New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-21

| the Library. Ibe newspaper P~~
! fishers have been equally generous, ana We na,e
/ the qualification or announcing that all the Dsuy
/ and nearly all the Weekly Newspapers as Wen as
the principal Monthly and Quarterly Periodicals Oh
our City will be on file at our rooms.
To these Rooms we now puonciy ihviIe al su'
| yarious classes that have been Northumberland
ers, Type Founders, Stereotypers, Bookolnders'
Fpgravers and all others connected with tne
newspaper and book business The Library anu
Reading. Room will be open every evening lex
cept Sundays and holidays, and the Librarian
will cheerfully attend to all who may vlsit the
rooms. The location will be found very c0nve.
nient for that large class OF young men (many OF
them strangers from abroad who board ia the
! lower part of the City. They viii Ind the rooms
en- agreeable and profitable place OF reso't end
they are urgently invited TO make use Of The FRAT
/ ersi Library and Reading Room, without charge
Here they will find the various papers and period
icsls Of our City, as well as n large number OF
country papers and library from which they can
select intere sting and valuable works. We wish
particularly to reach this large class of young men,
and we earnestly hope our rooms will be hled
with such every evening. The location is also
! equally convenient for those (as most dO who par
sue their business in the lower, but reside ~ toe
upper part Of the City. AS the rooms will be
oIen al O'Clock, they can, with bat lue loss OF
time or inconvenience call on their way home, and
procure such works as they may select, Those
/ who take books away from the Library VIII be
/ u
thought that many subscribers can be procured ~
this rate In fact we look for considerable revenue
from this source and we invite all Of our friends
! WHO can, 10 become annual subscribers. The
charge is much smaller than that OF any other IL
] brsry and we believe the benefits and privileges
/ to our own class at least much superior. Any
member of the typographical Society is empow-
cred TO sign a subscribers rtiicate, upon the
payrnent of 81 aud, again repeat 1t, we hope
all who are favorably disposed toware the enter
prise will give this merely nominal sum Tor years
/ use Of the Library
I Let noe not, however be misunderstood The
rooms will be open, ioitOst charge to all who may
wish TO read the books, papers, and periodicals. at
the rooms and we wish To secure the attendance
Of ss many as possible OF this class every evening
Ii is only those who take books away from the
Library for their own or their famy's use who are
expected to give email equivalent for the Ii
brsrian's trouble in registering the name aud num-
Der Of the volume, date Of delivery return, etc.
Every one, think, will see the propriety Of this
Arrangement and if we can secure two or three
hundred such subscribers we shall be materially
assisted in defraying our expenses
We wish to make this Institution permanent.
We wish TO make il practical, and We wish all for
whom il is intended 10 take pride and an interest
in it's growth. Ia addition to the Inducements
offered by the books and papers, II is intended TO
keep register Of situations, vacant and wanted.
Thus If an employer wishes TO secure person for
some particular branch OF bis business, szch want
will be posted on the Register; and So also, if
person connected with either Of these branches be
out of employment his qualifications and address
may also appear upon the Register.
We have reason to believe that most excelen!
practical advantage will result from this, and We
hope to see the rooms made the medium OF interest
10 both the employer and the EN- plOyed by the
means Of this Reg.ter. Another feature which it
is intended shall be made prominent, is t,e display
OF the best specimens OF workmanship In the
various branches connected with our Art. B. ex-
hibitipg the most perfect specimens of Printing,
Bookbinding and EDgr aving, as well as other
specimens OF material and mechanism connected
with the Topographic Art, the taste, the knowledge
ard the character Of each calling must be greatly
improved and promoted. 1t would do much to en-
courage good workmanship-it would do much to
discourage the miserable. shameful, wretched
work turned out by those who do so much to Injure
and degrade honest and intelligent industry, and it
would have a most potent tendency to reform
OF the worst abuses existing in our Trade. do
most m mly believe that the very worst evil in the
| Printing business from which many others flow,
is bad workmanship and any thing which will have
tendency to circumference this, will be for the
= permanent benefit Of our calling.
% So fully am impressed with the good effects
q which viii result from thorough attention t. this
/ feature, that in two years time doubt very much
whether it will be possible to find Printer who
will dare claim that he had any thing to do with the
I Printing of the Congressional Documents Of 1850.
ture Of the Institution, and have at present only
few specimens OF Printing on the walls but we in.
tend 10 try at least to make this OF the pro III
nent attractions of the rooms for we believe that
il will prove TO be not only OF great utility 20 our
own prole sion bat also eventually OF equal benefit
Z TO the public, and the rooms, no doubt in time
will be visited by many who seeking for speci-
mems TIE most beautiful work by which to be
guided in their choice.
have already said sufficient, perhaps, to show
4 r A.. -
been so hopefully commenced. We have laid the
foundation Of an Institution which We have reason
to say, without being extravsgant visionary
may prove as useful as any now in operation
True, it is bat germ at present; but it may grow
and ripeD and in its maturity proudly stand by the
eide of other institutions which ell venerate and de.
light to honor. The Printers Library enters the
public fed not as an opponent. but a coidjuior
Of olher similar institutions. There is room aud
verge enough for all. The Libraries already in ex-
istepce, intended for the and instruction partc
ularly of mechanics, have done much toward the
improvement Of their members, and were it not evil
dent that such institutions were every way calcu-
lated 10 improve, benefit and exslt, the Printers
would never have undertak en- this enterprise Bat
we have, without wishing to interfere ia any way
with others, thought our own fraternity could be-
me st easily and etiectuhly reached by Library
If their Some have said that there was
need Of such an Institution; that those already
IN existence were fully equal 20 the wants of the
mechanical classes, aud that it would be better to
have all concentrated and consolidated into one
grand organization. With every possible respect
for the opinions Of others, we may be allowed to
suggest that this seems much like confning the
business OF particular TO a single establshment
or Ike restricting the number of persons who shall
! transact a certain business
Every institution OF this kind should be viewed
as valuable auxiliary TO Others and am Disposed
to think that if our City were embelishei with
many more II would advance the interests Of ali
Each institution would be improvedby competition.
The directors or managers would be more actiy,lv
employed, an increased interest would be rnsni
tested by the public and all classes wond De much
! better served.
! RI. f1a from an Oh cov.;