The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
R,chmond,s postoffice Service

"The people of Richmond are proud of the fact that that city is to be the first city in the couth with an all night and all day Sunday postoffice service available for the public" said mem her of Birmingham's Virginia colony. q gather these facts from the Richmond Virginian.
 "A substation of the postoffice Is to be opened next Thursday at the traffic center of the city, and the key will be thrown away.
 ""rhe station will be at Grants drug store at Seventh and Broad streets, the only open -all-night drug store in the city, and the hours observed at the post al station will be the hours observed at the owl drug store.
 "Being in the heart of the theatre and hotel district, the new postoffice substation will prove of great conven- fence to the people of this city and to the people visiting Richmond. Travel ing men, theatrical people and other transients will find the same postal facilities in Richmond that they find in all the other leading cities of the United States And no city in the United States will have anything on Richmond in the convenience of the location of the night mail center.
 "'The fact that the substation will be open all night for the transaction of all kinds of postal busineess-money order. registry, parcel post, letter mail, the sale of stamps, envelopes and other stamped paper, will not mean that the station will be night station only. All | postal business will be handled in the l daylight hours as well, just as it is handled in other stations, and at the | main postoffice
 "All other southern cities as large l as Richmond should be able to induce | Uncle Sam to give them as complete a service as the old Confederate capital will soon enjoy. Richmonds achieve ment must have been the result of hust- | ling somewhere"
 l Iron Prices Unchanged
 Rogers, Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati cir cular just issued, says in part: "Quietness reigned in the local pig iron market last week with some pending busi- ness carried over from the week before. Activity in this district in the metal lines
 had good impetus by the reported placing of large orders for export of war material
 with plants which are equipped to care for them. This same feature at other points in the leading one of interest today, and the past two weeks have been pro- nounced in adding to the already large
 amount of work of this kind now in prog
 ress. It is stated that March will produce
 something like 300,000 tons of metal con-
 tracts, all for export. Home busiAess was | led by the buying of rails which pro- | gressed quite satisfactorily.
 "It is reported as this is written that the American Rolling Mill company ol | Middletown, O., has received large orders for forgings and billets from leading car | companies This will mean much to this district in many ways and is most en. couraging news.
 'In the New York and New England territories satisfactory pig iron purchases
 have been made and there is better activ- ity there than elsewhere
 Consumers generally are running witf
 very low stocks and the majority of pur. chases made are at frequent intervals in tended to cover current dem snds It i' only recently that real interest has beer lshown in extended buying.
 "rrhe southern situation is quiet, makt of furnaces being shipped and stocks de
 creasing. Price conditions are unchanged