The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-10-03
The New York Postdhce.

The massive granite structure Of the
New York Postoffice, which for several
years has been slowly rising in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of our office, is approach
ing completion. The laborers are nov EN-
ployed on the summit Of its enormous
dome, more than 20O feet above the pave
ment Attention is now given chiefly to
the basement, tirst and second floors, as j.
Is these which will be required BY the
POstotfice departments. The entire ha.se-
ment Of the building will be used for the
mailing department. Letters deposited in
the various boxes throughout the building
and brought i'll by the carriers from the
boxes at the street corners and hotels will
be sent to the basement, to be assorted
and mailed. The newspaper mailing de-
partment will also be in the basement. and
will occupy the northern section which ex-
tends under the street at the southern
end Of City Hall Park. Every invention
which can increase the dispatch III mailing
letters and newspapers will befOund in this
department. Should the underground
track from tie Grand Central depot ever
be laid, it will extend to the center Of the
Postotfice building, and the mail cars will
be run directly to that point Arrange
ments are also making for the extension
of pneumatic tubes from the newspaper
offices to the paper-mailing room, by the
use Of which hardly an instant will be
wasted in the dispatchlng Of the daily pa
pers.
The letters and papers having been
placed in bags, they are thrown on one Of
the large ten elevators in the building, and
thus be quickly lifted to the level Of the
street, where the mail wagons are waiting
to receive them. These wagons will oc.
cupy the spacious court 1T the pnrtherr
side Of the building.
The large mail floor of the building will
be occupied for the distribution Of mails.
The boxes will be ranged around the en-
tire building, and will be accessible from
the corridor which surrounds them, and is
entered from every side The boxes will
be placed in sections, and 30 arranged as TO
form shallow alcoves, the boxes surround
ing three sides Of each. On the northeast
ern and northwestern corners passenger
elevators will be supplied, which will run
from the main floor to the summit of the
building. The second floor will also be
used chiefly by the Postofice department.
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103 feet long BY twenty-three and half
feet wide, to be devoted exclusively TO the
Domestic Money Order Department; open
ing from this, at its southern extremity, is
the Foreign Money Order office, tsom
nearly "a feet by %.
On the City Hall side Of the second
story is to be the room Of the Circuit Court
with jud e's room adjoining ON either side.
Beyond these are the District Court room
am the western, and the Equity Court
room on the eastern side. The corridor
which bounds these rooms on the south N
~ GU its opposite side by two lares
rooiniRqlkL ohich will be used for the male and
| female witnesses summoned to the neigh.
boring aonrt-rooms.
AcoAsiderable portion u the thlrd hoo
will be occupied BY the United States Dis
trict Attorneys Offices and tn Jse u his M
sistaFts Adjoining Offices ON either hsnd
win furnish accommodations for the assist
/ ants. and on the extreme southwestern cor
ner will be an Office for the United States
Marshal.
On the fourth Hoor the Large apartment
i over the main entrance is t. be the eehfT ~ =
/ the Chief Supervisor Of E.ee,io". '' ....i.aS
eR ,es opening toward BrtedMAy Mak
| occupied BY the United slstns ~
thoae toward Park R1w will DO u1e0
.e.sistants Of the District Atsorns