Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
Hundreds of Visitors Tn. spected the New Federal
 Building Yesterday.
OFFICES ARE OPENED
Pension Examiner Goodwin and poet. office Inspector D. (. Hudson
 Have Arrived

Pine Bluffs new S15.0DO DOsfof1ien building vas thrown open to the pub-= lie Sunday afternoon for the first time since it was turned over to tho government by the builders some day. ago. Postmaster F, C. t'urth made no previous announcement of the ooenine owing to the fact that the public has suffered many disappointments of late. due to several promises that the new federal building would be opened at Inherent times. The delay in shipping fixtures and other necessary eouip- ment used at the new building occas- toned the delay in opening it. Without any previous notification Postmaster Furth and his corps of assistants moved all the mail from the old, un- sanitary postoffice on West Barraoue street Sunday afternoon and at 1 o'clock, when the Memphis mail ar rived, the clerks were performing their duties at the new office as if nothiag had happened. The boxes had all been assigned and everything was in readiness for the opening. Persona visiting the old office were met with a plaeard on the doors bearing the re- quest, Go to the new postoffice. We have moved" As soon as it became known that the magnificent new build ing had been opened hundreds visited the building and inspected the beauti. fully furnished apartments and mod ern fixtures and the mail receiving and sending appliances.
 All day Monday hundreds streamed in and out of the new building and were shown throughout the interior. The second floor of the new PoSt0ffice contains many offices, which are to be used by various inspectors, exam- iners, postal clerks and other goyern- ment employees. The combination box has been done away with and the new office is equipped with large metal boxes of the latest and most improved type, with Yale locks. Three keys have been provided for each box and they are being sold to postoffce pa-
 irons for 20 cents each. O. w. Good
 win special pension examiner who
 was for many years stationed at Sa-
 lima. Kan. has already arrived and es-
 taDlished Headquarters in the pension
 examiners office in the new building.
 Mir. Goodwin will make this city his
 headquarters in future. He has charge of twelve counties in southwest Ar- kansas, POstoffice Inspector D. c,
 Hudson, late of Omaha, Neb, has also
 been sent here to be permanently To- cated in the new building. Apartments
 have been set aside for the local board Of civil service and rest room, and other convenient quarters are provid-
 ed on the second floor for the railway
 mail clerks who run in and out of this
 city Magnificent bath rooms and read i ing rooms have also been set aside for
 the mail carriers. The new federal
 building is one of the finest in the state and was built through the deter
 mined efforts of Congressman Joe T.
 Robinson, of this district For years Pine Bluff made an effort to bring about the erection of a government building here, without success. As soon as Congressman Robinson reach ed Washington to enter upon his du- ties he began to work for postoffice building for Pine Bluff. Aided by the local newspapers, commercial organ izations and business men, he was fins ally rewarded with success.