| Show how chicago got a bublic c library i I 1 york sun publishes I 1 the I 1 folio following w ing correspondence from saratoga containing a eori cori between eli perkins and ex mayor hoyne t of chicago which i 1 correct exhibits that quality usually ascribed to the tho genus genua yankee ana and commonly called balled smartness 1 l in a remarkable degree ayou you know continued mr hoyne that chicago never halu hald had a public library before the fire r then it burned uell up ano no but ut people outside generally think it was war antl anil we let iet em think thin k so 1 wh a tedi for fol lashed tasked well weil weli directly after the tha ereal great nire fire the mayor lanyor of chicago jo medill megill goth got a h letter from towi hughes author of tom brown at aford the letter wass full of sympathy at t bur great loss and iun iri the letter mr Hughe said sald baid paid nua ana hd lim had collected 0 from english authors and others other sources burces books and had ready already pent bent them ba to chic chicago a 90 to establish reestablish re our public library 3 which he bei took for foz grad granted bed had bad been burned what did medill do why he did old not know what to do medill is an exact man yoa know and dud he thought wed weld haire have to write back baek and confess that we wo never h had a d a pu public bile librae library yi an and d thus lose the books in his rha tha ma he came to 6 what milb to ho I 1 why tako take em dont send bend any thing baek back not a book s but we hivo hive h ave iio no library to rees re es 1 cablish ta blish said bald medih medin but we can cah establish lh one quick how why carload oad of books in my cistern now don doni dont doni I be a d d fool hoyne put the booksin books an a cistern why the water no you yoli dont und understand dis eis tind 1 dve e got a big dry cistern put lern lein em all iii all nil in there nail down the i top say to nobody dont jet let old storey hear and rundown to springfield today to day tell the boys hoys how were fixed and rush the library charter through and up ull IPA come with it iti I 1 the president you know and you the secretary F ecret ary and well write d disraeli an awful official letter accepting the books and thanking everybody in england did you do it iti ita P I 1 asked of course we did didt t tho the charter went through the legislature like a train of cars and in ju three days the train having broken down at grand cro crossing shik I 1 walked into chicago the head and aront front of the great chicago libra ilbra library and showed the charter all covered with red seals and tape to medill 11 aud and the books well weil we answered tom hughess letter ietter and then we lay jay low abd and let the books stay in the cistern for six months till we got ready to move in the matter and build a library and it is all established ryes yes and the best library out of new york a magnificent library A great many english books have havo tho the authors autographs in front we wel have autograph cc copy PY ol 01 0 lothair and T rC chab chas has hab e 6 r IV J readers headers full fall list of autograph books H 00 dl fio books Hux ieya leya tyndall Tenny sons 30 english patent books and i even quadri fredn victorias life bf of prince prin ce albert with mith hen her owa autograph on the fly leaf dh and d I 1 tall bill because we chicago fellows ano now W when to be bed d d tools and when to show ghow good horse sense eni ELI s I 1 1 0 1 i |
