Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-25
PLANS FOR THE
NEW P0STOFF|CE
RECEIVED BY POSTMASTER IR-
WIN WHO WILL SUGGEST
SOME MINOR CHANGES.
CONTRACT FOR BUILDING
WILL BE LET ABOUT AUG. IS.
Must Be Completed in Sixteen Months
"Details of the Structure Hand
some and Spacious.

postmaster u. w. irwin mas received
from the office o fthe supervising archi-
tect the plans for the postal building to
be erected in this city in the near flu
ture. They are from the treasury de-
partment. which has entire charge Of
such affairs, n were drawn on ines
suggested by Mr.. Irwin and sent to him
for his approval. They will be returned
to Washington tonight for some minor
changes and ought to be sent back to
Butte in about a month. Immediately
after their return to the postmaster bids
for construction will be advertised for.
Thu advertisement will run about six
weeks in a local paper and for a corre-
spending period In some building trade
journal, and Mr.. Irwin expects that the
contract will be let about August Is,
which will give ample time to ~excavate
and lay the foundation before the heavy
frosts of next fall. The department es-
Inmates that the building should be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy within
Is months after the contract Is let, or
about January ], 1902.
The plans provide for a handsome and
spacious structure, we'll lighted with an
abundance of six-fOot windows. The
building will be modern in every respect,
and every arrangement for the facll1ta-
ton of the work of handling the mails
has been provided for. The postoffice
proper will contain an area OF lO,OOO
square feet and the working room Is In
itself larger than the entire quarters now
occupied. The employees will not be han
dicapped as to elbow room. The build
Ing will be 100 feet long by 80 feet In
Width said Mr.. Irwin to an Inter Noun
q reporter this morning, and will be
lengthwise-up n down Main street.
The principal entrance will he on Main
street, will stand six feet above the SIDE
walk, and will be reached by a broad
stairway. There will also be an en-
trance on Copper street, on a level with
the basement floor, and an entrance on
the east side, where the mails Will be
dispatched and received. From the Cop
per street entrance the passenger eleva-
tor will run to the first, second ana shlrd
floors.
.srhe working rooms of the postoffice
win be on the first floor proper. A wide
lobby will give the patrons Of the once
an bundance of room in which to trans
act their business. The room Will con-
tain, in addition to the general delivery
room and the private mail boxes, private
offices for the postmaster and the ASSIST
ant postmaster, vaults, layatorys, regis
ter, money order and stamp rooms.
There will be a mems lobby to the mon
ev order room and mems lobby to the
registry room and women's private lob
bies to Doth rooms. The money order
and registry rooms and postmasterss Of
fee will be connected with vaults. me
dimensions of the various rooms on. this
HOOI VA Uc Nd SSoNo
16x24: money orden. room 15x2O; stamp
room, 9x15; mems money order lobby, l.
x15; mems registry lobby, l2xl5; Wom-
ems lobby, 6xl0.
In addition to the rooms occupied by
the boilers and heating plant the base
ment will contain a room for the engln-
eer and several large store rooms in
which to cache the government plumber.
'.The second floor will be devoted to
apartments to the various federal 9TH
cials who have their headquarters in the
city. 1t will contain the United States
court rooms. chambers for the judge OF
the United States court, the office OF the
clerk of the federal court, revenue de-
partment Offices, rooms for the civil SER
vice board and the postoffice inspector.ln
fact all the federal Offices will be proVid-
ed for in the building.
ION the third door will be situated the
apartments of the magnate of the build
ing-the %janitor. Here also will be To-
Gated dormitories providing sleeping ac-
Communications for thirty-four railway
postal clerks.