The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-25
Hagerstown s New Postomce.

The people of Hagerstown are disguised
with their new postoffice building, which
has recently been occupied, and does not
meet with the requirements necessary.
The Herald says:
ut is deplorable that the new building
fails so utterly to meet the requirements
of the situation. If the persons whose
business it was had made a careful study
of the needs here before contracting for
the present building Hager town would
have had a postoffice equal to the de-
mands of the business and suitable for
town of this size and growing importance.
1t seems. now that conditions can be UNI
derStood and appreciated, the department
has made an utter failure of the postoffice
building in that it is not fitted for the bus
mess that is transacted here In detail of
finish on the interior the building is very
good, but it is no more suited for Hagers-
town than quart can would be to hold a
gallon of water
The work room is crowded TO suffo-
cation No opportunity will be given
the lhirty-one employees of the postofhCe
to work the mails Confusion, crowding
and delay are sure to follow. The post
master will have to struggle with these
difficulties, while the public will find that
despite the best endeavor it will not be
possible to get the same excellent service
that has been heretofore gwen by reason
of this congestion The building is in
tended for community of 10, 600 or ! 2, 900
not one OF 10000 or more and increasing
at that. From the standpoint of capacity
the building is a complete failure and the
persons in authority at Washington whose
business it was to draw the plans and
make the contract should have given OF
should have been made to give the situa.
ton here more careful attention and
should not have inflicted on the commun
itv public building SO inadequate. Fur
Their and from another standpoint equally
as important the building is a failure /
that it is not architecturally a structure
complimentary to Hagerstown and Wash
ngton county 1t is small in size, not at
tractive in design or material and does no
provide in the slightest way for all the fed
eral Offices If It is to be the fedora
building should have provided offices 70
all the federal officials in the county. In
stead it does not provide sufficient room
for the proper transaction of the buSnes
it is delegated to hold The building look
like, some citizens say, a Mississippi hous
IOdl, anu OtiiClS Il COUNTY, Injecting HOUSE
The HageJSfo50R Mail says:
Twelve years ago the postofliCe wa
moved into the Masonic building into
commodious room The total receipt
were at that time SIS, 600 annually. Th
room gradually grew too small and no,
the business has grown TO $50, 900 ar
, nually and so the new building became
necessity and an improvement for til
better The Government wiSeaCres an
/; Federal architects, in spite of the protest
of the people here who knew little some
, thing, met that demand of more bushes
for more room by giving the newposloffic
r a Workroom that is smaller than the on
/ left, thus sadly crowding the place Til
Mail has already written severly cnoug
I upon the architectural qualifications i,
the immortal cheese box on Summit Av,
with the rat hole windows but all that
lost tremendously in the undeniable IA,
that the move from South Potomac to til
, Summit avenue is not move for moi
u room to do a rapidly increasing busine,
but a fitting to smaller accommodate
{ and cramped quarters. The worst of
is that there was ample room on the |,
D for fair space for the workroom and Il
contracted and narrow area for the mo
n important part of the administration ";
moi unavoidable but was deliberate. "