Year: 1868

In CONSEQUENCE OF the very crowded and craihpeo
condition oil the Post once in this city ana its
great and growing business, an extension has re-
Gently been comin,aaed and is being rapidly COM
,eted which will afors much more space and facii-
tate the management OF asairs. AT first, when the
demands for more area became too urgent to be
longer disregarded 1t proposed TO rent the upper
stories of two adjoining stores for the use espe-
cialy of the superintendent of delivery aud receiver
of mails, who was particularly crowded. The rental
OF these would have cost $500 each per year, or
$4,000; and, being required for three years, they
would have cost S27, 900. Then IL would have re-
qulred $4,000 or $4,000 to put them In shape. The
Postmaster was then authorized to have assessments
made and 1t was found that more superficial feet OF
space might be obtained for $4,000, by placing
Mansard story on the old building. This was accord
ingly begun ana Is now In process OF completion In
a plaln substantial manner


In the small room fronting on Liberty street were
the Old quarters OF the superintendent OF mails,
which are contracted TO greatly impede the
transaction OF business BY spiral stairway two
sion, which ill be used for this purpose hereafter.
They are each about twenty-eght feet by sixteen;
Ceiling Of about sixteen feet In the room nearest
Nassau street the postal clerks can come one by one
to vend the hour OF arrival and departure OF each
mall The room to the SOUTH which is about fifty
SIX feet by SIXTEEN VIII be used as the registry de-
partment This room contains two skylights ar
ranged as also TO ventiate the room. side room
will be constructed with lounge, &C., where the
clothes may be changed or rest taken.
The next room to the south will be used
ten tables, with eight at atabe. There
are to be five tables on side. The superintendent
will have his desk at the head OF the room, with the
clerk OF dead letters and his assistant the sde II
Is provided with four skylights. The sides are
walnut. These eighty men will be taken from quar-
ters which are exceedingly Ill lighted and ventila-
ted and much overcrowded. Where they have now
scarcely standing room, by the new arrangement
they will have seats and abundance OF space in
which to work. The superintendent here can look
down on all the carriers and The time OF their
rival or departure.


The money order department, which has been
altered once or twice. now requires much more
space consequent on the increased business When
1t was adopted three years ago only $50 accounts per
week were transmitted. There are now an average
or 6,000 per week. It's operations having been
tended from S25 TO $50, merchants will be likely to
avail themselves of its facilities. Fronting on Cedar
street there Will be another portion OF the Mansard
story. The old money order room as well as the
cashiers room to this will be as a mere lobby. The
cashiers room now ten by fifteen feet, will be about
double this siZe In a space Immediately adjoining.
The large room for the money order department Is
about ninety feet by sixty-lour feet. On the west
side OF this there will be large passage way. The
desks will ~ on line with Nassau street.
The Deputy Postmaster will sit at the head OF
s al at wner he tss an
end there will be five small rooms, separated by
broad partitions eight feet high, underneath ceiling
OF fifteen feet. These rooms are generally twenty
by tirtytve feet. The first one to the left, men,
toned before, is the cashiers room, where seven
hundred men VIII pc PAID OH at the end or each
month The one adjoining it is the special agents
roOm which will be used as the searchers' depart
ment for lost letters, with additional little room
for the doctor, who examines those who appoint
ed and who visits those who are SICK He is employ
ed and paid by the government. The special agents
private room adjoins the other and is twelvefeet by
twenty. The next apartment is the Office Of the
superintendent Of the foreign department. In this
the foreign mails and returns made He has four
clerks, who will sit at long desk This room is twen-
ty feet by twenty-five


The ventilators and lights are arranged that by
n1fp fhn fhn fra.h uinl lat,
any quarter. All these rooms are well lighted, no
gas being at all required IN the day time.