Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-24
AGAIN DENIES PLEA
FOR BRANCH OFFICE
Postmaster Praegar Refuses
to M-EstabIish Station in P.
= o. Department Building.

Postmaster Otto Praeger has again
refused to establish a postal station in
the Post Office Department building, at
1tth' street and Pennsylvania avenue.
He sent a letter today to the committee
of business men which has been urging
the establishment of such a station,
giving his reasons for denying their re-
quest, and declaring that it Is always
his purpose to better postal facilities
in Washington whenever possible.
The committee consists of Isadore
Grosner. Carl F. Brodt. Lem Towers,
jr.; Alexander Muhcaster, Louis Jacobs
and E. Allen Harris.
Letter to the Committee.
Mr.. Praeger's letter to the committee
is as follows:
'Replying to your communication of
August 20. requesting the re-establish-
ment of a postal station in the Post
Office Department building, at 11th
street and Pennsylvania avenue north
west, on or before September Is next,
1 beg to advise that. for reasons set
forth in my communication to you of
February 13. 1915, and also stated in
conference with your committee, as a
whole and as individuals, l cannot con-
scientiously recommend the re-estab-
liShment of the station you request. l
regret to say that the conditions that
would require the establishment of a
classified postal station on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, such as your committee
expects, do not now exist. l shall be
frank to state that if l were called
upon at this time to recommend a site
for the establishment of a full postal
station in the downtown business Sec
ton, my duty to the public and to the
postal service would require mel to rec
ommend a location few blocks farther
north. and perhaps a little west of the
location of the Post Office Department
building on Pennsylvania avenue. In
INV Judgment, however, the time is not
ripe for such move.
the coming G. A. r. encampment and
other large conventions. These large
gatherings will be taken care of by
special postal facilities, as they alway'
have been in the past.
Alleges Improved Service.
II trust that the far-reaching devel-
opment of the postal service in the city
of Washington in the past year. which
has been criticised officially as far
more ample than is afforded any other
city in the United States of it's size, is
evidence of the fact that shall not
permit the service to the Washington
public to deteriorate or become the
subject of righteous criticism. 1t is
the policy of considering the interests
of the public as a whole that some
times makes it necessary to disregard
the desires of some restricted section,
with the result that citizens often are
led to confuse the inconvenience or
injury to individual interests with in
Jury or inconvenience to the general
public Unfortunately, it leaves some
DerSOnS under the impression that the
official upon whom the recommends
tion in such matters rests has not at
heart the interests of the section i'm
mediately affected. of which implica-
ton 1 trust the business men of Wash
ington, who know of the efforts of this
office to advance and extend the COM
mercial interests of the city. will ac-
quit me-"