Show A LITERARY gOLCONDA GOLCONDA Packed In musty old boxes sheet covered with wll cobwebs cobweb always In danger danler of destruction by fire the fifth fl fth largest library In this th country now lies lien 10 burled buried In San finn Francisco liven those who have heard of ot the Sutro Collection Coleton leave have hl now no forgotten Its ls existence oven even those thO more persistent who have at times striven to 10 gain accuse to Its Is unknown treasures treasure nave have long coaxed ceased their attempt Here on thee the Pacific I coast Oat one of ot tie the four tour most valuable libraries In the United Unite States contain ing lag a I wealth of oC material for tor original research unless hopelessly bound up In litigation Adolph Sutro was WIS a n very vary rich and man In Ire 11 California In tho tine early earl days of eC mining In 11 Nevada he was eras Interested In the lbs long famous Comstock Lode Lodl at Virgi nu lil City It I was eras wa he who Initiated ties the Ihl gigantic plan of or boring through time the lode lodl and oven eon today tOl I the Sutro tunnel U Is I famous through the west crest wet Then en Sutro brought his millions milons to 10 San o spending from time to t time hue large slices of ot them In Iii local on In the far tar prominence of or the tho cIty 01 tho the Golden AOl Amt anti and nl the thai Seal Heal H B I rk ck ho built buit n a 1 park and adorned the edge lg of ot u it I with wih many mal eta sta tues tUf use und and decorations of ot unquestionable munificence but of ot somewhat doubtful art At that 1111 time Iro the this oar car line lino lne charged a n twenty rent cent fare Car to 10 the park enough to o forbid C many ny a poor loor man alan from tram tale tak ing II life his family to t the cliffs for tor an nn out oUI Ing Bo So S Sutro lowing having pleaded and stormed storme for cheaper rates without ef of feet tet built bui a line lino lne of ot his own elect and forced Co the older rel to corporation cones come down to a I tWo five cent fare It I was evas wal like Iku Sutro Suro lown to do this part hart pf pt the te same spirit that built bui Butro tunnel Fora For Por a time the th philanthropist was w an holder and his hll hi last lest term terl as may ni or of Sure San lasted lato until ly Along with wih his hl political prominent came his mania for tor collecting books loks the last lut 15 16 l years sears en of ot his hil life le he turned energy and Ind money mOne toward amassing the vast alt disordered library that Is IR mm now niI MO 10 4 successfully looked up In two old buildings In the heart hert of oC the thc city cl Today Cod I If It you ou are curious you jou OU may stand Ital on the earner corner of at Washing ton Lon and Montgomery streets not many yards awa away from Crom the What Chose Cheer Cher house home homemade hOsl made famous by b Robert Louis Steven Stevenson son such and look lok up UI through the dusty dUlty panes ne of if f the n Montgomery cry ery er block at the tha shelves of oC books book rolling coiling high That It te this the most you yon 01 will wi see l of ot the lie Sutro library Unfortunately ly Adolph Sutro left ler no nn will wi behind him hll He lie le had find sonic some lome mule mAle heirs heir he hI had hal A daughter and anti another I set Het of hi Id re i lorne ome am clamoring about after hi his death to o my say M that they were hU his hil All Al the this property became Involved In dire library with the there re retti t a legal Jt r pot t anxious to 10 boll boil and I slow Ilow to took cook ok For Kor wren I en years the vast no t collection of ot books book has ha been ben locked up with tin HIP key danglIng at the wih end Chit of o a hopeless length of ot red re tape lape and tho who are arc interested In ire the final disposition lion tion ton of ot the library have have been beon wondering what will wi be IU Ibe I last lait resting place pines pIno If U I a i u K g I t I iii Ih null in 1 n 1 i l ti b Ml iti I t to 1 b ien KI III hi II th l HII mm suit ul of a a a lu lie 11 IhlI fondness fot Cor y t will wil ini tM v vI u uIt I It If on out al the th h i i H i i Ir lit I III Rn lu 1 i h n i 1 t the ice lii I I I n ii I it i Mini i h liven to 10 the e Iy t 1 I o ll th Ihl UMU 1111 i r 11 Stafford UK Ik k t II h hI i i L lit i u Ii Ion Already l I 11 i An A 1111 ad li c e l I II a v hit Ii II hM hl ht refused hi Iw It cause caup u IL I restored 11 library I wets was Wil the th attractions attraction of ot urh such u a library M te this objection not I I Ia i case a of 01 Dr Di White e but