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ANNUAL     RKPORT 


OF  THE  TRUSTEES 


Public    Library 


CITY  OF  BOSTON 


1898 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL    PRINTING    OFFICE 

1899 


CONTENTS 


PAGE. 

Report  of  Trustees        .......          1 

Report  of  Librarian      .......         7 

Supplements  to  Report  of  Librarian  : 

A.  Memorandum  as  to  the  General  Card  Catalogue       .       47 

B.  Considerations  as  to  a  Printed  Catalogue  in  Book 

Form 49 

C.  Extract  from  the  Report  of  the  Special  Libraries, 

Department  of  Fine  Arts    .....        60 

D.  Report  of  the  Department  of  Documents  and  Statis- 

tics   64 

E.  Extract  from  the  Report  of  the  Children's  Depart- 

ment .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .72 

F.  P^xtract  from  the  Report  of  the  Branch  Department,        77 

G.  Memorial  of  the  death  of  Arthur  Mason  Knapp  .  86 
Report  of  the  P^xamining  Committee  ....  88 
Appendices  : 

I.     Financial  Statement    ......      101 

II.     Extent  of  the  Library  by  Years  .  .  .  .125 

III.  Net  Increase  of  the  Several  Departments,  includ- 

ing Branches  .  .  .  .  .  .126 

IV.  Classification :    Central  Library    .  .  .    broadside 
V.     Classification:    Branches  (omitted  1898-99)  .      129 

VI.     Registration 130 

VII.     Circulation 134 

VIII.     Trustees  for  Forty-seven  Years. —  Librarians       .      136 
IX.     Examining  Committees  for  Forty-seven  Years      .      138 
X.     Library    Service    (March    31,    1899),    including 

Sunday  and  Evening  Schedule  .  .  .141 

XI.     Graded  System  of  Service  .  .  .  .  .152 

XII.     Correspondence,  Bequests,  etc.   ....     156 
XIII.     Givers,  and  amounts  of  Gifts      .  .  .  .161 

XIV     Orders  of  City  Council,  and  Memorandum  of  Peti- 
tions, etc.        .  .  .  .  .  .  .196 


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Central  Library,  Copley  sq.     Establislied  May  2,  1854. .. 

East  Boston  Branch ,  37  Meridian  st 

South  Boston  Branch,  372  Broadway 

Rox1)ury  Briinch,  46  Millmont  st 

Charlestown  Branch,  City  sq 


Brighton    Branch,    Holton    Library    Building,    Rock 
land  st 


Dorchester  Brancli,  Arcadia,  cor.  Adams  st 

South    End    Branch,  English    High    Scliool    Building, 
Montgomery  st " 


Jamaica  Plain  Branch,  Curtis  Hall,  Centre  st 

West  Roxbury  Branch,  Centre,  near  Mt,  Vernon  st.. . 
West  End  Branch,  Cambridge,  cor.  Lynde  st 


Station  A.    Lower  Mills  Reading  Room,  Washington, 
near  River  st 


B.    Roslindale  Delivery  Station,  25  Poplar  st. .. 

D.    Mattapan  Reading  Room,  River,  cor.  Oak- 
Ian  d  st 


E.    Neponset  Delivery  Station,  49  Walnut  st.. 

B\    Mt.  Bowdoin  Reading  Room,  Washington, 
cor.  Eldon  st 


G.    Allston  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,  (j  Wayland  st, 

L.    North    Brighton    Reading    Room,  .")6    Mar 
ket  st 


M.    Crescent    Avenue     Delivery    Station,    940 
Dorchester  ave 


N.    Blue  Hill  Avenue  Delivery  Station,  200  Blue 
Hill  ave 


P.    Broadway    Extension  Delivery    Station,  13 
Broadway  Extension ". 


Q.    Upham's  Corner  Deliver}'  Station,  75fi  Dud- 
ley st 


R.     Warren   Street  Delivery   Station,  329  Wai- 
ren  st ." 


S.      Roxbury    Crossing    Delivery   Station,   1173 
Tremont  st ." 


T.     Boylston  Delivery  Station,  Lamartine,  <-or 
Paul  Gore  st 


U.    Ward    Nine    Delivei-y    Station,    C2    Union 
Park  st 


Mar.  11, 
Jan.  28, 
May    1, 
July, 
*Jan., 


*Jan., 
Jan.  25, 

Aug., 
Sept., 
*Jan.    6, 
Feb.    1, 

June  7, 
Dec.    3, 

Dec.  27, 
Jan.    1, 

Nov.  1, 
Mar.  11, 
July  26, 

Nov.  12, 
Jan.  22, 

May    9, 

June  25, 

July    1, 

Jan.  16, 

Mar.  16, 

May    1, 

Jan.  18, 

Nov.   1, 

Dec.  27, 


1895 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1874 

1874 
1875 

1877 
1877 
1880 
1896 

1875 

1878 

1881 
1883 

1886 
1889 
1890 

1890 
1892 

1892 

1892 

1895 

1896 

1896 

1896 

1897 

1897 

1898 


550,822 
11,814 
14,912 
32,859 
31,950 

13,886 
15,413 

13,909 
12,496 
4,322 
10,825 

88 


422,849 
60,435 
75,407 
86,023 
54,927 

36,217 
55,768 

88,408 
52,225 
22,37() 
115,655 

5,205 
13,501 

2,702 
3,895 

10,236 
9,041 
7,410 

8,886 
3,412 

3,914 

7,0,57 

9,946 

27,718 

15,590 

11,873 

14,6.53 

9,875 

1,300 


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CENTRAL    LIBRARY.    GROUND    FLOOR. 


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CENTRAL    LIBRARY,    ENTRESOL    A. 


CENTRAL    LIBRARY,    BATES     HALL. 


CENTRAL    LIBRARY,    ENTRESOL    B. 


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Spccial  Libraries 


CENTRAL    LIBRARY,    SPECIAL    LIBRARIES. 


To  His  Honor  Josiah  Quincy, 

Mayor  of  the   City  of  Boston: 

The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  present  the  following 
report  of  its  condition  for  the  year  ending  January  31,  1899, 
being  the  forty-seventh  annual  report. 

They  include  herewith,  as  a  part  of  their  report,  that  of 
the  Librarian  and  its  accompanying  reports,  including  that 
of  Mr.  Worthington  C.  Ford,  Chief  of  the  Department  of 
Documents  and  Statistics,  together  with  the  report  of  the 
Examining  Committee.  These  reports  contain  details  of 
which  the  Trustees  in  this  report  present  only  a  partial 
summary. 

