Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-21 | Page 20 | Asks $500,000 for Postoffice

rnp oocTnrnpr run s yjiuifibL King Introduces Bill for Remodeling Salt Lake Federal Building. j i Saic lxil;e's post office Imiiding will I have $G('VjOi v.'urth of lir.prciveniems if a bill iiuroJucod y.stcrdiiy by United States Senator " 1 1. Kir..!? ar:d providing? an i appropria tion of that amount is ratified by congress. The improvements probably will be con-lined con-lined to enlarging- the entire building and rearranging the basement in order that the pared pot department can be instalV-d there. H is tiht yars since t!ie last addition was made to the posUjiTiue build iir.r. and, accord intc to Jos:m;ist'.-r .'olie Wan-urn, the business lias increased to nearly twice Llio amount in that time. Many of the federn i departments are obliged to rent offices outline of the build-in build-in tr. anionjr which are the army, tb.e navy and the marine recruiting- offices, and the immigration inspector, who, if they were to t.ake quarters in the federal building, would occupy at least two more Uoors, Mr. "YVarrum said. Tiie internal revenue department should occupy about three times the space it now has on the second floor of the building-, ho declares. The parcel post business has became a depart men t of its own and should be so handled. Mr. "Warrutn holds. "Wa would probably a r ran. ere to have all the post business conducted in the basement of the buiklinc, and this would expedite handling the first-class mail to a large extent," he said. "At present much of the basement space is taken up with the her. ting" apparatus, and this could be installed underground outside the confines con-fines of tiie building proper. "The build ing was finished fourteen i years ago. and about six years later an addition was built. Since that time the business lias increased almost to twice the amount, and we have been compelled to work under cramped conditions for the last few years, and especially since the passing- of the pnrcel post bill. "While I am not familiar with the contents con-tents of the bill introduced by Senator King, it is my belief that he is contemplating contem-plating an enlargement of the building along the lines which we discussed when he was in Salt Lake. "Since it would be almost impossible to obtain ground near our present site, 1 at least for any reasonable price, I think that two stories will bo added to the building. That should relieve the congestion conges-tion and provide space for those departments depart-ments which are now renting offices in other buildings."