, 1906-10-08

AT HOME
NEPHEW ELMER TAKES POSSES
SIGN OF NEW QUARTERS FOR
OLD GENTLEMAN ON
BRIGHT SUNDAY.
Elegant Building Now Used for Pur-
pose for Which 1t Was Intended,
Filling Hearts of People of City
With Pride and Qualification
Many Innovations to Tighten La
Dor and Add to Convenience.

Dor and Add to Convenience.
Postmaster Belts is now in his ele-
giant new official home at the corner
of Third and Thornburgh streets, in
one of the finest buildings for postof-
fee purposes in the west, and when
he has gotten the furniture somewhat
Strengthened around, and in position
to be disable, he and his corps of as
s~istants will be as snug as a bug in a
rug. The transfer of the postoffice
from Second street to the government
building was made Saturday night, and
at 10 O'Clock Sunday Mr.. Beltz was
ready to begin exchanging box keys
in the new building for those in the
old. There was a long line of patrons
at the office when the doors were
opened, and as rapidly as possible the
exchanges were made, the patrons get
ting their mail and leaving for their
several homes or offices. Harry Prahl
of the Laramie Drug company was the
first to the window, a reporter for The
Republican being close behind him.
This office was assigned box No. $50,
one of the eight large boxes provided
for heavy patrons of the office.
A Modern Building.
The new postoffice is a model, in
many respects far ahead of larger and
more expensive buildings built before
this one. 1t is modern in all its lines,
every department designed Int fitted
up with a view to accomplishing the
greatest amount of work with the min
imum Of effort. The work room is
large, light and convenient, the new
furniture being far and away ahead
of anything ever seen here before.
The carriers are enabled to get their
mail matter in shape quicker and more
to their liking than ever before.
Building About Completed.
The building is just about completed. |
although the curtains have yet to be
hung. The furniture has beer put in
place not only on the postoffice floor,
which occupies the whole of the first
floor of the large building, but in the
second story as well. On the upper
floor are large offices for the civil ser
vice commission, the forestry service,
the geological survey, agricultural ex-
periments and the postoffice inspector,
each with its own furniture, each
brilliantly lighted and each accessible
from the broad hall. Toilet rooms for
men and women are provided on this
floor.
New Boxes Assigned.
The old boxes were abandoned when
the exchange from the old to the new
building was made Saturday night, and
as fast as the work could be done the
new boxes were assigned. The mum
bers are quite different, and not many
patrons of the old office received the
same number as the new. There was
a slight increase in the rental price of
some of the boxes. but this was paid
willingly, the new boxes being so much
better in every way than the old.
Postmaster Beltz has asked The Re-
publican to emphasize one fact in con
n%ection with the new boxes. He says
the ruling of the postoffice department
is that when a letter has been deliv.
cred in the patrons box the respon-
sibility of the department ceases.
Patrons Must Use Keys.
Heretofore patrons of the office own
ing boxes have been in the habit of
sending for their mail without the key,
necessitating the handing of the mail
from the box through the general de-
livery window by clerks of the office.
This plan will be abandoned. The
boxes cannot be unlocked from the
inside and clerks will not be required
to serve owners of boxes who neglect
to send their box key with the appli
cant for the mail. Many times the
clerk at the window will be busy 9TH
erwise and other clerks are not avail
able for the purpose of handing mail
from the boxes to the patrons.
American Flag Floating.
The large flag was holsted to the
top of the flagstaff this morning and
will be kept floating on every business
day henceforth, from early in the
morning until shutdown. This matter
is in charge of David Hazard, who
has been named as janitor of the
building. John Mckenzie has been
placed in charge of the heating and
water service of the building.
Has Nice Private Office.
Postmaster Belts private office has
not been entirely fitted up yet, the car
pet remaining to be put down. This
office is in the northeast corner of the