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Show THE PACKARD LIBRARIES. Mr. John Q. Packard has presented the city of Marysville, California, with a library, costing $75,-000. $75,-000. It Is erected on a block which he and his old partner owned and occupied and did business on fifty years ago. The entire block goes with the library. It is a splendid Cequesc. Most of Mr. Packard's life has been spent in California and Utah. He has built a monument to himself In both states. The structure here is more beautiful beauti-ful than the one in California peoms to be by the picture, and that is right, for the great bulk of Mr. Packard's fortune was acquired in this state. There is no Carnegie vanity in his gifts. He has always been a queer stick. He seems to go into confessional with his own soul at stated times and when, in that confessional, he gets an impression or a revelation, Major Dick Young will explain where inspiration leaves off and revelation begins he goes about executing it. And he makes no more noise about it than a silk handkerchief makes when it Is unfolded. And he does It just as he niiii ii i i !!! i.-i ! i ii mux in jMtoXGBfc - 1 bought tho powder on one of the old days. The H agent of a powder faotory called upon him to see H if he did not want powder. "How do you sell H your powder?" asked Mr. Paokard. A price was H named. "Is not that high?" was next asked. The H agent explained that it was the price for small jH quantities, that a carload or half a carload would BH bo lower. How yould it be by tho carload?" fljfl asked Mr. Packard. The price was stated. "How H for two carloads?" Mr. Paokard asked. A still H lower price was named. "Very well. Send me two fl carloads," said the strange man, and he had pow- M der enough for three years. A library revelation H camo to him, and he determined to build one for 91 Utah, where his fortune was made. Then he had another inspiration which was that it is nothing for an engine to run after it has steam up, and has M once turned the center, and he remembored that It M was in Marysville where the first center was turned, and that a library was due there as well 11 as to Salt Lake City. So as with the powder, he iH ordered a double supply. Maybe the thought came baok of how in those old days all the plain about H the little city was flower-carpeted, how soft waa H the sunlight, how the Sierras shone blue and white H in the distance, and while there were not many H ladies there, the race of boys that Inhabited the H place were all royal. Then he who later was Jus- 'H tice Stephen J. Field was Alcalda, and General jH Rowe railed at the world, and William Walker H fitted out his expedition for Nicaragua, and Col. jH Baker and Ned Marshall at times gave the people jH glimpses of the enchantment of perfect eloquence: H and the Chapman family played In the little old jH theatre, and the San Francisco Minstrels were in H wamBmmmnmmmBmmmmmmmmmmmmBmmammmmmmmp H If Ijif 11 I their flrst glory; and new strikes in the mines 111 fliiylt ' were report0(1 daI1y; and the merchants were all lit nl! Hi II I princes; and there was no occasion for chloroform- mini ill I Ing mon or a were young and hope was In fffijJUfj I I every heart and there was heartiness and happi- mi ffill-flfi 1 ness an( g00( cheer everywhere. II SHniiil And he did not forget that if the old band are II fffraiiff 1 almost all gone, they lived great lives, and made IP uliflfili H tueIr ImPrQSslon for good on the Qolden West, and I k 3 wlifl!! 1 lle may not tllInlc of ifc but llls llbrary there com- II I mllliiil I ins from' ono wbo helped to lay the foundations Hljir 3jfjli I of the little city, is in part a pllent tribute to all 111? mill ill I those who were his old neighbors, who worked IK AfliHllll I witn nIm' hoped wltu llim wno woro willing to II ifjnftijl f share their joys with everybody, and who, if they If I llUfiiflli I ad sorrows folded them away silently in their II ill If Pill f own nGarts and never gave a sign. |
