The Portland daily press., 1886-04-06
PORTLAND INSTITUTE AND PUB
Lie LIBRARY.
Annual Meeting and Election of Of
ficerS.

The annual meeting of the eorporators OF
the Portland Institute and Public Library
was held yesterday afternoon. President
Symonds in the chair.
The librarian, S. M. Watson, made the tol-
lowing report;
beg leave to present hereby the statistics OF
library work for the year ending March 81. The
library contained at the beginning OF me year
3O.13i books Since that time 458 have been DO
mated and 80 have been added by binding PERIOD
icals In the meantime books have been loSt
and 46 have been condemned as worn OUT iedv-
ing now in the library total OF 3o,943; 43,d12
books have been circulated for nome use; 1921
have been used in the library; 3,4l4 nave Deeh
covered 1 341 have been repaired in the library,
and 178 have been sent TO the Dinder oz ot
papers 3l2 pamphlets have been donated ~ OF
the books purchased have been of the class deslg-
mated by the Sawyer fund to come under that
head and are so labeled and recorded. There are
244 life members, 286 subscribers, ana ~ iree
cards, making total of S22 persons emitted 10
home use of the books, two at one Time. 30 Wnen
all use their full privilege, 1,644 BOOKS are III use
out of the library at the same tlIne Inc reading
aud delivery rooms were mucn improved Ia tase Saii,
cleaned and painted under the SUPERVISION OF Nj: ~
B. Brown. II the present ELECTRIC Ights IN tne
without much expense, would Suggest thaL tnS
change be made, aud the de lvery room De lignteu
with the same. 1t has been 1ntimateu tnat d
change will be made in the heating appilanee III
some of the library rooms before another winter,
so that should we remain here we may De petteI
warmed than heretofore, and nope thls may oe
brought about as it will be much to our advantage
Our reading room has been somewhat renewed tne
mast winter of its former crowd OF small boys, Dy
The good quarters open to them at the Portland
FRATERNITY and hope this benevolent society
NAV not want for proper support IN the Denan OF
these poor boys who but for them ana tne library
are turned into the streets when out OF scno0l.
Each new year finds us more pressed fOr room
than the previous and correSpondlngly less aDle
to accomplish the work naturally exPected Oi US.
NTn,, .f rr,1Ac ual a
being very much injured for want OF drawers ana
shelves adapted to their especial care. Some Of
the library rooms are not considered hre PROOF,
and our MOST valuable local papers are stored in
one of these rooms because there IS no conVeh-
ience for them elsewhere whatever the insurance
on these may be, it will not prevent them IRON
being burned, and once lost, money cannot re-
place them. Many OF these volumes are the only
existing, and these have been gathered Dy slhge
papers from different sources requiring great
deal of time and trouble in their collection. FORT
land should not risk the loss of these papers;
they are consulted more and more az eaen t sue .h
retreating past Next July Portland Will ceie,
brate its one hundredth anniversary as atown, and
these papers standing here represent every year ysd
should be preserved at any cost.
Among those who have donated books and
pamphlets to the library the past year, may be
1nyntioned Hon. VIM. Sims, Hon. D. w. Fessen-
den Hon. Nathan Webb, Hon. T. B. Reed, Prof
E. ". Hall, Dr. Samuel A. Greene, zen hor,ss Dr. >; a
Smith, Hon. John NJ Adams, VIM. M. Sargent,
ESQ.,, ID. H. Ingraham Henry E. Dwight IhomaS
Tash, Brown Thurston j. X. Wheeler, Francis
Hincks, j. G. Dalton, Stephen Berry, L. B. Ghap-
man, C. d. Wright, E. F. Duran, Millard HICKS,
Laura E. Poor, Ira Berry, s. A. Kean, Horatio i
King, E. C. Burleigh, H. w. Richardson: &. o.
Bailey, Elwell, Pckard s. Co, Laughlin Melvin, Melvin.
Loring, Short g. Harmon, City OF Boston. United
States Government and many others cannot
mention Still hoping this library may be made
free circulating, and be established in building
suitable for such a purpose, in this generation,
respectfully submit this brief report.
A letter frsm party in Deering request
ing that the fee for taking out books be
placed at the same figure for residents OF
Deering as for Portland parties, was laid on
the table. The argument was properly ad-
vanced that the city of Portland contributes
every year to keep the library going, and her
own citizens can't get new books now with
any degree of expedition.
The following directors were reelected
Philip Henry Brown, Joseph W. Symonds,
James P. Baxter, VIM. Edw. Gould, Hub
bard W. Bryant.
A vote was passed, requesting the direct
ors to ascertain if boys cause unreasonable
disturbance in the reading room.