The Greeley tribune., 1907-02-14
Proposed Library
Building.
AN APPEAL

talnIy always Interested W "
rent of nv means in its growth and
Improvement. and as a member OF
the library board OF trustees, as we'll,
| wish to make statement concern
ing our needs. and what might well
be considered our necessities in con-
nection with our present public Ii
brary. AS you know, the old H.
brary association has been reorga-
nized under the laws OF the state,
and has now legal status and stand
ing as The Greeley Public LII
brary.'' Under the law we can now
have a revenue regularly provided by
taxation for its maintenance. line
city council may levy an annual tax
| of mill in extent on our city Valua-
tion, If necessary, for its support;
and itnnhas las / am given to under
stand, set apart for that purpose for
the coming year some three-quarters
| of mill or about one thousand
dollars. The place is growing, and
we feel certain that by the time we
can provide new building for our
accommodation the revenues to be
derived under the provisions OF the
! law will enable US to sustain the IL
brarv under enlarged conditions
without greatly increasing our burd-
ems. And, we need the new build
ing. The demands upon the library
have greatly outgrown our present
capacity. Our quarters are not only
too small but are inconvenient and a
portion of the room very poorly
lighted. We have at present stored
in various parts of the high school
building some two dozen boxes from
twenty inches to two feet square
filed with books that although not
so constantly required as others, are
now wholly inaccessible. We need
the new building as an attraction for
a class of transient residents, schOl
ars, students and people of culture
who will not reside even temporarily
in place where there is no we'll
conducted public library We need
it for a large portion of our adult
population who having no consider
able libraries of their own depend on
this source of supply. We need it
for our teachers, and above all, we
need it for our ever increasing num-
ber of children and older students in
} our public schools.
Now fortunately the lot upon
which our present city hall stands is
ample in size, not only for the new
city hall which our officials are 60
ing to ask US to authorize them to
build, but also for the new library
building which we are proposing to
erect by voluntary subscription.
The city is proposing to put in a
, heating plant of sufficient capacity
for both buildings, and that provi.
! sion alone will probably save in fuel
and janitor services forty per cent Of
the cost for these which would re
suit under other conditions. 1t is
proposed to erect the city hall or
the corner and the library building
on the west half of the lot.
When the proposition to build {
new city hall was submitted to u!
two years ago the city authoritie
had thoroughly considered at th'
time proposition made to them D.
the library board to combine in thu
new building accommodations TO
both institutions or purposes, bu
after due deliberation this was fount
4 to be impracticable, and as merel,
temporary expedient it had beel
finally concluded to provide US will
some space in the upper story, whicl
9 while In one sense an improvement
d on our present quarters, would, il
! Others have been even less conven
!. lent. 1t was also proposed at tina
. time to provide, just as it is tn
y present purpose, a heating plant o
sufficient capacity for both building
y when we were enabled to build Ii
: brary building proper
Some have proposed that the tax
' payers be asked to vote bonds 70
this building also, in addition t.
e the sum proposed for the city hall
d l will not stop now to discuss tina
e proposition; good judges have in
: formed us that it is not feasible a
e the present time, nor likely to be S
in the near future.
4 Also, it has at different time
been proposed that we avail ourselve
of the Carnegie library fund. A
first, and before It's full scope AM
i, bearing was understood, many of ou
people warmly advocated that plan
and petition was even circulate,
and some correspondence had witt
4 that end In view; but when, som