1997 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1549 



Publishers^ Department 



The Home of Gleanings and of the A B C of Bee Culture 



This is the new concrete office buildiner. The front building is constructed of concrete molded 

 blocks; the rear is monolithic concrete The stock-room, where great rolls of paper for GLiEAN- 

 INGS are taken directly from cars on the B. & O. tracks, is shown at the extreme right. A little 

 further back, with the saw-tooth roof, is the printingr department; 100x140 feet are the dimensions 

 of these new buildings, entirely tire-proot.— M' kite's Class Adre?-tisi)ia. 



For over a year now the publishers have 

 been enjoying their new quarters. As pre- 

 viously announced, we moved "across the 

 road " into a new fire-proof office building 

 and saw-tooth printing-house that is modern, 

 not only in design of the building itself, but 

 in the general equipment. The entire struc- 

 ture has nearly 14,000 square feet of Hoor- 

 space. The walls and floors are of conci'ete, 

 and strong enough to resist even a Sanfran- 

 cisco earthquake, and so designed that a 

 bonfire could be built almost anywhere in 

 the building and allowed to run its course 

 without doing any great damage. Even the 

 private offices have abestos plaster and steel- 

 lath construction. 



The general office, the interior of which is 

 shown on another page, occupies the entire 

 front, about 100x30 ft. Private offices are 

 located in either end, while the remaining 

 central portion, about 30X70, is given up to 

 general office work. 



"But," you ask, "what is the sawtooth 

 construction?" By reference to some of 

 the engravings the peculiar form of the roof 

 will be seen. On the cutting edges of the 

 tooths, as it were, is placed the skylights 

 facing toward the north. The result is, that 

 at all times there is a pure white light that 

 leaves no shadows; and even in twilight one 

 can see inside of the building almost as well 

 as outside. For the purpose of the "art 

 preservative" this construction of roof and 

 skylight is ideal. 



On stepping into the printing-room, as 



seen in the large engraving, one is immedi- 

 ately struck with the beautiful soft light; and 

 while the machinery is going galore with its 

 clack and bang, there is no belting nor shaft- 

 ing in sight. Each machine is supplied with 

 an individual electric motor, the power for 

 which is supplied by underground cables 

 that reach back to our power-plant in the 

 main building, some 800 feet away. Con- 

 siderable new machinery has been added, 

 among which is one of the latest and very 

 best Miehle book and job presses. It has 

 nearly twice the capacity of the old press, 

 which is retained to help out the big fellow. 

 Besides these two book-presses there is 

 another cylinder press and three job presses, 

 and stitchers, folders, book-trimmers, etc. 



There are no second stories, for the whole 

 building is practically one floor on one level. 

 Neither are there any basements. The raw 

 stock of paper is put in a tire-proof room 

 provided with automatic self-closing doors 

 on the same level as the printing and pub- 

 lishing room. These vaults or stock-rooms 

 are seen just at the end of the printing-room 

 shown in the large engraving in the center 

 of this journal. 



The new building is heated by what is known 

 as the vacuum system of exhaust steam, or the 

 waste product from the main factory of the 

 wood- working shop. So successful is it that it 

 has been carried over to some of the houses 

 in Rootville, also heated by waste steam. 



There are 30 employees in the publishing 

 department, and 20 in the office. The vari- 



