The New York herald., 1868-03-26
TIE NEW POST OFFICE BUILDING.

Are en 10 BE Covered-Its Cost-Time in Which
1t Can BE Erected-Its Observation-Disclosures at
fI,e Old Oaice-Postmaster Keny-Curious
Frcts-Pnblic md Private Buildings.
Tive plans for the building that Is shortly to be
erected at the southern extremity OF the City Hall
Park for the accommodation OF the "Generaln Post
Onico Cfor such 1t may be emphatIcally caedI and
the . nted States Courts, can now be said to have
been duly considered, general description Of which
Has mblished in the HERALD several weeks ago.
The external Of the proposed building will be unique
and nposing Its internal arrangements are Of such
a M tuTe as to accommodate the utmost demands Of
the public possibly for century to come; and at
that ii me- should be found necessary TO extend its
area hat portion OF II which It is contemplated to
set Al writ for the accommodation OF the courts and
Its OH lt,ers can very readily be annexed.
The around the building when erected will cover
will he two acres, and will have a frontage on
Broad " ny Of three hundred feet the northerly
side n sug the City Hail. three hundred and twenty
feet ~ VI, inches; that on Park row a face
equal ato the side on Broadway while the extreme
souther n end is reduced to an obuse angle with a
rounded front lsurmounted by tower, on which
will be ,taced a cock) which, about thirtynin feet
from ms extreme line, win have breadth OF one
hundred and eighteen feet.
It's curious fact that in nearly all the plans pre-
sented fs inspection the architects overlooked the
little mat ers Of entrance and exit except at extreme
and incon senient points. Imagine the Ast0r House
without a entrance on Broadway. Precisely was
this the lea ding idea with the majority OF the y-
two gentei nen who competed for the prize OF ten
thousand d. liars. And 1t was not until Postmaster
Kelly who as made the contemplated building In
whole and In detail the study OF months-even visit
ing and exam lining the edces In the principal cities
of Europe wit this object In vew-pointed out the
fact that the bsence OF grand southern entrance
was admitted TO be not only an oversight but de-
feet.
Postmaster II Jelly has devoted much time to the
preparation OF ,lans which, put into execution, win
not only prove aluable 10 the government but add
greatly 10 the be auty OF the metropolis OF the country
Here centres the postal business OF the re-
public, and. inde,l d. measuraby Of the whole Cont
nent When MIR. Kelly assumed the duties OF post
master but one III Ill was maid up weekly by him for
ports in Europe Now there are four, and there Is
little doubt that ~ fore two years have elapsed, or
before the new buL ding in the Park is completed,
mail for Europe WIN be made up daily. All the
foreign mails are III, w received at the New York Post
Once. This has bc, n the since the withdrawal
Of the Cunard steamers from the port of Bos-
ton, and while n smInaily the "Generj" Is at
Washington the ma i0nal Post ONCE is in this
ropolis. Daily are espatched IN the great southern
upwards OF thirteen tons OF matter In the Eastern
about six anI in the Northern mails about ten
tons; ahd by and other routes sufficient written
and printed matter TO make, added 10 that In the
mails named an aggregate OF eighty tons. Phila-
delpha makes up 9e gether but SIX tons, Boston
sad with truth that there Is more postal business
transacted daily in the New York than in the POST
oihces az Portland, sos ion, New Haven Phllsdel-
phia, Albany, Baltim ore, Washington Richmond,
Charleston, sayannalL Mobile, New Orleans and
Galveston.
Il being thus in matte sas7 Importance the nrs Post
Once In the United ~ ates, the Committee on Post
offices shoald hasten ne action OF Congress, par
tcularly as the member sof II seem 90 consider the
plans presented the est that can be devised and
ob'au appropriations su tcient to authorize the com.
mencement OF the work building.
Y.
elusive OF half mil bn of dollars for the
land y is thought INV the WORK u pushed
years certainly, from the pc flod of commencement,
and even within this limited time the postmaster Is
Of opinion that-so rapid " the growth, already
gigantic, Of business at the fice In Nassau street
he will be necessitaied to SEX additional accommo-
dati0n.
within few weeks he has been compelled TO add
sixtyfour TO the clerical force within the building
receiving distributing, delivering and making up
the mails that they are really In tach others way.
structure four times tie size OF tive present Dnl1ng
the eld church, with rs covered approaches-wouid
not be found Dconvenientiy large.
Indeed, II NAV be here 81 aed, NO rapidly and so
therefore OF necessity within the past twelve
months the money order and foreign departments,
that they seriously encroach loon i've old order OF
business and yet they are SO blended with 1t that il IL
found impossible without SCI ously crippling the
routine Of business to separate haem.
There is but one remedy. Let the work be COM
menced without an hours unneces sary delay on the
structure and let It be hastenea TO It's completion
lNe new POST OT1Ce Dul0lnR CoLA pltseu dibl oNCu
pied, and within the same brief dia, anee no city In
Christendom will be enabled TO boast OF SO many
magnificent public and private etructurps we snail
then have taking the City Hall the periphery of
circle whose radii extends eighth or mile, The
new Court House. the City Hall, the nve Dr0Wn
Stone structures on Park row, the newspaper oInces
stewards wholesale stores, the new building now 10
course OF erection for the Park Bank, ST. PauPs
Church, the Astor House and the HERALD building-
these IN richness and novelty Of design optrivalljng
wthln the same limited space, snperstruc1res TO be
Paris