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New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
j. G.. BLAINE.
Historic Newspaper Office

The erection of the building spelled
success in the eyes of the world at
large. 70 the men of the "od rookery'
1T spelled also new comforts and the
accumulation Of new associations. en-
riching the old. That meat fireplace"
which meant so much to Halstead was
IN lofty room at the corner, on the
ninth floor There Whitclaw Reid had
his sanctum and, adjoining IT, in the
tower, a bedroom in which he snatchcd
a few hours sleep on the nights when
the duties of journalism seemed never
to end. North of his quarters. on the
same side Of the building, with i'm
mensc windows looking down on the
park, the editorial room was placed.
two stories high, with bookcases lining
the gallery that ran around three sides
At the other end, on Spruce Street,
were the city and telegraph rooms
and up a short flight Of stairs was the
composing room. 1t was in that com
posing room, may mention in passing.
that the Mcrgcnthalcr linotype ma
chine had It's first trials and was per-
fected into the marvelods instrument
of world wide use shat it is to-day. The
two floors up there in the air seem
curiously modest in scale, viewed from
the standpoint of 1921, with the vastly
increased needs Of paper at a new
stage of DEVELOPMENT. Their compara-
lively small dimensions, seen in retro
spect, only make them seem the moro
intimate the more thickly CHARGED with
memories
The new rookcry,' if L may so dcsig-
mated it. was throngcd. Ike TIC old, BY
memorable personalities. Is was The
sccnc on which Bayard TAYLOR eXer-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

When EcEace Greeley started his
New Morning Journal of Politics, Lit
crature and Genarel Intelligence, on
and was obliged to content himself
with an office at SO Ann Street that
was minute. Though he possessed type,
his presswork had to be hired But
narrow quarters could not restrict his
energies. Within two months he had
achieved circulation Of II 900, and
very rapidly he placed himself in
position te look for more room. A
year after its foundation The Tribune
was moved from Ann Street to build
ing on the SITE of the existing struc-
ture at Nassau and Spruce streets This
burned down on February 5, 1S45, on
what Greeley called "thc widest. wind
lest, stormiest night these dozen
years.
Tribune's Buildings Predecessor
He took the disaster cheerily enough
and with the aid of ncighbors got the
paper out next morning only an hour
late. His philosophy, by the way, did
net neglect the practical lesson re-
ceived. Writing twenty-five years
later arropos of the great Chicago fire.
he said: Ever since The Tribune of
fcc was burnt out, in lS45. we have
kept always ON hand duplicates of
everything needed for the publication
of the paper, forming in fact COM
plete duplicate Office" Immediately
after the fire g new fivc-sdory building
cf brick was begun on the same ground,
y
to its original Ann Street abode.
1t was in the building made possible
by the fire Youngs "old rookery'-
that Greeley decisively fixed the dcs-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
and same IFS
picture o $ OF osia

Greeley died on November 20, 1872.
The 1l,000 mark had leng since been
passed by The Tribune. Tho ciircula
tion Of the daily had reached $4,000,
that Of the semi-wcekv II, 800, and
that of the weekly 11f,000 Tho "old
rookery' had become as cmbarrassngly
limited in space as had been the "birth
place. on Ann Street. One Of the first
things that Whitelaw Reid did when
he was placed in editorial and man
agerial control OF the paper was to
have passed at q meeting of the cor
poration a resolution looking to inn
mediate action on a now building.
Rebuilt in 1875
In tho spring of 1878 the leading
architect of New York, the late Rich
ard NJ Hunt, drew the plans. Two
months later bids were submitted by
the contractors and in the following
year the conversions was laid. 1t was
TO Hunts artistic inspiration that New
York owed the Vlo,cntinc campanilc
which towclod above all tho other
buildings in the city at that timc,, but
ii was Whiteaw Reid who was s..thc
onlie bcgettcr" of the building as q
monument to the growing prosperity of
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

