| Show J eR I D e r l rd aign 10 f I Greatest Public Library I q 1 D rP hae haet l lt lo will no 0 gall which h hu hut t t c ar a r t he portion that Ile been fn IW to filth second world w or I de the lilt It II Iti II I i Itie wealth It hn tins and ond andt I J of t i u Ii 1111 I II work Ie nearly done ot of one ot of theau the theU beautiful au U as most to tot toI devoted I i Ih ihu World In iii InI t I l six alx are alJO aJo or A As ot of the the lee t that al t I 1 lr ll to 5 trust ln f n x and un the of the IntI j the mOlt moat of oC he be helie ont one I L I 11 Ill lid The Th p M r rIh Ii lie 11 ot of ew York rk th Ih a 1111 Ir t r AS ASar 11 lv v declared that Id t II 1 In Ink jf ar lit lie traded J Ung mi II was Ii to 10 rilIn any po portion upon in or r k kr Jt 11 took committee h or s tn tt that It sae I as to occupy UI i 1 t and In mill competition ot of ar ari arIn that at ln bawls II i n Ilal tor of conferring In an inea inear Ii I of Nel Ne t the city r fit aloe t in lIh An 11 1 t r d by byr the or Astor II lira Lenox 1 t for r t gr art artt d it long long tor torIe sa p 11 d keenly app t 1 library In its lla r T k Ie had no public above both thOle named lar serer s m and anda rt a 0 th lending and not r C bring them u at to how to T r and throw open their Precious r her clue r ores to the public wall th tb nt ot of the provI e a I r S of t the It late S 8 J 1 Tilden will 11 of r a h 1 u a I um for tor I the f purpose ul art II oW Pu s 11 t I t reduced this to 1000 s made aall a t 1 I I 11 Ns ar then occurred the net act ot of con conI HI I i s to is the great groat scheme of In accord tb tbt the then r s ice ce at lut being t n tI at the tho site t r r oDd d streets began b gan at once and ti m mt t 11 t lr N vu push d to lon under the supervision of oC a aI at t I ot of eminent fr f td ed ever by Dr J S Billings as a t al J tf It trustees s were wen t r J 1 f r tl the structure to be erect eret t L n ot of the country rl r J tu to a AccordIng to 1 I I n u as a basil hasis for Cor their designs i S a J a 9 n rt re to 10 adhere to 10 eel lr l I cs 18 nl not only a bUild I f r I beautiful but bUI arranged I that It Would be a model of i its 1111 kind strictly up to date and un tut bracing all the latest Ideas ot of library innate action In the competition there were re sa 5 architects enlisted rout whose whole ted plans piAU to n a previous un six selected for Cor the tho second and lion and six Ix a rr iii sable rho front vallon will be j feet In and the rear 85 5 while the Ihl grand or hallway will trill be bego Ie go 80 feat reet long 40 feet Ceet Ide de and lid two to litO rice In height The celli ceilings II will be vaulted with Ith stone I and nil stone stair staircase ca case will lsd to 10 th Ihl u upper rooms room There will be 1 a stack at th the It Is well willi known ot of course that the Astor was especially rich In III some classes ot of books and the In other albs r Th e latter laUer h has probably IY more mon precious works on gene genealogy alary history particularly of oC mUSIC and hose cure volumes so 10 dear to the bibliophile than any allY oth other r Institution f I f 1 ti b r irl 0 e IR AVENUE ENTRAnCE TO ASTOR LI OX LIBRARY NOW BUILDING more who III had not previously taken i part were Invited to 0 offer designs ot of these thee was 1111 to 10 receive neele n a prise Pille of lIC 00 and an or of 2600 for tor th the ex expense pence pense ot of preparing the drawings The Thede de design were wert to 10 I lie numbered and hell thell I submitted to A Jury entirely Ignorant I of oC the thereof flits board rendered 1 a r urt based strictly upon actual merit umber Number II 11 which was WAI unanimously l b by the Jury AI as the design In a high degree all the requirements requIrement called for tor b by the ot of the ant and present presenting ing IL a consistent skillful and lId artistic o of the and structural rt aa submitted by Carrere and nud Hustings ot of New IV York i who thereby thereL drew ono one of oC the richest architectural prizes or of the century Fronting on Filth Fifth avenue with a length of oC feat teet a depth ot of feet teet and a heIght ot of three stories the build log Ing will have hae spIce apace not onlIn only In front trant but all round around It t to display It Its I magnificent proportions and beautiful II lines MI The general treatment or of the Firth Fifth avenue facade Is II In the classic Ionic order with columns and pilasters the maps entrance being under three large Inre arches s each 35 feet teet high Rile and 16 15 I outset for ill al 1 volumes lIh for lur e In tM the I future u as the library grows rows In sine I In the basement the circulating tea cure IUIe of the library will be with entrance III at the center ot of tho building from J steed 11 t On the Arst floor will be the periodical newspaper er and childrens room and on the second will be reserved fur students In special room acc acceus us to which will be by ticket tilt the pUblic in 10 general being wIn e excluded The main reading room will be on the third an and tipper ff noo floors ua away from the nol noise and bustle of the with not nothing to 0 distract the attention Jt It will be the largest lart library which L 1 Is feet teet long 1 72 feet teet will wide and 53 feet tet high hillh with 1 n shelving apace for