Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-11-29
The POStOfice Building Will Be-
Ready By February
1915.
CROWD SAW FIRST MOVE.
To Be Built of Bowling Green
Stone, To Cost
$71,OOO.

Two-score years from now, when
young men Will reach middle life
many of them will indulge in retro
spect and tell their children about
the postoffice building commenced
on Thanksgiving day 1913.
The Paradise Construction Com
parry, of Louisville, which secured the
contract after a close contest in bid
ding, broke dirt for the foundation
bright and early Thursday morning.
AS many were taking day off the
first move in excavating was seen by
large crowd. About 20 hands,
nearly all living here, had been en-
ployed the day before and reported
for work and soon the dirt began to
fly at a lively rate.
1t is matter of qualification that
Uncle Sans new greenbacks will be
paid out to men who belong here,
most of them any way. AS this is a
season when there is not much
building going on, the employment
OF laborers and stonemasons for
building the foundation came as a
sort of Thanksgiving present.
Nothing more than building the
foundation can be done until spring
after the foundation stones have
settled in their places, but the Bowl
ing Green stone, of which the walls
are to be built, can be gotten out and
delivered here during the winter
months.
There is no man in Hopkinsville
more pleased to see the beginning of
a public building than assistant Post
master Gus Breathitt. He claims to
be the originator of the very first
move in securing the building now
begun. His chief desire for many
long and disappointing years has been
to see a building adapted to the
needs of handling the United States
mail. He was almost alone when
the scheme began to work in his
brain and the first man he called
upon to assist him in putting it into
motion was j. T. Wall The pro-
gressive spirit of Mr.. Wall manifest
ed itself at once, and a campaign was
begun to put the thing over" Uncle
Sam, if possib e. The newspapers
of the city took up the fight with
alacrity, and if all the matter that
was published could be collected it
would make a good sized volume.
When DR.. j. ID. Clardy was in Con-
gress he did all he could to get an
appropriation for the building but
the document were hidden away in
one of the pigeon holes in
one of the departments where they
remained without being disturbed
until A. o. Stanley succeeded H. d.
Allen as Representative from the
Second district. Stanley once lived
here when he was boy, and had a
soft place in his heart for Hopkins
vile and felt that it was his duty to
do something for the town that he
loved and at the opportune time got
busy, pulled the musty documents
from the pigeon hole, where they !
had been for about Is years, and one
day the news was flashed over the
wires that Mr.. Brathitt's dream was
to be realized. Stanley had secured |
a $l2, 900 appropriation for the lot.
But that was only a start. Hop
kinsville was entitled TO something
good, and after the matter rested
for awhile Mr.. Stanley rolled up his
sleeves and went to work with
more earnestness than ever and
other appropriations were secured
until the building was assured, thanks
TO his good work, the entire app O.
priation being $4,000. !