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FORTY-SIXTH
ANNUAL EEPORT.
1897-98.
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
FREDERICK O. PRINCE, President.
Term expires May l, 1898.
JOSIAH H. BENTON, Jr.
Term expires May t, 1S99.
JAMES De NORMANDIE.
Term expires May 1, 1900.
HENRY P. BOWDITCH.
Term expires May 1, 1902.
SOLOMON LINCOLN.
Term expires May 1, 1901.
Librarian and Clerk of the Corporation,
HERBERT PUTNAM.
ANNUAL RKPORX
OF THE TRUSTEES
Public Library
CITY OF BOSTON.
1897.
BOSTON :
MUNICIPAL PRINTING OFFICE.
1898.
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V> O N T E N T S
Report of Trustees
Report of Librarian
Report of Examining Committee
Appendices : —
I.
II.
III.
rv.
V.
VI.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
Financial Statement .....
Elxtent of tlie Library by Years
Net Increase of the several departments, includ-
ing Branches ......
Classification : Central Lilirai-y . . broac
Classification : Tiranchcs .....
Registration .......
Circulation .......
Trustees for Forty-six Years. — Librarians
Examining Committees for Forty-six Years
Lil)rary Service (May 1, 1898),
and Evening Schedule .
System of Service
Correspondence, etc.
Givers, and Amount of (iifts
Orders of City Council
ncluding Sunday
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68
83
107
108
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111
112
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118
120
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136
144
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Departments.
Opened.
Volumes,
J.in. 31,
1898.
Circulated
for home
use,
1897-1898.
Central Library, Copley sq. Established May -2, IS.">1..
East Boston Brancli, 37 Meridian st
South Boston Branch, 372 Bi'oadway
Roxbury Branch, 40 Millmont st
Charlestowu Branch, City sq
Brigliton Branch, llolton Lil)rary Buildini;, Hock
land si ".
Dorchester Branch, Arcadia, cor. Adams st
South End Branch, Enj-lisli High Scliool Building,
Montgomery st
Jamaica Plain Brancli, Curtis Hall, Centre st
West Roxbury Brancli, Centre, near Mt. Vernon st
West End Branch, Cambridge, cor. Lj'ude st . .
Station A. Lower Mills Reading Room, Wasliington,
near River st
B. Roslindale Delivery Station, 2o Poplar st. .
D. Mattapan Reading Room, River, cor. Oak
land st
E. Neponset Delivery Station, 49 Walnut st.. . .
F. Mt. Bowdoin Reading Room, Wa#hingt<m.
cor. Eldon st "
G. AUston Delivery Station, 14 Franklin st
H. Ashmont Delivery .Station, 4 Talbot ave. ..
J. Dorchester Station Delivery Station, 1 Mil-
ton ave —
K. Bird Street Delivery Station, 6 Wayland st.
L. North Brighton Reading Room, oS.") West
eru ave
M. Crescent Avenue Delivery Station, 940
Dorchester ave ."
N. Blue Hill .Vvenue Delivery Station, '200 I'.liu
Hill ave
P. Broadway Extension Delivery Station, 13
Broadway Extension "
i). IFphani's Corner Deliverv Station, laVi Du<l
lev st ■
R. Warren Street Delivery Station, 329 AV;ir
ren st ."
S. Roxljury Crossing Delivery Station, 1173
Trem'ont st
T. Boylston Delivery Station, Lamartine, cor.
Paul Goi-e st
Mar. 11,
Jan. 28,
May 1,
July,
^Jan.,
Man.,
Jan. 25,
Aug.,
Sept.,
»Jan. G,
Feb. 1,
.fune 7,
Dec. 3,
Dec. 27,
Jan. 1,
Nov. 1,
Mar. 11,
July 26,
Nov. 12,
Jan. 22,
May 9,
June 2;'),
July 1,
Jan. 16,
Mar. l(i,
May 1,
Jan. 18,
Nov. 1,
1895
1S71
1872
1873
1S74
1874
1875
1877
1877
1880
1890
1875
1878
1881
1883
1886
1S89
1890
1890
1892
1892
1892
1895
is: to
1896
lsi)(;
1897
1897
528,079
13,292
14,799
.33,551
29,801
17,076
16,815
14,592
13,782
4,153
10,359
1,292
388,489
02,993
80,912
84,691
57,363
31,382
58,105
82,497
.57,176
22,496
109,017
4,283
13,870
12,180
9,186
7,929
10,447
146
3,808
8,484
9,770
26,159
16,544
11,090
17,004
2,000
*As a branch.
CENTRAL LIBRARY, GROUND FLOOR.
CENTRAL LIBRARY, ENTRESOL A
CENTRAL LIBRARY, BATES HALL.
CENTRAL LIBRARY. ENTRESOL B.
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CENTRAL LIBRARY, SPECIAL LIBRARIES.
To His Honor Josiah Quincy,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
The Trustees of the Public Library make the following as
their report of its condition for the year ending on January
31,1898:
For statistics and information relating to the great increase
in all departments of library work, to the number of books
and number of readers, to the interest in the Children's room,
and in the Newspaper room ; to the need of greater facilities
for administration in the central building and in the branches,
to the work of printing and binding, and to the co-operation
with neighbormg libraries, we refer to the full report of the
Librarian upon each one of these subjects, and we invite par-
ticular attention to the very complete appendices accompany-
ing the report. Rather than give any abstract of these, we
ask every person who wishes to know what the work of a
great library is, and what opportunities are open to it, to
make a careful study of them. The following statistics are
all that need be quoted here :
The cost of maintaining the Library dur-
ing the year was • . . . . $259,096 65
Of this amount the city appro-
priated . . . $235,000 00
The trust funds yielded . 10,450 84
. 245,450 84
The balance of the cost . . . . ' |1 3,645 81
was obtained from rents of the old library building, receipts
from sale of catalogues, fines and miscellaneous gifts.
2 City Document No. 21.
Books. — The number of books in all the departments of
the Library on January 31, 1898, was (398,888, of which
528,079 were in the Central Library — an increase of 35,129
over the number on January 31, 1897.
Use of the Library. — The total number of active cards
outstanding January 31, 1898, was 64,973, a gain of 19,367
over those of the previous year.
During 1897, 1,199,658 books were circulated for home
use — a gain of 194,639 volumes, or 19^ per cent, over those
used in 1896.
It will be seen by the foregoing that the immense home use
of the books of the Central Library (to which should be
added those of the branches and reading rooms), the great
use of the books and other matter in Bates Hall, in the
Children's room, in the Periodical and Newspaper room, and
generally throughout the Central building, show that the
people appreciate the benefits of this great educational insti-
tution. This anticipated appreciation led to its organization
and made it an object of constant solicitude on the part of
the citizens from the beginning. The money required for
its maintenance has always been readily given, and the Trus-
tees indulge the hope that whatever is needed ui the future
to supply its wants will also be granted.
Eiidoivments. ■ — The popular interest in the Library is fur-
ther shown by the many endowment donations during the
year. We gratefully mention that of the Twentieth Ilegiment
Association of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of $5,000,
the income of which is to be expended in the " purchase of
books of a military and patriotic character ; " that of '*^1,000,
from the Papyrus Club in memory of John Boyle O'Reill}^,
the income to be used "for the purchase of books;" that of
$1,000 from the estate of the late Caleb D. Bradlee, D.D.,
for any library purpose deemed proper by the Trustees.
]\Ir. William C. Todd, pursuant to his intention expressed
in his letter of June 16, 1893, paid to us in October last the
sum of $50,000, the income of which is to be appropriated to
the purchase of current newspapers, domestic and foreign,
for the use of all, whether citizens or strangers, who desire
to read them — a valuable addition to our Library which is
well appreciated.
The bequest of the late John C. Paige, whether or not it
result in a substantial addition to the funds of the Library, is
noticeable for the wise humanity of its purpose and for the
generosity of its terms. It is unfettered by condition, but
accompanied by the expression of a desire that it " shall be
LiBiiA"EY Department. 3
used, so far as may, in the judgment of the Trustees, be ex-
pedient, for the purposes of the Children's Reading-room." The
Trustees gratefully commend to prospective benefactors of
this institution the phraseology of the above provision. It
indicates how a donor, interested in a special department of
the Library, may direct his gift to the benefit of that depart-
ment by the expression of a desire which is certam to be
respected, without imposing an absolute restriction which,
under later conditions, may nullify the very benefit which he
purposed, or prevent a larger benefit than he could have
foreseen.
Books. — As the selection of books Avhich shall suit the
tastes and supply the demands of those who use the Library
requires careful consideration, the difficulty of judicious pur-
chases of nearly 30,000 books in a year is apparent, and the
Trustees are pleased to laiow that in the opinion of the Ex-
amining Committee, expressed in their recent report, the
work has been fairly successful. They endorsp the policy we
have adopted of uniting the "four great libraries of Boston
and Cambridge and the several special libraries of Boston,
to avoid unnecessary duplication " and " develop certain lines
of subjects m which each should endeavor to be exhaustive."
By such action the benefits of all these libraries would be
enhanced and their usefulness promoted.
The recommendations of the Committee in this connection
deserve careful consideration.
Bihliograpliies. — To the serious student nothing is of
greater value than a good bibliography of the subject which
engages his attention ; and the officers of the cataloguing de-
partment have accordingly always devoted much time and
study to the preparation of bibliographies and classified lists
in various departments of literature. The work done in this
direction during the past year has been peculiarly important
and varied in its character, as will be seen by reference
to the Librarian's report. The demand for such publi-
cations has usually furnished satisfactory evidence of the
public appreciation of the value of this work, but this year
one of the most interesting publications of the Library and
one for which a ready sale was anticipated has remained
almost uncalled for. This is the List of periodicals, news-
papers, transactions and other serial publications currently
received in the libraries of Boston and vicinity.
Smce this volume enables the reader to ascertain at a
glance where any given periodical is to be found if taken by
any one of thirty-six libraries in this neighborhood, it was
4 City Document No. 21.
supposed that it would be an indispensable work of reference
on the table of eveiy student. Yet though offered at the
nominal price of twenty-five cents, not more than 146 copies
have been sold. It is difficult to understand this indiffer-
ence of students to such a valuable aid.
Use. — Since the Library is properly regarded as the crown
of the city's educational system, it is with great pleasure
that the Trustees call attention to the extensive use which
has been made of its collections by classes and clubs of
students as recorded in the Librarian's report. It is the
desire of the Trustees to furnish every facility to teachers
who thus seek to utilize the material of the Library for the
purpose of systematic instruction. In this connection should
also be mentioned the exhibits of library material and of loan
collections which have been held from time to time durmg
the year. The enumeration of these exhibits by the Librarian
shows their varied character and their interesting nature.
The educational value of such exhibitions would, of course,
be greatly enhanced by explanations of the material exhibited,
given by competent lecturers. One such explanatory lecture,
on the Art of Ancient Greece, which has been already deliv-
ered, proved so attractive that it had to be repeated in order
to accommodate all wdio desired to hear it.
It is obvious that this is a direction in which the work of
the Library may be extended to tlie great advantage of the
public. To facilitate the presentation of such subjects to
large audiences it has been proposed to have lantern slides
prepared which may, under proper restrictions, be also loaned
for the illustration of lectures given outside of the Library
building. The photographic room of the Library affords an
excellent opportunity for the preparation of such slides with-
out removing any of the material from the building.
The classes and audiences thus seeking instruction have been
accommodated on the Special Librarj^ floor, but this portion
of the building is very imperfectly adapted to the purpose.
The need of small class rooms in which instruction can be
given without interfering with the general readers is seri-
ously felt, and can be only very inadequately supplied by
screens or movable partitions in the large halls. The
Barton-Ticknor room, in which most of the exhibits liave
been made, contains many of the most j^recious treasures of
the Library, and, owing to the character of its collections,
should be reserved for the use of special students. One of
the fine arts rooms has therefore been recently fitted up as an
exhibition room but we still lack a hall suitable for the
accommodation of audiences likely to be drawn to the
Library Department. 5
explanatory lectures above alluded to. This embarrassment
has arisen from the fact that when Mr. Todd's generous gift
to the Library made it necessary to provide a Newspaper read-
mg-room, no other space in the building seemed to be avail-
able for the purpose except that which in the original plau
had been reserved for a lecture-room. The extensive use
wdiich is made of the Newspaper-room makes it quite impos-
sible to think of transferring it to smaller quarters.
It is evident, therefore, that if tliese high educational func-
tions of the Library are to be properly developed, additional
accommodations must be provided. For these purposes as
well as for the structural changes required for efficient
administration, as set forth by the Librarian it seems proper
that funds should be provided in the same way as for the
original construction of the building. The Trustees appeal
with confidence to the City Government and to the Legisla-
ture to provide the means for rendering the Library all that
the citizens have a right to demand, calling attention to the
fact that the changes of construction are rendered necessary by
the fact that the usefulness of the Library has far exceeded
the most sanguine anticipations. Had the use of the Library
by the citizens remained within the limits anticipated by those
who planned the building, its structural defects would not have
been apparent. In spite of the great cost of the building and
in spite of the fact that the administration of the Library
demands a large and an annually increasing appropriation,
there can be no doul^t that the money thus expended must
be regarded as a good pecuniary investment for the city.
To say nothing of the influence of a Library like ours in pre-
venting idleness, drunkenness and crime, and thus indirectly
increasing the wealth of the city, it is interesting to note the
effect which the sumptuous installation of learning has had
in stimulating the generosity of the community. The gifts
to the Library since the erection of the present building have
equalled in value approximately one-twelfth of its entire
cost.
In this connection the Trustees would say that tbey find
it quite necessary to pursue some definite policy in regard to
accepting works of art for the Library. Before we had a
building of such architectural merit it was not so important
to consider the artistic worth of the gifts offered to us, and
their appropriateness to the atmospliere of the place ; but the
Trustees feel that now a just responsibility rests upon them
to exercise great care in the acceptance of such gifts with all
due regard to the good and generous intentions of the
donors.
6 City Document No. 21.
As works of art eminently suitable for preservation in a
library may be mentioned:
1. Portraits, busts and statues of men eminent in litera-
ture, science and art, of patrons of learning, and of men
prominent in the history of the country, state or city.
2. Paintings or engravings illustrative of historical
events.
Works of art not belonging to either of the above classes
should be received onlj^ in association with special libraries,
or as completing existing art collections.
Among the most interesting gifts of books may be men-
tioned the entire libraries of the Browning Society and of
the Numismatic Society, the latter accompanied by a gift
of $300, '-for the benefit of the study of numismatics."
Gifts of this sort are always welcomed by the Trustees,
especially when unaccompanied by restrictions as to their
use. The fact that societies are willing to intrust their
highly specialized collections to the care of the city, although
their members can receive no special privileges in their use,
is a gratifying testimon}^ to the confidence felt by the com-
munity in the careful administration of the Public Library.
In conclusion, the Trustees desire to call the attention of
the City Government to the importance of adopting, without
delay, some definite policy with reference to the treatment of
Copley square. A public square around which such magnifi-
cent public and private buildings have been erected should
certainly be laid out m a manner worthy of its surroundmgs.
At present the fine architectural features of the square will
fail to teach the lesson in sestbetics they are so well fitted to
impart.
Frederick O. Prince,
President.
Solomon Lincoln,
Vice-President.
JosiAH H. Benton, Jr.,
Henry P. Bowditch,
James De Normandie.
Adopted May 13, 1898, as of February 1, 1898.
Attest :
Herbert Putnam, Cleric.
LiBEARY Department.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Trustees :
I have the honor to submit my report for the year ending
January 31, 1898.
During the year the library system has been augmented by
the establishment of one new delivery and deposit station.
The deposit feature has been extended to three of the existing
delivery stations. Books have been sent on deposit from the
Central Library to eight additional engine-houses, to two
grammar-schools, to the House of Reformation at Rainsford
Island, to the Marcella-street Home in Roxbury ; and from
branches to the Fleet-street Free Reading-room for Men, and
the West Roxbury Parental School for Boys.
The branch system now comprises :
Ten branches, with large permanent collections of books.
Five reading-rooms, all of them delivery and deposit
stations, and one. Station P, having also an independent
permanent collection of books.
Twelve delivery stations, all but one having the deposit
feature.
Twenty-two engine-houses receiving deposits of books.
One grammar-school regularly receiving such deposits.
Six institutions receiving such deposits.
Total, fifty-seven outlying agencies, as against forty-three
such in existence February 1, 1897.
The portion of the library system directly under library
administration (Central Library, Branches and Stations) is
exhibited in the map which is submitted as a suggestion for
the frontispiece to the forty-sixth report.
The Central Library has been open every day in the year,
except June 17, July 4, September 1 (Labor Day) and De-
cember 25. On the other legal holidays (Washington's
Birthday, Patriots' Day, Memorial Day and Thanksgiving-
Day) the Central Library was open as on Sundays, that is,
from 2 until 10 P.M., in all departments directly serving the
public. Of the branches, the West End has been open on
Sundays during these same hours throughout the year ; the
Charlestown, East Boston and South Boston Branches from
November 7, and the Broadway Extension Reading-room from
October 10.
8 City Document No. 21.
Statistics. — Reports for the statistical year have been sub-
mitted to me in writmg by the chiefs of the several depart-
ments. One of these I quote nearly in full, others I quote
in part, while others I am obliged wholly to omit as extend-
ing my own report into too great detail for publication.
Many of the statistics accompanying these reports are of
interest to one investigating closely the resources and oper-
ation of the Library; and the collection entire has been
type-written and, as last year, will be on file for reference.
FINANCE.
The Auditor's statement (Appendix I. of this report)
shows in detail the receipts and disbursements of this depart-
ment during the 3'ear.
In the examination of this statement there must be borne
in mind the double system of accounts necessitated by the
fact that in addition to the relations which the Trustees as a
city department sustain with the financial departments at
City Hall they are charged as a corporation with the custody
and direct expenditure of certain moneys placed in their
hands for direct expenditure, and with the custody and final
expenditure of the income of trust funds, and occaional
reserve balances of special appropriations for books, turned
over to them in bulk by the City Treasurer and placed abroad
for the payment of foreign invoices upon direct draft by them.
Moneys of the former class have not customarily appeared in
the books of the City Treasurer, while income of trust funds
and reserve balances turned over to the Trustees m bulk ap-
pear in his books as actual disbursements, while standing in
the books of the Library Auditor merely as credits transferred.
The financial statements of the Library Auditor must
agree with those of the City Collector, City Auditor and
City Treasurer, so far as theu scope is the same ; but they
must also exhibit certain transactions which do not appear
in the books of the City Collector, City Auditor or City
Treasurer. With this necessity in view the form which they
adopt will, I think, be easily intelligible.
In the figures quoted by me in my last report (pp. 15-18),
from the Auditor's exhibit for 1896, there were, it appears,
several misprints. These were repeated in the report of the
Trustees (pp. 6-8). If any comparison is to be instituted
between the accounts of 1896 and the accounts of 1897, not
the figures given on the above pages of the 1896 report, but
the figures in the Auditor's exhibit itself, constituting Ap-
pendix I. of that report, should be referred to.
Library Department. 9
Income : General Sources.
The following figures, drawn from the Auditor's state-
ment, indicate income from general sources applicable to
maintenance and purchase of books : — -
General appropriation for 1897 . . . 1235,000 00
Miscellaneous income, to wit : receipts from
fines, sales of library publications, rentals
of old library building, exchange accounts,
interest, and balances" from 1896 . . 20,498 24
1261,498 24
Expenditures: From General Income.
General Appropriation. — In addition to the detailed state-
ment of expenditures for the past year. Appendix I. gives a
comj)arative exhibit of the expenditures of this with the
years 1895 and 1896, distributed under the several accounts.
This shows that the expenditures met by the general appro-
priation, supplemented by the revenue from the old building
and receipts from fines and sales, were, in 1897, ^246,541. 79
as against $231,525.33 in 1896.
The cost of maintaining the branches and stations is in-
cluded in the above figures. In 1896 this was $62,785.39;
in 1897, owing chiefly to a decreased expenditure for books,
it was $58,282.49.
Trust Funds.
Endoiomejits. — The endowments have been increased dur-
ing the year by the receipt of the following principal sums :
From the Papyrus Club (J. Boyle O'Reilly
Fund) 11,000 00
From the Twentieth Regiment Association
(Memorial Fund) 5,000 00
From William C. Todd (Newspaper Fund) . 50,000 00
From the estate of the late Caleb D. Bradlee
(bequest) 1,000 00
$57,000 00
The total of endowments is now <f267,350, of which all
save the sum of $1,000, representing the Bradlee bequest, is
under investment.
Besides endowments certain sums have been received by
way of gift for direct expenditure, as follows :
^775
03
300
00
26
00
1,321
00
-12,422
03
25
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10 City Document No. 21.
From Twentieth Regiment Association .
From Boston Numismatic Society .
From j\Irs. John A, Lewis . . . .
From sundry sources for the purchase of pho-
tograplis .......
To wliich add balances February 1, 1897
$^2,447 40
the application of which appears in detail in the Auditor's
exhibit.
Income. — The income account with trust funds stands as
follows, including balance, |2,950.10, of Todd Fund as
hi CO me :
Balance on hand February 1, 1897. (^See Re-
port 189(3, p. 75) fl7,051 82
Additional credit, Todd Fund ... 3 00
Received, February 1, 1897-January 31, 1898, 13,755 21
$=30,810 03
Less over-expenditure of certain funds in pre-
vious years ...... 246 00
130,564 03
Expenditures. — There has been expended
from income of trust funds for the pur-
chase of books and newspapers . . . 10,757 80
From miscellaneous gifts :
For books 448 03
For photographs ..... 1,235 79
For special service ..... 368 00
112,809 62
Gross Income and Expendituee.
Gross Income. — The gross income of the Library from all
sources, including balances February 1, 1897, except special
appropriations was as follows :
General appropriation ..... $235,000 00
Rentals from old library building . . . 10,874 05
Receipts from fines and sales of catalogues . 5,624 63
Carried forward -$251,498 68
Library Department. 11
Brought forivard $251,498 68
Trust funds : income received from City
Treasurer 113,876 21
Miscellaneous donations for purchase of books,
newspapers and photograplis, including bal-
ance of Todd Fund / . . . . 5,400 50
Exchange account . ..... 1,088 62
Interest on bank deposit .... 1,488 25
London accounts : Balances February 1, 1897,
as follows : ^
Trust funds . . . $14,053 47
General book funds . . 7,242 96
Interest on above . . 489 39
21,785 82
$295,138 08
Expenditure. — From general income (as
above) $246,541 79
From exchange account .... 52 20
From trust fund income ^ . $10,757 80
Less credited to general
fund on adjustment . 306 96
10,450 84
From miscellaneous gifts .... 2,051 82
$259,096 65
A nominal balance on February 1, 1898, would appear as
$36,041.43. This is, however, subject to outstanding obli-
gations and in part to special restrictions. The available
balance is but $25,285.16, made up as follows :
Applicable to general purposes . . . $356 89
Applicable to newspapers (Todd Fund) . 310 04
Applicable to photographs .... 85 21
Applicable to books, as follows:
Trust funds in-
come : nominal
l)alaiice, . . $19,568 94
Less outstanding
orders and nec-
essary reserve for
continuations . 7,530 40
$12,038 54
Carried forward . . . $12,038 54 $752 14
1 The actu.'il income for the year was but $9,399.21.
2 Figures from p. 70 of 1896 Report slightly iiiodifled on adjustment.
3 Including also balance Todd Fund.
12
City Document No. 21.
Bro ug lit fo rward
.
112,038 54
$752 14
General Funds
$12,573
92
Less outstanding
orders
3,535
91
9,038 01
Exchange account .
.
1,036 42
Interest : domestic account .
1,488 25
Interest: foreign account
311 39
Cash donations : bal
xnces on
hand
•
620 41
24,533 02
$25,285 16
It is to be observed further that the bulk of the above
available balance is composed of funds applicable only to the
purchase of books, and to a great extent of funds which
must be reserved for the purchase of books of a very special
character, e.g.^ the Charlotte Harris Fund — balance $4,888.21
— restricted to the purchase of books published prior to 1850.
Special Appropriations.
These with apparent existing balances are the Building
appropriation (construction of Copley Square building).
Furnishing appropriation (Copley Square building) and the
appropriation for Improvement of the Broadway Extension
Delivery Station. The Auditor's exhibit shows :
Building Appropriation. — Nominal balance
uncertified February 1, 1897 . . . $89,481 17
Expenditures, 1897 ....
Nominal balance ....
Against which are contracts amounting to
And claiuLS amounting to . . .
Total obligations ....
Indicatino- a deficit of .
13,050
55
$76,430
62
$82,000
8,685
00
61
$90,685
61
$14,254
99
Furnish inq Approjjriation.
ary, 1897 .
Expenditures, 1897
Nominal balance
— Balance Febru-
$24,539 96
8,809 35
$15,730 61
which with amounts reimbursed from the Building Appro-
Library Department. 13
priation, if reimbursed, is likely to be fully exhausted by
work either already contracted for or projected, and by
amounts due to the general appropriation.
Broadway Exfension Improvement. — Appro-
priation made June, 1897 .... |5,000 00
Expenditures, 1897 . . . . . 1,010 44
Balance $3,989 56
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT.
Central Library.
An entirely new hoisting machine for the passenger ele-
vator has been substituted for the one originally installed and
found imperfect in operation. The roof of the arcade has
been relaid with a coating of slate to remedy the leaks which
had given much concern, causing defacement, if not more
serious injury. The expense of this was $1,800, of which
the Library itself bore one-third. This amount, with the
cost of the new hoisting machine ($1,200), had to be ad-
vanced out of the genei'al appropriation for 1897.
A'arious improvements, properly chargeable to construction,
have been under contemplation during the past year. These
have included additions to the system of heating and ventila-
tion ; a service elevator ; a system of intercommunication be-
tween the stacks ; enlargement of the space for the issue of
books; adaptation of other space for administrative uses;
the construction m the Newspaper-room of a gallery or mez-
zanine floor to accommodate the patent collection, freeing
the present Patent-room for a Children's room ; the equip-
ment for immediate use of space on the rear wing and in the
basement which had been assumed to be unnecessary for use
for some time to come ; and miscellaneous work about the
building, including work upon the the terrazzo floors.
For the most important of the above improvements plans
have been drawn and estimates secured. The various ap-
plications for an appropriation of $100,000 with which to
carry them out have not yet (February 1, 1898) met with
success.
In the meantime the only addition to tlie general facilities
that has been possiljle has been the construction in the base-
ment of cheap shelving for such of the files of bound news-
papers as could not find place in the upper room. To render
this space habitable for this material, steam-pipes had to be
run through it to offset the natural dampness.
14 City Document No. 21.
The attractiveness and serviceability of the Children's
and Delivery rooms have been added to by chandeliers, and
of the domed rooms on the upper floor by an adequate array
of electric lights circlincf the domes.
As to the worlds of art, which have added to the embel-
lishment of the rooms at the Central Library, I report in
detail under " Crifts.'"
Branches.
I shall this year append to my report the annual report,
almost entire, of the Supervisor of Branches, and refer to
it for a statement explicit as to the condition and equipnient
of our outlying system, and accurate as to its operation.
The only special resource for permanent improvements in
this system has been the special appropriation of $5,000, for
the Broadway Extension Station. This appropriation was
not specifically requested by the Library Department ; but
as it would increase facilities for a work of great moment in
a district ill provided, it could not well be rejected. The
station was moved to a larger room, more prominently located,
and was effectively and attractively equipped with furniture
and with books. The result has been a greatly increased use
and the development of an important use of a new character.
But the special appropriation, being only for "permanent
improvements," could not be used for rent or service. The
increase in these has had to be borne by the general
appropriation, without, however, any corresponding increase
therein for this purpose. As a result of the special apj)ro-
priation therefore, and in order to utilize it, we have had to
throw upon our maintenance account an additional burden
which each year will reach six or seven hundred dollars.
Whenever, therefore, an appropriation for " improvements "
is under consideration, it is to be borne in mind that each
such increase of facilities calls for an increased outlay in
maintenance, and this out of funds already overpressed.
The effort to secure better accommodations for the East
Boston Branch has contmued and become defined during the
year. In June last a mass meeting was held under the
auspices of the East Boston Citizens' Association, at which
one of the Trustees of the Lil)rary, Mr. Whitney, as Acting
Librarian, and the Supervisor of Branches, assisted. A com-
mittee was appointed, with Dr. William H. Ensworth as
cliairman, Avhich has worked actively ever since in aid of the
jDroject. Several hearings have been had before the Mayor,
and petitions representing a large and important public sen-
timent presented to the City Council. An order for the
Library Department. 15
appropriation of f 100,000 for the purchase of land and erec-
tion and equipment of a ouilding has been mtroduced into
the City Council, and may this year receive attention.
Certain other directions, m which permanent improvements
in the outlying system are desirable if, and when, funds can
be provided, were mentioned in a communication addressed
by your Board to the INIayor, which though subsequent to
the nominal date of this report may fitly be quoted here :
" The Branch Library at Charles town is inadequately pro-
vided for in unsuitable rooms over a police station ; that at
South Boston is in rooms whose rent costs the city $2,500
per year — the equivalent of 3 per cent, on a prmcipal sum of
188,000 ; that at the South End is retaining with difficulty
rooms in the High School building, inadequate in themselves
and urgently demanded for school uses ; that at West Rox-
bury is in a building which should be remodelled for its
accommodation according to the plans prepared by the Public
Buildings Department at your request, A branch reading-
room and delivery station is urgently desired in Ward 17,
and miscellaneous improvements of a mmor character are
needed at the various other existing branches."
Various orders introduced into the City Council touching
this department, and for the most part suggesting improve-
ments in the outlying system, are quoted in Appendix XIV.
Works of Art.
Among the works of art received as gifts and placed dur-
ing the year have been the following :
Paintings hy Hoivard Pyle. — Nineteen oil paintings, by
Howard Pyle, of colonial subjects or episodes in colonial
history, particulai'ly of scenes in the life of Washington,
were subscribed for by various citizens of Boston and given
to the Library in April last. The list of the donors is given
in full in xVppenclix XHI. These paintings have from their
historical accuracy a value to the Library auxiliary to its
main purpose, which might be lacking in an ordinary work of
art. They have been hung in the Children's room, but have
as yet neither suitable frames nor escutcheons.
Franldin. — The bust of Benjamin Franklin, once attributed
to Horatio Greenough, but by the donor thought to be the
work of Ceracchi, was given by Mr. Frank Wood of Boston.
O'Reilly. — The bust of John Boyle O'Reill}^, for which a
special appropriation was made by the City Council m 1894,
was ordered last spring of John Donahue. It was received,
approved by the Art Commission, and accepted befoie the
end of the year. It lacks still a pedestal, as does the Holmes
16 City Docxunient No. 21.
bust, also ordered by the City Council. The need of a pro-
vision for pedestals in such cases was communicated by your
Board to the Mayor on February 12 last.
Powers^ s Cfreek Slave. — A marble copy of the bust of
Powers's Greek Slave was received as a gift from Mrs. Mar-
garet S. Otis. It has been aptly placed in the Fine Art
Department.
Cabot Portrait. — An excellent portrait of Edward C.
Cabot, first president of the Boston Society of Architects, has
been hung in the room occupied by the Department of Archi-
tecture. It is not a gift, but was received on deposit from
the society.
Bronze Poors. — In August last sketches were approved
by the Board for the bronze doors for the main vestibule, to
be furnished by Mv. Daniel C. French.
Bacchante. — The group of dancing nymph and child, offered
by Mr. Charles F. McKim for the fountain of the courtyard,
was at his request returned to him in June last. It is now
placed in the Metropolitan Museum at New York.
Books.
Appendices II.-V. give the extent of the Library by years,
a summary of the contents of the Library on January 31,
1898, the net mcrease of the several departments during the
past ten years, and the classification of the material in the
Central Library and branches on January 31, 1898.
According to last year's report it appears that the number
of volumes in the Central Library and branches on January
31, 1897, was 663,763, of which 492,901 were m the Central
Library. By the tables appended to this rej^ort it appears
that on January 31, 1898, the number in all departments is
698,888, of which 528,079 are in the Central Library. The
net increase is thus 35,129 volumes. ^ Thirty-five thousand
one hundred and eighty-two volumes have been added to the
Central Library; and a net loss, through transfer, of 53
volumes is chargeable to the branches. A large portion of
the increase in the central collection, as appears by Appendix
III., is, however, due to accessions to the Duplicate-room,
from the branches and elsewhere.
The total expenditure for books and periodicals during the
past year was $40,351.62 as againt $40,430.23 in 1896.
This amount does not include $480.10 paid for books out of
the special appropriation for Delivery P (Broadway Exten-
sion) nor $410.29 expended by the Fellowes' Athenseum for
books for the Roxbury Branch.
'An error of four volumes carried over from previous reports lias here been corrected.
LiBRATiY Department. 17
The expenditure was distributed as follows :
City money expended for Looks :
For Central Library (including
Deposit Collection) . . $20,497 84
For branches .... 5,303 28
125,801 12
Trust funds expended for books :
For Central Library. . . 8,114 74
City money expended for periodi- $33,915 86
cals :
For Central Library . . . $4,766 87
For branches .... 1,668 89
. 6,435 76
$40,351 62
As stated in my last report, in a comparison of expendi-
tures with statistics of additions, the number of accessions
rather than the number of books actually located, should be
considered. The accessions during the past year, excludmg
mere transfers from one department to another, have been as
follows :
Volumes. Volumes. Volumes.
Added by purchase . Library, 18,099 Branches, 6,030 Total, 24,129
Added by gift . . Library, 8,792 Branches, 210 Total, 9,002
26,891 6,240 33,131
Purchases. — Purchases along the ordinary lines have main-
tained their usual proportions. In addition during the past
year there have been certain purchases in group which have
a special significance.
In a library of this sort, such purchases may find their
occasion: (1) m the sudden availability of some new fund
for purchase ; (2) in some special sale bringing to the sur-
face unusual material ; (3) in the compilation of some bibliog-
raphy which involves a close investigation of the resources
of the Library in a particular direction and suggests gaps to
be filled; (4) in replenishment of the shelves to make good
some existmg subject catalogue, or (5) in the recommenda-
tion of some specialist, who in connection wi'th his own use
of the Library, or perhaps simply out of a generous desire for
the advancement of the institution, lends his advice as to the
development of the department as to which he is expert.
