The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-23
Oh ZEN FOR BUS INESS
Newark New Post Office at
Last Occupied by Its
Official Family.
EASILY ACCOMPLISHED
No Cessation Of Business-Illumi-
nation Saturday Night Sketch
Of the Building.

The new Post once is open for bust
mss, says the Newark Sunday CALI
The new building was occupied yesterday
afternoon without the slightest hitch in
the business Of h office. Last evening
the place was ablaz WITT light. The
crowd Of passers-by on the street looked
at the building with eyes and mouths wide
open with establishment.
Tne order to occupy the new building
was received yesterday morning and it
was determined to move in the afternoon.
1t required a nice adjustment of the. bust
ness of the Office to regulate it so that
there would be no hitch In the receipt and
dispatch of the mails. AT 4:4O in the after
noon the carriers leave the Office for their
last delivery in the city. They assembled
as usual in the dusty old room on the
second floor of the old building to sort
their mail matter ready for distribution.
Wien everything was in readiness they
marched out of the building promptly
at 4:40 in orderly manner never to- enter
it again, it is hoped, in their official ca
paeity. When they returned, toward 6
o'clock, all of them to report, and a few
to leave the mail collected in the street
boxes, they reported in the new building.
One of the heaviest mails of the day
is the $40 mail, which leaves on the Penn
sylvania Railroad for the West at 6:13.
The mail was collected as usual in the
old building. The stamps were cancelled,
the envelopes post marked and the mail
collected in the pouches and placed in the
wagon to be dispatched to the depot. AS
soon as the force of clerks engaged in
this work had finished they Immediately
went to the new building where they
went to work preparing the later mails
for shipment. These are all much lighter.
Cine of the most troublesome pieces of
work was the transfer to the new building
of the general delivery department. The
letters in this department had to be taken
carefully from the pigeon holes in which
they rested in the old building, each kept
separate and in regular order and trans
ported to the new building. A large force
of men was engaged in his work all the
afternoon, and another force was en-
plcsyed in the. new building sorting the
mail there. Shortly after 6 o'clock the
force employed in the old building finally
shook the dust from their feet for good
and established themselves permanently
in their new quarters. They were busy
in the new building all the evening deliy-
ering mail matter to applicants. There
was absolutely no interference with their
work.
At six o'clock promptly the stamp clerk
in the old building shut down his win
dow with a slam and fastened it. That
ended the sale of stamps I'M the old build
ing. simultaneously the stamp window
in the new building went lip and a clerk
there began the sale of stamps from a
stock that had been previously trans
parted from the old building without a
department and the registered letter de-
pertinent closed the business Of the day
in the old building, and win resume
operation in the new building at the
regular hours on Monday morning.
/ Five o'clock was the hour for the
official opening of the new Post Office,
Just as the clock licked the second that
marked that hour a sunday Cali man
went up the steps of the new Post Office
and dropped a package containing g nun IN
paper drop. He called the attention of the
clerk III attendance to the fact that his
was the first package Officially mailed in
then asked for and obtained the mail be-
longing to the Office. The first letter
proved to be a subscription to the
paper for a yea9r, paid IN adyance
was officially opened, and at six o'clock
the clerks were in full possession. The
carriers will report for duty today to
business tomorrow morning. They will
report at $40 tomorrow morning in the
new building to sort their mail for the
first delivery.
The order for the removal received yes
sterday morning was signed by First AS
sistant Postmaster General Perry s.
building. except the Postmaster's safe,
Will be moved into the new building.
A Sunday, CalF' man visited the new