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Fix this textThis new building is among the most striking and conspicuous edifices of the City. Intended as a great workshop, where literary and
Fix this textmechanical operatives are to produce daily an enormous sheet, its design has been subservient to its use. Its situation is most prominent, being
Fix this texterected on a site of land forming a junction with Pitt, Hunter, and O’Connell streets, immediately opposite the Union Bank, and in a line with
Fix this textthe Royal Exchange.
Fix this textIn the Design, a marked expression is given to the strength and solidity of its construction ; the peculiar nature of the site rendered
Fix this texta more elaborate form incompatible with the business to which it is devoted. The bold Cantaliver cornice, however, stamps the design with a
Fix this textrevived Italian character of the seventeenth century ; in which style of architecture, many noble edifices have been erected on the Continent
Fix this textof Europe. The famous “ Palazzi Strozzi,” at Florence, —the “ Palais Farnese,” and the “ Meti Papazzuri,” at Rome, are among its
Fix this textearliest examples. In the keystone of the arch over the principal entrance is the head of Caxton, the first English printer. This beautiful piece
Fix this textof work was executed by Mr. M. Willis.
Fix this textThe principal, or Pitt-street front is 75 feet, and the height from the pavement 61 feet; the other two fronts are in extent 54 feet and
Fix this text30 feet respectively. The internal arrangements of the building, show by what a combination of labour a daily journal is produced ; every floor is
Fix this textoccupied by a department, and the whole combined by various artificial facilities. In the basement, are four printing machines, two steam engines
Fix this textand boilers. Of the former, one is a powerful one-cylinder machine, manufactured by Brown, of Kirkaldy ; two others, are the two-cylinder, and
Fix this textone the four-cylinder, invented by Mr. E. Cowper, the celebrated mechanist, of Birmingham and Manchester. The engines also, are the manufacture
Fix this textof the latter gentleman. In the basement, are the engineer’s workshop, and the paper wetting room. The ground or street floor, is occupied as
Fix this textthe place of publication, and general mercantile business of the office. A folding-machine of beautiful construction, with others shortly expected
Fix this textto arrive, will be driven from the steam shaft in the printing room below. The first floor is devoted to the editorial and reporting departments,
Fix this textbeing divided into convenient and suitable apartments. Above, the entire floor is warehouse and store-room; here is a kitchen for the use of the
Fix this textmen, where boiling water for tea and coffee will be procurable at all hours. The upper story is the compositor’s room, of most ample dimensions,
Fix this textand so arranged with overseer’s and reader’s closets, as to provide every facility for carrying on during the night the business of the mornmg
Fix this textpublication. From a tank in the roof every floor will be supplied with water ; and care has been taken so that in case of accident by fire
Fix this textappliances for immediate extinction have been provided. Messrs. Goold and Hilling, architects.
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