During the past year all of the above influences have con-
tributed to a rather unusual group of special purchases.
18 City Document No. 21.
1. Longfelloiv 3Iemorial Collection. — The Aitz Fund has
enabled a beginning to be made of the Longfellow Memorial
collection, through the purchase of about 400 volumes of
early American literature, principally first editions of the
poets. It is believed that nearly every American edition of
the works of Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes and Whittier has
been secured. The first year of the availability of this fund
has happily coincided with opportunities particularly favor-
able m the way of auction sales.
2. Mexico. — The private sale of the libraiy of the late
Julio Zarate led to the acquisition of a number of unusual
books on Mexican history, topography and literature.
3. Australia and Polynesia. — A special sale catalogue
induced the purchase of a number of works on the exploration
and early history of Australia and Polynesia, among them
Admiral Liitke's "Voyage autour du monde," with its atlas
of fine plates ; Captain Dillon's account of his adventures
among the Fiji cannibals, and Yason's " Tongataboo."
In the selection of material of this class the Library has
recently had Avithin its direct service expert judgment in the
association with the force of Mr. John Murdoch. Mv.
Murdoch's recommendations have induced the purchase of
a great number of miscellaneous works of early exploration
on the ground that they embody the only records at first hand
of racial characteristics and customs of peoples now fast dis-
appearing. An important accession (this, however, of a
comparatively recent expedition, but to little known regions)
has been the report of the Horn Scientific Expedition to
Central Australia published in 1896, in four volumes.
4. Anthropology. — The proposed publication by the
Library (see infra) of the "Bibliography of the geographical
anthropolog}^ of Europe," compiled by Prof. Wm. Z. Ripley,
has inducecl the purchase of nearly 300 volumes recom-
mended by him as necessary to round out the literature of
the library on this subject. Among them are the following
important serials : " Archivio per I'antropologia e la
etnologia," Florence 1871-97 and "Beitriige zur Anthropo-
logic und Urgeschichte Bayerns," Munich 1877-97.
5. English Prose Fiction. — Much complaint on the part
of the public of failure to get works of standard English
prose fiction listed in the subject catalogue issued in 1893,
and a decision against the revision of the catalogue, induced
the purchase of over 4,000 volumes of English prose fiction
as replacements and additional copies, to replenish the shelves
and make good the catalogue as it stands.
The purchase of current English fiction, on the other hand,
has been as conservative as last year. One hundred and
Library Department. 19
s even ty-eiglit titles have been selected out of 587 books read.
But copies have been multiplied so that the total of volumes
purchased of this class has reached 2,566, representing an ex-
penditure of some tf 2,274.
6. Psycliology. — The purchases have included 150
volumes recommended to the Library by Prof, \yilliam
James as the most important contributions to the subject
within the past two and a half years.
Slavic. — The purchases of Russian and Polish literature
in the original have included nearly 400 volumes recom-
mended by Prof. Leo Wiener and by Mr. Joseph Adam-
owski.
Scandinavian. — If there be added to the above the special
purchase of some 400 volumes of standard Norwegian,
Swedish and Danish literature, the first large accession of
its kind, and the various works French, German and Italian
history and miscellanies, secured upDu recommendation of
My. Thomas Sergeant Perry and others, it Avill appear, I
think, that the literature of the continent has had especial
recognition during the past j^ear.
Americaii Patents. — A close investigation of our patent
collection, undertaken last summer, proved United States
drawings and specifications to the number of 97,938, all prior
to 1869, to be lacking. The list price of these would be five
cents (formerly ten cents) per copy. But under a recent act
of Congress, suggested, I think, by the application of this
Library for a reduction in price where a large number are
subscribed for en bloc, the Commissioner was enabled to fix a
price of one cent per copy. In September last we remitted
to him the sum of -$1,000 to cover the above 97,938. The
lacking copies are therefore gradually being suj)plied to us.
Kelmscott Press. — Among the important accessions by
purchase during the past year should be mentioned also
eleven issues of the Kelmscott Press (including the Froissart,
the Beowulf, the Sir Perecyvelle, and the Historyes of Troye);
and in connection with them Vallance's notable work on tlie
"Art of William Morris." Nor should there be overlooked
among the examples of sumptuous book-making the "Altar
book," issued by D. B. Updike of Boston.
Deposit Collection. — The extension of the system of
deposit stations has involved the selection and purchase
of a collection of books to be devoted exclusively to this
service. This collection has gradually grown until it now
numbers 5,041 volumes. In the enumeration, these books
are credited to the Central Library ; but as they are used
solely through the outlying system they should really be
reckoned as part of the equipment of the latter.
20 City Document No. 21.
PhotograijJis. — As to the photographs, which have formed
a special feature of our purchases during the past year, I
report in a later paragraph under " Gifts."
Gifts.
WorTcs of Art. (See supra.)
JSndowments. — The endowments of the Libraiy have been
increased by the following very important contributions :
April, 1897. — From the Twentieth Regiment Association
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry the sum of ^5,000, the in-
come to be used "for the purchase of books of a military
and patriotic character, to be placed in the alcove appro-
priated as a memorial of the Twentieth Regiment " ; that is
to say, with the collection to be known as the Twentieth
Regiment Memorial collection, the exact location of the col-
lection being subject to possible change.
A beginnmg has already been made with this collection by
the purchase of miscellaneous books relating to the Civil
war. It is proposed as little as possible to duplicate material
already in the general library.
May, 1897. — From the Papyrus Club of Boston the sum
$1,000, to be known as the John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial
Fund, the income to be used "for the purchase of books."
With the gift, the Papyrus Club supplies an appropriate
book-plate, which will be inserted in each of the volumes.
October, 1897. — From William C. Todd, Esq., of Atkin-
son, N. H., the sum of 150,000 as an endowment for the
Newspaper reading room. This gift is made in pursuance
of the intention communicated by Mr. Todd, June 16, 1893,
in connection with his proposal to provide, temporarily, each
year the sum of -12,000 for direct expenditure for this pur-
pose; but the offer in its final form, October 21, 1897, was
addressed, not to the Trustees but the City Government ;
and it was an offer to pay over to the City of Boston the
sum of $50,000 on an agreement by the city not merely to
hold and invest this sum and use the income for the pur-
chase of current newspapers, but on the further agreement,
should the income in any year fall below $2,000, that theie
should be ajDpropriated the amount necessary to make the
income up to $2,000, for the above purposes. (^See letter of
gift in appendix.) These conditions were accepted by the
city government and ensure the application of $2,000 yearly,
in perpetuum, for the supply of this department.
November, 1897. — From the estate of the late Caleb D.
Bradlee, D.D., of Brookline, the sum of $1,000, a bequest
to the Library without condition or restriction.
Library Department. 21
Mention is appropriate here of the bequest contained in
the will of the late John C. Paige of Boston, the full terms
of which are given in the appendix. It is a residuary be-
quest, postponed to a life interest; and its exact amount
cannot of course now be stated. But its terms are so
liberal, and yet the suggestion that accompanies it, that it be
used so* far as practicable for the benefit of the children, is
of such interest that it should take a foremost place among
the benefits of the year. Mr. Paige died on May 8, 1897.
His will is dated January 28, 1897.
Miscellaneous gifts of money for direct expenditure in
books have been :
From the Twentieth Regiment Association, for
books for the Memorial collection, in addi-
tion to 8368 for service, the sum of . . 1107 03
From Mrs. John A. Lewis for two volumes to be
added to the John A. Lewis collection . . 26 00
From the Boston Numismatic Society, in connec-
tion with the society's gift of its libj-ary (see
iyifra) " for the benefit of the study of numis-
matics." 300 00
Photograph Fund. — The usefulness of the Graupner col-
lection of photographs given to the library last year sug-
gested how large a service might be effected by a collection
more widely representative of the various schools of painting,
and which would include also other departments of art, and
the more noted monuments of architecture. The advantages
of direct purchase abroad of such material being obvious, an
appeal was made to the public of Boston, prior to my departure
for Europe in May last, for contributions towards such a
purchase. The response was cordial in terms and consider-
able in amount. The full list of donors appears in the ap-
pendix. Two hundred and fifty dollars, as will be noticed,
was voted by the Boston Society of Architects, an action im-
plying an indorsement which was in itself of value, and
$200 came from a class o^ young women pursuing the sys-
tematic study of the fine arts. There was even a brave little
contribution from the pupils of a grammar-school class,
whose enthusiasm had been stirred by the use of the art books,
and who were determined " to do something."
The total amount subscribed was -11,321.
The purchases were made in Italy, of Messrs. Anderson
at Rome, and Alinari and Brogi at Florence ; in London, of
Messis. Clarke & Davies, Mansell Ilollyer, and Haufstaengel,
a Munich firm. What I took with me by way of lists
22 City Document No. 21.
were, as regards paintings, affirmative lists of necessary
examples lacking in the Graupner collection. This list was
compiled by Mr. Allen A. French of Boston, whose expert
service in this matter has laid the Library under great obliga-
tion. As regards sculpture and architecture, it was more
convenient and sufficiently explicit to take lists of what the
Library already possessed. The classic and the Tuscan sculp-
tors were for the most part already reasonably available in
the works of Brunn & Bode, which, although in book form,
might temporarily ba utilized. But the important collections
in the liritish Museum are not included in these, and of
Italian sculpture, outside of the Tuscan masters, the Library
had notliing.
Tlie photographs purchased were unmounted, and for the
most part silver prints and small in size (8 by 10 inches).
They included, however, a considerable number of "carbons,"
and a large selection of the fine HoUyer platinotypes of the
works of Burne-Jones, Watts, Rossetti and others of the
English Pre-Raphaelite school. They included practically the
entire Assyrian and Egyptian, Greek and Roman series of
sculpture in the British Museum, listed in Mansell's Cata-
logue. The lists compiled by Mr. French were purchased
entire. They comprised some 1,600 examples of the Italian
masters in northern, as well as in Italian galleries.
The total purchases to February 1 out of the $1,321
subscribed reached 6,765 photographs; $^85. 21 remains still
on hand to meet outstanding orders. Other orders outstand-
ing will be met out of library funds otherwise available.
The work of mounting the photographs has been done at
the Library by special contract. The expense for the 6,765
thus far received has been $579, all of which has been met
by the Library. As fast as they are movinted they are classi-
fied, numbered and located in the case recently constructed
for their reception.
Tlie entire collection of photographs owned by the Library
and in active use now numbers over 9,000. Auxiliary to
this collection is the collection gradually forming of process
reproductions, which coming to us in serial form are mounted
and made available for classification under subject. The
serials, without text, that are now dissected for this pur-
pose include the Matdriaux et documents d'architecture et
de sculpture (Raguenet), Formenschatz, Blatter fiir Kunst-
gewerbe. Architecture et sculpture en France, L'art pour
tons, Portefeuille des arts decoratifs, and Portafoglio delle
arti decorative in Italia.
The usefulness of all this material when properly classified
and conveniently accessible, the service whicli it may ren-
Library Department. 23
der to the individual student of the fine arts or industrial
arts, or of history or institutions, or to the class under trained
guidance, or as the hasis of occasional exhibits that reach a
larger general public can be fully appreciated only by close
observation of such a department in operation day after day.
The obvious and proved service with even the present collec-
tion is already so great that we are anxious to enlarge its
scope.
What should next be added are: (1) Examples of the
northern and of tlie Spanish schools of •painting and of
architecture, and (2) examples of the remains of Greek art
and architecture now in Greece itself.
In the meantime the donors to this project, will, it is
hoped, feel that their contributions have been used to good
purpose.
Gifts of Boohs. — The number of givers of books has in-
creased from 1,545 in 1896, to 1,776 during the past year.
The full list of givers appears as usual in Appendix XIII.
But certain of the gifts have been so important in themselves
and so significant in the interest which they indicate, that I
insert fuller mention of them here.
Two notable accessions represent the entire libraries of
certam Boston societies organized for study in a special direc-
tion, and amassing a collection of books as incidental to this
purpose. The one of these is the Boston Browning Society,
the* other the Numismatic Society. The inducement to the
transfer of these collections to the Public Library was doubt-
less the conviction that they would be safe and well cared for
here and do a service to a larger public without any essential
deprivation of service to their original owners. This is a
view which the Library greatly welcomes and trusts may
generally prevail. It is especially applicable when the col-
lection in question is highly specialized upon a single subject.
Some of the important gifts of the year I note here.
The}^ are arranged alphabetically according to their donors.
Gifts of Especial Importance, 1897-98.
Fi'om Michael Anagnos, Esq., Director of the Perkins
Institution for the Blind, South Boston, twenty-seven vol-
umes in embossed type, nineteen of which have been recently
published. These include Don Quixote, Handet, The Mer-
chant of Venice, and Fiske's War of independence, and sup-
plement the collection of over 500 volumes for the use of
tlie blind, a great part of which was placed here through the
kmdness of Mr. Anagnos.
24 City Document No. 21.
From the Boston Browning Society, its library, numbering
291 volumes, "without conditions further than are implied
by the expressed wish that it be kept together as a reference
collection so long as the well-being of the Public Library
itself permits, and that it be made accessible under the same
rules that the Public Library maintains in the case of other
similar collections." (Letter of gift.) This collection is
notably rich in rare editions of the works of both Robert and
Elizabeth Browning, and contains, besides these, a large num-
ber of critical and illustrative works relating wliolly or in
part to the Brownings. Among the single works of Robert
Brownmg are the following first editions : Paracelsus, 1835 ;
Strafford, 1837; Sordello, 1840; Bells and pomegranates,
Nos. 1-8, 1841-4(5 ; and among those of Elizabeth Brown-
ing, "The Seraphim, and other j)oems," 1838; "Aurora
Leigh," 1857, and " Casa Guidi windows," 1851. There is
also a slender volume bearing the title " Two poems by Eliza-
beth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning " (first edi-
tion), London, 1854; some eighteen poems by Browning, set
to music ; a series of photographs and engravings of the
Brownings, which is of much interest, and a bronze cast of
their clasped right hands by Harriet Hosmer. The members
of the Brownmg Society have expressed their intention of
enlarging this collection from time to time l_y the gift of the
additional material which they are constantl}' collecting.
From the Boston Numismatic Society, through its Secre-
tary, William S. Appleton, Esq., " its collection of books and
pamplilets, and also the sum of -^300 for the benefit of the
study of numismatics, wdth no other conditions." (Letter of
gift.) The collection numbers sixty bound volumes and 150
pamphlets, largely general and special histories and catalogues
of the medals and coins of various countries. Among the
noteworthy older works may be mentioned " Historische
Remarques der neuesten Sachen in Europa," 1699-1706,
in nine volumes, which, gives a general history of the coinage
of Europe; Tentzel's Monatliche Unterredungen emiger
guten Freunde von allerhand Biichern, in ten volumes,
1690-1697, which devotes considerable space to the history
of numismatics ; Medalische historic der Republyk van Hol-
land, by Bizot, Amsterdam, 1690 ; and Vaillant's Numismata
imperatorum Romanorum, Paris, 1694."
From Allen A. Brown, Esq., 343 volumes for the collection
of music, consisting of scores, operas and chamber music.
Among these is an almost complete set of the orchestral
works of Richard Strauss, and the rare full score of Saint-
Saens's Samson et Dalila.
Library Department. 25
From Heman W. Chaplin, Esq., Dedhani, Mass., 205 vol-
umes (two gifts) consisting principally of the works of New
England theologians,* biography and early school books.
From the Church of the Unity, a set, complete in seven-
teen volumes, of " Unity pulpit," the sermons preached in
Boston by Rev. M. J. Savage, D.D. This set, which for-
merly belonged to the church, was presented to the Library
for preservation by the Standmg Committee, through Alfred
Ewer, Treasurer.
From Miss Lilian Freeman Clarke, Jamaica Plam, Mass.,
125 volumes and 559 pamphlets, comprising many United
States documents and reports, library publications, theology
and biography.
From J. Templeman Coolidge, Esq., an album containing
the portraits of prominent characters at the time of the
French Commune of 1870, and fifteen photographs of views
of Paris after the siege, 1870.
From Messrs. Copeland and Day, thirty-two volumes of
their current publications, in continuance of their practice of
giving to the Library a copy of every book issued by them.
From the Commission for directing geological and geo-
graphical investigations in Greenland, at Copenhagen, a
nearly complete series of " Meddelelser om Gr^nland," a val-
uable Danish government publication, embodying the results
of all the Danish scientific researches made in Greenland.
From Maj. Gen. John Watts de Peyster, Tivoli, New
York, sixteen volumes of his writings, relating principally to
the Waterloo campaign.
From the Imperial University of Dorpat, Russia, fifteen
dissertations on anthropology and ethnology, given in re-
sponse to a request by the Library for material to be used in
the list of books on these subjects, compiled by Prof. W. Z.
Ripley, and to be published by the Library.
From the German Patent Office (Kaiserliches Patentamt),
Berlin, 5,517 numbers of the " Patentschrift," continuing
the file of German patents, which have been sent gratui-
tously to this Library by the German Government since
1892.
From Dr. D. D. Gilbert, Roxbury, thirty-four volumes, in-
cluding a biographical dictionary in twelve volumes. Dr.
Grew's " Cosmologia sacra," and the Laws of Massachusetts,
folio edition, 1789.
From Miss Matilda Goddard, a fine copy of Pinion's
"Egypt" in two folio volumes, and twenty-two volumes of
" Current and passing events," educational, scientific and
national, made up of newspaper cuttings.
28 City Document No. 21.
From tlie children of the late Dr. Benjamm Apthorp
Gould of Cambridge, Mass., " without conditions or restric-
tions," 4,105 volumes, consisting mainl^f of scientific material
relating to meteorology, astronomy and physics, especially
concerning the Argentine Republic. Dr. Gould was evi-
dently the recipient of many monographs on scientific sub-
jects, the issues of various mstitutions and academies, which
do not find their way into ordinary channels ; and these form
a considerable part of the gift, which includes also the
Annals of the Argentine Scientific Society (Sociedad cien-
tifica Argentina) in fifty volumes ; the Annals of the
Meteorological Office of the Argentine Republic (Oficina
meteorol6gica Argentina) in fifty volumes, and the Meteo-
rological year-book of the Netherlands (Nederlandsch Meteo-
rologisch Jaarboek) in twenty volumes. The gift as a whole
is a distinct reenforcement to the Library, in a depart-
ment of literature which it is hoped to develop systemati-
cally.
From the Commissioner of Patents of Great Britain, 222
volumes, continuing the set of British patents, which exists
unbroken upon the liibrary shelves from 1617 to the present
time.
From Augustus Hemenway, Esq., a very interesting copy
of Bergomensis (Jacobus Philippus Foresti) " Nouissime
historiarum omnium repercussiones," printed m A^enice,
1502-1506. The book was purchased by Mr. Hemenway as
a specimen of artistic binding, from a collection on exhibi-
tion in this city last spring. The binding is a copy or adap-
tation of one executed by a Dutch artisan for Diane de
Poitiers and consists of oak boards covered with calf and
mlaid in colors in a pattern of geometrical design, with a
monogram, a crown, interlaced crescents and the fleur-de-lis.
From Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, forty-two vol-
umes for the Galatea collection, also three manuscri^^t letters
of George Ticknor to Mr. Stephen Higginson and Mrs. Hig-
ginson, written from Europe in 1816,
From His Majesty the Kmg of Italy, two volumes, con-
tinuing the military campaigns of Prince Eugene (" Cam-
pagne del Principe Eugenio di Savoia").
From the Minister of Agriculture, Industry, and Com-
merce, Italy, 177 volumes of most important statistical
reports, relating to the industries, commerce, railroads, edu-
cation, finance, posts and telegraphs of Italy. These various
reports consist for the most part of material new to the
Library, although some continue files which had lapsed for
many years. They were obtained through the courtesy of
LiBEAiiY Department. 27
the Minister of Agriculture in response to a request made
personally by the Librarian while m Rome.
From Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, sixty-two volumes, chiefly medi-
cal works (made up of three gifts), and two hundred and
fifteen numbers.
From George B. Knapp, Esq., 103 volumes (2 gifts) of
history, biography and travel.
From His Holiness Pope Leo XHI., the nmth volume of
the folio edition of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas
(" OjDera omnia iussu impensaque Leonis XHL, P. M.") of
which the previous volumes were received in 1895 and 1896.
From Hugh J. Leonard, Esq., New York City, the edition
de luxe of his " Handbook of wrestling " published in
1897.
From a special donation given by Mrs. John A. Lewis
there Avas purchased for the Lewis Collection a copy of
Increase Mather's " Solenm advice to young men, " printed
in Boston in 1695, also the second ]3art of the "New-Eng-
land JNIagazine of knoAvledge and pleasure. By various
authors. Printed and sold by Benjamin Mecom in Boston."
(1758), and of which the Lewis collection already contained
Part 1.
From the Due de Loubat, through George H. Baker, Esq.,
Librarian of Columbia College, " Galerie americaine du
Mus^e d'ethnographie du Trocad^ro, " by E. T. J. Hamy,
a magnificent representation on folio plates, with explanatory
notes, of the American antiquities and ethnology contained in
the Museum.
From George R. R. Rivers, Esq., Milton, Mass., 207 vol-
umes. This gift from Mr. Rivers contains the important set
of Buffon's " Histoire naturelle," in 111 volumes, in the
edition of 1798-1808.
From Richard S. Simonds, Esq., the '^ Gaceta de Madrid,"
a daily newspaper, published at Madrid from 1877-1893, in
sixty-two bound folio volumes.
From TheoJore Stanton, Esq., Paris, France, seventeen
volumes relating to the history of woman, for the Galatea
collection. Many of these are of especial interest as being
from the library of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
From Dr. Franklin Bache Stephenson, U.S.N., Charles-
town, 248 volumes of biography, theology, school books, and
fourteen volumes of D wight's " Journal of music " ; also forty-
four broadsides and one map.
From C. A. M. Taber, Esq., of Wakefield, Mass., a Manu-
script letter-book of John Rowe, 1759-62, containing the
correspondence of a Boston merchant with his ship-masters.
28 City Document No. 21.
From William C. Todd, Esq., of Atkinson, N. H., a file of
the London "Times" from 1809 to the present day in 232
volumes. The importance of this gift can hardly be over-
estimated. It is an acquisition of which the Library may be
justly proud, and although lacking the first twenty years (the
" Times " was begun under that name in 1788) the set covers
the important period of the War of 1812 and the later
Napoleonic campaigns. The Library was particularly fortu-
nate in effecting the purchase for ]\Ir. Todd through one of
its London agents, as the opportunity for obtaining so large a
file lessens each year, and rarely occurs except, as in this
case, on the breakmg up of an old institution.
From Alfred T. Turner, Esq., Treasurer of the City of
Boston, a valuable collection of between 400 and 500 vol-
umes of Boston City documents including thirty-two
volumes of the "Municipal register" between the years 1851
and 1894.
The initial purchases of books for the 20th Regiment
Alcove have been made this year by the Library under the
direction of the Committee of the 20th Regiment Associa-
tion. The 205 volumes bought at an outlay of ^407. 03 are
chiefly regimental histories of troops serving in the civil
war.
From Robert Walcott, Esq., Cambridge, Mass., seventy
volumes of rare classical works, including Fabricius, " Biblio-
theca Graeca 1721-28," in fourteen volumes, and the follow-
ing old folios : Estienne (Stephanus) " Thesaurus Grsecae
linguae ab Henrico Stephano constructus. (Geneva) 1572,"
five vols. ; Hornanus's " Dictionarium Graeco-Latinum.
Basileae, 1557," and Scapula, " Lexicon-Graeco-Latinum,
1652."
From William B. Ware, Esq., thirty-four volumes of
church music, mainly collections made by Lowell INIason,
George F. Root, and Loring B. Barnes, and published in
Boston.
From ]\[rs. A. C. Wheelwright, fifty-five volumes of
general English literature, including a few old Boston and
Cambridge imprints.
From Messrs. James D. Law, Laurens Maynard, David
McKay, Harrison S. Morris, Herbert Small, Horace L. Trau-
bel and Francis H. Williams, a second instalment of books
and pamplets for the Whitman collection. (The first instal-
ment was made last 3'ear.) Also a large number of news-
paper clippings, magazine articles and broadsides relating to
Whitman from Dr. R. M. Bucke.
From the Most Reverend Jolui Joseph Williams, Arch-
bishop of Boston, a set of the " Acta Sanctae Sedis," or Acts
Library Department.
29
of the Holy See, in twenty-eight volumes, published in Rome
by the Society for Propagating the Faith. This is the official
publication, issued periodically, containing the decisions, etc.,
of the Congregations and Commissions of the Roman College
of Cardinals, advising or reporting to the Pope on various
matters relating to the doctrine and practice of the Roman
Catholic Church.
The set is indispensable to the student of Roman Catholic
doctrine and practice, and the acquisition of it has been
urgently desired by the Libraiy. This fact having come to
the attention of the Archbishop he generously ordered this
set to be purchased, to be specially bound, and to be delivered
to the Library as a gift from him.
From Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., Esq., a volume comprising
the first four parts of the "Suffolk Manorial Families," re-
lating exclusively to the Winthrops of Groton and families
allied to tiiem, a publication largely composed of matter
nowhere else to be found in print.
Binding.
The work done by the Library bindery during the past
year is indicated by the following schedule :
Vols.
JJUUiViS UUUHU. Ill JJ. J. J.. UlllLlillg . .
Large daily newspapers ....
. o,uxj.
48
Branch newspapers . . . . .
37
Pamphlets .......
2565
Total
11,161
Books repaired .....
4,885
Catalogues and novels stitched in covers
2,270
Cards mounted .....
1,497
Maps mounted on cloth . . . .
886
Volumes guarded .....
1,541
Volumes interleaved ....
2
Portfolios made .....
120
Boxes "
115
Blocks "
620
Pads "
11
Pouches ".....
57
Temporary covers made ....
1,145
Library publications folded and stitched .
88,521
Library publications folded, sewed and cov-
ered .......
13,921
Photographs and engravings mounted .
2,941
Office desks covered ....
7
30 City Document No. 21.
Time on miscellaneons work . . . . 48 J da^js.
Time cutting and bundling slips and cards . 682 days.
Books bound for the various branches, received from the
branch department (included in the number of books bound
in B. H. binding) :
Charlestown
br
anch
Vols.
. 56
Dorchester branch
Vols.
. 28
East Boston
a
6
Jamaica Plain "
. 33
Brighton
a
. 115
South Boston "
. 32
South End
West End
. 21
. 53
Roxbury " *
West Roxbury "
' . 88
. 5
Total 440
It is not aj^parent that the reduction in the working day
in this department (from ten to nine hours) has reduced the
output. The present force, sixteen hands, is not sufficient,
however, for the work to be done, and two more assistants
(one forwarder and one sewer) have been asked for.
The outside contract work (binding in cheaper form of
branch books and old Lower Hall books) has comprised the
binding of 18,929 volumes, as against 8,931 in 1896, at a
total cost of $8,802.11 ; 7,862 of the above were branch
books.
During the year the contract with the outside binder has
been revised. The material now called for (instead of a
leather) is Holliston Grade E book cloth; and the authors
and brief titles are lettered on the backs. Methods of sew-
ing and other details have at the same time been improved.
The result now secured is a binding more comely, cleaner
and more durable. The lettering adds a great convenience.
The cost is a fraction greater.
Catalogues.
As to the work of the Cataloguing Department during the
year I quote very nearly verbatim the summary contained in
the report of the Chief Cataloguer.
Work Done. —
Number of volumes and parts of volumes cata-
logued 61,573
Number of titles for the same . . . 36,032
These surprising figures need the explanation that they
stand in part for the large purchases of popular books for
Stack 4, the branches and deposit stations. As these
Library Department. 31
are largely duplicates the work of the cataloguer is reduced
to the minimum ; 17,861 volumes represent the recata-
loguing of old books rendered necessary by the receipt of
new editions, or new copies given particularly for the special
collections, — all this work tending to the clearing up of the
card catalogue and bringing it up to the present standard.
It is cheaper and less laborious to reprint these combined
titles than to take out the cards from the catalogues and alter
them. This we owe to the reduction of cost brought about
by the Linotype. Three thousand two hundred and eighty-
one volumes of continuations of serials are included, also
work on the JMusic collection, as hereafter detailed.
The difference between the number of titles and volumes
is explained by the duplicates already referred to and by long
sets of periodicals recently catalogued. For example, m the
case of the London " Times " lately received one title repre-
sented 242 volumes.
The cards placed in the various catalogues at the Central
Library, as far as it has been found convenient to count them,
number 93,783. Beginning early in the year the cards for
the branch libraries were counted at each Ijranch, and they
are not entered in tiie above enumeration.
Periodical List. — One of the most interesting publications
of this department for many years is the list of periodicals,
newspapers, transactions and other serial publications cur-
rently received in the pruicipal libraries of Boston and
vicinity, which was published in INIay. The material fur-
nished by the thirty-six libraries interested was arranged,
edited and j)rinted, at this library, in a volume of 152 pages,
(comprising over 5,600 titles), which has attracted wide
attention and given a decided impulse to the movement for
co-operation among librarians.
The Hiyhei' Education of Women. — Another cooperative
undertaking has been edited and printed at this Library, bear-
ing the title Contributions towards a bibliography of the
higher education of women. This list was compiled by a
committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnte and
edited by Miss Mary H. Rollins of the Cataloguuig Depart-
ment. Two thousand copies were purchased by the Asso-
ciation, the balance remaining for distribution by the
Library.
Bibliography of Boston. — Still another cooperative under-
taking is the list of the publications of the Town of Boston,
which began to appear in the Bulletin of February, 1898.
Here is collected a record of documents found in the Boston
Public Library, the Massachusetts State Library, the Boston
32 City Document No. 21.
AthenfBum, and the libraries of Harvard University, the
American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts His-
torical Society. This list was prepared by the Chief Cataloguer
in part from material furnished at the request of the Library
by Mr. Edwin M. Bacon. It is intended as the first instal-
ment of a Bibliography of Boston, for which the titles are
mostly at hand.
While the special lists of books published from time to
time by this Library are valuable as revealing what it has on
any given subject, they are still more useful in indicating
what is lacking, to be supplied by purchase or by gifts.
The Annual List. — This year marks the beginning of a
new and significant enterprise, namely, the Annual List of
additions to the Library. This list contains over six thousand
titles selected from the monthly bulletms from January, 1896,
to October, 1897, inclusive.
In adopting the Linotype for the printing of its catalogues,
it has been the purpose of the Library from the beginning to
repeat these catalogues in various forms, by using the solid
lines of types or " slugs " of this machine, retaining them
for this purpose after their first use. The Annual List is
attractive and popular, and the experiment has proved a
success.
The preparation of this list has been in the hands of the
Editor of Library Publications, seconded by the Chief of the
Printing Department.
The Bulletin. — Under the charge of these same officers the
Monthly Bulletin has appeared regularly. Besides the titles
of new books the Bulletin lias contained lists of books on the
Eastern question since the Turko-Russian war of 1877 and
1878, and on the Yukon gold fields and Alaska. The latter
list, which was prepared by J\Ir. Murdoch, proved timely and
popular, and a second edition was called for.
The Chamberlain Autographs. — A description of the
Chamljerlain collection of autographs, now m this Library,
has been edited by Mr. Swift, from material furnished by
Mr. Edwin M. Bacon, and was published in April last.
Other Lists. — A Supplement to the English Prose
Fiction List of 1893 has been printed; also a new select list
of books for younger readers. A card catalogue of books
sent out on deposit has been prepared.
Science. — Mr. Murdoch's work for the year on catalogues
of works of science is summed up as follows :
1. Scientific periodicals .... 1,952 titles
2. Non-periodical scientific works . . . 1,672 "
LiBKARY Department. 33
3. Scientific works in Harvard College Li-
brary i 244 titles
4. Scientific works in the Boston Society of
Natural History 1 13,007 "
Lists Nos. 1 and 4 are completed. Any additions to these
lists in future will represent actual new accessions.
One thousand seven hundred and forty-six titles of List 4
have been compared with the catalogues of this Library. Of
these, 443 were found to be in both libraiies, 1,303 in the
library of the Society only. When the work of examination
is extended to the other libraries in this vicinity there will
be at hand the basis of a co-operative movement of great
importance.
Tlie G-alatea Collection. — A List of the Galatea collection
of books relating to tke history of women, given to this
Library by Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, will be pub-
lished in the Bulletin for March, 1898. The titles of these
books have been added to the card catalogues. They num-
ber 1,066 volumes, counting composite volumes as one.
Tlie Codman Collection. — The collection of books on land-
scape gardening, given to this Library by Mr. and INlrs. James
M. Codman, has been catalogued, and the cards are in the
hands of the printer. . This collection numbers 691 volumes.
Historical Fiction. — During tlie year the Historical Fic-
tion list has been continued by Mrs. Seaver, from material
collected by her and by the chief of the department. The
cards for Italy, Greece, ancient and modern, Persia and As-
syria are ready for revision.
Neivspapers. — A temj)orary card catalogue of the bound
volumes of newspapers has been prepared under the super-
vision of Mr. Blaisdell.
3IiUtary Library. — The books on the Civil war given
to this Library by the Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts
Infantry, through its committee, have been catalogued b}^
Miss Barlow, and considerable work has been done on the
revision of our own collection of like material.
^liscellaneous Work. — The transfer of many thousand
volumes to different shelves in the new Library building has
thrown much labor on the Catalogue and Shelf Departments.
The work of clearing the catalogues of the cards for books
lost or worn out has been continued. Two thousand two
hundred and sixtv-five cards were taken from the Stack 4
' Mr. Murdoch has devoted a portion of his time to tlic systematic examination of
the resources of tlie neigliliorins collections of scientiflc literature, and the actual
transcription of titles from their catalogues, in order to iivoid unnecessary duplica-
tion of material in purchases for the Public Library.
34 City Document No. 21.
catalogue in the months of February, March and April alone.
In this task aid has been given by the Issue Department.
