Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-22

Librarian, done in warm and ola plus'
the latter shade being toned down Oh
the ceiling. The floor is OF hard Woou'
with the librarians desk in the center
equipped with telephone. While over
head hangs the cluster of lights. Inns
room is 12x15 feet, and also has an en-
trance opening into the childrenIs room.
The latter is thirty feet. ten inches py
twenty-three feet, six inches, II opens
from the southeast side of the deEV-
cry room, occupying the n street
frontage of the building. Ii Is III
tended for the exclusive use OF niue
folks, who are not supposed to enter
other portions of the building
with permission. It's walls are done IN
olive green and brown, while overhead
light cream is employed. On the west
side a handsome, ornamental brick fire
place gives a homelike appearance. Inc
room is comfortably filed with six
tables, four low ones for the little peo-
pie. and two higher ones for the larger
children. Thirty chairs supply the
tables, which are lighted by two mean
d%escents over each. In this room Is
kept, in cases around the wall, the
children's books. while added cheer is
given by the growing plants n vines
in the large windows. This floor, X
the others of the first story, except
ing the hall. is of cork, making the
football inaudible. All the furniture is
of solid oak, very pretty and decidedly
substantial.
The stack room. for the loan books,
with it's eleven steel racks. opens like
a fan from the delivery counter ana
Immediately across from the entrance.
It's floor is of cork and its shelves have
a CAPACITY of 1000 volumes. In either
corner are two small study tables, n
in the northwest corner a private stair
way, intended for employees OF the IL
brary, leads into the basement stack
room. Yellow tints the wall. and the
double set of windows are intended for
an additional story which may be
added, with a glass floor on top OF the
present racks, when the occasion de-
mands. In floor space this room is a
circle and is 22X45 feet.
The general reading room occupies
the north or State street front, OF the
the building. and is entered from the
northwest corner of the delivery room.
1t is another of the larger rooms, oc-
cupying a floor space OF twenty-three
feet, six inches, by thirty-three feet.
Sage green is the decorative color, be-
ing used in a lighter shade on the cell
ing, while the w~ainscoating is OF
A fireplace similar to that
in the children's room, occupies the
central section OF the south wall, and
is surmounted by the Binford memoir
clock. This room also contains six
tables and is supplied with thirty
chairs, and in the shelves on its walls
are filed the bound magazines and
lighter reference books. The current
periodicals and papers are also TO be
found in this room.
Leading from it, also from the deHv-
cry room, and between the former and
the hall, is the private study,
for the use of those who do not wish
to be disturbed. 1t is a small room,
12x15 feet. with a hard wood floor, the
walls being covered with brown. In 1t
are stored the heavier reference books.
The Upper Floor.
Passing up the stairs, h two flights
ioin one another and terminate in h
second story hall, from which all the
rooms of that floor are reached. The
wall tints Of the upper hall are the
being oak. The trimmings of the en-