Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
LONG BEACH LIBRARY
TO BE THROWN OPEN
CEREMONIES WILL BE HELD
MONDAY AFTERNOON
Art Exhibit Will Be Feature of Public
Building Given City Through
Generosity of Andrew
Carnegie

LONG BEACH, June 12.-The new
$4O 900 Carnegie library in Pacific park
will be dedicated at 8 o'clock Monday
afternoon and opened formally for the
use of the reading public. Mayor
Windham will give a short address and
Rev. Matt S. Hughes of Pasadena will
deliver the address of the day. Follow
ing the program the library commits
sioners, Mayor Windham, r. H. Young,
Prof. j. d. Graham, Frederick Baker
and George Mortimer Roe, will tender
a reception to the public in the build
ing. The library will be prettily be-
decked with fragrant blossoms for this
occasion. and the art galleries will be
hung with fifty or more paintings by
California artists.
The library, containing $4,000 volumes
and having an average monthly circu-
lation of 1000 volumes, will be of vast
ly increased benefit to the public now
that it is so splendidly housed. In ad-
dition to the perfectly equipped reading
and book rooms there are pleasant Of
fees for the directors and the staff, a
fine lecture hall and one of the largest
and most attractive art galleries in
Southern California.
The basement of the library will be
occupied by the chamber of commerce
with a museum for local products and
natural history, the nucleus of which is
provided by the celebrated Long Beach
whale, and from time TO time loaned
exhibits of interest will be on view
here.
Art Exhibition Is Feature
The art exhibition will be a notable
event in the annals of Long Beach
For the first time there will be gathered
together in that city representative
work of the best artists of Southern
California. and for the first time the
attention of the general public viii be
called to the fact that now there is
outside of Los Angeles-a gallery of art
equal to anything which the City of the
Angels can boast
The exhibition, which will last some
two weeks, is in the hands of Miss Vic
toria Ellis who. as librarian, has allied
herself with most of the progressive
movements in Long Beach, in many of
which she has taken the initiative
Miss Ellis will be assisted by Miss
Elsie whitman, head of the drawing
department of the Long Beach high
school, who before taking up public
school work studied five years in New
York and Paris. Miss May Gay of Los
Angeles is also lending her aid. Miss
Gays art training of ten years with
some of the best art teachers of Europe
has developed natural charm of inter-
probation into breadth and maturity of
power, which bespeak inspiration to-
ward real art in any field Of activity
into which she may enter.
Realizing that a new center of art
interest is being formed, the artists of
Los Angeles and vicinity have respond
ed with pleasure to the call for loans of
their work. Long Beach hopes that
this will be but one of many collections
which her fine new art room will house.
Those contributing are Mr.. Lummis,
landscape by VIM. Keith; Mr.. Steck-
els, three canvases by Jules Pages, two
by Miss Duval, and one. a marine. by
VIM. L. Judson the University club, a
portrait of Mr. Baumgardt by Mrs. H.
H. jain: Hanson Puthuff. "Leafy Por-
tails; j. Mannheim. two interpreta-
tons called "A Medieval Bridge and
Green and Cold" Mr.. Hedges, a
study Miss Mary Gay. 1.-The Arroyo
Seco" and portraits of Miss H and
Miss O.: Benjamin c. Brown two
phases of the sea- Mr., Rich, "A Girl
Reading: Mrs. M, H. Pope, twelve
etchings, both figure and nature stud
les; Miss Gear AN Old-Fashioned
Garden" and "A Roadway in Califor-
MIA; Mrs. calder, THE Pacific Coast;
Mrs. Cole. child's head, winter Even
ing and 1.-THE Phosphorescence"; Miss
L. Drain, "A Cozy Corner; Mr.. Green
| baum, coast scene, Catalina; James
| McBurney 1.-THE Call of the Pack;
Miss Osborne, two studies; Miss Mills
paugh four miniatures-"The Cardi-
raj" Lady in Black" "Italion Wom-
an" "French Girl"