THE BROOKLYN EAGLE ESTABLISHMENT.

There is not in the history of American journalism a more striking illustration of newspaper progress than that furnished by the marvelous growth of THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. Its rapid advance in influence and material prosperity has not been surpassed even by the extraordinary expansion of the great community of whose interests it has long been the accepted exponent. Indeed, it has maintained its place in the very front rank of local enterprise, so that, although between the time of its foundation and the present the population of the city has increased from 50,000 to over 700,000, its constituency has enlarged correspondingly and maintained it in practically undisputed possession of the field. Of course, in accord with the increase of its circulation and the widening diffusion of its activities, its business and mechanical facilities have necessarily been multiplied. What has been accomplished in this direction is accurately portrayed in the series of accompanying engravings. These pictures, prepared from the sketches and photographs of artists specially employed for the purpose, give the reader an insight into the workings of a modern newspaper office, supply an excellent exhibit of the processes that go to the making of a great daily journal and bear testimony to the remarkable results accomplished in the 46 years of the paper's existence, by patient endeavor, industry and an adequate conception of their duty on the part of its conductors and managers.

THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE establishment occupies a quadrangular plot of ground fronting on Fulton, Elizabeth and Doughty streets, near Fulton Ferry, and within two minutes' walking distance of the Brooklyn terminus of the Bridge. The main building on Fulton street is numbered 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38, with a frontage on that thoroughfare of 115 feet. It is a substantial structure of brick, four stories in height, painted white, the façade rising to an ornamental cornice. Beneath the pediment is placed an immense clock, which, day and night, tells the hour to tens of thousands of pedestrians and multitudes of passengers on the Bridge cars. The windows of the upper stories, more than fifty in number, are of plate glass, and are of sufficient width to insure an abundance of light and excellent ventilation. Over the principal entrance an enormous golden eagle, with extended wings, looks down upon the busy scene below, as the vans, wagons and carts and thousands of newsboys, agents and carriers carry printed EAGLES to the army of expectant readers. From this side four double doors open into the chief business office, while near at hand access is had through a spacious hallway to the delivery room communicating with the press rooms.

Stepping from the sidewalk the visitor finds himself in the business office, a commodious room on the ground floor. This apartment is handsomely furnished. The counter, running round two sides of the interior, is finished in hard woods, highly polished and richly carved in appropriate designs. Heavy plate glass windows divide the larger portion of the office from the cashier's department, the book-keepers and the section reserved for the reception and delivery of letters. The central archways in the counter are set apart for the advertising clerks, and through them daily pass great numbers of business announcements. Twelve gentlemen are constantly employed in the counting room. In a single forenoon, between the hours of 8 o'clock and noon, over 1,000 advertisements are frequently received. To the EAGLE letter box, in answer to advertisers, there often come daily more than 2,000 letters, and the number of communications in the busy season at times exceeds 3,000. The space before the counter is almost constantly filled by men and women desirous of communicating with the world through their favorite advertising medium. There mingle in the throng female domestics in search of situations, housekeepers looking for servants, owners who want to sell and agents who are trying to lease houses, stores and manufactories, individuals who have lost or found something of value, grief-stricken relatives to express their sorrow in the death notices, and joyous couples to inform their friends of the consummation of nuptial ceremonies, the mechanic, the clerk, the manufacturer, the professional man, the merchant, the official, the clergyman and the politician. Every day the busy side of life in a great city is presented to the employees of the counting room by the multitude which makes the EAGLE the channel for expressing to Brooklyn its manifold and varied needs. Beside other minor appointments the business department contains a telegraph branch office communicating by direct wire with the Western Union system, and a ticker of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company.

The offices of the President and Treasurer of THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Association communicate directly with the counting room. That of the first-named officer is on the second floor. It is a spacious and richly furnished apartment. The walls are adorned with excellent portraits of the gentlemen associated in the direction of the EAGLE from the beginning down to the present, and of