An  exact  account  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the 
Trustees  for  the  past  year  is  found  in  the  reports  of  the 
Librarian  and  of  the  Auditor,  but  these  statements  do  not 
exhibit  in  a  simple  form  the  income  and  expenditures  which 
may  be  said  strictly  to  belong  to  the  year. 

1898-1899. 

The  cost  of  maintaining  the  Library  during  the  year  1898- 
1899  was  : 


Salaries  . 

Books 

Periodicals 

Newspapers     . 

General  maintenance 

Of  this  amount 
The  city  appropriated 
The  trust  funds  yielded 


162,690  48 

29,035  04 

.5,900  06 

2,146  44 

64,808  02 


$246,855  87 
13,674  11 


$264,580  04 


,529  98 


The  balance  of  the  cost 
was  obtained  from  miscellaneous  gifts,  etc. 


1,050  06 


2  City  Document  N'o.  21. 

This  statement  does  not  include  balances  of  preceding 
years  which  were  subject  to  charges  for  outstanding  orders 
for  books  and  similar  appropriations  incurred  prior  to  the 
year  covered  by  this  report,  but  attempts  to  show  in  general 
the  means  at  the  command  of  tlie  Trustees  during  the  year 
for  the  maintenance  of  the  Lil)rary,  including  the  purchase 
of  books. 

Two  sources  of  mcome,  \iz.,  the  rents  of  the  old  Library 
building  and  the  proceeds  of  fines  and  of  the  sales  of  the 
publications  of  the  Library,  of  which  the  Library  had  here- 
tofore received  the  benefit,  were  no  longer  available.  By  the 
requirements  of  the  appropriation  bill  of  1898,  sums  re- 
ceived from  these  sources  were  paid  into  the  City  Treasury. 
In  consequence,  the  means  at  the  disposal  of  the  Trustees 
for  the  general  purposes  of  the  Library  were  less  by  about 
$2,000  than  in  the  preceding  year,  although  the  general 
appropriation  by  the  city  exceeded  that  of  the  preceding 
year  by  $10,000. 

The  preparation  of  the  publications  of  the  Library  involves 
a  cost  of  over  $4,000  annually,  and  this  expense  is  paid 
from  the  general  appropriation.  The  cost  of  collecting  the 
fines  due  the  Library  amounts  to  about  $1,500  annually,  and 
this  cost  is  also  paid  from  the  general  appropriation.  It 
seems  just  to  the  Trustees  that  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  and 
of  the  fmes  should  both  be  allowed  to  the  Library,  or  that  the 
expenses  incurred  by  them  m  these  regards  should  be  reim- 
bursed to  them  and  not  made  a  charge  upon  their  general 
resources. 

It  has  been  for  some  time  obvious  that  it  was  desirable  to 
make  certain  alterations  and  improvements  in  the  Library 
Building  as  originally  constructed,  not  so  much  by  way  of 
addition  to  it  as  for  the  purposes  of  better  administration, 
especially  with  reference  to  the  more  rapid  delivery  of  books, 
for  better  accommodation  of  readers,  and  for  better  ventilar 
tion  and  general  sanitary  arrangements.  There  were  no 
funds  in  the  possession  of  the  Trustees  available  for  these 
purposes.     Under  the  authority  of  an  Act  of  the  Legislature 


Library  Department.  3 

passed  in  the  session  of  1898  and  the  subsequent  action  of 
the  City  Council,  a  special  appropriation  of  $100,000  was 
provided.  This  sum,  together  with  portions  of  some  small 
balances  of  the  original  appropriations  for  the  construction 
and  furnishmg  of  the  building,  have  been  expended  durmg 
the  past  year  for  the  purposes  described.  The  details  of  the 
work  are  exhibited  in  the  Librarian's  Report.  It  is  substan- 
tially completed,  and  has  greatly  improved  the  convenience 
and  healthfulness  of  the  Library,  both  for  the  public  and 
those  employed  in  it,  has  added  greatly  to  the  efficiency  of 
its  admmistration,  and  to  a  degree  in  excess  of  the  expense 
incurred. 

The'  use  of  the  Librarj^  constantly  increases.  This  m- 
crease  is  shown  in  various  ways.  The  number  of  card 
holders  for  1897  was  64,973;  for  the  year  1898  it  was 
72,005,  showing  an  increase  of  7,032,  or  nearly  11  per 
cent.  The  increase  of  the  circulation  of  books  and  of 
visitors  and  readers,  both  at  the  Central  Library  and  the 
branches,  furnishes  additional  evidence  of  such  increased 
use. 

This  increased  use  involves  additional  expense  of  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  Library  and  such  additional  expense  the 
Trustees  have  been  able  to  meet  chiefly  by  diminishing  the 
purchases  of  books.  It  is  upon  this  item  of  expenditure 
that  the  pressure  of  economy  immediately  falls.  Accord- 
ingly the  increase  of  the  Library  in  volumes  purchased  has 
been  considerably  less  during  the  past  year  than  in  the  pre- 
ceding. In  1897,  33,131  volumes  were  added  to  the  Library, 
but  in  1898  only  25,470  —  a  number  less  by  7,661. 

The  Trustees  find  it  difficult,  with  the  means  at  their  com- 
mand, to  supply  the  Library  and  its  branches  with  the  popu- 
lar publifliations  of  the  day.  It  is  only  from  the  slender 
income  of  the  Trust  Funds  that  they  can  procure  the  rarer 
books  needed  to  maintain  the  general  character  of  the 
Library  as  one  valuable  not  merely  to  supply  entertainment, 
but  also  as  one  useful  to  the  mechanic,  the  student  and  the 
scholar.     The    Library    is    greatly    in    need    of    means     to 


4  City  Document  No.  21. 

purchase  the  rare  historical  material  occasionally  offered  for 
sale,  and  otherwise  not  easily  to  be  obtamed,  especially  that 
relating  to  the  history  of  Boston  and  of  New  England,  which 
the  Trustees  consider  it  their  especial  duty  to  collect. 

The  general  condition  of  the  books  in  the  Library  is  good, 
but  prudent  management  calls  for  the  expenditure  of  a  much 
larger  sum  than  the  Trustees  have  at  their  command  for  the 
rebinding  and  repair  of  many  volumes.  At  least  $20,000 
could  be  wisely  expended  for  these  purposes  and  this  sum  is 
required  by  true  economy. 

Requests  are  continually  presented  to  the  Trustees  for  the 
permanent  improvement  of  certain  branches,  for  the  establish- 
ment of  new  delivery  stations,  and  for  similar  expenditures. 
The  means  at  their  command  have  enabled  them  to  comply 
with  but  a  small  portion  of  these  requests.  Four  additional 
public  schools  and  one  branch  post  office  have  been  made 
deposit  stations,  and  one  delivery  station  has  been  supplied 
with  a  deposit  collection.  These  additions  represent  the 
expansion  of  the  Library  system  during  the  past  year. 

