The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-27
A GRATIFYING SUCCESS.
The Postal Telegraph Gable CON-
pany's New Building.
1T is TO BE A BIG SKYSCRAPER.
Ample Room for the Company's Growing
Business to he Provided In New York
description of Perfect Telegraph
Building.

So great has been the increase in the
volume of business handled by the Postal
Telegraph Cable Company. that the ne
cessty for more commodious aud con
venient quarters for the executive and
operating departments has become i'm
perative, and the officials of the company
have for some time past been engaged
in arranging TO secure the company a
building Of it's own. The corner of Broad
way and Murray streets, New York, was
selected as the best site, il being in
the center of downtown business inter
ests. near the newspaper offices, and con-
venient of access by all lines of elevated
railroads, horse cars, ferries and the
Brooklyn Bridge, while the frontages on
City Hall Park and Murray street insure
ample light and air.
Immediately upon the selection OF the
location, negotiations for the purchase
of the necessary ground were completed,
and plans for the ne ~ building prepared
Already the old buildings have been torn
down and work on the foundations for
the new structure is well under way and
progressing rapidly
The building will be fourteen stories
high and will have frontage of about 75
feet on Broadway by $50 on Murray
street, with an l. of 30 by 80 feet at the
rear end. The frame will be of steel and
the walls TO the hfth story will be of
fine quality of Indiana limestone; the up
per stories of gray brick, with terra Gotta
trimmings TO correspond. The interior
finish will be in keeping with the hand
some exterior, aud no efforts are being
spared to make all of the fittings and ar
rangements of the latest and most APP
proved modern design.
The sub-basement will be IL feet deep,
commodious, well lighted and artificially
ventilated. Here will be located the
engine and dynamo rooms; the boiler
room will be in the exten sion of
the sub basement and will be IA feet
deep. The heating apparatus and the
two dynamo plants for lighting the build
ing and furnishing current for the cir
cults will be of the latest approved de-
signs and arranged with regard to con-
venience and the comfort of the men in
charge. The basement will be used for
the supply department of the company
and for storage rooms, and viii be equip
ped with every facility for packing and
handling material. IL is also intended to
utilize portion Of the basement for safe
deposit vaults.
The first or ground floor will be used
for the receiving and delivery depart
ments of the company. and possibly q
portion of it may be leased for business
purposes. The second floor will probably
be occupied by bank: and other floors
TO and including the tenth, will be rented
for Offices Applications for a large mum
ber of these offices have already been re-
ceived
The eleventh floor will pe retained bv
the company for its executive offices and
for the executive offices of the CONNER
cial Cable Company, which is allied to
the Postal Company,
The general operating department will
occupy the entire eleventh floor And
here again the arrangements will be
made with view to attaining the great
est facilities for handling the business
and TO provide for the comfort of the en-
ployes The ceiling will be Is feet high,
and the exposure on the east, south, west
and part of the north sides will insure
perfect light and ventilation. The appar-
atus will be new and specially designed
for this office, and il is expected that the
operating department will be model in
every respect. The thirteenth floor will |
be used TO accommodate the clerical cleo |
trical force, and also for coat rooms Law |
atories, etc, for the operating and cleo |
trical departments.
IL is expected that the fourteenth story |
will be occupied by business mems |
club, and restaurant for employees but. |
as these arrangements have not been con |
cluded, the NEWS Is unable to give details, |
As a whole the building will he one of |
the best examples of modern architecture |
In the city aud in convenience of arrange
ment, excellence OF construction and |
beauty OF appearance will be second to
none
The drawing of the plans and the work |
OF construction and arrangement are |
under the supervision OF a. b. Chandler. |
the president OF the Postal Company, 10 |
whom, In great measure, credit is due |
not only for the completeness of the new
buildings, but for the success of the com |
pany which has made the erection of the !
building possible. Mr.. Chandler is as
sisted in the direction of the new work
by building committee, consisting of
w, III. Baker. vice president, T.. G.. platt.
treasurer OF the Postal Company. and
Geo. q. Ward. vice-president and general
manager of the Commercial Cable Com
pany. -Messrs. George Edward Harding
and Gooch are the architects aud have
charge of the deta Is OF plans and con
struction.
It is expected that the new quarters
will be ready for occupancy in the sum
mer OF 1898. and the company's employees
are TO be congratulated on their pros
poets Tor improving their present fine SER
vice with the and of the most perfect ap-
pliances and in the most comfortable and
convenient quarters which could well be
provided for the purpose