The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
POSTAL MOVES INTO NEW OFFICE HOME Telegraph Company Now In
 BroWn-Marx Annex FINEST OFFICE IN SOUTH Managers Office Is on Ground Floor and Operating Rooms Occupy En-
 tire Sixteenth-Connected
 By Pneumatic Tubes.
FINEST OFFICE IN SOUTH

Last night the Postal Telegraph com. pany moved into its new quarters ir the Brown-Marx annex. It was really 8 Homecoming move as the quarters the company has been occupying across the street were only temporary.
 This new home of the Postal Telegraph company Is pronounced a monument tC the energy and enterprise of the owner; of the Brown-Marx building, who, wher they wished to enlarge the Brown-Mar1 building, found the Postal Telegraph company occupying their old quarters ad- jacent to the old Brown-Marx building under a long term lease.
 This did not deter Messrs Brown and Woodward from making the improve ment Recognizing the fact that 1t was merely a business proposition they pro- posed to the telegraph company to pro- vide them new quarters in the new build ing if they would vacate the old build ing in order that it might be torn down to permit the erection of a new build ing. This was done and the new an nex in connection with the Brown Marx building. making the largest office build ing in the south, is the result.
 The new quarters of the Postal Tel egraph company are splendidly fitted up. the space they occupy being laid out by the architects in connection with the engineering staff of the Postal company for the express purpose of fitting up the most perfect telegraph office the experience of the companys engineers could design. To the lay mind it ap- pears to be perfect.
 The business office on the ground floor 3n R,afa had in na1a to d with the trimmings in the new build ing. The floor of the managers office and lobby is tiled in hexagonal white tile, with a Greek design border worked out in blue square tiles.
 The managers office has two store rooms in the basement of the building and there is also one large store room in the basement for the use of all de- partments. In one corner of this store room has been cut off small room by 10 feet for a "blower roomp' in which are installed two f1ve-horsepower motors, each directly coupled to a rotary air pump.
 The operating room and Superintend- ent's Hargrave's quarters are on the sixteenth floor. All departments are con- nected by pneumatic tubes and the two motors in the blower room in the base ment are for the purpose of forcing messages through pneumatic tubes to the various stations.
 One can readily recognize the speed with which these messages are taken from the business office to the operating department and vice versa, when 1t Is considered that small carrier with it's contents, weighing less than eight ounces, has three horsepower of compressed air forcing 1t forward. A message put into carrier in the business office arrives in the operating room on the sixteenth floor quicker than a person could walk the length of the corridor in the Brown Marx building.
 The operating room and the superin- tendent's offices on the sixteenth floor are reached by one elevator. All the oth- CT elevators stop at the fifteenth floor. Employees of the company can use the special elevator to the sixteenth floor when it Is in operation, but at all other times they will take an elevator to the fifteenth floor and walk up one flight of stairs.
 The Postal company occupies practic- ally all of the sixteenth floor of the new building, the space being divided up as follows:
 Three large rooms and private corri- dor for Superintendent Hargrave.
 One file room for the operator depart ment.
 One locker room for the clothing of the employees of the operating depart ment. In this room is provided a steel locker for each employe.
 A lunch room for all employees.
 Special lunch room for women em- ployes.
 private corridor to the operating department and a large operating room. This is said to be the largest operating room in the world, having no columns running through 1t. This is possible ia the new building for the reason that the operating department is on the top floor, whereas In all other offices of this kind the operating rooms are on lower floors and as a result it is necessary to carry the main columns of the steel frame through the rooms.
 Manager Jackson expects to arrange a few visiting days" in which he will invite the public to inspect this most modern telegraph office. If this is ar ranged one will be surprised to see just what a modern telegraph plant consists of; such as switchboards, constructed entirely of iron and slate, with brass electrical parts a dynamo plant contain ing nine dynamos, which furnish cur rent for the operation of all circuits. These dynamos are controlled from a marble switchboard. which Is also of the very latest pattern. and equipped with every required type of instrument, volunteers. ammeters. wattmeters, etc.
  stalled on operating tables of the most modern type 30 Morse sets, 10 quadruplex sets, 20 duplex sets, besides various auto matic repeaters. Another interesting fea- ture is the morsegraph, which preserves a continuous record of every dot" or dash" made in the office
 The entire equipment of this modern telegraph plant was installed by Fore- man Thomas Neelon of the electrical de- partment of the company, who has car ried out the work in manner which reflects great credit upon himself as well as his company. MT. Neelon's ex- perience in this kind of work covers the whole United States and his might also be called one of the interesting fea- lures of the Birmingham new office. The esteem In which he Is held by the offi- cers of the company is easily seen from the affectionate manner in which they all speak of "Tom-"