New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-10
THE NEW POSEOFFICE.

IT'S COMPLETION APPRoAcHING-TuE DEPARTMENT
TO ENrER ITS SEW BUILDING BEFORE NEXT
YEAR-How II To De oCCUPIED.
The massive granite structure of the New
York PostOnce which years has been slowly rising
IN the immediate vicinity u he city Hail. Is 81 last APP
preaching completion It VIII be still months be-
architect VIII pronounce it finished work but
the aborers are already employed the very summit
Of It's enormous DOME more than 200 feet above The
Broadway pavement and the exterior well-nsh com
poted yet early determine the precise date
on which the PostOGice Department ~l enter the new
bHlding, but OF the latter months Of the present
year Will certainly witness the change. The building
Will not be then completed but the work On the interior
will bee so far advanced that Inconvenience Will be
experienced IN the sections which viii be occupied by
the Post Office Department AT the present time the
work is not continuing rapidly as could be wished on
account Of the non-lrryal Of material which should
have been here many days ago. The principal
material now lacking is iron, large Quantities
Of which doubtless on the way from Buffalo.
The number OF workmen now employed on the building
II about 80 Of whom mechanics, masons, carpen-
painters and machnst-, and the remaining 81 are
ordinary laborers. Attention Is now given chiefly 10
the basement. hrst and second floors A. II is these
which Will be required by the PJstOhce Department,
thew will be ready FOR occupancy rst OF all Tie entire
basement Of the building will be used for the mailing
department Letters deposited II the various boxes
throughout the building and brought IL by the city car
ers from the boxes at the street corners and hotels
will be sent 20 the basement where they viii be care
fully assorted and mailed. TIE newspaper mailing
department will also be in the basement, anu Will oc-
cupy the northern section which extends under the
street at the southern end Of City Hall Park. Every
invention which can increase the dispatch in mailing
letters AMI newspapers will be found this department
should the underground track from the Grand Central
Depot be laid, 10 Will extend TO the center OF tue
PosOhlce building and the mail ears VIII be run d.
rectly that Arran gements are also making,
but yet perfected. for the extension Of pneu
matte tubes from the newspaper offices to the paper
mailing-room. by the or winch hardly an instant
will be the dispatching OF the daily papers.
The letters and papers having been placed in bags,
they Will secured and thrown one OF the 10 large
elevators In building. and thus De quickly lifted 70
the OF the street. where mail wagons VIII be wait
ing receive them. For the present these wagons Will
occupy the spacious court at the northern sue Of the
building.
The large main noor Of the building will be occupied
by the PostOice proper and it IS here that the dis
tribution OF mails viii be made. The boxes will DO
ranged around the entire building and Will be
Die from the corridor which surrounds them, anu Is
entered from every side The boxes will be placed IN
sections. and arranged to form shallow aicoves
the boxes surrounding three sides OF each On the
northeas and northwestern corners passenger
elevators Will be supplied. which Will from the
main floor TO the summit OF the building The second
floor Will also be used chiefly by the Post Office Depart
ment. on the Broadway side is large apartment, 100
feet long by IS, feet wide devoted exclusively TO
the Domestic Money Ordef Department Opening frOm
this at s southern extremity, u the Foreign Money
order ONCE a room nearly "a feet BY g. They arc
entered rom corridors when arc rtacAtu Dolh
/ by stairs and elevators. On the opposite SIDE
/ OF this western corridor-ihat is III tho IN
/ terror or the bulldlng-are the Oincee OF lh'
special AGENT ana AUDITOR WHEN IRE sas y aaa OF
these orees Is secoad corridor aad u the ceAe1 "