clscd his scholarship and his fun. In
the editorial room John r. G.. Hassar rd
and Colonel William Grosvenor would
foregathcr to compare notes on the
work they were going to unrayel, the
famous "cipher dispatches" g. W
Smallcy would drooxin on his occasional
visits from London. "Ikc" Bromley was
on the staff of editorial writers, a per-
pctual source Of Joy to all his associ-
ates. In the city room there We're
delectablc moments to be had with Ar
thur Bowers, discoursing on horse
races in terms suggesting the cle-
quencc of Carlyle. There were red
letter days when willie" Winter
would come into tha galeried room,
bringing the wit and the charm which
made his dramatic criticisms incom-
parable. But to begin with recollec-
tions Of the staff would be to find grave
difficulty in stopping, and to tell the
truth, memory of The Tribune's past is
made up OF countless fieeting contacts,
of endless little things. The history of
the building, so rich in the records
Of a newspapers relation to great
public events. issas thick as a tapestry
far those who love it, with the golden
threads of these unforgcttablc little
things.
They arc the things of exciting
tasks that have gone down the wind,
Of joyous comradeship, of endearing
episodes. They recall brilliant men.
some of whom have done their work
and died, and they bring the stirring
o. ideals that never die. Newspaper
buildings arc not built of bricks and
mortar alone. or Of stone and steel
They and all that they mean are
fashioned out of mems dreams and the
hugh impulses of their hearts. The
move OF 1923 will be. made, like the
move of 1875, out of happy necessities
and with happy auguries. But it will be
happiest in carrying on the spirit in
which Horace Greeley, and Whtelaw
Reid after him, faced the enchanting
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

tiny of his paper. There he gathered
around himself an historic staff. There
he gave THE Farmers Friend" a local
habitation. There he fought his great
fight for the abolition of slavery and
in the less impa ssored ways of pa
triotism made his contribution toward
the fostering OF American industry
through the development of the, pro
tective tariff system. 1t was a liberal
and happy shrine, if ever there was
one, but scene of strenuous affairs
as the war drew on. There is record in
the earlier minutes of the corporation
OF the appointment of committee "to
strengthen the doors Of The Tribune
pressroom in such manner that they
would withstand sudden mob violence"
In 1863, with the draft riots, came the
time to profit by these precautions.
Readys for a Siege
Whitelaw Reid. then Washington cor
respondent for "Thc Cincinnati Ga
zette," has left brief note on what
he saw when, after Gettysburg, he
hastened to New York and witnessed
the expiring throes of the historic dis
turbance. He found The Tribune Of
flee transformed into an arsenal:
"Muskets were provided for every
employee. The floor of the editorial
room was Uttered with hand gren-
AIDES. and extra bayonets were lying
about on the desks like some new
pattern of mammoth penholders.
Arrangements for pouring a volume
of scalding steam into the lungs of
anybody attempting to force an en-
trance had been perfected. In the
midst of all the warlike preparations
Mr.. Greeley, coat off and apparently
just risen from preparing a leader,
was listening to the statements of
his reporters as to the progress of
the mob, and making suggestions for
perfecting the defences Of the office"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
S233.0OO Advanced TO Build
Two Bronx Anari1nclis

he Echo Pagk CONSTRUCTION. Isaac
Haft, president, which is erecting hvo
and SIX story apartments, 256..iua. 1T
the southeast corner Of tac Grand Con
course and Echo Place. obtained from
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com.
nsny two building loans aggregatinr
made a loan OF $4,000 to ;hc lgoI
University Avenue Holding Companv
on the plot looxl0S 4, on tic cast ide
OF university Avenue. 1888 feet sourh
ot burnside Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

Ilalstcad with poignant fellow feeling,
thus adjurcd him: 81 infer from pub
llcation in The Tribune concerning the
new Tribune Building that you propose
to heat the house with steam. 1t oc
ours to nc as 4 matter OF humanity to
say to you, before it is cvcrlastingly
too late, if it is not already, that you
should provide for the room that you
occupy YOURSELF to omit' the steam
steam pipe system of heating is the
most Internal ever invented for the
destruction of editors cspecially.'. He
found the neat little fireplace, and
irons. cheerful glow and all. when he
visited his friend that winters
A Model Newspaper Plant
Hunt designed building which full
filled all that Reid and his sympathetic
friends could ask. 1t was literally true
that no newspaper had up to that time
anywhere in the world, been so we'll
lodged; there were now presses in the
cellar to keep pace with tho now re-
quirements of the paper, aud from top
to bottom the work of construction
had been perfectly done. This was
before the days Of steel cage construc-
ton; the walls were Of stone and brick,
heroic walls. at is moro strongly built
than the temple of Paestum or the
aqueduct of Segovia,' runs the ded-
catory editorial on the building, and
the boast was made good in after years
when the height of the structure was
increased and the well-nigh cyclopean
walls proved their capacity for strain
New York was then an essentially fiat
low-lying city, and The Tribune tower
broke tho SIX. line with an effect that
was uniOuc Il took it's place as q
great landmark. Tho tower scared 2i5
feet above the pavement, with nothing
on Manhattan Island to rival it save
the spire of Trinity. How it struck a
contemporary may be shown by this
typical letter:
Washington, April 10, 1875
My Dear Mr.. Reid.
| have just read to-day's Tribune
and I cannot help writing YOU a line
of generalization. You have the most
abundant reason TO be proud of your
wonderful achievement in journal
ism, for think in all the clements
of a really great newspaper The
Tribune is uncqualied to-day on
either continent. And you are ac-
quiring such prestige that | hardly
know what limit can be placed to the
progress and power of your paper
do not, Of course, know anything
about the pccuniary results of your
dashing and darin@ enterprise. but |
can plainly see that you arc making
1T terribly expensive and burdensome
TO the other metropolitan dailies to
even keep in sight of you. In q very
short time The Tribune will be prac-
tically without competition in tho
most advanced sphere of journalism.
A note Of this kind from me would
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Rauracia Apartment.
In St. Nicholas Av., Sold
Buyer Pays All Cash for House
at l64th Street Corner;
Other Sales