With  respect  to  the  financial  position  of  the  Library  the 
Trustees  report  that  they  have  kept  their  expenditures 
strictly  within  their  means.  No  expenditure  or  obligation  is 
incurred  beyond  the  limit  of  such  means,  and  consequently 
there  is  no  deficit  at  the  close  of  the  year.  It  is,  of  course, 
obvious  that  unless  these  means  increase  in  proportion  to  the 
use  of  the  Library  and  the  growth  of  the  city  it  will  be  im- 
possible to  maintain  its  present  rank  and  usefulness. 

The  Trustees  have  added  a  new  department  this  year  to 
the  Library,  that  of  Documents  and  Statistics.  In  June, 
1898,  the  American  Statistical  Association  presented  to  the 
Library  its  valuable  collection  of  books  and  pamphlets 
numbering  about  5,000  volumes.  These,  together  with 
the  Public  Documents  and  other  similar  economic  and 
sociological  material  already  in  the  possession  of  the  Library, 
constituted  a  valuable  collection  which  the  Trustees  were 
satisfied  could  be  made  available  for  great  service  to  the  pub- 
lic. It  furnishes  the  means  for  investigations  tending  to 
the  improvement  of  laws,  of  social  conditions  and  the  expan- 
sion of  trade.  Accordingly,  this  department  was  created 
and  Mr.  Worthington  C.  Ford  was  appointed  its  Chief.  Mr. 
Ford  was  formerly  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  the 
Treasury  Department  at  Washington  and  brings  to  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Library  the  benefit  of  his  large  experience.  The 
Trustees  ask  attention  to  the  reports  of  the  Librarian  and  of 
Mr.  Ford,  which  contain  an  extended  description  of  the 
value  and  purposes  of  the  department  and  an  account  of 
what  it  has  thus  far  accomplished. 


LiBRAKY  Department.  5 

There  has  been  presented  to  the  city  of  Boston  and  de- 
posited in  the  Library  a  copy  in  marble,  made  by  John 
Hutchison,  R.S.A.,  of  the  bust  of  Sir  Walter  Scott  now- 
placed  in  Westminster  Abbey  by  the  Committee  on  the  Scott 
Memorial. 

Mrs.  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  has  presented  to  the  Library 
twenty-four  wooden  blocks  engraved  by  Mr.  Stevenson  him- 
self, impressions  of  which  were  reproduced  in  the  Bonus 
Volume  of  the  Edinburgh  Edition  of  his  works. 

Other  gifts  of  interest  and  value  are  enumerated  in  the 
Librarian's  report.  While  the  Trustees  are  of  the  opmion 
that  it  is  undesirable  to  make  the  Library  in  any  sense  a 
museum  of  curiosities,  yet  there  are  many  objects  of  art  and 
literature  which  find  an  appropriate  place  in  it,  and  are  both 
interesting  and  instructive.     Such  gifts  they  welcome. 

They  again  call  attention  to  the  great  need  of  permanent 
endowments  for  the  Library.  It  is  chiefly  from  such  sources 
that  the  permanent  value  of  the  Library  can  be  secured. 

The  large  inner  court  of  the  Library  Building  possesses 
great  architectural  beauty,  but  it  is  incomplete,  and  affords 
room  for  much  greater  additional  natural  and  artistic  decora- 
tion. The  open  area  offers  a  field  for  the  display  of  shrubs 
and  flowers  ;  and  sculpture  and  other  works  of  art  would 
find  most  appropriate  positions.  The  Trustees  hope  that 
some  generous  giver  may  recognize  here  his  opportunity. 

The  Committee  appointed  by  the  Trustees  to  examine  the 
Library  during  the  past  year  consisted  of : 


J.  Bapst  Blake,  M.  D. 

Hon.  Patrick  A.  Collins. 

E.  Winchester  Donald,  D.D. 

Mr.  C.  W.  Ernst. 

Mr.  Alfred  Hemenway. 

Mr.  John  H.  Lee. 

Miss  E.  E.  Mason. 

Mr.  James  J.  Roche. 

Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Williamson. 


Hon.  Henry  W.  Bragg. 
Rev.  Arthur  T.  Connolly. 
Wm.  H.  Ensworth,  M.D. 
Miss  Gretchen  Field. 
Mr.  Thomas  Hills. 
Mr.  A.  Lawrence  Lowell. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  F.  Parker. 
Mr.  Charles  P.  Searle. 
Mr.  Frank  Wood. 


A  copy  of  their  report  is  submitted  herewith. 

A  detailed  account  of  the  work  of  the  Departments  of 
Cataloguing,  of  Publications,  and  of  Prmting,  is  contained  in 
the  Librarian's  report.  The  Trustees  believe  that  the  publi- 
cations of  the  Library,  especially  the  Bulletins  and  Special 
Bibliographical  lists,  contain  much  not  merely  of  temporary, 
but  of  permanent  value,  and  they  believe  also  that  the 
mechanical  execution  of  these  publications  is  highly  credit- 
able.    The  account  of  the  work  of  the  Catalogue  Department 


6  City  Document  No.  21. 

reports  the  progress  of  the  department,  and  the  Trustees 
ask  attention  to  it,  as  well  as  to  the  special  reports  of  the 
Chief  of  the  Department. 

The  Library  has  suffered  by  the  deaths  and  resignations 
of  some  of  those  employed  in  its  service. 

The  most  conspicuous  loss  was  occasioned  by  the  death 
of  Mr.  Arthur  Mason  Knapp,  who  was  twenty-four  years  in 
its  service,  and  for  twenty  years  the  custodian  of  Bates 
Hall.  His  experience,  ability  and  fidelity  were  universally 
acknowledged,  and  possessed  an  added  charm  by  reason  of 
his  agreeable  personal  traits. 

His  successor  is  Mr.  Oscar  A.  Bierstadt,  who  brings  from 
the  Astor  Library  in  New  York  an  experience  which  should 
well  fit  him  for  similar  duties  here. 

In  conclusion,  the  Trustees  report  that  they  believe  that, 
with  the  facilities  furnished  by  the  recent  expenditures,  the 
Library,  as  a  building,  meets  as  well  as  possible  the  public 
needs.  The  graded  system  of  service  and  appointment  now 
for  several  years  established  secures  fidelity,  interest  and  a 
sense  of  permanence  on  the  part  of  those  employed.  The 
Trustees  believe  that  the  Library  not  merely  supplies  a  val- 
uable school  of  instruction  to  those  resident  within  the  limits 
of  the  city,  but  secures  for  Boston  a  wide  reputation  for  a 
liberal  and  wise  public  expenditure,  of  which  it  may  well  be 
proud. 

