Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-04-10
CONTRACTOR EXPECTS TO Have
ROOF ON BEFORE COLD WEATHER
Edifice Will Comprise Three Stories and
Full Basement
Excavation Work To Be Commenced To-
morrow or Friday

ment will be the letter carriers swing
room, where they will make up their
mail prior to each delivery. This
will be II by % feet. The carriers
toilet, IA by II feet. and stack room
and vault are also to occupy this end
of the basement. Across the west
end of the basement will be a fuel
room, Is by 80 feet, machine room,
15 by II feet, storage room, Is by II
feet, and the elevator pit. In the
basement will also he two ice boxes,
one for cooling the water to the drink
ing fountains on the first floor, the
other for cooling the water to the
drinking fountains on the second floor.
The United States post office will
occupy the first floor Of the federal
building. Upon passing through the
main enterance on Broadway, the visi-
tor will find himself in the handsome
public lobby. This lobby will be
twenty feet wide and eighty feet long,
also extending along the west side to
the main stairway and the electric
elevator. The first floor will have a
16 foot ceiling. The lobby will be
especially attractive with it's marble
wainscotting and borders, terrazzo
floor, and ornamental cornices. It's
fixtures will all be finished in quarter
sawed oak, as will be the fixtures of
the entire building with the exception
Of the post Office work room. From
the lobby one may reach his post office
box, and there will be carriers win
dows, stamp windows, the general de-
livery window, registry window and
money order window. as well as drops
for packages, papers, - and letters.
These will all face the Broadway en-
trance.
Post Office Work Room
The post office work room will &C.
cupy the greater portion of the first
floor. 1t will be 60 by 40 feet, and
h re the mail will be sorted and sent
to its proper destination. The work
room will have wood floor, with fir
wainscotting. On the north side a
mailing vestibule will open upon the
mailing platform which will he reach
ed from the outside |by the concrete
driveway. Through this vestlbule all
mail will be sent out and received at
the post Office. A galvanized metal
roof will afford protection for the
mailing platform.
Postmaster's Room
Entering the lobby through the
Third street entrance, a door will be
found to the left, just beyond the
elevator, which will open into the
postmaster's room, an apartment II
by II feet. This will have a hard
wood floor, with chair rail and picture
moulding, all finished in oak. Open
ing from this room will be a private
toilet. Further on will be the assis-
tant postmaster's room, from which
a fire proof steel vault will open.
The assistant postmaster's room will
be II by Ia feet, and will be finished
in the same handsome manner as will
be the postmaster's. The vault will
be by feet, and will contain steel
fixtures.
Money Order and Registry Division
The eastern portion of the first
floor will be devoted to the money
order and registry division, occupying
a room in the southeast corner 16 by
% feet. In this part of the building
will also be located massive fire
proof vault, locker room, stack
room, and women's toilet room.
Main Stairway.
An electric elevator will convey the
visitors to the second or third floors
from the public lobby. The elevator
will be situated Immediately to the
left Of the Third street entrance as
one steps into the lobby from that
direction. Access to the upper floors
may also be had by the main stair.
way. The stairway will be magnifi.
cent to look upon. It will be finished
n Olive marble, and a more hand
some design could have not been Oh.
aimed.
Second Floor
Thesecond floor will be devoted to
he use of the United States court. |
The flooring here will be of hard
wood, and all of the rooms will have
picture mouldings Of oak.
Federal Court OFFICES
A roomy corridor 10 by 80 feet in
will extend eastward from
he main stairway. To the left from
he top of the stairway will be a !
passage leading past the toilet room,
o the headquarters Of the United |
states postal Inspector. The inspec-
ors room will he 16 by II feet. The
southern portion of this floor will be
Iivided into rooms for the use Of the
'arious court officials. To the right !
g one will go down the corridor from
he stairway will be two rooms for
he United States marshal and his
Equities. These rooms will be 16 by