Evening star., 1897-07-30
APPLYING FOR LIBRARY PLACES.
The D0Ak - the Applications Comes
From New England.

The DAAk - the Applications Comes
Frum New England.
The f00 employees OF the new Congress
sional Library to be appointed will b<
placed under the civil service by President
Mckinley toward the close of this year
probably some time in November. This &C
tfon will not be taken, however. until nj
OF the employees who will be appointed by
Librarian Young shall have been given ar
opportunity to make a record for them
selves In the discharge of their respective
duties. 1t Is proposed to get thoroughly
efi1cient force, which the President will re-
tain by the application Of the civil service
law.
Few appointments before the middle of
august or the lst of September. There
Will be no need for their services until
then. and 1t is not desired to pay unneces-
sary salaries
1t is said that the bulk of the applications
Tor the positions In the library requiring
technical knowledge comes from New Eng
land. Next in number rank Chicago and
the middle west. The greater part of the
applications for positions in the law .,e-
partment come from the SOUTH One re-
markable fact in connection with the char
acter OF the applications Is the large num-
Der coming from the descendants Of men
VINO have been prominent in. the nation s
history. 1t is said that there are a great
many applications of this kind. and some
OF the letters are pathetic In their tenor,
telling of the straits to which these people
of distinguished ancestry are now reduced.
Some of the greatest family names in
American history. and those familiar TO
every school boy. are represented in the
signatures to these pleas for appointment
The library at the Capitol will be closed
tomorrow. 1t is considered probable thai
the collection Of books win remain mac
cessible to the public until the 1st of Oc-
tober and possibly until the 18th. Libra
rian Young requests that all OUTSTANDING
books be returned at an early date and
due notice will be given Of the reopening
of the library.
While the library will close tomorrow the
actual removal of the books will not be
commenced Until two or three weeks hence
The intervening time will be required to
ticket and number the collections and pre-
pare them for speedy removal and placing
In their new quarters according to the sys-
tenn. The method of removal has been de-
scribed heretofore in The Star.
IF We had large body of troops here, "
remarked an official today. the books
might be moved as the German library al
Berlin was transferred to its new quarters
THE King of Prussia ordered 1000 sol
diers from the barracks to report at the
library. each armed with basket. One
half the regular library force was detailed
them, the soldiers doing the rest. The
entire collection of 100000 volumes was re-
moved in one day."
1t has been found necessary TO provide
quarters for the executive staff of the
library. To do this it has been determined
to utilize one of the long hall rooms on
the first floor, called the west-north cur
tain. This is an apartment probably a
hundred feet long more. opening into
one Of the corridors by numerous doors
and facing the Capitol Heavy oak ptrti-
tions, reaching almost to the ceiling, but
not disturbing the decorations, will divide
the apartment into rooms for Mr. Young.
Mr.. SpoffoTd Mr.. Alvord and Mr. Hutchi-
son. The copyright department will be
located in the south curtain.