Fkederick  O.  Prince, 

President. 

Solomon  Lincoln, 

Vice-President. 

JosiAH  H.  Benton,  Jr. 

Henry  P.  Bowditch. 

James  De  Normandie. 

Adopted  May  1,  1899,  as  of  February  1,  1899. 
Attest : 

James  De  Normandie,   (Jlerk  Pro   Tern. 


Library  Department. 


LIBRARIAN'S    REPORT. 


To  the   Trustees : 

I  have  the  honor  to  suhmit  my  report  for  the  year  ending 
January  31,  1899. 

The  library  system  has  been  augmented  during  the  year 
only  by  the  establishment  of  one  additional  delivery  station 
(Station  U,  established  December  27,  1898).  But  a  new- 
department  of  work  has  been  created  at  the  Central  Library 
(the  Department  of  Documents  and  Statistics),  and  the 
scope  of  existing  departments  has,  in  certain  cases,  been 
enlarged.  Four  additional  schools  and  one  branch  post 
office  have  been  made  deposit  stations.  To  the  only  delivery 
station  lacking  a  deposit  collection  at  the  beginning  of  the 
year  this  feature  has  now  been  added.  So  that  the  outlying- 
system  now  comprises : 

Ten  branches,  with  large  permanent  collections  of  books. 

Five  reading-rooms,  all  of  them  also  delivery  and  deposit 
stations,  and  one.  Station  P,  having  also  an  independent 
permanent  collection  of  books. 

Thirteen  delivery  stations,  all  also  deposit  stations. 

Twenty-two  engine-houses  and  one  post  ofhce  receiving 
books  regularly  on  deposit. 

Four  public  schools  (two  high  and  two  grammar)  receiving 
deposits. 

One  public  school  —  a  delivery  station. 

Five  public  institutions  receiving  deposits. 

A  total  of  sixty-one  outlying  agencies,  as  against  fifty- 
seven  on  February  1,  1898. 

The  recent  alterations  at  the  Central  Library  building  were 
not  designed  to  provide  for  additional  departments  of  work 
so  much  as  to  enlarge  the  facilities  of  existing  departments. 
They  have,  nevertheless,  secured  accommodations  for  the 
new  department  of  Documents  and  Statistics  ;  and  in  freeing 
the  Lecture  Hall  have  reopened  opportunity  for  a  service  to 
the  public  not  hitherto  fairly  entered  upon  by  the  Library. 

FINANCE. 

In  G-eneral.  —  The  Auditor's  statement  (Appendix  I.  of 
this  report)  shows  m  detail  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of 
the  Library  during  the  year.  Included,  as  heretofore,  is  a 
comparison  of  the  expenditures  from  the  general  appropriar 
tion   with    those  of    preceding    years.      This    table    begins 


8  City  Document  No.  21. 

naturally  with  the  year  1895,  for  with  that  year,  and  the  re- 
organization of  the  Library  in  the  new  building,  a  new  scale 
of  expenditures  was  entered  upon.  The  comparison  is  item 
by  item,  except  as  certain  items  have  been  divided  under  a 
new  classification  adopted  in  consultation  with  the  City 
Auditor  during  the  past  jeav. 

The  busmess  of  the  Library  increases  progressively,  though 
in  irregular  progression,  from  year  to  year.  Tested  by  one 
statistic  alone  —  the  number  of  card  holders  (64,973,  February 
1,  1898,  72,005,  February  1,  1899)— the  increase  during  the 
past  year  has  been  10  per  cent. ;  taking  the  departments  as 
a  whole,  and  includmg  departments  (such  as  the  Statistical) 
newly  created,  an  estimate  of  10  per  cent,  as  an  average  in- 
crease in  volume  of  work  done  would  not  be  excessive. 

The  cost  of  service  in  1898  exceeded  that  in  1897  by  over 
$8,000  (an  increase  of  6  per  cent.)  ;  that  of  cleaning  increased 
$2,000 ;  and  expenditure  for  repairs,  and  for  furniture  and 
fixtures  (requisite  in  connection  with  alterations  at  the 
Central  Library  and  Branches),  exceeded  that  for  1897  by 
some  $8,000. 

A  reference  to  the  Auditor's  statement  will  show  that  the 
total  expenditure  from  the  city  appropriation  in  1898 
($246,855.87)  was  nevertheless  practically  no  greater  than 
in  1897  ($246,541.79). 

The  estimated  cost  of  maintaining  the  Library 
during  the  year  as  submitted  to  the  City  Gov- 
ernment in  December,  1897)  \<^as        .  .  .    $263,401   88 

The    amount     granted   (general    ap- 
propriation) was  but     .  ,  .    $245,000  00 

Appropriated     later     for    Statistical 

Department  by  transfer         .  .  1,498  98 

Balance  from    1897  ...  356  89 

246,855  87 


Discrepancy $16,546  01 

which  amount  represented  estimated  expenditure  to  be  avoided 
if  the  department  was  to  come  through  the  year  without  a 
deficit. 

The  expenditure  was  avoided,  and  the  department  has 
come  through  the  year  without  a  deficit.  But  it  has  done  so 
only  by  reducmg  the  purchase  and  rebinding  of  books  below 
a  proper  and  economical  level,  and  by  omitting  purchases  of 
fuel,  stock  and  supplies  usually  made  toward  the  end  of  the 
fiscal  year.  The  cost  of  these  latter  is  to  draw  heavily  upon 
the  appropriation  for  1899   at  the  yery  beginning  of  the  new 


Library  Department.  9 

fiscal  year.  The  estimates  for  1899  have,  therefore,  sought  to 
provide  for  arrearage  of  purchase  in  several  directions,  and 
in  part  for  the  great  arrearage  m  binding  (particularly  ex- 
plained below),  as  well  as  for  necessary  increase  of  the  pay- 
roll under  the  graded  service  system. 

The  total  amount  requested  for  1899  was  $287,059. 

The  amount  appropriated,  however,  is  but  8255,000. 

It  is  to  be  observed  that  two  sources  of  income  available 
prior  to  1898  were  cut  off  at  the  beginning  of  that  year. 
One  was  rentals  from  the  Old  Library  building,  the  other 
was  receipts  from  fines  and  sales  of  Library  publications. 


The  rentals  yielded  in  1895 
"  1896 
"  1897 
"  1898 

The  fines  and  sales  in  1895 
"  1896 
"  1897 
"  1898 


$3,101  98 
5,749  00 
8,600  00 

10,000  00 
3,560  91 
4,177  41 
5,091  74 
5,552  32 


The  appropriation  bill  of  1898  provided  that  all  such  rev- 
enue of  the  department  should  be  turned  in  to  the  general 
income  account  of  tlie  city.  It  is  no  longer  specially  avail- 
able for  this  department. 