Joseph &. Keenan,, Of Charles Ber-
Inns Office, sold for Lake G. Lynch, o.
Rumson, n, Ju to the 1911 St. Nicholas
Avenue Corporation the southwest cor.
uer of le4ta Street And st. Nicholas
Avenue, a s:x-story elevate, apartment
house. know as the Rauracia, l0ox
l0c. Tne seller mas been asking Si9o,-
600 10. the property. Il was an all.
cash transaction. Charles Berlin mas
been appointed agent.
John Fi.lck has sold for Sarah c. Gil
hes the two .ive-story tenemcnts. COX
100 each, at 81 and SO Columbia Street.
Ihe Rrown- Wheelock Company repre-.
sented the seller. MI Finck also sold
inc hvc- story tenement at lsA- FirS.
Avenue Tor Jennie l. Ryan
Louis Appel represented by Sirn.und
Hubln, attorney. purchased The ncrtn
east corner Of Tenth Avenue ard
thirty eighth Stgest. q foGr -sttry tcnc.
ment and store. 249xl00
Bertha E.chle. sold 10 Lcra VEN
tHaub a jvc-storv tenement with stores
at Is CEnton Street. 23xT5
Agnes Sillcock solo to Rose Z. Golden
q .ive-story store tenenient ST 50 and
81 Cherry Street. 3711xs5.sx Irregular.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Employees TO Share
In Sab, 900 Awards
Ii,lc~ Guarantee and Trust Co..
10 Pay Extra Compensation
Out OF Net Earnings

Tie Title Guarantee and Trust Com
paHy VIII maNe or December 81 the
hnai payments of extra compensation
ta a. casp'aLeos and officers OF the
eo1gnany Tic amoert for the year {!
s4'a.ooo aaa 5 haseG on TIC stands~c
agreen'eHs soy extra compensation out
OF nc NSt earnings.
The payment tc eac" employee vay.cs
somewhat y proportion to length -
service, and VII Yan from ls.e per ca;
o: sasaTy Il employees who have been
WITH tho company more than q year DIT,
hot more .fiaH 'lvc Years uD to 2G per
cent OF salary Ter those who nave beer
with the company more than ef.ecn
years, and i averages 10 per cent 10
the ent.!e force.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
New Chapter Ibunes History Starts With ptown Purch
Stirring EUents Of 80 Years
Recorded at Nassau St. Corner
Great Fight for Freedom of Slaves and for Protec-
sson of American Industry Waged by Greeley
From Old Building ON Tribune's Present Site
By Royal Cortissoz

letter written long by John Russell Young famous
editor of this there referring the Tribune
Building the III leave the old
rookery
home with deal of the feeling OF regret The words
the Of which, 1925
Tribune will be established another site -
then half the
the home of sentiment crowded
The change
hailed with rejicngs by faithful Tribune writer's
will be
the But writer's and will look
with a5fec rcccdng
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Housings for 26,0O0 Families
Now Underway i1n Neav York.