tor about Looks books A central delivery com communicates directly with the upper or reading room roam and the service Is ex expected to be Ie prompt As AI In the older libraries of oC which It I ii composed there will be special rooms or for the use of oC students to In any Rny branch ot of stud or investigation including ever every la large e topic such all sa orl literature sociology ItS Is music Biblical literature and In the country countr The lal late James Lenox who founded the his hla name with an endowment ot of more than was 81 a man ot of rare attain attainment attainments ments ment possessed ot of acute literary Judie judg ment Inen and wu was an eminent authority on literature ne lie ransacked 11 i for Cor the books which afterward I the shelves of the Lono b nox and It its collections In awne branches are un unmatched matched by those ot of an any other I In ht Ube tile world The single collection of for example In number In ing I eludes a some IOme that are not to be round found 1 In the British museum I mont them being UK the quaint vinegar Ih a and ll th the Maurine In all the will contribute mort mors than I I volumes to the total which will willbe be assembled In the consolidated libra library ry ryThe The Lenox library wag founded In 1570 Iud and so 10 Ise III considerably younger OU n 1101 than its sister lIster the Astor which wu endot l In 1615 John Jacob JCOb original donation was which In these days a was wal considered cent II as it II was W B Astor Aslor added to It Il and J J Astor second making a total of oC the last lut retort the Astor had on its ett e shelves some volumes volume and when to these JUt are added what the Lenox con loins and Ind the comparatively small col left b Mr Ir Tilden the total a g with which the new library will open will I to more Inore n than volumes I Then Ira an ot of man many thousand tanks hooks pamphlets and papers In a large library that are worth next to lu nothing and might easily be with but bul are retained on the chance thAt they might be needed Th The number ot of volumes In a library la b by no means an Index ot of II Its usefulness for tor those carrying special and strictly limIted u as to their number have I ts IMen en ho to be of oC service erlee Ip In a fret free library patronized by byall all saris or of people with Ith A thousand dl verse talt taster the worthless and little read books ought ouM to tn be out ant A As with Ith the collections so I false allIO willi the One man with witha Ith a cl knowledge of oC what hat the shelves to fe worth A bundled hund halt half equip f I II I 4 L p t 1 I I r i i e vr Ise y i a I Iry I 1 I Ii ry e i I I I L i it ia 4 j jl l i t t y 1 d a 1 b 0 SIDE VIEW OF THE MAMMOTH ASTOR LENOX LI LIBRARY B ARY BUILDING lied n latant with only a crude Idl Idlor Idea or of the contents The several eral training schools have hae pro prod In their craft cratt and It ft the new institution is III not well and kept strictly up to the reo re ot of tb the century It not Le be from lack of available timber Oil Ilse feature of the nt new library will comment commend itself to III all pa patrons and that thatIs Is the provision that requires quirt an open door from 6 In the morning to 8 6 at al night every Ivery and from 1 In I the afternoon at night oe 01 There Thre I to be no flO hero bero the evil or in hI for tor It le II intended that the poor person shall recel receive the same me attention as tile the rich It is II In this universal of letters letter and literature that the great libraries are so 10 much good In a 11 quiet unostentatious way The book is II IIa isa a passport to the charmed circle ot of and intellectual attainment alone le Is the teal of oC in the anxiety to 10 provide buildings combining architectural beauties with ample lr stand t U mono mon monumenta ot of the present pail u to it general co construction and tendency or of late lat has hAa hn been to erect more mon structures than I err real n needed eded A million nay mar be in iii housing worth of at whereas the convene convere ought to tobe tobe be the Mlle rull A At t II a glance comparisons are made wills will the cost liS as II a criterion when there are many other things which should be In the of a value alu to tile the genera lion that erected and equipped It It hat has been stated that New ew York Yorks great library will stand second only In cost COlt to the or Congressional library In Washington which called for an expenditure ot of It will hold boJ about u many hooks as aa the Dor Dorton oa ton Public a model ot of It Its cl class which cat or that ot of Chicago built at an expense p of oC There nitre Ire are numerous libraries In the country countr that cost COlt above abon each and it II I In creating to note not that their number is II increasing Otte Ote ot of the unique and nd up to date tea tuns tum of the New ew York consolidated II 11 bra will be brought out by It Its of 01 the free circulating system Item d de elded upon at 1 a meeting of oC the trustees the first week In January Januar The proper I 1 held by th the existing Free library ot of the city amount In value alue to and tin An agreement WIll wag reached b by which not only will the circulating library be established but al also o branch libraries In connection with various schools ot of Manhattan