The morning call., 1893-01-03
EDBROOKE is HERE
He Will Plan the New
POstoffice.
A SIX MILLION ESTIMATE.
He Arrives From Washington Fully
Empowered to Consider the Best
Building for Our Needs.

W. j. Edbrooke, the supervising archi-
tect of the United States. who will draw
the plans for the new Postoffice. has ar
rived. When seen by THE CALL repre-
sentative in his rooms at the Palace last
night he was not adverse to giving his ideas
on the building which he will supervise.
being in the city only one day." said
Mr.. Edbrooke, land not having had time
enough to inspect your Postoffice and see
the business done in it. l cannot give my
ideas On the improvements which l will
make.
"My duty is to go down TO your Postof-
fee, together with the Postmaster, and see
the business that is done there; also the
way in which it is done. SO that. if neces-
sary. We can improve upon it.
Zone thing that will have to make room
for in the new Postofice is the pneumatic
tube, which will be used for the speedy de-
livery of mail from the main Office to the
sub-statioIs throughout the city. From
what have learned in the short while that
have been here. think it Is essentially
necessary for the residents in the outside
part Of the city to have quicker delivery
Of their mail, and as this Is the latest mod
ern Improvement in that line you will have
one in your new Post6fiee.
''As for the building itself, it viii be OF
the latest architecture. / cannot say
whether 1t will be built of granite, sand
stone or brick, as that depends on the APP
preparation Congress will allow. My idea
is to have the whole building built OF granite,
or il not that, to have at least the basement
aud two st0ries of granite and the rest of
sandstone. If the whole building is TO be
built OF granite il will require much
larger appropriation than il built Of sand
stone.
ss1'o.day founthar with Mr. Ranlyne vour
Postmaster, l will 20 and ses the site. as
will have TO take measurements.
II lie principal thing l will have TO look
to Is on what street the Postoffice will front.
That will have to be decided on before go
ahead with any OF the plans.
Another thing" said Mr.. Edbr0oke.
''will be to make good provision for plenty
OF spare room in the building. as your city is
growing very rapidly.
According TO my present ideas. will
ask Congress to appropriate not less than
S6,O00,0CO IL not more, as do not think
that suitable postof1iee, with every modern
equipment, such as a growing city ike this
requires. could be built at a less figure.
Anyway the site cost over million dollars.
and / do not sec why you should not have
an appropriate building erected upop it.
But all this trouble. time and labor that
/ shall expend," added Mr.. Edbr0oke,
may be all for naught.
You know that | am Republican. and
as the Democrats come into full power soon
/ may lose my position and Democrat be
placed in IL in my stead. If that is the case
he viii have TO go all over the same ground
that l shall have done, and that viii make
more delay. Alter all this, remember, he
may turn out to have totally different ideas
from mine in regard to the building"
Along with Mr. Edbr0oke came Frank
Grygla. Inspector OF Public Buildings, who
viii assist Mr.. Edbrooke in his undertaking.