Sjjecial Lihrai'ies. — Duj^licate sets of cards are furnished
for the collections of books m the Special Libraries' Depart-
ment. Mr. Fleischner is having the titles in the Thayer col-
lection cut from the printed catalogues and mounted on cards.
He has also prepared a selected Mst of books in the Boston
Public Library recommended for reading in connection with
the illustrated lectures on historic art given by James Fred-
erick Hopkins, Director of Drawing m the Boston Public
Schools. This list was printed m the syllabus of this course
of lectures.
^York Begun- — Music. — During the j'ear Mr. Hunt has
catalogued of the Allen A. BroAvn collection 4,658 volumes
and 2,157 parts, with a total of 6,333 titles, and has also
recatalogued 76 volumes with 67 titles. The number of
volumes catalogued since the beginning is 12,967, with
12,000 titles ; also 13,045 parts. Since Mr. Brown is con-
stantly adding to his collection the end recedes as Mr. Hunt
advances ; but he confidently hopes to finish the cataloguing
of the collection and to have most, if not all, of the titles in
the general catalogue, and practically ready to print in book
form during the present year.
Cooperative Indexing of Scientific Periodicals. — Arrange-
ments have been made for the cooperative indexing of cer-
tain scientific serials by the following libraries : The Boston
Public Library, the Columbia LTniversity, the Harvard Uni-
versity Library, the John Crerar Library of Chicago, and the
New York Public Library. The list at the outset comprises
some 184 serials not elsewhere indexed. They may be classi-
fied as follows :
General (the more important learned societies), 74; Soci-
ology and Political science, 21 ; Anthropology and Ethnology,
10; Archaeology, 12; Philology, 15; Oriental studies, 7;
Geography, 10 ; History, 12 ; Philosophy, 8 ; and the balance
scattering. Publications devoted exclusively to the natural
and mathematical sciences have not been included, as they
will come within the scope of the Royal Society Index, which
is to begin in 1900. The editing and printing of this Index
will be under the direction of the Publishing Section of the
American Library Association. The index entries begin
with the volume current on January 1, 1898. The results
come to each of the five cooperating libraries in card form
(two copies of each card), and are available to other institu-
tions on payment of a moderate subscription. The first in-
stalments of copy have been sent to Mr. William C. Lane, the
Library Department. 35
editor. Mr. Murdoch is in charge of the indexing to be done
by this Library.
Social Reform. — A list of works on certain questions of
the day, economic and social, compiled by Miss Rollins, is
partly in type.
Anthropology and Ethnology. — Professor W. Z. Ripley,
of the Massachusetts Listitute of Technology, has compiled
a list of works on the Geographical anthropology of Europe,
which will be submitted to other scholars for suggestions,
and, on its final revision by the Library editor, will be pub-
lished by this Library.
Library Buildings. — Ten years ago this Library issued a
list of the pictures and plans of library buildings in this and
other countries. This was a record of the material collected
by this Librarj^, and also an index to what had been pub-
lished in architectural periodicals. This list having j)roved
of service to those planning libraries, a new and nmch en-
larged edition has been prepared by the chief of the depart-
ment.
Biography. — A list of collected biographies in this Library
has been undertaken.
Historical Documetits. — The pamphlet to contain the text
of the four great historical documents, forming the four
large tablets in the Chamberlain series, is in the press.
The Branch Libraries. — Finding lists for all the branches
were printed during the year, bringing their record of new
books up to the time when a common shelf-number was given
to the same books in these different libraries, thus enabling
all to use the same catalogue. Early in the coming year a
new joint Finding List of new books can be printed. By a
new arrangement the past year the cataloguing of books for
the branches is now done at the Central Library, and not at
the branches. An author-card is kept l)y the Catalogue
Department at the Central Library, to which department an
acknowledgment is returned for books and cards received by
the branches. The experiment of printing titles instead of
writing them has proved a success.
PUBLICATIONS.
There were issued 1,038 pages of printed matter during
the past year as against 360 during the preceding. The pub-
lications issued, as tabulated by the editor, Mr. Swift, are as
follows :
Date of Publication. Pages. Edition. Price.
Aunual List . . January, 1898, 192 3,985 .05
Chamberlain Pamphlet . April, 1897, 71 2,lo3 Free.
36
City Document No. 21.
Date of Puljlication.
Pages.
Edition.
Price.
English Fiction Supple
-
ment
October,
1897,
48
2,576
.05
Higher Education of
Women .
May,
1897,
49
4,000
.15
(2,000 to committee.)
Periodical List
May,
1897,
152
2,443
.25
Rules and Regulations,
December,
1897,
and Jan.
,1898,
16
10,596
Free.
Rules for Employees
February,
1897,
16
200
1. 1
Y List (hooks for young
er
readers) .
February,
1897,
32
4,950
.01
Yukon Gokl Fields
Septembei
•,1897,
8
1,065
Free.
Branch Finding List :
Charlestown
. June,
1897,
20
1,050
Dorchester
June,
1897,
32
1,031
Jamaica Plain .
June,
1897,
24
1,000
Brighton .
. June,
1897,
32
1,041
East Boston
August,
1897,
24
1,032
Roxbury .
. August,
1897,
16
1,000
South Boston .
. August,
1897,
24
1,033
South p:nd
August,
1897,
24
1,050
West End
August,
1897,
8
1,137
Monthly Bulletins :
March, 1897 .
.
16
5,002
April, 1897
.
16
4,930
May, 1897
.
24
5,053
June, 1897
.
20
5,010
July, 1897
.
16
4,971
August, 1897 .
. .
16
4,944
September, 1897
.
16
5,028
October, 1897 .
.
20
4,960
November, 1897
, ,
24
5,087
December, 1897
.
24
5,003
January, 1898 .
24
7,518
February, 1898
.
24
7,500
The fortune of these publications in use, distribution and
sale has varied greatly. The Annual List, the Periodical
List and the jNIonthlj' Bulletins have been distributed free to
nearly one thousand persons and institutions on our Exchange
List. Of the Chamberlam Pamphlet 577 copies were so dis-
tributed, and of the Bibliography of the Higher Education of
Women, 408 copies ; of the English Fiction Supplement, 309.
The Monthly Bulletms (distributed free to all applicants)
meet with ready interest ; and beginning with the January
(1898) issue the monthly edition was enlarged from 5,000 to
7,500 copies. Of the publications for which a charge is made
only the Annual List and the Y List have found ready sale.
Library Department. 37
The end of the year finds the edition of the hitter, issued at
the beginning, very nearly exhausted. The Annual List is
at the " reserve " point within tliree months of its date of
issue. But the sale of this has been effected through unusual
efforts to interest the individual reader.
The English Fiction supplement, however, the Higher Ed-
ucation List and the Periodical List, have sold almost not at
all. The two former were let take the usual course. But in
the case of the Periodical List a special effort was made. A
circular, descriptive of the scope of the list and suggestive of
its value, was sent to every member of the faculties of Har-
vard University, Boston University, Tufts College, the Mas-
sachusetts Listitute of Technology and Boston College ; and
copies for distribution to the librarians of seven other of the
higher institutions of learning throughout New England.
This circular contained also a description of other Library pub-
lications, and a reference to the system of inter-library loans.
Copies of the Serial List were, by permission, placed for sale
at Harvard, the Listitute, Boston LTniversity and Tufts
College.
The additional suggestion was made (in the circulars) that
this list represented an undertaking at great labor and con-
siderable expense, in the interest of the higher learning, and
that its failure to interest the scholars associated with the
higher institutions of learning would tend to discourage such
undertakings hereafter.
The total sale of the Periodical List has reached to date
but 146 copies. Of the Higher Education List, but thirty-
four copies have been sold. Two thousand copies of this were,
however, subscribed for by the Association of Intercollegiate
Alumnae.
And yet the cheapness of paper to-day is such that the
bare possibility of sale advises the printing of a large first
edition of such untried publications rather than to risk the
expense of resetting the forms for a later second run, when
the presses can ill be spared from other work.
But it will be noticed that only a portion of the catalogumg
enterprises of the Library involve publication, with its uncer-
tainties. The great bulk of the work of the department goes
to strengthen the card catalogue. This work is less osten-
tatious. It advertises less the Library abroad. But it is
certain, it involves no waste, and it is durable.
The number of publications distributed free of charge by
this Library during the year has readied 83,2(S2 copies. This
includes 5,305 copies of Ainuial Reports and 11,24!2 of the
Rules and Regulations. The total amount realized from sales
during the year was but ^441.30.
38 City Document No. 21.
Prlntting Department.
As last year the work of tlie Printing Department has
included a mass of work not implied in the list of ordinary
library publications. As stated by the Chief of the Printing
Office:
" The output of the department continues to include prac-
tically all of the printed work of the Library (except that
from intaglio, lithographic and heliotypic plates, the printing
of which constitutes special trades), amongst which may be
mentioned :
"Cards for the Card Catalogue: 3,000 forms, equalling
15,000 titles as counted by this department, i.e., ' main
cards,' wliether with one title more or less to the card. Ref-
erence cards (and other mere duplicates so far as the work of
this department is concerned, numbering from eight to ten
for each 'main card'), are not included. It is expected
that the printing of the cards representing the Allen A.
Brown Collection of IMusic will considerably increase this
amount during the coming year.
" Cards for the Card Catalogues at the branches : Sixty-
three forms, equalling 544 titles (with reference cards and
other duplicates amounting to from fifty to sixty to each
'main card').
» Call slips (of eight kinds), 2,290,475.
" Stationery : Currently consumed stocks of all kinds,
363,507.
"Blank books, 117.
" Circulars, etc., 9,354.
" Signs, etc., 1,394."
The equipment of the department has been improved by
the addition of a one-half-medium Colt's Armory Press.
The second linotype, taken origmally on lease, was last
May purchased outright.
The use of the Imotype for such work as ours is matter
of general concern to the library profession. At the Inter-
national Conference of librarians held at London last sum-
mer there were accordingly exhibited by us examples of the
work of the machine, Avith a pamphlet compiled by the chief
of our office, descriptive of our experience with it to that
^date. Both exhibit and description awakened decided in-
terest.
Registraton.
Appendix VI., as last j^ear, relates to the card-holders in
the library. The tables classifying the persons holding cards,
by sex, by age, by occupation and by residence (as between
LiBRAiiY Department. 39
the several districts of the city) will be found both interest-
ing and significant. The statistics as to the distribution of
card-holders throughout the city are more graphically indi-
cated in the map to which I have previously referred, which
has been prepared to show (1) the library system as it stands
to-day, representing facilities ; and (2) the percentage of
card-holders to the entire population in each ward, indi-
cating the relative amount to which the facilities have been
taken advantage of. The report of the Supervisor of
Branches contains some comment upon these figures, which
is worthy of consideration.
The total number of active ("live") cards outstanding
January 31, 1898, was 64,973, as against 45,606 outstanding
February 1, 1897, showing a gain of 19,367 card-holders
during the year. This means that on January 31, 1898, 42A
per cent, more persons stood qualified to draw books for
home use than stood qualified on February 1, 1897.
The gross number of present active card-holders exceeds,
I believe, the number i-eported by any public library, except
the system known as the New Yoik Free Circulating Libra-
ries.
During the past year pupils' cards hav^e for the first time
been issued under Article I., section 2, clause 4, of the Rules
and Regulations. The provision does not specify a lower
age limit; but the issue will be confined for the present to
the ages between ten and twelve (twelve years being the
minimum for the ordinary card).
Six additional educational institutions have entered into
agreements with the Trustees to be responsible for books
taken for home use by their non-resident students, thus
making thirty-seven such institutions now on the list.
Use of the Library.
I. — Referejice Use.
As stated in my last annual report (pp. 39-40), full sta-
tistics of reference use are no longer possible nor attempted.
The general testimony of the custodians of the various refer-
ence departments is that the volume of use has perceptibly
increased. This is true in the Bates Hall Reading-room, in
the Periodical and Newspaper-rooms, and in general through-
out the central building. It is also true at the branch libra-
ries, where the introduction of " open shelves " and the
display of the periodicals upon the ♦tables have added attract-
iveness to reference as asamst home use.
40 City Document No. 21.
On twelve Sundays of the year an account was taken of
the persons entering the Central Library building between 2
o'clock and 6 o'clock, P.M. The smallest number on any
one day was 1,541 (July 18th) ; the largest was 5,309
(February 27th, 1898 ; the count began with March 7, 1897,
and over-ran the fiscal year). The average per Sunday was
3,560 ; and the total for the twelve Sundays was 42,731.
Of these 83,543 were adults and 9,188 children.
A count for a single week has been taken for the week
encfmg March 5, 1898. It resulted as follows :
Sim. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Total.
Adults, 5,«32G 3,9S5 4,145 3,880 3,624 3,5.59 4,788 29,607
Children, 1,544 402 358 387 334 333 1,099 4,457
34,064
Deductions must be made for mere " visitors ; " but the
proportion of such on week days is not in fact very great.
The week selected was in a season of heavy use. But an
inference that, on the average the year round, 30,000 persons
a week enter the Central Library building, and that of these
the large majority come to use in some way, the collections in
the Library would not be unjust.
Special Libraries. — The activities of the Special Libraries'
Department have advanced in scope and volume since last
year. The visits of classes and clubs for the study of mate-
rial in the Fine Art collections (chiefly photographs) so far
as recorded have included the
Times.
Aggregate of persons.
Average.
Boston Art Students' Ass'n,
18
360
20
Pallas Club,
22
352
16
Other clubs and classes,
64
640
10
But the informal use by teachers and pupils (e.^., of the pub-
lic schools), especially on Saturday, is not recorded.
The Allen A. Brown Collection of Music was made gen-
erally accessible, with an attendant in charge, beginning in
October last. To it were removed the current numbers of
important musical j^eriodicals. Since the room has been open
the display on the tables from week to week of scores repre-
sented in the Symphony and other important concerts has
added a special interest to students.
Exhibits have been continued on appropriate occasions ;
sometimes of material owned by the Library, at other times
of material sj)ecially loaned for tlie. purpose. Among these
exhibits have been the following as reported by the Custo-
dian of the department. These are in addition to periodical
Library Department. 41
exhibits of photographs and plates selected out of the Library
collection and displayed for a week or a fortnight at a time.
Special exhibitions have been given in the Barton room ;
i.e , others than the regular exhibitions of photographs,
which are changed everj^ week, as follows :
February 14. Kelmscott Press publications. Complete
set of sixty-five volumes from the Library .collection, and loans
by Messrs. F. W. French, F. H. Day, F. W. Lee, etc. ; also
photographs of Kelmscott Manor.
February 22. Loan collection of Washington portraits,
loaned by Mr. George R. Barrett.
March 13. Photographs of buildings on Copley square,
and plans in connection with the movement for the im-
provement of the square.
April 3-19. Industrial arts in connection with Arts and
Crafts Exhibition.
Book-plates by Boston artists. Loans by Messrs. H. S.
Rowe, F. J. Libbie, R. Lichtenstein, and direct contributions
by living artists.
Book-bindings. Examples loaned by ]\Irs. John L. Gard-
ner, and hy Messrs. F. W. French, A. L. HoUings worth, C.
H. Taylor, Jr., F. H. Day, etc.
April 22. Loan exhibition by Houghton, INIifflin & Co.,
the Youth's Companion and Prang & Co. Lithographs, prints
and drawings showing modern methods of illustrating books,
in connection with the Massachusetts Library Club meeting
and lectures by Mr. W. S. Scudder and Mr. Louis Prang ;
and a lecture by Mrs. H. J. Carter on travelling exhibitions
of pictures.
June 10. Autographs, views and books in connection
with the transfer of the Bradford manuscript.
July 10. Maps and books, views, etc., for Cabot celebration.
October 4. Portraits, drawings, etc., in celebration of the
400th anniversary of the birth of Hans Holbein.
October 15. Original drawings and paintings for book
illustration by Howard Pyle, E. H. Garrett, Eric Pape, Van
Muyden, ]\Iyrbach, etc. Loaned by Little, Brown & Co.,
Roberts Bros., and by the artists themselves.
November 12. H oily er photographs of the English Pre-
Raphaelite school.
December 6. Complete set of photographs of the Par-
thenon frieze and otlier views of the Acropolis of Athens.
December 20. Photographs of Nativities.
January 1. American mural decorations.
But the above list represents but a portion of the service
to which the collections of the Fine Art Department are
put. During the past year portfolios of photographs and
42 City Document No. 21.
process reproductions (mounted plates of the Klassischer
Bilderscliatz and Klassischer Sculpturenschatz and other
cheap series, dissected for the purpose) have been made up
and sent out to the branches and to certain of the public
schools, where thej are either displayed for a time on the
walls, or used to illustrate some subject in art or history, or
, geography under study at the time. One such portfolio may
illustrate Venice, another tlie art of Ancient Greece, etc.
The cost of this material is slight in proportion to the service
it renders and the enthusiastic interest it awakens ; and the
field offers tempting opportunities for extension.
At the Central Library it is increasingly difficult to con-
trive suitable space for persons coming in groups to consult
this material. The ordinary use of the several collections on
the Special Libraries' floor is encroachmg on the rear wing ;
and unless by a folding partition or similar r?evice a space be
set off for the use of clubs and classes, they can hardly be
accommodated without inconvenience to ordmary readers.
To the need of class-rooms there should be added the need
of a lecture hall — a room capable of seating an audience
of from 400 to 600 persons. Already the Library has had
the tender of competent lecturers who would interest the
public in much material that could not otherwise or so effec-
tively be brought to notice. Since the nommal date of this
report, one such lecture (under the auspices of the Unity
Art Club) has been given, on the Art of Ancient Greece.
The audience so outnumbered the capacity of the only, room
available (the Barton-Ticknor) that the lecture had to be
repeated. An audience of 500 persons can readily be secured
for any such occasion.
It is exceedingly to be hoped, therefore, that in course of
time a provision may be made for class and special study-
rooms and for a lecture-hall of reasonable proportions.
Neiospapei'-room. — The use of the Newspaper-room is as
large and as nearly continuous as that of almost any other
single reference department. The number of readers at one
time now exceeds 200 (on March 28, 1897, e.g.^ at 6
P.M., it was 225 persons, of whom 189 were reading the
American papers and 36 the foreign, while in Bates Hall the
maximum at one time, January 22, 4 P.^NL, was 256) ; and
the attendance is surprismgly large during hours when the
other departments are comparatively deserted. At the be-
ginning of the winter, placards, calling attention to the exist-
ence of this Reading-room and its resources, were printed and
distributed to the leading Boston hotels. These notices state
that the room is free, that there are over 300 newspapers on
LtbeapvY Department. 43
file, and append a list of the places represented. These
placards were generally accepted, and now hang in the lob-
bies of fifteen hotels. They have doubtless attracted to the
room many strangers who would otherwise have remained
ignorant of its existence.
The number of papers now currently taken is 319. Of
these 181 are published in America in English ; 20 pub-
lished here in foreign languages. Thirty-nine are English
papers, published in England; twelve published in English,
outside of England and the United States. The remainder,
sixty-seven, are foreign papers, in foreign languages.
Children s room. — The service rendered by the Children's
department at the Central Library is something more than
the merely kindly and stimulating service of suggesting and
supplying wholesome general reading. A very considerable
amount of reference work is carried on in this room and in
the Patent-room and Bates Hall under the guidance of the
Custodian of the Children's room. School children havino-
to2)ics requiring special research conunonly apply to this de-
j^artment for aid; and the aid given is the more effective
from the cordial relation already established in the use of the
miscellaneous collection. The influence of this department
is not to be reckoned in figures ; but it is apparent to even the
most casual observer. And in svistaining and extending it,
the bequest of Mr. John C. Paige, when it comes to be avail-
able, may achieve a service that falls to few gifts for public uses.
The department needs more space and greater seclusion.
The present room, besides being a passageway, is thrust too
much upon the attention of the mere sight-seers. The re-
moval of the Patent Collection, as is proposed, to a gallery
in the Newspaper-room, would at least add to the space for
children's use and secure a partial seclusion.
Loss of Books. — The loss of books in the reference de-
partments continues slight in volume, although in instances
aggravating in character. The total number of books
" missing" from the Bates Hall reference shelves (some 8,000
volumes) on January 31, 1898, is forty-six. The most of these
are small text-books and hand-manuals. A few are volumes
from sets. None are costly to replace. INIutilation is occa-
sionally discovered in more costly works, and is more difficult
to forgive. A volume is often taken away with intent to
return it after use ; but nuitilation indicates a deliberate
intent at final expropriation, and thus more conclusively a
moral turpitude. It indicates, moreover, a defiance of that
ordinary regard for the integrity of a book as a book, a rem-
nant of which is apt to reside in the ordinary l)ook-thief.
44 City Document No. 21.
The loss of books from the "open shelves " m the Cn-cu-
lating departments (the Children's room at the Central
Library, and the main rooms at the branches) has, however,
reached several hundred volumes. Many of these books are
(as we have proved) taken by small children in ignorance of
the rules, and then witldield in terror of the penalty. But
the number has come to l)e so large that measures have Ijeen
adopted at the branches to control more effectively the exits
from the Delivery room.
Bates Hall. — There is little special to the year which can
be reported as to the operation of this department. The use
grows in volume and in seriousness ; but it cannot be tabu-
lated. As an indication of the range of inquiry made of the
officials at this point, the Custodian of the hall and
the officer at the centre desk have kept a m.emoriinclum of the
subjects as to which mformation was asked during the past
few weeks. Although routine and oft-repeated subjects have
been omitted, the list numbers several hundred topics. From
it I have selected at random some two score, which I append
below. The mental agility requisite to cope with such a
diversity of inquiry in quick succession is indicated by even
so brief a list.
Some of the subjects on which information has recently
been asked at the Boston Public Library:
A Lantern of the 14th century; Statistics of gas and
water in large cities ; Statistics of females employed in fac-
tories ; Coat of arms of Florence ; Motor engines ; Libby
prison ; Date of eruption of Krakatoa ; Method for the
cornet ; Toasts ; Egyptian customs ; What Irishmen have
done for the country ; Feldspar ; Date of the buildmg of the
Tower of London ; Inventions ; The Stock Exchange ; A
poem for April and June ; Warships ; Is a territory repre-
sented in Congress? Ornamental alphabets; Numbsr of
deserters during Civil war; Art of the 15th century;
Japanese mythology ; Picture of Traddles ; Origin of num-
bers ; House furnishing ; Agricultural statistics of Georgia ;
Plumbing in the Roman towns; Price of a 100-trip ticket
to Wellesley ; Cultivation of coffee ; Glue and mucilage
making ; The first Thanksgiving ; Toleration act of Mary-
land; Sleep; Government of Ireland; A Turkish Bible in
German; Fluctuations of cotton in 1895; Account of the
" Blessing of the Bay " ; Defence of mathematics ; Manu-
facture of fibre goods ; Dutch painters of 19tli century;
Chateaux in France ; The Tersanctus ; Emancipation in
the West Indies ; Pierre de Provence ; Popular election of
United States senators ; Maya language ; Vestal virgins ;
LiBEARY Department. 45
Training of wild animals ; By-laws for a manufacturing cor-
poration; Physical culture ; Springs; Keligious orders ; The
alpaca.
Delaijs. — The delivery of books to readers in Bates Hall
is not yet as rapid nor as effective as it should be. It is true
that the readers themselves are guilty of frequent inac-
curacies which render precision in delivery very difficult.
Of the mishaps recorded during the past year 747 were
accounted for by the omission of the reader's name on the
call-slips ; and 1,973 more by the omission of the table num-
bers; 405 cases were traced to errors in the Library records,
imperfection in the mechanism of transmission or carelessness
on the part of the librar}^ attendants. The fact that in 9,929
cases the applicants were not to be found at the tables when
the books were brought may indicate further negligence on
the part of readers ; but it may also suggest that the delivery
had been delayed beyond the patience of the applicants.
That delaj^s do occur beyond those recorded is well known
to the administration. They cannot be obviated fully until
increased facilities for issue be provided by the improvements
on the Blagden street wing, for which plans have been drawn
and funds requested. These improvements involve among
other clianges the widening of the " tube-room." through the
present Librarian's office, a system of intercommunication
between the stacks ; and a service elevator. Perfection in
service cannot perhaps be hoped for under a system of
arrangement which attempts to consolidate the two species of
demand represented by Home Use and Reference Use. But
the changes proposed would certamly better present condi-
tions to the great advantage of each class of readers.
//. — Home Use.
Appendix VII. gives the number of books circulated for
home use during the past year from each department of the
Library, and compares this with such circulation for the year
1896.
From this table it appears that the circulation for home use
in 1897 compared with that for 1896, is as follows :
Gain,
18C6. 1897. 1897.
Central Library (includijig
Central Library books
issued through branches
and stations) . . 326,254 388,497 62,243
Branches and stations (di-
rect issue) . . . 678,765 811,169 132,404
1,005,019 1,199,666 194,647
46 City Document No. 21.
sliowing a gain of nineteen and a half per cent, in this class
of use.
In certain departments, however, the gain has been dis-
proportionate ; in the Children's department at the Central
Libraiy it has been n'early 30 per. cent. ; 78,005 volumes have
been issued from this room for home use during tlie past year.
The circulation of the West End Branch has increased in a
like ratio, and now exceeds by 30 per cent, the circulation of
any other branch library.
Charging System. — By charging systems of the older
type the borrower was required to write his name and ad-
dress upon every slip presented by him in apj^lication for a
book. The more modern systems accept his signature in the
original registration as sufficient to cover his use of the
library during the life of his card ; and permit him to
identify himself upon his applications for books by his card
number in lieu of his name and address. The older system
had been continuously in use in this Library until last year.
Beginning with last June, however, it was discarded for the
new. A further change was the return to the readers of the
application slips, which formerly had constituted the record of
issue. This record is now made by the Issue Desk attend-
ants upon an independent slip. The slips returned to the
applicant forin a convenient memorandum of the call-num-
bers of the books required and may be used over again.
Unsatisfied Aj^j^lications for Books. — ■ I quote from the
report of the Chief of the Issue Department :
" To workers in a large library it is evident that there
must always be a large shifting mass of books, volumes on
their way from or to the shelves. To readers it is not always
clear why books are not available for issue when it cannot be
said that they are charged out. In the January (1898) report
for the Issue Department, a full statement was given of the
results of an investigation of such unsatisfied applications
made during one month, December 11, 1897, to January 11,
1898. Reference is made to the statistics in that report.
'■'■Complaint Slips. — In February, 1897, a form of slip
was adopted, of which the folio wmg is a copy :
'Boston Public Libraey.
' Card holders who, after repeated (say three or more)
attempts fail to get the l^ooks they call for, will do a service
by filling out these slips and handing them to one of the
Library attendants. Use a separate slip for each book.
LiBEARY Department.
47
' I have called without success
times for
hook Author
Title
Name of Card-holder
Address
Date 189
5
" These shps were placed in the call-slip boxes and have
also been handed out to each borrower when definite explana-
tion of the failure of the application could not be given.
" From February, 1897, to September 17, 1897, these slips
were destroyed after each complaint had been investigated,
and such action taken as seemed feasible.
" Beginning September 17, 1897, througli January 31,
these shps have been kept and, from time to time, have been
submitted to you for inspection. They have then been filed.
The following is the record from September 17, 1897 to
February 1, 1898:
"Account of failure of the borrower to i-eceive his book:
Charged out on a previous application . .402
Charged to the bindery . . . . .14
Missmg, condemned, transferred to other
numbers . . ' . . . . .121
Wrong information given by Library . . 1
jNIistakes on the part of borrowers . . .54
Unaccountable failures to supply . . .92
Miscellaneous ...... 2
Total 686
"Of these —
Applications for fiction ..... 338
"Of these —
For fiction published within the year . . 76 "
The work of the Issue Department involved in the recovery
of books over-detained and in the collection of penalties is by
no means small in proportions nor slight in difficulty. The
number of " mail notices " sent out from the Central Library
in 1897 was 8,023; the number of messenger notices, 737 ;
the net amount collected (including payments for eighty-
48 City Document No. 21.
two volumes lost by the borrowers) was <fi3,001. Onl}^ sixty-
nine volumes were unrecovered of 388,489 circulated from
this department for home use. This statistic, it is to be
remembered, is under a system which requires no guarantor,
but in effect limits its recourse to the card-holder himself.
The above work, and other work, incidental to issue, raising
questions as to the standing of card-holders, requires con-
stant reference from the Issue to the Registration Depart-
ments. The departments are at present too remote ; and
should the funds be available for the improvements planned
on the Blagden-street wing, a space must, if possible, be con-
trived for the Registration-desk in a corner of the Delivery
room.
Branches and Stations. — As to the work of the branches
and stations I again refer to the report of the Supervisor,
appended.
SERVICE.
The Library has sustamed a loss during the past year of
one of its most faithful associates, — Jos^ Francisco Carret,
who died on December 8, 1897. A record of Mr. Carret's
twenty-two years of service in the Library would l)e extended
here had not such a record been published in full and widely
distributed in the January (1898) Bulletin.
Resignations have occurred in several of the departments.
The most important position left vacant in this way is that
of Supervisor of Branches, JNIr. Wellman having accepted the
position of librarian over the Public Library of Brookline.
His work as supervisor has been in a high degree competent,
energetic and tactful ; and his year and a half of effort has
resulted in a marked progress towards the organization of
our outljdng system upon an efficient basis.
His resignation will take effect from May 30.
Appointments. — The most important appointments have
been to the custodianships of the Brighton and the East
Boston Branches. To the former (after a temporary provi-
sion) ]\liss Martha N. Hobart (formerly of the Branch Divi-
sion at the Central Library) has definitely been transferred ;
and to the latter ]\Iiss Ellen O. Walkley was appointed on
July 1, 1897, after an open examination for the position held
on May 4.
Examinations. — Six general and eleven special examina-
tions were held during the year. One hundred and fifty-six
papers were received, sixty-one from male applicants, nmety-
live from female.
Library Department. 49
The total number of appointees to the force have been
thirty-three, of which fifteen were male, eighteen female,
classified as follows :
Central Library.
Branches.
Grade B Special,
" B
1
4
—
" C Special,
" C
2
1
2
" D Special,
" D
—
1
1
" E (runners).
15
-
Ungraded,
4
2
26 7
On April 30, Grade A was, by your vote, divided as
follows :
1st year. 2d year.
Grade A Div. I., |18 50 $19 50
Grade A Div. II., 21 50 22 50
On April 16 you voted it the opinion of the Board that
when funds shall permit the position of Custodian in the
Branch libraries sliould be regraded in Grade A.
International Conference of Librarians. — For the purpose
of attending the International Conference of Librarians at
London, for certain purchases (including the purchase of
photographs above described), and for other library business
1 was absent from Boston from May 6 until July 24 last.
During this absence the conduct of executive work, except
as the responsibility was taken directly by the Trustees, fell
chiefly upon j\lr. Whitney and Mr. Savage. After Mr.
Whitney's departure in June for the Conference (wliich he
also attended at your request), that work until my return
fell almost entirely upon Mr. Savage. The responsibility
for the conduct of each department within itself was left
however with its chief.
That the administration of the Library as a whole moved
so smoothly is evidence of the interest, efficiency and devo-
tion of those thus variously responsible. And in general I
have excellent reason to be grateful for associates who are
so ready to receive suggestion and so cheerful, so earnest,
and so competent to carry it out.
The statistics themselves show that various departments
— for instance, the Ordering, the Catalogue and Shelf, and
the Special Libraries — have, during the past year, been called
50 City Document No. 21,
upon for wort unusual in volume or in cLaracter or in both ;
and this all has been undertaken with a cordiality of interest
that seems only to increase with the new demands. Where
every responsible official is so zealous to do what he may to
enlarge and better the service, I hesitate to select out any
one for special mention. It would be unfair, however, to
omit a special reference to the service rendered by Mr. Whit-
ney. In December, 1896, he was Chief of the Catalogue
Department. On January 1, 1897, he took upon him the
additional care and responsibility of the Shelf Department.
And since that time, without increase of salary or of privi-
leges, he has conducted both these departments. His services
in recommending books for purchase have taken him outside
the routine even of these departments and outside of the
Library day. During m}^ absences from Boston, including the
major portion of my absence in Europe he has served in
addition as Acting Librarian. For twenty- eight years he had
not, I believe, taken more than the regular library vacation
when in INIay last you requested him to attend the London
Conference and voted him two months' leave of absence for
the purpose in addition to the regular library vacation. He
attended the Conference, but was back at his desk before the
two months with vacation had expired. Since I took office
there have been various occasions on which special difficul-
ties of administration have occurred, — incidental, for instance,
to a resignation o]' reorganization. In no instance has Mr.
Whitney failed to assume or to offer to assume additional bur-
den for the sake of relieving me or of saving expense to the
Library.
And I must not fail to express my most hearty gratitude
to the Trustees as a Board for the consideration with which
they have treated such recommendations as I have had
occasion to lay before them from time to time ; and to them
individually for the attention which during my somewhat
lengthy absence of last summer they gave to details of
administration with which in ordmary course they ought not
properly to be troubled.
Respectfully submitted,
Herbert Putnam,
Librarian.
April 22, 1898, as of February 1, 1898.
WEST END BRANCH, CAMBRIDGE STREET.
LlBEARY DePAETMENT. 51
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF
BRANCHES AND STATIONS.
To the Librarian :
Extent of the Branch System.
[See Librarian's Report.]
I append to this report a map showing the location of the
various brandies and stations. In eacli ward are entered
figures furnished by the Registration Department showing
the proportion of card-holdei-s to the population. In con-
sidering the location of the stations in connection with these
figures, other factors besides the extent of territory and the
number of inhabitants must be borne in mind, — such as the
density of the population, its distribution on avenues of
communication, its character — whether poor, or foreign or
intelligent.
In general the proportion of card-holders to population is
smallest in the districts to the north and east of the Central
Library, which contain a large mixture of foreigners ; it is
largest in the immediate vicinity of the Central Library ;
grows smaller again to the south, where a poor population ex-
tends as far as Roxbury ; it increases again at Roxbury, and
remains large throughout the suburban districts beyond.
