New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-27
Major GREETS LIBRARIANS
Has Strong Notion He Would Like
To Be One of Them, He Says.
THEIR LIFE PEACEFUL ONE
DR.. F. P. Hill Responds and Asso'
citation Discusses Means OF
Reaching Rural Reader.

If / had to pick life out for myself
have a strong notion that l would ike
to be a librarian and nothing else
That is what Mayor Gaynor told iibrar-
jans of the state Yesterday in welcoming
them to this city at the first session OF the
twenty first annual meeting Of the New
York Library Association, in the audito-
rum Of the Engineering Societies Balidihs'
at No. % West 39th street
Your lie Is peaceful one he SAID
"and there Is no more patient place on the
face Of the earth than a library, or a more
patient person than a librarian, as far as
know"
The Mayor said he recalled with great
Pleasure the many hours ,he had spent IN
the Libraries when he first came TO Brook
lyn. II was his particular delight TO at
terd the lectures at the library OF the Long
Island Historical Society He continued:
heard a lecture on Lake Ronkonkoma.
and another I'm which We were told Wheh
the branch comes out OF the tree III lever
GETS any higher up from the ground tnan
il is the very day II first buds Out ana 4
LOT Of similar information that 10 me IN
these Cays was exquisite. l only instance
This 10 show you-fOr YOU have your mo
mcuts Of disbursement like all IN" rest
Cf us about the advancement or MANKIND
that YOU are doing very often more than
YOU know.
What the people learn from your books
Of reference, 70 use a phrase thdt was
much in vogue some years ago, slops
over from them ont through all the com
minity That IS the great value or
library Of reference. Your libraries are
Going much good. In fact the progress OF
the human race is marked by the progress
The growth Of the library and the growth
of the community in knowledge. in morals,
I'm all that goes To uplitt society ana tehus
toward that state Of perfection that some
think We are coming to, keep hand in hand
all the time You know the great OBJECT
Of society Is 10 keep constant CROWN
mentally. morally and materially. TO
bring that about each generation sacrihces
10 the generation that is TO come after H.
I'm fact our lives are lives Of mere sacrl-
fee to the generation that Is 70 come next
and so society keeps on. everything w
this world that is good Is OF gradual
growth. ri
Nothing good is grown in q hurry. The
Almighty did nothing In hurry. f Low
many millions Of years lie sat brooolhs
over this world to make il nj Tor US 70
live in! And yet some very enthuSldSts
reople, and dear knows, | meet enough oil
them nowadays, think they car maze =
rev world in a day. and make New YORK
ANYTHING that they see fit overnight.
whereas the uplifting Of human morals
human minds. and also Of material thlhss'
to be done we'll is I'm God providence
matter Of gradual growth.
DR.. Frank T. Hill chief librarian Of the
BROOKLYN Public Library, and president NJ
the association, responded to the Mayor
w. r Gutter librarian Of the library OF
the Engineering Societies, greeted the two
hundred or more delegates present The
question Of how tho rural communities
might best he reached in library extension
work was a subject Of discussion in papers
and on the floor at the opening session yes
teTday
Caroline Y Wcster, read a report Of the
committee on rural communities. She Is
chairman OF that committee, !. l. NNer'
ir.. director of the New York State Library,
resd a naper on Teaching the Rural Com
munities.' and ~. Ida Curry superln-
tcudent of the state Charities Aid Associa-
ton discussed child welfare I'm the rural
communities Miss Curry said she had
studied the condition of children I'm many
counties in the state, and had found condi-
lions overwhelming