Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-21
EVENING news PRINTS
first NEWSPAPER IN
new BUILDING TODAY
Work of Moving From Old Building is Completed Over the
Week End---NeW Machinery and Furnishings Are In
stalled Larger Paper Made Possible in New Home at
Madison avenue and Jefferson st.

-,i%G NEWS with the greatest news
gathering organization in the world
Here it is received by the telegraph
editor.
The proof readers are also located
i'm the main news room. An auto
matte copy and proof carrier will be
installed. doing away with the old
method of having a boy rushing copy
from tse city room TO the typeset-
ting machines.
The composing and sterotyping
room is located in the rear of the
editorial room on the second toor.
A battery of six linotype machines
sets the type for the paper. The
type, as soon as 1t is set and placed
in the makeup forms is rushed TO
the stereotrypng room where the dry
mats and plates are made. y plate
finishing machine has been installed
in this department. The finished
plates are placed in an elevator and
are dropped downstairs to the press
where they are put in place.
There is waste paper shoot rum
ming through the two floors into the
cellar where there is a fireproot
room and bailer. Toilets, drinking
fountains, and showers are to be
The entire Office and editorial
rooms have been equipped with
Remington visible typewriters. new
desks have been installed for the re-
porters and other new furnishings
lput into use about the plant.
The building is heated by steam,
two large boilers being installed in
the basement. There is also storage
room for between 80 and so tons of
coal in the basement.
The building was erected entirely
by local contractors, practically all
the material used coming from local
industries. John Noble Pierson q
Son were the architects; Greisen &
Thompson did the mason work;
Gustav Jost & Son, the carpenter
work; George w. Stillwell. the
pIumb bing and John B. Kubinak, the
electrical work.
Individual motors run the limo
type machines and practically all OF
the other machinery in the plant is
driven by separate mo.ors.
Standard Western Union clocks
are to be found in every department
Private telephone exchanges have
been connected in all parts of the
building.
Much credit is due the employees
OF the New York Telephone Com
pany for the prompt and Efficient
|, manner4 in which this important
feature of the newspaper pIaist was
moved. The telephone Is indispen-
sible to modern newspaper and
the fact that the telephone men
stayed on the job all day Saturday
and Sunday making the necessary
connections fully upholds the repu-
tation that the N. Y. Telephone
Company enjoys in giving real
service.
The EVENING NEWS made its
debut in this city in 1903 when the
Perth Amboy Evening News Com
pany was formed by ID. i. Olmst cad.
j. Logan Clevenger and George ID.
Runyon. Prior to their purchasing
the paper it had been as the Re
publican"-and was owned by the
Misses Louise and Georgianna Boyn-
ton. The Tooker brothers had own
ed the paper before the Boynton
women took it over.
When the new company took
the paper it was q four page six
column daily. They immediately in-
creased its size to six pages The
paper was then printed on an old
cylinder press, members of the re-
portorial staff folding the papers
each day after the press had finish
ed its work.
Within six months the business
had outgrown the King street
office and new office in
State street was built. \ Cox
duplex press was installed, increas-
ing the size of the paper 10 seven
columns. Perth Amboy then saw its
first newspaper being printed from
rolled paper.
This press was used until 1907
when the circulation made it neces-
sary to purchase a larger press. A
Potter press was then installed and
a stereotyping department added.
This press was used up until last
week at the old plant. 1t was largely
due to the fact that bigger press
was needed and it could not be in
stalled in the old State street build
ing that the 'preseR building was
built The press tSsSa for the past
thirteen years was a sixteen page,
seven column press.
In order that the entire time of
the plant employees might be devoted
to newspaper work the EVENING
NEWS sold out its job printing de-
partment about three years ago.