Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-29
Is Now Comfortably Installed in
The New Federal Building
On Lower Main Street.
FIRST DELIVERY LAST NIGHT.
Building Presents a Lively Scene, Due
To Uncle Sans Agents
Moving In.

The Salt Lake postofiice moved last
night. as per schedule. and mail IL now
being received aud delivered at the
new quarters In the Federal building,
The keys for the new boxes are being
distributed as fast as boxhOlders call
for them, and IN the course of another
day, Acting Postmaster kesler be-
leyes all boxholders viii be in possess
sion OF their boxes.
The pOstoitice force worked and
worked hard up TO II o'clock last night.
when the final distribution Of mail was
made in the old postofiice, and the cases
and letters were bodily transferred TO
the new building. The letters in the
private boxes were bound together by
rubber bands and carried over to the
new office and replaced In the new
boxes. During the day and evening
drays had been busy transferring sucn
fixtures and parapherualia as We're to
go over, and a. midnight the fortieth
drayload left the Dooly block. the drop
letter holes We're nailed over with
boards, all the windows were closed the
doors locked, and the keys handed over
to Mr.. Dooly The old postoiicc that
had been used since the days OF The
Harrison administration was abandon
ed forever.
FIRST BATCH OF MAIL.
The acting postmaster did not wait
for morni g before delivering mails
from the new quarters, but handed out
the first batch at 10 o'clock in the eve
ming. There was no hitch in the trans
fer but everything went off smoothly,
and the public Is making all due al.
loWances for possible delays. In view OF
the magnitude Of the move. The clerks
and carriers are rapidly catching on"
so that By the end of the week, the
business Of the postofIice will be NOV
Ing on with its accustomed regularity.
a LIVELY SCENE.
The federal building presented
scene Of activity this morning, when
the stream of people who Will ssom now
on daily move up and down that par,
OF Maint street, began its steady and
never-ending run. The interior OF the
great structure has been crowded all
day by people going and coming for
now not only the post office, but the
United States courts, the surveyor gem
eral the land Office, the internal reve-
nue. office, the emigration agency and
tllt CHiltl SLdtts uIslIlCt attorney and
the United States marshal's Offices are
housed under the great roof. The only
government office at present left out IS
the custom house, and when the build
Ing was planned this office was hardly
even dreamed Of. However, the Judges
chambers back Of the circuit court
room, II Is said, are available and may
be utilized for custom house purposes
as u VIII be years before a second
United States court room is needed.
COUNTERS NEEDED
The need Of counters Is much felt in
the land and surveyor generals offices
and for the present planking is being
utilized. 1t will be several days before
the late arriving departments VIII have
everything to rights as before NOV
Ing. Many citizens went to the old
postofiice quarters this morning. from
sheer force Of habit" and only re.
membered the change on seeing the
offices empty. dreary and abandoned.