Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-24
NEW POSTOfF|CE
 FINEST IN ARIZONA ]
Room Fixtures and Arrange ment ExcelIent-Prepara- tionS Being Made to Move, Open for Business Monday,

After several months of delay. caused by the trouble of getting the material used in the construction of the new library building in this city, practically all the work on the post office portion of that structure has been completed. and preparations are now being made by Postmaster Cas- sidy to move.
 The postoffice will be closed at o'clock Saturday afternoon. and will remain closed until Monday morning at 10:30, when the postal business will be carried on in the new quarters. On Sunday the general delivery win dows will be opened in the old guar. ters the same as usual, and the postal matter belonging to box-hOlders will be distributed. Postmaster Cassidy will place notices today asking all box holders to remove the mail from their boxes before 12 o'clock noon on Sun day because at that time the carpen- ters will start 10 take down the section and remove them to the new office. He confidently expects that everything will be in readiness to carry on busi- ness in the new quarters on Monday morning.
 The new postoffice room is undoubt- edly the finest in the territory, and will aid the officials infinitely in improving the service, which in the past has been criticized, and without reason, if one would make reasonable allowance for the enormous difficulties under which the business of the office has been carried on.
 Postmaster Cassidy has Iabored un- ceasingly to bring about the improve. ments which are now being realized. and is the man who deserves the credit for this city's having the best post office quarters in the territory.
 The new room is on the ground floor of the new library building, and is en- tered from that end of the structure nearest to the Copper Quen store. The floor is Of concrete, and in the portion used by the clerks is overlaid with wooden flooring.
 On entering the main room the first side room on the left is the office of the postmaster; next is that of the assistant; then the money order and registry windows. and finally the gen. eral delivery windows, which are four in number, and will afford means of waiting on the public with dispatch. At the extreme end on the left is a large vault. in which the records of the office can be kept. The right side of the room is devoted entirely to the boxes, which will be 2,000 ill num- Der. This is almost a thousand more than there are in the old office, and will also serve to relieve the conges- tion at the general delivery windows, which is due to the fact now that there are not near enough boxes for the ap- plicants. There will also be return ing room for the clerks.
 The furniture of the office is almost entirely new, and represents the most advanced ideas evolved by those whose business it is to improve the postal service. All the woodwork is the best, presenting a very fine appearance.
 Another innofation. which will tend to relieve congestion in the postoffice, is the placing of drops in such a way that people can mail their letters with out en, ering the building At the last window on the Main street side of the office drops have been installed, so that people need not add to the crowd in he office when they simply want to mail letter.
 Another matter which has been a nuisance in the present quarters, and a source of much discomfort to the young ladies employed in the office, has been that men smoke in there, and carelessly expectorate on the floor. when they could as well desist from smoking while in the office. and ex- pectorate when they reach the street. Postmaster Cassidy will ask the public to do away with this nuisance in the new office.