Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-02-01
The New Post Omce.

q uhicy.
That's fine.n
"The handsomest office in the north
west"
ats the boss.'
THAT looks like business
They all came from the crowd, and
the crowd stood admiring the new post
office in the intervals when they were
not e~ndeavoring to make each other be-
lieve that that top box is Just as
good exactly, or seeking to convince
the other fellow that ''you know your
mail is mostly letters, and you don't
want so large a box, while mine is nearly
all papers," The other fellow couldn't
see it. Proposer looked Disguised, and
sorrowfully passed in his check for the
small box. metE4
Thode. smiled placidly as he passed
out the keys, bit the quarters to see if
they were good, and ..took in the re-
marks on the tasty appearance of his
establishment.
Perhaps it isn't much to get a new Of
flee, but when you have been confined
for years to a saratoga trunk, a dry
goods box, and not a very good box at
that, who is to blame if the general en-
thusiasm oyerfows a little.
Just here a new conner prances up,
and salutes the boss with, Il want that
number fifteen"
THAT taken"
"Taken, well then I'll take the one
right under it."
That's gone"
Then give number twenty, over
here" N =.
'Just spoken for a moment ago" 4
New conner uses,a bold. bad word. and
meekly passes in his quarter for the key
to the box down in the corner, that ev-
erybody seems to have forgotten.
But, talking of the new office, which
is just occupied, it is an ornament to
the town, and Postmaster Burr is de-
serving of much creditfo his enterprise.
The room. which occupies the lower
southeast corner of Col. Clark's new
block, is large, light and airy. Heated
from the furnace below, it is warm and
comfortable front and back. high and
low, vertically, horizontally and cross
ways. The first plan has been changed
somewhat, and although not quite so
elaborate as was originally thought of.
the outfit is handsome enough for all Or
binary use. and will meet the wants of
Lancaster to the letter and newspaper.
The cases are arranged in the shape
of a triangle, the apex of which is the
delivery window, and extending out
from the base line goes the partition
which shuts off the Office proper from
the outside room. On the left in this
partition as a person enters the building is
the money order window, and on the
other side is the door leading into the
office.
The cases contain five number three
lock boxes, 20 number two, and one
hundred and ten number one boxes.
The call boxes number three hundred.
This, it will be readily seen,
gives ample facilities for furnish
ing all those who are in the habit of
getting their mail atthiso Office with sep
crate tcnements. The receptacle for
papers and letters is on either side of
the delivery window, where, by an in
genious arrangement, they are con
Quoted down into a box divided in two
compartments. below the window. The
general delivery cases are located next
to the window, being right at hand and
with ample room for both papers and
letters.
Taken altogether, the new office is one
of the neatest in the State, and one that
will be appreciated by all those unfortu-
nate individuals who have heretofore
been obliged to suffer strangulation, as
phyiation, mutilation, and several other
''ations'', while waiting for the mail to
slowly unfold itself in the old office. In
the new apartments, owing to the better
arrangement of the cases, the distribu-
ton can be effected much more rapidly
and easily. Now let everybody take a
box, and become a property holder.