While,  therefore,  the  general  appropriation  for  1898  ex- 
ceeded that  for  1897  by  $10,000,  the  actual  income  of  the 
Library  applicable  to  general  purposes  was  in  1898  (exclud- 
ing balances)  nearl}^  ($2,000  less  than  in  1897. 

The  sale  of  the  Old  Library  estate  would  in  any  event  put 
an  end  to  revenue  from  rentals.  The  receipts  from  fines  and 
from  sales  represent,  however,  a  continuing  contribution  by 
the  department  to  the  general  income  of  the  city.  It  is  to 
be  remarked  that  the  gross  receipts  which  the  Library  is 
required  to  turn  over  make  no  deduction  for  expense  in- 
curred by  the  Library  in  collection  (of  fines)  and  cost  of 
production  (of  material  sold).  The  cost  to  the  Library  of 
collecting  $4,800  of  fines  is  over  $1,500.  The  cost  of  pro- 
ducing the  publications  sold  is  far  in  excess  of  the  gross 
receipts  from  sale. 

Prior  to  1898  receipts  from  such  pett}-  income  were  used 
temporarily  to  meet  petty  current  exj)enses  and  book  bills 
less  than  $10,  payable  by  the  Library  Auditor,  an  adjustment 
being  made  monthly.  By  an  order  approved  March  3,  1898, 
the  City  Council  authorized  the  transfer  to  the  Library  of 
a  lump  sum  of  $1,500,  to  be  used  for  such  purposes,  the 
amount  bemg  charged  to  the  appropriation  of  the  department, 


10  City  Document  No.  21. 

and  a  final  adjustment  with  tlie  appropriation  being  had 
before  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year. 

The  sum  of  $1,498.98,  noted  above,  was  transferred  by  the 
Mayor  from  the  Reserve  Fund  to  cover  the  expense  for  a 
fraction  of  the  year  of  the  Statistical  Department,  established 
in  July,  1898.  Two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  was 
authorized,  but  only  $1,498.98  proved  to  be  necessary. 

With  each  year  of  its  development  the  Library  requires 
a  larger  sum  for  its  maintenance. 

The  increase  in  the  aggregate  only  keeps  pace  with  the 
growth  of  population  of  the  city,^  and  with  the  increase  in  the 
volume  of  work  which  the  department  is  called  upon  to  do. 
In  these  respects  the  Public  Library  is  on  no  different  basis 
from  the  Public  Schools.  It  also  is  not  a  single  isolated 
institution  within  rigid  limits,  but  is  a  system  attempting 
to  respond  to  the  needs  of  a  city  fast  growing  in  population 
and  in  needs.  It  also,  by  its  own  ver}^  growth,  creates  a  new 
demand,  and  the  needs  to  which  it  responds  not  merely  grow 
in  volume,  but  develop  continually  in  character.  It  cannot 
remain  stationary:  if  it  does  not  advance  and  expand  it 
must  degenerate. 

Permanent  Improvements.  —  A  most  important  contribu- 
tion on  the  part  of  the  City  of  Boston  was  the  sum  of 
$100,000,  to  be  expended  "  upon  the  new  Library  building 
and  the  fittings  thereof." 

Of  the  total  sum  of  $100,000,  $13,654.85  was  required 
for  work  already  done  and  paid  for  by  advance  from  the 
original  building  appropriation.  This  left  $86,345.15 
available  for  the  work  undertaken  since  May,  1898.  This 
work,  when  completed,  will  have  exhausted  the  entire 
amount. 

Endowme7its.  —  One  further  endowment  has  recently  be- 
come effective.  This  is  a  gift  of  a  2^i'incipal  sum  of 
$2,852.41,  contributed  by  relatives  and  friends  of  the  late 
Henry  Sargent  Codman,  to  form  a  memorial  fund.  The 
income  will  be  used  in  the  purchase  of  books  upon  land- 
scape gardening  —  a  designation  most  appropriate,  as  the  gift 
is  to  the  memory  of  a  landscape  architect  of  achievement 
and  great  promise. 

With  this  fund  the  endowments  of  the  Library  aggregate 
but  $270,000.-  Of  this  $50,000  is  the  Todd  Newspaper 
Fund.  The  total  of  endowments  the  income  of  which  is 
applicable  to  the  purchase  of  books  is  but  $220,000.     The 

1  The  increase  as  between  1894  and  succeeding  years  is,  of  course,  disproportionate, 
1895  being  the  lirst  year  in  the  new  building,  and'involving  a  different  scale  of  activi- 
ties and  expenditure. 


LiBEARY  Department.  11 

income  of  this  is  but  a  little  over  $9,000  per  year.  Under 
necessary  reinvestment  at  lower  rates  of  interest  this  income 
is  steadily  diminishing. 

The  appropriations  granted  by  the  city  each  year  do  not 
and  can  not  cover  more  than  the  general  maintenance  expenses 
of  the  Library  and  the  purchase  of  the  more  popular  books. 
The  reference  departments  of  the  Library,  the  departments 
that  are  to  make  it  a  great  reference  library  for  scholars,  can 
be  built  up  only  by  private  gift.  The  sum  of  $9,000  per 
annum  is  painfully  insufficient.  At  most  it  enables  the 
Library  to  keep  up  with  essential  current  publications.  But 
when,  from  time  to  time,  important  special  collections  are 
thrown  upon  the  market  to  be  competed  for,  the  Library  is 
helpless.  Its  competitors  have  great  emergency  funds 
which  they  can  apply  at  will  to  just  such  purposes.  It  has 
none.  Each  year  it  practically  exhausts  its  income  in  ordi- 
nary expenditure. 

In  consequence  it  has  constantly  the  mortification  of  ab- 
staining wholly  from  competition  or,  if  it  venture  a  bid  upon 
a  few  items  peculiarly  within  its  province,  of  being  outbid  by 
other  institutions. 

There  is  a  general  impression  among  the  citizens  of  Bos- 
ton that  the  general  and  even  development  of  the  Library 
is  amply  assured  by  endowment  and  appropriation.  This  is 
an  error  which  ought  by  every  means  to  be  corrected.  On 
its  popular  side  the  Library  is  developing  normally.  The 
scholarly  side  is  not  developing  in  proper  proportion.  On 
this  side  the  Library  is  relatively  losing  rank.  It  will  not, 
cannot,  regain  this  rank  until  the  citizens  of  Boston  come 
to  its  aid  with  further  endowment. 

For  convenient  reference  I  summarize  here  certain  portions 
of  the  Auditor's  Exhibit,  as  (for  1897)  on  pp.  10-12  of  my 
report  of  last  year. 

