The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-05-18
Tha Pnst 0fice RemoYal.

ha2. = IsT10g the past bWU NeCAsi tdhOh
occasion to attack the new Postmaster
of this city for the removal OF the
Post Office, and holds him response
BILE for the change. In an article on
Sunday morning he shows the dnlnaus
which inspires his editorial attacks,
which is mean and petty spite at the
journal Company. We have not
thought it necessary heretofore to
notice his articles, but now that the
Office is removed to is new quarters,
an9 the public have an opportunity
Of examining it and deciding upon the
merits of the change, we desire TO
make brief statement of facts.
There has been for few years past
a decided and growing sentiment in
this community that the Post Office
was not, in external appearance or in
ternal arrangements, up to the growth
and wants of the city. When the
new Postmaster was appointed, he re-
solved, If possible, to procure an
Office in some degree commensurate
with the business of the city, and one
in which her citizens might have some
pride as one of their public institu
tons. The building in which it was
then located was by no means well
adapted to the purpose. A location
about the corner of Main and Second
Streets would have been selected, but
it was impossible to get suitable
building in that locality at anything
approximating the rent which the
Government would be willing to pay.
There was no room in the city so
we'll fitted for the purpose as the
Music Hall in the Opera House.
There was no building in the city In
which so many of our citizens
were personally and pecunia
rily interested as the Opera House
1t was on the identical square,
or opposite the location, where
the Evansville Post Office had been
situated the greater part Of the past
thirty years; so that to bring it back
there was to relocate it 10 its old
status. The Public Hall Company
made tender of the rooms to the
Government at a rental which our
most experienced real estate agents
certified to the Department was not
more than half It's real value. No
other citizen or body of citizens made
any offer at all equal to it. There was
nothing left for.the Postmaster but
to recommend its acceptance by the
Government.
There were no political considera
tions which entered into the question.
The Mayor of the city, in letter ta
the Postmaster-General, endorsed the
change In the most unequivocal Lam
guage, as both highly advantageous to
tie Government, and acceptable to
the great mass of this community.
The President. of the Democratic
Crescent Club, together with Col
CHARLES DENNY, and other promi.
nent citizens, wrote letters asking
that the change be made. Hon.
WILLIAM E.. NIBLAoK, the Demo
cratic Representative from this Dis
trict, not only made his written endorse
ment Of the removal, but went to the
Postmaster General and personally
urged the acceptance of the lease
rendered by the Opera House Com
pany, from his own knowledge of the
wants of Evansville. We mention
these facts in order to show that
political considerations did not enter
into the question, and that these
prominent gentlemen of the Demo-
cratic party could rise above the petty
questions of party personal spite,
feat apparently impossible with the
nondescript editor of the Courier.
So far as the question of location is
concerned, it might be sufficient to
say that it is the original and long
continued position Of the Office. But
it is even more convenient to the
business men of the city than at its
former location; and the mercantile
men of the city within a radius of
two squares of the Office, furnish to
the Evansville Post Office more than
thirds Of its revenue, and for
whose benefit more than all others
the postal service is carried on. They
visit the Office from four to eight times
a day, when the great majority of the
people do not come more than half as
often.
The Postmaster has furnished to
the people what they have long de-
handed, the most attractive and best
arranged Office in the State; and this
without expense to the Government,
and, in excess of the contributions of
adjacent property owners, at his own
cost to an amount exceeding the value
of the fixtures of the old Office.
He claims no more credit for
this than the discharge of a
duty which any one, who would
accept the Office. should render the
community. He is anxious to make
the Office as convenient and valu-
able to the people as possible; and
proposes to devote his time and en-
ergy TO the duties of his position; to
the increase of our mail facilities, and
to their safe and speedy dispatch and
delivery. IF he shall accomplish these
successfully, he will doubtless have
justice done him by the community in
an appreciation of his services. He