The four districts with the smallest proportion of card-
holders to population are : The North End (Ward 6), .0392 ;
East Boston (Wards 1, 2), .065-4 ; Charlestown (Wards 3,
4, 5), .0709, and South Boston (Wards 13, 14, 15), .0757.
It is naturally smallest in Ward 6, which has probably the
largest foreign element. The district is not badly circum-
stanced as regards library facilities, havmg access to the
West End Branch, having a delivery of books from the
Central Library to the Girls' grammar school, and soon to
have a similar delivery to the Boys' grammar school.
At East Boston the case is different ; its needs are fully
borne out by these statistics. With the exception of the
small area at the North End mentioned above. East Boston
has the smallest percentage of card-holders to population of
any similar district in the city. It is noteworthy, also, that
the ward in which the brancli is situated has a proportion of
card-liolders but .0509, against .0802 in Ward 1, extending
some three miles to the north-east. These facts strengthen
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the contention that the branch should be moved northward,
and emphasize the desirability, pointed out in my last report,
oi placing a station in the further end of Ward 1.
In South Boston, similarly, the reading population lies to
the east of the branch, but as lines of travel to the city pass
the present location, the situation does not seem especially
unfortunate. Ward 17 has no library facilities near at hand,
nor does it lie on avenues of communication leading to them.
It has a large population, with a proportion of card-holders
but .0746. Unless the conditions are alleviated by moving
the South End Branch up town (perhaps to a point near the
corner of Washington and Northampton streets), in my
opinion this region should be entitled to the first new station
established.
The district of the city to the south and west is reasona-
bly well provided for since the opening of the Boylston
Delivery. There is either a branch or station at every im-
portant centre, and no thickly settled district which is not
within reach of some agency of the. Library. Owing partly
to this fact and partly to the intelligence of the population
the proportion of card-holders is liigh almost everywhere
south of the Roxbury Branch. In general it grows some-
what smaller as the districts lie farther from the city, where
the population, being more scattered, is more difficult to
serve. It is low in Ward 22, but, as I mentioned above, the
remedy has been instituted by the establishment of the
Boylston delivery.
Ward 19 has no station, but the bulk of the population
reach the Roxbury Crossing delivery, so that the need is
less urgent than elsewhere.
At first sight there seems a superabundance of stations in
the small district containing the Warren street, Blue Hill
avenue. Bird street and Upham's Corner deliveries. The
conditions justifying this number are to be found in a dis-
tiict thickly settled, with a highly intelligent reading popu-
lation, located on different lines of travel, so that three of
these four are among our most used stations. The Bird-
street Station, it is true, might be discontinued with little
resulting inconvenience, but the compensation being based
on circulation it costs very little more to serve the people of
the region through this station than it would to serve them
through one of the neighboring deliveries.
The stations at Neponset, Lower Mills, Mattapan and
North Brighton are among those showing the smallest circu-
lation, and the explanation lies in the fact that they lie in
districts having a sj^arse population and on the outside edges
Library. Department. 53
of these districts. Yet for tlie population to be served they
are conveniently located, and could not well be discontinued.
To sura up, new stations are, in my opinion, desirable, first
for Ward 17, then for Ward 1, and in course of time for
Ward 19.
Branches and Stations.
In my last report I describad in detail defects of form,
method and of record in the management of the outlying-
departments of the library system, particularly of the deliv-
ery stations.
The first part of the year was devoted to reorganizing this
work. By introducing uniform methods, by defining these
methods in written instructions and in a printed pamphlet,
and finally by requiring a strict observance of these rules,
this part of the work has been brought into smoothly run-
ning order, and the result has not only produced far greater
economy of administration, but has contributed towards a
closer union with the Central Library.
This latter end has been served also by more frequent com-
munication. Besides the weekly meetings of the custodians
of the branches at the Central Library, the assistants at the
branches and the custodians of the stations have come in
from time to time, and, on the other hand, I have visited the
stations monthly, the branches at more frequent intervals.
Branches. — The most important features of the year at
the branches have been, viewed from within, —
Improvement in the service.
Closer union with the Central Library.
Reorganization and unification of admmistrative methods.
While viewed from an outsider's standpoint, the noticeable
events have been :
Extension of the open-shelf system.
Exhibitions of pictures.
Sunday opening at Charlestown, East Boston and South
Boston.
The staff has been strengthened by the addition of Miss
Walkley and INIiss Hobart as custodians at the East Boston
and Brighton Branches respectively.
Besides weekly visits to the Central Lil)rary the custo-
dians have attended the meetings of the Massachusetts
Library Club, and have from time to time inspected neigh-
boring libraries. Such intercourse has spurred them to
greater activity in many directions, especially observable in
their efforts to interest and accommodate the public, and
54 City Document No. 21.
their endeavors to do better work with the schools. I shoukl
be ghid to dwell on this point at greater length, for it seems
to me that there has been in this direction a marked advance
which is very creditable to the custodians, and fully as
important as any other feature of the year's work.
There is also a desire on the part of the subordinate
employees to increase their efficiency. At Brighton, for
instance, both assistants have been either studying at home,
or attending evening school, while practice in penmanship
has yielded good results.
Better use of the Central collection is shown (1) by the
increase of 33 per cent, in the number of volumes issued on
cards from here through the branches, and especially (2) by
deposits on special subjects obtamed from the Central Library
to supplement material at the branches for the use of schools,
classes, literary clubs, etc.
The system of records and of administrative methods has
been reorganized and unified. The details have been reported
from time to time. A brief summary miglit include the jjro-
vision of an "accession book" in which are entered all books
added, whether new purchases, replacements or gifts ; a
"losses book" for all books discarded, transferred, con-
demned, unrecovered, missing, etc.; a "circulation" record;
a new form of shelf-list suitable for a movable sj^stem of
classification ; uniform, records of " missing " books ; new
monthly catalogue reports ; forms for reporting and replacing
condemned books and for reporting books unrecovered from
the barrower; receipts for supplies; receipts for new books
sent out ; new rules of payment for lost books ; new bindery
schedules ; periodical and frequent reports of the receipt and
distribution of Library publications.
The introduction of these and otlier innovations has
involved constant adjustment to new conditions on the part
of custodians and staff, and my thanks are due for their
ready acquiescence and adaptability.
The most important changes have been those looking
towards a union finding list. It was decided to adopt the
West End classification because fairly convenient, and already
in use. Then the whole West End shelf-list was copied as
the basis of a union shelf-list (which in time, with acces-
sions, will serve equally well as a subject-card catalogue for
use at the Central Library), and also to prevent conflict with
books already classified at the West End Branch. Next
printed finding-lists were issued for each branch (except
West Roxbury), covering accessions up to June 1. Since
that date new books have been classified accorduig to the
Library Department. 55
West End scheme, and bear the same numbers at all
branches. With but few exceptions the same books have
been bought for all the branches (except West Roxbury),
so that we now have material ready, and are about to print
one finding list of accessions since June 1, which shall serve
equally well for all of the nine larger branches.
This is the first step towards a union printed catalogue.
The next will be to ascertain what books are at the branches,
to supply those desirable where lacking, then to re-classify
the books on the new scheme. This will furnish material
for a select finding-list of the important books at all tlie
branches, but involving, bssides the work of compiling the
list, great labor in renumbering, cataloguing and listing the
books at the brandies, it cannot be completed in the near
future. The enterprise is, however, under way, and I hope
for the appearance of the section containing " history " early
in the fall.
This union printed catalogue will need to be supplemented
by a complete card catalogue at each branch. Such a cata-
logue has been perfected this year at Roxbury and at West
Roxbury. Work towards such a catalogue has also been
carried forward at East Boston and at Brighton. I hope in
time to be allowed special assistance to 'complete the card
catalogues at the other branches.
The reference books and books for younger readers were
in general the only books at the branches accessible to the
public last year. This year the system has been extended,
and " open " shelves have been provided for books of interest
to adult readers. Besides fiction, works of solid worth —
history, biography and travel — have been unearthed from
the stacks and placed on these shelves, and because of being
thrust upon the attention, have circulated. In addition, all
the new books are placed where they may be handled. I
estimate that, counting both branches and stations, there
are now on shelves open to the public some 35,000 volumes.
The loss of books from these shelves last year was detailed
in the annual report. It has averaged this year forty-two
volumes for each branch. Most of these volumes are miss-
ing from the " open " shelves on which are located the books
for children, and we find that the greater part of the loss
occurred at the branches in South Boston, Roxbury, and tlie
West End, where these books were particularly exposed.
Accordingly arrangements have been made to fence in the
space about these siielves, so that by placing the exit where
it may be controlled from the Delivery desk, excessive loss
may be prevented.
56 City Document No. 21.
The " open " shelves made it desirable to have author and
title stamped on books rebound. In April, therefore, a new
contract was made with H. M. Plimpton & Co., for binding
octavos and smaller volumes, in full cloth, with lettering in
gold.
Since September, portfolios of reproductions of painting,
sculpture or architecture, have been sent monthly to the
branches for exhibition. These pictures are designed mainly
for use by schools. The object in exhibiting them is partly
to advertise the pictures, but more to attract people to the
branches. They are examined by the general visitor, and,
where there are accommodations, by whole classes from the
schools. In other cases they are loaned to the schools for
short periods. The statistics of the use of these portfolios
will, I am informed, be reported at length by the Custodian
of the Special Libraries.
The "Boston Evening Transcript" has proved an attrac-
tion. It has been received at the branches by gift from the
publishers since November 1.
The branches at Charlestown, East Boston, South Boston
and Brighton, have been advertised by placards posted in
public places, detailing the location, the hours and the priv-
ileges offered. •
The West End Branch has continued open Sundays, as
heretofore, with a good attendance. The plan has been tried
of opening also the branches at Charlestown, East Boston
and South Boston for reference and reading, from 2 to 10 P.M.
on Sundays, from November 1 to April 30. The experiment
tried in March and April, 1896, was unsuccessful owing to
the season. This year the opening was begun November 7.
No provision was made, and there has been no demand, for
an issue of books for home use. Consequently only one
attendant has been necessary, except part of the time at
South Boston. The cost for attendants is $2.80 per Sunday
at Charlestown and East Boston, $5.08 at South Boston.
Two dollars additional is paid in each case to the janitor for
heating the rooms. Below are figures showing the average
attendance when the branches were opened in 1896, and
from last November to January, 1898.
1896.
1897-98.
March and April.
November to January,
Readers.
Adults.
Readers. Adults.
Charlestown 91
21%
213 28%
East lioston
278 8%
South Boston 101
30%
248 3(5%
The percentage of adults seems very small at East Boston,
but there is a large attendance here, and at the other branches
Library Department. 57
also, of young men from eighteen to twenty-one years of age
who are not classed as adults.
A police officer is present at each branch, and the order is
excellent.
In general it may be said that the rooms ai"e comfortably
filled, sometimes crowded, with men and children reading
quietly for recreation.
The Broadway Extension Station has been open Sundays
smce October 10, from 2 to 6 and 7 to 9 P.M., both for read-
ing and for the issue of books. During the last three months
the circulation has averaged fifty-three volumes per Sunday,
while a count shows an average of forty-three readers
present at some one time in the afternoon, fifty-four readers
in the evening. This means, the seating capacity being
about fifty, that the room is practically filled every Sunday.
Stations. — November 1 a delivery and deposit station
was opened at Boylston-street Station, making the total num-
ber of stations seventeen. The deposit system has been
extended to include stations "A," "D," " K " and " T," leav-
ing Neponset the only station without a deposit. The reason
for delay there was uncertainty as to the permanent location
of the station. The question being settled now, a deposit
will be sent as soon as practicable.
The rate of compensation has been reduced, as stations
have been transferred to new parties, to twelve dollars for
the first 300 volumes or less circulated per month, and two
cents for each volume additional so circulated, and on Febru-
ary 1, 1898, this rate went into effect everywhere.
The question of controlling the quality of the issue from
deposits by paying a lower rate for fiction circulated has
been considered, but the plan is not now practicable. A very
simple classification of books added to the deposit collection
was adopted in Jul}^ which will in time make the plan feasible
if necessary. On the whole, I think we can govern this issue
by carefully selecting the books sent on deposit. Of the
books now at tlie stations, less than 65 per cent, are fiction,
and this includes a large proportion of juvenile books, some
of which are not fiction. The fiction is largely either current
or standard ; and while there is a greater demand for it, ex-
amination of the charging slips shows also a very good
circulation of books of a more serious character.
In this connection a great deal can be accomplished by
suiting the selection of books to the constituency for which
they are intended. Thus a volume of literary essaj^s which
will circulate well at Lower jNIills will remain on the slielves
at Roslindale ; and Darwin's " Origin of Species," which went
$150
00
300
00
125
00
125
00
58 City Document No. 21.
like a novel at Roslinclale, would perhaps not be touched at
Lower Mills.
These considerations lead to a comparison of the type of
station where we pay the proprietor of a store, with that
where we have our own attendant.
At these latter stations, children and parents resort to the
attendants constantly, not only for advice on what to read,
but for information on all sorts of subjects, ranging from the
" meaning of the word opaque,'''' and the '• length of one-six-
teenth of an inch," to "• how to write a letter of introduction."
The cost of maintenance of a station, with rooms and attend-
ant devoted solely to our use, may be estunated as follows :
Service ........
Rent ........
Transportation . . . . . .
Miscellaneous .......
$1,000 00
This does not include an allowance for periodicals, while if
no provision be made for a reading room, the item for rent
might be cut down.
Our stations at Roslindale, Upham's Corner, and Warren
street, which are in charge of storekeepers, cost last year
$774, $673 and |667 respectively.
The objections to the type of station devoted to our exclu-
sive use are (1) somewhat greater cost of maintenance; (2)
shorter hours. Against these objections may be balanced ;
(1) more accurate and prompt administration; (2) provision
for the use of books on the premises ; (3) a decidedly educa-
tional influence upon the reading of the public.
Because of this last consideration, and in the light of the
very satisfactory work now being done at two of our own
stations, I am becoming strongly convinced that after pro-
vision for immediate needs by the addition of two new
delivery stations, further advance should be m the direc-
tion of converting the larger delivery stations into stations
devoted to our exclusive use, and administered by our own
employees.
Schools. — The Custodians of the branches have made
especial efforts to accommodate teachers and pupils. AVhen-
ever notice of the topic under study is sent to the branch,
the books relating to the subject are set aside for convenient
use by the pupils. If necessary, the resources of the branch
are supplemented by books from the Central collection. In
many cases there is apathy on the part of teachers, so that
LiBEARY Department. 59
the Custodians are obliged to take the mitiative. In otlier
instances the teachere are eager, and in response to then-
requests some 300 volumes have been sent out in small lots
relating to special subjects for use at the branches or stations
by the school children. The teachers sometimes visit the
branches with their classes ; but hi general prefer to send
the pupils.
Twent3Miine volumes have been sent direct for use at
the Martin grammar school ; and fifty-six volumes from the
Central Library with sixty-seven from the Brighton Branch
have been issued on deposit to the Brighton High School.
So much has been tried in the way of experiment. The
results show that the privilege is appreciated. The transpor-
tation is provided by the schools. To extend the system
would involve some expenditure for service, and a con-
siderable amount for books. Though we have seldom been
obliged to refuse sending these deposits for use at the
branches and stations, we are frequently unable to supply
the particular books desired. For this purpose I should
recommend the purchase of a collection of books especially
selected in connection with the courses of study.
A delivery twice a week of books, issued on cards, has
been maintained during the school year in connection with
the Hancock grammar school for girls at the North End.
This school perhaps represented as unpromising a field as
could be chosen for the experiment, the children being largely
of foreign birth or parentage, and yet the issue during the
winter months has ranged from 200 to 275 volumes per week.
The distribution of the books at the school, the discharging
of the books returned through the school, and the collecting
of fines, have been attended to by one of the teachers. The
transportation has been done by our own wagons.
In April we are to undertake a similar delivery with the
Eliot grammar school for boys at the North End. Any
further extension will involve additional assistance in the
Branch Division, and can hardly be undertaken without
increased accommodations, especially in the way of book
elevators.
Engine-lwuses. — The number of engine-houses receiving
deposits of twenty-five volumes per month has been increased
from thirteen to twenty-one. I do not see how more can be
added without increased resources. An extension of the
system to include police stations would doubtless be appre-
ciated.
Other Places of Deposit. — Besides the Cottage Place and
North Bennet-street Industrial Schools, the House of
60 City Document No. 21.
Reformation at Rainsford Island and the Marcella-street
Home in Roxbuiy have deposits of books, 150 vohimes, of
which twenty-five are changed monthly at the former, fifty
volumes exchanged every two months at the latter. Besides
these institutions, the Parental School for Boys at West
Roxbury receives thirty books each month from the branch
there ; and the Fleet-street Free Reading-room for Men at
the North End has a small deposit from the West End
Branch. Other institutions would be glad of similar privi-
leges, and in this direction also our opportunities are bounded
only by our resources.
Service., ^quijwient, etc. — For a full history of each
branch, I beg leave to refer to the reports of the Custodians
submitted herewith. I note below certain items regarding
service, equipment, etc. [The details of this section of the
report are here omitted.]
Broadivay Extension Station. — Ou September 1 this sta-
tion moved to larger rooms at No. 13 Broadway Extension,
and was fitted with oak furniture, shelving, tables, desks,
chairs, etc., etc., costing §368.25, and paid for from a special
appropriation.
Statistics.
It remains briefly to review tbe statistics of the year com-
pared with those of the previous year.
Books. ■ — Four thousand six hundred and fifty-seven
volumes of new books have been purchased for the branches
this year against 14,266 volumes the year before. But the
bulk of tho3e bought in 1896-97 were either reference books
or " Y " books, 1 so that the accessions of the past year repre-
sent, I am informed, a larger selection of general current
literature than the branches have usually received. A con-
siderable number of books, besides those published currently^
has been purchased also, to fill incomplete series, to contrib-
ute towards uniformity of the collections, with a view to the
union catalogue as well as to present needs.
One hundred and forty-seven volumes have been received
as gifts to the branches against ninety-eight gifts the year
previous. This figure, 147, does not include a great many
books offered for the branches, but either unsuitable, or
more suitable, for the Central collection.
One tliousand six hundred and seventy-nine volumes have
been worn out at the branches against 1,832 volumes the
3^ear previous. One thousand and sixty volumes have been
bought as replacements against 1,135 the year before.
1 Books selected for Younger Readers. (Select list of about twelve hundred
titles.)
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Eighty-six volumes have been destroyed because of being
exposed to contagious disease, while only eighteen volumes
were so destroyed the year before. This probably does not
mean that a greater number of books has been exposed, but
that owing to the reports of cases of contagious disease which
are now sent daily to every branch and station, a greater
number of books so exposed has been detected.
The weeding out of useless books has gone forward, and
4,235 volumes have been transferred to the Central Library
against 1,888 volumes m 1896-97.
Of the books missing from " open " shelves, I have spoken
above. Forty-five volumes are missing from the closed
shelves against twenty-four volumes the year before.
Seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-two volumes have
been bound by the contract binder against 6,139 volumes the
year before. The increase is due to the fact that the " Y "
books purchased new in 1896 and placed on the open shelves
subject to constant wear, are now coming to need binding ;
the case is similar with regard to the books of the West End
Branch which were nearly all new in 1896. More than one-
fourth of tlie total, or over 2,000 volumes, have been bound
for the Roxbury Branch. This is due to the fact that this
branch supplies two stations with books for deposit use,
which involves constant handling and wear. Custodians and
assistants have been carefully instructed in methods of bind-
ing and repairing. I have given personal supervision, and
can report that the work has been economically administered.
Circulation. — I submit a table of circulation showing an
increase at almost Wery branch and station. The gain of
8 per cent, in the home use issue at the branches is, in my
opinion, due j^artly to the addition of many attractive books
the past two years, partly to greater activity of custodians
and assistants. The gain of over 97 per cent, in the number
of volumes issued directly from the stations, is probably due
largely to the extension of the deposit system. The gain of
88.9 per cent, in the issue from the Central Library through
the branches and stations may be accounted for partly by
our efforts to supply the books applied for, by the addition
of more books, etc., and partly, I think, to closer relations
between the Centi-al Library and the outlying system.
The gain in the issue through the entire branch system is
21 per cent.
It should be noted that the increase in the circulation of
the branches means more than would appear on tlie face of
it, as by the extension of deposits and the establishment
of new stations nuich of the branch clientage has been
diverted.
62 City Document No. 21.
Though the issue for the year at East Boston shows a
slight loss, the issue since July.l, when Miss Walkley took
charge, shows a decided gain over the corresponding period
last year. The only branch which is running behind is the
South End, and there, it is fair to assume, the loss, which is
small, may be due to a larger use of the Central Library by
persons formerly using the South End Branch.
Expenditures. — In connection with statistics of circula-
tion is submitted a table showing an itemized account of the
expenditures for each branch and station.
The total amount spent on the branches has been, roughly,
$6,000 less than the previous year, the decrease being mainly
in the expenditure for books.
While the circulation at the stations has nearly doubled,
the total cost has remained about the same.
To show the comparative efficiency, I have calculated the
cost per volume of circulation of each branch and station,
excluding the item of rent for branches which occurs in only
two cases, but including the rent of stations and reading-
rooms.
It may seem that the high cost per volume of certain of the
reading-rooms makes against my recommendation to convert
the larger deliveries into similar stations. It is, however, clue
to the small population served, and consequent small circula-
tion at these reading-rooms. At Broadway Extension and
at Mt. Bowdoin the cost per volume is low, and a high rate
need not follow a change in the type of the most used
deliveries.
For comparison of branches with stations, I have calcu-
lated the cost per volume of circulation, excluding the cost
of books and binding, as follows :
Cost per Volume of Circulation. — Excluding Cost of Boohs
a7id Binding.
Branches .....
Stations (including reading-rooms)
Deliveries (excluding reading-rooms)
At the five reading-rooms the cost per volume of circula-
tion, owing mainly to the larger issue, has fallen from 15.5
cents in 1896-97, to 8.3 cents in 1897-98.
The cost per volume of the issue of books on cards from
the Central Library through the branches and stations has
been.
1894. 1895-96. 1806-97. 1897-98.
ll.Oc. 11.3c. 11.6c. 8.7c.
1S96-97.
1897-98.
6.7c.
5.9c.
7.0c.
4.8c.
5.0c.
3.7c.
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But these estimates, wliich for the sake of comparison with
former years, inckide one-third the cost of maintenance of the
reading-rooms charged against this issue from the Central
Library, are too liberaL A fairer estimate would allow five
cents per volume for the cost of transportation and two and
one-half cents per volume for the cost of distribution, giving
a total of seven and one-half cents per volume.
Branch Division. — Central Library.
The Daily Issue.
Our great aim has been to increase the issue of boolcs on
cards to the branches and stations, and the first step
towards this seemed to be to give the borrower a reasonable
chance of securing a book applied for. We have tried to
diminish the number of unsuccessful applications (1) by re-
quiring the custodians to see that slips sent in are properly
made out; (2) by ascertaining and stamping on the call-slip
the reason why the book cannot be supplied, and so cutting
off repeated applications for books missing, reserved for hall
use, at the bindery, or otherwise unavailable ; (3) by having
the call-slips stamped by the person handling them in the
stacks, at the indicator, in the Children's room, etc. ; (4) by
supplying copies located on other numbers than those asked
for ; (5 ) by introducing a space on the call-slip in which the
borrower may request us to supply a substitute if the book
he applies for is out; (6) by replacing many books pre-
viously condemned or missing — notably those listed in the
" Catalogue of English Prose Fiction."
Two publications, the "Supplement to the Fiction Cata-
logue " and the " Annual List," have helped towards render-
ing accessible at the stations information of the books
contained in the Central Library.
The issue has increased from 40,694 volumes in 1896-97
to 56,534 volumes in 1897-98, a gain of 38.9 per cent.
At the same time the percentage of unsuccessful cards has
fallen from 57 per cent, to 49.4 per cent., while for the last
five months of the year the figure was 44.2 per cent.
Of the books sent, 72 per cent, were fiction, or juvenile;
35 per cent, of those sent to branches and 82 per cent, of
those sent to stations being fiction.
Of the unsuccessful cards 72 per cent, were for fiction,
including juveniles. Of these unsuccessful applications 48
per cent, of those from the branches and 86 per cent, of
those from the stations were for fiction, or juveniles. I am
unable to submit figures showing the exact proportion of
64 City Document No. 21.
these unsuccessful applications which were for eurre^it fiction,
but I can say in a general way that neglecting the unsuc-
cessful applications for a half-dozen recent novels of the
very greatest popularity, the proportion has not been large.
Deposit Work.
At the beginning of the year there w^ere twenty-seven
places to which deposits of books were sent from the Central
Library ; at the close, forty-two. The statistics of issue have
been :
1896-97. 1897-98.
Deposits sent to stations, etc. . 5,042 vols. 7,244 vols.
Engine-houses .... 975 " 5,275 "
Totals .... 6,017 " 12,519 «
There were out on deposit February 1, 1897, 3,906 vol-
umes ; February 1, 1898, 5,520 volumes.
A year ago the deposit collection numbered 3,247 volumes,
of which about 80 per cent were fiction and juveniles. Dur-
ing the year 1,794 volumes have been added, considerably
less than half of which was fiction, making the percentage of
fiction and juveniles now in the collection 6Q per cent.
Below is a rough classification.
Vols.
Fiction and Juveniles . . . . . . 3,338
Literature . . . . .■ . . . 123
Biography ........ 139
History 470
Travel ........ 189
Science, Arts, and Fine Arts .... 231
Unclassified ....... 551
Total . . 5,041
The deposit collection is now nearly large enough to supply
the miscellaneous collections sent out for circulation at the
stations. In this way a great saving of time is effected
in selecting the works sent out.
The collection is, however, quite inadequate to supply the
requests for deposits on special subjects to be used at the
branches, by schools, literary clubs, etc. And this for two
reasons, because the collection is composed of books suitable
for general reading, and includes few of the heavier works
which could not be expected to circulate from the stations ;
and secondly because practically the whole collection is con-
Library Department. 65
tinually out at the places of deposit, and so unavailable for
this special use.
On the other hand, it is often felt that where there are but
one or two copies of a book in the circulating collection here,
they cannot be spared for two weeks or a month. Frequently
the works asked for are restricted to hall use, so that for
the past year we have been greatly embarrassed in our
attempts to supply these special deposits. I should, there-
fore, recommend the formation of a special collection to be
kept here for just this use.
As we do not yet contemplate sending deposits directly to
the schools, it would at first be inexpedient to duplicate
books commonly in the branches. But a collection consist-
ing perhaps of five hundred titles chosen with reference to
courses of study in the schools, and advertised by a small
annotated list sent to the teachers would, I feel sure, meet
with instant favor, and lead, incidentally, to better use of the
Library by the schools in general. My plan would contem-
plate sending these deposits for use only at the branches
and stations in the beginning, but would undoubtedly lead
in the end to systematic work directly with the schools.
With the extension of the deposit system the methods of
recording books sent out have necessarily been completely
remodeled.
The deposits issued monthly to the engine-houses have
been organized into travelling libraries so as to allow of shift-
ing the entire twenty-five volumes from one to another with
the least possible inconvenience.
The collection of cards recording books sent out on de-
posit to the stations was bulky, and growmg at the rate of
twenty feet a year. Consequently it became urgent to sub-
stitute a system simple, compact and more economical to
operate. The form of record adopted shows what books are
at any station at a given time ; what stations a given book has
already visited, and whether a given station has had a given
book ; and, finally, the whereabouts of every book m the de-
posit collection. The transfer from the old system to the
new involved considerable difficulty and, begun in March,
was not completed till June.
Then followed a verification of the books charged to each
station. This, I understand, was the first general account
of stock taken since the first deposit was sent out in 1895,
and, owing to defects in records started experimentally and
continued by many hands, involved a very great deal of patient,
pains-taking labor. Twenty-nine volumes were ff)und to
have disappeared, and were paid for by the Custodians of the
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stations where they were lost, with the exception of fifteen
missing from our own station at Broadway Extension.
After the verification of accounts with stations was com-
pleted, a shelf-reading of the wliole collection was made in
connection with tlie shelf-list. This was also the first shelf-
reading since the books were set aside for deposit, and so
coyers a period of more than one year.
Of the 5,041 volumes with which a circulation in the
neighborhood of 160,000 volumes has been maintained the
past 3'ear, twenty-one could not be accounted for. Of these
we have no record of ever having issued fifteen, so that there
is a fair presumption against their ever havmg been in the
possession of the Branch Division, leaving an undoubted
loss of but six volumes.
During the year we have been in the habit of exchanging
twenty-five volumes monthly with each station. Now that
the organization of the work is completed, we have begun to
exchange fifty volumes per month, and so to keep the collec-
tions on deposit at the stations fresher by the addition of
more new material.
Inter-Library Loans.
The issue of books loaned to other libraries was put in
charge of the Branch Division on September 3. The statis-
tics for the year are : .
Loaned :
Vols.
To libraries m Massachusetts . . . . .105
To libraries outside Massachusetts .... 30
Total inter-library loans . . . . .135
Applications denied :
From libraries in Massachusetts .... 20
From libraries outside Massachusetts ... 8
Total applications denied ..... 28
Borrowed for use at the Boston Public Library :
From the Boston Athenseum ..... 1
From Cornell University Library .... 2
From Harvard College Library . . . .13
Total borrowed . . . . . . .16
Twenty-eight applications, or 17 per cent., have been
denied because the books could not be issued under the limi-
tations imposed.
Library Department. 67
Shipping Division.
Nineteen branches and stations, the Hancock School, the
twenty-one engine-houses, and four other places of deposit
are served by our wagons, while eight branches and stations
are served by local expresses. These eight stations are so
scattered and so distant that for the present local expresses
are cheaper and, arriving and delivering earlier, probably
give better service than could be obtained from an additional
Library wagon.
For miscelluneous bundle work the Merchants' Five-Cent
Parcel Delivery is employed, which appears to be cheaper
than would be a tricycle carrier owned by the Library.
Respectfully submitted,
HiLLER C. WeLLMAN,
Supervisor of Branches and Stations.
68
City Document No. 21.
REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE
FOR 1897.
To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library :
The following persons were duly appointed members of the
Examining Committee for the year 1897 :
Mr. John L. Bates.
Dr. J. Bapst Blake.
Prof. Borden P. Bowne.
Mr. Everett W. Burdett.
Miss Helen Cheever.
Mr. Joseph J. Corbett.
Mr. C. ^y. Ernst.
Mr. John H. Lee.
Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell.
Rev. Fr. John J. McNulty.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Parker.
Rev. Leighton Parks.
Mrs. Sarah H. Williamson.
Mr. Frank Wood.
The committee organized by the choice of Mr. Burdett as
Chairman and Miss Cheever as Secretary.
Subsequently the following sub-committees were appointed:
On Administration.
Mr. Burdett, Chairman.
Miss Cheever.
Dr. Parks.
Fr. McNulty.
Mr. Bates.
Mrs. Williamson.
Mrs. Parker.
Mr. Lowell.
Dr. Blake.
On Branches.
Miss Cheever, Chairman.
Professor Bowne.
Mr. Bates.
Mrs. Williamson.
Fr. McNulty.
Mr. Lee.
Mr. Corbett.
On Books.
Dr. Blake, Chairman.
Mr. Ernst.
Mrs. Parker.
On Finance.
INIr. Lee, Chairman.
Mr. Corbett.
Mr. Wood.
On Printing and Binding
Department.
Mr. Wood, Chairman.
Mr. Ernst.
On Catalogues.
Mr. Lowell, Chairman.
Dr. Parks.
Professor Bowne.
Library Department. 69
In the appointment of these siib-comraittees every member,
except the chairman of the general committee was put upon
two sub-committees, upon the theory that such an arrange-
ment would acquaint each member with the details of the
working of the Library better than to serve upon one com-
mittee only.
For the purpose of giving the Committee ample time in
which to make their investigations and report, the Trustees
notified the members of their appomtment April 20, 1897.
Notwithstanding this fact, the pressure of other matters upon
some of the members of the committee made it difficult to
procure full attendance at meetings, which, with the necessary
unfamiliarity with the details of library administration on
the part of most of the members, has made it impracticable to
submit the report at as early a date as was desired and
anticipated.
Numerous meetings of the several sub-committees have
been held, and preliminary and final reports of these com-
mittees have been submitted to and considered at meetings
of the general committee, which unites in submitting the
following report :
Administration.
Fully impressed with the fact stated in the report of our
immediate predecessors, that " the vital point of the connec-
tion of the Library with the daily needs of the public, and
the one that needs to be fashioned and lubricated until the
highest possible degree of efficiency is reached, is the placing
of the books called for in the hands of the reader within the
shortest possible time after the call is indicated," special
attention has been given to the inquiry as to how far the
book-delivery service has recently been improved, and how far
it is capable of further improvement in the near future.
Winle, without doubt, substantial progress has been made in
minimizing the time required for the delivery of books after
they are called for, very much remains to be desired. While
it must be remembered that the volume of work in the way
of book-delivery to be done in this Library is so large that no
system will reduce the time to the point attainable in smaller
institutions, we yet feel that the difficulty wliicli now exists
is due chiefly to the structural defects of the delivery system
in use. Attention was called in the last report to the neces-
sity of the utmost promptness and expedition on the part of
those employed in procuring the books applied for and de-
livering them to applicants. We know of no present reason
70 City Document No. 21.
to complain upon this point, but our opinion is that the phys-
ical difficulties in the present system of book-delivery cannot
be overcome by any personal diligence of the employees.
That tliese difficulties are capable of being overco:^ie if the
proper methods of construction are adopted, was made plain
by an examination by the Chairman of the Committee of the
system in use in the new Congressional Library at Washing-
ton. The book-stacks there are nine stories high, and are all
directly connected with each other and with the delivery desk
in the centre of the Librarj^ by a simple but entirely effective
endless book-railway. The slips for books are sent in to the
stacks by means of pneumatic pressure, and the noise from
the use of the pneumatic tubes is not found to be sufficient
to disturb the readers. Up)on the receipt of the slip, the
books are immediately placed in a basket on the contmuous
railway, and are delivered within two or three mmutes from
the time they are sent for.
