The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-15
GORDON'S NIGHT
Twenty-six Years of
One Good Citizens
Work Crowned
With Tri-
umph.
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY OPEN
Five Thousand People Visit
the Stately Pile and Fill
It With Praises.
THE DEDICATION CEREMONIES
DR.. Leonard ]. Gordon Pre-
sents the Building to the
City on Behalf of the
Trustees.
MAYOR HoOs'S TRIBUTE
Religious Exercises Conducted
BY Mgr. Seton and the
Rev. DR.. Brett.
MUSIC ENLIVENS THE SCENE
Gavel Presented to the President of
the Board of Trustess--Arions
Sing Anthems.
MAYOR Hoos's TRIBUTE
Religious Exercises Conducted
BY Mgr. Seton and the
Rev. DR.. Brett.
MUSIC ENLIvENs THE SCENE
Gavel Presented to the President of
the Board of Trustess--Arions
Sing Anthems.

Jersey City's new Free Public Library
building was opened to the public and
formally transferred to the city yester-
day. From noon until nearly midnight
thousands passed through the portals of
the handsome edifice, and there was moth
ing but words of praise and admiration
for the city's new possession.
In the afternoon hundreds of children
invaded the Library and made themselves
thoroughly at home. They peered into
every nook and corner, sat alternately on
every chair, ran UP and down the mar
BILE staircase, worried the elevator man.
to the verge of suicide asked hundreds
of questions of the attendants and finally
voted the whole thing "awfully nice and
jolly In the evening the upgrown people
had their inning.
Long before seven o'clock Captain Cody
and a squad of stalwart policemen de-
pIoyed throughout the building, which
was lighted from basement to roof. The
rooms corridors and stair landings were
tastefully decorated with palms. and here
and there to guide the visitor and answer
questions were a bevy of charmingly
dressed young ladies each wearing a
broad black silk sash on which was in
scribed in gold letters, Free Public Lii
brary"
In the entrance there was stationed a
string orchestra, led by Mr.. Victor Baier.
who. as the leading musician of the
county, had been invited by the Trustees
to suDerintend the musical part of the
programme 1t is needless to say that
under such able leadership the music was
perfect. Then in an adjoining room was
the Arion Society," Jersey City's justly
famous choral association. whose fame
has spread far and wide. Their selections
were much admired. At the head of the
stairway, on the third floor the Trustees
received their guests. No wonder they
looked happy on receiving so many fell
citation for wasn't the occasion the cul-
mination Of ten years hard work?
Soon after eight @, clock DR. Leonard ].
Gordon, chairman of the Board. led the
way through the ever increasing crowd
to the lecture hall on the fifth floor,
where the dedication ceremony took
place At the end of this lofty chamber
was a small dais and seated thereon
were:-Dr. Gordon, Mayor Hoos, Right
Rev. Monsignor Robert Seton, D. d., Rev.
Cornelius Brett, D. D., Trustees John ].
Voorhees,, James Luby, Nelson ]. HI.
Edge, Henry Snyder, ex-Mayor Peter F.
Wanser, Andrew j. Corcoran, Stephen L.
Harvey, and Miss Esther Burdick, Ii
brarian. Around the dais were Mr.. Jona-
than Dixon of the Supreme Court and
Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. John J. Voorhees,,
Mrs. James Luby. Mrs. e. F. Millen, Mr..
and Mrs Jacob Weart Mrs. Cornelius
Brett, Miss Cornella Bradford. Mrs s. L.
Harvey, Mrs. H. Snyder. Mr.. and Mrs.
w. P. Underhill, Mrs. G. w. Clerihew,
Mrs. Marcus Miller, Miss Florence Cleri-
hew, Miss Adeline K Clerihew, Miss Jessie
Miller. Mrs. A. J. Corcoran, Mr.. Carr
of Onondaga, N. T.; Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah
J. Cowles, Mr.. and Mrs. George Phillips
and Misses Phillips, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fl.
Briggs, Miss Green, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Rice, Director William A. Lewis of the
Board of Education. Mr.. and Mrs. B. L.
Stowe. Police Justice E. A. Hoos. ex-
Assemblyman and Mrs. James p. Hall,
4. Manners Samuel Hemingway, VIM. C.
Brown, Pierre Cook, Frank McGee, W..
Van Beuren, Miss Louise EDGE Miss
Edele Edge Dr.. Benjamin Edge Dr..
Gordon K. Dickinson, Miss Dickinson, DR..
J. G. Parsons. Captain and Mrs. G. Car
roll, Mr.. and Mrs Hugh Roberts, Mr..
James 3. vredenburgh, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Il. Spengeman, Finance Commissioner
John Mullins and Mrs Mullins, Fire Com
missioner John Erickson and Mrs. Erick-
son.
Rev. DR.. Brett invoked Divine blessing
on the building and the purposes for
which it was erected.
Give Thy grace continued DR.. Brett,
ITO the volumes as they go from home TO
home and from heart to heart dIsseninat-
ilg knowledge. We pray that this edifice
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