The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-11
AN UPTOWN POST OFFICE.
NEW FORK TO GET BETTER MAIL
FaCILIrIES At ONCE.

The New Post once to BE Established In
tho Grand Central Palace. which Will
Be Fitted with All the Latest Appli'
ances FOR Handling the Mails Quickly.
WASHINGTON. April 10. General
Smith. First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath and George W. Beavers. chief OF the
Salary and Allowance Division OF the Post OF.
fee Department. have practically com pletsd ar.
rangements for the establishment OF q large
uptown post Office In the Grand Central Palace
building. which adIoins the Grand Central sta
ton In New York city. Work will be begun on
the ground floor without delay. probably in the
latter part OF this week. and clerks will be
moved from the main office in Park row some
time next week. Probably Us per cent. OF all
second-clsss matter handled In New York will
be disposed OF In this new station.
About eleven thousand square feet OF space In
addition TO that now occupied by the substatlon
inltho Grand Central Palace building will be OBJ
tanned. Every unnecessary partition and Dost
10 to be removed. all the floors will be made
over. and In the shell Of the building will DO
placed every continuance constructed In the
newest postofices In the country. The altera-
lions ARE tobe made by the owners OF the build
ing. When that work Is completed the DEPART
ment will install new appliances for handling
mall, such as steel racks for distributing
purposes. Instead OF the GASES and desks in
use downtown. slides and shelves Tor second
class matter and the most modern devices
Tor weig6ing and Transporting mail 10 bulk
building will then be transferred to the new
H Rops, to &c ob ,tnls a iHFG sdd pGo1m "a ono i hand hSsi
extra clerks. With its present resources.
however. the Department Is not able to grant
for whom there are funds now aysilabIs.
twenty-five perhaps. will be allowed. The re-
naming seyenty,1ve will not bs appointed
now being prepared In New York. will reach
the Department by telegraph Tomorrow
Attorney General for the Post Office Depart.
mept Then il approved; it will be signed
without further delay. This is expected TO
about 81 a foot or $4,000 a year. Is slightly
less than that now paid Tor the space occupied
by Station H. The Department undertakes to
pay this rental for a period OF three years with
The privileges OF renewal and removal at will
incident to most Government contacts. 1t was
expected that the ease would include all the
the matter Mr.. Beavers discovered that two or
three tenants We're too securely intrenched to
be removed, The Post Office force will work
all about the rooms 80 occupied. but cannot
obtain the right to use them before the current
leases have expired.
Something Of a general plan for the hand
has already been worked out. All the second
class matter originating downtown will he
DUMPED on the main office platforms, Clerks
Will then sort it before 1t enters the building
aud despatch at once that which can be- dis
tributed from the forty.third street office. As
much OF the foreign mails as can he handled up
time. but will be sorted. bound in packets and
shipped to steamers direct from the Grand
Central Palace. BY. this means It is thought
much OF the general work and the congestion
which now exists at frequent intervals will
be rendered impossible.
The main office will profit by the change in |
many WAYS. When the new station is in opera
ton only about one-fourth the clerks now at |
work there will be permitted In the basement
All the old wooden shelves and cases are to be |
removed and iron ones substituted. and such
other I'm prOvements are cOntem plated as are
needed 10 make the equipment convenient and