Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-03
THE PosT.oFFIoE
Removed from Houston Street to the
Terrell BnIIdIng on Main.


Terrell BnIldlng on Main.
The employees in the post-office
we're busily engaged yesterday after
noon in removing the post-offlce from
the old building on Houston to the
Terrell building on Main street. The
office will occupy nearly the same po-
sition relatively on Main that 1t did on
Houston street, being on the east side
near the center Of the block.
There is ample room in the new
quarters and the arrangement ofevery-
thing is under the personal supervis-
ion Of Mrs. Burchill. The delivery
windows will be near the front en-
trance on the north side Of the room,
while the money order de-
pRrtment will be Just south
OF them on the other side Of the CEN
trail stairway which leads to the sec
ond story. The private boxes will be
arranged nearly as they were in the
old office. The interior is divided off
by ratings into different apartments
uting the mail. Mrs. Burchill's pri-
IRENE southern part of the room.
Come this way and let me show
you the routes for the carriers as they
are mapped out,u said Mrs. Burchlll
to q reporter who was admiring the
new quarters. She unrolled map
which had been drawn by the deliv-
cry superintendent and pointed
out the different terrific
rial sections for the carriers
and said: "In the morning at o'clock
four OF the carriers start out to deliver
all mail between Bluff aud Tenth
streets inclusive, on Rusk, Main,
Houston aud Throckmorton streets.
This principally includes the business
portion of the city, and the carriers
are given an hour in which to accom-
plish this work and report at the Office
at S o'clock. While these men are dis
tributing this mail, the superintendent
is busy asserting the Missouri Pacific
mail, which arrives shortly after z
o'clock. Then he takes the mail
which comes in by this train and goes
over these four streets, while the other
four men take the four
territorial routes and deliver
all the mail going to them.
These routes are divided as follows:
On the east side the dividing line IL at
Fourth street, running north aud east
to the city limits and south and east to
Seventeenth street and to the Missouri
Pacific track. On the west side the
dividing line is at Seventh street, run
ming west and north to the city limits,
and west and south to Seventeenth
street. AT present 1t is all the men
can do to cover this territory. After
they become familiar'with the routes
an effort will be made to serve the
south side lin the afternoon.
What percentage Of the letters that
come through the office are addressed
with the street and numbef2n
81 do not think there are more than
thirty each day with the full address,
but the carriers have made a careful
study Of the routes and the persons
living on them and manage to deliver
their mail with considerable difficulty.
To-day one of them went to the ex-
treme northeast of the city to deliver
postal card, to find 1t was wrongly adj
dressed.n
Mrs. Burchill informed the reporter
that she hoped TO have everything in
working order in the new quarters to.
day.
She says that she would like TO have
at least ten carriers but could get along
with three more than she now has,
and deliver mail throughout the entire
city that she will use every endeavor
to have the service increased and
hopes to do 30 at an early day.