wish wild Ith i 1 scholars u is well i iSIP i iare 01 SIP are In the very e t i f m I Pity tf where the th worst liven to toi I h In it li oo one over H ii 1 I cc hIlt hi h Is I notoriously s I spot demanding i vi 11 i ilith high hh lith Insurance IO Comparatively little I Is Ito knol ii bout the tha Butro Jutro lutr library lb e en the t luckiest lout have only on I hud bad d u it i nesting bout hom bOlI to In note over erie 0 the tb books The Tb bok mayor was a It at t zealot alot as I A ii collector and on there lucre me sit plo PHI II pr B bl more Ino then than titles tl but he hI I was Wi not as al discriminating as al he might hate hue bb be i so 1 nearly half bait of ot the Ih tolle loll tion and sued this Ibis applies to nearly alt all II bunt Is ha I indent ancient trash Thu TI RI worth word I ancient Indent Is ii 1 used advisedly tIm thu uH major r portion of ot the this books ok date before tm 1100 11 and an perhaps a R third 1500 18 There here are arc forgeries lorl among atone them luau and anti tho the outer other othe monuments monument to lo the th wiles pear l Iliad li ed by the thu bookseller upon the tb un en suspecting but It I does doe dat not take tab a t In Ii run across arr a dozen curiosities and Ind H a Inner count nf of f some sims of or Of the greatest s known klo n t to 10 the th bibliophile b It TRe Tac Tie Int klI ari Is II stone alone Ion of ot eon con consuming on suming Interest sad lad agent con on nt at t work ork In lii 11 and sonic of tl lit books lu and Ind documents produced by 1 them were suit It out of ot the hellish b Illon Ilku strong Itron protest of at certain British scholars in the Butro one 0 finds rn the Hun JOI of Meadow the original ordinal entry book with wih wItha R a vast Gt number of ot tat farts about abul Shak re kin and time the tl blood relatives of ot his hl wife u Is I only one of ot I Iii many man le Ie I gal I i documents which bear ar on eu the life lt lit or of the th great ral poet and here also aia are the th pot ae four font Folio Folini lolo of ot the Plays PiaS Pia perhaps the Ih tacit most Interesting Intern tn volumes volume of ot print oum The rho rest nf of the th books bearing haring upon Illon the tha various masters and nd scoots of oC ting ling hilt literature are mOlt most Interesting but two things are particularly note worthy the lark of ot Chaucer collection coleton and the Ih amount of at attention that Su SI u uto tro to a td Cd his hll agents paul paid RII to lo Hen Un Jonson Jonon It I U lit pleasant lt to 10 read Drink to Me M Only ani with Thine Thin Kyes eO from the Ih first frt but one wished that there were even more Chaucer and more Sutro made triad a preten to stick to English books boks In this the ll middle eighties the authorities after a per persecution of or the monks monka found faceted a rr claus dous collection coleton of ot Monastic volumes upon tipon their hand hands Literally th the dust of ot centuries was In their clasps ani though without a doubt their th lr pages pagel were ware full ful of ot new and original lights of ot mediaeval history and though Butro Sutro purchased them In carload lots loll to bring to America they the have hoV yet rel to be b ex ox explored e The hooks books from franc convent and more mon monastery astery form torm the greatest collection oleton on ore mediaeval history In this country a amine I amine mine of at romance a storehouse of at Inter mur 11 ellous sellous v elou literary wares WAree Ties The luck hick of at Sutro die did dil not end Not far chronologically train from rm his hi purchase celtic came all the acquisition tion lon of oC a ponderous collection of ot manu manuscripts scripts and old chronicles from Mexico but bu t as AI far Car as RM can on be learned this li II I briery line Mas fu never hewer leor been bell moved frolic the boxes In II which II It I was wal shipped anti and 81 knowledge of at Mexican antI and California history of or Aztec anti and ani Indian ethnology of ot the Jesuit movement In the south southwest west went we l which those these old volumes contain In is II still nailed down clown under pine boards Just at Rt present California especially el southern louthern California Is II taking takinG a renewed Interest In 11 her hor own on history In the thus early days of the mission In the era ora of oC col rol colonization in the thc subjection of oC the lie In lit ditto dian for tor seven years ir then thAn une JI I eminent In lii title 1 Held 11 looked l for Cor the tho I bl opening of I the thu Ih I books buka and arni andi nIl 