The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-11
FEDERAL
BUILDING At
CH|CKASHA
is NEARING COMPLETION AT A
COST OF $4,000 - PoSTMAS-
TER WILL TAKE CHARGE IN A
FEW WEEKS.

TO do the placing of the marble al
s135, 600 federal building being erect
ed at Chickasha is nearing compile
ton Contractors declare that if no
unexpected obstacles arise, the struc-
ture will be ready to turn over to
Postmaster G. w Barefoot by March
first
The outline walls Bedford lime
stone from Bedford, Ind, backed up
with brick, and floors and partitions
of reinforced cement have been up
for months. The entire fall and win
ter months have been consumed by
the contractors in roofing the struc-
ture with red tile and doing all the
other semi finishing work.
Even the ornamental plaster is nov
on, and there is lot of it, the cell
ings of almost the entire building
being finished in panels.
appears COfnplcte,
Viewed from the outside, the struc-
ture already has the appearance of
being completed Situated on Fourth
street and Choctaw avenue, block
from the tive-story First National
bank building and the main corner
in town, it faces coward the east on
North Fourth street A side en-
trance leads to the back door from
the brick paved Chcctaw avenue,
the wholesalers street in Chickasha.
With its breadth of seventy feet
and its length of 107 the structure
looks substantial. Six massive pill
lars, almost four feet in diameter,
and of the same material as the out
er walls, support that part of the
third story Overhanging the en-
trance to the lobby. Then in direct
contrast with the somber- appearing
walls, is the bright red tile roof,
and this contrast is further empha-
sized by overhanging caves, paint
ed in seven brilliant colors after a
design taken from the work of one
of the plains tribes of Indians.
If the prediction of w. f. Rachel.
general superintendent of the con-
struction work, holds good, patrons
of the local office will be buying
stamps on the first floor of the new
building by March IL, Postmaster
Barefoot will be comfortably quar-
tered in the north end of the main
floor and quarters will be ready for
any number Of federal officers in the
two upper stories.
Superintendent Rachel declares
even the basement is being finished
off in better style than the main
floors of many fine buildings In the
first place, it is water tight, not 4
leak having been left in the Georgia
granite used for foundation material.
Neither will it lack any of the CON
veniences to be found in the best
federal buildings in the entire coun-
try.
In the basement are being finished
a number of storage departments,
rooms for elevator machinery, fuel
rooms, lavatories and lounging rooms
with steel lockers for both the local
mail carriers and clerks, and for
those working on trains. Two boilers
that will be used in the steam heat
ing system will be put in, the one
duplicate of the other, for use in
case of emergency.
On the main floor will be used
most of the marble and brass trim
mings. The main floor will be the
one most often visited by the laity
1t will contain large lobby, supplied
with desks and quarters for every de-
partment of the postoftice with which
the ordinary citizen has anything to
do. Floors will be of tile, finishing
will be of marble and the ceiling
will be ornamented in plaster
Place for Spy.
Here will be installed the largest
)f the five fire proof vaults in the
A suspended runway, al
most the full length of the lower
floor, is a part of the spying system
by the postal department
n its efforts to locate any possible
'raud of mail clerks in handling the
effects entrusted to the care of Uncle
Sam
Federal court will have quarters |
IN the second floor and little room |
s left for anything else. One large |
is now being finished where |
.egular court will be held, then there
ire a number OF smaller chambers,
me for the. judge, another for the
district attorney and another for the
lerk of the court.
Offices for the postofiice inspector,