Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-10-23
Lewisburg Reading Room.

Our citizens will in few days have an
opportunity Of enjoying the privileges and
benefits of a comfortable and wcll-appoin-
ted Reading Room, literally supplied with
the principal daily papers from the Allan
tic cities, and the weekly papers Of central
Pennsylvania, to which will be added from
time to time such Newspapers and Maga-
zines, as the patronage received may be
found to warrant. The fine, airy room in
the second storey Of Col. MFaddin's brick
building, on Market street, opposite Mr..
Pcnny's Saddlery, has been fitted up for
the purpose in good style, and will be open
on Friday and Saturday Of this week for
the inspection of all persons who may feel
disposed to favor the establishment with a
visit. The Room will be opened for the
use of its patrons on Monday next, upon
| the following terms To the 1st of April
next, $3.50; for one week, % cents.
Single visits, (to be allowed only when it
will not incommode patrons . cents.
All payments to be in advance. Subscri-
bers removing from town, to have the right
to dispose of their interest; and patrons
to have the privilege Of introducing stran-
gers as visitcrs, for term not exceeding
one week.
This is an untried experiment in Lewis
burg, but that is no reason why it should
not meet with success equal to It's intrin-
sic merits, and capacity for usefulness.
Our population and business certainly
would seem to justify the attempt to es-
tablish such place of resort for all whom
business or recreation might draw thithcr.
Other towns of less size than this can
boast of well-patronized reading rooms,
which prove highly entertaining and ser
yiceabls to the communities in which they
are located, and why may not this borough
be equally well of? Here our merchants
| and other business men, for less than hall
the annual subscription price of daily
paper, can have constant access to at least
twenty dailies from Philadelphia, New
York, &c, and thus obtain much fuller
business intelligence, and more general
news, than by four-fold expenditure for
papers for their own private use. Master
workmcn can thus, at a cheap rate, pro-
vide instruction of that kind, and cheer
full unexeeptionablc place of resort for
their apprentices; and mechanics, laborlng
men, journeymcn and students protitably
, employ their evenings, or an occasional
leisure hour or half hour, in keeping
themselves advised of the progress Of
things in the world, acquiring general in
formation. and cultivating thirst for
knowledge and a taste for rcading-and
to this extent much valuable time be I'M
proved that might otherwise be wasted in
lounginx about stores, barrooms, oyster
cellars, &c, of no use to themselves or
any one else. Strangers, too, when they
come to town can, much to their own graf
ifca.ion, in a short time, through the IA
cilitics afforded by such Room, keep up
with the current news of the day, and, as
a natural consequence Of a privilege so
essential in modern times to the comfort
Of travelling, feel better satisfied with
themselves and their accommodations, and
form a more favorable opinion of the
character and resources Of our town.