New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-02
Five to Advise
Hays or, Better
Service Here

To Transport Sacks Direct.

$500 -@-
cent, will come direct to New York
City
To Transport Sacks Direct.
ut now takes eighteen trucks a day
to cart the mail from Brooklyn to New
York for points West. This will be
changed and boats will meet the trucks
In Brooklyn at piers there and trans
port the sacks direct to the railway
terminals in Jersey.
The matter of sorting the mail on
board incoming vessels has not been
settled yet For the present all mail
VIII have to come direct to New York
for this reason as we'll as because of
the fact that the piers in Jersey are
not ready yet to receive our boats.
This sea post service will be taken up
with the international Postal Union at
Its next convention. 1t will mean a
greater saving in time, as the mail
can be sorted on board just the same
as we now sort mail on trains.
'ln order to establish better postal
relations with South America and
thus help the exporters the depart
ment has sent as delegates to the
pan-merlcan postal conference Mt
Buenos Ayres, on August 10, D. C.
sands. superintendent Of foreign mails
IN.
rotary of the Foreign Trade Council.
we want parcel post and money
order contract with every country in
South America, and we could not have
chosen two better men to look out for
our interests. They sailed on the
American Legion under authority of
Congrass'
Mr.. Hays declined to discuss the
apartments relations with the United
States Mail Steam ship Line other than
TO say that he would advocate the use
OF American bottoms for American
mail.
The recent report of the joint
postal commission of Congress, which
consists of five Senators and five Rep
resentatiyes, was fully gone into by
the Postmaster General He took up
each recommendation as to enlarge
ment OF facilities and improvements
for the service in this city.
"Cne of the three new building sites
, recommended" he said, SIS over the
Pennsylvania tracks, between Thirty
first and Thirty-second streets, east
of Ninth Avenue. 1t is plot 3b5 feet
by 455 feet and the railroad company
wants s2,250,000 for it. 1t is a ques-
ton whether the government should
buy and build or negotiations be
opened with contractor, who would
buy and build and then rent to the
government for a period of years.
have not looked into the appraisal of
tins property yet.
New York Central Also Offers Site
"The next site is between Ninth and
Tenth avenues, on Thirtieth Street,
and is 100 feet by 600 feet The New
York Central has offered to construct
a building on it and rent to us at $1.7O
per square foot Of floor space. We
have drawn up the plans for this build
ing but do not remember the details.
These two sites will give us excel
lent railroad connections and are Sc
lected for that reason. The ideal
postoffice is where the railroads run
into it, but this cannot be accomplished
in New York because of the expense, so
these locations are as near as we can
come.
"The third site is the present old
postoffice building at City Hall. This
station does more business than the
city of ST. Louis, which ranks fifth
in the country. The building is badly
ventilated, is .overcrowded and has
outgrown its usefulness. The Federal
agencies in this city pay 100000 q
year rent in other buildings outside
tais postoffice and yet it is the Federal
Building in this great city. 1t is pro-
posed that some additional floor space
be obtained by expending $4,000 to
extend the meZzanine balcony across
the interior, which would help out for
three years.
at is recommended that the present
building be torn down ana structure
erected solely for postoffice use, but
understand there is great objection on