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Show GREATEST NEWSPAPER, PLANT. Often when something Is told thnt Is too uncommon to bo accepted as true, we say It Is "one of the things wo read about.' But here Is something that sou may read nhout, nnd It la also true. It Is alnmt 11 newspaper published In Bue. 110s Avies, called La Prensa (the Press). The almost Imndlble story is told In the l'abruary V orld'a Woik, by Bernard Ber-nard Vellklcjohu. The owner ot la Prensa is Is Dr. J C. P. Puis and h has housed it in a palace li bad built especially tor It, and for public pui poses. The structure cost two 1111, lion dolluis It la flvu stoiles, Is richly ornuinented. has a One dome and gluss roof, on the dome Is a figure Ilka the Goddess of Liberty In Now York harbor: fiom thla In flashed lgnuls, ihat inn he sen many miles fiom the cliv nn io, InM i ic during the lighting 11 Hnu'h. i'i 1 1 light mi int a ' il 'v ' j r ,,,! nRht a To rvl-tory. rvl-tory. The rwjs toot covirs a ggurtard uoui d wlnrh the stiueture Is built In limes of public excitement as many ns 2oi)0 people can be accommodated ln this 1 ourtyard for a demonstration Tho paper Is Independent, and from the balconies bal-conies the pioprletor or his son (who edits the paper), address the crowd. On the ground Moor are the business ofTlces, a free museum, and an expensively furnished consulting room, where Ihe poor may get legal advice free, and 11 free medical consulting room. There Is a chief physician with five assistants who attend an average of 110 patients a day, from noon to midnight The museum shows Argentine products nnd manufactures, and In connection with II la n chemical laboratory where such work us the anal) sing ot soil Is carried car-ried on free. On the second door the proprietor, editor and editorial writer have rooms Each writer has the use of gorgeous drawing rooms, smoking rooms a bll Hard room lin the same lloor Is n large room where the people of the cltj hold business meetings, and Is used freely. Near It Is a law library, 11 medical library, engineering books, where thirty to forty students go dolly lo read up In their professions all being free On this lloor there Is also n school for Spanish. On the third lloor there Is a palatial suite of apartments free fot the use of any distinguished visitor to lluenos Ayres, some of these live there for a week or two. Any great foreigner will llnd this copy of a Duropean palace ready for his reception, his wife will havo nt her service 11 parlor canopied In blue ellk hung with tapestries of blue silk, made blight with 1 and lea stuck In candlestick! of Dresden china, and glittering glit-tering with furniture ornamented In Imitation Dresden On the same floor there is a larKO salon where literary, chnrltablo or scientific meetings or en-terliilnments en-terliilnments may be held at the hos-pltablo hos-pltablo Invitation of Ii Prensa. Above aie tho reporters' rooms, the composing room, n restaurant and fencing fenc-ing salon. Tho proprietor mnlntnlns n fencing mnster for the benefit of the reporters, who receive this Instruction three times a week. Opening from the reporters' room la a restaurant where meals are nerved nt cost to the twenty-five reporters nnd six men on tho edl-torlnl edl-torlnl stnff. At 1 In the morning, cof-feo cof-feo is served free to every ono in the estnbllshment. Ln Prensa Is equipped with the finest plant that money could buy, nfter thorough Investigation. IIoo ptesses and other American machinery wero ordeied, alho two passenger nnd five freight elevators; even Ink nnd paper are bought In tho United States, The paper hus u circulation of 100,000. It sells for tho equivalent of 3 cents. It charges ns much ns 4 50 an Inch for advertisements. Its gross receipts for the first six months of last year wero $1,033 903.47 (our uioncv), nnd Ita expenses, ex-penses, $650,000. Among the expenses were gUOOut) for paper bought ln Now York, and $43,000 for cabla service. Tho profits keep up the magnificent establishment; estab-lishment; tho doctors, lawyers and cliemlstB give but part of their time to the paper, nnd get small pay. The building costs no more than a cheaper ono would for maintenance. The pictures pic-tures given of tho rooms show them to bo titled up nnd adorned In tho most magnificent manner, every accessory of luxury being puvldcd. And so, nwny down there unknown to the world, and never heard of. Is a newspaper housed as nono other Is In tho world for elegance, tasto nnd comfort. com-fort. Connected with It are publlo conveniences con-veniences nnd gratuitous piofesslonal seivkes thnt mo kept up only In largo cities by tho public nnd elsewhere at enormous cost. It Is like a newspaper fall land to take it nil in, nnd It won't do to let the matter get out too widely, or all the bojs will wnnt to ttudy Spun-li.li, Spun-li.li, and go to Lu 1'ions.i. |