, 1880-11-14

&PPnI NTMENT OF SJANu4St toA3AA4&6@t
The Board Of Directors of the Ch!cago Public
Library held Il regular meeting yesterday after
nuon, President Ouahnu in the chuir The
orsr,nizutiou OF committees for the ensuing
ye1r-a matter which afterwards prnroked
protest frum one OF the old memberships an
uounced, Us follows:
Library and 9-noom-Wallser. CAL
Observation-Disclosures, Rubens, and Al
Finance-Loewenthu! Spraguc. uud Kadlcc.
buildings nnd Gruunds-Sprague. hadlec. ana
bylaws and observation-disclosures, Hotz, and
Special Committee on Future Library Build
,n0Nallcn, sprague, and Locwenthal.
1ilis amounting to about fl.Au for books,
printing, stationery. e1c., wrre rcat and ordered
paid and the Old st o. pGracais % a. a1pten pten4 p
the shape VI foreign weeklcs. "A list of tesirl-
BILE English books was presented. nnu. under tue
1Tre' Tie commit,cs @ e on Administration recon-
meuded hx.n5 the hour fur closing
the dAy service from % 0Gt; =, ~ oat t. 70
$50 D. H. the evening attendants to 6e on duty
from to p. IN. tlnm October tn april. and
from $500 to p: n. from April to oc;9net: r"s
recommended that tho pay of the evening at"
tcndants be Increased Is cents Il week. Tie pro-
posed chauge it wus explained, grew out or i.#e tMe
Guilty in finding Recommendations III thn strcst-
cars along about clock. the present hour for
cIns;nx. After some discussion, tho report was
recon1nitted to be rer,odced, the npparent OBJ.
lection being I'M unwit1tngness on tho part of
Several Ut the members to let the robust male
The Librarian, Mr. W. F. Poole, nude brief
report III the circulation OF bucks for the six
wccks embraced between Sept = and NOV 9.
The total number Ut volumes issued during that
period was ;i5, ,x..5. or daily average ct l.o37.
The circulation for the same period list year
was ~. .7s3 aud tue daily % nversge Smaa "a ~. H.
kind Of books withdrawn wis as follows: En-
9ish prose. fiction, and Juveniles. 631: history
ana oegraap1y rts III j. 'nSsgys nSstrS aS ana raa
continental buoks, ll.6; miscellaneous, 3.2.
PROTESTING MEMBER
Mr. Hotz. who had come In somewhat late,
took occasion before the adjournment to pro-
test agaiust what be called the manifest in-
Justice done to the members of the Board in the
appointment of the Standing Committees, 1t
was entirely against parliamentary usage. NC
continued to appoint new members to the most
important cQuinIttees to the neglect and tue
displacement of the uld oues- The new Com
N ana aost entrss a'i
Il she lou iongest GeFins in the Board had been as::
| signed to the minor committees or tn tho tail
eud Of the others. new member, for Instance,
| was Chairman OF the Committee on Admlntstra-
| uon. He bud been Chairman Of the Library
| it very strange, and ut the same time an in
| justice aud violation of the proprtsties aud OF
| ali parliamentary rules. TO reIeEate Tue digest
| metui,ers to the tuil end Of committees. # be
were to consult his own feelings In the matter
| be should resent what he might almost consider
| an afTront by declining to accept the position
given him. His interest in the Liorury, however,
| prompted him to accept. though be desired to
! do 50 under the protest be had entercd.
| Mr.. OnthAn attempted to mOltlfy the me1nher
| by expressing his regret thnt there should be the
| elighicst indication Ut dissatisfaction, :tnd by
declaring that he had endenyored to make such 1
| an arrangement us would meet with the
| concurrence Ut the entire Board. So far from
| there being an undue discrimination 10 the par-
ticulurs alluded to- the composition OF the Com.
mittees on Library, Finance, Building, and
| Grounds, mud by-lnws and Regulations. showed
| that each was headed by au old member Ut the
| Board Inasmuch as there were only six co1fi-
mirtce3 and nine members. 1t was apparent that
everybody culld not be the Chairman Of Il Cum
| mittcc, and he had been obliged to make q
| selection which omitted u couple OF gentle
| men,
| ject was cut OF by motion to adjourn, which
! went through without the slightest delay.