The times., 1897-11-02

reading "Dodo. or the Heavenly Twins
THIS Is all, however. slightly ahead Of in
Producing one : sell . the Library. You 20
In and you want to read on the circular
deSkin the center nr the room. behind y hich
are the officills, You get 4 ticket which
reads as follows:
1. When a book is wanted by reader
its title. with the name OF the applicant,
should be written on this ticket, which Is
To be presented and books received at the
desk.
,. Readers must return books to tire
desk before leaving the library, and take
back thcIf tickets.
3. NoCne is allowed u enter the aIcoyes,
4. No book can be Ia ken from the Hbrary
3. Conversation is not permitted
You fill this out, and in less than five
minutes, Einet y-nine times ont OF a hundred,
YOU viii get what YOU ask for, If il is not
an Eizevir, or one OF the last plays of
OF EudDiGes. Librarian Young Assistant
Librarian spofrord, and Superintendent
HutcheSuu We're there on Saturday and
yesterday when everything went off as per
program.
When the slip is made out 1t is Passed
over the counter, TO use a business meta
phor, to an attendant. He looks at the
name OF the author and he knows where
to send it. He puts il into a Pneumatic
tube and ava y it goes TO one Of the stacks
as they are technically called. There is
north stack and souJh stack. Each
of these contains 500, 600 volumes aud
there il besides the east stack, IL which
is the Smithsonian collection. But whe7.
ever the slip is sent the automatic carrier
brings back the desired book or paper and
Anxious Inquirer" OF Occasional, sits
dawn a handsome desk under the hand
soonest rotunda IN the world and he begins
to read. An the buttons have been touched
anG he does the rest.
The small crowd Of the morning would
have been largely incTe ased in the after
noon alter school hours, but there was
more rain. The crowd increased, possibly
10 about 500 in the building at any one
time after . .. N. They were not all
readers, of course, but there is a lot IF
entertainment TO the nUn-rehdeTS in con
grcgating in The galleries andlooking DOWN
on the psopIe who are stuffing then selves
fun OF the menu The rest Of their tine
is occupied in getting lost in the ramifi-
cations Of the halls above and below
AS ohe CT great success. They have not
yet started to keep the daily attendance
and VIII not do so until about New Years.
In ali there were probably 1 200 visitors
on this opening day.
Col. sDofforJ said considering the
noTeity or the machinery connected with
the ssruce or the hooks everythiag went off
with admirable satisfaction. The number
Of readers has been somewhat diminish he'd
by tie continuous rain but there was
a large number OF Investigators in Amen-
can history and geneaIoGy. The book car
ri,rs have worked very satisfactorily in
promptitudeof delivery, considering the very
shorttiIne which has been atcomma nd, since
the removal, 60 organize The forty-four
grand divisions Of the Library in sys tetna tic
order and service. The great mass Of
bound newspapers have been 50 fully or
ganized in :he last three weeks that any
volume out of the 10000 which theLi Library
Contains is now produced in less than five
minutes time. No depa rtment Of literature.
is more cuntinu4lly drawn upon than
thatof newspapers, magazines and reviews.