There arc now under construction in
the greater city homes for $4,000 fami-
lies. 1t is estimated that premises for
q .4403 families will completed before
the close Of the year. Bronx and
Brooklyn will profit by this last-min-
ute building. The houses being rushed
to completion in the Bronx Will pro
vide for 989. families and those in
Brooklyn will give homes to 915.
Reports for Manhattan show places
Will be made for an additional 426 fam
lilies due to the construction that is be-
ing carried to completion at this time.
The new housings in Manhattan arc in
apartment houses. The reports are
that twelve will be completed here be-
fore the New Year arrives.
The prospects that next year will
find many hundreds of new houses
under construction is supported bv a
survey made last week by the Build
ing Trades Employers Association,
which shows that on December IS
there was actually under construction
apartments and small dwellings for
1856 families. There is little doubt
that the builders have completed their
r.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

building program fog the incoming
year.
In two sections of the city, according
to the canvassers .of the Building
Trades Employers Association, build
ers report the boom had reached the
peak, so far as they were concerned,
and no more construction would be
started.
Impressions obtained from other
sources would indicate that home
building next year would break all
construction records For this city. This
assumption is supported BY the large
volume of homes underway at this carly
date.
The survey made by the Building
Trades Employ ers' Association was
very thorough. Every section Of the
greater city was gone over by eighty
two men, who reported their finds to
Samuel B. Donnely, secretary of the
association, together with the actual
state of construction. The statistics
which follow represent the exact efforts
that are being made at this particular
time to rcleave the shortage.
uct;op Or ncrcnbar TX
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

be msconstrucd by the public. BY
YOU it. will be understood as my trib-
ute to the victor in one OF the great
est, most difficult and most heroic
fields Of intellectual effort.
Y rrN sincerely,
The Washington herald., 1921-02-05
Juror Abandons
30-Hour Session
At Birth of Son

After being out nearly thirty
hours, during which time one OF
their number was called away, a
jury which has been sitting in Grim
inal Court No. 2 for the past five
weeks informed Justice Bailey yes
terday evening it could not agree
on the validity of the will of Dr..
Samuel Edwin Lewis, a civil war
veteran, who lett an estate valued
at s15O,OOO
Relatives of DR.. Lewis brought
suit to break the will on the grounu
of alleged incapability on the part
of the deceased to draw up a valid
document.
The case developed as one Of the
longest on record and has been on
trial for five weeks. 1t also breaks
the record because only eleven ju-
rors remained to the end.
The missing one-George c. Rice,
OF 1882 Shepherd street northwest
president of the Rice Auto Com
pany. 1897 H street northwest. re-
ceived a telephone message at IL
o'clock Thursday night announcing
visit from the stork at his home.
At first Rice declined to be excused,
because he did not want to disrupt
the jury, but when a second mes
sage came announcing that a bounc-
ing baby boy had arrived and was
bowling Justify he could no longer
restrain himself.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-05
PROBES HOSPITAL
POISONING CASE
Investigation to Decide What
Steps to Be Taken, Says
Laskey.

The United States district attor-
ney's office is considering the find
ings of the coroner's jury in con-
nection with the death of Dorm
Ellis a week ago at George Wash
ington University Hospital.
The jury found that Ellis came
to his death as the resuI of BIZ
chloride of mercurys"heedlessly ad-
ministered" by attendants at the
hospital. N Recommendation as OF
prosecution was made.
Asked yesterday whether further
steps would be taken, United States
Attorney John E. Laskey said the
matter was being investigated by
his office and whether the case
would be pursued further would
depend on what deveSped from the
investigation.
at has not been our policy to
say what we intend to do in pros
pective actions, but rather to speak
of wha we have done" said Las
key.
The survey of nursing conditions
throughout the District with ref
erence to living standards, which
was ordered by DR.. w. H. Fowler
health officer, is progressing under
DIR. r. r. Ashworth. food inspector
At least a week will be required
to complete the investigation, IL
was said yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-05
REVOLVER DUEL
NOW IS in DOUBT
Deputy Cassanac Caustic in
Criticism of Leon
Daudet.

PARIS, Feb. 4-The revolver
duel at fifteen PAGES, a challenge
for which was hurled yesterday by
Deputy Paul De Cassagnac at Leon
Daudet, probably will not take
place. Leon the Lion. as he is IA
miIiarly called, was absent from his
place in the chamber yesterday and
thus the governments declaration
Of its foreign policy was less inter
rupted than might otherwise have
been the case. 1t generally was
supposed Leon was installed at a
neighborhood of the Sale D'Armes
getting his eye and hand in trim.
In this mornings edition of the
Francaise he says. "Cassagnac well
knows that since the war l have
renounced duelling | take note OF
Cassagnac's menace but assure my
readers l will not modify the firm
line of conduct that has marked my
past"
CassagnaC's challenge was pub
lished in the OeuVre. He affirms
that Icons decision that since the
war he no longer will fight, is
result OF a habit contracted during
the war. charging that neither
Leon nor his relatives, although
wearing war decorations. ever saw
active service.
Copyright, 1891, Public Ledger CO..
The Washington herald., 1921-02-05
D. G. Specialist
Attacks Vienna
Theory on X-ray

