The Detroit news: eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nineteen hundred and seventeen, a record of progress: . he new building is a full block long, running fromFort Street to Lafayette Boulevard, so that one-way traffic is possible. Its widthis fifty feet, allowing for easy manipulation of automobiles at the center of the 8« The Detroit News. room, NA/here the loading platform is located, and near which trucks makedelivery of the rolls of print paper or take away accumulating bales of doors with glass windows, at either end of the room, reveal the con^dition of traffic in the stre
The Detroit news: eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nineteen hundred and seventeen, a record of progress: . he new building is a full block long, running fromFort Street to Lafayette Boulevard, so that one-way traffic is possible. Its widthis fifty feet, allowing for easy manipulation of automobiles at the center of the 8« The Detroit News. room, NA/here the loading platform is located, and near which trucks makedelivery of the rolls of print paper or take away accumulating bales of doors with glass windows, at either end of the room, reveal the con^dition of traffic in the street to the outgoing driver, and they are opened andclosed automatically. Here, in the heat of the days work, sometimes may be seen the beginningand the end of the long story of newspaper production: the mountain of printpaper coming on creaking wheels to Mahomet from the spruce forests of thenorth, telling no story but of mastery in woodcraft, chemistry and transportation;and, passing it, outward bound, other mountains, not white but gray with the gladand sad tidings of the deeds and the thoughts of PAPER STORAGE WAREHOUSE Before The Detroit News had occupied its new building a year, itbecame imperative that special provision be made for the handling of alarge reserve of paper. The News extended its holdings to three-quartersof a block of land, and in August, 1918, began construction of a paperstorage warehouse. This warehouse has a frontage of 150 feet on Fort Street and 130feet on Third Avenue; its seven floors have an area of 93,728 square feetand a content of 1,022,500 cubic feet; its capacity is 12,000 rolls of paper,which is sufficient to supply The News for four months. The addition of this unit raises the area of The News plant to a totalof 238,212 square feet, and its content to 3,695,500 cubic feet. The warehouse is built of concrete and steel, surfaced with gray vitri-fied face-brick, and trimmed with limestone. Its architecture reveals itsintimate relation, bu
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