The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-03-25
100000. FOR BOOKS.
BIG SUM GIVEN TO AMERICAN
LIBRARIEs THIS YEAR. f :.
Report Of Association at st. Louis e.
Inmates Gifts to Reading Public
Of United states-Carnegis
Donation Largest. y" = 90.

Gifts to American libraries amounting
to Sc, 103, 1877 were made in the year from
June /, 1903, to May 81, 1904. Of, this
sum Andrew Carnegie gave $1,507 900.
of which $97O,100 was reported to have
been accepted. 1885,. -
The report was read at the conven-
ton of the American Library associa-
ton at St. Louis by ]. L. Harrison, IL
brarian of the Athenaeum at Providence,
r.. l. 1t covers single gifts of $500 or
more and of $50 volumes and upward
Five hundred and six gifts are re-
ported, representing in all 1877 1913 VOL
umes and $6,103,137. An analysis of the
money gifts shows that $732,359 was
given as endowment funds for general
library purposes. $19S,654, for the es-
Enlistment of book funds, $78,709 for
the cash purchase Of books, 81 ,507 800,
of which $4,000 is reported as accepted,
from Andrew Carnegie for buildings,
$2,75O,419 from various. donors for
buildings, $27, 400 for sites and $642,4
for various purposes. In addition Is
sites, the value of which is not known,
arc reported, and also the gifts Of build
ings and grounds to the amount of
$155 900. 49,.
The gifts Of the year, other than those
made by Mr.. Carnegie, amount to 1885,
537. This includes 36 gifts of S., 900
each, Is Of SIC, 900, nine of $4,000, seven
Of $4,000, Ave of $4,000, two of $40, 900,
four Of $35, 900, three of $4,000, one OF
$4,000, and 81 Of from So, 900 to $500, 900.
Among the notable collections of
books given may mentioned the Kon-
rad Won Maurer collection Of German
history, comprising 1O, 900 volr mes, from
Prof. Archibald Cary Coolidge to Har-
ward university; the Sidney S. Rider col
lection of Rhode Island history, a COL
lection Of 10000 volumes, manuscripts
and broadsides from Marsden ]. Perry
to Brown university; collection of
10000 volumes on magic from DR.. s. B.
Ellison to Columbia college; the private
library of 1000 volumes of the late John
Sherman to the Ohio state library;
5000 volumes relating to fungi from E.
D. Howlay to the University of Mime
sofa, and 2,700 volumes on ichthyology
from David Starr Jordan to Leland Stan
ford Junior university.
Among the interesting gifts may be
mentioned handsome stained glasa
window, Hans Christian Andersen
With the Children" purchased with
money raised by popular subscription
and given as a Christmas gift to the
children's room of the Milwaukee pub
lie library.
The report confines Mr. Carnegie's
gifts to the United States. They num-
Der 100, and amount to 81 ,507, 900.
In their distribution the North At
lantic division of states received $685.
$50, the South Atlantic 100000, the
South Central $4,000, the North Gen.
trail, $604800 and the western 1921, 1000.
OF the states receiving the greatest
number of gifts, Minnesota ranks first
with 10, California second with IL, and
Iowa and Wisconsin third with nine
each.
There were IA gifts under $4,000, Is
Of $4,000, Is between $4,000 and $15,-
900, six between SIS 900 and $40, 900; i've
OF $4,000, three of $4,000, one of $780,
600 and four Of $4,000 or more.