Evening star., 1909-06-30
SWAP OFFICE ROOMS
Extensive Changes Planned at
Treasury Building.
GROUP MONEY HANDLERS
Cash to Be Shipped From West In
stead of East Side.
BASEMENT FLOOR TO BE USED
Thought New Arrangement Will
Facilitate Work and Remove Some
of the Possible Dangers.

An extensive rearrangement OF the
Office space of the Treasury Department
is under advsement and may be adopted.
Private Secretary Robert Bailey has the
matter in charge.
The principal object of the proposed
changes is to group all the offices han
ding money and bonds on the basement
floor instead of having them scat
tered as has been the case for years
Both Secretary MacVeagh and Private
Secretary Bailey on coming into the
Treasury and learning the locations and
scope of the different bureaus and Offices.
were not satisfied with the arrangement
that made it necessary for all money.
bonds. etc, to be brought into and ship
ped out of the building on the 18th street
side. surrounded at all times of the day
by passing traffic and thousands OF people
Some Of the officials of the department,
including the watcnmen, have marveled
for years that this daily inflow and out
flow Of millions of money ana securities
could go on without some serious nap
pening and possible loss of life
Would Facilitate Dispatch.
The heavy vans of the government anu
the big wagons of the two express COM
panies operating in the work of handling
money and securities from the Treasury
are at all times securely guarded by cour-
ageous men, but the temptation to des-
perate criminals has at all times been
present, especially in view of the exposure
by reasons of the activities of traffic on
18th street. BY concentrating all the Of
fees engaged in the money and bond
business on the basement floors on the
west side of the building, including the
express companies now located on the
.tl rty,Sp
all this business to be handled from that
side of the Treasury would not only IA
cilitate the entire business. but remove
some of the possible dangers, is the view
of Treasury officials.
To bring about this concentration. how
ever. it is necessary to remove the super
vising architect and his large force of
men from the basement floor. west side,
and find room for him elsewhere. The
tentative plan now likely to be adopted is
to give the supervising architect all of the
fourth floor and give the offices now oc-
cupied by his force to the redemption bu-
reaus, express companies and all other
offices having to do with the receipts of
money from different parts of the country
and it's shipment.
Moving the Files.
The printing office and bindery were re-
Gently removed from the fourth floor, free
ing much of the space there. The renting
of the Union building on G street for the
auditors of the Interior and Navy depart
ments has given room there for a large
proportion of'the files belonging to those
offices and occupying space on the fourth
floor.
The auditor for the Navy Department
has been in the Munsey building, but his
files have all remained in the Treasury
proper. The auditor for the Interior De-
partment has been in the Union building,
but his files also remained in the Treas
ury. The files of both offices will now be
removed to the Union building, where
they will be Immediately available. The
removal of these files will give much
space on the fourth floor. BY removing
some of the offices of the internal reye-
nue. from this floor to other floors it is
possible to give the whole floor to the
supervising architect who finds it adapted
to the work of his Office. which has here
tofore been handicapped for lack of light
for drafting work. The fourth floor is
we'll lighted
The proposed changes are so extensive
as to necessitate much time In their
working out and the actual moving will
not be done until the details have been
fully decided upon.