Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-30
READY TO BE OPENED.
Arrangements for the Dedication Of
the Carnegie Library.
IT WILL BE A BRILLIANT AFFAIR.
President Harrison Will Deliver the Dedi-
catOry Address.
AN EXHIBITION OF HIGH-CLAss ART

James B, Scott returned from Washington
Yesterday morning, where he had been max
ing arrangements for the opening of the new
Carnegie Library in Allegheny. He stated
last night that President Harrison, Secretary
E. w. Halford, Governor Beaver, Hon.
Thomas M. Bayne and Hon. John b. Dal-
zell will be present on the evening OF Feb
ruarY 13, when the library is to be formally
opened and transferred to the city.
The buildings will be open for public in
spections on Tuesday and Wednesday,
February IL and II, from to 10 P. M. each
day. On those days the general public will
be given the liberty of the property, but on
Thursday evening, when the ceremonies
take place, tickets will be issued limited in
number to the capacity of the hall and only
those holding tickets will be admitted. Just
who will be favored with these tickets has
not vet been decided, but it is more than
probable that they will be issued to city
officials. members OF Councils, the Board of
School Control, ministers and other repre-
sentative citizens, together with their wives.
OF course, if there was any attempt to give
out tickets indiscriminately there would be
such a rush for tickets that half OF the ap-
plicants could not be accommodated. An
effort will be made to adopt some plan by
which any rush will be avoided.
GIVING UP THE KEY.
The programme will be completed within
a day or two. Mr.. Carnegie will himself
make the formal delivery of the key OF the
building to a representative OF the city.
President Harrison will make the dedicatory
remarks. The Mozart Club will open the
exercises with chorus, likely America,
or some other patriotic air, in which the en-
tire audience will be invited to join. Short
speeches will also be made by Governor
Beaver and Messrs. Halford, Bayne aud
Dalzell.
The most noteworthy feature in connection
with the opening of the library will be the
art loan exhibit, under the care of commit
tee of local artists, with Joseph R. Wood
we'll as chairman. The exhibit will include
the highest class work, loaned by wealthy
art patrons of Pittsburg and Allegheny. The
collection will include pictures worth 81, 600
and $40, 900 apiece, and the aggregate value
of the entire exhibit will be about $3.50, 900.
Some of the best works of American and
European artists will be included in the ex-
hibit, and it is said that it will be the largest
collection of high class pictures ever seen in
Pittsburg. Lovers of fine art will be given
a rare treat.
The high board fence which surrounded
the library during the course of erection was
torn away yesterday, leaving the great store
house of knowledge to stand out in bold re-
lief Preparations will be commenced at
once to put the building in readiness. The
entrances to the art gallery and the stage in
the music hall will be decorated with plants
and flowers from the Phipps greenhouse.
Boxes will be erected at either side of the
stage for President Harrison and the other
guests to occupy during the first part of the
ceremonies which will be mostly music.