Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-22
BUILDING
WILL OPEN MONDAY
Statistical Section of Income
Tax Unit to Be First
to Move.
The movement Of Government workers

The movement Of Government workers
into the Mall Triangle, which eventually
is to concentrate thousands there front
all parts Of the National Capital, win
start next Monday morning.
At 1880 o'clock trucks will back up
to the Treasury annex No. J., on Penn
sylvania avenue opposite the Treasury
Department, and begin moving from
that building into the new Internal
Revenue Building, at Tenth and B
streets, the statistical section of the
clearing division Of the income tax
unit, Internal Revenue Bureau.
ton of Edward White, chief of that
section, will be transferred with their
desks, records, paraphernalia and equip
ment to the new Internal Revenue
Building. They will occupy quarters on
the first floor Of the new building. :
Finished Ahead Of Time.
This initial movement of Government
workers into the triangle takes place
less than two years after steam shovels
bit dirt June IL, 1928, for excavation
for the new structure. Work has been
rushed along on the structure, and the
Government people are occupying the
building more than ls months IN ad-
vance of the date for completion of the
building. The contractor, James Baird
Co., was given by the Treasury Depart
ment until August %, 1881, to complete
the building, and could have taken all
that time under its contract, before al
lowing any part Of the Government to
move in.
Arrangements for moving in the first
contingent have been completed through
Neal A. Melick, construction engineer,
who is the Governments direct contact
hot nfro rfn nj hn
authorities. MIR. Melick explained that
guarding Of the building where the peo-
pie move in will be turned over to the
guard force of the director Of public
buildings and public parks. Already the
captain Of the guard, Daniel O'Connell,
and few of his men are on duty
there, although they have not yet taken
full charge.
The reason for first moving in the
statistical section is because they take
charge Of the income tax records which
already have begun to arrive In Wash
ington from collectors of internal rev.
enue in all parts of the country. A
group of records was delivered today
to the new building from Salt Lake
City, Helena, Mont; Omaha, Nebr.;
Ithaca, N. Y: Syracuse, N. Y; Ports
mouth, NJ Y, and Chicago, Ill. The
records arrived by express.
Z. Direct TO New Building.
The statistical section will take charge
Of the records in the new building, to
save what otherwise would have been
several additional shifts of the new in
coming records. Now the records are
being delivered by the Railway Express
Agency direct from the trains to the
new building. instead of having to 60
to the old building, eventually to be
transferred again.
Large consignments of these rec
ords, amounting to many tons, are ex-
pected to arrive daily from now on.
They are the records filed by the Amer
lean people for the period Of the March
Is income tax, reporting on the pre-
vtous calendar year 1929.
Many machines for handling these
records will be transferred from the
Treasury Annex No. to the new In
ternal Revenue Building. Much of the
statistical tabulating work Is done by
machine instead of by hand
Other parts of the Internal Revenue
Bureau will be moved in later, and will
be followed by the Board Of Tax APP
pealS from the Earle Building, and the
Court Of Customs and Patent Appeals
from Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, according to program previ-
ously announced
The Internal Revenue Building which
has been rushed forward in such record
time: to be occupied more than 10
months ahead of original schedule is
what is known as the baby" of the
Treasury Department. Plans were
drawn in the Office Of the supervising
architect, of the Treasury Department,
which designed the structure through
out, and has had supervision Of the
building during construction.