Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-02
TIE LIBRARY SITUATION
Those Already Established Pros
porous, and the Number of
New Ones Increasing
BOOKS FOR 'owA's BLIND
BOOKS FOR lowA's BLIND
Miss Tyler, Secretary of the Iowa liz
brary Association Has Added a Set
of Books for This Purpose, Printed in
the Point system-AII Iowa Hansinss
Indefinitely Postponed.
Special to Times-Republican.

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Des Moines, March miss Alice S.
| Tyler. the secretary of the Iowa library
|comfnission, has been unusually active
this winter, and has responded to a
larger number of calls to go to different
| parts of the state on account of in
creasing interest in library work than
ever before. In fact the library move
nlent has become epidemic in Iowa and
there has not before been any such
general interest manifested in library
work and library promotion in the
state. New libraries are being built and
dedicated and there is news every
month of more Of the Carnegie money
coming to Iowa for library purposes
But not all the libraries of Iowa are
Carnegie libraries. AT CenterYille Cen
eral Drake took the initiative; at Boone
Senator Ericsson is res ponsible for a
library; at Grinnell there is the Stewart
library; at Onawa Judge Oliver has
given library, and so on thruout the
Estate. Miss Tyler attended the dedica-
ton of the Onawa pubic library last
week and reports that II is very fine
one and credit to the town. Aside from
this connection with the public library
work. the secretary is most concerned
with the expansion of the travelling
library system in Iowa by which books
are sent direct from the state library to
every part of the state loaned to clubs
and associations or to individuals. and
thus the state library is made accessible
to nearly every one in The state. The
demand for these travelling Libraries
constantly exceeds the supply and 1t Is
growing rapidly. Miss Tyler has just
added set OF books for the blind
printed in the point system, and these
are available for every blind person in
the state. In this list Of books is the
follow.ag: '.The Man Without a Coun-
try" Tale; 'Tvangeline." Longfeilow
Lays of Ancient Rome" and Samuel
johnston" Macaulay: Little Miss
Phoebe Gay" Helen u. Brown: "Selec-
tions from POEMS" Robert Burns; Be
side the Bonnie Brier Bush" Maclaren:
III Pensoroso" Milton: AN Adventure
With Dog and n Glacier" Muir:
Poems and Ballads Schiller; Mar
rnion," Scott; wild Animals I Have
Known" Seton Thompson: Voyage to
Brobdingnag," Swift; 1.-The Princess"
Tennyson: and two volumes Of Tales
of Adventure Told by the Adventures.
In the raised point system there Is one
volume Of the Life of Scott" Already
there is considerable demand for these
books, and it Is a decided novelty in
library work.
4, ~ iodo
nitely postponed now. The notices of
suspension of the orders for executions
have all been served on the wardens of
the penitentiaries and the sheriffs in the
respective counties, the last one being
the case of Richard Williams. OF Ma
haska county, who was sentenced to be
hanged on March 13. which is Friday,
for the killing of William Sharper at
North Buxton. The notices have been
served in the cases of Busse and Hort
man. 1t would appear. therefore, that
Iowa is not to have any hangings. at
least not this year. 1t Is regarded as
extremely doubtful If there will be any
new trials in the cases of Williams and
Hortman, but Busse may get new
trial. because the evidence rather indi-
Gated possibility of only second de-
gree murder. Phillips AID Brooks got
new trials and life sentences and are
back in the penitentiary at Anamosa.
Phillips, the negro, has not yet been
cured of the poetry writing habit and
he continues to grind out in his leisure
moments very good quality or
poetry.
The last issue of the Iowa "Ohciai
Register" containing the detailed re-
port of the transactions OF the state eX-
ecutive council, shows that the cost
of maintaining the state capitol build
ing is larger than generally supposed.
The custodians pay roll for the year
amounted to $20,663.01. This does not
include fuel $4,135.72. merchandise for
the supply department $a,16O.6O, furni-
ture $5,79S.01 and stores and miscelia-
|neous supplies s3,2s4.13. There is also
the telephone. telegraph. lighting. wa
ter and repairs amounting to $5,3S756,
end express and carriage for the state
offices S5,4S6.95. The salaries In the
office of the executive council. includ-
Ing mail carrier, amounted to S4,S65.
There was paid for return of fugitives
s4121.47. for the fish and game war;
oen S4,S54.79, for examination of books
in state offices s712S2 aud for arrest OF
criminals $3.50.
A committee of the Des Moines
commercial Exchange is making an in
vestigation which if it is continued to
a finish and the results are fairly
treated and made known, may nave
far reaching effect on the railroad
freight rate problem in the state OF
Iowa and in other states OF this sec
tion of the country. This committee
has addressed to the shippers OF pes
Moines a letter asking their conhdentlal
views on the rate question and to secure
from them positive information as to
the present rates, how they compare
with former rates and with rates to
other jobbing points. the reason for the
recent demand for an increase In rates
by the railroads and all similar infor-
nation. The committee is competent
to deal with the question fuzzy. IL is
believed that the committee VIII be
able in this way to secure some lnlor-5
nation of great value to all who are