The Washington times., 1917-04-18

flee and the composing room. A section of the room
is given to the telegraph instruments which click
out the worlds news at the editors elbow The ar
rangement is compact, yet the area ample In con-
tguous rooms the various specialized departments
which have their part in the making of daily news
paper, are located.
The pressroom, in the basement housing bat
terry of three great octuple Hoe presses Is model IN
efficiency, spaciousness and attractveness, with the
latest devices for shooting papers hot from the
presses to the deveryroom above on the street level
Adjoining the pressroom is the stereotype room.
where the stereotype plates are made from which
The Times is printed. The equipment in this room
represents the last word in stereotyping machinery
and in ingenious devices.
The delivery room, where papers are delivered
to newsboys, shipped out the city, and mailed
to out of town points, is very excellent example Of
what such room should be for most efficient and
convenient service. And adjoining this room is a
large driveway where trucks and wagons and auto
mobiles are loaded and unloaded under cover.
The counting room of The Washington Times,
coming last in this description, but by means least
in merit, has both the efficiency of counting room
and the elegance of banking room. When finally
completed-and there are few more things yet to
do to tit will be one of the exhibition rooms of the
Munsey Building
Wonderful Banking Room.
But the exhibition room of the entire building is
the new banking room of the Munsey Trust Com
pany, which now occupies the entire space of the
space
: by 159 feet. No more complete and perfect work.
ing banking room of its size be found anywhere
in the world. is elegant, dignifed representative
OF the very best taste, and, as working machine
and banking plant it can have no superior any
where. With its fine Botticino marble walls and
marble columns, with its great vault on the first
floor with its spaciousness airness, convenience and
obvious cordially to the public, it is almost if not
actually, in class by itself among the very best
banking rooms of the country,
The great vault protected by strong steel columns
located directly in the of the main banking
room and in clear view from either entrance, is an
impressive exhibition in itself-a vault with thou
sands of safedeposit boxes, and huge, pre-emi
nenty secure, with its great, massive walls and tre
mendous steel door, that it dominates the eye of,
every one who comes into the banking room.
In word, the Munsey Building is in large meas
unique among office buildings in that in its
pleted form it is built for the who occupy and
the visitors who come into it, rather than for the
public who it from the outside. 1t is the cher
ished habit of the architect to glorfy himself in the
outside OF building and the outside of the building,
the facade of the building, being such as to satisfy
his vanity add aurels to his reputation he usually
gives mighty little thought to the practical outwork
ing of the inside of the building And yet is the in
side of the building for which the building is built
The Munsey Building needs no apology for its
exterior appearance. There no better architects
in the world than the architects who designed it. but
the preemnent merit of the Munsey Building is the
inside of the building not the outside
Built On Honor.
From the foundation to the roof the Munsey
Building has been built upon honor built of the best
material, and every piece of material and in the
fashenng af each feature of the building there has
been thought, thought, dead loads of thought to
make the building right to make it habitabe, to make
it attractive, to make it what building should be
on the inside. In other words, the Munsey Building
has been built as of unlimited means and with
good taste and the genius and patience for intelligent
thought and study builds his own home And herein
too the Munsey Building is unique among office
buildings.
In the completed structure all the curves, have
been Strengthened out, all the grades have been
leveled, and all the diosyncratic errors that creep
into the first construction have been eliminated in the
reconstructed portions of the original building so
that old building and new alike are one and the
same in the best, the very BEST that buildings can
offer to the public
The original building was built by Mr. Munsey
about ten years ago home for The Washington
Times. In 1913 The Munsey Trust Company took
the. property from Mr. Munsey and it has since
put up the large addition, unified and improved the
entire structure and brought it up to date And the
Munsey Building is the property and the home of The
Munsey Trust Company, sound, practical invest
ment that cannot take wings overnight and that
gives substantially and security to banking insti-
tuition.