GIGANTIC NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

Dunstan Times, Volume 601, Issue 601, 24 October 1873, Page 3

GIGANTIC NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

The proprietors of the “ New York Tribune” are about to erect a building for the better ac' ommodation of the wants of the establishment and the editor, announcing the fact, says’;—“The ‘Tiibnne’ has outgrown its cradle, and requires a home more in harmony with its wider plans and greater inflin nee The building from which Horace Grouty (for a quarter of a century) l;d the free thought of the country will be long remembered. The room in which he labored has been kept sacred since his death. No lesser pres nco has ever broken the spell his memory left there. An 1 now that we are about to erect on the old site the largest and most imposing newspaper office in the world, the controlling thought of the propiietms of the •Tribune’ is that here is his true monument. The great journal which hn form led, animated by his spirit and faithful to his teachings, will, we trust, keep his momoiy green in every region upon earth, and the massive pile reared upon the scene of his labors and hi.glory will speak continually of him and his work to the millions of citizens and strangers who shall traverse for centuries ti enme the broad avenues of Manhattan Island, and the noble rivers that wash v on either hand. The space we have formally occupied being much too narrow fo. onr uses, we have acquired property on every side of us, until our front “xteuds upon Printing house-square over sixty feet, upon Spruce-street one hundred feet, thence north to Frankfoi t-stri et, one hundred and sixty-five feet, with a frontage upon that street of nearly twenty-nine feet. This liberal space is to lie covered with a building niie storeys Hugh, surmounted by a lofty tower, which in beauty and elog-nce. as well as in bulk, will be the most considerable business edifice in the southern part of the island. Some of the most eminent architects ol the day have compe'od in furnishing designs for the building, and the result is one upon which all «ho take pride in the architectural adornment of the great metropolis may justly congratulate the nsolves. It will be not only a superb and artistic monument; it will also l>e as perfect a business bouse as the skill and experience of the mo-,t competent builders can devise. It will be absolutely tire-proof iu every part, and built to last for ever.”