Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-21

Today marks the taking of a new
step by the Perth Amboy EVENING
NEWS in its steady advancement MS
one of the most progressive news
papers in the state and is the open
ing of what is expected 10 be a new
era of success.
Seventeen years ago the Perth AM
DoN EN is-,t-as,. -s--.t5 ~tdrtCJ as a
four page, six column daily. Today
IL is an eight column publication,
published on modern press capable
of turning out paper of thirty-two
pages. folded and counted at one
printing. When the EVENING
NEWS first made its appearance in
Perth Amboy in 1903 it was printed
in small shop in King street. which
has since been torn down. Outgrow-
ing its quarters there it moved into
the State street building, which was
built especially to accommodate dhe
paper plant. There it remained for
about eighteen years until last Sat
urday. 1t was too small to meet the
growing demands for more space.
Consequently it was decided TO build
and today the first eight column
paper ever printed by the NEWS is
being placed on the streets of this
city and nearby towns.
Thousands of persons have seer
the new building in its course OF
construction but not familiar with
its interior and modern appliances
The two story building has a front
age of 100 feet on Madison avenue
and so feet on Jefferson street and
is of steel sash construction, small
panes of glass fitted into steel
frames being used on both the first
and second floors. Only enough
masonry was used to support tho
building in order that as much light
might be secured as possible. The
saw-tooth lighting system is used in
the roof over the composing room
this making the rear portion of the
second floor unusually light.
An inspection of the building will
bring out the following features. The
business Office is reached through a
vestibule on the first floor, this Office
being about 80 feet deep and almost
the entire width of the building. The
private offices of the general man.
ager and advertising manager are
adjoining the business office.
There is a fireproof vault attached
to the business Office and the tele-
phone switchboard, from which runs
numerous extensions, is also located
here.
To the rear of the business offices
on the first floor is the press room.
In laying out both the press room
ard the composing and stcrotypfrg &
room, the latter of which is on the
second floor, the saving of labor has
been foremost in the minds of the
designers and many labor saving de-
vices are in use. A new Hoe quad
rnnla ne hla of fnrninlr
$4,000 eight page papers, of eight
columns or $4,000 sixteen page eight
column papers, per hour, has been
installed on the first floor. This new
press also makes it possible to turn
out a thirty-two page paper at one
printing. The papers come from the
press counted and folded, being de-
livered automatically into the mail
ing room where some are distributed
to newsboys and news. dealers while
those which are sent out of town are
prepared for the mails.
Adjoining the mailing room is the
garage in which automobiles may
back and receive bundles of papers
a window in the petition
the mailing room from
the garage. Provisions are made
for a newsboys and dealers room
l0lS diSO lldhlHs II pOsSlDlG vi tHtul
to have a place to stay while the
papers are being printed. AS soon as
the papers are off the press they are
now hurried off to their destination,
news boys. dealers and the NEWS
delivery cars covering different di-
rections.
There is also room in the press
room for the storage of two carloads
of paper. The front part of the sec
ond floor is devoted to the editorial
rooms the entrance to which is di-
rectly at the head of the stairs.
Opening off the main news room is
the private Office of the editor. The
file room and reference library also
open off from the main news room.
In two rooms are kept newspaper
clippings of papers for years back.
together with biographies and
sketches of famous personages and
accounts of important happenings.
In the file room cuts and mats of
prominent persons, buildings. etc,
are alphabetically arranged so that
they might be had at a moments
notice.
Opening off the news room is to be
found the Associated Press room
also, in which there is private long
distance wire connecting the EVE