Gross  Income  and  Expenditure. 

Gross  Income.  —  The  gross  income  of  the  Library  from  all 
sources,  including  balances  February  1,  1898,  except  special 
appropriations,  was  as  follows  : 

General  appropriation      .         .         .    $245,000  GO 

Transfer 1,498  98 

$246,498  98 


Rentals  from  Old  Library  building  :  balance  Febru- 
ary 1,  1898       ,         .          .         .         .         .          .  356  89 


Carried  forward $246,855  87 


12  City  Document  No,  21. 

Brought  forward $246,855  87 

Trust  funds  :  income  received  from  City  Treasurer,      ^  16,174  67 
Miscellaneous  donations  for  purchase  of  books,  in- 
cluding balance  of  Todd  Fund  .  .  .  .  960  88 

Exchange  account         .  .  .  .  .  .  1,371   78 

Interest  on  bank  deposit        .....  1,600  61 

London  accounts:     balance  February  1,   1898,  as 
follows  : 
Trust  funds  ....      $14,628   19 

G-eneral  book  funds      .  .  .        12,646  67 

Interest  on  above  .  .  .  771   57 

28,046  43 


$295,010  24 

Expenditure. — From  general  income    .  .  .    $246,855  87 

From  exchange  account  (money  refunded)     .  .  13  39 

From  trust  funds  income  (includes  Todd  Fund)      .        13,674  11 
From  general  book  funds       .....  3,380   14 

From  miscellaneous     gifts,   including    balance    of 

Todd  Fund       .        \          .          .     ^    .          .          .  656  53 


$264,580  04 


A  nominal  balance  on  February  1,  1899,  would  appear  as 
$30,430.20.  This  is,  however,  subject  to  outstanding  obliga- 
tions, and  in  part  to  special  restrictions.  The  available 
balance  is  but  $21,835.40,  made  up  as  follows  : 

Applicable  to  photographs    .....  $42  21 

Apphcable  to  books,  as  follows  : 

Trust  funds  income :  nominal  bal- 
ance     $17,376  38 

Less  outstanding  orders  and  neces- 
sary reserve  for  continuations        .  6,101   67 


General  book  funds     .        $9,790  47 
Less    outstanding    or- 
ders        .          .          .  2,493  33 


;il,274  71 


7,297   14 


5,571  85 

Exchange  account   .          .          .         .  1,358  59 

Interest:  domestic  account       .  .  1,600  61 

Cash  donations  :  balances  on  hand   .  262  14 


21,793   19 
^21,835  40 


'■  The  actual  income  collected  by  liim  during  the  year  was  but  $11,306.67. 


LrBRAEY  Department.  13 

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 
$3,818,18  —  restricted  to  the  purchase  of  books  published 
prior  to  1850. 

Special  Appropriations. 

Those  with  apparent  existing  balances  are  the  Building 
appropriation  (construction  of  Copley  Square  building).  Fur- 
nishing appropriation  (Copley  Square  building),  and  the 
appropriation  for  Improvement  of  the  Broadway  Extension 
Delivery  Station.     The  Auditor's  exhibit  shows: 

Huilding  Appro^^riation.  —  Nominal  balance  uncer- 
tified February  1,  1898 $76,430  62 

New  loan  (May  27,  1898) 100,000  00 

$176,430  62 
Expenditm-es,  1898 66,314  62 

Nominal  balance $110,116  00 

Against  which  are  contracts  and  out- 
standing orders  amounting  to         .    $105,685  24 

And  claims  amounting  to  .  .  8,085  61 

113,770  85 


Indicating  a  deficit  of  .          .          .          .          .          .  $3,654  85 

to  be  met  by  application  of  the  balance  of    the  Furnishing 
appropriation  so  far  as  necessary. 

Furnishing   Appropriation.  —  Balance   February 

1,  1898 $15,730  01 

Expenditures,  1898-99 2,393  80 

Balance  February  1,  1899           .          •          .          .  $13,336  21 

Against  which  are  contracts  outstanding  for  .          .  6,399  87 

Balance $6,936  34 

which  is  likely  to  be  fully  exhausted  as   above  and  by  work 

already  projected. 

Broadway  Extension  Improvement  Appropriation. 

Balance  February  1,  1898           ....  $3,98956 

Expenditures,  1898-99 532  68 

Balance $3,456  88 


14  City  Document  No.  21. 

BUILDINGS    AND    EQUIPMENT. 
Central  Library. 

It  seems  well  to  insert  here  a  brief  summary  of  the  altera- 
tions and  improvements  effected  with  the  special  appropria- 
tion granted  in  May  last. 

The  only  additional  space  gained  has  been  in  the  enclosure 
of  the  Boylston-street  driveway.  This  secured  an  addition 
of  some  33,000  cubic  feet  to  the  space  available  for  practical 
active  use.  But  in  enabling  the  current  newspapers  to  be 
removed  from  the  Lecture  Hall  it  freed  over  143,000  cubic 
feet  of  space,  which  may  be  available  for  other  uses. 

Adaptation  of  space  to  different  uses  has,  however,  altered 
considerably  the  location  or  boundaries  of  certain  depart- 
ments. The  floor  plans  published  in  last  year's  report  are 
therefore  reproduced  in  this  year's,  with  the  alterations  in- 
corporated. 

The  work  done  prior  to  May,  1898,  but  chargeable  to  the 
special  appropriation  of  $100,000,  was  chiefly  upon  the  heat- 
ing and  ventilating  system :  a  third  engine,  additional  radiat- 
ing surface,  etc.  In  July  was  entered  upon  the  scheme  of 
improvement  in  the  system  recommended  by  Prof.  S.  H. 
Woodbridge,  as  the  result  of  his  examination  and  tests  of  the 
preceding  winter.  The  work  actually  done  has  considerably 
exceeded  the  recommendations  made  by  him  at  that  time, 
new  necessities  developing  as  the  work  itself  progressed.  In 
brief,  the  more  important  features  have  been  :  the  substitu- 
tion of  a  10-foot  for  the  18-foot  intake  fan  in  the  basement, 
and  of  an  exhaust  fan  of  different  design  and  efficiency  for 
that  under  the  roof;  the  substitution  of  steam  for  hot-water 
coils,  to  raise  the  temperature  of  the  air  drawn  in  from  the 
court-yard  to  be  forced  up  through  the  ducts  ;  the  installation 
of  special  ventilatmg  fans  in  the  engine-room  (incidentally 
serving  to  dry  out  storage  space  under  the  platforms),  m  the 
public  lavatories  and  elsewhere ;  more  ample  provision  by 
new  or  unused  ducts  for  the  ventilation  of  rooms  (as  the 
periodical  room),  whose  ventilation  was  clearly  inadequate ; 
and,  of  course,  such  changes  in  and  additions  to  the  system 
as  were  necessitated  by  the  recent  structural  alterations. 

