New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

FIREPLACE,

sided as librarian at one time, and MS wife. Mrs
her novels.
When General Hubbard was a pupil at Bow
doin the books of the college taken from
the old chapel and placed in the new Kings
Chapel, so named in honor of William King, the
first Governor of Maine. General Hubbard was
of the class of 81. and at that time the new
library in the rear of Kings Chapel was regard-
ed by many as adequate for all time to coma
General Hubbard, who was then boy of nine
teen, saw far enough into the future to say
to one of his comrades:
The time will come when this university
will have to have a library by itself If ever
I'm able to do it. I'd like to build one" Nearly
half century has pissed since them but the
boy has at last fulfilled his wish.
John Hubbard. the father of Thomas, was
Governor of Maine from 1919 to 1898, the four
years before the went to BOwdoin- 1t was
Governor John Hubbard who signed the first
Maine law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors. Thus it was that the boy Thomas,
when a freshman at college, frequently
ioked about his being a temperance boy. 1t is
even said that young Hubbards presence about
the campus was enough to prevent any attempt
at evadng the Prohibition act.
Four years after his graduation from Bowdoin
Thomas H. Hubbard was called away from tho
law by the outbreak of the Civil War. He had
just begun the practice of his profession at
Albany. but decided that he wanted to go I'd
the front. He went back to his home. at Hallf-
well, Me. and Joined the 25th Regiment of
Maine Volunteers. After the war he came to
this city and resumed his practice of law, which
has been chiefly in the interest of large cor
porations. In the life of Coils P Huntington
General Hubbard was closely associated with
the head of the Southern Pacific Railroad He
was only a director and vice-president Of
this road. but also president of the Mexican Gem
tral Railroad, and connected with other ramih-
cations of the Huntington interests
General Hubbard is a of somewhat stern
and reticent manners. His hair has turned
white, for he celebrates his sixty-fourth birth
day next Saturday, but his mustache is a jet
black, notwithstanding his years. and he is as
erect a soldier guard He has long beel
vitally interested in his alma mater and pro-
cured the endowment for the Searles Building
of Science The big grandstand to be built on
the Whittier Athletic Field is another OF his
gifts
For many years General Hubbard has been
Bowdoin College trustee. and among his eleven
colleagues are Melville w. Fuller. Chief Justice,
United States Supreme Court General Oliver O.
Howard, ex-Chef Justice John A Peters, of the
Maine Supreme Court United States Senator
William P. Frye and the Rev. Dr. William De
Witt Hyde. the president of the institution
The Hubbard Library looks more like a build
ing for soldiers than for books. The feature
Of its facade is the battemented tower thirty
feet square and one hundred feet high. 1t is Of
various kinds of materal-Harvard brick
granite and limestone. Besides providing space
for 10000 Volumes and reading rooms for pro-
fessors and students, the building contains
large assembly hail. a lecture hall and admins
trative Offices In the tower will be the famouA
private library of James Bowdoin. the Massa-
chusetts Governor after whom the college waA
named. The main building is 176 feet long and
4G feet wide with a wing 80 feet in length. The
main library has a floor space of 1850
square feet shelving for 1900 volumes. and
tables for forty workers. The cost Of the build
ing was 100000.