No such promptness of delivery will ever, in our opinion,
be attainable in the Boston Library until the stacks are con-
nected with each other and with the delivery desk in a method
entirely different from that now in use. This might be done
without changing the method of book-delivery, but by simply
providing such inter-communication between stacks as would
dispense with the present necessity of returning every card
to the delivery desk over the same route it took when it left
the desk. Any such change, whether to the Washington
system of inter-communication and delivery or to a simpler
system of inter-communication only, would undoubtedly in-
volve large expense, and might still leave something to be
desired ; but considering the individual and aggregate loss of
time and patience involved in any unnecessary delay in the
receipt of books by those applying for them, no reasonable
expenditure ought to be avoided, if thereby the time of
delivery could be materially shortened.
In last year's report the committee endorsed the applica-
tion to the Legislature for the passage of an act to authorize
the city to borrow the sum of <i^l 00,000 for the comjDletion
of the Library building, including the necessary changes to
facilitate the delivery of books. Nothing came of this appli-
cation. But certain changes, involving the expenditure of
upwards of $30,000, will not admit of further delay, if the
convenience of the public and the reputation of the Library
are to be considered. Some system of direct inter-communi-
cation between the stacks — including small elevators to
expedite book-delivery, one or more service elevators for
handUng books in bulk, a supplementary system of pneu-
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matic tubes, and, perhaps, a stairway from stack to stack — ■
is imperatively demanded. In connection with these changes,
there must be an enlargement of the present tube-room, where
the whole work of book-delivery is done, by the addition to
it of the room now used by the Librarian's Secretary. The
issue of books has reached a volume entirely disproportionate
to present facilities. The delivery force is much hampered
in its work; the issue at times is clogged, and long delays
sometimes occur, to the extreme inconvenience of the public.
Application having been made by the Trustees to the City
Government for an appropriation to cover these expenditures,
the committee desires to express the opinion that the admin-
istration of the Library can never be made to meet the
reasonable demands of the public until such an appropriation
has been granted, and the suggested changes made.
The new system of filluig out cards has been a convenience
to the public, but m itself does not seem to have reduced
materially the time required for obtaining books. This now
averages seven or eight minutes, which is too long, and no
pams should be spared to reduce this time to its lowest limit
in one way or another.
If it is impractical to make the radical structural changes
already suggested, or, at least, to secure the immediate
enlargement of the Delivery-room by the addition to it of the
room adjoining it, we think it worth while to suggest, as a
measure of at least temporary relief, the putting of the de-
livery-desk, indicator and time-tray into the Delivery-room,
and moving farther forward the desk already there. The
space now occupied by the fine-desk could be utilized, if
required, and that desk transferred to the south-west corner
of the room. This would give space enough not only for
the present needs, but for a greater number of attendants,
in case an increase of force becomes necessary.
The two windows between the Delivery-room and the
alcove could be cut down into doors and used for passage.
It would then be possible to remove the platform in front of
the present door, so that the moving book-shelf, used to carry
books into Bates Hall, could be wheeled into the alcove, a
change that would save the labor and injury of unloading
the books in the Delivery-room and carryuig them to the rail-
way in a tray.
While we are desirous of not being misunderstood as sug-
gesting these alterations as adeqnate for the future, they
would cost little, and would temporarily, at any rate, relieve
the congestion about the entrance to the alcove, and yet
leave ample space in the Deliverj-room, which is seldom over-
72 City Document No. 21.
crowded. We are inclined to the opinion that they would
not injure the architectural apj^earance of that room, though
upon this point we would, of course, yield our judgment to
that of tlie architects and artists who would be consulted
before any such changes were made.
The overcrowded condition of the Children's room on
Saturdays and Sundays, and the fact that there is no quiet
corner for the many grammar-school children who come to
study, makes it highly necessary, in our opinion, that a second
room be devoted to this purpose. We therefore suggest that
the plan already under discussion, of taking the Patent room
for a second Children's room, be carried out, and that the
patent collection be removed to some other room, where the
necessary quiet can be secured for those who consult its
volumes. If another suitable room cannot be spared for
this purpose — as certainly should be done, if possible — a
gallery or mezzanine-floor could be constructed at one end of
the Newspaper-room, at comparatively small expense. At
crowded times tlie children are already allowed to read at the
tables in the Patent-room ; but, in order to convert it into a
proper room for their use, the committee recommends that
more tables and a sufficient number of proper lights be intro-
duced into it ; that the room be reserved for the use of chil-
dren desiring to study or do serious reading ; and that a
sufficient reference library, containing, among other standard
books for school children, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, gazet-
teers, maps and atlases, be placed upon the shelves. A sloping
surface should also be arranged in this room for the j^roper dis-
play of maps and pictures. At present there is no collection
of reference-books in the Library for children alone ; and their
time and the time of the attendants is wasted, and the atten-
tion of older readers is diverted, by theu' excursions into
Bates Hal], for the purpose of consulting encycloj)aBdias and
other books of refeience.
Another advantage of having a second room for the use of
children is that the fifteen-minute talks to children upon the
" Choice of Books," which a majority of our committee con-
sider a desirable addition to the work of the Children's de-
partment, could be given in one room, while those readers
who preferred not to listen could remam in the other. Some
members of the connnittee, howevei', believe in omitting
these talks altogether, and giving the children the same
privilege of quiet which their elders enjoy.
Two sources of disturbance in the Children's room are the
registration desk and the entrance to the Newspaper-room, both
of which cause the constant passing and repassing of many
LiBKAEY Department. 73
persons. We suggest that it would be desirable to find a
new place for the registration desk, and to j)rovide another
entrance to the Newspaper-room. The Boylston-street
entrance might be utilized for the latter purpose, and some
interior communication found or provided between the News-
p:iper-room and the other portions of the Library. The
latter should not involve the use of the Children's room or
any other room where quiet is desirable.
The last suggestion with regard to this department is easily
carried out: The Children's room should contain at least one
clock. Indeed, throughout the building there is a dearth of
necessary time-pieces.
Two matters mentioned in the report of the last Examining
Committee still provoke criticism ; one is the poor lighting of
the Newspaper-room, which remains as described in the last
report ; the other is in the provision of towels for use in
common in the lavatories. While both of these reforms
would involve additional expense, we feel that they deserve
attention.
Branches.
The committee notes with satisfaction marked improve-
ment in the conduct of the branches and deposit stations,
and increase in their circulation of books.
Of the thirteen delivery stations only one is now without
a deposit of books. These deposits seem particularly well
chosen. Regular deposits of books are also made at thirteen
engine-houses, the Marcella-street Home, the House of
Reformation, two Industrial Schools and at a Men's Reading-
room in the North End. Books are regularly delivered at
the Hancock School, and are shortly to be delivered also at
the Eliot School, North End.
In branches and reading-rooms an increased number of
books placed upon open shelves tempts visitors to read upon
the premises. The circulation of books in branches has in-
creased 50,000 during the year, while that of deposit stations
has almost doubled. The circulation of books from the Cen-
tral Library through branches and stations has increased
15,840 during the year; and of the persons who apply thus
for the books of tlie Central Library, thirteen per cent, more
are successful than at this time a year ago.
It is gratifying to note that the use of reference-books in
all branches and stations l)y school children is rapidly growing.
Among the improvements we have noted, the following
deserve special mention :
74 City Document No. 21.
Station P on Broadway — thanks to the appropriation of
last year — now deserves to be called a reading-room. Its
seats will accommodate forty-five readers; it has 1,700 books
upon open shelves ; and its circulation of books was 27,483
during the year.
The new Station T at Boylston meets a large demand.
The North End will now be supplied from two giammar
schools and the Men's readmg-room.
Card catalogues have been completed at the Roxbury,
West Roxbury and South End Branches, and work on card
catalogues is going on at other branches. A new finding-list
has been issued from each branch. Tlie West End Branch
leads all the others in its circulation of books, having made a
gain of 27,483 daring the year. This shows what may be
accomplished in a branch which is well situated and well
equipped.
The service at Brio-hton and East Boston has become more
effective under the custodians now in ofQce. In East Boston,
however, little further can be accomplished in the present
quarters.
The committee makes the following recommendations,
which it considers of importance :
The conditions in East Boston remain unchanged, and the
need for improvement has become more pressing. We renew
our reconnnendation of last year, and make it first, namely :
1. That a special appropriation be granted to relocate and
properly equip the East Boston Branch.
2. We renew our recommendation for the removal of the
South End Branch to Washington street.
3. We think a new deposit station near Northampton
street desirable. After this is established, we advise
4. That the next deposit station be placed in the North
End.
5. The Library certainly does not benefit the public by
offering the opportunity to read in light injurious to sight.
We find the lighting of several branches insufficient, —
notably. East Boston, Jamaica Plain, South End, Charlestown,
West Roxbury, and the lower floor of tlie Roxbury Branch.
We urge immediate improvement in these conditions.
The committee finds that the office of Supervisor of
Branches, which was created a year ago, has amply justified
itself. The attention to the needs of the branches and
stations and the careful supervision thus made possible have
increased the efficiency of these parts of the Library system.
Library Department. 75
Books.
The committee Lelieves that the collection of books at
present in the Library represents moderately well the tastes
and needs of the people of Boston and vicinity.
The committee recognizes the difficulties in the judicious
purchase of books for a library which already possesses
500,000 volumes. The principle now in practice should be
adhered to, and if practicable, extended, — that is, the four
great libraries of Boston and Cambridge and the several
special libraries in Boston should avoid unnecessary duplica-
tion, and should develop certain lines of subjects in wluch
each should endeavor to be exhaustive.
Among the special subjects upon which the Boston Library
should be as complete as possible, the committee mentions
especially the Literature of Boston and the immediate vicinity
(the Metropolitan Boston) in every aspect from which this
locality can be viewed, — commercial, religious, educational,
geographical, historical, etc., etc. Possibly some relations
might be established between the Library and the great
business interests of the city which would render additional
services to the man of affairs and business. The Library
should have a copy of every newspaper published in Boston
up to the time that the city charter was adopted.
It does not seem advisable that the Library should aim at
complete collections of the literature of Law, Medicine, etc.,
but should content itself with the recognized text-books and
authorities on these subjects.
The present collection of maps is perhaps less complete
than most other subjects, and should be enlarged.
Rare and valuable books should, as far as possible, be lim-
ited to the use of persons who can appreciate and take
proper care of them, and should never be issued, even for
hall use, to children unaccompanied by responsible persons.
The number of books of reference, dictionaries, encyclo-
paedias, etc., in all principal departments of the Library
should be increased, if practicable.
The suggestion is offered, whether it might not l)e well to
start a card catalogue of desirable books for purchase. Such
a list might, perhaps, give strength to the policy of the
Library in pursuing a fixed course through the ephemeral
pressure now exercised by indiscriminate suggestions from
all quarters.
The effort to meet the popular demand in art instruction,
especially by the purchase of photographs, is highly appre-
ciated. The Library was never so active, so helpful and so
comprehensive in this respect as it is to-day.
76 City Document No. 21.
Catalogues and Bulletins.
In the matter of catalogues and bulletins the committee
has few suggestions to make. The special subject lists,
which are printed by the Library more and more freely, are
of high value, and it is a pity that they are not more gen-
erally used. In spite of constant efforts to bring tliem to
the attention of the public, some readers, interested in tlie
subjects which they cover, still use the Library without
knowing that any such lists exist. They can be found on
shelves in the Catalogue-room of Bates Hall ; but there is
notliing to indicate their presence. A sign over the shelves
would perhaps help to attract attention to them.
In this connection another suggestion about the special
lists may be made. Those which deal with subjects of per-
manent interest gradually lose tlieir value, unless kept up to
date. This is true, for example, of the lists in Electricity
and on the Telephone, published in 1892 and 1893. In such
cases cards witli the titles of later works are often collected,
but they are kept in the Catalogue Department. Whenever
this is done, it would be a benefit to the public to have a
duplicate collection of the cards placed m the Catalogue-
room in Bates Hall in a special drawer, distinctly marked
with the name of the subject, so that any one at work on
the matter may easily find titles that carry the special list
down to date.
It is not, perhaps, out of place to point out that although
a card catalogue is probably the most convenient method
now .in use of keepmg the titles of books constantly
arranged in alphabetical order, yet it is, after all, a crude
and clumsy system. It has several defects. In the first
place, the time wasted in consulting it is not inconsiderable ;
for a hundred titles can be run down on a printed page with
vastly greater rapidity than the same number of cards can
be turned over. In the second place, it is perishable. The
catalogue in Bates Hall might be burnt up, and even if the
duplicate in the room underneath should escape, the expense
of copying it would be very great. A third, and by far the
most important, defect in the card catalogue is the fact that
it can be kept only in one j^lace, and this, with the present
endeavor to extend the use of the Library as widely as pos-
sible, is a grave disadvantage. These defects would be
entirely done away with if the titles of books could be kept in
such a form that they could be used mechanically for print-
ing. The most obvious suggestion is that the slugs, made
Library Department. 77
by means of the linotype, and from which the cards are now
printed, should be preserved in alphabetical order. In that
case the type for the catalogue would be always set up, and
the printing could be done from time to time at compara-
tively small expense. The amount of metal required for
this purpose is, however, so great as to make it impractica-
ble ; but the Chief of the Printing Department of the
Library is of opinion that a process for accomplisliing this
result is likely to be perfected in the near future. If this
proves to be true, it is to be hoped that the Library will put
the system into operation, even at a lai'ge initial expense, for
the value of the catalogue would be vastly increased thereby.
It could be wholly reprinted in book form every few years,
and brought down to date by annual supplements and
monthly bulletins. Copies would, of course, be placed in
the branches as well as in Bates Hall. Moreover, when the
system had been generally adopted, a catalogue of every
important library would be found in every other, and this
would not only help to save money by avoiding duplication
of sets of books which are expensive and rarely used, but
would enable scliolars to get the full benefit of all the collec-
tions of books throughout the country.
Printing and Binding Departments.
After a thorough examination of the system of audit ap-
plied to the financial operations of the Library, the committee
of last year reported that it was excellent and comprehen-
sive, but that it would be advisable, if practicable, to have
the expenditures in the Binding and Printing Departments
examined by some disinterested person not connected with
the Liljrary, — preferably a member of the Examining Com-
mittee, especially appointed for that i)ur230se, and familiar
with the market-rates of labor, material and supplies for
which payments are made.
This suggestion was adopted by the Trustees, and a thor-
ough examination of the financial and business operations of
these departments has been made. Methods of work, cost
of material, economy of administration, etc., have been
looked into carefully, with the result that the departments
in question are found to be in excellent condition.
The only important defect noted in these departments was
a lack of system in keeping an account of stock which could
be easily audited, and would be self-balancing, so that dis-
crepancies or waste could be instantly detected, if the books
were properly kept. Such a system should show an account
78 City Document No. 21.
of all stock received, and all stock used, and for what used,
together with the exact amount and kind left on hand at any
time.
Up::n the desirability of such a system being suggested to
the heads of these departments, they approved of the change,
and took steps to procure the proper books to put it into operar
tion. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed to judge of the
measure of success which Avill attend this addition to the
otherwise satisfactory system of audit in use in the Library
adminstration, but we have no doubt that it will prove per-
manently useful and. satisfactory.
Ix General.
We assume that the Examining Committee is, as suggested
by our immediate predecessors, " a portion of the machinery
to be examined and commented upon," and we are of
opinion that, as at present constituted, it is not as efficient a
piece of machinery as it ought to be. Last year's committee
pointed out the difficulties, which, under existing conditions,
mmimize the usefulness of its work, but refrained from
making any suggestion as to the solution of those difficulties.
We venture to go one step further, by suggesting at least one
method of securing an improvement.
Every committee as now appointed is, practically, a new
committee. While some of its members may have served
before, it was with no assurance of reappointment. Li the
discharge of their duties they are under the impression from
the first that their service is but temporar3% and, for that
reason, their investigations are likely to be superficial. A
new member of the committee immediately recognizes the fact
that he is a tyro or amateur, so to speak, in the subjects sub-
mitted to his consideration, and is discouraged at the outset
in any attempt to make himself intelligently acquainted with
the broad principles and the numerous details of library
administration. A sense of dependence upon others, espe-
cially upon the Librarian and heads of departments, for any
intelligent understanding of the problems presented for con-
sideration, attaches to the inception and accompanies the
jjrosecution of the work of the average member of the com-
mittee.
One way of remedying this manifest defect in the system
of outside examination would be to make membership on the
committee less temporary than it is. If, for example, the
committee should always consist of fifteen members, each to
serve for three years, and only five of whom should annually
Library Department. 79
retire to make room for five new members, the cliaracter of
the work of the committee would, in our opinion, be more
satisfactory to its members, if not to the Trustees and the
public.
We also desire to suggest tlie query whether it is ]:)est that
the repoi't of tlie Examining Committee should always be
printed in connection with the report of the Trustees. The
committee's report is to the Trustees and for their benefit ;
and the object of the report might be as well or better
accomplished by its submission, in print, to the Trustees, with-
out the necessity of its subsequent publication in the annual
report. If the committee's report were not to be made
public, the committee might be hiclined to sj)eak more freely
and frankly upon some topics than they otherwise might
think advisable ; and some matters of real, but perhaps
temporary, importance might be included, which might not
be thought to merit a permanent place in the annual report
of the Trustees. We are aware that the printing of the re-
port of the EKamining Committee is now required by an
ordinance of the city ; but this should be repealed or amended,
if its present requirement is inconsistent with good practice.
We suggest that the ordinance should leave the printing of
each report of the Examining Committee discretionary with
the Trustees.
In closing this report, we cannot refrain from commending
the improvement in the administration of this great public
institution from year to year. The standard of excellence is
all the time advancing. Repeated visits to tlie Library and
examinations of its various departments by the individual
members of the committee have discovered, as a rule, efficient
administration united with connnendable courtesy. Our
citizens may well be proud of such an institution, " built by
the people, and dedicated to the advancement of learning."
Respectfully submitted.
For the committee,
(Signed) Everett W. Burdett, Chairman.
(Signed) Helen Cheever, Secretary.
Boston, April 4, 1898.
APPENDICES
1897.
LIST OF APPENDICES.
I. Financial Statement.
ir. Extent of the Libkary by Years.
III. Net Increase of tue Several Departments, Including
Branches.
IV. Classification: Central Library.
V. Classification: Branches.
VI. Registration.
VII. Circulation.
VIII. Trustees for Forty-six Years. Librarians.
IX. Examining Committees for Forty-six Years.
X. Library Service (May 1, 1898), including Sunday and
Evening Schedule,
XI. System of Service.
XIL Correspondence, etc.
XIII. Givers, and amount of Gifts.
XIV. Orders of City Council.
LiBiiARY Department. 83
APPENDIX I.
Finance.
Boston Public Library,
Auditing Department, February 1, 1898.
To the Trustees:
Gentlemen : The uiidersignecl herewith presents a statement
of the receipts and expenditures of tlie Library Department for
the financial year commencing February 1, 1897, and ending
January 31, 1898; also a statement concerning the trust and
other funds, statements covering special appropriations, and a
statement of expenditures on account of the branches for the
twelve years ending 1897-98.
Respectfully,
A. A. Nichols,
Auditor.
Receipts.
City appropriation, 1897-98 .... $235,000 00
Rent from old Library Building :
Balance from 1890-97 . . S2,274 05
During the year . . . . 8,600 00
10,874 05
Fines and sales of catalogues :
Balance from 1896-97. . . $532 89
During the year :
Fines . . . $4,532 28
Sales . . .441 30
Lost cards . . 118 16
5,091 74
^5,624 63
Less amount transmitted to J. S.
Morgan & Co., London. (See
infra, p. 84) . . . . 4,600 00
Income from Trust Funds :
Balance from. 189 6-9 7 . . $12100
During the year ^ . . . 13,755 21
1,024 63
Carried fonoard . . . $13,876 21 $246,898 68
' The interest due on Trust Funds invested in City of Boston Bonds from July I,
1896, to January 1, 1897, amounting to $4,Sr)6, was" not V)laced to tlie credit of tlie
Library Trustees until after January 31, 1897. Tlic income from Trust Funds for the
year is $y,3i)i).21.
84
CiTv Document No. 21.
Broil gilt forvKird .
Less amount transmitted to J. S.
Morgan & Co., London. (See
infra yi^, 84) .
London accounts :
Balance in Lands of J. S. jNIorgan
& Co., February 1, 1897 :
Trust Funds income, $13,980 72
City appropriation . 7,242 96
Interest . . . 178 00
$13,876 21 $246,898 68
9,008 21
During the 3'ear :
Trust Funds income. (See supra^
p. 84)
City appropriation. (See sujjra^
P- «3)
Interest .....
$21,401 68
9,008 21
4,600 00
311 39
Balance in hands of Caring Bros. & Co., Feb-
ruary 1, 1897
Donations :
From W. C. Todd, un-
expended February
1, 1897. (See Table,
infra p. 93) . . $2,950 10
Additional credit . 3 00
$2,953 10
From Woman's Education Asso-
ciation, unexpended February 1,
1897 .... *
From Andrew C. Wheelwright, un
expended February 1, 1897
From Twentieth Regiment Asso
ciation ....
From Boston Numismatic Society
From Elizabetli Lewis .
From sundry sources for the pur
chase of photographs
Exchange account : lost books, sales
etc. :
Balance from 1896-97
During the j'ear .
Interest on bank deposit .
Carried fonoard, .
4,868 00
35,321 28
72 75
22 27
I-
3 10
)-
775 03
300 00
26 00
1,321 00
5,400
50
s of duplicates.
$776 08
312 54
1,088
1,488
62
25
.
.
$295,138
08
LrBRARY Department.
Brought forward
$295,138 08
Expenditures.
The expeuditures have been as follows
General hbrary accounts, including the
cost of maintaining the branches :
Salaries :
General administra-
tion
$122,109 68
Sunday and evening
force
. 17,386 11
$139,495
79
Books :
Cit}' appropri ation ,
125,801 12
Income from Trust
Funds
. 8,114 74
33,915
86
Periodicals
.
6,435
76
Binding :
Salaries
$11,960 65
Stock .
. 1,623 17
Equipment .
296 53
Contract work $3,802
11
Contract work^
(British patent t7,S
specilicatioiis.)
75
, 1 1 SO fi(^
• "i: , i O U O U
18,061
21
•
Printing :
Salaries
. 14,651 67
Stock .
. 1,337 97
Equipment .
. 4,100 97
Contract work .
. 1,331 97
11,422
1,871
58
Furniture and fixtures
*J O
42
Gas
1,673
58
Electric lighting
1,991
03
Expense, miscellaneous
858
33
Expense, cleaning .
5,424
92
Stationery and library
supplies
3,973
98
Eents : Branch Libraries and Read-
ing rooms .
•
5,215
00
Fuef
.
9,123
03
Repairs : stock and contract work .
2,507
58
Transportation, including postage
3,086
36
Transportation, between Central
Library, Branches
and Delivery
Stations
•
3,491
04
Delivery Stations, service
3,990
85
Water-rates .
.
1,455
80
Tele})hone service .
.
355
45
Carried forioard
554,349 57 $295,138 08
86 City Documej^t No. '21.
Brought foricard . . . $254,349 57 $295,138 08
Subscriptions to newspapers (Todd
2,643 06
17 50
gift) .....
Books (Lewis gift) .
.
Exchange account :
Books and odd numbers
of periodicals .
$31 72
Refunded for books re-
turned
20 48
52 20
Books and periodicals for West End Branch :
Woman's Education Association
and A. C. Wheelwright gift . 23 50
Photographs ..... 1,235 79
Twentieth Regiment Association gift :
Books . . . $407 03
Special service . . 368 00
775 03
$259,096 65
Balance on hand January 31, 1898 . . $36,041 43
The balance is made up of the following items, viz. :
Cash in City Treasury :
Income from Trust Funds . . $4,868 00
Rent from old Library Building . 356 89
Cash on deposit in London :
In hands of J. S. Morgan &Co. :
Trust Funds . . $14,628 19
General funds . 12,573 92
Interest less commis-
sion and postage, 311 39
Photograph fund . 42 21
15,224 89
^27,555 71
In hands of Barino- Bros. . . 72 75
Cash on deposit with New England
Trust Co., and on hand :
Unexpended of donations carried to
account of 1898-99 :
Wm. C. Todd ....
Woman's Education Association .
Elizabeth Lewis ....
Boston Numismatic Society .
Exchange account : lest books, etc.
Interest on bank deposit
Photograph fund .
27,628 46
1310 04
1 87
8 50
300 00
620 41
1,036 42
.
,
1,488 25
, ,
43 00
$36,041 43
Library Department.
87
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Comparative statement for fiscal years enduvj January 31, 1S96, 1897 and 1898.
Salaries : General administration
" Sunday and evening force.
Binding : Salaries
Stock
" Contract work
" Equipment
Books
Periodicals
Furniture and fixtures
Gas.
Electric lighting and power
Water-rates
Teleplione service
Expense : Miscellaneous
" • Cleaning
Printing: Equipment
" Stock
" Contract work
" Salaries
Stationery and Idbrary supplies.
Fuel
Rents
Repairs : Stock and contract work
" Salaries
Transportation, postage, etc
Transportation between Central Library and
Branches
Rent of deliveries, including Custodians'
services
1895-96.
$93,904 80
11,130 eo
10,626 87
2,406 14
1,718 54
18,231 86
5,307 49
8,428 84
1,729 76
4,758 42
595 00
480 11
3,894 54
3,870 .55
5,300 00
1,012 92
4,960 44
485 00
3,200 40
6,192 07
6,285 48
1,987 29
2,699 00
3,769 25
3,2&5 43
2,347 25
$-208,608 05
1896-97.
$113,004 21
17,5.58 07
11,847 64
1,504 61
1,420 72
488 75
25,040 32
6,049 10
1,195 78
1,790 90
1,576 85
1,374 50
890 7-2
1.4:3 76
4,612 68
2,774 89
4,301 64
1.517 10
3,761 99
3,996 26
6,585 01
4,884 00
3,689 24
2,049 83
1,969 13
3,582 25
3,105 38
.$231,525 33
1897-98.
$119,698 26
17,386 11
11,960 65
1,623 17
3,802 11
296 53
26,486 83
6,4;« 76
1,871 42
1,673 58
1,991 03
1,455 80
355 45
8.58 33
5,424 92
4,100 97
1,337 97
1,331 97
4,651 67
3,973 98
9,123 03
5,215 00
2,.507 58
2,411 42
3,086 36
3,491 04
3,990 85
$246,.541 79
Note. — Gross expenditure for the year 1895-96 includes payments made from the
balance of the special appropriation "for "moving expenses, $6,341.12," distributed
among the appropriate items, and payments from the revenue from the old Library
Building for the West End and Mattapan Branches.
The cost of maintaining the branches makes part of tlie general items of the several
appropriations:
Cost of Branches, 189.5-96
Cost of Branches, 1896-97
Cost of Branches, 1897-98
$47,997 23
62,785 39
5S,282 49
Amount expended for books is for bills paid out of the city appropriation only.
The amount expended for books and binding (not included above) paid from trust
funds and city money in hands of Loudon Ijankers :
For 189.5-96
For 1896-97
For 1897-98
$9,516 29
9,590 82
7,807 78
City Document No. 21.
Speciai, Appropkiations.
ibrary Building, furnishing:
Balance of city appropriation
.
.
$24,539
96
Payments on account:
Mellish, Bvfield & Co.
$4,823
13
Edward F."Caldwell .
2,200
00
C. H. McKenney & Co.
. 562
40
J. Eastman C'hase
264
92
Koopman & Co. .
175
00
Thomas O'Callaghan & Co. .
. 151
33
Archer & Pancoast Co.
110
00
E. C. Morris Safe Co.
72
00
»
J. B. Hunter & Co. .
67
m
Geo. E. Crawley .
58
85
Wm. F. Adams & Co.
54
50
James I. Wingate & Co.
50
32
li. H. Hoe & Co.
48
75
Wm. A. Carrie .
22
05
Paine Furniture Co. .
20
00
Richard Codman .
17
50
Sundry small accounts
. Ill
54
8,809
95
fJtJ
115,730
01
Branch Library, Broadway Extension, Improvements :
City appropriation ..... $5,000 00
Payments on account :
Books $480 84
Furniture and fixtures . . 528 10
Movmg expenses . . . 1 50
Balance, February 1, 1898
1,010 44
$3,989 56
Library Department.
89
LIBRARY BUILDING, DARTMOUTH STREET.
From July 1, 1SS7, to January 31, 1S97.
Contracts.
Amount
Contracted
for.
Amount
Certiliecl
and Paid.
Balance
Uncertifled.
John T. Scullj-
Woodbury & Leightou, 1st contract
Woodbury & Leighton, 'id contract
B.C. Fisher & Co
R. Guastavino
Lindemann, T. C. R. T. Co
Batterson, See & Eisele
Post & McCord, 1st conti-act
Post & McCord, '2d contract
David Mcintosh, 1st contract
David Mcintosh, id contract
Bowber, Torrey & Co
Ira G. Hersey
Snead & Co., Iron Works
Norcross Bros
General Electric Co
Isaac N. Tucker
JI. T. Davidson
Augustus St. Gaudens
Archer & Pancoast Co
John S. Sargent
E. A. Abbey
P. Puvis de Chavanncs
Bethlehem Iron Works
Freight on electrical machine (Knight & Son)
Siemens & ITalske
I. P. Morris Co
AV. J. McPherson
N. E. Tel. and Tel. Co
D. C. French
E. E. Garnsey
E. D. Leavitt
Lake Erie Engineering Works
Ca rricd font a rd
$7,714 44
313,596 7!)
756,-233 S7
48,784 40
So,oU 04
35,'209 54
57,273 00
43,662 43
50,900 00
48,716 81
20,823 00
110,4.59 00
90,705 70
76,419 75
52,857 00
21,440 .39
8,952 43
3,894 00
50,000 00
15,122 80
15,000 CO
15,000 00
48,235 00
i,(;i7 40
78 10
14,000 00
13,889 86
5,1.58 91
997 12
25,000 no
2,.500 00
6,933 92
1,443 33
$2,048,163 03
$7,714 44
313,.596 79
750,233 87
48,784 40
85,544 04
35,209 .54
57,273 00
43,662 43
50,900 00
48,716 81
20,823 00
110,4.59 00
90,705 70
76,419 75
52,857 00
21,440 39
8,952 43
3,894 00
3,000 00
15,122 80
7,500 CO
9,.5O0 00
48,235 00
1,617 40
78 10
14,000 09
13,880 86
.5,1.58 91
997 12
3,000 00
2,500 00
6,933 92
1,443 33
$1,966,163 03
$47,000 00
7,500 00
5,500 00
22,C00 00
$82,000 00
90
City Documext No. 21.
LIBRARY BUILDING, DARTMOUTH STR1S,1E,T.— Concluded.
Contracts.
Amount
Contracted
for.
Amount
Certified
and Paid.
Balance
Uucertilied.
£ roitf/ht forward
Walworth Construction and Supply Co.
Siemens & Ilalske
A. A. Sanborn
Norcross Bros
Wm. Lumb & Co
Henry R. Worthingtou
C. H. McKenney & Co
David Mcintosh
S. D. Hicks & Son
S . Homer AVoodljridge
Daniel G. Finnerty
Furniture
Construction
Heating and ventilating
Incidentals
A . S. Jenney & T. A. Fox
Architects' commission of 5 per cent
Architects' commission of 7J per cent
$-2,048,163 03
( 1,975 00
( 755 66
4,077 71
398 00
597 00
429 19
247 00
255 00
150 00
85 00
53 78
50 00
26,107,82
50,387 77
70,4.07 06
66,878 48
704 80
97,624 72
5,027 25
§2,374,424 27
$1,966,163 03
1,975 00
755 66
4,077 71
398 00
597 00
429 19
247 00
255 00
150 00
85 00
53 78
50 00
26,107 82
50,387 77
70,457 08
66,878 48
704 80
97,624 72
5,027 25
$2,292,424 27
$82,000 00
$82,000 00
Appropriation $2,368,8.54 89
Payments ^. 2,292,424 27
$76,430 62
Balance uncertified $82,000 00
Claim of JMcKim, Mead & White, architects, for commission
according to statement June 10, 1895 8,685 61
Deficit.
LONDON ACCOUNTS.
Balances
from
1896-97.
Remit-
tances,
1897 98.
Total
Credits.
Expendi-
tures,
1897-98.
Balances
unex-
pended.
J.S.Morgan & Co.,
J. S.Morgan &Co.,
photograph fund,
J.S.Morgan & Co.,
interest on de-
posit
£ s. d.
4,403 7 0
£ s. d.
2,803 8 6
Baring Bros. & Co.
15 0 0
4,418 7 0
3,066 14 6
£ s. d.
7,206 15 6
263 6 0
15 0 0
,484 1 6
£ s. d.
1,609 1 7
254 12 1
1,863 13 8
£ s. d.
5,597 13 11
8 13 11
64 4 1
15 0 0
5,685 11 11
LiBEAEY Department.
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102 City Docuimekt No. 21.
library trust funds.
BiGEiiOW FcjND. — This is a donation made by the late Jonisr P.
BiGELOW, in August, 1850, when Mayor of the city.
Tlie income from this fund is to be aj)prox>riated to the purchase of
books for the increase of the library.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . 81,000 00
Payable to the Chairman of the Committee on the Public Library for
the time being.
Bates Fund. — This is a donation made by the late Joshua Bates
of London, in March, 1853.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for $50.000 00
"The income only of this fund is to be, each and every year, ex-
pended in the purchase of such books of permanent value and au-
thority as may be found most needful and most useful." Payable to
the Mayor of the city for the time being.
BowDiTCH Fund. — This is the bequest of J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per
cent. Bond §10,000 00
The whole income in each and every year to be expended in the pur-
chase of books of permanent value and authority in mathematics and
astronomy.
Philt^ips Fund. — This is a donation made by the late Jonathan
Phillips of Boston, April, 1853.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $10,000 00
The interest on this fund is to be used exclusively for the purchase
of books for said library.
Also a bd.iuest by the same gentleman in his will, dated September
20, 1849.
Invested in one City of Boston Six per cent. Bond, for . $20,000 00
The interest on which is to be annually devoted to the maintenance of
a free Public Library.
