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Show jA Cirntfft Lirary fir kmkm Firk -"" '. .ii Committees Now at Wart Feeling Oat the People's Seatlments. ' 'li -Shall American Pork have a ffrcrL public library? Thla quuesflon wlfi I soon bo put up to the people ifntf should receive their niost earnest.con"-' slderatlou. A church committee 'has neon appointed to look after the" niat 1 Jor; nlBO ono from tho Civic Imprevgf I mpiit Lcnguo will soon be at work an I co-opooto with the one from th I churcji, The mayor and members ofi I the city council all favor such an ln stltutlon, so thot It seems that all thai I is necosanry now Is to perfect an or I Enulzntion and get down to active I work. " sl I Andrew Carnoglo lias a fund coif4 I slsting of millions which Is used- t? I build froo public libraries and sentl'J I niont scorns to favor tho complying I with conditions that wlll'secure some I of these funds, u is understood that I Carnegie funds are available for Am . orlcnn Fork for the erection of a sult I 0 m ,bu,Id,n Providing tho citizens- I will furnish a suitable slto and guar I untco a certain nmount annually for I oxponsos and molntanenco. ' lr Sovorn. cities In Utah havo availed LI themselves of tho Carnegie funds, ,aV 1 so a good mony cities In other atate. I . Severn! cities in Utah' hare for ll ! years maintained freo public libraries. librar-ies. Ll, city has ona maintained at the city's expense and onlytfik week voted floo fbr new booka. T The recent application for a license to open a pool hall hero has probably given n now Impetus to tho library movement At present there Is no public place whore young men may ipend a few leisure moments uu.os; S??,t0 sU"d tbeTldownlks, whittle sticks and make remarks or 1 roLPa,8SM8 by' ft haspractlcally come to tho point of shall tho pool -.alls with Thdr lhlek tobacco J .a nndeslrable surroundfngs b opened up. or shall a public llbrar? with its dally papers, monthly mil' azlnes and volumes of Informal I be established. T, I .There are sevor'al desirable loca I tons, unliable and It Is understood J ''r'S.rTTmtwTlM'iTome ' coa- I vonlcnt site whore it will bo a per- I potual present Invitation for tho boys I to como In off tho streots. I Tho question of a gymnasium is I also being ndvocated but should not I doter tho work of going after the I iCnrneglo library. Let tho good work I go on. " , II |