Evening star., 1912-11-17
STATION F OPENING
Will Be Ready for Business
Tomorrow Morning.
MODERN I'M ALL DETAILS
Handsome Structure Cost More Than
$4,000.
FORCE LARGELY INCREASED
Windows VIII Be Open for Con-
venience of Public Every Night
Until II O'Clock.
FORCE LARGELY INCREASED

What is declared to be the handsomest
classified postal station building in the
United States and what will eventually
become the largest and most important
postal station of Washington, next TO the
main post Office, Station f, will be ready
for business at o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
The station heretofore has been located
at 1413 Park road. After the last carrier
delivery of the day there yesterday aft
ernoon, between ) and 4 o'clock, the re-
moval of the safes and government prop
er.y began. The mails not dispatched
or delivered at 5 O'Clock, when the clos
ing hour came, and remaining equipment
We're removed to the new building, which
is located on street just west of 14th
street northwest, and the entire transfer
successfully was made without incident
by $50 o'clock
The new building is the property of NJ
A. Winter and George W. Faris, and.
with the exception of some minor details
in the matter OF equipment, is now COM
plete- The Post Office Department has
leased for term of years the entire first
floor and about one-half of the second
floor.
The new building has frontage of
about fifty eight feet on L street, with a
depth of 11o feet to a thirty-foot alley,
connecting with main building in the
rear, in both cellar and first story.
Side Entrance From Street.
There is side entrance from the street
to the offices on the second floor and
also for employees to the first t-fioor work
| room Of the postal station. ON the first
| floor, besides the workroom. is a public
lobby, entered from the street through
a revolving door, and a mailing platform
next to the alley in the rear.
| The public lobby is about seventeen by
| twenty eight feet, finished with mosaic
and terrazzo floor, marble base, oak vain
| scot ana green plaster piers with mold
| ed caps and cornice. The screen has been
designed TO NEE. the latest post Office re-
quiremcEts.
| The workroom has been furnished with
the new standard equipment recently de-
/ signed by the Post Office and Treasury
Departments, this being the first install
| lation to be used In this room special
study has been giveE, the lighting both
natural and artificial
Facade of Marble.
The facade is of marble from the South
| Dover quarries of New York state with
granite base, and is ornamented with
carving, bronze letters and Srilles. The
| Ionic portico. with the American eagle
carved in the pediment, gives it a gov
Ornamental! character, and in connection
with the bronze lettering emphasizes the
| fact that the iulding is occupied by the
| United States Post Office Department.
The new building cost more than $4,000.
| Both In the designing OF the building
and the laying out Of the equipment the
architects have been in constant touch
with the officials OF the Post Office De-
partment with the end in view of get
| ting an ideal pan for an up-to-date sub
station ard the result is such that this
will be used as a model for all future
stations throughout the United States.
! As already published in The Star, John
w. Cotter the superintendent OF Station
F. tomorrow morning Will find himself
| in charge OF 80 clerks and other EN-
| pIoyes, tifty-siX OF them letter carriers
| drafts having been made from the main
! be ughtened by the relocation OF Station
| f. The stations roster bore but forty-
| six names IN the old location.
Will Fave Every Facility. ;.
The station will have facilities for every
kind of postal service ana its window:
| VIII remain open for transaction of busi
ness with the public until IL O'Clock a.
/ night three hours later than at the ole
! location There will also be Il night
force on duty 70 receive and dispatcf
| mails all night. Arrangements for ths
direct outward dispatch CT mails TO th'