Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-02
STATE HOUSE.
New Books Being Purchased
for The State Library.
Bids will be Opened June u, for Work
on South Wing.
Chat of the Departments.-New Cor
porations Formed.

executive department will lin the
Senate wing of the Capitol, and Gov
ernor Hill will occupy the room of the
President of the Senate as a private
office for the reception of his callers.
This temporary change is necessitated
by the work which will begin soon
after that date upon the task of COM
plotting the fireproofing of the south
wing of the building. The State asses
sors have already moved from their
room to the room of the judiciary COM
mittee on the third floor, and their old
quarters have been completely
stripped. Commissioner Matthews and
Major House still cling to their old
quarters but they will move to the
room of the legal affairs committee as
soon as it is vacated by the special COM
mittee on the revision of the statutes,
which will be in about three weeks.
The bids for the completion of the fire
proofing of the south wing will be
opened June u and the work will be
rushed then through the summer.
Bank Examiner Timberlake has re-
turned from weeks trip to Ohio and
Indiana where he went to Investigate
the validity of certain securities. Hon.
Geo E. Macomber of this city accom-
panied him. The banking department
is engaged. last week and this, in the
examination of the savings banks in
kennebec county. Waterville and Oak
land We're visited, last week.
A fine picture of President Virgin of
he
collection in the office of the President
Of the Senate. The collection is now
complete and all of the 81 distinguished
gentlemen who have presided over
Names upper branch since 1920 look
down from the walls of this pretty
room from pictures of uniform size
and frames. The room of the Speaker
of the House is so Small that no col
lection of former Speakers has been
attempted though the pictures of few
Speakers are hung there.
Hon. and Mrs. l.. T. Carleton left,
yesterday, for a wedding trip to Que
bee. the st. Lawrence river and the
Thousand Islands and then to New
York. They viii be absent a couple of
weeks or more.
State Superintendent w. w. Stetson
is at Fort Kent, this week, to attend
the graduation exercises of the NADIA
waska Training school.
Librarian Carver is just now work.
ing on a list of new books to be pur-
chased for the library next year. He
has decided not to purchase any more
fiction for the library except that
hich comes in standard sets. For the
travelling libraries, where the fiction is
generally requested, new fiction will be
purchased from time to time. Mr.
Carver has just added a full set OF
Mark Twains works to the library.
| The works of Ingersoll We're added last
| week, and also AZ volumes of Voltaire.
| There is considerable poetry in the Ii
| Drarv, but Mr.. Carver has come to the
| conclusion that people nowadays have
got out of the habit of reading verse.
Mr.. Carver is trying to screw his cour-
age up to point of purchasing the
parliamentary history and debates.
| There are 500 volumes and they are 81
| apiece but Mr.. Carver thinks he can
make an arrangement with an English
| publishing house to get the set on
easier terms There is not Il set of
| these books in Maine and the only New
| England state that has the collection
| is massachusetts,. They are said to be
most valuable for accurate pOrtrayalS
of English history. Mr.. Carver has
| lust completed the collection of British
| ANIMALS for the library, 100 volumes.
| 70 in
dex of the earlier Legislative volumes
and also a subject index to the COVER.
nors' messages, for both of which he
| has numerous calls during Legislative
sessions Mr.. Carver receives a great
| many letters asking information from
| people who are writing essays, his
tories, compositions, debates, stories
and speeches. One received the Other
day asked for information about po-
tatoes to complete some facts for al
esay. Mr.. Carver sent back severa
pages of data. including the fact thai
Maine stood Is in the potato growing
states. The total crop of Maine was
l9.S13,1iS bushels in 1899. This is but
one instance of the thousand and one
questions that are asked Librarian
Carver.
Governor Hill, the councillors and the
others of Hon. William T. Haines
friends whom he entertained for a few
days at the belgrade lakes, last week
report a delightful time there. The
party numbered II gentlemen. They
had three cottages and two steamers
at their disposal and found the fishing
excellent.
DR.. Albert Shaw, editor of Review OF
Reviews. speaks of State Supernten.
dent Stetson in the June number OF
that magazine, as one of the recognized
leaders in moulding educational though
in right lines. He pays Mr.. StetSol