1 i i T r C by till the tilli theu tl u i d i rl I I i volumes i ti 1111 iii i I i tl I t t i i HI i I Lm N 1 i i I eat Cats i t 1 I n 1111 HU t Pt i 1 IN K I ii I 11 en Mini Ilu M ci r lk i i t ill Which hll fm f fl I s ni t t I fis n only 1111 known ln by Its 18 tou ou i u by tIer Ihl Ill and und Wb discovered i if I to 10 some rome In iii AsIa Alia Minor be bei bC i It I Is Ii now one on pf pt lh thi I IaM i slid and IM t i u II them Ih tell all 11 I I he larI sept specialties nv nt a t not no alone of t still lUl human Interest nr are the n uncounted Individual url i of Ir the One on nl may flied find Imitations of or volumes bearing their covers coteria lr lrI I a collection of or book bk of tt unknown elItist tend Ald on out this thUi Hide did and that sur surprises surprises Ha ho 11 In lu wall wait WAi for Cor hits him who sin oln spend an In afternoon In lit Picking Ili and peering midst amidst a th dusty duty dl i Thare TIte are ure ur some seine lom fine On old ohl tomes tho Vinegar Ina Bible and Mid the tho Brit sm Brith this h b s Bible as well wal hsi hess hel e Is ii I the prayer pr r hok book k that tha belonged blone to tu James Jamas I till all II bound In lo carved rosewood here the Ih Psalm book Ik that was wan Wi put 1111 lute Into the hand of vt Charles H ii I when h hf he solemnly entered London at the here her her another i perhaps l t by b bI a I king the properly of tf the Morrn neur Ill I There M steele an sti 11 endless supply of ot these thea th books buk with Kith Ih a history with wih an association with wll a tale tae hilr l J lag Ins upon them und and nd you yot odd could spend l n ft l Kl Of ot hours hunting hUl tn down do outs one OI I tuna P alter after arr another nut Hut there ther Is III also all hire herr t a bra brave col of ot those Ilof brae ra old publications tile t English broadsides and amid that hurt In their day da built bui the freedom ot of tIlt the press and went enl abroad with lh un an Ir Ii literary virilIty utro spared no pains In them sad and in the I pamphleteering epoch P h this his I collection Is I I completely representative Flits FU of 0 old newspapers which one ono Intuitively teal feels grow grew rw out aut lit f the thc broad broadside broadside side Ido germination nn Rr stacked together In dIgnity Complete mel files of nt Loudon and Aud Liverpool dallies daIlies that opt n to accounts of Waterloo soil It the he Ih Rattle Battle of ot the Nile Kile of ot the lb speech on conciliation and end of ot the Invention ut of the telegraph lean Ian fraternally tra on bound files flip of or French newspapers r the Joui our toil of ot the lie war and the Ih Mon Mun Shun of the Revolution They rhe seem 10 better than the mornings Paper isper seemed Imd and rued you would linger huger over them except for tar your our friend who h hIs hI Is lit I an sri expert on Oil binding bind a crank on turtle pros work and an iii authority on Oil Ilium Illum lie He Is II railing calling you ou to leave the IhA literature of or the hooks books to lo admIre the art artOf artOr Of Ot II u ml nut tons there IheN Is I no end the volumes front from tho the Belgian monasteries contain many man periods antI and oven ovell dlf crent schools ot or this art arl Bindings of ot beautiful workmanship made before machinery knew books book or books ma machinery machinery chinery and the hue press work of ot th U hi letman Oem n cities shared Interest with old Latin IaUn manuscript m of the ninth cen century tury and nd several fine due examples of ot the lie press the hue and the Kl m slyer For I or seven even years the Lice lIl Sutro library has huts been bun hidden from the world and ancl for tor seven year the Ih lawyers Iwer line leave fought over It Although its is II al at almont mont nort forgotten titers there are still sonic some Interests In Its lt final disposal which are ever cr watchful for tor a decision To ToI the he I California schools and colleges It has a n peculiar because IU If It it stays near noar San Francisco Is II kept In Intact Intact intaCt tact A situ Is hI opened for tor use Ule there Is I little question that lint It will attract many ninny great scholars cholon to the professorships In the tho universities But nul for Cor the present anti and Sutro collection one of the largest tend and most mOlt valuable libraries In the lice coon roun try remains In iii Its lis solitary Probably no one congress of oC volumes Is equal to this hits In Is III a scholars domain anti and a IL bibliophIles paradise which has hes never been beete ex ea exPlored e |