The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-22

also committee to prepare ana SEM out
circulars describing the object and asking
for the same. The meeting
until May 90
THE following from the Printers Circular
with the heading, The Printers Hiawa-
tina, :" is enough TO melt the hardest heart
and draw money from the dryest pocket
book, if the reader has not paid for his
paper. There are few whom we hope it
may so affect
should you ask us why this dunning2
why all these complaints and murmurs2
Murmurs loud about delinquents
who have read the paper weekly,
Read what they have never paid for,
Read with pleasure and with profit,
Read the church affairs and prospects,
Read the news both home and foreign,
Full of wisdom and instruction;
Read the table of the markets,
Carefully corrected weekly
Should you ask why all this dunning7
From the printer, from the mailer,
From the kind old papermaker,
From the landlord, from the devil
From the man who taxes letters
with the stamp of Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call HIM
From them all there comes message,
Message kind but firmly spoken:
"Please to pay the bill you me-"
Sad it is to hear the message,
When our funds are all exhausted,
When the last greenback has left us,
When the nickels all have vanished!
Gone to pay the toiling printer,
Gone to pay the papermaker.
Gone to pay the landlords tribute,
Gone to pay the clerk and devil,
Gone to pay the faithful mailer
Gone to pay old Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him
Gone to pay for beef and Bridget,
Gone to pay the faithful parson.
Sad it is to turn our ledger,
Turn the leaves of this old ledger,
Turn and see what sums are due us,
Due for volumes long since ended,
Due for years of pleasant reading
Due for years of anxious labor,
Due despite of patient waiting,
Due despite of constant dunning,
Due in sums from two to twenty.
Would you lift burden from us?
Would you drive specter from you?
Would you taste pleasant sumber?
Would you have quiet conscience?
Would you read paper paid for?
Send money! Send us money!
Send money! Send us money!
Send us money that you owe us.
IHE state library commission nelu announcer
session in Montpelier Friday. No agree
ment on the plan or location of the building
has been reached, but various projects have
been discussed. Members of the commits
sion have different preferences. The main
dividing line seems to be drawn between
those who prefer separate building placed
on the remoter property of the state easterly
from tba tat ta housp and those xyho N favor a
separate building in close proximity to the
capitol and connected with it by corridors.
The friends of separate building not con-
neCted with the main edifice, do not seem to
be entirely agreed, but the plan which chief
ly commands their support is for a building,
easterly from the state house, outside the
yard, and having its front in line with the
front of the capitol. The plans for such
building represent structure about one
hundred feet long and fifty four feet wide.
These proportions it is objected are not ex-
actly symmetrical but they are controlled by
the nature of the ground, which is ledgy and
rises very abruptly in the rear of this pro-
posed site The opponents of this plan also
make note of the close proximity of livery
stables and the rear yard of the Pavilion.
Another proposition is to erect the building
in the park, owned by the state, just west of
the Pavilion. This site would admit of a
building of good architectural proportions
and is unobjectonable, except as to its re-
moteness from the state house. But if the
building is to be separated from the main
structure the difference in the distance be-
tween this site and the first considered can
be no sufficient objection, particularly in
view of the superior advantages which the
park possesses. Another friend of the sep
arate building expresses preference for the
/ southwesterly corner of the state house yard
a scheme which will hardly find two friends
on the commission On the other hand Mr..
Richards, the architect under whom the state
house was completed, presents plan for a
distinct building, extending back from the
northwesterly corner of the state house and
connected with it by a corridor from the iu-
dietary committee room on the first floor
and from the present library on the second
floor The ground greatly favors such d
building and is the property of the state
The structure would contain court room
library and other desirable rooms and would
Outwardly its architecture would be adapt
ed to the situation and Mr.. Richards is Of
opinion that it would in no wise interfere
with the architectural appearance of the
main building, an oppinion in which, we un'
derstand, the three or four members of the
commission who favor this plan concur
The pleasant surroundings and the delight
full prospects from this site, the fact that
building every way suitable can be readily
obtained for the amount of the appro-
priation, that it is within the letter and
spirit of the act authorizing the construc
ton of a library building and that by
this project the Legislature and the court
will be equally well accommodated in the
use of the library, are points which the
friends of this plan make in its favor We
give, as a matter of public interest, what we
understand are the schemes under discus
sion, with the arguments advanced in favor o
each. There isa vacancy in the commission
caused by the inability of Mr.. Billings t.
serve. Senator Morrill, has been asked t.
fill the vacancy, or to sit with the commits
sion and give its members the benefit of hi
experience on the congressional library com
mittee.
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