The These branch libraries will be primarily for tor the bane bene lit At of persons who attend the board of education lectures anti and not for school chool schoolchildren children Thus every worthy worth cI clans of oC I society will be reached ma this gigantic I institution stretches out la III arms arm and ml flatly nail performs the service net for tor which It we was a nucleus for tile the assembling of the teat librAry on ont this t hla continent I I Great libraries are ot of necessity JI grad growth and In their I sail development may be considered In of oC a or a country status In civilisation In reviewing the events ot of history so 10 surely fixes at ai and awaken Interest a as the data pertaining to these aggregations ot of books or their equivalents be the theon they theyon on paler on or on the cia clay tablets with cuneiform Inscription found at Nineveh The oldest known library founded at Thebes Thebe In the Ume Um of oC IL H will ever wear ear a crown f perennial glory the destruction ot of the Alexandrian by Omar the and of the Aztec picture writ writIngs Ings Inge by Conies the Spanish conquista conquistador dor will always alway be lamented While the collection or of books book In the theold old world tar far antedate those made mad In I America and while our 1 bIblIophIle anti and have found tile the s of sources of supply it II cannot be dented that this country h hu blOom become the Ure home of the public II Leary Without arrogating to ourselves any superlative facilities for library work we may claim to be well for Cor its establishment and In the lint place our country is III situ situated attl In the son of greatest Intellectual activity where climatic u well u at tern tem Influences compel us III to In door recreations during nearly or halt half t he year Of these recreations for tor that of oC reading III ai well a II It Its necessary corollary serious study is I the An t library were well published In the state land Ind that was wa so 10 late a 1111 this country had only libraries ot of all classes with a total of volumes volumn Usi Lui that than a ot of a century later We hd had more moreo than 1000 lib libraries ran with an n nt aggregate t of volumes Doubt I less the quality of the collections could be by a judicious lion which would reduce tile the number at least leut by halt half and there I is no doubt that the wealth of the country would bit be greatly It not less leu than OD were to be turned Into paper tock stock Out But there le Is no one so fixed In hi his t tea as AI the librarian who stems to 10 t believe with the Arab proverb that e ev cry et printed scrap of paper has some IOme something thing o of value on It The most mOlt maa ItI ing growth has taken place In the tha last lut t JO 20 years year In this t hi respect library ston 10 having kept pace with the lacrosse In general knowledge The library system may be said uld to have Oe been n Inaugurated In America with the founding ot of the Ihl Harvard Colle College II brar In 1838 Yale received In I JOO the fleet subscription library Is III said to have been started by Benjamin Franklin and others othra In 1762 and the belt beat known ot of the tree free libraries that ot of founded In 1111 III The list JIt of those thew who have bave contributed of their wealth for the Ih enlightenment ot of their fellow tellow men meon In America alone Is II Isa R a long lon one and includes many names which will always be held In reverence reveren CHA CHANNING A DAnTO BARTOW r slid unity Manny Ia strange tran and odd old customs yet hold IIO good d In n various parts parla of at Great The Jh horn dance danci lit is perhaps one of oC the oddest end and oldest of these It tak takes place pilOt at Abbot a 11 I large on the edge of forest Staffordshire on the occasion ot of the tho I wake The d day of oC the wakes Is IsIh Ih the festival ot of the patron saint Int ot of the village church hurch and the name arIses I It from t rom the nit In eval i J times limn ot of k keep keeping fp Ing watch the t previous night t tand And praying In Inthe tr Ii the church until eL n morning da dawn In Ined 1 ti ed lit At Ix der t ant l lets len mounted on short poles Are ar e car carby r It II about 11 by men Who caper In t time to a lively lIely tune making t the hid deer fer oJ dAnce about while a man on TIM r A hobbyhorse lashes them with II a whip to spur them to higher leap and bounds bound Then a marksman with a long bow creeps for Cor forward ward and pretends to shoot hoot the deer while all the village stands agape ppe to enjoy enJo the fun CUll Until guile lately the horn dance used to he be held hel on Wake Sunda Sunday morning just at the church door and collections of oC mone money were made for Cor the flee poor It is III thought now more mOn decorous to hold the festival on Monday but the horns are still kept In the church tower tow tower er with the hobbyhorse and the bow and arrows arrow and a most mOlt curious old pot I Ifor for tor collecting the Ibe mone money This pot Is always cArried around by I a woman The fhe ot of the hobbyhorse le Is loose and I le rattled by a string In tI time with the music This survival I Is III A relic of the Morris Morrl dances dancel And harks hark back to the time when Robin Hobin 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