Show WILL fILl ILL ASK GARNE CARNEGIE IE FOR NEW LIBRARY Great Interest Taken in Institution Institution Institution at Provo Since Erection ELECTRIC ROAD PROJECT Mountain Inter Consolidated Knocks nt at Door or of Garden City Hut hilt Is Provo Sept 17 At At At the tho mc meeting of the oil city council tonight Joseph V. W Dunn chairman challman o of the county commissioners commissioners com corn missioners appeared In behalf of 01 the county In the matter malter of repairing the court ourt house and anti In putting putting- In electric elec clec- meters rho Tho repair to tn the buildIng build build- Ing will amount to approximately alJ and tho the council turned the tint mailer malter matter mat mal ter ler over to the lie several committees with tine the meter metel matter giving them loWel ower to act The Provo PlO public library r report p rt was rend read to th the council showing that tho t It t Is In a nourishing condition The library was opened to the public January 2 2 1900 with 1481 volumes on Its IL shelves On February 12 the library began an loaning books and from Crom that lime until June 1 there were welo 22 2259 9 books sent out nut During the month of or March 1 th the greatest number o of books welp sent ent out numbering jl O. O Since Sinco the opening of the tho library 4 fj bool books s have havo been donated an and 12 books purchased ed making a to total to to- taJ tal a of 21 2108 OS on the shelves at present present pres pres- ent The Thc average a daily attendance at atthe atthe atthe the library has been CO GO Want wt Dona Donation Hun I I The Tho Interest In iii the library I Is on the Incle Increase se and if It continues at atthe atthe atthe the rate rale it has during the last six months th the present ent quarters will viiI be too small both for fOl the lie books an and the patrons patron The trustees of the library have all all' already adr written to 10 1011 Mr 11 Andrew Carn Carnegie gle asking him to donate onate mone money for a a. II library IJ ID I'D 1 here and from flom the re report re- re port pOll rend read tonight it seems that tile they are arc again about to ask the thc steel l king ing for Cor a a. donation We e c are alo now considering the advisability ad ad- of again writing to Mr 11 A A. Carnegie reads the report to honor us with one of his famous libraries In case we get a favorable reply we shall sinai be bo compelled to confer with your our honorable body as to a n suitable site for the building A bill for 01 nn an ordinance for Cor a franchise franchise fran fran- ran ran- chise granting the Mountain Inter Consolidated Street Railway company compan permission to use certain streets In Provo was called for but was later tUrned down temporarily on time tile ground that some Iome of or the streets over which tho the company asked permission to o run cars cm's have havu not yet et een opened to o the city do limits and that the council coun coun- oil cil did tilt not care cale to give gl up UI the franchise fran llan chise until these streets had been opened up In granting the tho company compan a franchise n nn as things now no stand tho ho city would have havo to purchase n o a 1 right right- of wity tot the tho ny HO al In length th on one one on or two o of if r th tJi thoroughfares It Is probable that when the bill hill Is returned b by the company cum corn pan pany these conditions will bo be taken Into consideration and the time franchise drawn rawn up UI accordingly Hun Line Through uh Alit AlIc Alley The Tho company proposes to run from southern Utah points point through Provo Prove Salt Lake O Ogden n and up to Boise noise Idaho In Provo Pro they propose to operate a local street car system ant and make this city on one of the main points ulon along the line of or the Interurban road Work ork on the waterworks g extension Is being pushed as rapidly as ns po possible and the council was vas plea pleased ed with the report of the committee An order was passed however to the effect that the tho city would not allow tho the bills of any of the contractors until the thc they had been loa road by hy the council and approved ap ap- ap- ap proved I 1 J |