The assertion of Vienna specialist
in roentgen rays that the effect OF
the X-ray is to revitalize and give
youth to old bodies, has been chal-
lenged by DR.. A. c. Christie Wash
ington physician, living at 1921
Connecticut avenue.
That the X-ray gives youth tc
people DR.. Holznecht, of Vienna
stated after experimenting on fifty
grandmothers all of whom had
shown marked revival.
On tn contrary. says DR.. Christie
the ray ages people.
"As a matter of experience it has
been shown that the X-ray fatigues
the nerves and therefore would have
an effect just opposite of rejuvena-
ton" said DR.. Christie. "Ir would
make people old instead of young
Experiments have been tried fire.
quently but always with the same
result"
The subject promises to reach a
debatable point in medical journals
of both America and the Old World
The Washington herald., 1921-02-05
Waters of Lake
In Yellowstone
Flow to Two Seas

Yellowstone Nationar Park has a
lakc-Isa Lake-whose waters reach
both the Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans
Tho Lake got its name from the
answer to a question as to whether
it really was a lake or not a,-
cordinE to Horace NJ Albright. SUI
pcrintondent OF Yellowstone Tsrk.
who addressed members rol tho Ma
tionaI Geographic Society ycstcr-
day afternoon and last ni=ht at the
New Masonic TrmrI. Albright
was introduced boy stephen T.
Mathcr. director OF the National
Park Service.
The speaker dwclt upon the lrss
well known features Of DO coun-
try's first and largest national park
comprising an area three times the
size Of the State of Rhode Island.
Not only is il a land OF EoyseTs.
he said. but il is wilderness
wonderland. an animal and bird
refuge. literally The last stand
Of the old West" for much Of iu
area is still as primeval as when
the trappers hrst went there.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-05
WILSON PREPARES
RAIL UNION REPLY
Answer TO Both Sides Due To-
day; Short Message Held
Likely.

President Wilson's reply to the
demand made by officials Of the rail-
road unions for an investigation into
the facts laid by the railroad execu-
tives before the Railroad Labor
Board is expected to go to- both
sides today. 1t is predicted that he
will not intervene.
The executives have set up a
series of allegations as an argu-
ment for return of the roads to a
pre-war basis. This is necessary
thCyF assert, to prevent them from
going into bankruptcy.
The communication from the
unions was followed by a statement
from the railroad executives. Both
communications were referred to
Secretary of the Interior Payne, who
is the Presidents railroad adviser,
Payne yesterday drafted tentative
answer for the President. Last
night the latter was working upon
the telegram which will be sent out
this morning, according to his sec
retary, Joseph P. Tumulty.
1t is regarded as likely that the
President will point to the Inter
state Commerce Commission as the
BODY empowered to take cognizance
of possible Misrepresentation such
as are alleged.
The Presidents telIs gram. expected
to be less than 400 words, will be
addressed to b. NJ Jewell. of the
railroad unions, and T. Dewitt Guy
Ter. of the railroad executives.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-05
Mess Memories
In Discard as
Yanks Dine Here

Memories of frugal army messes
of February 4, 1918 and 1919, were
totally submerged last night by for
mer members of Battery D, Sixtieth
Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps, a
District outfit which saw service
overseas, who banQuetted at the New
Ebbitt
In 1918, it was soup with one
bean. prunes, Whites special slum
and coffee (hOt water). at Fort
Washington; and in 1919 soup(0,
hard-boiled potatoes, prunes and
coffee (so-called) at Camp Merritt,
N. j.. the menu related. Last nights
collation., celebrating the second an
niversary of the return to the United
States, made up for all past de-
ficiencies.
1t was decided at a business meet
ing preceding the banquet that the
''buddies" of Battery D and of the
Supply Company of the Sixtieth will
merge with former members of the
Second Battery. 10th Field Artil-
lery, another Washington unit, to
form the District Artillery Club.
Talks were made by Norman
Landreau, Thomas Murphy, Charles
f. Smith. Carl Flemmer and John
Xanten, while william Simmons was
tOaStmaSter.