Both of these items are payable to the Mayor of the city for the
time being.
Abbott Lawrence Fund. — This is the bequest of the late Abbott
Lawrence of Boston.
Invested in one City of Boston Six per cent. Bond, for . $10,000 00
The interest on this fund is to be exclusively appropriated for the
purchase of books for the said library, having a permanent value.
Edward Lawrence Fund. — This is the bequest of the late Edward
Lawrence of Charlestown. The following clause from his will ex-
plains its purpose:
"To hold and apply the income, and so much of the principal as tliey
may choose, to the purchase of special books of reference to be kept
and used only at the Charlestown Branch of said Public Library."
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $500 00
Library Department. 103
Pierce Fund. — This is a donation made by Henry L. Pierce,
Mayor of the city, November 29, 1873, and accepted by the City Coun-
cil, December 27, 1873.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . So, 000 00
TowNSENB Fund. — This is a donation from William Minot and
William Minot, Jr., executors of the will of Mary P. Townsend, of
Boston, at whose disposal she left a certain jjortion of her estate in
trust, for such charitable and public institutions as they may think
meritorious. Said executors accordingly selected the Public Library of
the City of Boston as one of such institutions, and attached the follow-
ing conditions to the legacy: "The income only shall, in each and every
year, be expended in the purchase of books for the use of the library;
each of which books shall have been published in some one edition at
least five years at the time it may be so purchased."
Invested in one City of Boston Five per cent. Bond, for . $4,000 00
TiCKNOR Bequest. — By the will of the late George Ticknor, of
Boston, he gave to the City of Boston, on the death of his wife, all his
books and manuscripts in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, about
four thousand volumes, and also the sum of four thousand dollars.
After the receipt of said sum, the city is required to spend not less
than one thousand dollars in every five years during the twenty-five
years next succeeding (i.e., the income of four thousand dollars, at the
rate of five per cent, per annum), in the purchase of books in the
Spanish and Portuguese languages and literature. At the end of
twenty-five years, the income of the said sum is to be expended annually
in the purchase of books of permanent value, either in the Spanish or
Portuguese language, or in such other languages as may be deemed
expedient by those having charge of the Library. These books, be-
queathed or purchased, are always to be freely accessible for reference
or study, but are not to be loaned for use outside of the library building.
If these bequests are not accepted by the city, and the trust and con-
ditions faithfully executed, the books, manuscripts and money are to
be given to the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
In order that the city might receive the immediate benefit of this
contribution, Anna Ticknor, widow of the donor, relinquished her right
to retain during her life the l)Ooks and manuscripts, and placed them
under the control of the city, the City Council having previously
accepted the bequests, in accordance with the terms and conditions of
said will, and the Trustees of the Public Library received said bequests
on behalf of the city, and made suitable arrangements for the care and
custody of the books and manuscripts.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . |4,000 00
Franklin Club Fund. — This is a donation made in June, 1863, by a
literary association of young men in Boston, who, at the dissolution of
the association, authorized its trustees, Thomas Minns, John J. French
and J. Franklin Reed, to dispose of the funds on hand in such a man-
ner as to them should seem judicious. They elected to bestow it on
the Public Library, attaching to it the following conditions: "In trust
that the income, but the income only, shall, year by year, be expended
in the purchase of books of permanent value for the use of the free
Public Library of the city, and as far as practicable, of such a character
as to be of special interest to young men." The Trustees expressed a
preference for books relative to Government and Political Economy.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1 ,000 00
104 City Document No. 21.
Treadwell Fukd. — By the -will of the late Daniel Tkead-svell, of
Cambridge, late Rumford Professor in Harvard College, who died Feb-
ruary 27, 1872, he left the residue of his estate, after payment of debts,
legacies, etc., in trust to his executors, to hold during the life of his
wife for her benefit, and after her decease to divide the residue then
remaining in the hands of the trustees as therein provided, and con-
vey one-fifth part thereof to the Trustees of the Public Library in the
City of Boston.
The City Council accepted said bequest, and authorized the Trustees
of the Public Library to receive the same, and to invest it in the City
of Boston Bonds, the income of which is to be expended by said trus-
tees, in such manner as they may deem for the hest interests of the
Library.
Invested in the City of Boston Four per cent. Bonds, for . •$5,.550 00
Invested in the City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bonds, for 1,400 00
Invested in 16 shares B. & A. R.R. Co. stock, par value
$100 each 1,600 00
Invested in 6 shares B. & P. U.K. Co. stock, par value $100
each 600 00
Invested in 12 shares Fitchburg E.R. Co. stock, par value
$100 each 1,200 00
Invested in 1 share Vt. & Mass. R.R. Co. stock, par value
§100 each 100 00
$10,4.50 00
Charlotte Harris Fund. — Bequest of Charlotte Harris, late
of Boston, the object of which is stated in the following extract from
her will :
" I give to the Charlestown Public Library $10,000, to be invested
on interest, which interest is to be applied to the purchase of books
published before 18.50. I also give to said Public Library my own pri-
vate library, and the portrait of my grandfather, Richard Devens."
Bequest accepted by City Council, July 31, 1877.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . -$10,000 00
Thomas B. Harris Fund. — Bequest of Thomas B. Harris, late of
Charlestown, for the benefit of the Charlestown Public Library.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
ScHOLFiELD FuND. — Bequest of the late Arthur ScHOLFiELD, who
died in New York, January 17, 1883. The interest to be paid to certain
heirs during their lives, and then to be used for the purchase of books
of permanent value. The last heir, Joseph Scholfield, died "November
18, 1880, and by his will bequeathed to the City of Boston the sum of
$11,800, which represents the income of said fund, received by him up
to the time of his death, to be added to the fund given by his brother.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $50,000 00
'I '■'■ «' " " . 11,800 00
$61,800 00
Green Fund. —Donations of Dr. Samuel A. Green, of $2,000, the
income of which is to be expended for the purchase of books relating
to American history.
Invested in two City of Boston Five per cent. Bonds, for . $1,500 00
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . 500 00
$2,000 00
Library Department. 105
South Bostox Branch Library Trust Fund. — Donation of a
citizen of South Boston, the income of which is to be expended for the
benefit of the South Boston Branch Library.
Invested in City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . . $100 00
Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund. — This is a donation
from the family of Charles Greely Loring, the income of which is to be
expended for the purchase of books for the West End Branch.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $500 00
Charles Mead Public Library Trust Fund. — Received from
Charles Mead, executor of the estate of Charles Mead, the amount of
legacy of the late Charles Mead, to constitute the " Charles Mead
Public Library Trust Fund," for the promotion of the objects of the
Public Library, in such manner as the government of said library shall
deem best, and so far as the government shall deem consistent with
the objects of the library, to be used for the benefit of the South
Boston Branch Library.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . |2,500 00
«
Abtz Fund. — This is a donation made in ISTovember, 1896, by Miss
ViCTORiNE Thomas Artz of Chicago, the income " to be employed in
the purchase of valuable, rare editions of the writings, either in verse
or prose, of American and of foreign authors." These books are to
be known as the " Longfellow Memorial Collection."
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $10,000 00
.John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial Fund. — Received from the mem-
bers of the Papyrus Club, May, 1897. The income thereof is to be ex-
pended for the purchase of books in memory of their late member,
John Boyle O'Reilly.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund. — This is a donation made
in April, 1897, by the Association of Officers of the Twentieth Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Infantry. It is to be used for the purchase of books
of a military and patriotic character, to be placed in the alcove
appropriated as a memorial of the Twentieth Regiment.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $.5,000 00
Todd Fund. — This is a gift made in October, 1897, by Wm. C. Todd
of Xew Hampshire. The income is to be expended annually in pay-
ment for such current newspapers of this and other countries as the
board of officers for the time being having charge of the Public
Library of the City of Boston, shall purchase.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . ■'?50,000 00
Bequest of Rev. Dr. Caleb D. Bradlee.
Cash in Treasury $1,000 00
106 City Documext No. 21.
Recapitulation of Public Library Trust Funds.
Scliolfield Fund $01,800 00
Bates Fund 50,000 00
Todd Fund 50,000 00
Phillips Fund 20,000 00
Phillips Fund 10,000 00
Bowditch Fund 10,000 00
Charlotte Harris Fund 10,000 00
Abbott Lawrence Fund 10,000 00
Treadwell Fund 10,487 69
Artz Fund 10,000 00
Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund 5,000 00
Pierce Fund 5,000 00
Townsend Fund 4,000 00
Ticknor Fund 4,000 00
Charles Mead Fund 2,500 00
Green Fund 2,000 00
Bigelow Fund 1,000 00
Thomas B. Harris Fund 1,000 00
Franklin Club Fund 1,000 00
John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial Fund 1,000 00
Bradlee Fund • ■ g 1,000 00
Edward Lawrence Fund 500 00
Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund 500 00
South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund .... 100 00
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APPENDIX II.
EXTENT OF THE LIBRARY BY YEARS.
Yeaks.
Total volumes
in the Libraries.
Years.
Y'EAKS.
Total volumes
in the Libraries.
1
1852-53
9,688
16
1867-68
144,092
31
1882-83
422,116
2
1853-54
16,221
17
1868-69
152,796
32
1883-84
438,594
3
1854-55
22,617
18
1869-70
160,573
33
1884-85
453,947
4
1855-56
28,080
19
1870-71
179,250
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1885
460,993
5
1856-57
34,896
20
1871-72
192,958
35
1886
479,421
6
1857-58
70,851
21
1872-73
209,456
36
1887
492,956
7
1858-59
78,043
22
1873-74
260,550
37
1888
505,872
8
1859-60
85,031
23
1874-75
276,918
38
1889
520,1508
9
1860-61
97,-386
24
1875-76
297,873
39
1890
536,027
10
1861-62
105,034 ,
25
1876-77
312,010
40
1891
556,283
11
1862-63
110,563
26
1877-78
345,734
41
1892
576,237
12
1863-64
116,934
27
1878-79
360,963
42
1893
.597,152
13
1864-65
123,016
28
1879-80
377,225
43
1894
610,375
14
1865-66
130,678
29
1880-81
390,982
44
1895
628,297
15
1806-67
136,080
30
1881-82
404,221
45
46
1896-97
1897-98
663,768
698,888
VOLUMES IN LIBRARY AND BRANCHES, JANUARY 31, 1898,
ACCORDING TO LOCATION.
515,007
13,072
17,076
Duplicate room
29,861
528,079
18,525
15,026
16,815
13,292
13,782
14,799
South End
West End
14,592
10,359
4,153
Lower Mills (Station A)
Alattapan (Station D)
88
98
>;>^ ["Fellowes Athenaeum
"5 rt 1 Collection owned by City.
Mt. Bowdoin (Station F)
North Brighton (Station L) . . . .
Broadway Ext. (Station 1')
976
75
W Total, Koxbury brancli.
33,551
1,292
108
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APPENDIX III.
NET INCKEASE OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
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9,733
874
I's 52
11,857
710
330
13,518
I's 50
419
15,306
I'S 23
2,355
16,499
818
I's 9,143
20,493
loss 455
loss 542
32,491
746
I's 8,056
1 11,821
313
20,273
2,890
26,579
Duplicate room
8,603
Brigliton branch
46
130
91
167
98
23
292
107
1,217
276
Charlestown branch . .
145
I's 70
233
421
22
339
300
loss 16
I's 112
398
Dorchester branch . . .
423
309
269
222
209
134
358
loss 73
1,415
159
East Boston branch..
170
63
58
59
5
48
126
112
1,021
147
Jamaica Plain branch
335
294
150
214
112
221
329
273
1,277
374
iXorth End branch ..
8
4
12
224
84
75
63
I's 1,861
Roxbiiry branch
280
199
146
308
loss 352
147
382
48
1,202
I's 2,896
Fellowes AtheuEeum,
390
397
361
438
289
318
318
407
348
402
South Boston branch,
284
159
115
200
51
55
401
loss 289
1,509
loss 69
South End branch
260
248
187
365
loss 67
26
276
138
1,435
308
1,897
4
6,522
626
1,555
385
W. Roxbury branch. .
Lower Mills Reading
room
20
6
10
33
185
85
73
3
24
Mattapan Reading
room ;
1
Mt. Bowdoin Reading
room
74
932
loss 30
North Brigliton Read-
ing room
8
74
loss 7
Broadway Extension
Reading room
261
724
807
Total
12,916
14,636
15,519
20,256
8,633
20,915
29,927
18,695
35,698
35,129
1 Collection transferred to West End branch.
LiBEAEY DePAETJIENT.
109
APPENDIX III. — Continued.
Located February 1, 1897, to January 31,
Located.
Condemned,
missinp:,
transferred.
Net gain.
Central Library
Central Library, Duplicate room
Brighton branch
Charlestown branch
Dorchester branch
East Boston branch
Jamaica Plain branch
Roxbury branch, city collection
Fellowes Athenajum
South Boston branch
South End branch
West End branch
We^ Roxbury branch
Lower Mills Reading room
Mattapan Reading room
Mt. Bowdoin Reading room
North Brighton Reading room
Broadway Extension Reading room.
29,185
8,603
619
565
651
644
655
546
459
823
564
532
276
437
2,606
1343
167
492
497
281
3,442
57
892
256
147
=91
130
26,579
8,603
276
398
159
147
374
loss 2,896
402
loss 69
308
385
185
1
loss 30
307
44,560
9,431
.35,129
1 Includes error of 68 in count last year.
2 Includes error of 26 in count last year.
110
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APPENDIX IV.
CENTRAL LIBRARY CLASSIFICATIONS.
CLASSES.
Special Libraries.
■3
c
I8S8
1861
1866
1869
1871
1873
1875
1877
1880
1889
1890
1892
1894
1894
1894
1896
1896
1897
1
.J
iii
Condemned,
lost, niiasing
and trans-
ferred
deducted.
Total in
General
library,
Jan. 31,
1898.
it
1=
ii
II
la
i
5"
1.1
1"
a
ill
If
li
5
•5
1
H
Is
•6
S .S
.ill
ill
0 s
1
li
ll
d' s e
1*
574
015
1
13
14
(!)
31*
25
49
4
16
44
2
16
31
4
10
15
35
30
10
1,793
12,574
13,825
05,401
44,4'JO
23,287
10,900
10,717
9,694
2,900
13,763
22,335
7,023
33,000
19,772
7,856
0,881
20,090
14,828
19,081
13,370
15,274
249
35
17
107
00'
11
9
9
22
2
1,387
58
147
6
3
05
3
15
3,969
9
13
6
322
015
047
1,091
858
522
320
1,423
1,181
95
329
732
6
5
43
833
114
2
8
197
21
090
135
SI2
3,204
2,474
337
254
617
200
225
471
15
31
424
385
2,469
070
184
191
23
64
61
63
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
yc"l>.t. '^^' "''_••
278
64
362
21
.58
31
20
132
4,172
4
250
669
10
1
469
IS
8
75
270
4
1
1
1
8
866
4,429
415
12
K,
218
197
98
9
32
8
14,258
ograi i an ar> is ory
i!79
695
31
1
407
i
American h Story, geogiai hj, blograp y,ti e p ^,^^^^
56,170
English, histoij, etc
738
282
913
344
124
illO
707
lis
1,261
1,2C9
176
307
619
1,063
1,077
Ii47
S73
t y,
11,861
19,096
VIII.
^'
1
3
1
1
GrLk^ Latin a^nd jWIoIo v
1
1
28
3 ifluisU an.l Portu^ uese mstor ' and literature
7,515
Oriental history, geography, biography, travel and literature
1
5
15
14
4,4:10
29,683
,
7,081
3,518
1,300
307
98
170
136
13
30
183
14
381
121
63
24
6
32
63
30
14
245
130
28
17
89
48
10
43
84
93
3,231
248
66
2
5
31
2
59
400
10
12
29
1
274
34
2
21,812
101
2,819
11,227
XVI.
7,087
23
1
4
39
20,877
XVIII.
103
1,5,269
19
1
1
23,344
XX.
4
305
251
13,S1S
XXI.
1
129
7,745
30
23,917
XXII.
60
157
XXllI.
Kound volumes of manuscripts
21
81
24
1
45
12
•150
411
XXIV.
3,232
XXV.
19
8,351
659
44,877
5.59
XXVI.
Stack t'our
2,154
44,877
XXVII.
Duplicate room
13,072
13,072
2,606
441,097
0,279
13,848
2,045
129
6,172
13,491
6,386
669
691
422
6,287
679
595
2,819
7,746
1150
1,006
691
411
4,436
13,072
528,079
*"
?h,««'Iv ?„H^; il. ,nf,.J,5f; ,„'' 'j5''./''"f'?' lustory, etc., when embracinR several countries, and collected worlis of historians.
r L2L» V VI v,."^" "^ollfftf ,«°'^''^ "' -American wrlteri', and what of American liteialure is sometimes termed "polygrapliy."
r., "','„\;'y'-i\"-'i'"',Y',",-'""^"'t^",™**'^'>P«'<"'""'''>^si«<=t"« countries that Class IV. has tor America. ^ '^ ^ >
^:!** iUJ-.'^V";'"* *'*" Uelglum, the Netlierlands', 'swiVzerlan'd7an'd''theYcan'ciina
I ass XIV. includes political scleuce and ethics, education, etc.
Class XIX. Includes mecbanics, military and naval art?, agriculture, domestic ari<
Class XXIV. does not include the Shakespeare collection of the fceneral library. ,. , „i„ i.. .w <-p ,.„i „. ^f«,.fi„n
Class XXVI. contains the former " Lower Hall " collection, which has a different classification. It Includes 20,4o6 volumes of liction.
1 Framed.
NOTE. — The dates given In the special libraries column show the year when these collections were acquired by the Library.
Library Department.
Ill
APPENDIX V.
CLASSIFIGATIOX.
Branch Libraries, Januart 31, 1808, as reported by Custodians of Branches.
ROXBURT.
"S-flJ
Reference-books —
Genealogy and Hei%
aldry
Biography
History
354 1,690
Fine Arts, Archa^ol
ogy
Geograpliy, Travels,
Language
Literature
Medicine, Hygiene. .
Natural science
Philosophy, Ethics,
Education
Religion, Theology,
Sociology
Law
Useful and Indus
trial Arts
Amusements, GaraeS;
Sports
Fiction
Books for the young.
Bound periodicals..
Unclassified
Harris Collection . . .
49
1,079
1,390
32
814
15
1,967
5
956
471
908
1,202
10
104
53
4,519
1,645
1,276
227
17,076
30
2,256
2,916
207
1,334
311
4,200
486
826
732
1,476
322
658
436
74
3,002
1,712
3,252
3,941
2y,«61
297
2
1,.570
1,270
228
1,122
51
1,964
115
335
178
334
226
24
5,299
2,470
1,050
16,815
301
26
1,118
1,088
93
682
90
1,883
79
85
62
337
162
14
64
4,593
2,198
333
13,292
283
5
1,143
1,231
284
766
96
1,253
84
312
148
134
116
31
185
50
4,555
1,743
1,363
13,782
126
16
1,183
1,224
194
698
69
1,384
97
295
144
426
165
16
238
86
4,441
2,250
1,974
15,026
161
85
2,425
2,.S36
492
2,158
164
3,850
374
528
310
1,294
668
123
162
70
1,029
43
2,253
18,525
377
5
1,257
1,222
160
919
66
1,529
94
493
142
302
151
25
350
59
4,380
1,636
1,C32
14,799
177
3
1,673
1,1.36
39
1,289
43
1,358
139
609
320
313
218
43
202
113
4,256
2,276
385
14,592
1,205
853
185
659
105
996
62
443
218
848
207
5
83
61
1,542
1,890
507
10,359
280
1
409
302
10
252
2
391
189
4
153
2
1
854
1,201
102
4,153
112
City Document No. 21.
APPENDIX VI.
REGISTRATIOX DEPARTMENT.
Statistical Report, Fehruary 1, 1S97, to January 31, 1898.
Former Registrations.
Date.
"So. of I^ames.
First . .
Second
Third .
Fourth
Fifth..
1854-1858
1859-186T
1868-April 30, 1886
May 1, 1886-March 31, 1894
April 1, 1894-December 31, 1894.
17,066
52,829
227,581
124,396
25,443
Registrations, including old and new names, lost and filled
cards replaced, expired cards renewed during each year, for
the five years prior to 1895 :
1890
. 14,175
1891
. 11,502
1892
. 11,707
1893
. 11,029
1894
. 29,971
Average, 15,677.
Live Cards Outstanding.
Date.
Number.
Gain.
February 1, 1898 .
February 1, 1897.
February 1,1897.
February 1, 1896.
February 1, 1896 .
January 1, 1895.
Total gain . . .
64,973
45,606
45,606
34,842
34,842
29,971
19,367
10,764
4,871
35,002
CARDS ISSUED PEBRUAKY 1, 1897 — JANUARY 31, 1S98.
Ceutriil Lilirary
Brigliton Branch
Charlestown Braiuii ...
Dorchester Branch
East Boston Branch —
Jamaica Plaiu Branch .
Roxbury Branch
South Boston Branch..
SonthEnd Branch
West End Branch
West Roxbury Branch.
Station A
B
2,158
2,445
2,280
3,184
3,.iia
3,181
1,(;93
3,12i;
ToUls 45,606
RE-REGISTKATIONS.
New Registrations
Renewals.
Over Under
Over Under
31,274
1,3.->1
3,197
3,212
3,488
4,00.'i
4,986
4,628
2,4:M
4,(^7
186
28,894
1,256
2,S2S
2,987
3.124
3,802
4, .573
4.189
2,210
4,047
180
1,010
1,000
4,894 64,973 19,367 15,7'
1,300
1,013
• To whom cards were Riven since January 1, 189.5. Live cards outstanding .January 31, 1898, 64,973; February 1, 1897, 45,606; gain. 19,307 = .42(6. ^ .u i i ..i i
N. B.— Prior to Februai-y 1, 1897, cards were supplied to Stations A, E and U through the Dorchester Branch, and to the West Itoxbury Branch and Station B through the Jamaica J lain
Branch, and their statistics are included in the Dorchester and Jamaica Plain reports.
Library Department.
113
CLASSIFICATION OF HOLDERS OF "LIVE CARDS"
JANUARY 31, 1898.
By Sex and Occupation.
Classes.
Permanent
residents.
iNon-
residents.
Special
cards.
Males.
Over 21 years of arje.
Professional classes
Teachers
Students
Business men
Unemployed
Laborers
Under 21 years of age.
Clerks
Office and errand boys
Unemployed
Pupils of Latin and High schools
Pupils of Grammar schools
Pupils of Grammar schools under 12
years
Other students.
2,802
374
1,060
7,0^3
1,812
648
1,291
6.S7
376
863
8,853
205
351
61
99
1,010
75
166
103
Females.
Over 21 years of age.
Professional classes .
Teachers
Students
Business women
Married
Single, unemployed
Under 21 years of age.
Clerks
Errand girls
Unemployed !
Pupils of Latin and High schools.
Pupils of Gramiiiar schools
Pupils of Grammar schools under 12
years
Other students.
172
1,518
480
3,939
8,S07
7,057
1,424
190
949
1,087
8,057
278
225
5
154
1,055
53
28
450
82
23
6
2
23
Totals .
61,448
3,872
153
1 Including persons temporarily sojourning in Boston.
N.B. — Of the 1 ,!")8H teachers' cards issued priorto February 1, 1898, 997 are Jivecards;
of these, 713 are lield by permanent residents, in addition to their ordinary cards (not
included in permanent residents' column above), and 284 are held by nonresidents
(which are included in non-residents' column above).
lU
City Document No. 21.
By Wards.
No. of
card-
holders
Population
census of 'y5.
Percentage
of card-
holders.
No. of
card-
holders
Population
census of '95.
Percentage
of card-
holders.
1,686
1,01)9
1,107
673
1,077
1,093
1,742
4,6-22
2,648
7,740
4,468
4,900
1,619
21,007
21,588
13,943
13,375
12,986
27,860
16,973
23,130
23,174
22,554
19,930
21,591
24,900
.0802
.0509
.0793
.0503
.0829
.0392
.1026
.1998
.1142
.3433
.2241
.2269
.0650
14...
1,884
15...
1,241
16...
1,560
17...
1,577
18...
1,940
19...
2,128
20...
4,079
21...
4,283
22...
2,733
23...
2,705
24...
3,547
25...
2,822
Total
64,973
19,186
18,623
16,320
21,114
21,679
22,372
21 ,.528
19,274
22,289
18,283
18,240
15,001
.0981
.0666
.0955
.0746
.0894
.0951
.1894
.2222
.1226
.1479
.1944
.1881
496,920
.1307
Library Department.
115
PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TEACHERS AND PUPILS,
June 30, 1897.
General Schools.
Number
of
scbools.
numbeh of
Regular Teachers.
Number
of pupils
Men.
Women.
Total.
at date.
1
11
56
5-29
64
2
77
119
9
86
657
529
125
11
163
776
529
125
226
4,101
34,015
27,688
3,705
Totals
6tH
198
1,406
1,604
69,735
Special schools,
1
1
1
13
1
26
6
6
145
27
112
25
1,803
186
151
1-2
5
3 082
577
Totals
20
224
5,936
Special teachers (not included aliove),
21
76
97
Evening Schools,
October, lS96-March, 1897.
15
6
183
27
3 656
577
Totals
21
210
4,233
Grand total
702
219
1,482
2,135
79,904
116
City Document No. 21.
APPENDIX YII.
CIRCULATION".
Home Use Only.
Central Library.
Brighton
Charlestown —
Dorchester
East Boston
Jamaica Plain...
Roxbiiry
South Boston
.South End
West End
AVest Roxbury . .
Station A
B
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
M
N
r
Q
R
S
T -.
Carried forward
Total Circulation.
Home Use.
1896-97.
A.
326,254
27,308
53,555
57,856
63.443
52,2 r9
83,708
77,999
83,767
81,428
16,658
9,730
5,439
6,961
2,649
7,759
2,492
3,218
10,603
12,541
9,287
9,850
235
1,005,019
1897-98.
B.
388,469
31,382
57,362
58,105
62,993
57,176
84,691
80,912
82,497
109,617
22,496
4,283
13,870
3,193
12,180
9,186
7,929
10,447
146
3,808
8,484
9,770
26,159
16,544
14,090
17,004
2,600
1,195,413
From Central
through Branches
and Stations. In-
cluded in Central
Library
Circulation.
1896-97,
Included
in "A."
285
688
690
864
1,.573
533
852
1,359
885
1,187
1,678
2,.584
4,617
775
2,438
1,491
2,607
1,547
2,516
1,696
1,428
3,228
1,111
2,738
1,308
6
1897-98.
Included
in"B
618
1,046
818
1,077
1,543
647
861
l,8f3
1,477
1,898
1,398
4,082
3,559
1,009
1,889
2,883
1,878
2,746
3,298
1,460
1,557
3,853
1,324
3,864
3,533
1,383
1,013
52,597
From Branches
through Stations.
Incliided in Brancli
Circulation.
1896-97
Included
in "A
"629
3 2,752
" 3,235
= 3,280
■•261
3 1,726
12,859
1897-98.
Included
in "B."
' 1,916
' 2,632
3 4,255
*667
3 1,721
' 2,071
13,262
Library Department.
APPENDIX \'n.— C07icluded.
117
Total Circulation
Home Use.
From Central
through Branches
aud Stations. In-
cluded in Central
Library
Circulation.
From Branches
through Stations.
Included in Branch
Circulation.
1896-97.
1897-98.
1896-97.
1897-98.
1896-97.
1897-98.
Brought forward
1,005,019
1,195,413
1,325
592
425
1,903
40,C84
52,597
12,859
13,263
10
'975
3,937
• 5,275
Engine-houses
Total
1,005,019
1,199,658
41,669
61,809
12,859
13,262
' No. sent on deposit. No. used on premises not recorded.
' Included in Jamaica Plain Branch Circulation.
3 II a Dorchester " "
4 " " Brighton " "
* " " Roxbury " "
1896-97. 1S97-98.
Central Library 326,2.54 3S8,489
Branches 678,765 811,169
Total 1,005,019 1,199,658
Gain.
1897-98.
62,2.35
132,404
194,639=18%
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City Document No. 21.
APPENDIX VIII.
TRUSTEES FOR FOKTY-SIX YEARS.
The Hon. Edward Everett was President of the Board from
1852 to 1864; the late George Ticknor in 1865; William W.
Greenough, Esq., from 1866 to April, 1888; from May 7, 1888,
to May 12, 1888, Prof. Henry W. Haynes ; Samuel A. B.
Abbott, Esq., May 12, 1888, to AprU 30, 1895; Hon. E. O.
Prince since October 8, 1895.
The Board for 1852 was a preliminary organization ; that for
1853 made what is called the first annual report. At first it con-
sisted of one alderman and one common councilman and five citi-
zens at large till 1867, when a revised ordinance made it to
consist of one alderman, two common councilmen and six citizens
at large, two of whom retired, unless reelected, each year, while
the members from the City Council were elected yearly. In 1878
the organization of the Board was changed to include one alder-
man, one councilman and five citizens at large, as before 1867;
and in 1885, by the provisions of the amended city charter, the
representation of the city government upon the Board, by an
alderman and a councilman, was abolished, leaving the Board as
at present, consisting of five citizens at large.
Citizens at large in small capitals.
Abbott, Samuel A. B., 1879-95.
Allen, James B., 1852-53.
Appletox, Thomas G., 1852-57.
Barnes, Joseph H., 1871-72.
Benton, Josiah H., Jr., 1s94-97.
BiGELOW, John P., 1852-68.
BowDiTCH, Henry I., 1865-68.
BoAVDiTCH, Henry P., 1894-97.
Bradley, John T., 1869-70.
Bradt, Herman D., 1872-73.
Braman, Jarvis D., 1868-69.
Braman, Jarvis D., 1869-72.
Brown, J. Coffin Jones, 1861-62.
Burditt, Charles A., 1873-76.
Carpenter, George O., 1870-71.
Carr, Samuel, 1895-96.
Chase, George B., 1876-85.
Clapp, William W., Jr., 1864-66.
Clark, John M., 185.5-56.
Clark, JohnT., 1873-78.
Clarke, James Freeman,
1878-88.
Coe, Henry F., 1878.
Crane, Samuel D., 1860-61.
CuETis, Daniel S., 1873-75.
Dennie, George, 1858-60.
DeNormandie, James, 189.5-97.
Dickinson, M. F., Jr., 1871-72.
Drake, Henry A., 1863-64.
Erving, Edward S., 1852.
Everett, Edward, 1852-64.
Flynn, James J., 1883.
Frost, Oliver, 1854-55; 1856-.58.
Frothingham, Richard, 1875-79.
Gaffield, Thomas, 1867-68.
Green, Samuel A., 1868-78.
Greenough, William W., 1856-88.
Guild, Curtis, 1876-77; 1878-79.
Harris William G., 1869-70.
Haynes, Henry W., 1858-59.
Haynes, Henry W., 1880-95.
Hillard, George S., 1872-75;
1876-77.
Howes, Osborne, Jr., 1877-78.
Ingalls, Melville E., 1870-71.
Jackson, Patrick T., 1864-65.
Jenkins, Edward J., 1885.
Keith, James M., 1868-70.
Kimball, David P., 1874-76.
Lawrence, James, 1852.
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Lee, Jolm H., 1884-85.
Lewis, Weston, 1867-68.
Lewis, Weston, 1868-79.
Lewis, Winslow, 1867.
Lincoln, Solomon, 1897.
Little, Samuel, 1871-73.
Messinger, George W., 1855.
Morse, Godfrey, 1883-84.
Morton, Ellls W., 1870-73.
Munroe, Abel B., 1854.
Newton, Jeremiah L., 1867-68.
Niles, Stephen K., 1870-71.
O'Brien. Hugh, 1879-82.
Pease, Frederick, 1872-73.
Perkins, William E., 1873-74.
Perry, Lyman, 1852.
Pierce, 'Phineas, 1888-94.
Plummer, Farnham, 1856-57.
Pope, Benjamin, 1876-77.
Pope, Richard, 1877-78.
Pratt, Charles E., 1880-82.
Prince, Frederick O., 1888-97.
Putnam, George, 1868-77.
Reed, Samson, 1852-53.
Richards, William R., 1889-95.
Sanger, George P., 1860-61.
Sears, Phillip II., 1859-60.
Seaver, Benjamin, 1852.
Shepard, Harvey N., 1878-79.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B.,
1852-68.
Stebbins, Solomon B., 1882-83.
Story, Joseph, 1855-56; 1865-67.
Thomas, Benjamin F., 1877-78.
TicKNOR, George, 1852-66.
Tyler, Johns., 1863-64; 1866-67.
Walker, Francis A., 1896.
Warren, George W., 1852-54.
Washburn, Frederick L., 1857-58.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1868-70.
Whitmore, William H., 1882-83.
Wiiitmore, William II., 1885-88.
Whitney, Daniel H., 1862-63.
Whitten, Charles V., 1883-85.
Wilson, Elisha T., 1861-63.
Wilson, George, 1852.
WiNSOR, Justin, 1867.
Wolcott, Roger, 1879.
Wright, Albert J., 1868-69.
LIBRARIANS.
1852 to date.
(From 1S58 to 1877 the chief executive officer was entitled Superintendeut.)
Capen, Edward, Librarian, May 13, 1852-December 16, 1874.
Jewett, Charles C, Superintendent, 1858-January 9, 186S.
Winsor, Justin, Svperintendent, February 25, 1868-September 30, 1877.
Green, Dr. Samuel A., Trustee, Acting Librarian, October 1, 1877-
September 30, 1878.
Chamberlain, Mellen, Librarian, October 1, 1878-Septeraber 30, 1890.
Dwight, Theodore F.. Librarian, April 13, 1892-April 30, 1894.
Putnam, Herbert, Librarian, February 11, 1895.
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City Document No. 21.
APPENDIX IX.
EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR FORTY-SIX TEARS.
The following have served ou the Examining Committees for
the years given. The names in italics are those of Trustees who
have acted as chairmen of the various committees. The thirty-
fourth year was from May 1 to December 31, 1885, a period of
eight months, for which no Examining Committee was appointed.
