Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-04-22
A FINE NEW HOME.

"a week or two ago the Monitor made
editorial mention of the new home of
the Express and Standard. Below is a
description Of the new building taken
from that paper and the editor of the
Monitor can testify from personal in
spection that the fine points of the
building are not overdrawn.)
The building is brick veneer, 36x50
with three stories and a basement, eand
is built in a most thorough and eff
cient manner. The style. or outward
finish-red brick with yellow brick
trimming-Was after the pattern of
block we saw in the South, and which
pleased our fancy. A block that was
attractive and yet void of all surplus
trimming, so often not only expensive,
but overdone. Having great conf
dence in the ability of E. d. Clifford,
who was able to comprehend and i'm
prove on our ideas. we finally hired
him for our foreman, and placed the
whole construction of the building in
his hands. 1t was to be built in
thorough. up-to-date. attractive and
rational manner. with good finish, soft
blending colors. everything arranged
for convenience, but not in a manner
that would offend, or be out of har-
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newspaper plant. The public was to
be our critic, and the public, or the
people, was allowed access to every
part of the building while under con-
struction, until paint and varnish COM
PEELED us to close the doors. The
style of finish is after Mr.. Clifford's
own ideas, while the workmanship of
the same and the whole structure, in
fact, will bear the closest inspection.
proving the competent class of work.
men he had under his charge. All who
visit this plant on the evening of April
1st. and for the two weeks thereafter,
are asked to inspect the finish and to
draw their own conclusions with rela-
ton to the same.
The plan of the printing department.
arrangement of machinery, and every
little detail relating thereunto. is after
the ideas of our printer foreman,
Archibald Wells, assisted by Mr..
Clifford. Mr.. Wells landed in this
country from England when small
boy, and after various changes started
in as an apprentice in the job depart
ment of G. F. Ranney and with only
one or two slight exceptions has always
been connected with this plant. He
was with it when we purchased it, is
SLlll Win us, now IN the capacity OIL
foreman. and is considered as skillful
a workman as there is in the state.
And this skill was derived frcm strict
attention to business. clever study of
every book that related to the art, and
in the belief that a thing worth doing
is worth doing well. What he is he
has maze of himself, and his ideas are
incorporated in the systematic arrange
ment of the plant.
Our first building erected earlier in
life had so called sand foundation
and a fancy top. In this, our last
building, the foreman had instructions
to cut out the fancy top. and what
little surplus money there was to burn,
to put it in the base. Experience is
good teacher. The basement walls
are of the strongest cement, thick and
reaching nearly three feet below the
basement floor. The supports are
steel, resting upon cement ba ses. also
reaching far down into the ground.
and steel Orders are the buildings
central support from the lower story
up. 1t is a thick cement basement
floor upon which the heavy presses