With  the  additional  or  improved  fans  several  additional 
electric  motors  were  necessary,  including  a  20-horse  power 
motor  for  the  intake  fan.  The  sanitation  of  the  public  lava- 
tories required  certain  changes  in  the  plumbing. 

Unusually  high  tides  had  developed  leaks  in  the  main 
ventilating  duct  under  the  engine-room.     Water  forced  up 


Library  Department.  15 

through  these  leaks  formed  stagnant  pools  from  which 
offensive  odoi"S  were  carried  up  to  the  main  reading-room, 
so  that  the  duct  vitiated  the  very  atmosphere  it  was  de- 
signed to  puiify.  The  portion  of  the  duct  under  the  engine- 
room  has  been  lifted  out  of  reach  of  tide-water,  secured  by 
solid  concrete  against  possible  contact,  and  reconstructed 
throughout. 

The  full  result  of  these  various  alterations  is  not  yet  ap- 
parent, for  some  of  the  new  apparatus  (e.g.,  the  intake  fan 
itself)  is  not  yet  in  operation.  But  that  the  essential  im- 
provements sought  will  have  been  secured  there  can  be  no 
doubt.  The  new  intake  fan,  smaller  as  it  is,  at  high  speed 
discharges  through  the  ducts  60,000  to  75,000  cubic  feet  of 
air  a  minute,  as  against  30,000  to  45,000  cubic  feet  dis- 
charged by  the  old.  This  air  is  now  sufficiently  heated  to 
contribute  positively  to  the  temperature  of  each  room,  as 
well  as  to  its  ventilation.  The  ventilation  of  the  public 
lavatories,  which  had  beeji  matter  of  great  concern  and 
much  unsuccessful  experiment,  is  now  perfect.  And  the 
changes  throughout  appear  certain  to  accomplish  the  ends 
sought. 

The  cost  of  these  (over  $12,000)  has  been  so  great  as  to 
diminish  materially  the  amount  of  the  appropriation  available 
for  the  miscellaneous  work.  The  more  significant  of  this 
may  be  summarized  (I  omit  details  and  changes  —  as  new 
doorways,  etc.  —  merely  incidental)  as  follows  : 

Increase  and  rearrangement  of  space  for  readers  and  for 
administration,  additional  machinery  and  administrative 
equipment  and  furniture. 

Accommodations  for  Readers. 

I.     Inner  Periodical  Room. 

The  Boylston-street  driveway  has  been  enclosed  to  form 
with  the  adjacent  room,  an  inner  periodical  room. 
The  present  periodical  room,  on  the  north-east  corner, 
first  floor,  has  been  enlarged  by  the  removal  of  a 
partition,  and  has  become  the  newspaper  room.  The 
use  of  the  periodicals  and  newspapers,  which  is  allied,  will 
thus  be  provided  for  in  three  large  rooms  conveniently  en 
suite.  The  room  recently  occupied  by  the  newspapers  has 
been  released  for  other  uses,  and  the  newspapers  are  now 
in  a  room  directly  accessible  from  the  main  vestibule,  not 
necessitating,  as  heretofore,  the  transit  of  a  third  of  the 
building. 

The  readers  of  periodicals,  moreover,  will  be  exempted 
from  the  jarring  of  the  light  and  power  engines. 


16  City  Document  No.  21. 

II.     Children's  Room  —  Patent  Room. 

The  present  Children's  Room  has  been  relieved  of  the 
registration  desk,  which  has  been  removed  to  the  Delivery 
Room.  The  children's  department  has  been  augmented  by 
the  addition  of  the  room  adjacent  to  it,  formerly  the  Patent 
Room.  This  is  to  be  fitted  up  as  a  general  reference  reading- 
room,  with  a  good  reference  library,  including  maps,  photo- 
graphs, etc.,  useful  to  children  in  their  school  work.  In  the 
gallery  of  this  room  will  be  a  kindergarten  library  for  teach- 
ers, augmented  from  the  present  collection. 

The  collection  of  drawings  and  specifications  of  patents 
has  been  removed  to  a  room  in  the  west  wing,  reached  from 
the  court-yard,  and  from  the  Special  Libraries'  floor.  This 
room  has  been  enlarged  and  provided  with  galleries,  and  cor- 
responds to  Stacks  4,  5  and  6.  Besides  the  collection  of 
patents  it  will  provide  in  part  for  the  work  of  the  Statistical 
Department,  recently  established,  being  directly  adjacent  to 
the  collection  of  documents  on  the  Special  Libraries'  floor. 
It  has  also  been  connected  with  the  bound  volume  Newspaper 
Room,  containing  the  most  important  of  the  files  of  newspapers. 

ADMINISTRATIOlSr. 

I.     Delivery  Room. 

On  the  Blagden-street  side  (south  wing)  the  Librarian's 
office,  adjacent  to  the  Abbey  room,  has  been  tlirown  into  the 
old  tube-room,  so  called,  from  which  books  are  issued  from 
the  stacks.  The  space  for  the  issue  of  books  has  thus  been 
doubled.  With  it  the  delivery  counter  has  been  doubled  and 
provides  now  distinct  divisions  for  the  return  and  for  the  issue 
of  books.  The  registration  desk,  formerly  in  the  Children's 
Room,  has  also  been  provided  for  at  this  point :  an  essential, 
as  its  work  is  intimately  connected  with  that  of  the  Delivery 
Department,  and  its  remoteness  from  that  department  hith- 
erto has  forced  the  public  to  traverse  the  whole  width  of  the 
building  for  needs  that  properly  should  be  treated  together. 
The  old  system  of  pneumatic  tubes,  involving  fifty-six  sta- 
tions m  the  building,  has  been  overhauled,  and  new  and 
improved  terminals  substituted.  The  twenty-eight  terminals 
in  the  Delivery  Room,  formerly  stretching  in  a  line,  have 
been  grouped  in  a  circle  for  more  convenient  operation.  In 
addition,  an  auxiliary  system  of  improved  tubes  (operating  by 
suction,  instead  of  by  pressure)  has  been  installed,  which 
not  merely  connects  the  Delivery  Room  with  each  one 
of  the  six  stacks  and  with  the  Special  Libraries'  floor, 
but  connects  every  stack  with  every  other  stack,  so 
that    slips    may    be    sent    from    stack    to    stack    without 


LiBUARY  Depaijtment.  17 

being  returned  to  the  Deliveiy  Room,  An  apparatus 
has  been  ms tailed  in  the  Delivery  Room,  itself  novel 
to  librar}"  use.  This  is  a  "  pick-up  carrier,"  so  called. 
Its  purpose  is  to  transport  the  various  slips  between 
four  points  in  the  Delivery  Room  doing  business  with  one 
another, — the  issue  and  return  desks,  the  record  trays, 
and  the  pneumatic  terminals.  The  "■  carrier"  is  a  cable  rail- 
wa}-  operated  by  electricity.  At  fixed  points  at  intervals 
upon  the  cable  are  carriers,  which,  as  they  reach  a  station, 
pick  up  a  batch  of  slips  awaiting  their  arrival,  carry  them 
forward  and  deposit  them  at  such  succeeding  station  as  ma}^ 
be  their  destination.  The  carrier  in  not  a  box,  but  is  more 
in  the  nature  of  a  hand,  which  clasps  the  batch  of  slips  by 
closing  of  the  thumb  and  middle  finger,  and  releases  them 
automatically  by  the  opening  of  these  two. 

