The Newtown bee., 1894-02-23
THE LIBRARY MEETING.
LET EVERY FRIEND AND PATRON
 ATTEND.

ATTEND.
 A SD 'cial meeting of the library asso- citation will be held, next Monday even ing, to hear and act on the report of a committee appointed at the annual meeting to take into consideration fnan- Cial matters, For long time the libra ry has gained it's chief support from the entertainments which have been carried forward, largely through the energy of Prof and Mrs Platt At the last annual meeting, Prof platt gave out the word that he felt there should be more gen etal interest in the library, and that both he and Mrs PlatJ felt that they could bear the brunt of the work no lon ger. Accordingly committee was named to take into consideration the matter.
 Let every patron of the library turn out.
 A suHsCRrnEH OF THE LIBRARY STEAKS.
 TO the Editor of rHE NEwrowN BEE: In your last weeks issue | noticed the following statement: "A special meeting of the library association will be held on Monday evening, February 2G, to receive the report of the committee, to consider matters pertaGing to it's finances" If am credibly informed, fear that many of your readers and members of the li- brary are nos aware what steps have al- ready been taken to, if possible, make a radical change in the location of our Ii. brary and reading room.
 A proposition, l am told, is to be made at the meeting to vote on the expediency of removing the library to Charles Gays wagon factory, for the purpose it is stat ed to get few subscribers from Sandy Hook, who will not come up to the Street for books. Now first let me give a little history of this library; It was started some 25 years ago by some of our oldest citizens in small way, being first locat- ed in the NewtOwn postoflice. After it began to grow too large for the room that was there, it was transferred to private residence, and still later to the rooms it now occupies, which are very well adapt ed to it's use, being roomy and well light ed. The parties who have stood by this institution from it's commencement to the present time, are those largely living in Newtown Street; hardly a subscriber but what lives west of the railroad track boundary. Now those original subscrib- CTS have watched with pride the con- stant growth of this important addition to our street, which commencing work with few volumes, have now reached 20OO or more, and they look with jealous eye on any attempt to move this library from the hill top where it has been a beacon light so many years, down into the valley towards Sandy Hook. Some of those that founded this library have passed away, and among their number was one that, had iJ not been for some action on the part of the trustees, that was not anything like so important a move as the one now contemplated, there Is good reason to believe would have left fund to this association that would have enabled them soon to have put up g building in our Street that would have been a credit to our community; anC the same views; we have among us many that are able to do so, and we cannot af ford to make this change.
 The only argument that Sandy Hool people will advance is that they promis, quite an accession to our subscribers but accept this if you will. Against thi the association will find that they vii lose, on the other hand, many of the sub scribers that have stood by it since it formation. While the association wa struggling for foot hold, what help di 1t receive from any subscription fror that vicinity? Under it's present manage ment, which cannot be better, 1t is grow ing yearly. It's shelves are no, crowded, and if any change is needed, would be for additional room, which eel tainIy could not be obtained where it rumored some would like to place it.
 close this rather lengthy article by quotation from England's greatest state man, Gladstone: .Tbink, beseech you think we'll, think wisely; think not for moment, but for the years that are come, before you take this step.'-[ [Sul scriber, Newtown, February 20, 1894.
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