Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-26
THE ROOMS ASSIGNED.
Plans Showing the Assignment in the
Government Building
SENT TO WASHINGTON BY MALONE.
Everything Arranged for the PoStofice on
the First Floor.
WILL THE ROOMS EVER BE OCCUPIED ?


The rooms in the new Postofice and Gus
tom House have all been assigned, and plans
showing the assignment were prepared yes
terday by Superintendent Malone, and sent
to the Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Department.
The entire first floor will be occupied by
the postofice. The public Offices will fill the
square space in the center OF the building,
and will be covered by glass ceiling, ad-
mitting abundant light to the clerks engaged
in the work of distributing and collecting
the mail. The letter drops will be just few
feet to the right of the main entrance from
Smithfeld street, and the lock boxes will
face the hall on the Third avenue side. The
general delivery windows. one for ladies and
the other for gentlemen, will be at
the left Of the entrance. The
hall will surround the postofice
inclosure on the north, west and south sides.
On the outside of the halls are the offices to
be occupied BY the general officials. The
large room in the southwest corner of the
building, the one now occupied BY Superin-
tendent Malone, will be devoted to the reg
istered letter department. The Superin-
tendent of Mails will be in the southeast
corner, and just west of him will be the
rooms of the inquiry division. The Post
master will have q large, we'll furnished
room at the northeast corner of the build
ing, looking out on Fourth avenue and
Cherry alley. The assistant postmaster
and cashier will occupy comfortable rooms
next to the postmaster, on the Fourth ave
nue. front. The large room at the corner Of
G.rL 4 MI ho
devoted to the money order department.
PLENTY OF ELEVATORS.
-Four elevators, near the several corners
of the building, will connect the first with
the fifth floor. There will be stairways all
the way up ou the west, north and south
fronts That part of the first floor facing
Cherry alley will be open to the reception
and discharge of mail bags from the train
wagons.
The second floor will contain the offices of
the Custom House, Internal Revenue Col
lector and Pension Agency. The general
Office of the Collector of Customs will be in
the southwest corner. Passing along the
south hall there are commodious rooms de-
voted TO theinspectors of customs and to the
storage of pension documents, and IN the
southeast corner the large room will be FOR
the payment of pensions to soldiers. Next
to that, on the Cherry alley side, is the
Office where widows and children will be
paid. Then comes a mailing room for the
pension agency and a room for the lady
clerks. The northeast corner will be al
lotted to the sale of wholesale liquor deal
ers' stamps and the receipt of rectlfers' tax.
The Collector of Internal Revenue will have
his general business Office oil the Fourth
avenue side, with private Office opening
e.
for the sale of tobacco, beer and special
stamps of the internal revenue will occupy
the room in the northwest corner. Two rooms
on the Smithfeld street front are assigned to
the customs and marine clerks and the
deputies of the Collector of Internal Rev
enue.
COURTS ON THE THIRD FLOOR.
OF course, above the first floor the central
area is vacant, being simply an immense
light shaft, around which run the halls.
county Court House. The United States
Courts occupy the third hoor, the two large
courtrooms, for Circuit and District, 'front.'
ing one on Fourth avenue and the other on
Third avenue. Connecting with them are
private rooms for the judges. The south
west corner of the floor will be for the Clerk
of the Circuit Court and Commissioner The
Clerk of the District Court and the Com
missioner will occupy the northwest corner,
the law library the northeast corner and the
United States Marshal the southeast corner.
On the Cherry alley side two large rooms
will be allotted to the United States District
Attorney.
Then comes the fourth floor. United States
Engineer J. w. Arras will have the south
west corner. OFF the south hall will be the
grand jury rooms and petit jury rooms, with
a room for witnesses before the grand Jury.
There will be petit jury and model rooms
in the middle of the north side. The special
examiner of the Treasury Department will
have the southeast corner, and just north of
that will be the special agent Of the Treas
ury, R. D. Layton.
A ROOM FOR THE SURGEONS.
Next, north, on the east front, is the room
of the Pittsburg Board of Examining Sur
geons, now composed of j. E. Wilson, j.
Secret Service will be given two rooms at
the northeast corner. The northwest corner
and one room on the west front are for the
Signal Service, while the other west front
room is to be given up to the surgeon of the
Marine Hospital.
Few of the rooms on the fifth floor have
been assigned. Most of them will not be
finished off at once. They are transacted by
girders and connecting rods. Three rooms
on the Cherry alley front will be finished off
for quiet and secluded sleeping rooms for
the employees Of the Railway Mail Service.
The boiler and hall inspectors will have
room in the southwest corner of the build
ing.
Word has been received by Superintend-
ent Malone that another cargo of Maine
granite was safely unloaded at Baltimore
last Monday. 1t is expected to arrive here
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to-
morrow or Monday. This is probably the
last cargo which will be received this fall.
The work of raising and laying stones on
the fifth floor was begun yesterday morning,
under the supervision of Mr.. W, f. John