Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-23
OUR PUBLIC LIBRARY
On a Boom that Means Something.
Free from Debt and Five Hundred Vol
umes Added,

Free from Debt and Five Hundred Vol
umes Added.
No event in the history of Knoxville has
been of greater interest to our reading peo-
pie than the 1880 donation recently made
to the public library Some three months
ago the following communication was hand
ed to the librarian
KNOXVILLE, TENN, May %, 1882.
To the President ana Officers of Knoxville
Public Library
GENTLE,fEN The undersigned, being de-
sirous of assisting your association, hereby
make you the following proposition, viz;
We will each donate one hundred dollars,
which is to be expended in books for your
association, said books to be selected by a
committee named by us for that purpose;
| the donation to be made on condition that
! you raise money from other sources and
pay off all your present liabilities and pro
cure good and suitable cases for the books
We, by this offer, propose to furnish.
P. Dickinson, E. j. Sanford,
! G. NJ. McGhee, F. H. McClung,
| W. w. wood -uff, G. J. McClung,
NJ. L. Ross, JAS D. Cowan,
| F. McNulty, Thos. O'Conner,
Joseph jacques, Sam. Mckinney,
James NJ. Meek, Z. s. Payne.
Two other gentlemen who do not wish to
subscribe thier names, propose to give fifty
dollars each on the same TERMS making the
sum up to fifteen hundred dollars.
To comply with the proposition, some
$500 were needed. The directors went to
work among the business men and citizens
and IA Used the amount Six handsome new
walnut cases with glass doors, made by Mr.. S.
| L. Atkin, were purchased and placed IN the
library ready for the books. The follow
ieg gentlemen contributed to this sum L.
II. Swep@1n, Peer Re n, FL. w CurCis, w.
E. Gibbins, W. a. Henderson, w. B. Sam
! uels, W. r. futile, G. H. Waring, Jno. F.
O'Brien, T. D. Flppen, F. K. Huger, Geo.
Brown; j. w. Slocum, W. P. Washburn,
Epps, Mcmillan d Co., S. P. Evans, Alex.
Allison, James Cruze, Geo. And1e US, W. T.
/ White, L, r. Corrick j., John Mccoy,
j nes Mcmillan, James Lu trell, W. G.
Fulcher, Hugh Michaels, E. F. Fuller, Sam.
House, j. Allen Smith, L. E. Craig, W. L.
Lyons, Jno. Chapman, W. o. White Frank
Goodman. Hugh Lynn, F. F. Atwell, G. NJ.
McClung, E. E. McCroskey, H. Schubert,
| 7. Il. Head, Il. NJ Rhea, Cullen & New
man, G. Kohlhase, Hope Brothers, J. 7.
McTeer, J. F. Deaderick, J. n Betterton,
Frank Armstrong, S. B. Boyd, NJ. L. Hall
The following purchased stock at three
dollars share, on which twenty-five cents
monthly dues are payable
E. W. Adkins, Otis Brown, s. Barker, j.
NJ. Luttrel, G. A. Frame, d. E. Caldwell,
Edward Mcbride, Rush Strong, Leon
Jerolmon, Jno. r. Butt NJ. o. French, D.
S. Williams, H. II Ingersoll
At meeting of the board of directors
last Wednesday, the following resolutions
were adopted:
Resolved, That vote of thanks be ten
dered to (here naming the sixteen donors),
the public spirited citizens, who SO gener-
ously offered to donate to the public library
81, 500 in books, on condition that the as
ISOLATION pay off all its liabilities and pro-
cure suitable cases for the books
/ In behalf of the library association and
/ in behalf of all the citizens who patronize
! the library, we express our gratitude to
| these gentlemen who have done noble
work for one of the worthiest public insti-
! tutions of Knoxville.
Resolved, That the secretary be directed
| to inform the donors that their proposition
has been formally accepted and its terms
| rigidly complied with, the public library
| being now entirely out of debt, and hand
| some new cases provided for the new
books
| Last Saturday five hundred new volumes
| of the very best selections of fiction were
placed on the library tables ready to be
labeled and catalogued. From this donation
| there will be some seven hundred volumes
additional, making twelve hundred in all.
| When the entire addition is made, the IL
brary will be swelled to about forty-two
hundred volumes, and be one of the best
| collections of its size in the State. This
donation will make the institution self-sus-
tainirg.
The directors propose, at the earliest OPP
portunity, to raise periodical fund.- to be
used in purchasing periodicals, which will
be largely for ladies and children.
The next move will be for some public
spirited citizen to earn immortality by do
mating some thousands with which to erect
a library building. We predict that the
near future will see this done