Abbott, Hon. .J. G , 1870 '
Abbott, S. A. B., 1880, 1894.
Adams, Brooks 1894.
Adams, Nehemiah, D.D., 1860.
Adams, Wm. T., 1875.
Alger, Rev. Wm. R., 1870
Amory, 3[iss Anna S., 1890, 1891.
Andrew, Hon. John F., 1888.
Andrews, Augustus, 1892, 1893.
Appleton, //oh. Nathan, 1854.
Aptliorj), Wm. F., ISSo.
Arnold, Howard P., 1881.
Aspinwall, Col. Thomas, 1860.
Attwood, G., 1877.
Bailey, Edwin C, 1861.
Ball, Joshua D., 1861.
Bancroft, Robert H., 1894.
Bangs, Edward, 1887.
Barnard, .James M., 1866.
Barry, Her. Richard J., 1895.
Bartlett, Sidney, 1869.
Bates, lion. John L , 1896, 1897.
Beebe, James M., 1858.
Beecher, Bev. Edward, 1854.
Bent, Samuel Arthur, 1890, 1891.
Bigelow, Jacob, M.D., 1857.
Bigelow, Hon. John P., 1856.
Blagden. George W., I).D., 1856.
Blake, J. Bapst, M.D., 1897.
Blake, John G., M.D., 1883, 1891.
Blake, Mrs. Mary E., 1894.
Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P., 1879, 1891.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.l)., 1855.
BowfUtch, Henry 7., M.B., 1865.
Bowditch, Henry P., M.l)., 1881.
Bowditch, J.Ingersoll,LL.i).,1855.
Bowman, Alfonzo, 1867.
Bowne, I'rof. Borden P., 1896, 1897.
Bradford, Chai-les F. , 1868.
Brewer, Thomas M., 1865.
Brimmer. Hon. Martin, 1890, 1891.
Brooks, Rev. Phillips, 1871.
Brown, Allen A., 1894.
Browne, Alex. Porter, 1891.
Brow^ne, Causten, 1876.
Buckingham, C. E., M.B., 1872.
Burdett, Everett W., 1896, 1897.
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, Jr., 1869.
Carr, Samuel, 1894.
Carruth, Herberts., 1892.
Chadwick, James R., M.D., 1877.
Chamberlain, Hon. Mellen, 1894.
Chaney, Rev. George L., 1868.
Chase, George B., 1876.
Chase, George B. . 1877, 1885.
Cheever, David W., M.D , 1894.
Cheever, Miss Helen, 1896, 1897.
Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D., 1881.
Clapp, IVilliam H'.. Jr., 1864.
Clarke, James Freeman, 7>.Z).,1877.
Clarke, James Freeman, B.D., 1882.
Clement, Edward H., 1894, 1895.
Coale, George, O. G., 1892, 1893,
Collar, William C, 1874.
Corbett, Hon. Joseph J., 1896, 1897.
Cudworth, Warren H., D.B., 1878.
Curtis, Charles P., 1862.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1872.
Curtis, Thomas B., 3[.B., 1874.
Gushing, Thomas, 1885.
Dalton, Charles H., 1884.
Dana, Samuel T., 1857.
Dean, Benjamin, 1873.
Denny, Henry G , 1876.
Derby, Hasket, M.D., 1895, 1896.
Dexter, Rev. Henry M., 1866.
Dillingham, Rev. Pitt, 1886.
Dix, James A., 1860.
Doherty, Philip J., 1888.
Donahoe, Patrick, 1869.
Durant, Henry F., 1863.
Duryea, Joseph T.. B.B., 1880.
Dwight, Johns., 1868.
Dwight, Thomas, M.B., 1880.
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121
Eastburn, Manton, D.D., 1863.
Eaton, William S , 1887.
Edes, Henry H., 1886.
Eliot, Samuel, LL.B., 1868.
Ellis, Arthur B., 1888, 1889.
Ellis, Calvin, M.B., 1871.
Ellis, George E., i>.D., 1881.
Endicott, William, Jr., 1878.
Ernst Carl W., 1897.
Evans, George W., 1887, 1888, 1889.
Everett, Sidney, 1895.
Farlow, JohnW., M.D., 1892, 1893.
Field, Walbridge A., 1866.
Fields, James T., 1872.
Fitz, Reginald H., 1879.
Fitz, W alter Scott, 1894.
Foote, Uev. Henry W., 1864.
Fowle, William F., 1864.
Freelaud, Charles W., 1867.
Frost, Oliver, 1854.
Frothingham, IRicJiard, 1876.
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D.,
1882.
Gannett, Ezra S., D.D., 1855.
Garland, George M., M.D., 1895,
1896.
Gay, George H., 1876.
Gilchrist, Daniel S., 1872.
Gordon, George A., D.D., 1885.
Gould, A. A., 31. D., 1864.
Grant, Robert, 1884.
Gray, John C, LL.D., 1877.
Green, Samuel A., 31. D., 1863.
Green, Samuel S., 1895.
Greenouqh, William IT., 18-58, 1874,
1883, 1886.
Grinnell, Charles E., 1874.
Hale, Rev. Edvrard E., 18.58,
Hale, 3Irs. George S., 1887, 1888.
Hale, Moses L., 1862.
Hale, Philip, 1893.
Haskins, Bev. George F., 1865.
Hassam, John T., 1885.
Hayes, Hon. F. B , 1874.
Haynes, Henry W., 1879.
Haynes, Henry TF., 1881, 1884,
Hayward, George, 31. D., 1863.
Heard, John, Jr., 1888, 1889, 1891.
Heard, John T., 1853.
Hellier, Charles E., 1895.
Herford, Brooke, D.D., 1884.
Herrick, Samuel E., B.B., 1888,
1889.
Hersey, 3/j.s,s Heloise E., 1895, 1896.
Higginson, Thomas W., 1883.
Hill, Clement Hugh, 1880.
Qillard, Hon. George S., 1853.
Hillard, Hon. Geort/e iS., 1873.
Hodges, Richard M., M.B , 1870.
Holmes, Edward J., 1881, 1884.
Holmes, Oliver W., 31. B., 1858.
Holmes, Oliver W., Jr.,7>L.Z>.,1882.
Homans, Charles D., M.B., 1867.
Homans, 3[rs. Charles D., 1885,
1886, 1887.
Homer, George, 1870.
Homer, Peter T., 1857.
Hubbard, James M., 1891.
Hubbard, William J., 18.58.
Hudson, John E., 1895, 1890.
Hunnewell, James F., 1880, 1893,
1894.
Hutchins, 3Iiss Emma, 1895, 1896.
Hyde, George B., 1879.
Irwin, 31iss Agnes, 1894.
Jeffries, B. Joy, 31. B., 1869.
Jeffries, William A., 1893.
Jenkins, Charles E., 1879.
Jewell, Hon. Harvey, 1863.
Jordan, Eben D., 1873.
Kidder, Henry P., 1870.
liinthall, Baxid P., 1874.
Kimball, Henry H., 1865.
Kirk, Edward N., />.L>., 1859.
Lawrence, Hon. Abbott, 1853.
Lawrence, Abbott, 1859.
Lawrence, Miss Harriette S., 1890.
Lawrence, James, 18.55.
Lee, 31iss Alice, 1889, 1890, 1891.
Lee, Hon. John H., 1897.
Lewis, Weston, 1872, 1878.
Lincoln, Hon. F. W., 1856.
Lincoln, Solomon, 1886.
Little, James L., 1864.
Lombard, Prof. Josiah L,, 1868,
Loring, Hon. Charles G., 1855,
Lothrop, Loriug, 1866.
Lowell, A. Lawrence, 1897.
^Lowell, Augustus, 1883.
Lowell, Edward J., 1885.
Lunt, Hon. George, 1874.
Lyman, George H., 31. B., 1885.
McCleary, Samuel F., 1890.
McNulty, Eev. John J., 1896, 1897.
Manning, Bev. Jacob M., 1861.
Mason, Bev. Charles, 1857.
Mason, Robert M., 1869.
Maxwell, J. Audley, 1883.
Metcalf, Bev. Theodore A., 1888,
1889.
Minns, Thomas, 1864.
Minot, Francis, 1866.
Morison, jV/ss Mary, 1892, 1893, 1895.
Morrill, Charles J., 1885.
Morse, John T., Jr., 1879.
Morse, Robert M., Jr., 1878.
Morton, Hon. Ellis W., 1871.
Mudge, Hon E. R., 1871.
Neale, Rollin H.. B.B., 1853.
Xoble, John, 1882.
Norcross, Otis, 1880.
O'Brien, Hon. HiK/lt, 1870.
O'Callaghan, John J., 1895.
O'Reilly, John Boyle, Ls78.
Otis, g'. a., 1860. "
Paddock, Bt. Bev. Benj. II., 1876.
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City Document No. 21.
Parker, Charles Henry, 1888, 1889.
Parker, 2Irs. AVilliam L., 1897.
Parkman, Henry, 1885.
Parks, Rev. Leigliton, 1882, 1896,
1897.
Perkins, Charles C, 1871.
Perry, Thomas S., 1879, 1882, 1883,
1884, 188.-), 1890, 1891.
Phillips, .John C, 1882.
Phillips, Jonathan, 1854.
Pierce, Hou. Henry L., 1891.
Pingree, Miss Lalia B., 1894.
Prescott, William H., LL.D, 18.5.3.
Prince, IIon.F.O., 1888, 1889, 1890.
1891, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1870.
Putnam, Hon. .John P., 1865.
Kandall, Charles M., M.D., 1884.
Rice, lion. Alexander H., 1860.
Eobbins, Elliott, M.D., 1893.
Rogers, Prof. William B., 1861,
Rollins, J. Wingate, 1888, 1889.
Ropes, .John C, 1872.
Rotch, Benjamin S., 186-3.
Runkle, Pr<f. J. D., 1882.
Russell, Samuel H., 1880.
Sampson, O. H., 1892, 1893.
Sanger, Hon. George P., 1860.
Seaver, Edwin P., 1881.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey X., 1888,
1889.
Sherwin, Mrs. Thomas, 1893, 1894.
Shitrtleff. Hon Nalhaniel B., 1857.
Smith, Azariah, 1895, 1896.
Smith, Charles C, 1873.
Smith, Mrs. Charles C, 1881, 1886.,
Smith, Miss Minna, 1892.
Sowdon, A. J. C, 1892, 1893.
Sprague, Charles J., 18.59.
Sprague, Homer B., 1882.
Stedman, C. Ellery, M.D., 1888.
Stevens, Oliver, 18.58.
Stevenson, Hon. J. Thomas, 1856.
Stockwell, S. N., 1861.
Stone, Col. Henry, 1885, 1886, 1887.
Story, Joseph, 1856.
Sullivan, Richard, 1883, 1884.
Teele, John O., 1886.
Thaxter, AdamW., 18.55.
Thayer, George A., 1875.
Thayer, Rev. Thomas B., 1802.
Thomas, B. F., LL.D., 1875.
Thomas, Seth J., 1856.
Ticknor, Miss Anna E., 1891.
Ticknor, Georqe, LL.D., 1853, 1854,
18.5.5, 1859, 1863, 1866.
Tillinghast, Caleb B., 1895, 1896.
Tobev. //o». Edwards., 1862.
Todd, William C, 1894.
Twombly, Rev. A. S., 1883, 1884.
Upham, J. B., M.D., 1865.
Vibbert, Rev. Geo. H., 1873.
Wales, George W., 1875.
Walley, Hon. Samuel H., 1862.
Ward, Rev. Julius H , 1882.
Ware, Charles E., M.D., 1875.
Ware, Darwin E., 1881.
Warner, Hermann J., 1867.
Warren, Hon. Charles H., 18.59.
Warren, J. Collins, M.B., 1878.
Waterston, Rev. Itebert C, 1867.
Weissbein, Loviis, 1893.
Wells, Mrs. Kate G., 1877.
Wendell, Prof. Barrett, 1895, 1896.
Wharton, William F., 1886.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1869.
Whitmore, William H., 1887.
Whitney, Daniel //., 1862,
Whitney, Henry A., 1873.
Wightman, Hon. Joseph M., 1859.
Williams, Harold, M.D., 1888, 1889,
1890.
Williamson, William C, 1881.
Williamson, Mrs. William C, 1897.
Wilso)L, Elisha T., M.D., 1861.
Winsor, Justin, LL.D., 1867.
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, 18.54.
Winthrop, Robert C, Jr., 1887.
Wood, Frank, 1897.
Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1871.
Woolson, 3Irs. Abba Goold, 1888,
1889.
Wright, Hon. Carroll D. , 18S4.
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APPENDIX X.
SCHEDULE OF LIBRARY SERVICE.
JSTofe. — This has 1)een liroiijjlit down to "Mnj 1, 1S98. The order followed is (i; by
rank in grades, and (2) alphabetically, within each grade.
Summary.
Central Library .
Branches and Readiuo- rooms
154 Males 79 Females 75
61 " 14 " 47
215
Evening and Sunday service. * 57
Extra assistance is employed at the branches.
93
122
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Name.
Putnam, Herbert
Savage, Philip IL
t M coney, George V.
** Bicknell, Margaret M.
Deery, D. Jean.
Learned, Lucie A. .
Cellarius, Theodore W.
Nichols, Adelaide A.
McFarland, Peter V.
Entered.
Grade.
. 1895
Librarian.
. 1896
Librarian's Sec
. 1889
B. Special.
. 1896
C. "
. 1891
C. "
. 1891
C. "
. 1892
D.
. 1868
Auditor.
. 1896
D. Runner.
CATALOGUE DEPARTMENT.
Whitney, James L.
^Swift, Lindsay ,
Chevalier, Samuel A
Hunt, Edward B.
Murdoch, John
Burnell, Carrie
Rollins, Mary H.
Seaver, Mrs. Lillian
Rice, Edwin F.
Tenney, JMary A.
Bartlett, Mary R.
Cutler, Dora L.
Gould, Ida W.
, ,
1869
Chief.
•
1878
A. Special
1894
A.
1883
A. "
1896
A.
1881
A.
1886
A.
F. .
1888
A.
1885
B. Special
1897
B. "
1897
B.
. 1887
B.
. 1884
B.
* Serving from three to seven evenings a week each. The total number of positions
is 33, evenings; 38, Sundays.
** Auditor's Assistant, j tJustodiau of Stock Room. ITEditor Library rublications.
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City Document No. 21.
Entered.
Grade.
Hemmings, Anita F.
. 1897
B.
Leavitt, Luella K. .
. 1895
B.
Brennan, T. Frank .
. 1890
D. Special.
Dolan, Charles T. .
. 1894
D.
OEDERING
DEPARTMENT.
Macurdy, Theodosia E.
. 1889
Chief.
Browne, Alice .
. 1883
B. Special.
Coolidge, Marie
. 1893
B.
Frinsdorff, Emil}^ 0.
. 1894
B.
Goddard, Mrs. Frances H.
. 1892
B.
McGrath, Mary A. .
. 1868
B.
Keleher, Alice A. .
. 1891
D. Special.
McFarland, Thomas A. .
. 1891
D.
St. Louis, Robert E.
. 1897
D. Runner.
SHELF DEPARTMENT.
Roffe, William G. T.
. 1881
A. Div. 2.
*Locke, .John F.
. 1894
B.
Richmond, Bertha P.
. 1895
B.
Connor, George H. .
. 1891
C. Special.
Reardon, .John H.
. 1896
C.
Eberhart, .John
. 1894
D. "
Caiger, Eliza F. A. .
. 1895
D.
Lucid, John F.
. 1893
D.
BATES HALL.
Knapp, Arthur M. .
. 1875
Custodian.
tBlaisdell. Frank C.
. 1876
A. Special.
Doyle, Agnes C.
. 1885
B.
Buckley, Pierce E. .
. 1891
C.
Plunkett, Albert .1. .
1895
D.
Hardy, Charles A. .
1896
D. Runner.
SPECL^L
LIBRARIES.^
Fleischner, Otto
1891
Custodian.
Hitchcock, Grace A.
1895
B. Special.
Hall, Belle S. .
1895
B.
Lewis, Marian L, .
1897
B.
Barlow, Lillis .
1897
C.
Cassidy, Margaret L.
1895
1). Special.
Ward, Joseph W.
1891
D.
Hutchins, Fern aid .
1896
D.
Kelly, Charlotte H. .
1895
D.
Leonard, Michael F.
1895
D.
McKiernan, John L.
1896
D. Runner.
JSmith, Arthur E. F.
1897
D. Runner.
* Engaged for temporary service.
t Supervisor of Patent and Newspaper Departments.
I Resigned, to take effect May 31, 1898.
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PERIODICAL-ROOM
.
Entered.
Grade.
Wendte, Frederika .
. 1895
c.
Ford, Mary E. A. .
. 1895
D.
Maguinuess, James .
. 1897
D.
Runner.
NEWSPAPER-ROOM
Serex, Frederic
. 1895
B.
Keenan, Matthew T.
. 1896
D.
Special.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
McGuffey, Margaret D. .
. 1895
Chief.
* Sheffield, Mrs. Gertrude P.
. 1896
B.
Special.
Forrest, Gertrude E.
. 1895
B.
a
Barry, Edward F.
. 1890
C.
i i
McCarthy, Michael, Jr. .
. 1892
C.
u
Sheridan, Mary C. .
. 1881
C.
a
Desmond, Louise L.
. 1895
C.
Richards, Florence F,
. 1875
C.
Shumway, Marion H.
. 1895
C.
Cufflin, M. Florence
. 1892
D.
Special.
Cunniff, Nellie L. .
1895
D.
Dowliug, S. Jennie .
1895
D.
McCarthy, Marion A.
1895
D.
Murphy, Annie G. .
1888
D.
Reynolds, Mary A. .
1894
D.
Roett, Louis W.
1895
D.
Bertram, Lucy I.
1895
D.
Connolly, Nelly L. .
1895
D.
Daly, Margaret C. .
1895
D.
Ethier, Lillian E. . . .
1895
D.
Gorman, John E. .
1895
D.
Kiernan, Letitia M. .
1895
D.
Lucid, Joseph A. .
1895
D.
Olson, Alphild ....
1895
D.
Olson, Bertha A. . . .
1895
D.
Wiechmann, Catherine A.
1895
D.
Williams, Grace
1895
D.
Zaugg, Joanna
1895
D.
Zaugg, Otto E. . . .
1895
D.
Barry, Margaret M. .
1897
D.
Runner.
Cole, Grace" E.
1897
D.
Hagerty, Mary E. .
1897
D.
McKenzie, Kenneth .
1897
D.
McSweeney, M, Agnes
1897
D.
Maier, William C, Jr.
1S97
D.
Mayer, Harry F. .
1897
D.
Shaughnessy, Mary A.
1897
D.
* In chartre of Ju
VL'uile DeDart
nent.
126
City Document No. 21.
Entered.
Grade.
Stetson, Nina M. .
1896
D. Runner.
Bryce, Jean M.
1898
E.
Campbell, Charles D.
1898
E.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT, BEANCH DIVISION".
* AVellman, Hiller C.
1896
Supervisor of Branches
aud Delivery Stations.
t Bourne, Edna L. .
1897
B.
Painter, Florence Mc. M. .
1897
B.
Heimann, Otto A. .
1890
C. Special.
Morse, INIaud M.
1877
C. "
Maier, Joseph A. .
1892
D. "
Conroy, Michael J. .
1897
D. Runner,
REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.
Keen an, John J.
1885
B. Special.
Mnrray, Ella K.
1886
C.
Shelton, Richard B. .
1895
D. Special.
Fillebrown, Emily F.
1895
D.
PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
Entered.
Position.
Lee, Francis W.
1894
Chief.
Geyer, Willfried H. .
1896
Pressman.
Greeley, Carrie P. .
1896
Compositor.
Land, Annie F.
1896
a
Ives, Birdsey F.
BIN]
1896
DERY.
Feeder.
Ryder, Frank .
. 1883
Foreman.
Collins, Dennis J. .
. 1887
Finisher.
Brennan, Richard M.
1898
Forwarder.
Fuerst, Alexander .
. 1896
a
Heyer, AVilliam H. .
. 1891
a
Hoeffner, George
. 1891
a
Ivory, John W.
1893
i i
Lofstrom, Konrad A.
1892
I i
Mnrpliy, John F.
. 1883
a
Hemstedt, William P.
1883
Pressman.
Bowen, Mrs. Sarah E.
1876
Sewer.
Doiron, .Joanna
. 1896
((
Kiley, Margaret J. .
. 1889
( (
Mori arty, jNIary G. .
. 1875
((
Nolen, Sarah .
. 1891
a
Potts, Ellen F.
1892
n
Soule, Ellen E.
. 1891
ii
* Resigned, to take effect May 31, 1898.
t Resigned, to take effect June 18, 1898.
Library Department.
127
engijsteer and janitor department.
Entered.
Position.
Niederaner, Henry .
1894
Chief Engineer.
McCready, Alexander
1895
Engineer.
Malone, John P. . . .
1895
Engineer.
O'Neill, Harry
1896
i;
Zittel, George, Jr. .
1891
((
Hcrland, Nils J.
1895
Fireman.
Moran, John A.
1894
a
Karlson, Charles W.
1896
Book Motors.
* WillianivS .John L. .
1886
Janitor.
McCarty, Dennis
1888
Watchman.
McGee, Alexander D.
1896
Painter.
Wall, Frank A.
1897
Carpenter.
Hanna, William T. .
1895
Marble polisher
Goode, Robert
1895
Elevator. )
Cole, AVilliam E.
1898
Coat room, j
EAST BOST
ON BRANCH.
Entered.
Grade.
Walkley, Ellen 0. .
1897
C. Special.
Brackett, Marian AY.
1897
C.
Wing, Alice M.
1873
C.
Biekford, Lillian A.
1891
D.
Hosea, George H. .
1873
Janitor.
Taylor, Charles F. .
1897
( (
SOUTH BOS^
rON BRANCH.
Bullard, N. Josephine
. 1883
C. Special.
Eaton, Ellen A.
. 1873
C.
Sampson, Idalene L.
1878
c.
McQuarrie, Annie C.
. 1894
D.
Orcntt, Alice B.
1887
D.
Sumner, Alice F.
. 1897
D.
Baker, Joseph .
1872
Janitor.
ROXBUR^
f BRANCH
.
Bell, Helen M.
1878
C. Special.
Berry, Elizabeth C. .
. 1883
C.
Puffer, Dorothy
. 1878
C.
Griggs, Sarah W.
1886
D.
Lynch, Gertrude A.
. 1894
D.
Monahan, William .
. 1883
Janitor.
CHARLESTOWN BRANCH.
Cartee, Elizabeth F. . .1886 C. Special.
Livermore, Mrs. Susan E. . 1885 C.
Reagen, Elizabeth R. . .1895 C.
* Charge of Ijook motors, evenings.
128
City Document Xo. 21,
Entered.
Grade.
O'Nein, Margaret M.
,
1892
D.
Rogan, Katharine S.
1896
D.
Smith, Thomas E. .
1874
Janitor.
BRIGHTON
BRANCH.
Hobart, Martha N. .
,
1896
C. Special
Conley, Ellen F.
.
1891
C.
Dale, M. Florence .
1895
D.
Brock, James M.
1878
Janitor.
DORCHESTER BRANCH.
Reed, Mrs. Elizabeth T. .
.
1873
C. Special
Griffith, Mary E. .
1886
C.
Donovan, Mary G. .
1891
D.
Hufton, Nellie E. .
1896
D.
Meffen, Margaret
.
1892
D.
Davenport, Edward .
•
1875
Janitor.
SOUTH
ENE
) BRANCH.
Sheridan, Margaret A.
,
1875
C. Special
McGrath, Amelia F.
.
1888
C.
Lynch, l^mma F. .
.
1885
D.
Meehan, Margaret F.
1893
D.
Mulloney, William J,
1892
D.
JAMAICA
PLAIN BRANCH.
Swain, Mary P.
,
1877
C. Special.
Riley, Nellie F.
.
1878
C.
Albert, Katie F.
1892
D.
Kenney, Thomas W.
1897
Janitor.
WEST
END
BRANCH.
Davis, Mrs. Eliza R.
1877
C. Special.
Barton, Margaret S.
1885
C.
Forbes, George W. .
1896
C.
McKirdy, Alice E. .
1896
C.
Mooney, Katharine G.
1885
C.
Kiley, Mary E.
1896
D.
Riley, Mary E.
1891
D.
Porter, Frank C.
1896
D. Runner
Rossiter, John .
1896
Janitor.
WEST ROXBURY BRANCH.
Morse, Carrie L.
.
1890
D. Special.
Woods, Eugene B. .
1898
Janitor.
Library Department.
129
DELIVERY STATIONS.
Station. Custodian. Grade.
A. L"wer Mills Reading room Hill, M. Addie D, Special.
B. Roslindale Deliverv Station Davis, William W.
C. "West Roxbury Brancli See above
D. Mattapau Reading-room Capewell, Mrs. Emma G.,D. Special.
E. Neponset Delivery Station Barnes, Charles D.
F. Mt. Bowdoin Reading-room Fairbrother. Mrs. Eliz.G., D. Special.
G. AUston Delivery Station Bernard Drug Comjiany.
H. Ashmont Delivery Station Weymouth, Clara E.
J. Dorcliester Sta. Delivery Station . .Sexton, Mrs. Annie M.
K. Bird-st. Delivery Station Morris, Antoinette.
L. No. Brighton Reading-room Muldoon, Katlierine F. . .D. Special.
M. Crescent ave, Deliverv Station Johnson, Charles E., & Co.
N. Blue Hill ave. Delivery Station Riker, Mrs. S. A.
P. B'way Extension Delivery Station. Ward. Langdon L D. Special.
Q. Upham's Curner Delivery Station. .Bird, Mrs. Thomas H.
R. Warren-st. Delivery Station Eaton, Charles T.
S. Roxbury Crossing Delivery Station. Bollig, Emma D. Special.
T. Boylston Delivery Station Locke, Joseph B.
EVENING AND SUNDAY SERVICE.
6 P.M. TO 10 P.M. Winter Schedule.
Sundays, 2 to 10 P.M.
Bates Hall.
Officers in Charge.
Chevalier, Samuel A. See Issue Department
Fleischner, Otto .....
Hunt, Edward B. .
Swift, Lindsay .....
Assistants.
Roffe, William G. T
Walsh, William A. See Fine Arts .
Central Desk.
Buckley, Pierce E. See Issue Department
Reardon, John H. See Deliverers of Books
Williams, David L. ....
Care of Reference Books.
Heimann, Albert E. . . . .
Plunkett, Albert J. See Fine Arts Assistants
Collectors of Slips.
Pitts, James A. .... .
Lucid, John F. ..... ,
Runner.
Beekford, Fred A. .
Issue Department.
Officers in Charge.
Blaisdell, Frank C
Buckley, Pierce E.
Chevalier, Samuel A.
Receiver of Books.
Blaisdell, Fred W. .
Deliverers of Books.
Reardon, John H.
Clarke, William S.
See Central Desk
See Bates Hall
See Central Desk
See Indicator. Runners
Hours.
10
10
15^
4
20
24
16
9
25
20
4
8
25
13
12
130
City Document No. 21.
See Deliverers of Books. Runuer
r. See Care of Tubes
See ludicator
See Runners
See Runners
Care of Indicator.
Clarke, William S.
Hannigan, Walter
Care of Slips.
Heimaun, Otto A.
Hughes, John A.
Care of Tubes.
Hannigan, Walter
Hardy, Charles A
Tenny, Robert M.
Care of Carriers.
Hannigan, Frank J.
Runners.
Campbell, Charles D. .
Clarke, William S. See Indicator
Connors, Timothy J.
Currier, Ulysses S. G. .
Doyle, Charles A. .
Eberhart, .John ....
Ford, Daniel J. See Desk Attendant
Glover, John H. .
Gorman, John PL .
Hardy, Charles A. See Care of Tubes
Hemstedt, William P. See Patent room
Hughes, Thomas F. . . .
McFarland, Peter V. . . .
Martin, D. Clifford
Roett, Louis W. See Fine Arts
Russell, J. Edward
Tenny, Robert M. See Care of Tubes
Weller, Waldo W
Desk Attendant.
Ford, Daniel .T. See Runners
Deliverers of Book
s.
Extra Assistant
Hours.
13
12
7
18
13
6
6
25
16
7
2.5
7
25
9
7
12
9
9
2.5
6
16
19
18
2^
Barton Library.
In Charge.
Lee, Francis W.
Tiffany, Edward
Assistant.
Smith, Arthur E.
20
12
32
Fixe Akts Depaktmext.
In Charge.
Bourne, Frank A. .
Walsh, William A.
Assistants.
Leonard, Michael F.
Plunkett, Albert J.
Ward, Joseph W. .
See Bates Hall Assistants
See Reference Books
20
12
9
H
191.
J- — i>
Library Department. 131
Extra Assistant. Hours.
Roett, Louis W. See Runners .... 4
Periodical Room.
Connors, John F. . " . . . . . .32
Registration Desk.
Fallon, William E 21 1
Keenan, John J. ....... 3^
Patent room and Juvenile Library.
Attendants.
Doyle, Agnes C. ....... 6
Hall, Belle S 8^
Owen, Marion L lOf
Assistant.
Trueman, Nelson G. . . . . . .32
Extra Assistant.
Hemstedt, William P. See Runners ... 4
Newspaper room.
Attendants.
Brennan, T. Frank . . . . . .12
Connor, George H. . . . . . .16
Keenan, Matthew T " . 4
Replacement op Books.
Barry, Edward F 12^
McCarthy, Michael, jr 12^
132 City Document No. 21.
APPENDIX XI.
SYSTEM OF SERVICE.
As IN Force May 1, 1898.
The sj'stem of graded sendee with provision for examinations
as set forth in Article VI. of the By-laws quoted below was
adopted by the Trustees in April, 1895. Employees then in the
service were graded thereunder. The application of the system
to such employees was, however, made with this proviso : that it
should not of itself entitle any employee to an increase of salary
nor subject him to a decrease. In many cases, therefore, the
salaries of present employees do not yet accord precisely with
the salaries of the grades under which they are classed. But
increases of salary that may be recommended on the ground that
the service rendered is entitled to higher pay will be made only
in accordance with the system. And all promotions, as well as
new appointments, will be made in accordance with the system.
Extracts from By-Laws.
ARTICLE VI., Section 1. — ExaminaUons . Semi-annu-
ally, or oftener if expedient, examinations shall be held under
the direction of the Librarian, for admission, b}^ promotion or
otherwise, to all grades of employment in the Public Library,
except the positions of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Libra-
rian's Secretary, Auditor, Chief Cataloguer, Chief of Shelf
Depaitment, Custodian of Bates Hall, Chief of Ordering Depart-
ment, Chief of Issue Department, Supervisor of Branches and
Stations, Chief Engineer, Chief of Printing Department, and
Chief of Bindery.
From the list of those persons who have successfully passed
the examinations of the grade in which they seek employment,
appointments shall be made by the Trustees upon nomination by
the Librarian in consultation with the head of the department in
which the appointment is to be made.
ARTICLE v.. Section 2. — Vacations and other Absences.
All persons regularly employed in the Library, except persons
employed in the Engineer's or Janitor's departments, or in the
Bindery, shall be entitled to a vacation at the rate of twenty-four
days for each year in the service, exclusive of legal hohdays, and
of the weekly half-holiday allowed by the city ordinance, to be
arranged by the Librarian. No allowance shall be made for
absence from duty except as above provided.
Library Department. 133
Section 3. The President or Librarian shall have power to
suspend, with loss of pay, any person in the Librarj' service
until the first succeeding meeting of the corporation.
The following notice and application blank are furnished to
applicants for employment in the librar}^ service :
Notice to Applicants fok Ejiployment.
Applications must he made upon the printed blanks furnished
by the Library. Examinations for applicants will be held from
time to time as the needs of the service may require. Each
applicant will be notified of the examination to l>e held next
after the filing of his application.
The examinations are not strictly competitive. Other capaci-
ties being equal, preference will be given to persons attaining the
highest mark ; but in making selections from among those who
have taken the examination, other elements of fitness for the par-
ticular positions to be filled will be taken into account.
The purpose of the examination being not to test the intelli-
gence of the applicants by an absolute standard, but rather to
range the applicants according to the relative intelligence dis-
played by them, no absolute pass-mark is fixed ; nor is any cer-
tificate or diploma given, but candidates will, if they desire, be
informed of their relative rank among those who have taken
examinations for the same grade.
The examination, nioreover, is legarded as a preliminary test
merely. It must be followed by a test of capacity in actual ser-
vice during a probationary period. And all appointments to the
service, even where carrying pay, are provisional and conditioned
upon proof of capacity for the particular positions to be filled as
shown in actual ser^'ice.
The entire library service (excepting the Engineer, Janitor, and
Printing Departments and the Bindery, and the Sunday and Even-
ing service which is paid by the hour) is divided into grades.
Each grade begins with a minimum salary and progresses, by an
annual increase, to a maximum. No such increase, however,
will be paid, unless the work of the employee has proved satisfac-
tory to the Trustees. The maximum reached, no further increase
is possible, except by promotion to a higher grade. Such promo-
tion also is based upon an examination, combined, however, with
certificate of capacity from the head of the department in which
the employee has served.
The ordinary grades are supposed to provide for positions
where academic knowledge is necessary ; the special grades for
those positions where special capacities (as knowledge of type-
writing, executive abihty, etc.) are more particularly required.
134 City Document No. 21.
The grades are as follows :
1st year,
2d year,
3d year,
4th year«
per week.
per w
eek.
per week.
per week-
Grade
E
$3
50
$4 00
$4 50
D
5
00
6
00
7 00
D (for runners) 5
00
5
50
C
7
50
8
50
9 50
$10 50
B
11
00
12
00
13 00
14 00
A Div. I. .
18
50
19
50
ADiv. II. .
21
50
22
50
D Special .
7
00
8
00
9 00
10 00
C
12
00
13
00
13 50
B
14
00
15
50
17 50
A
23
50
25
50
27 50
It is expected that vacancies in Grade A will be filled b}' pro-
motion from Grade B after examination.
