The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-26
LIBRARY HAS
NEW TRUSTEE
Woman Recently Appointed to the
Board Has Travelled Extensively
and Been Great Reader.

AS a woman who has read widely
and done more than the usual amount
of travelling about the world, Mrs.
Gertrude Rasch, whom Mayor Arm
bruster has just appointed to the IL
brary board to succeed Mr.. Campbell,
should prove an unusually efficient
member.
II have lived a great deal of my life
in libraries" she said, yesterday" not
as a librarian, but as a reader and a
seeker after information. 1 have been
interested in the North Yakima Ii
brary ever since we came here and am
glad to have a chance to do what
can to help it grow 1t is a remark
ably good little library here. I don't
believe half the North Yakima people
realize what interesting books there
are on the shelves. OF course, the Ii
brary has had to struggle against lack
of funds.
More Money Is Needed.
eff it is possible to increase the tax
alton for library purposes a quarter
of a mill, 1 think it should be done.
An extra 1900 a year would make a
great many things possible for the Ii
brary which are out of the question
now. We do hope, though, at the
board meeting on Saturday of next
week, which will be my first meeting,
to devise some plan for raising extra
money for books
Mrs. Rasch is Massa chusetts born
but has been west ten years. She had
two years experience as teacher and
therefore realizes especially the value
of the library to the teacher. She
later took up the work of advertising
writer and for some time published in
Seattle a magazine devoted to adver-
Using. A year or so ago, deciding it
was time for a vacation, and want
ing to go as far as she could for the
money she planned to spend, she hit
upon New Zealand where she spent
five months introducing an American
advertising system in Auckland.
Likes Australian Cities.
"The Australian cities are surpris-
ingly fine said Mrs. Rasch. ''They
have such splendid buildings. Sc
attic has nothing to compare. And a
puzzling thing about them is that they
contrive to look old, though Sydney is
| only about so years old. The people,
| too, are charming, so leisurely and so
cultured. A thing which it is hard to
get used to, is that down there one
goes north for warmer weather and
south for the cold We had such a
charming glimpse of Honolulu and
think our next winter trip will be 10
| Hawaii Last winter we spent in Cal
/ ifornia. They may have a nice eli
| mate, but we certainly did not think
so last winter"
Author of Clever Verse.
Mrs Rasch got up the 1907 and the
1908 almanacs for the First National
| bank and her clever verse, THE Boo
ster," published anonymously in the
| last years book, made her many un-
known friends. The verses run:
He "Tooted for Toppenish' loudly,
He "Waited for Wapato,''
He Kept his eye on Pasco,"
And Watched Tacoma grow"
He had Shouted for Sunnyside,"
Had "Seen Seattle Now"
All good-"But Yakima is Better"
Had been his latest vow.
Thus the habit grew upon him
Till when the Booster died,
With a last exultant effort,
"Ho for Heaven" he cried.
Mrs. Rasch is the wife of Alfred
Rasch, real estate man, who says
he knows his wife has read fifteen
libraries