Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
IMMENSE CROWD
VISITS LIBRARY
Building Thronged For Hours
by Citizens Who Attended
Reception
PUBLIC is WELL PLEASED
Reception Closes the Services That
Marked the Dedication Day of the
New Library-The Dense Throns
That Gathered Before the Building
Hard to Handle.

That Gathered Before the Buildin!
Hard to Handle.
The ceremonies that marked the ded'
~ication day of Marshalltown's new Car
negie library We're brought to a mos
fitting close by the public reception
held in the library building Wednesda.
night. For three hours the building wa!
crowded, despite the efforts of those il
charge, and it is estimated that severa
thousand people visited and inspected
the interior during the evening. De.
spite the fact that the building was e
tirely inadequate for the opening
crowd, the visitors for the most par
were patient and each waited his turn
some being compelled to stand on the
sidewalk outside the building Tor hours
Others gave up in despair and vii
await other opportunities for viewing
the building.
Long before the hour for opening ar
rived the crowd, curious to have the
first glimpse, filled the steps, and as
the time drew neal extended across the
sidewalk and into h street. When the
doors were swung back the crush for
a moment was terrific, and 1t became
necessary to at once close the door TO
prevent accident. This vas done and
1,.;,,. tha aofira ax,ataipor thu crowd
was admitted in groups, but even then
the building was constantly filled.
While the interior is handsome by
daylight. the brilliant electric lights OF
the opening night made the wall tints
especially pretty. acting as they did as
a background for the constantly moving
crowd. The floral decorations, oltho
simple, were most tasteful. The center
piece of the delivery was an enor-
nous bouquet of sAmerican beauties,
while the stack was given addi-
tional color by palms and ferns. Up
stairs the museum was laden with the
fragrance of the numerous bouquets
of yellow and red roses and Easter
lilies. In the lecture o the speakers
table was adorned with pink carnations.
The guests, on entering, We're greeted
in the stair hall by the librarian. Mrs.
Maude BATHS and her assistants, Misses
Lillian Arnold, Blanche Galloway, Ma
bel Eason and Vera Seig. assisted by
Miss Marion Parker. The members Of
the board of trustees. composed OF
Mesdames II. j. Howe. y. Nj. Parker. +.
w. Hargrave, and Joseph Holmes,
Messrs. Woodbury. Place. r. r. Bene-
diet, and p. S. Balch, received In the
delivery room. Turnout the evening
the mandolin orchestra, stationed in
the auditorium on the second floor,
gave a most excellent program. The
orpheus Club sang Dudley Bucks
Good Night and Pale in Ehe Amber
West" by j. A. Parks, The personnel
of the mandolin club was Mr.. John Z.
Woodbury., Jr., director; Misses Cora
and Grace Lander. Carrie and Adah
Powers, Kate Balch, Lora Carney, Ida
and Marie Shove, Maude Swingley, An
ma Packer, and Messrs. John Balch,
Henry Shove, Edwin Crowl. Jack
Lander. Harry Denmead, Ray Doolittle,
Howard Wilbur, Arthur Click, Ned
Robbins and Arson Willard. The Or
pheus Club is composed of Messrs.
Chester Duerelle, j. IL. Fellingham,
Luther Mcconnell, Frank Arnold, Carl
Heitchu, Ray Scott, Guy Dryden, Ross
Salisbury, Emil Berggren and I. +.
Phillips.
In the various room of the building
the presidents of the several clubs that
in any way donated to The furnishing
of the library presided as a reception
committee and guided the visitors about
the different apartments. These COM
mittees were divided az follows: Gen
eral reading room Mrs. e. Lawrence,
Mrs. George Whitton, Mrs. Celia White,
Mrs. James Cammack, Mis-. c. j. Moi
fatt and Miss Mildred Moffatt; chill
dreris ROOM, Mrs. L. r. Lay. Mrs.
Charles lngraham and Mrs. w. b. kib-
hey, assisted by Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Payne, of Nevada, and Mr.. Theodore NJ
Parvin, of Cedar Rapids: stack room.
Misses Mary Hall, Alice Rogers, Jessie
Binford, Mabel French, Olive Zug. Kate
Price and Leona Caswell: study; Mes
DANES w. r. Forney. P. M. Adamson
and A. C. DAILY. Frappe was served in
the stack room by Misses Isabelle
Mitchem and Ella Adams. assisted by
Misses Georgia Crazy, Marion Forney,
Marjorie Nichols and Gludys Carney.
On the second floor the same plan for
the guests III the various
rooms was employed. In the hall Miss
Jessie Hall, assisted by Miss Fannie
Sandoe, served the frappe. In the mu-
scum, owing to the lavishness OF It's
floral decorations and the desire to View
the DR.. w. S. Mcbride collection, the
visitors paused longest. Mrs. c. III.
Conover, donor OF the furnishings, pre-
sided, assisted by Mr.. and Mrs. ID. Il.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l. Crane,
Mrs. A. S. Burnell, Mrs. Mary L. Brad
ford and Mrs. w. H. Bailey, president of
the General Federation Of Women's
Clubs of Iowa, and Mr.. Johnson Brig
ham, state librarian, of Des Moines. IN
the auditorium Mrs. 7. j. Fletcher, Mrs.
Minnie Rhoades and NJ. g. i. Kirby,
assisted by Miss Alice Tyler, of Des
Mrs. A. j.. Barkley. of Boone,
and Captain w. II. Johnson, of Fort
The trustees room was IN
of Mrs. l.. A. Cralldall. Turnout
the halls, on the stairweys and in the
and others parts of the build
ing a corps of ushers directed the crowd
to facilitate their movements. Those
served in this capacity We're Miss
es Ruth Balch, Ruth Loree, Mildred
Bayliss, Lucille Willard. Ruth BATHS,
Blanche Benedict, Sara Chamberlain,
Esther Forney and Messrs. Fred Bus
Stanley Sieg, Harry Waterman,
Ctaplay Moora phip Rnrc1ev IanglOn