The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-05

probably not be white, since white soils,
and this would be nearly as bad as dust.
OF course the stack could be painted, but
If you can get something hat will answer
the purpose just as we'll 1t will not need
painting. -
The stack building which is 10 be built
for the Newark Library has been so de-
signed hat the rows Of cases viii stand
at right angles to the windows. SO thar
the light will fall along the book shelves.
Care has even been taken 70 arrange the
stacks so that the uprights OF the cases
shall be directly opposite the space Pc
tween the windows so that the light shall
not be interfered with in the smallest de-
gree. The cases will be double faces
that is, there will be shelves on each side
of the uprights-and the books will. there
fore, stand back TO back, one row facing
on each side. There will be twenty-four OF
these double faced cases on each floor, IN
two rows making forS the six floors, IA
double cases. The cases will be Il feet
long and the shelves IS inches wide, thai
is, eight inches for each face or side. One
case in three will have three of its lowest
shelves twelve inches wide on each face.
The centre aisle will be foul feet wide and
two side aisles three feet each. There will
be three feet space between each set OF
cases.
1t is believed that this stack will be one
of the most perfectly ventilated TO pc
found anywhere. The temperature will.be
kept as close to 66 degrees as possible all
the time. The foorings of the stack VIII
be of glass; a glass which is translucent,
but not transparent. Where the glass and
the STACK meet there Will DG al Optil Sp1NC
of three inches, which will allow the air
to course freely. AS the stacks will be at
right angles to the windows a current OF
air through the entire building can easily
be secured. This space between the floor
and the stack will also admit light. There
| are to be four dust fues in the building,
so that the books can be easily busted by
taking two books to one of the flues ana
pounding them together 1.-THE best way to
dust books. The dust will be conveyed
from the flues into the chimney. There
will be lifts running from the top to the
bottom of the stack. and there Will be
pneumatic tubes from the delivery and
reference department desks to central
points on each floor. These tubes Will be
used for sending call slips from the deliv-
cry and reference desks to the several
floors. The assistants and messengers.
therefore, will not ave to run up and
down stairs. A number will be stationed
on each floor and it will be necessary for
the assistants at the reference and deliv-
cry desks to know on what floor each book
Ecalled for is located. AS can readily be
SEEN, this system will be an excellent one
One will be able to obtain a book from the
new library with it's s~ix-floor stack about
as quickly as he can now from the present
two-1oor stack. There will be room in
the new stack for 100000 volumes.
To return to the Library Bureau stack,
the one selected by the Newark Library
trustees on recommendation of its COM
mittee. it was chosen because it was the
best available. Many students of the
oi ~ 81 y VI 1885, 49, -
is no perfect stack, and that it remains
for some genius to develop one. The
Library Bureau stack, however, is reck-
oned as one of the very best in the cour-
/, try, as is shown by the number of promi-
| nent institutions that have adopted it.
1t is used in the new Princeton College
library. There they have it in six stories,
and it has given perfect satisfaction. The
Newark officials nave visited Princeton
| for the purpose of seeing for themselves
how the system worked there. The
| Library Bureau is also used at Pratt In
| stitute. where it is in five stories; at SYRIA
| cuse Medical College, where it is in two
| stories, and in the Harvard University
library, where it is in three stories.
One of the best points about this stack
is that it has the only perfectly adjust
able shelf in the market. Most shelves
have to be moved up or down on an inch
| or inch and one-ha1f centre. This shelf,
however, can be fastened at any point,
up or down on the upright. It is done by
means of a screw driver, which is in
serted in a hole between the wood or
| metal end of the shelf n an outside
band. 1t is not the best arrangement in
the world, to be sure. to have to use a
screw driver, but the advantages gained
are believed to more than counter balance
the drawbacks. With this perfect ADJUST
able arrangement it will be possible to
set, an extra shelf in nov and then, and
shelves can be kept in a pile in some part
of the stack and added to cases as fast
as necessary. and with little trouble.
While looking at this stack the trustees
found fault with it in one respect-that
unless the Stats on which the bracket ran
were smooth the bracket would not run
| easily. h was Immediately remedied
by introducing a spring at the point
where the edge of the shelf is inserted
gains the bracket. This spring binds
the shelf and the bracket and makes
both firmer.
The bids by the different stack COM
panies are given below. The numbers in
parentheses show the standing of each
nco 90 dafnry,aipa a NV fho tT1ICtna'S
| committee for stacks in the stack build
ing in the administration building, and
both together
STACK BUILDING.
WA C+oo1 IL