The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-01-07
ron EETTER POSTAL FACILITIES.
A Commis.icn NoN InvestisatinE the Means
Of Eniars!nS the Service Here.

VI. .'fhN ~'S
". r. Campbell. Assistant General Superin-
tendent Of the GALWAY Mail Service. and ". J.
Pollock. Superintendent Of the Free Delivery
Division OF tho Tosta. Department. arrived in
town yesterday and at once held q conference
with Postmaster Van Cot; in his office. They
afterward mad" an inspection Of the property
owned by tie city Post Ofice. Messrs. Camp
bell and Pollock are the Com missioners ap-
pointed by Iostmaster-Ceneral Wanamaker
TO act with Postmaster Van Colt in determin-
ing the extent OF the increase OF facilities
needed by the local POSTAL service. They are
required 10 report to the Postmaster General
not later than next Thursday the properties
IN tine city that can be rented Cor use as q
large branch Post ONCE.
Postmaster Van Colt said that hs would rec
! ommend to the Com missioners tho hiring i'm
msiiate,y OF n fve-story building lust east o!
the Grand Central station. between Forty
a n'i' b Sa% avenues. as an ee'S nT Ito t eHb1r raeneb
Post Oflc.. He recommended the lease OF the
same .S structure THn a yenr age o.. ltssM;erday after.
will look over other buildings. too. Postmas-
ter Van Colt says. however. that the structure
lief to the department in expediting the deliv-
cry O: mai,s, Cars CARRYING mails can be run
abundant room. he says. FOR handling postal
matter intended for uptown delivery.
Amse,inS Of the publishers N $50 Of trade ioIs-
postal facilities At the New York General Post
Office was held yesterday afternoon at the
Broadway Central Hotel. Assistant Postn aster
GRylor IVES also present rs a representative OF
| Postmaster Van Colt. The meeting was the
outcome OF one held "a week ago at the Hotel
Marlborough BY the Trade Press Association.
at which IA committee was appointed to go 10
Washington and make known tho needs OF the
association.
Yesterdays meeting showed that the pub
lish erS are unanimous "a to the necessity for
better postal facilities. A communication was
read in whicli l.. l. Nicholson offered for the
bounded by Chambers, Pearl. Rose. and Madi-
Son streets.
communication from Postmaster Van Colt
! WAS read endorsing the arTiOn OF the publish
ers. He proposed to meet the demands OF the
service by means Of an additional force Of forty
clerks and by renting another building. near
the present Post btirc, in which second. third.
and fourth class mail matter can he handled.
The Assistant Postmaster also United any
committee which the meeting might appoint
10 confer with the Postal Commission now in
session In the city.
II was asked whether il tha Commission.
now In session. should re OF mend the rent
ing Of an additional rn;idiag. there was any
fund by which the recommendation could be
carried out without appealing to Congress.
Mr. Gaylor replisS hat lie was OF the opinion
that 1t could be carried out oy using money
from the rent fund.
The meeting resulted m the appointing Of
three men TO act IN concert with the two pre-
yiously appointed w ,nH lrcss Association.
This COMMITTEES VIII AZ once begin the work Of
obtaining signatures " u memorial to be sent
20 congress.