Persons who have entered the Library service as runners in
Grade E, and are certified hj the head of the department to have
performed satisfactorily the duties of Grade E and to have
acquired a knowledge of location requisite for Grade D, may,
upon recommendation of the Librarian, at the end of six months
from the date when the}^ entered the ser^ice, be promoted to
Grade D.
The qualifications for the various general grades, so far as the
requirements of the general examination are concerned, are as
follows :
Grade A.
Knowledge of Foreign Languages.
General History and Literature.
Library Science.
Experience in this Library.
Grade B.
Equivalent of College Education.
Knowledge of at least two Foreign Languages.
General History and Literature.
Library Science (if required).
Grade C.
Equivalent of High School Education.
Knowledge of one Foreign Language.
Grade D.
Equivalent of Grammar School Education.
Knowledge of location and system in this Library,
Grade E.
Equivalent of Grammar School Education.
Library Department. 135
Applicants for positions in the higher grades must satisfy the
examiners of their ability to pass the examinations for all the
grades below that for which they make application.
To the above general qualifications must be added in each case
such special qualifications as may be requisite for the particular
positions to be filled.
Herbert Putnam,
Librarian.
Application Blank.
I hereby make application to be examined for a position in
Grade of the Public Library service of the city of Boston.
As part of mj^ application I declare the answers to the follow-
ing questions to be true and in my own handwriting.
Each question must be answered or the blank will be returned.
1. Are you married or single?
2. Where do you reside and what is your post-office address?
(Give town or city, including street and number.)
3. How long have you been a resident of said cit3'or town?
4. What is the date and place of your Inrth?
5. What is your father's and mother's full name? Give
name, whether li^'ing or dead.
6. Have you ever been examined for the public service in any
State or city? If so, when, where, for what branch and grade of
the service, and with what result?
7. Are j'ou in good health ? Have you any mental or physical
incapacity of which you are aware ?
8. What is your present occupation and what has been your
past occupation ? Give places and dates of employment as near
as 3^ou can.
9. In what schools, acadeni}', or college were you educated?
Give the name and length of course in each.
10. Have you any experience, or do you possess any special
qualifications, such as a knowledge of book-keeping, stenography,
typewriting, foreign languages, or a famiUarity with other
branches of knowledge, which, in your opinion, would be useful
in the service of the Public Library, and not included among the
requirements for the grade in which you are an applicant ?
[Signature]
Boston^ , 189
When filled out, fold TRRiCE and return to the Lihraria7i of
Public Library. Enclose any recommendations you desire to
submit.
136 City Document No. 21.
APPENDIX XII.
CORRESPONDENCE, BEQUESTS, ETC.
Boston, March 15, 1897.
Herbert Putnam, Esq.,
Librarian., Boston Public Library :
Dear Sir : Two or tbi-ee weeks ago I spoke to you about
giviug to the Boston Public Library some books and pamphlets
from the library of Dr. Gould. They have been taken from the
shelves and all piled together in one room at 29 Kirkland street,
Cambridge, and are ready for you to take at any time when you
will send for them. There are books, pamphlets and a few
maps. Before you send for them, will you j)lease write to Miss
S. Z. Preble, 29 Kirkland street, gi^^ng her, say, twenty-four
hours' notice of the time your men will call, so that she may be
on hand to point out the books?
The gift is from Dr. Gould's children to the Boston Public
Lil)rary, and is made absolutely, without condition or restriction.
The Library is to do as it sees fit with the books, pamphlets
and maps. But it would please the givers if a few of the best of
the l)Ooks — especially if some of the scientific works concerning
the Argentine Republic — might be marked "From the gift of the
children of B. A. Gould," and kept by the Library.
Acknowledgment should be made to
Alice Bache Gould, '\
Mary Quincy Thorndike, ,- Children of B. A. Gould,
Benjamin A. Gould, )
to my care.
Yours truly,
(Signed) Albert Thorndike.
114 Beacon street, Boston, April 29, 1897.
Herbert Putnam, Esq.
Dear Sir : Will you kindly present the following communica-
tion to the Trustees of the Boston Public Library ?
Yours very truly,
(Signed) J. T. Coolidge, Jr.
Boston, April 29, 1897.
To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library :
The undersigned present their compliments to the Trustees of
the Boston Public Lilirary and beg them to accept seventeen
Library Department. 137
paintings by Howard Pyle, representing scenes in the life of
Washington and in colonial times, in order that they may be hung
and properly cared for in one of 'the rooms of the Library in
Boston.
Respectfully,
Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America,
Warren and Prescott Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, Mrs. Huntington Wolcott, Mrs. S. D.
Warren, Mrs. D. P. Kimball, Misses Mason, Mrs. J. C.
Phillips, Miss M. A. Bigelow, Mrs. James T. Fields, Mrs
C. E. C. Waters, Mrs.' C. P. Coffin, Mrs. Roger Wolcott,
Mrs. G. B. Blake, Mrs. S. Eliot, Miss M. Mixter, D. W.
Ross, A. Hemenway, J. N Black, John L. Gardner, A. A.
Carey, Dr. W. S. Bigelow, Dr. A. T. Cabot, Edward
Wheelwright, W. S. Scudder, G. A. Goddard, E. S. Morse,
B. I. Gilman, James F. Almy, T. F. Hunt, W. P. Blake,
J. T. CooUdge, Jr.
99 Mount Vernon street, Boston, April 30, 1897.
Herbert Putnam, }Lsq.,
Jjibrarian , J^oston Public JAhranj :
My dear Sir : Enclosed find my check. No. 4874, for $.5,000,
to your order, as a payment on account of the Twentieth Regi-
ment Monument Fund, to be used for the purchase of books of a
military and patriotic character to l)e placed in the alcove appro-
priated as a memorial of the Twentieth Regiment. I also enclose
a receipt for the same, and remain, with great respect.
Yours, very sincerely,
.JoHX C. Ropes,
Treasurer of the Twentieth Regiment Monument Fund.
Boston, May 6, 1897.
Herbert Putnam, Esq.,
Librarian Public Library, Poston, 3Iass. :
My dear Sir : I thank you for your favor of the 1st inst., and
also for your receipt for $.5,000, received from me as treasurer of
the Twentieth Regiment Monument Fund. You are quite right in
supposing that we intend this sum as a fund for investment, the
income of which is to be used for the care of the alcove and the
purchase of books of a military and patriotic character.
With great regard, I am yours very sincerely,
(Signed) John C. Ropes.
Cambridge, Mass., April 30, 1897.
To the Trustees and Librarian of the Poston Public Library :
Gentlemen : At the last meeting of the Boston Browning-
Society the following recommendation was presented by the Coun-
cil, namely :
138 City Documext No. 21.
"We recommend that the books (constituting the Library of
the Browning Society) be immediately placed in the care of
the Boston Public Library, without conditions, further than are
implied by the expressed wish that they be kept together as a
reference collection so long as the well-being of the Public
Library itself permits, and that they be made fully accessible
under the same rules that the Public Library maintains in the
case of other similar collections."
This recommendation was heartily adopted, and it is now our
duty and privilege to transfer the books to your care.
Of the value of this collection you are already aware. We are
glad to place it where it will be of far larger ser\'ice than it could
be in the private possession of the society.
Will you kindly indicate your wishes as to the removal of the
books to Mrs. .J. Mason INIarean, 46 Brewster street, Cambridge,
Mass.
Respectfully yours,
Philip S. Moxom, President.
Emma E. Marean, Librarian.
Joshua Kendall, Chairman of E,recutive Committee.
Library Connmittee of the Boston Browning Society.
Boston, Mass., May 10, 1897.
To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library :
Gentlemen : As a committee representing the Papyrus Club
of Boston, we tender for your acceptance from the members of
that club as a fund in memory of their late member, John Boyle
O'Reilly, the sum of Si, 000.
We ask your acceptance of this fund under the following con-
ditions : The fund is to be held and invested by you and your
successors, and the income thereof as the same shall accrue is to
be expended for the purchase of books for the Boston Public
Library. There shall be inserted and maintained in* eveiy book
purchased from the proceeds of this fund, a book-plate of a
design to be oflfered by us and approved by you, to be printed
from a plate which we will give with the donation.
Should the fund at any time, by depreciation or otherwise,
become impaired from the original sum of $1,000 the income
therefrom shall accumulate and be added to the principal until
the original amount of Si, 000 shall be restored.
We trust that I)}' this permanent memorial, the Papyrus Club may
testify its appreciation of .John Boyle O'Reilly, whose influence in
this community was an inspiration in the cause of education, and
ma}' also advance the public interests which are in your keeping.
Yours respectfully',
Benjamin Kimball,
T. R. Sullivan,
Geo. F. Babbitt,
Committee of the Papyrus Club.
Library Department. 139
85 Beacon street, Boston, May 11, 1897.
Deau Mr. Pkixck : As you are one of the Trustees of the
Public Library, I write to ask you whether there is to l)e an Art
room there? If so, I wish to present to it a bust of " Powers's
Greek Slave," if the Trustees will accept it. It rests on a
pedestal of pink Spanish marble.
Yours very sincerely,
(Signed) Margaret S. Otis.
IBequest of Caleb Davis Bradlee^ D.D.^ late of Brookline; died
May Z, 1897. Will dated December 26, 1896 ; proved.
May 19, 1897.
I give to the City Lilirary, Boston, Mass., one thousand dollars.
I give, devise and bequeath to Charles U. Cottiug and Samuel
Bradlee Uoggett, of Boston, Mass., in trust, all the rest of my
property, real, personal or mixed, which I may now possess or
ma}' hereafter acquire, and I desire them to invest the same from
time to time as occasion may require, making as few changes as
possible in such securities as the}^ may deem best, always having
more regard for the security than for the income to be derived
therefrom, and after deducting the necessary expenses for the
care of the same, to pay over the income thereof, each three
months, to my wife, Caroline Bradlee, during her life ; and at
her clecease I hereby order that the trust shall continue, and I
desire that the interest each three months shall lie paid to my
daughter, Eliza Williams Bradlee Smith, as long as she shall
live, and at her death, I desire that the trust shall continue and
that the interest shall be paid to her child or children during life,
and at the death of her child or children, the principal and inter-
est not paid shall be divided equall}' between Tufts College,
Home for Aged Couples. Roxbury, New England Historic Genea-
logical Society, City Liln-ary of 13oston, Town Lil)rary of Brook-
line, Mass., with the exception of my lot at Mount Auburn; that
lot, in case of the decease of my wife and daughter, I give in
trust to Mount Auburn Cemetery, desiring that the right of
burial shall be allowed to ni}' wife, child and grandchild or grand-
children.
Request of John C. Paige, late of Boston, died on May 8, 1897.
Will dated January 28, 1897 ; proved May 27, 1897.
Sixth. All the rest and residue of the property and estate of
wliich I may die seized or possessed I give, beqneatli and devise
to Josiah II. Benton, ,Tr., and William K. (irav, of P>oston, and
140 City Document No. 21.
their successors, in trust for the following uses and purposes,
to wit :
I. To hold, manage, sell, invest and reinvest in such manner
as they shall from time to time deem safe and prudent, and to
pay over to my Mother, Ann L. Paige, from the income and
principal, if necessar}^ of said property and estate, such sums as
she may from time to time request, not to exceed the sum of six
thousand dollars ($6,000) per annum.
II
III. After the death of my Mother, Ann L. Paige, I direct
said Trustees to dispose of the residue and remainder of said
property and estate then remaining in their hands and not herein-
above otherwise disposed of, in tlie following manner :
1-9. inclusive. Bequests aggregating $50,000.
10. To pay the residue and remainder of said property and
estate then in their hands not hereinabove otherwise disposed
of to the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston,
the income thereof to be applied to the uses and purposes of that
corporation, it being my desire that the same shall be used so far
as may in the judgment of the Trustees be expedient for the pur-
jDoses of the Children's Reading-room.
Mayor's Office.. City Hall, Boston, October 26, 1897.
To the City Council:
I transmit herewith a letter addressed to me by Mr. William C.
Todd, offering, upon certain conditions, to give to the city in
trust the sum of $50,000, the income to be expended for the pur-
chase of current newspapers, to be placed in the Public Liln-ary.
I believe that this liberal gift, for such a useful purpose, com-
ing from a gentleman who is not even a citizen of Boston, should
be promptly and gratefully accepted, and I recommend the passage
of the accompanying order, providing for the carrying out of the
conditions imposed by Mr. Todd.
Respectfull}^ submitted,
(Signed) .Josiah Quixcy, Mayor.
Atkinson, N. H., October 21, 1897.
Hex. Josiah Quixcy,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
Dear Sir : Impressed with the increasing importance and
influence of newspapers, and the great demand for them by all
classes of the community, I addressed, .June 16, 1893, while the
new building was in process of erection, a communication to the
Trustees of the Public Lil»rary, offering to pay two thousand
dollars annually for the purchase of newspapers, if the Trustees
would connect with the Liljrary a newspaper department. My
Library Department. 141
proposition was accepted. After three years' experience of its
operation, the Librarian has assured me of its success, of the
increasing interest shown in it by citizens and strangers, and of
its value as a part of the Library. I have been paying two
thousand dollars annually since its opening, and wish to insure
that amount permanentl}' for the maintenance of this newspaper
department of the Library.
I therefore offer to give to the City of Boston the sum of fifty
thousand dollars, provided that the City Government requires its
City^ Treasurer to accept this sum, hold the same in trust, and
expend the income annually in payment for such current news-
papers of this and other countries, as the board of officers for
the time being having charge of the Public Library of the city
shall purchase, the same to be kept in a suitable room in the build-
ing in which the Central Public Library is now or may hereafter
be located, and use no part of said income for the maintenance
of the department where such newspapers are kept, or for any
other purpose than the payment for such newspapers, it being my
desire that the whole of the annual income shall be used solely
for the purchase of newspapers ; and provided further, that the
City Government authorizes the Mayor of the city to execute and
deliver to me an agreement of the city that if the annual income
from said fund shall in any year be less than two thousand dollars,
the city will appropriate the necessary amount to make the income
up to two thousand dollars, to carry out the purposes for which
this fund is given.
This gift is subject to the understanding that said board or
officers shall have the entire discretion as to the length of time
which the newspapers are to be kept on file, or to be preserved,
or as to their disposal, and as to the restrictions and regulations
under which the use of said newspapers shall be enjoyed.
I am not a citizen of Boston, but legard it as a city of rare
privileges, and it will certainly be one of them to have free access
to representative newspapers of the world. It is the metropolis
of New England, the centre of a large and cultivated population,
and the attractive resort at all times of strangers from every
section of the globe, ever anxious to see their home papers. I
repeat, as I said in my communication of June 16, 1893, that my
only interest in this matter is the wish to do some good to a great
many people.
If this proposal meets your approval, I would ask that you
submit the matter to the City Council, and request that, it' it
meets their approval, such steps may be taken as will enable me
to pay tliis money to the city at once.
Respectfully,
(Signed) William C. Todd.
City of Boston,
In Board of Aldermen, O*tober 26, 1897.
Ordered, That the city gratefully accepts the gift of fifty
thousand (50,000) dollars tendered by William C. Todd, Esquire,
142 City Document No. 21.
and agrees to hold the same in accordance with the terms of
his gift ;
That the City Treasurer receive said sum, hold the same in
trust, and expend the income thereof only for the payment of
such current newspapers of this and other countries as the board
or ofticers for the time being having charge of the Public Library
of the city shall purchase, and that His Honor the Mayor execute
and deliver to said William C. Todd, an agreement of the city
that, if said income shall in any year be less than two thousand
(2,000) dollars, the city will appropriate such sum as will make
the sum to be expended for the purchase of newspapers as afore-
said two thousand (2,000) dollars;
That the ])oard or officers for the time being having charge of
the Public Lil^rary of the city annually expend the sum of two
thousand (2,000) dollars in the purchase of such current news-
papers of this and other countries as they shall deem proper, and
keep the same open to the inspection of the public in a suitable
room in the Central Public Library Building for such period, and
under such regulations and restrictions, and subject to such final
disposal, as they shall deem proper.
Passed unanimously. Sent down for concurrence.
October 28 came up concurred unanimousl3\
Approved by the Mayor, October 30, 1897.
A true copy.
Attest :
(Signed) John T, Peiest,
Assistant City Clerk.
Boston, January 21, 1898.
Gentlemen : The Boston Numismatic Society, at its annual
meeting January 14, voted to give to the Public Library of
Boston its collection of books and pamphlets, and also the sum
of SoOO for the lienefit of the study of numismatics, with no
other condition.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed) Wji. S. Appleton,
Secretary of the Boston Numismatic Society.
Boston, June 29, 1896.
Dear Mr. Knapp : I would be pleased to present the marble
bust of Franklin, by Horatio Greenough, to the Boston Public
Library. If you will send for it you can have it at any time.
Yours truly,
(Signed) Frank Wood.
Boston, January 24, 1898.
Dear Mr. Putnam : I saw a notice in Saturday's paper that
the Franklin bust had been accepted ; with a statement that it
Library Department. 1-13
was supposed to be by Greenoiioh. I do not think it was by
Greenough. The party I pnrcliased it from said he obtained
it from Horatio Greenough, and I have little doubt that his
brother Alexander Greenough used it as a model for the head of
the Franklin statue in front of City Hall. I am of the belief
that it was by Ceracchi, a Corsican sculptor who came to this
country during Franklin's lifetime and made two busts of him
studied from life. One was illustrated in the " McC'lure Maga-
zine " article on Franklin portraits last year. This is, so far as
I could see, an exact J'ac-simile of that bust. I think it more
than possible that it is the second bust spoken of in the article,
which in some way fell into Horatio Greenough's possession. I
think the matter worth investigating, as, if it is an original Ce-
racchi bust it is very valuable. It impressed me as the best and
most characteristic portrait bust of Franklin that I ever saw.
Yours truly,
(Signed) Frank Wood.
144
City Document No. 21.
APPENDIX XIIL
GIFTS.
See also pp. 2, 6, 9, 10, 15, 16, 20-29 of main body of report.
Givers 1,776
Volumes 10,951
Numbers 16,780
Photographs, engravings, etc. ..... 939
Newspaper subscriptions. (Gift of the publishers) . 95
1. EIndowmexts.
April, 1897. From the Twentieth Regiment Asso-
ciation, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the
sum of $5,000 00
May, 1897. From the Papj^rus Club of Boston, the
sum of 1,000 00
October, 1897. From William C. Todd, Esq., of
Atkinson, N. H., the sum of 50,000 00
November, 1897. From the estate of the late Rev.
Caleb D. Bradlee, of Brookline, the sum of 1,000 00
2. Works of Art.
Nineteen oil paintings by Howard P^de, from the following
donors: J. Templeman Coolidge, Jr., Mass. Society of the
Colonial Dames of America, Warren and Prescott Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. .J. Huntington
Wolcott^ Mrs. S. D. Warren, Mrs. D. P. Kimball, Misses
Mason, Mrs. J. C. Phillips, Miss M. A. Bigelow, Mrs. James
T. Fields, Mrs. C. E. C. Waters, Mrs. C. P. Coffin, Mrs.
Roger Wolcott, Mrs. G. B. Blake, Mrs. S. Eliot, Miss M.
Mixter, D, W. Ross, A. Hemenway, J. N. Black, John L.
Gardner, A. A. Carey, Dr. W. S. Bigelow, Dr. A. T. Cabot,
Edw. Wheelwright, G. A. Goddard, E." S. Morse, B. I. Gilman,
J. F. Almy, T. F. Hunt, W. P. Blake, W. S. Seudder.
Bust of Benjamin Franklin, from Frank Wood, Esq., of Boston.
Bust of John Bo^de O'Reilly, from the City of Boston.
Copy of the bust of Powers' Greek Slave, from Mrs. Margaret S.
Otis.
Portrait of Edward C. Cabot (for deposit), from the Boston
Society of Architects.
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3. Miscellaneous Gifts op Money.
From the Twentieth Regiment Asssociation, M.V.I. :
For books .....
For service .....
From Mrs. John A. Lewis
From the Boston Numismatic Society
Photograph fund ....
List of donors : Miss Mary S. Ames, G. R. Barrett, ]\[iss Eliza-
beth H. Bartol, Boston Society of Architects, Mrs. Leroy
Brown, Miss Ahce F. Carey, Miss Alice S. Cheney, Miss Ma-
bel P. Cook, A Friend, through Miss M. B. Proctor, Mrs. O.
B. Frothingham, Mrs. Cx. S. Hale, Harris School, first class,
Augustus Hemenway, Miss Catherine I. Ireland, Jonathan A.
Lane, Mrs. M. A. C. Livermore, Mrs. F. G. Macoml)er, Albert
Matthews, James Means, Miss Susan Minns, Miss Madeline
Mixter, Miss Harriet J. Morse, Mrs. Susannah R. Norcross,
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Parker, Miss M. B. Proctor, Miss Annette P.
Rogers, Mrs. Robert Shaw Russell, Mrs. Berthold Schlesinger,
Mrs. W. T. Sedgwick, JNIiss Emily Sever, Mrs. H. N. SUxter,
Henry G. Spaulding, Hon. C. F. Sprague, A Subscriber,
Thursday Fine Arts Club, Edw. R. Tyler,"Mrs. Elizabeth C.
Ware, Miss Mary L. Ware, Henry C. Warren, Mrs. Susan E.
Warren, Mrs. Henry M. Whitney, Miss M. P. Winsor.
4. Photographs, Engravings, etc.
Baxter, Sylvester 10 Photographs.
Benson, Frank W 7 "
Boston Numismatic Society . . 2 "
Brickbuilder Publishing Company . 4 Plates.
Brown, Dr. Francis H 2 Portraits.
Brown, S. N 1 Photograph (framed).
Cartee, Miss Elizabeth F. . . . 1 Engraving "
Chase, J. Eastman 29 Engravings.
Chicago Public Library .... 2 Photographs.
Clarke, Joseph H 308 Engravings.
Coolidge, J. T., Jr 15 Photographs.
Conant, William F 1 Engraving (framed).
Crocker, Miss M. H 1 Engraving (framed) and
1 Photograph.
Curtis & Cameron 5 Photographs.
Dewey, Mrs. M. W 1 Photograph.
Doyle, Miss Agnes 1 "
Fleischner, Otto 8 Photographs.
Forbes, Mrs. John M 80 " (in 2 v.)
Foster, John R. and Stephen B. . 24 "
Grroton Public Library ..... 1 Photograph.
Harvard University Astronomical
Observatory 2 Photographs.
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Lick Observatory 19 Photographs.
May, Henry A. 1 Photograph.
Monks, Dr. G. H 189 Photographs and
52 Prints and Engravings.
Parker, Mrs. W. L 6 Photographs. "
Pickering Henry G 21 "
Richards, "William R
Smith, Joseph L
U. S. Department of War, En-
gineers' Department ....
Whitney, James L
Wintlier, Charles A. G.
AVorcester Eree Public Librarv
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Academia Nacional de Medicina, Lima, Peril .
Acadejuie Imperiale des Sciences, .S(. Petersburg, Piissia
Academy of Science of St. Louis. St. Loin", ilo.
Actors' Fund of the U. S. of America, New Yuik Cily
Adams Academy, Quiwy, Mass. ....
Adams Nervine Asylum ......
Adler, Cyrus, Washington, B.C. ....
Aguilar Free Library, New York Citij
Alabama Agricultural Exi^eriment Station, Auburn, Ala
Alabama Geological Survey, University, Ala. .
Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y.
Alden, William H., Philadelphia, Pa.
Alexander, Mrs. Lucia G., Florence, Italy
Alexander, Sigmund B. ..... .
Allen, Edward G., ioncZon, i?n^?«7i(Z ....
Allen, Nathaniel F., West Newti-n, Mass. .
Allison, Dr. H. E., Matteawan, N.Y. ....
American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Neio York Citi/
American Academy of Political and Social Science, Phila
delphia. Pa
American Angler, New York City ....
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
American Architect and Building News Co.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Scdem, Mass
American Baptist Home Mission Society, Neio York City
American Baptist Missionary Union ....
American Bar Association, P/z/ZocZe/jj/im, Po. .
American Bible Society, Neiv York City .
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Carpet & Upholstery Trades, Philadelphia, Pa
American Catholic Historical Society, Pliiladelphia, Pa
American Citizen .... 1897-98 subscriptioi
American Climatological Association, Philn delphia, Pa.
American Colonization Society, Washington, D.C. .
American Congregational Association
American P"'ederation of Labor, IwHanajJolis, Ind. .
American Fisheries Society, Glens Fulls, N.Y. .
American Forestry Association, Washington, D.C. .
American Homes Publishing Co., Knoxville, Tenn. .
American Institute of Architects, Providence, B.I.
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American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Xeio York
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American
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Institute of Homeopathy, New York City
Institute of Mining Engineers, New York City.
Iron and Steel Association, PliihideJphia, I'a. .
Jewish Historical Society, WnsJdngton, D.C. .
Laryngological Association, Wasliingfon, D.C.,
Medico-Psychological Association, Baltimore,
American Museum of Natural History, New York City .
American New Church Tract and Publication Society,
Philadelphia, Pa
American Nonconformist, Indiana i^ol is, hid.
1897-98 subscription
American Numisnratic and Archjeological Society of New
York City
American Oriental Society, Neio Haven, Conn.
American Otological Society, New Bedford, Mass.
American Peace Society
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
American Purity Alliance, New York City
American Seamen's Friend Society, New York City
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, New York City
American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City
American Society of Kailroad Superintendents, Asbury
Park, New York
American Surgical Association, Pliiladelplda, Pa
American Type Founders Co., Mackellar, Smith & Jordan
Branch, Philadelphia, Pa. .....
American Type Founders Co., New England Branch
American Unitarian Association ....
American Water Works Association, New York City
Aniericanische Turnzeitung, Milwaukee, Wis.
1897-98 subscription
Ames, George
Ames, John N., Chelsfa, Mass
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. . . . . .
Ami, II. M., Ottawa, Canada
Anagnos, Michael , . . . .
Anchor Color Manufacturing Co., Neio York City
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Anderson, Dr. William G., New Haven, Conn. .
Andover Theological Seminary, Alumni Association,
^\ndover, Mass, .........
Anonymous ..........
Appleton, William S. ....... .
Apprentices', Library Company of Philadelphia, Phila-
delphi'i. Pa. . .
Arbetarens Viin, Worces'er, Mass. 1897-98 subscription
Arbo, Major C. O. E., Drammen, Norway . . . .
Archam, M., Alliens, Greece ......
Argus (Swedish) .... 1897-98 subscription
Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Tucson, Ariz.
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Fayetteville,
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Irk.
Arlington Mills, Lawrence, Mass.
Ai-mour Institute of Technology, Chicago, III
Armstrong, Joseph .....
Armstrong, L. K., Spokane, Wash.
Arnold, Howard P
Arpke, Jerome C, Franklin, Wis.
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Art Club of Philadelphia, PhiladelpJna, Pa.
Associated Spanish Cuban Press, New York City
Association of American Anatomists, Washington, B.C.
Association of American Physicians, Albany, N.Y.
Atherton, Miss M. L. .
Atkinson, Edward
Austin, Mrs. Josephine, Littleton, N.H. .
Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales
Avery, S. P., Netv York City
Bacon, William P., New Britain, Conn.
Baillie's Institution Free Library, Glasgow, Scotland
Baker, Hon. William C, Providence, R.I. .
Balch, Thomas W., Philadelphia, Pa.
Balfour, David
Bangor Public Library, Bangor, Me
Bankhead, Jfoji. John H., Washington, B.C.
Bar Association of the City of New York .
Barker, Wharton, Philadelphia, Pa.
Barker Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. .
Barnard, James M., Milton, Mass
Barney, Br. Charles N
Barre, Mass., Public Library
Barrows, Hon. S. J., Washington, B.C. .
Bartlett, Miss Julia S
Barton, Rev. William E
Bates, 3Iiss Katharine L., Wellesley, Mass.
Bath, England, Mayor
Batten, Br. John M., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Battersea Public Library, London, England
Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, N.Y
Baxter, Capl. John B. M., St. John, New Brunswick
Baxter, Sylvester, Maiden, Mass
Beacon, 2 1897-8 subscriptions
Beal, Hon. Flavins O., Bangor, Me
Beal, John V., Randolph, Mass
Bec^, JameaM., Philadelphia, Pa
Belgium. Ministere de Tlndustrie et du Travail, Brussel
Bell, John T., Oakland, Cat
Bellows, Rev. Russell N., New York City .
Benedict, Pi. D., Neiv York City ....
Benneson, 3Hs8 C. A., Cambridge, Mass. .
Bennett College, Chicago, III
Bent, S. Arthur
Benton, Josiah H. , Jr.
Berkshire Baptist Association, Pittsfield, Mass.
Berle, Rev. A. A., Brighton, Mass
Bessey, Prof. Charles E., Lincoln, Neb.
Bibliotheque des Temps Nouveaux, Publishers, Brussels.
Belgium ..........
Bidwell, Mrs. Lamson B
Billerica, 3Iass., Town Clerk
Billings, Br. John S., New York City
Bimetallic League, London, England
Biological Society of Washington, Washington, B.C
Bird, Charles S. and Sisters, East Walpole, Mass. .
Bird, Mrs. T. H
Birmingham, England, Free Libraries Committee ,
Birtwell, Charles W
Blaisdell, Frank C
Blake, Hon. Edward, BubUn, Ireland
Blake, Francis E
Blanchard, George R. , New York City
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Blinn, Henry C, East Canterbury, JSf.H.
Blumer, Dr. G. Alder, Utica, N. Y. .
Boardraan, John H
Boardman, Samuel L., Augusta, Me. .
Bocca, Silvio, Rome, Italy, .
Bolton, Charles K., BrookJine, Mass.
Bolton, Prof. Henry C, i\reto York City
Bolton Public Free Library, Bolton, England
Bond, Laurence .
Bonnelle, Frank J.
Borden, Miss C. .
Bosson, H. P., Reading, Mass.
Boston. Board of Election Commissioners
Board of Fire Commissioners
Board of Health
Board of Overseers of the Poor
City Aviditor
• City Clerk .
City Hospital .
City Messenger
City Treasurer .
• Institutions Department
Park Commissioners
Street Laying-Out Department
School Committee
Water Commissioners
Water Department .
Boston and Albany Railroad
Boston Architectural Club .
Boston Art Club .
Boston Associated Charities
Boston Athenjeum
Boston Book Company
Boston Browning Society .
Boston Budget
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Boston College
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Boston Courier
Boston Daily Advertiser
Boston Daily Globe
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston Herald
Boston Ideas
Boston Industrial Home
Boston Journal
Boston Merchants
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Boston North End Mission
Boston Numismatic Society
Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
Boston Post ... 2 1897-98 subscriptions
Boston Protective Department .
Boston Provident Association
Boston Saturday Sun .
Boston Society of Medical Sciences
Boston Society of Natural History
Boston Telegraph
Boston Times ....
Boston Transit Commission
Boston Traveler , . . .2 1897-98 subscriptions
Boston West Baptist Bible School Convention .
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Boston Young Men's Christian Association , 3 maps
Boston Young Men's Christian Union
Boston Young Women's Christian Association
Bostonian Society .....
Boutwell, Hon. George S
Bowditch, Prof. Henry P 1 broadside
Bowdoin College, Brun.sitnck, Me.
Bowker, R. K., New York Citi/ .
Brace, Charles L., Neio York City
Bradford, Enc/laiul. Public Free Libraries
Bradlee, Rev. Caleb D. , Brookline, Mas.s. .39 newspapers
Bradlee, Bev. Caleb D., Family of, lirookline., Mans.
Braun, Adolphe & Cie., Neiv York City
Breck, C. E. C, Mi Ito-^, Mass
Brewster, Prof. Edwin T
Bridgeport Public Library, Bridgeport, Conn. .
Brill, E. J., Ley den, Holland
Brinton, Prof. Daniel G., Media, Penn.
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Ricker, Hiram & Sons, South Poland, Me.
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Wheelwright, Mrs. A. C
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White, Jfr.s. Caroline E., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Yale University, New Haven, Conn. .
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Y'oung Churchman Co., 3/ihoaMA-ee, Wis. .
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APPENDIX XIV.
ORDERS OF CITY COUNCIL.
The following are the orders passed by the C'ity Government
during the year ending January 31, 1898, which have been com-
municated to the Trustees as affecting the Library Department.
(]\Iere items in appropriation bills are omitted, also various orders
introduced but not actually passed.)
City of Boston,
In Common Council, February 4, 1897.
Ordered^ That the Trustees of the Public Library of the City
of Boston, through His Honor the Mayor, be requested to pro-
vide, so far as lies in their power, for the enlargement of the
quarters now occupied by, and the extension of the service ren-
dered through, the branch or delivery station of the Public
Library now located on Broadway Extension, in Ward 7.
Passed. Sent up for concurrence.
In Board of Aldermen, February 8.
Concurred.
A true copy.
Attest
(Signed) John T. Priest,
Assistant City (Jlerk.
City of Boston,
In CoMMCfN Council, February 25, 1897.
Ordered^ That the Trustees of tiie Public Library of the City
of Boston, through His Honor the Mayor, be requested to estab-
lish a public reading-room in the vicinity of Dorchester station,
in Ward 24.
In Common Council, February 25, 1897.
Referred to His Honor tlie Mayor.
(Signed) Joseph A. Conky,
President.
City of Boston,
In Common Council, March 11, 1897.
Ordered., That the Trustees of the Public Library )te leipiested
to report, through His Honor the Mayor, to the Council at its
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next meeting the estimated additional cost of opening the Cen-
tral Library on Sundays and holidays throughout the year at
9 A.M.
In Common Council, Marcli 18, 1897.
Referred to His Honor the Mayor.
(Signed) JosErn A. Conry,
President.
Under date of March 20, 1897, tlie Trustees voted the follow-
ing response to the above request :
Voted, Tliat His Honor the Mayor be informed that while the
entire additional cost of the undertaking pro^iosed is difficult to
comprehend in an estimate made in advance, such approximate
estimate as the Trustees are al)le to give indicates that the cost
would be something over $7,000 per annum.
Order passed October 26, 1897, with reference to gift of
William C. Todd, Esq. See supra, Appendix XII. Corre-
spondence.
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