The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-07
The PUBLIC LIBRARY
VACANCY IN THE BOARD BY
MRS. BIRDS REMOVAL.
Mrs. F. S. Richards Likely to Be
Named as Her Successor-Yester-
days Meeting-New Books.

of the free public library has been Gre
ated by the removal from the state of
Mrs. Arthur H. S. Bird, nee Mccormick.
1t was thought probable that at the
monthly meeting of the board held yes
terday the attention of the city's ex-
ecutive would be directed to the va
cancy and the advisability of filling it,
but the matter was passed over. How
ever, it is generally understood that
Mayor Clark will submit for the city
councils confirmation the appointment
of Mrs. Franklin S.tl2ichards as
member of the board to succeed Miss
Mccormick.
YESTERDAYS BOARD MEETING.
At yesterdays meeting of the library
trustees, bills aggregating s7SS.64 were
ordered paid, leaving a balance on hand
of $4.632.74.
The report of Librarian Chapman for
the month of September showed that
1856 volumes were added, 81 of which
were donated and the balance pur-
chased. In September 1,155 volumes
were catalogued and 270 new borrow
ers' cards were issued, making 3,646 is
sued to date The number of books
loaned during the month was 1858, the
largest of any month since the library
opened, and for the same period, 1883
volumes were consulted in the refer
ence or reading rooms. OF the 5,6SS vol
umes loaned, 1856 were fiction and 1,SOS
juvenile subjects. The 81 volumes do
mated were from eastern publishers
through City School Superintendent
Millspaugh's efforts. The months re-
ceipts for fines and lost books were
S13.41. nor 5.
NEW BOOKS READY FOR USE.
The librarian reported that the fol-
lowing 65 new books were ready for
use by holders of borrowers cards.
This latest acquisition comprises a va
riety of classes of subjects of standard
literature, and the titles and names of
authors follow:
Story-"Robs de Roma" e vols.)
Zola-"Lourdes."
Bazin-'Italians of Today"
Taine-"Italy, Rome and Naples"
Hare--"Florence."
Anderson 'Improvistore."
Glazier-"Heroes of Three Wars"
Adams-"School Days at Kings
COURT
Enthusiastically Moore"
Ingraham-"Sunny South, or the
Southerner at Home Washington
and the Generals of the American Rev
olution e vols.)
Rink-"Danish Greenland"
What Darwin Saw"
Ayrton-"Child Life in Japan"
Griswold-"A Republican Court"
Military Journal of the
American Revolution"
Help-"Spanish Conquest in Amer
ica-s' e vols.)
Cheney-"Peep at the Pilgrims"
Adams-'F Famous Caves and Cata-
White-"Poetry of the War"
Headley-"Second War With Eng !
land e vols.)
Hall-'"The Puritans and Their Prin-
ciples.''
Graham Colonial History of the
United States e vols)
Goodrich-"Lives of the Signers."
-"Recollections and Sugges-
tons, 1S13-1S33.'
Hopkins-"Youth of the Old Domin- |
ion."
Sedgwick-"Hope Leslie" e vols.)
Redwood
Paulding-"Old Continental" Dutch
mans Fireside'' e vols.)
Pyle-"Within the Capes"
Calvert-"Arnold and Andree."
ZachoS-"OpinionS and Autobiog-
raphy of Peter Cooper
Pickard-THistory of Political Par
les
Hickey Constitution of the United
States"
Raymond-"Mines and Mining West
If the Rocky Mountains"
Furman-"Manual of Practical AS
saying
Tarrs-tEconomic Geology of the
United States
Fulton-"Coke
Moore-"Practical Guide for Pros
,ectors, Explorers, Etc"
Electric Smelling and Re-
ining''
Fresenius-"Qualitativ Chemical
analysis
Roberts" Introduction to the Study
f Metallurgy''
Eissler-''M etallurgy of Gold"
Kemp-"H Handbook of Rocks"
Cairns-"Quantitative Chemical An
lysis."
Guttman-"Blasting.'
Pespeny-"G of Ore Deposits"
Preston California Gold Mill Prac-
ices"
Bowie-"Hydraulic Mining in Cali
ornia."
Sutton-"Volumetric Analysis
Dana-'System of Mineralogy."
Hull--"Volcanoes, Past and Present.
Brown-''Manual of Assaying."
Eissler-" Metallurgy of Silver
Lewis" Handbook of Gold Milling
Shinn-"S Story of the Mine.'
Lakes prospecting for Gold and
liver"
Giekie-"Outlines of Field Geology"
Qualitative Chemical Analy-
Morrison and De Mining