The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-09
POSTOFFICE PLANS
ARRIVE TODAY
SPECIFICATIONS CAN NOW BE
SEEN BY CONTRACTORS.
MODERN IN ALL DETAILS
WILL BE 80 FEET LONG FROM
NORTH TO SOUTH AND 20
FEET WIDE.

- S
wards the eerction of a new federal
building for Madison, took form this
morning in the arrival OF the plans
and specifications for the new post
office to be built this spring. Con-.
tractors may see the plans by max
ing application to Postmaster Lowe.
The public is not permitted 10 see
them.
According to the general outline,
the building will be so feet long,
from north to south, and 20 feet
wide, with the main entrance on Cen
ter street. and an employees entrance
at the south just off the alley be-
tween Center street and First
street s.
The building will be of brick,
trimmed with lime or sandstone.
and will be two stories high and will
have a basement. The main office
will be on the first floor, with store
rooms and an employees and carriers
rest room. when off duty, on the sec
ond floor.
Separate windows will be main
tanned for the general delivery, pos
tai savings, money orders, registry
and parcel post. At the right of the
north entrance, the postmaster will
have his office and the stairway
leading to the second floor will be a
little to the right of his office door.
incidentally, the money order and
the registry departments will occupy
a separate space from the p~ostoffice
proper. The lock boxes will occupy
the west side of the main floor. In
the center. after you enter through
the swinging doors. will be a com
modious lobby.
A lawn running all the way around
within the limit Of the land pur-
chased for the building, will complete
the general appearance Of what
promises to be one of the most at
tractive federal buildings in the en-
tire northwest, one of which the city
and county will have every eason to
be proud of.
Postmaster Lowe stated this after
noon that while the increased bust
ness of the office demanded the cree
tion of the new office, it did not sig
Nifty that more men and women
would be employed there, at least not
until the new office had been in use
for some time.
That the looking over the plans
will be some job was demonstrated
when Postmaster Lowe counted the
prints and found the number to be
Twenty-Five besides a book of thirty
pages comprising the specifications.
Where the limestone or sandstone is
not used in the construction, the
specifications call for granite.
The building will be modern in
every detail and the architecture is
the work of government experts who
have made a special study of the
erection of p~ostoffices, both regard
ing the convenience of patrons and
of employees. On a small scale. the
building will be built on the same
lines as the larger offices in the
larger cities of the country and sim
liar to those in Chicago and Mime
apolis.
Madison has secured this magnifi-
cent new structure through the eff
forts of Hon. c. H. Dillon, represent
ative in congress from the First dis
triet of South Dakota. 1t will no
only fill a long felt need, but will add
to the general beauty of the city in a
way hardly to be appreciated until il
is completed and the citizens are
1 then able to see for themselves.
? For years the need of such a build.
ing has been felt on all sides, but the
; inability of congress to vote the
/ money, due to the fact that each city
desiring new government building
had to await its urn until the funds
could be appropriated out of the fed
eral treasury. has delayed its cree
J ton.
When the new building is complet
., ed, the city will possess postal facil
tiles heretofore undreamed of and IL
the case of some, not even though
of. The present quarters have Ions
been inadequate and the employee
have not had the space TO perform
their daily duties with the speed AM
7 efficiency required in a city wher'
the postal receipts are increasing
each year with it's growth.