The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-01-01
For the Journal.
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Mr. EDIToR-Cannot something be done TO
establish reading room in this city? This
is good room adjoining your office, which
can be had for fifty dollars year, and learn
that it can be furnished with large num-
Der Of papers from your exchange list, either
gratuitously or at small cost, and small con-
tribution from each. would furnish il with the
best Magazines and Reviews in the country.
A small sum would fit it up, and it could be
one of the most attractive places IN the city,
In addition to this it could be made the room
for the country library, which will be purchas-
ed early in the spring, so that altogether; 1t
would furnish unrivaled literary attractions
Who shall move in the matter2 what il
ev ~ body's business Is no body's business,
and by common consent such work is usually
put on the editors, by way Of compliment and
convenience. Will you not call a meeting
some afternoon the nights. are all tull) this
week-say Thursday or Friday VIII not
Editor Stinson second the motion, and cannot
something be done. Let US try if there is
sufficient feeling on this subject to carry the
enterprise through; there will be good
meeting at the time appointed. 1t not; let
the thing drop at once. Just tell everybody,
therefore, that such will be the case, aud you
may as well whisper, first as last, that those
efficient men are not needed who always la
yOr an enterprise as soon as 1t has overcome all
deposition and is able to stand without them.
| but who nobly stand off in its infancy, until
they see what will become of it. In short
you and Editor Stinson, may say what you
please about it. remembering that you are
the guardians of the literature, politics and
morals tf the city. FLO.
The above communication, from the pen Of
one of our Ministers, we publish with pleas
ure. We have been spoken. to by a number
of citizens in relation to establishing a Read
Ii inc Room in connection with the Journal
Office We promised that if any citizen would
obtain sufficient subscriptions to pay the rent
of room in the Journal Office building, light
and fuel, and furnishing it, we would supply
the Reading Room with the best papers in
the country, and all the standard periodicals,
without cost; and that in person we would
attend to the room, have it kept in order, and
papers regularly filed. This would throw
much additional labor on our hands which
would be freely and gratultousIy given, for
the accommodation Of the public, and for the
indirect benefits the Office might expect to re-
ceive Adjoining our new editorial room in
the second story of the building is a room adj
mirably adapted to the purpose of a Reading
Room, and convenient to the public here and
strangers. THIS room may be obtained if
some action be taken Immediately with that
object. We therefore propose, with the adj
vice of several citizens, that meeting be
held, on nert Thursday afternoon, at the
Court House, for the purpose of taking this
matter into consideration.
1t is a pity that the many excellent and val
liable papers on our exchange list, should be
destroyed, when the public might so readily
obtain the full benefit Of them. A Reading
Room is required by the wants of our citizens,
as well as of strangers. 1t is useless to en-
large upon its advantages. They will readily
present themselves to every mind. The room
will offer not only a place where can be found
the latest news and the best Journals of the
country, but a convenient public erchange,
where business az pointments can be made at
any hour Of the day or evening. At this
time there IS no room in the city which can
be used for this purpose, unless it be bar
room. Personally the trouble and expense
will so oyerbalance the profits to us, that we
care very little about the matter, more than
we know it to be an accommodation much de-
sired by this public, and which would be IN
itself highly useful. As such an accommoda-
ton, if the proper subscriptions be obtained,
we shall do everything in our power to make
ii what good reading room should be.