Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-07-12
OBLIGATORY PROGRAM COMPLETE.
Exercises In BrattIeboro Free Library
Next Monday Evening-severaI Gifts
viii Be Accepted.

Public exercises in dedication of the
new addition to the Brattleboro free Ii
brary and in acceptance of gifts to the
institution will take place in the library
next Monday evening at 100 o'clock and
during the afternoon and evening the
building will be open to public inspec-
ton. The dedicatory prayer will be Of
fered by Rev. DR.. John r. Cow, follow
ing which Judge ]. NJ Tyler will accept
for the institution the gift of books and
works of art from Mrs. c. A. Loud of
Boston, whom it is expected will be pre-
sent. William r. Mead of New York, a
member of the widely-known architec-
tural firm of McKim, Mead & White,
will present a bust of his brother, the
late Larkin G. Mead. the sculptor, and
a response to this gift will be made by
o. L. French. Col. Kittredge Haskns
will speak in acceptance of a portrait
of the late Joseph Steen, a longtime
Brattleboro merchant, presented by his
daughter.
After being closed more than two
weeks in order that workmen might fin
ish work on the new addition, also in
order that the librarian might take an
inventory and re-arrange the books, the
public library was opened Friday after
noon, and many expressions of approval
of the changes and improved conditions
have been made by those having occa-
sion to visit the building.
All the books have been arranged so
Z that they are more accessible to the
public and much easier to find when one
is looking for a special volume. The
delivery desk has been moved and now
runs parallel with the aisle, thus show
ing the entire length of the library from
the entrance. The appearance is a dis
tnct improvement. Two electric lights
on the delivery desk aid Librarian Mary
F. Stakeholder in her work.
The children's books, adult fiction,
English literature, American literature,
Continental literature, history, travel.
sociology and socialism and other sub
jects are placed in separate stacks. and
the arrangement facilitates finding the
books. In the rear of the addition Is
table on which the aliases are placed
and in the south side of the addition
is located the reference department.
With tables, encyclopedias and other
reference books close at hand in the
stacks the work OF students Is made
easier, and with a fine lighting arrange
ment this Is one of the most attractive
parts of the building, especially to those
who find occasion for using reference
work The biographical works are near
the reference book stacks, and In the
rear of the older part of the building
are located the bound and loose maya
zines Many of the bound magazines
and newspapers ana older DOCKS nave
been placed upstairs.
Instead of being placed on revolving
bookcases as formerly, the new books
are now placed in the front stacks on
| the south side Miss Shareholders office
Is in the addition and is on the south
| side.
william Morris Hunts painting, "The
| Prodigal Son." which has hung In the
reading room on the north side, will oc-
cupy hereafter a position In the Sec
ond story in the addition in such a way
| that It may be seen from the entrance.
The public little realizes the beauty and
workmanship in the painting. In Its
new position 1t will get excellent light
from the skylights. This picture was
painted by Mr.. Hunt while he was in
Paris and is one of his earlier works
It is a valuable work Of art, because
many of the pictures Of the artist have
been destroyed in various ways.
The addition to the library was built