The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-21
CATHOLIC LIBRARY HALL.
The Euildinz to be Ready for the Fair
Dec. and to be Finished Jan. |.

Leu y hA1Q w 10 Al4l5lOb JUL 1.
Work is being pushed forward rapidly
on the Catholic library hall with a view to
having the second floor ready for the fair,
which is to begin Monday night, Dec. 3,
and continue for one week This fair is for
the purpose of raising funds to aid III meet
| ing the expo1se incurred in remodeling the
building which, with the furniture required
for furnishing, will cost, approximately
$4,000. The society, finding itself con-
| fronted with a probable deficit of 5000,
hit upon the fair as the readiest way to
meet the demands upon it.
| Ground was broken July l. but the work
has b5en delayed by rains and by the con-
tractor throwing up his contract two months
ago, which W as very embarrassing to the
building committee, but the work was not
long delayed. as Mr.. William Bowen. who
was experimenting the work. took charge
and under his management it is being
pushed vigorously, and the committee hope
| to have the edifice completed by Jan. l. and
the hall ready for the far.
The exterior of the building is of the
Gothic style of architecture, with two deep
windows of stained glass, imported, reach
ing from midway of the upper floor nearly
| to the bottom of the first floor, with three
double windows lighting up the stairways
to the hall. and double gable window to
| light the balcony loft.
| The interior is being finished in hard
| wood, and the rooms on the first floor are
| TO be elegantly fitted up and furnished The
main double door is to be used for an en-
trance to the first floor. The first door to
the right opens into the reading room,
which is connected by folding doors with
the library. The first room on the left is to
be used by the st. Patrick's Total Absti-
nence Society for their meetings, and this
room also connects by folding doors with a
sitting room in the rear. These four rooms,
which are about 25x30 feet, will be lighted
by double chandeliers, or pendants, with
four burners In the east end of the build
ing is the billiard room, running across the
building from Perry to McDonough street,
and is 30x47 feet. 1t is to be handsomely
fitted up and finished in hard wood. Swing
ing leatherette doors in the hall will shut
off observation from the front.
The gymnasium hall upstairs is being
elegantly finished. The ceiling is dome
| shaped, and of yellow pine with cypress
and chestnut moulding, all of which is to be
oil finish, and from floor to dome the cell
ing is 25 feet high, and 10 feet from floor to
side beams. The circular segment, from
which 30-light chandelier depends, is of
hard wood, containing $50 pieces, and futed
semi-circular ventilators are on the eastern
and western sides of the segment The
hall is provided with a stage % feet In
front and "a feet deep, with side rooms and
balcony loft. The stage is in the eastern
part Of the building, and a gallery, pat
termed after that i'll the Guards armory,
runs across the western front of the build
ing. The hall is rs feet 6 inches deep by AZ
feet wide, and will accommodate 600 peo-
pie and the gallery 100 more. The floors in
the hall are to be double, with intermediate
layer of resin-Sized paper, the floor proper
being OF hard wood, sandpapered and shell
laced. At the head of the stairways are
ladies' and gents toilet rooms and cloak
rooms, with small lockers for the gymnasts
The gymnasium outfit will be very costly.
Sixteen iron hooks run through from the
ceiling of the hall to the roof, and are
bolted to all the timbers from roof to cell
ing, making the gymnastic apparatus thor
oughly secure. When furnished it will be
the most complete gymnasium in the south,
New Orleans only excepted. Access to and
egress from the gymnasium hall will be by
the Perry and McDonough street doors,
which flank the Drayton street door. The
stairways are feet wide, and are two in
number.
The Catholic Library Association num-
| bers about 140 members, and the society
has accumulated about 2. 500 volumes in it's
library, which it hopes to increase to $500
volumes shortly after moving into its new
| quarters. 1t is a very prosperous society,
kept up by the generous aid it has received
from its friends and the individual pay
ments of its stockholders. 1t owns the
entire block bounded on the east by Floyd,
west by Drayton, north by McDon0ugh and
south by Perry street, its property east Of
library hall bringing it very fair revenue.
Continuation of Remarkable Prizes.
No. 70, 946 in the drawings of the Louis
lana State Lottery, Oct. 9th, drew the
Second Capital Prize 100000. 1t was sold
in fractional twentieths at one dollar each,
one collected for a depositor through Wells,
Fargo & Co., San Francisco, Cal. another
to depositor in the Pacific Bank of San
Francisco, Cal another to E. M. Casey, %
Oliver street, Algiers, La. another to II.
Clark, Charleston, Tex; one to Charles
Golchart, Greenville, Mich; one to W. s.
Haley, New York; one to F. G. King. New
York; one to Charles Joseph Harkins, 20 N.
Margin street, Boston, Mass one to Boyce
B. Hunter, Newberry, S. c.; one to Col. c.
8. Woods Eutaw House, Baltimore, Md.
No. 81, 453 drew the Third Capital Prize of
| $50, 600, also sold in fractional twentieths ;
five went to A. Willard, Agt., Guaymas.
Mex No. 43, 1929 drew the Fourth Capital
Prize of $4,000, also sold in fractional
twentieths to parties in San Francisco,
Mich; Allegheny City, Pa; Cleve-
land, o.; jamestown, N. Y;
Cincinnati, O.; E. Saginaw, Mich !;
and other points The next, (the 222d
Grand Monthly drawing is also an extra
ordinary mammoth drawing, when the
three first capital prizes are resp ctively
six hundred, two hundred and one hun
dred thousand dollars, and 3,143 other
prizes. 1t is on Tuesday, December 18th.
All information can be had on application
to NJ. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.
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