Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-05
1000 VOLUMES
FOR LIBRARY
SEEM ASSURED
Coveted Goal Will Undoubtedly
Be Reached Before Formal
Opening Feb. %.
COLLECTORS PUT IN A
STRENUOUS AFTERNOON
Books Will Be Cataloged and Ar
ranged Under Direction of
State Librarian.

When the first days book collection
closed last evening, the Bismarck
public library was only 166 volumes
short Of the 1000 set as the number
which will open the reading room and
library, February l2.
lMessrs 'R. c. Battey and George
II. viii, the volunteer collectors, put
in strenuous afternoon, which took
them over every street and avenue
in two-thirds OF the city. The raw
ness Of the air and the unusual abund-
ance of snow did not make chauffeur
ing for books an unmixed pleasure,
but the gentlemen stuck it out, and
when they returned to the CONNER
cial club rooms late in the afternoon
both seats of their car, the tOnneau
floor and every other available inch
of space was packed with books.
Total Harvest, 529.
Mrs. J. p. Dunn, chairman OF the
committee of club women, ladies who
had conducted the canvass, turned
over to the Commercial club yester-
day noon list of $50 homes which
had agreed to contribute from one to
fifty books. These names had been
listed by streets, and a few minutes
work with the typewriter sufficied to
complete the routin..- in a manner
which enabled the collectors to cover
the ground without doubling on one
anothers tracks.
Many housewives had not been able
IN Hrl lima "a r,It thn
which they wished to contribute, and
these will be called for later. In a
number Of cases it will also be neces-
sary to sca.l at homes where the mis-.
tresses were out yesterday afternoon,
and in. addition to these return calls,
there are probably 40 homes which
could not be reached in the time al
loted yesterday.
fa''2.To Begin CataIoguing.
Every available foot Of space in the
Comniertlar' club reading room is
now:;utillzed, and tie task OF cata-
loguing will obegin next week, under
the Supervisors or Mrs. Minnie c..
Budlong director of the North Dako-
ia Public Library. who will be assist
ed by committee of Bismarck wom-
en-. G.. w. Jennings is turning out
the dozen or more sections of shelly
ing in his shop, and they will be
ready for installation early next
week. Mr.. Jennings has generously
donated all of the labor on these
shelves; the lumber was contributed
Carpenter Lumber company; the
paints and oils necessary for finish
ing will be donated by C. N. Kirk,
manager of the Marshall Oil COM
pany, and Chris Engen, with the aid
of brother decorators, has agreed to
do the finishing gratis. A. E. Pres
ton. president of the local carpenters
union, has pledged the services of
number of his most expert men in
constructing magazine racks, neWspa-
per files and other devices, and the
only outright purchase made so far
has consisted of cataloguing and in
dexing equipment which is not OBJ
tainable locally
Reception February 22.
February % is the date set for the
opening of the library, and it is felt
that everything can be in readiness
by that time. All of the ladies of
Bismarck will act as hostesses at an
informal reception and tea to signal
ize this event, and everyone in Els
marck will be extended an invitation
to attend.
The reading room will be open to
the general public from 900 a. m. to
1900 every forenoon; from 900 to
$500 p. m and probably from 1880 to
$3.50 in the evening, every weekday
Books will be loaned under the usual
library regulations to any resident of
Bismarck or Burleigh county, it is
probable. There will be just as little
red tape as possible. The reading
room is centrally located; comfort
ably furnished and will, it is believed,
prove generally popular with the pub
lie fro mthe start.