New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-14

\ Our City needs a Post Ofice-there is no dispute
on that point-and there seems to be general con-
vction that the Government should Onn the site
and the edifce instead of renting and being driven
from pillar TO post as hitherto. The present Con-
gress very properly appropriated S5OO,OOO for the
purchase of suitable Site and left the selection of
that site to the unlimited discretion of the Presi-
dent, who, we are bound to suppose, will in due
time make such location and purchase as the in
terests of the City and the Nation require. We
have choice with regard to such location, and
have expressed it, without assaling others and with
profound consciousness of the fact that the Pres
dent is most unlikely to respect our convenience
and wishes in the premises. All we had to say
therefore, was to glance at those obvious considera
tions Of superior accessibility exemption from ex-
posure to fire, and location midway between the
downtown and uptown influences now tugging
against each other, which seemed to us to render
the Brick Church property the most eligible of any
in the city for this purpose Our interest In that
location is patent to every one, for, without
peDDy's ownership in this or any other property
thought of we have abundant reason in our heavy
Mail circulation for desiring the Post Office as near
our own establishment as may be, which the Brick
Church palpaby is. Having said our say on the
subject, along with others, we were quietly await
ing the Presidents selection.
But The Herald is not content with once or
twice assailiDg the Brick Church location: it
returns to the charge again and again. Here is the
material portion Of its last broadside:
"THE New CITY PosT-OFrIcE-Now the election
10 fairly over may hope TO the question of
PosOfi.e location decided. The exact position,
epoDg number of good sites proposed is of less
sequence than the building of good and capacious
Office when the location is fixed. We are too apt to do
our business for day, and then, finding mistake,
we are compelled to do il all over again or suffer the
penalty OF our folly
when our City Hall was built it was no doubt
consSeod Of ample size for at least hundred years
TO come but separate buildings, courrooms, record
offices and clerks quarters have been purchased leased
and erected all over the upper cod of the Park and in
other parts of the city. This is great inconvenience
bot It is nothing compared TO that of Post Office
which Is too snail. The postal business must be con-
centrated in one building for the purpose of receiving
sorting and dispacbing the mails; and this is the case
whether there hundred sub-oiiices or net and
whsther the postal circle has radius of one mile or
speculators-the charity beginning at bome-wish TO
sell TO the Government, Is entirely inadequate to the
purpcse, as little examination must show The To-
oAiy Is good enough, but IT is entirely too small be-
sioc beng OF an announcement shape. 1t is pretty
nearly Triangle the Beekman street front being Il
feet sId the opposite end only 50 feet giving an area
OF less than $4,000 square feet. There no branch of
public business that increases fast as correspondence
by post and we have long suffered great incoAveai-
ice, with serious loss OF time and money 10 every
\, s.ness interest, from the mperecon of our postal
am nge5aents Ii susceptible of the ceaes demon
frat That, if erected to-day, Post. Office on that
Site. .or any other of equal sle would be altogether
Too snsi for the purpose. The loogest front Is 1873
feet, and the shortest l59, with an area of 1850
square feet.
Here The Herald runs comparison bot xeen
tlis property and the London Post fhse-which
is OF only the receiving ard distributing Post
|OFre for circuit Of many miles and population
o. early Three Millions, bu. is the General Post.
on e for the British Empire as well. 1t forgets to
conf der tbA the Brick.C Church property offers
facilities for waiting on every ride to an extent
unrealizsd in any public edifco in this country or
Europe. Vaults may be constructed on every side
0. the Brick Church lot fully adequate to The trans