Show iff AN lIO LIBRARY ARf AT AI f OF POPE 4 l i Trea Treasure ur i 1 o of 1 Books A Arranged ran ed in M Modern dern Style J b by br Cr f Co o. o f f l- l w Y World ROME qUE 20 The O The Vatican an H- H rn the w worlds world's greatest te t cultural J I house s has been complete b v t d and inti Americanized The Therk rk k was ns accomplished b by an firm of oZ library engineers the personal request oC of Tope Pope lus j E wh who I is Isa a trained librarian n him him- himI I I f having ha hea th tho served as J o of ot 1 library at Milan an and ter cr Cr as director tol of the Vatican li- li ary ft prior to ei at d fo to fo th pontificate te Mo o 0 i u us considerations U n were lowed Iwed we d to o. o stand In n th the way aYi by y yh h Hiepe the Hie pc pe in his hs efforts to secure the st material and d equipment avail ayaU- l Ic and to h have 1 work entrusted entrust d' d 0 t the tUo o finest Linest st st. experts hi In the world woLd he c b r result sult was that the Ue great task tasks t sk AS s carried out under Sunder th the the n of or Angus MacDonald Of the firm 1 oC of Snead Co Mr ir naM Is Js a Scot Scottish Pr Presby Presby- erlan In the course of ot the renovation a ion work Pius X XI and md the thc Scots Scots- lan an in became last fast friends I Hardly t day pass passed c vJ without hout the pope o. o orning oln ln down f from om his apartments o Int prO progress and consult with lr Ma MacDonald Donald on the most effi- effi lont lant methods of ot r rec reconstruction c n. n e INSTALLED One n of the te fe features tur s sif of the neI new ne' I t iy is tJ the e Installation of oC a deIce doF de- de e- e I Ice F to maintain an an even tempera tempera- me tre rC winter Inter and su summer imel tho vast the vast e. e This Avas wl th the tho pOI popes s chief chiet In Rome the climate is d damp p. thai tho bouls books are ae are apt to fo 01 On OJ the thc other hand In ln the thc I Dimmer the air Jr often becomes p hot and dry that there is is dang danger r. r warpIng and disintegration of the thc took pk ook gs To prevent these tWo new new devices lc s were which h 11 without human At aN n.- n. will lI k keep el th the thc temperature ri athe the book stacks adjusted adJusted- 1 Should Ji ti e the i air b become come too too moist 9 Ii clec electric rl automatically urns urn Itself on t to o absorb tho- tho dan dan- erous rous humidity Should the air come too hot and dry r a j jet jt t of team is automatically Oj shot into the thc ther i r r current curren to to provide the needed I The feature that most Interested th pontiff If IB Is the new n method thod of or lousing b books book Instead ad of or storing them In furniture s such ch as book book- cM g. g and nd bookshelves cs a a complete 11 light Ih t. t steel building re resembling the on of oC an ui n. n American me l all skyscraper was Il as coI constructed to carry the weight f t. t the books booles More Moye than eight miles elf vf f- f s steel l were required the height o three stories or an ordinary ry bo house bouse o o 01 house th the tho Vatican collection Includes OOOO manuscripts and aid nd rai rate e Vol volumes Before the steel frame could bc be the entire hall hail built In iii 3 1 by bj had to be stripped t every pl piece ce of ot f furniture ur and cn- cn c The walls were ere scraped and p polished until the they ap ap appeared eared like n new It wa was wa discovered that thit the edifice is hi 1 practically built bunt JOT for eternity Not ot the thc sU slightest t flaw w wr or r weakness SIf could be found by the commission of of architects that cx- cx l. l d roots roofs is and iid wails walla DON EVENING CLOTHES CLOTHE When the tho place c ws was empty J for tor forthe forthe the first l time In four centuries s. s the thc American n workers and the architects arch archi t tR donned evening e cIa clothes tiles and waited the arrival of the pope for Ol iila ils first Inspection The popa 01 0 en- en ered red fully into the spirit of the sU estive occasion and shook hands ith all aJI around aio nd Formalities H l s. s over he Inquired ired of r. r MacDonald If It would not be better r to rip out an au old stairway va hat hilt ran ittu through the Tho The had n not t dared broach the thc abject but hu based his hla ions lona upon presence presence presence-of o of the stair stair- war a ay The pope asked d the architects p resent If th thing thing- had any hi historic his his- tone or ot architectural value and id assured that it hadn't gave o Immediate orders ordera d r to remove It t y Then rhen came the quest question n o of or flooring floor floor- ing ald ald the American n engineer indes In in- des describing the a various arious stages tabes of ot the tho ork What kind of floors rs do they u e in American libraries asked the po pope C. C Marble he hI was was told Vont Wont yoU joll go tip lip p to Carrara and elect enough nough for rol this library was wasti 9 ti thle t pontiffs pontiff's u next H request V The he question question- was next net raised ns as asto to ito the relative tI e merits of ot bracket Mack ck Or ur standard stuck stack Mid And nd th the f popes pope's attitude on this I wits ts Which is ia best beet why Which h kind Is il us d In ill tho tho Library ry of ot C Congress th the library au and aud University of n 1 the ithe New York public library He was was vas vas- told th that t. t i it was was tho the standard i stack with open bar shelVeD What la U the difference in cost The pope poP a tOM told that there was a H. great difference dif dlf dif dif- ference ft enco amounting m to o SO O 0 p per r cent T To this thiele was no an- an I and the tho pOPe popa first consulted 1119 lils financial advisers ad B But t finally the the de dearer r r kind kindas was as ordered and Installed 4 POPE COMES OFTEN flIt ninety ty day thereafter the he hall with of l drills and th the of machin ery en Whenever the thc pope could snatch a a. a nt tram from his d' d re receiving pilgrimages I and Uc negotiators negotiator h he came d down wn n hurriedly to lo th the library of often ten winging as as r minny as twenty c cardinals car car- r- r I 18 along l n with him in the novelties o Onlie On one t a O he lie stood lood fn In the thc middle of ot ofHie Hie Uie workers and deplored the fact 1 ut iaL l he had not been able ble to pay laY Isit IC to th the United States lh- lh years years- sone s. s one one by to inspect t the great libraries 1 America rha |