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Show CREATFST NEVvSPAPEn, PLANT. - f Often wh, n sinnetlilneils told that Is too uncommon to Ijcj accepted as true, te sa It Is 'one of th"e things wo lead aboui ' Hut herijTs something that jou mnv read about, and It la ulao true It Is uliout n nwfcpnper published In Bue-iioa Bue-iioa Ajiea.icnlled l.a I'rensa (the Pies), T he almost I m n dihlo story 1 told In tho rebnmry n Ida Woik, by Boi-naid Boi-naid Mellklojohn The nvvm r ol l Prenaa I I Dr J r. Pag, and he has housed It In a palace he hnd b illt epocmlly for It, and for public puiposca The strucime cot two million dolluis It la live stoilea, la rlchl) ornamented, has a fine dome and glass i oof (In the dome Is a llgure Ilka ihe Oodles of Liberty In New York haibor. fiom thla la Hushed signals, that an be seen mn miles from tho c!i na to tint c ire during tho (hrntltig In -omh. U i i i , uBhf meant a 1,11 ' ' i F i ii nt a Hoir vie. tory. The ch-a root covers a. court ard I j - - noun 1 wiileh the st-in ture la built In times of public excitement na many aa JbOQ people run be accommodated In this ourtjard for a demonstration Tho paper la independent, and from tho balconies bal-conies the proprietor or hl son (who edits the paper), address the crowd On the ground Hoor ore the business offices, a free museum, and an expensively furnished consulting room where the poor may get legal advice free, nnd u free medical consulting room There Is a chief physician with live assistants who attend an average of 110 patients a day, from noon to midnight The muaeum shows Argentine products and manufactures, and In innncctlon with It Is a chemical laboratory whori such work aa tho analysing of soil is carried car-ried on, free. On the second floor the proprietor, editor and edltnrUI writer have rooms KhiIi writer haa the use of gorgeous drawing rooms, amoklng rooms a bli Hard room On tho same floor la n large room where the people of the cits hold business meetings, and Is used freely. Nenr It Is a law llbrarj, a medical library, engineering books, where thirty to forty students go dull) to read up In their piofrsslona nil being free. On this floor theie Is also a school for Hpnnlsh On the third floor there Ii a palatial suite of npartmenta frco for the use of any distinguished visitor to Huenoa Ayres, some of these live there for a week or two Any great foreigner will Hnd thla copy of a Huropean palace ready for his reception, hli wife will have nt her (rvloe n parlor canopied In blue silk hung with tapestries of blue silk, made blight with candles stuck In candleallcka of Dieaden china and gllt-teilng gllt-teilng with fuinlluie ornamented In Imitation Dresden On tho name floor there la n laige silon where Ilternry, charltuhlo or scientific meetings or en-tertnlnmctite en-tertnlnmctite may be held at tho hos-pltablo hos-pltablo Invitation of La I'renaa, Above are tho rcportera' rooms, the composing room, a restaurant and fencing fenc-ing salon. Tho proprietor maintains a fencing mister for tho benefit of the rcportera. who receive this Instruction three tlmea n week. Opening from tho rcportera' room la a restaurant where mcala are served at cost to the twenty-five reporters nnd six men on tho edl-torlnl edl-torlnl naif. At 1 In the morning, cof. fee Is served free to every one In tho establishment, Iji Prcnsn Is equipped with tho Hnest plant that money could buj, nfter thorough Investigation, IIoo presses nnd other Amerlcnn machinery were ordeied, nlo two passenger and five freight elevators! even Ink and paper aro bought 111 tho United btates. The pnper has a circulation of 100,000. It sella for tho equivalent of 3 cents. It charges na much as tl 60 an Inch for advertisements. Its gross lecelpts for the llrst six months of Inst year wero $1,033 'i037 (our money), nnd lta expenses, ex-penses, 6;o,000. Among the expenses were $110000 for pnrtr bought In New York, and $13 000 for cable service The prollts keep up tho magnificent estnb. llshment; tho doctors, lawyers und chemlsta glvo but putt of their time to tho paper, nnd get small pu. The building costs no moro than a cheaper one would for maintenance. The plc-tuiea plc-tuiea given of tho rooms show them to bo fitted up nncl adorned In tho most magnificent imnner, every ucceasor of luxury being puvlded And so, awny down, thcro unknown to tho world, and never heard of, la n newspaper housed as nono other la In tho world for elegance, tasto and com, fort. Connected with It nic publlo conveniences con-veniences mid gratuitous piofosslonnl services that mo kept up onlj lu arhe cities by tho public nnd clsewhero ut enormous cost. It Is like u ncwspiper fair land to take It nil In, nnd It won t do to let tho matter get out too wide!, or nil tho bos will want to study Spanish, Span-ish, und go to La Piensa |