The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-14
MEMORIAL TO
HOUSE THREE
BIG LIBRARIES
Supreme Court, Historical and
State Libraries to be
Placed There
ALSO DEPARTMENTS
Supreme Court, Adjutant.
General, Historical Society
To Find Room
DEPARTMENTS

North Dakota's memorial to
those of the state who served in
tn World Wharf.-The beautiful
building located on the state capt.
tol grounds house three state
departments and three state IL
braries, according to tentative
plans of the Board of Administra-
ton. The military and historical
activities of the state would be
centered in the building and plans
also call for the moving of the SUI
pre- mecourt's offices there.
The state library, the state his
torical library and the state law
library all would find places in the
building under the plan agreed
upon, and in addition to the su-
preme court, the Adjutant- Gener-
al's department and the State His
torical Society with its museum
and library would be transferred
to the building from the capitol.
Transfer of these departments
would make possible the removal
from downtown offices to the cap
itol of part of the Offices of the
state highway commission, rail
road commission, workmen's COM
pensaton bureau and perhaps 9TH
er offices.
Depends on Fund
Whether or not the building is
completed this year depends upon
the state of finances Of the Capitol
Building Fund when spring col
lections for this fund, derived from
interest upon lands set apart for
permanent building fund, since
the appropriation of $4,000
made by the recent legislature pro-
vided that money for completion
&c the building should come from
this fund. Governor Nestos hav-
Il S'o.OUO for furnishings
for the building, the total of an
preparations for the Memorial
building now is S415,UO0,
The building, the most beautiful
in this section of the state, is set
ut right angle to the capitol and
faces the little log, cabin occupied
by Theodore Roosevelt while he
lived in the Dakota Dad Lands. y
There also is suggestion here that
if DR.. Henry Waldo Coe Of Port
land, Ore, donates to Bismarck
the cast of the Roosevelt eques-
trian statue he gave to Portland
it be placed in the rotunda Of the
memorial building. The building is
faced entirely with Indiana lime.
stone and adorned by huge stone
pillars in front, and has a glass
roof. There are three stories, or
which offices may be located, con-
nected by large, winding stair
ways which will be finished in
marble. In the rear of the build
ing there is space for book-stacks
extending the entire height Of the
structure.
To Build Library
The tentative plan to place the
supreme court chambers in the
memorial building was prompted
somewhat by a desire to provide
safety for the state law library
and to provide for expansion. E
J. Taylor, new librarian, has be.
gun preliminary work on catalogu.
ing the state law library, by auth.
ors and subjects, and also by
states. The legislature appro.
priated $4,000 from the lawyers
license fund to purchase new
books. 1t is the plan of the SUI
preme court to make one of the
finest law libraries in the North.
west, and to make it more avail.
able as a reference library fol
courts and lawyers throughout the
state, books to be distributed by
mail to responsible people. The
library has outgrown present
quarters, there being lack of ade.
quate shelving and no place ir
which to make public documents
Immediately available.
The state historical society
museum, which contains one of the
finest collection of Indian relics ir
the country, and also has a re-
markable collection of relics of the
World War, also may be expanded
when housed in the new building
Work on the building was begur
three years ago, its progress being
halted because Of exhaustion OF
existing appropriations for it, A:
originally planned by the legisla
ture, it's cost was to be abou'
100000.