The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-04
IN THEIR NEW HOME
Missouri Pacific Employees in
Fine Offices.
COMFORT CONES AT LAST
All of Them Seem 10 be { njOy
ing New life.

The south side Of the new Missouri Pa
cife freight deport was occupied yester-
) day by Mr.. George Mann. the agent, and
{ his Office force. Mr.. Mann is now the
Oldest agent in Wichita in point OF con
{ tinuous service. having been with the
J Missouri Pacific for sixteen years. and
yesterday was the first time he was able
to stretch his limbs. SO 10 speak. in that
length of time.
II has always been his luck heretofore
TO be crowded for room, but now a new
era has dawned in his official life and it
was good to see him yesterday in his
new Office. behind a handsome desk, and
within four feet of a gorgeous looking
baseburrer. the very appearance Of which
would make a man feel comfortable.
Mr.. Mann surely deserves his new com
forts for he has not only been patient IN
the old, overcrowded Office but he has
earned it by hard. efficient work and an
upbuilding Of business for the Missouri
Pacific, the Iargeness of which few peo-
pie know or would understand
Some admirers of the quiet Mr.. Mann
brought some fruit and laid it upon his
desk and he was the very picture OF con-
tentmeat and good nature when a re-
porter for the Eagle called to congratu-
late him.
Isn't this fine. though" said Mr.
Mann. compared with the old Office. 1t
makes man forget the past and feel
young again"
Cashier Ray Taylor felt about as Mr..
Mann did. He. too. has a fine office. well
furnished, and with safe that looks de-
fiance at a burglar.
The depot is not yet anywhere near
complete. The old depot is stiH in the
center of the new structure. but within a
few days il viii be moved away and the
gap closed in. Then the depot will be one
solid brick building, 400 feet long and 80
feet wide with floor space of 1900
square feet. This does not include a COW
cred platform on the north end 4ox35 feet.
The Offices of the agent cashier and gen
eral clerk will be in the south end, while
the check clerks viii have Offices in the
center. All the Offices will be supplied
with new furniture. electric lights and
modern improvements such as closets.
coat rooms anu vaults anu store rooms
for records.
The north $40 feet of the building vii
be given up entirely to freight storage
and viii be illuminated with arc electric
lights making the building as bright as
day. The entire warehouse portion of the
building has floors made of two inch oak
and iron doors that roll UP and down like
a window curtain. The entire structure
is as nearly fireproof as it is possible to
make it, The roof is supported by such
immense rafters that Mr.. Mann believes
that a freight train could be run over it
without damage.
The whole building will be surrounded
by about $3.50 square feet of platform
five feet or more high and filed in with
sand so that there will be no breaking
through it.
The officers of the new depot are: Mr..
George Mann. agent; Mr.. Ray Taylor.
cashier; Mr.. H. c. Koch. chief clerk, and
r. Y. Door. warehouse foreman. With
them are between fifteen and eighteen
others. All are enthusiastic Missouri
Pacific people" and they evince an unus-
ual interest in the business OF the COM
pany. These of course. do not include
the men in the passenger department,
they are the men exclusively in the
freight department.