Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-14
r. Street

| The names of those who have interests in the
| square IN question, together with the total as
sessed valuation of each. is follows: Elizabeth
Kelly, 80, 800: John Connor, $2,715; Alfred D.
Jessup, So, 224; John j. Gentner, S2l 1913; John
W. Cohen. $500: Wilhelmina Bernan, S2,199;
John N. Walker, "A, S04; John A. Baker, S7,Ol4;
| Sarah Berry, S5,72j; James E. Morgan, 80, 1853:
John Walter, jr., trustee John Walter. ST.
| S5.492; Helen Hartong, S4.434; L. Schmidt and
others 1874; Augustus Lepreux 81, 97l; Chas.
b. Church and J. J. Darlington, trustees
Sl2.3O8; q. l.. Sheriff, Sl0,397; Joseph A.
Smith, $1,000; VIM. Stone Albert S23 424;
Elizabeth J. Stone, $780, 1926; Urias Hurst
S3,712.
WHAT POST OFFICE OFFICIALS THINK.
1t is almost needless to say that the officials
at the city post Office are gratified at the pros
| pect of having satisfactory new building in
which to handle the mails of the city. 1--WE
are to have what we have wanted and needed
Tor a long time" said gentleman connected
with the post Office to a STAR reporter last
evening. ION site as large as the one we
are to have building can be erected that Will
be large enough for all the needs of the city
for fifty years to come. One thing we do need
| and must have is sufficient accommodation for
our vehicles. There are fifty or sixty wagons
used IN collecting and delivering mail. There
are the little mail carts and the large vans
and then each of the government departments
has Its own wagons that here for
mail. In our present quarters we have no
| accommodations for them at all. and they
all have to back up ON the street side. block
ing the street and making general nuisance
OF themselves. In our proposed new quarters
would speak most earnestly for large interior
court into which wagons might drive direct and
take on discharge their loads under cover
The roof should be of glass, giving us plenty of
light all day and protecting the valuable mali
matter from all danger of damage by Indictment
weather. Around this interior court all the of
fees should be located. We need all the
ground floor and how much more do not
know. 1t would be a good thing. think. to
have gallery running around inside from
which general view of the interior workings
OF great post Office could be had. This would
be great convenience for visitors and for our
selves too. for that matter. There's not much
use OF talking about it yet, for we have hardly
had time to think about the details We have
desirable site with plenty OF ROOM and we
are willing to leave the rest in the hands of the
architect, feeling sure that he will make the
best Of the opportunity he now has to leave be-
hind him in the national capital a handsome
post office that shall be worthy of the city,"
THE COMMISSIONERS VIEWS.
Commissioner Douglass. speaking to STAR
reporter today upon the subject, said Il have
always hoped, and at all proper times sug-
gested, that the upper stories of the new CITY
post Office should be arranged for the District
Commissioners Office. The site adopted real
ICES the idea of Mr.. Ross that not less than
0O,UOO or 6OOOO square feet Ia needed for the
post Office and all on the first floor A build
ing of that size to make it symmetrical should
be at least four five stories in elevation
This would give the Commissioners plenty of
room in a tre-proof building and in the center
OF the city. Citizens are complaining con-
stantly that the offices SO far on one side of
the population The city post Office and the
municipal offices are all of the same character,
being purely local. Wherever Offices are SINH
larry related to the surrounding population it
is advisable to unite them as near as may, SO
that one visit by the citizen may often accom-
plish two purposes. We are very anxious to
have this happen, and the whole city, l think,
would commend it,"
Commissioner Hine said: II think the Dis
trict of Columbia should have separate build
ing of ample size to accommodate comfort
ably all the branches of its municipal govern
ment. 1 would prefer, however, to wait few
years to accomplish SO desirable an object than
to occupy building with so aggressive a CO.
tenant as the United States government"