The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
SUB-POSTOFFICES
Four Nay Be Established in
This City.
RECOMMENDED az POSTMASTER
The Psan Has Bees AppSeved ~ ~
Psseai Asthsritses-Additis
Clerks for re O0es-

II the Recommendation made BY Post
master Brookss il acted upon favorabiy by
Assistant Postmaster-General Garrison.
and Mr. CsaYkso has given assurance that
II viii be, Seattle before many months will
have four srb-ssafions or tributary city
postcfices. such IS are already established
IN many Of the larger cities OF the East.
Postmaster Brookes has been studying mp
the idea for some time. and i Is understood
that this recommendation has been. aside
from that requesting more clerks and ear
riers. the principal one which he has en-
deavoFed TO secure
II the p.sn u carried out the four sta
tions will be placed - follows:
The north station will be at or near the
Bellevue hotel, in North Seattle.
Madison street station will DC in the vi.
cinity OF the power house Of the Madison
Street Cshie road.
Lake Washington station viii b near
Market and Jackson streets.
south Seattle station will be at some
point near the head OF the bay.
AT each OF these stations there will bt
stamps, envelopes, postal cards, etc, for
sale. az well ~ money orders, postal notes
etc. Outgoing mail dropped into the sub
section Offices will b taken up and for
warded to the main city Office at the last
moment before outgoing mails leave. The
most needful features Of the sub-ofiices,
however. will Be the facility. safety and
ease with which mail directed to Seattle
parties can be handled. The carriers in
the different parts of the city will report
to the .neareat station and will have moth
ing TO do directly with the main Office. Ali
<.fs IL S1.ss. - a1.t l.
to do much more work than at present,
where from fifteen TO thirty minutes are
lost every trip in going to their respective
districts.
Postmaster Brookes proposes, as . fur
Their aid to the rapid delivery OF mail by
the use OF these sub-stations. to have .
number of city distributors ON the in-cOm-
ing trains, whose duty il shall be 10 sort all
mail into five packages some for the Gen.
trail or main Office and one tor each Of the
four sub-stalions. When . train reaches
the city under that system. twenty min
utss will suffice to have the entire mail in
the hands of the carriers.
The sub-station plan. il it is adopted by
the department. will entail very little ad-
ditional expense 10 the government COM
pared TO the increased usefulness and
speed of the. service. All of
the inspectors and postal off,
Gals who have visited the city in the
last few months have not only favored the
idea but have sent strong Endorsements
and recommendation to the department
urging its establishment and there is every
reason 10 believe that as soon az the matter
can be rushed through the proper channels
that the sub.stations will be created.
Postmaster Brookes also has assurances
that after July the Seattle postottice will
be given four additional carriers, janitor
and such other assistance IS is required.
This will enable this department TO give
four deliveries of mails by carriers in the
principal part of the city daily and the
allowance for additional clerk hire will pre-
vent unless the city grows with great
rapidity. any repetition Of blockade such
as occurred last winter.