THE NEW YOKE TRIBUNE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2059, 10 August 1875, Page 3

THE NEW YOKE TRIBUNE.

This journal lias lately moved into new offices, which are said to bo the finest newspaper building in the world, "-though not yet quite completed. On ' 10 a supplement was issued with the usual edition, containing a description of the building and giving a sketch of the hittory of the paper up to the present time. • Though only thirty-four years since the first sheet of the Tribune was printed, it has made its; way Tip in -that comparatively short space of time to the position • of one of the foremost journals in America. It was Mr Horace Greeley who started ' the Tribune. At • first it was a little four-page paper, and of the first issue only 5,000 copies wore printed, "of which," said Mr G-rceley, " I nearly succeeded in giving away all that would not sell." The entire receipts of the first week were only ninety-two dollars, and , the current expenses were six hundred | and : twenty-five. The Tribune had to fight its,upward path most desperately, as might Ire supposed. When it was only a few days old the owners of it chief .rival, The Sun, entered'into a conspiracy with their; ownrnewsb'oys to flog any urchin for selling' the Tribune in" the streets, an employment of. which 'even the editor of the' 1 Sun did' not consider himself unworthy.- -This, lwever,did notJbarm the' youthful" '"^journal," but did it good instead. ..of harm, and henceforward it steadily increased in popular favour :to such an extent .that now its proprietors and conductors arc enabled to take' possession of one of the noblest piles ■in New York. - ' The offices are nine stories high, built | *of solid granite. By thejr side stand the comparatively diminutive: shelter of The' Sun," which is completely overshadowed By the giant edifice on its left hand. The spire of The Tribune's new home ,is ,-260 'feet from the sidewalk, eclipsed in.height only by the Trinity - Church and the Capitol at Washington. The dimensions of the building as it standajat present (some additions" are to be • made) arc as follows: — Principal frontage 95 feet; second frontage, 52 feet; - deptlr 48 feet; height of main building (not' including tower) 150 feet. The granite piers which support the vast weight :of the upper -stories are six feet thick at the base, tapering up gradually. The"internal fittings are as complete as science can malre them,, and the whole structure is permeated with a system of pneumatic tuoes. . . The' Tribune is printed by means of an improved press, which throws off 16,000 copies armOur printed on both sides. In addition to,;fchis it also has several other less powerful descriptions of printingmachines., necessity for these will be seen, wsSh it is stated that llie "circulation- of 1&S? Tribune- is over 50,000 per day. r? ' ~_