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Show THE LIBRARY. ASSOCIATION. Bishop Tuttle Seconds the Proposition Propo-sition l'or the City to Take the Library. Salt Lake City, No . 5, '75. Editors Herald: Having made a home here for more than six years, it may not be improper for me to say that I have an interest and a pride in the welfare and progress of Salt Lake city, I am told that the city is about to take under its fostering care the library which the ladies have succeeded suc-ceeded in founding. Onco, a stranger strang-er in the btreets ol Boston, and in the evening, wandering into tho rooms of one of its public library, I was struck with the thought of the great good done by them. The young that I saw gathered in the ruuuum iw r - saw pressing lorward in turn lor 1 their books convinced me that almost in no other way could hurtful 1 tempali bo kept from the former and cheenug help be given to the , latter, heller than by frco libraries j and reading rooms. . I am proud and grateful that our j young city is beginning thus early ; this good work, and beg through , your paper to record my warm commendation com-mendation of the resolve of the city council to advance in this way the higher interests and the deeper growths for good ol our population. Daniel S. TurrLE. |