Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-19
The Post Office Again.

ME-. EDITOR The removal of the Post
Office still agitates the people of Warren.
Since your last issue the prospect for
the removal from the present one-sided
I and inconyenient location, to the central
and easily accessible at the corner OF
the two main Streets of our city, has
grown decidedly brighter.
The the question is talked up
and considered, the greater the approval
it commands. The feeling in favor OF
the removal has now grown to be almost
overwhelming, Is is proven by the fact
that the petition for removal has been
signed by between sir and SeUeR hundred
persons. 1t is worthy of special note
also that these petitioners are men who
get their mail matter through our Post
Office, persons who have the legal right
to vote when questions are submitted to
them at the polls.
OF course there are those who oppose
the removal; this is to be expected. II
is a right which those who object should
have unlimited freedom to exercise
Consequently a Remonstrance has been
vigorously circulated, without regard to
politics. For this RemOnstrance the pc
titioners have reason TO give thanks be-
cause the limited number of names
which it has received, less han one hun
dred, shows the inherent weakness of
the aus of the DIRECTORS, and strength
ems infinitely the side of the petitioners.
The two causes for removal, to wit:
the o~ne-sidedness of the present location,
and the inaccessibility thereof, having
been unanswerable, the few who object
to the removal have set up two new
reasons against the cause of the petition
ers LIST that it will cost too much rent in
the new room 2nd, that the room is two
small for a P~ost-ofhce.
The proposed rent of the new room is
| S500-Is that an exorbitant rent for a
irst-class room in the center of business
in a city of 5000 inhabitants? We think
it is not high at all-especially when the
same room can be rented for 5000 a year
before shutdown. But, say the DIRECTORS,
the present room costs only 800 Dr. a
saving of 500 per annum. What Of that?
1t has nothing 10 do with the question at
all. falow rent is the question to be
settled, why not remove the office to
somebody's garnet and SdUe all the rent?
Is the room to small? We say no.
The room is large enOugh-it has been
measured and examined and not found
wanting. The objection looks and
sounds as if it were made for effect, or as
the boys saw for 'bunkum." 1t is a
seive and won't hold water.
The new room will give an outer hall
seven feet wide by forty deep-large
enough to hold seventy-five men. There
will be the same room behind the boxes
for the postmaster and his clerk. There
will also be a large, well-lighted room in
addition, for use, say 15x20 feet. 1t will
be ample room also for one thousand
boxes, fifty lOck-bOxeS and all other
conveniences. But, say directors, the
room is not as large as the present one.
We think differently but suppose not
what then? If the old Office had been
in Webb's Hall, would that be any rea-
son why a smaller o might not an
swer1
A single fact. The Post-ofice in
Youngstown, a city o 10000 inhabitants,
is less than one-hdU the size of the new
room in the Trumbuil National building.
viii the Office be removed?
Beyond doubt it will. Our worthy
postmaster will not feel authorized, we
Opine, to refuse a petition whichhe knows
is simple justice, and which while it
harms none, will meet the wants of a
large majority of his constituents. A
petition TOO which signed by between
six and seven hundred voters in a COM
munity of our size is certainly worthy
of serious consideration; and for an
official who holds his Office at the con-
sent of his constituency, to deny the
claims of his supporters, when so over
whelmingly urged would be, to say the
least Very-un-republican.
/ The signers of the petition have no
doubts whatever that the location of the
Office will be changed in compliance
with their request.
SEVEN HUNDRED PETITIONERS.