid.
! We thank MI Harris for the COM
pilment and in return congratulate
I him on his accurate handling of the
Itenses. Has moved, viii be better
prepared. Mr.. Harris could not have
sized up the Situation better if he
had been in the editorial rooms of
! the Times Union instead of speaking
1 from a distance. In fact, if he had
been in the editorial rooms of the
| Times-Union during the last few days
and had remained long we doubt
wether he could have sized up any
situation.
The entire editorial, local and news
staff will occupy as admirably devils
ed rooms for the purpose as any we
have seen. "Will occupy" mind you.
At present it occupies half of it and
is crowded, while the other half is
occupied by the loudest and greatest
variety of noises on the planet. Here
are some of the diversions in the 9th
er half of the room:
Two men driving the rivets on a
steel stairway.
Three men filling in with brick
parts of the wall where they were left
out.
Two men drilling holes in the con-
crete floor to admit the passage of
wires that were forgotten while the
floor hardened until it made granite
seem like butter in the summer time
by comparison.
One man saving.
Two men planning.
Two men driving nails.
Talk about that crowd that got so
confused by multiplicity and varie-
ty of noises when the tower of Babel
was being built! Why, that tower
might have fallen down in one end
Iof the editorial room of the Times
Union and nobody in the ether end
who did not see it would have known
it. Those whose backs were turned
might have thought the knockers
were knocking little harder than
usual, but not much harder.
And then the desks have to be NOV
ed every two or three hours to let
somebody varnish the partitions or
scrub the windows or lay carpet.
The vanishing man comes around so
often that we doubt whether the
Times-Union will ever again be able
to tell the unvarnished truth.
This is but a part of the story of
the tribulations of thei editorial staff
of the Times-U Union, troubles that, ex-
cept this first and last wall, we will
try to keep from showing in the pa
per. Because of the fact that the pub
lie has not learned the location of the
different departments, the question,
Where can l find Mr.. APP is shouted
into the ears of the editorial staff, and
the answer, Il don't know" has to be !
shouted back again. And then it is |
and C and on down the alphabet to
the bottom and back again to the top.
Men come in offering us advertise
ments and we get the only CLEAN of
pleasure there is in the whole situa-
ton out of the hope that they are
bothering the business office just as
badly about local news.
Mr.. Harris is right. We "have"
moved and we will be better pre-
pared to give our subscribers a first
class newspaper.-Times-U Union.
The Ei1inin0G arc maxine a covoro