Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-07-05
RECEIVES MUCH MAIL
TENANTS OF A BUSY OFFICE
BUILDING IN CHICAGO.
The Monadnock Block Has special
Postal sub-station Of Its own Which
Does the Second Largest Business I'm
the City.


world is under the roof the Monadnock
Building at Jackson, Dearborn and
Van Buren streets, in Chicago. The
building alone comprises separate and
distinct district in itself. At the same
time the volume of business there Is the
largest Of any of the sub-stations or
even districts in the city, save that OF
the Board of Trade station. In this
immense distorted structure, which
covers the small ground area of 400
feet long by 20 feet wide. nearly 5000
people occupy 1900 rooms. When it
is considered that the population of
many towns covering many miles Of
area do not reach that figure. some
conception of the population of the
Monadnock Building may be had. The
comparison is striking one, and
serves to show what a large number
of people can be crowded into small
space. 1t is also an example of the
economy in ground space that has come
to be necessary In this commercial age.
And out of this economy has come the
system of skyscrapers that the larger
cities and especially Chicago, have been
forced to build.
The Monadnock postal district was
established last year. though money
order, stamp, and registered letter sta
ton was established there more than
two years ago to meet the demands
made by that section of the downtown
district. Prior to that time the deliver
les of mail in the building were made
by carriers working out of the central
station at the foot Of Washington
street, on the lake front. They would
have to route their mail at the main
Office and then carry it to the Monad-
mock Building. The rapid increase in
the volume of mail overburdened the
carriers to such an extent as to cause
the frequent use of auxiliary service,
and the expenditure Of money in car
fare allowance in transporting the
heavy mails from the central station
to the building. In order to relieve
the situation an investigation was
| made, resulting in the recommendation
| by Superintendent Garrity to Postmas-
ter Gordon that the four carriers sery-
ing in the building from the main Office
be transferred to the Monadnock sta
| ton, and that the mails be dispatched
to them by wagon messenger. This
recommendation was approved by Post
master Gordon. The building thereupon
was made separate district and the
carriers were transferred. The sched-
ule of the wagon service was arranged
so as to make close connection with
the carriers deliveries. It provided for
sixteen dispatches daily from the Gen.
trail office to the Monadnock Building
and twenty from the building to the
central Office, except on Sundays, when
the number is only three to and two
from the sub-station and district.
The carriers schedule in the building
provides six deliveries every day ex-
cept Sunday, and is SO arranged as to
enable the men to begin their deliveries
practically the same time as they did
when serving from the central station.
In these six deliveries the carriers dis
tribute on an average 25.000 pieces of
mail daily in the great Office structure.
At least 70 per cent of the mail re-
ceived here for delivery is addressed
without room number. The difficulties
and delays that would naturally grow
out of this condition can readily be
seen. The carriers who serve the dis
trict are old ones, however, and have
reduced the apparent drawback to 8
minimum Seldom is a mistake made
in the distribution.
Long training and service in the pos
tai department have made these car
riers adopts, stablishing system thai
insures accurate delivery of mail to the
persons to whom it is addressed Every
old or new occupant of the building II
known to them. And when new per
son comes into the building, no matter
how humble or high in position, he get.
his mail promptly. Such names arr
secured by the carriers on their re
J spectives floors and added to the list
Those who leave the building are alst
} kept up with and their mail Is for
4 warded to their new addresses. In fact
the district, though small in area, Is {
: separate and distinct postefice in 1t
self, and the same routine is fount
u there as in the central Office. 1t onl.
differs in degree. Chicago Tribune.
CORN POPULAR IN EUROPE.