Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-01

Number OF periodicals In the
library ...,.,....s...s -
Number of volumes added dur
ing the year; by purchase,
37b: by gift, 70; total ..., 447
Number OF periodicals and vol
umes lost or missing: books
condemned, S42; books lost
by borrowers, SO, (of this
number "a were paid for);
books missing, 20; total 49,, All
Actual number of volumes in IL
brary June l. 1908 .... 6,052
Total circulation of library dur
ing fiscal year ..-....''''.'' SS,6LZ
Percentage of fiction ......... "a
In the last annual report there were
$3.50 books In the library at the be-
ginning of the fiscal year The report
this year shows decided decrease IN
the circulation OF the library. In 1909
the circulation was SS'svo wnlle t ass
year II Is only 1857. Last year. so'
volumes were added MS against 44l TINS
year.
The report of the directors upon the
matter of the purchase of books Is IN
part as follows.
Though last year the city council
made to the library special donation
of $1,000. for the purchase OF DOCKS
and shelving. this year the board mas
received no such donation, but simply
the amount arising from the tax levy
Inasmuch as our experience during the
last year. as well as that of the years
preceding, has demonstrated Una. the
ordinary maintenance OF the hprarE
consumes the entire YAK levy, no spe-
ciai donations having been received,
we have been unable to increase the
number of books in the library to any
apDreciable extent, or to procure any
| additional shelving, therefor.
"Yet IL is absolutely essential that II
| the library Is to fulfil the great pur-
nose for which 1t was intended ana u
. il 10 to increase its influence Tor good
in the community as the years go by,
| n should be able to purchase new
| hooks from time to time TO keep pace
with the increasing demands OF lts pa
irons upon It, and that 1t should pro-
| perry house books which are pur-
| chased"
INSTALLING SWITCH.
signal Service Supervisor Starratt OF
| the Union Pacific system has large
| force of men at work today at the
| crossing of the Bamberger road and
the Union Pacific at Thirty second
| street and Pacific avenue installing an
interviewing device and plant for tht
| two roads The work is being done
! under the authority and direction OF
L
The details are carried out by Mr.. Star
| raft.
1t is stated that 1t will require about
! two or three weeks to install the de-
| vice and test its efficiency The --latest
| and most improved system known II
| interlocking switches is to be used. The
| Bamberger road is to pay the Union
Pacific company $4,000 for the switch
| and when 1t is taken up within yeai
| and the overhead crossing Is built BY
| the interurban road. the Union Pacific
| company repays the Bamberger line
| the sum of $1,000.
FUNERAL OF MRS. MANSON.
The funeral services over the body
| of Mrs Ellen Mawson, aged rs years,
| who died Sunday evening at her home
| in Kanesville, was held yesterday at
| II a. m. at the Kanesville meeting
house, Bishop Hans Peterson presiding.
| The music was furnished by the ward
choir. with solo, 20 My Father, sung
| by Miss Martha Peterson. The speak
ers were Bishop Peterson, Elder f. A
! I4arkin and Counselor George Green