The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-09
Architect Class Gilbert Will Be Here to Present Them to Ives Committee at Ses.
 sion To night.
SOME CHANGES INCLUDED
Expected That Plans Will Be Adopted. Contracts Awarded and Work Commenced Yet This
 Fall.

At a meeting of committee on the building of the Ives Memorial library for this city, which will he held th's evening in the office Of Attorney George D, Wstrous Architect Cass Gilbert who has charge of the plans for the new library, will be present and will present to the committee for the first time the complete detailed plans for the structure Cass Gilbert has arragned to come on from St. Paul, Minnesota. where he Is at ores ent. in order to personally deliver the plans 10 the committee, and the meet Ing tonight has been arranged to re- ceive the plans When the general plans were adopted last spring the architect was instructed to proceed as quickly as possible in working out the detailed plans and since his return from Europe he has been constantly engaged in the work which is now ready for inspection
 Attorney Watrous of the committees able that any definite action would be taken on the plans tonight as the mem bers of the committee have not seen the plans at all and will want few days to look them over and see If there are any changes desired Every effort will he made to expedite the work and MT. Watrous said last night that he would be very much. disap- pointed If the contracts were not let and the actual start made on the work this fall. If the plans as pre-. sented meet with ire approval of the committee they will be presented in q short time to the board of directors of the public library and if they also op- prove of them bids will be advertised for at once If there is no hitch work should be started within month and perhaps in less time. It is expected that 1t will require about year and half to complete the work
 While the detailed plans have not been seen by any members of the com- mittee it Is known that certain changes and arrangements from the original | plan have been made which will pro- vide for the future growth of the IT, brary for many years to come. As | finally arranged there will be book ac- commodatlon for about 100000 volumes while the present number of books in the library Is around S0,000. If Is plan ned to have all the books which are | likely to be wanted by the public In general on the shelves where the users of the library may go right to them as they do at present and pick out what they want The less used books will be in the stacks to which only the library workers will have access and these will have to be ordered through one of the library assistants. There will he besides handsome main de- | livery room. a large magazine room and a spacious reading room Every thing will he up to date and of ths finest.
 It is just possible that the plans will come so well up to the desires of the members of the committee that they may be adopted tonight in order to allow the work to be started even more quickly but 1t is most probable that another meeting will he held in a few days to take definite action on the detailed plans which will require careful examination by the committee members in order to be fully under stood and appreciated, MT Gilbert Is expected to arrive in this city soms- time this afternoon.