Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-11


! the librarian, but from the long CONT
nuance of his service. The city has
held the library in deserved esteem and
| has been generous to it according to it's
| ability. 1t has made membership on it's
board Of directors a badge of honor, and
has, therefore, been able to call to the
service of tine library men of ability
The library has been developed with
a conservative enterprise that has ever
Kept in view, as public library ever
| should, the greatest good for the great
est number. The library has been a
pioneer in certain lines of use, which
are now coming into general adoption.
The carrying of its advantages to the
public schools has been OF surprising
value, and is being rapidly initiated. A
public library should not only afford
opportunities for kn. wledge, but should
teach the art of acquiring 1t. Not the
least valuable of the library work has
been its kindly aggressive teaching of
reverence for knowledge. This is notice.
able not only in the use of upward
3000O0 volumes during the past year and
the increase Of 10000 volumes over the
revionS year, but IN the net loss of but
II volumes, a fact of most hopeful sig
nificance as showing the appreciation of
the people of the advantages which are
offered them. The board of directors
would repeat with renewed emphasis
the desire which it has expressed in
nearly every annual report in the past
ten years, that delivery stations be es-
tablished in different parts of the city.
The board does not believe this work
should be longer delayed, and 1t asks
that the city council appropriate $500,
in addition to the estimates that have
been submitted that such stations may
be established at once. 1t is a time of
financial stress, and the needs of the
city are immediate and pressing, but
hard times make busy times at the
Public Library An idle work shop
makes an active library. 1t is hoped
and believed that your honorable coun-
Gil will see to it that the present work
of the library may be continued, and
that it may be able to extend its in
f1uence.
REPORT OF THE BUILDING COM
MITTEE.
This report showed that of the $500
appropriated by last years city coun-
Gil for building purposes, all was used
in paying for an iron floor and shelly
ing. Considerable work still remains to
be done on account of lack of funds
During the year the buildings have
been carefully examined inside and out
and estimates for doing the work neces-
sary to keep them in repair show that
1886 is needed. This sum has been put
in the estimates presented to the City
government. The report shows that
100 tons of coal are consumed annually
REPORT OF READING ROOM COM
MITTEE.
During the past year 493 periodicals.
have been taken by the library, and all
are accessible to the public. 1t is pro-
posed to cut down the racks used for
newspapers in the lower reading room,
in order to remove an obstruction to
the distribution of light, and to tint the
ing papers have been added during the
year: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New
York Press, Public Ledger, Spirit Of '76,
Street Railway Journal Weekly Tele-
graph.
The committee acknowledges the fol-
lowing gifts to the reading room: The
American the American Catholic News,
the American Citizen, the American
Electrician, the American Gas Light
Journal, American Homes, American
Jewess, American Journal of Pharmis-
try, American Missionary, Amerika og
Norden, Amerikanische, Turnzeitung,
Ardetarens Ban, Wool Manufacturers
Bulletin, Catholic University Chronicle,
Christian Register Christian Science
Journal, Conservator, Democratic Lead
er Draper's Record, Dry Goods Econo-
mist, Engineering, Evesham Journal,
Fftchburk Weekly Sentinel, Good Gov
ernment, Home Missionary, Land of
Sunshine, L. A. W. Bulletin, the Micro
scope, Missionary Herald, Musical
Times, New England Staten Zeitung,
LOpinion Publique, Our Dumb Ami
mails, Positivist Review, The Purple,
Quarterly Book Review, lie Reveil,
Shorthand Educator, Skandinavia,
Sound Currency, Temple, Tennessee
University Magazine, Textile World,
Tuftonian, Tufts Weekly, Universalist
Leader Worcester Daily Spy, Worces-
ter Evening Gazette, Worlds Crisis,
lions Herald, all of which are given
by the publishers. Those given by in
dividuals: Baptist Missionary Maya
zine, F A. Gaskill; Berrow's Worcester
Journal, Charles Birbeck; Congressional
Record, J. H. Walker; The Converted
Catholic, Mrs. NJ. S. Dennis; the G. 7.
c. Monthly, George E. Francis; FASH
ions, Denholm & Mckay Co.; Freeport
Journal G. A. Ladd; Locomotive, j. L.
Smith; The Weekly, Miss j. E.
Tyler; Nya Osterns Weckoblad, A.
Olafson; Patent Office Gazette U. S.
patent office; The People, Socialist La
Dor party; Revue Mensuelle du Touring
Club de France, George E. Francis; st.
Andrews Cross, Chapter 67, Brother
hood of St. Andrew; Southern Work
man, Mrs. P. s. Garfield; Travel, H. S.
Lumm.
COMMITTEE or FINANCE.
The report of the committee on
finance Of the library summed up the
financial condition of the library as fol-
lows:
The amount of city appropriations
last year was $26,60O; the amount re-
ceived from the dog license fund was
$5576.17; from fines, sales Of catalogues,
etc, $764.99; balance of last year, $169;
total, $32,942.79.
The expenditures were $32,925.76, leay-
ing balance uneXpended of $l7.03
The amount of the Green Library
fund is now S4S, ,001. OF, one-fourth part
of the income; $529.59 has been added
to it during the year, in accordance
with the provisions of the will of DR..
Green, also $500 transferred from income
to investment account.
The amount of the librarian fund, the
income of which is to be added to the
principal until the fund amounts to $20,-
900 is now $4344.35, counting 80 shares OF
Central National Bank stock at par.
All the securities of the Green Library
and librarian funds in the hands of the
city treasurer have been examined, and
found to correspond with the schedule;
and the treasurer's account has been
audited and found to be correct. The
committee has also examined and ap-
proved the accounts of the librarian
and of the treasurer of the reading
room fund.
"at least $4,000 of insurance should be
added to the amount now placed upon
the books"
The following shows the expenditures