The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-05-15
THE NEW rOsT-OFEx0E
A Beautiful Triumph Of Architecture
TASTE and Mechanical skill.


The new post Office in the Opera
House building is now SO nearly com
alotoa ,hot i will be occupied to-day. |
n --s-,-1s a our citizens have visited
Il as the work progressed, and all ! are
lond II their admiration Of the excel
lent taste, judgment and skill that has
hem displayed in its arrangement.
For the benefit of those who have not
visited it, and of persons at a dis
lance, we subjoin a brief description,
which must necessarily be imperfect,
from want of time and space to enter
into complete details.
THE ROOM ....
to be occupied is forty-two by sixty
feet in size and about 143 feet from
the floor to the ceiling, and is entered
from the Locust Street front By two
wide doors which are reached by hVe
IRON steps, and will afford ample ac-
commodations for ingress and egress'
The interior is fitted up in magnIf
cent style, with lock boxes and draw
ers. the frame work being eight feet
high. surniounted with massive cor
nice Of walnut, with yellow pine
moulding, and oraamented with
brackets composed of walnut and yell
low pine. The front Of the lock boxes
and lock drawers are Of walnut, finely
polished and oiled, and the strips
dividing the same are of yellow pine,
while in the center Of the boxes and
drawers. are apertures set with glass.
on which are inscribed the numbers
| in gilt figures very hadsomely ex-
ecuted, the whole constituting a
piece of magnificent cabinet work.
The cabinet occupies the center of
the room. leaving wide Vestibule
in front and on each side, and con-
stitutss what might be termed section
of an irregular octagon. The lock-
drawers are next the floor, raised on
a base seven inches high, and COM
prise three rows extending entirely
around the room, numbering IN all
249, each six by seven inches, and
fourteen inches deep. Above these
are eight rows of lock boxes extend
ng around the front and sides to
within ten feet of the rear, the balance
on each side being occupied by
| glass boxes, of which there are
| 500, three by four inches front
There are about nine hundred lock
drawers, four and half by five inch
front, and seven and half inches
deep. all of which. with the drawers,
| are furnished with easy locks and
keys, no two of which are alike. On
the right hand, to the rear, are the
general deliveries, separated by a
wing partition for the male and female
departments, and SO conveniently ar
ranged that one person can readily
serve both departments. 70 the RICH
of these again are six large lock boxe:
eighteen by twenty inches, and five
others fifteen by eighteen inches, fol
the use Of newspaper and corporation
receiving excessively large mails.
i 70 the left Of the cabinet of boxes
is the money order and stamp depart
: ment, with handsome marble copn
tier for the transaction of business
: This department is reached by doc
from the passage-Wa leading to tn
i private Office of the Postmaster, which
n i; situated Ia the southwest corner o
4 the room. and can be reached withou
N entering the interior of the cabine
The space between the top of tn
d cabinet and ceiling will be closed wit
: sash and glass which can be closed
a Winter and opened in Summer, thu
: adding to the comfort of the en-
' ployees. One half the basement
; appropriated for the distribution an
making up of the mails, and dunn
waiter will transfer mail matter fror
the basement to the room above.
The whole Office has been designe
a. in most excellent taste, and construc
.. ed with most creditable skill, by ma
ter workmen, and when fully con
n pleted will be unquestionably tt
handsomest, best arranged, and mo
< convenient post Office in the State:
n The plan of the Office was design,
chiefly by the new postmaster, o.
- Foster. McCorkle & Tweed we
60. the contractors. and the work w
constructed under the immedia
superintendent of Mr.. l. +. Talbo
MS foreman for the contractors, und
Ial the general supervision of the CO
of tractors and the postmaster, and t
work when completed will rehe
the highest credit on all concerned
Z, its construction. The painting, of t
" numbers and glazing, was done by n
= Robt j. McGrew, and speaks for itse
The new office will be occupied
- day, and will be opened to the publ
at the usual hour on Sunday NOR
ing. During the week the out
he doors will be open from 6 A. NJ. un
ed midnight. and persons holding loo
en- drawers and lock-boxes can obta
their mail matter at any time betwe
20 those hours.
=. The following persons will cons
NJ tute the roster Of the post Office unC
~ the new dispensation:
Col. John w. Foster, Postmaster
Ve- Theo. R. MCPHERSON, Assista
IN Postmaster. ..aH
ner S. B. Pryor, Money order Gle