Evening star., 1931-12-20
COMMERCE FORCE
TO BEGIN MOVING
Furniture Tagged for Trans
fer to $4,000, 900 Build
ing Within Six Days.

Tagging Of furniture and other
equipment in the various bureaus of
the Department of Commerce was COM
pleted yesterday and officials have re-
ported everything in readiness for the
transfer from the old department build
ing at Nineteenth street and Pennsyl-
Vania avenue to the new edifice, which
is scheduled to start at am. New
Year Day.
Furniture and equipment on the
eleventh floor of the old building will
be moved first. Six days later this
building is expected to be vacated, ac-
cordlng to the contract awarded to the
Baltimore Transfer Co. by the Office of
Public Buildings and Public Parks
The moving firm will work three g.
hour shifts. If the Senate bill making
December 26 and January 2 legal
holiday in the District is adopted by
Congress, department officials expect
that the greater portion of employees
now housed in the old building to be
able to report to their desks in the new
building January 4.
The offices of Secretary Lamont and
Assistant Secretary Julius Klein and
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
commerce will be ready for occupancy
IN the new building on that date
Press Department Change.
One of the first offices to be moved
Will be that CT the press department in
charge OF Paul D. Croghsn, located in
the northwest corner of the eleventh
floor of the old building. Despite the
early moving date. Mr. Croghan, as is
his custom, has had his famous green
and gold sanctum" decorated elaborately
1or the Yuletide. Holly imitation), red
bells, green and red tissue ribbons and
one piece OF mistletoe hang from the
press room ceiling and Christmas tree
brightens up the typistS' quarters.
Before the new year rolls around all
these trappings will be taken down and
stored away to be used again in the
Sl7,OO0,000 new structure. Mr.. Croghan
has been chief of the press department
for IL years.
Because of its heavy equipment and
numerous filing cabinets. the latter
numbering more than 100000 sections,
the Patent Office will be the first to
move into the new building The con-
tract calls for work TO start while the
whistles are blowing the old year out
and the New Year in. The firm has
until January 2l to complete this job
Fisheries Bureau Moving.
The Smith Transfer Co. of this CITY
Will move the Bureau Of Fisheries at
am. January /. Part of the equip
ment to be moved will be live fish for
the aquarium in the new building. This
company also has the contract to move
part OF the Census Bureau equipment
The greater portion of this bureaus
equipment will remain in its temporary
buildings until later in the year, pend
ing the completion of the 1880 census
tabulatlon. The moving firms contract
calls for completion of its moving by
January TO-
The Fidelity Storage Co. has the con-
tract for the moving of department
equipment now housed in the Hurley
Wright Building. Eighteenth street and
pennsylvania avenue, and in Temporary
Building S, starting January 6. This
moving will take five days.
The last bureau to move will be the
Coast and Geodetic Survey. The Kane
Co. Is to start on this equipment on
January is. and will have is davs to
complete the task. The heavy presses
OF this branch Of the department have
already been installed in the new
building
The department is expected to be
iuhctlonlng normally in its new quarters
by February !, The cost of moving, ac-
cording to the contracts, will cost the
Government $4,000.