Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-16
GREAT LIBRARY BUILDING
is NEARLY COMPLETED
MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE BEING
ERECTED AT BERKELEY
Money Left University by the Late
Charles Doe of San Francisco
Being Used to Erect
Grand Edlfice

BERKELEY, Nov. 15-Work is well
under way on the campus for the library
building of the greater university, which
is to cost in the neighborhood of $1,0O0,0OO.
Already the foundations are nearly
completed, and a large force of men is
at work daily. The Doe Memorial library
will be a Luilding 220 by 265 feet; fire.
proof, and built of granite and steel.
The entire building when completed will
house about 100000 volumes, which will
be placed in "a great central stack, 105
feet square, having a roof almost entirely
of glass.
Al ound this stack on the east, west
and south sides, will be grouped rooms
:or special work, administration and
seminars. The north front, on the
ground floor, will be occupied by two
large study rooms, one for men and one
for women. Ample accommoda tions will
also be provided on this floor for the
Bancroft collection. On the main floor,
the entire north front will be taken up
tv the general reading room-a hall up
ward of 80 by 200 feet which will accom-
D,cdate more than 400 readers
The building will be arranged to house
b1ndery and library school, in addition
to all of the usual working departments
1t is proposed to install a system of car
rying books by pneumatic tubes or me-
chanical carriers from the stack to the
delivery desk.
The university has come into possession
of the money for the building of this
magnificent structure through the will of
the late Charles Franklin Doe of San
Francisco. The sum which Is to be de-
voted to the new library is about quar-
ter of his entire fortune. Mr.. Doe came
to San Francisco In 1857, together with
his two brothers, and established himself
as a dealer in doors and windows This
business was the foNndation of the great
fortune which Mr.. Doe later amassed,
and which is now being used to erect one
of the finest library buildings in the
United States.
Future for Agriculture
Speaking Of the future of agricultural
interests in this state, Professor e. j.
Wickson, dean and director of the agri-
cultural college and experiment station
of the University of California, gave the
following statement of his plans:
I'VE expect to realize for the University
of California the greatest institution for
agricultural research and instruction IN
the world. Such a great ambition should
be shown to be reasonable. The follow
ing conditions lie in the foundation of it:
termination to realize it on the part of
those to whom the development of the
university is intrusted by law.
"Second-Another significant indication
of the coming greatness of the agricul-
tural work Of the University of California
is found not only in desire, but in q
clearly expressed determination of the
California people toward that end. The
college of agriculture from the begin
ming has lain close to the heart and
purse of California people. They will
deny it nothing which is reasonable and
promotive of real greatness and leader
ship.
''Third-No state or country is superior
to California in natural adaptation to
greatness in agricultural education, be-
cause no state presents agriculture in so
many phases.
'Fourth--There is no state nor country
with population which needs such wide
demonstration of agricultural science and
such varied instruction in agricultural
practice.
''Fifth-Our duty is thus defined by our
opportunity. 1t is to do more and better
work; to push equipment of men and ma
terials until every farming interest #
California is adequately served, both in
the ascertainment of new truth for the
leaders and the demonstration of plain
practice for beginners, both young and
old. This can only be done by the exal-
tation of agriculture as a technical
science in the university; by the develop
ment of special schools of secondary
grade as fast as can be wisely done ac-
cording ito current demand for them; by
the preparation of teachers to carry ele-
mentary science and agriculture into the