The  automatic  precision  with  whicli  this  work  is  cairied  on 
is  remarkable.  The  convenience  of  the  apparatus  for  such 
use  is  that  it  keeps  the  flow  of  application  slips  practically 
continuous,  whereas,  when  transferred  by  hand,  they  can  be 
transferred  only  in  batches,  at  intervals,  to  the  disadvantage 
of  any  slip  that  may  be  undermost. 

II.     Executive  and  Other  Rooms. 

A  new  set  of  rooms  has  been  created  for  the  Librarian 
and  the  Executive  Department  generally,  consisting  of  an 
ante-room,  main  office,  private  office,  and  a  room  for  records 
and  files.  This  suite  of  rooms  has  been  connected  with  the 
Trustees'  Room  through  a  lobby  formerly  open  to  Blagden 
street,  so  that  the  whole  series  of  rooms  representing  the  gen- 
eral administration  is  now  in  proper  relation  en  suite.  This 
lobby  will  contain  the  Chamberlain  Collection  of  autographs. 

The  Librarian's  office  is  still,  however,  very  conveniently 
accessible  to  the  public,  being  reached  directly  from  the 
Delivery  Room  by  a  corridor  left  open  on  the  Blagden-street 
side. 

The  new  adminstrative  offices  occupy  a  ^Jart  of  Stack  5  on 
the  Blagden-street  side.  Part  of  Stack  1  and  of  Stack  2  have 
also  been  equipped  for  administrative  uses.  In  Stack  2, 
space  has  been  fitted  up  for  the  work  of  the  Branch  Division, 
so  called.  This  is  the  department  at  the  Central  Library 
having  to  do  with  the  responsibility  of  the  general  adminis- 
tration of  the  outlying  departments  of  the  Library  system, 
which  includes  the  28  Branches  and  Delivery  Stations,  and 
the  work  connected  with  the  issue  of  books  to  23  engine- 
houses,  certain  of  the  reformatory  institutions,  and  various 
schools.  This  division  also  deals  with  the  applications  from 
these  outlying  departments  for  books  at  the  Central  Library, 


18  City  Document  No.  21. 

and  the  delivery  of  these  books.  Within  the  past  four  years 
the  circulation  of  books  from  the  Central  Library,  through 
the  outlying  departments,  has  greatly  increased.  In  addition 
to  the  circulation  of  books  upon  specific  application,  there  are 
now  also  deposit  collections  to  be  provided  for.  The  enlarge- 
ment of  the  old  work,  together  with  these  new  undertakings, 
has  necessitated  the  organization  of  a  considerable  depart- 
ment, the  head  of  which  is  the  Supervisor  of  Branches.  The 
space  assigned  to  the  work  of  the  Branch  Division,  when  the 
new  building  was  opened,  was  but  216  sq.  ft. ;  the  space  now 
provided  for  it  in  Stacks  1  and  2  is  1,766  sq.  ft.  In  Stack 
1  is  a  shipping-room,  where  all  the  books  enter,  and  from 
which  they  are  despatched.  It  is  reached  from  a  window  on 
the  sidewalk  directly  accessible  to  the  library  wagons.  In 
Stack  2  is  the  provision  for  the  adminstrative  and  clerical 
work,  with  shelving  for  the  collection  of  books  drawn  upon 
more  specially  for  deposit  use. 

The  adaptation  of  portions  of  Stacks  2  and  5  for  adminis- 
trative purposes  has  necessitated  enlargement  of  the  whole 
series  of  windows  on  the  Blagden-street  side,  at  these  levels, 
from  2  ft.  3  in.  to  4  ft.  10  in.  in  width. 

The  stacks  from  the  basement  to  the  Special  Libraries' 
floor  have  been  connected  at  the  south-westerly  corner  by  a 
staircase.  Intercommunication  between  the  stacks  has  also 
been  secured  by  the  auxiliary  pneumatic  tube  system,  above 
indicated,  and  by  the  electric  book-lift,  mentioned  below. 

The  Ordering  Department.  —  This  room  has  been  more 
than  doubled  in  size  by  the  addition  to  it  of  corridor  and 
other  space.  It  has  also  been  greatly  improved  as  to  light, 
and  forms  now  a  most  admirable  space  for  the  business  of 
securing  and  receiving  books,  and  preparing  them  for  the 
Catalogue  and  Shelf  Departments. 

On  this  wing  also  have  been  arranged  offices  for  the  Chief 
Janitor  (formerly  in  the  main  vestibule)  and  for  the  Custo- 
dian of  Stock,  so  called,  the  official  who  has  the  responsibility 
of  purchasing  the  two  hundred  odd  articles,  from  pencils  to 
towels,  in  current  use,  and  the  duty  of  distributing  them  to 
the  several  departments  upon  requisition  provided  by  the 
Librarian ;  and  who  has  also  the  custody  and  distribution  of 
library  forms  and  publications. 

Stock  Room.  —  In  the  basement  a  large  space  has  been 
fitted  up  as  a  stock  room  for  the  storage  of  these  articles, 
and  of  library  forms  and  publications. 

Duplicate  Room.  —  Adjacent  to  the  Stock  Room  is  space 
fitted  up  with  shelving  for  the  Duplicate  Room,  where  dupli- 
cates not  needed  for  Library  use  may  be  sorted  and  arranged 
for  exchange,  distribution  and  sale.     Additional  storage  space 


LiBKAKY  Department.  19 

has  been  cleared,  and  is  to  be  fitted  up  in  the  basement  on  the 
Blagxlen-street  wing  to  the  west  of  the  service  stairway. 

Two  electric  elevators  have  been  installed  in  this  wing,  one 
a  passenger  and  freight  elevator  for  service,  use,  with  a  capac- 
ity of  1,500  lbs.,  at  150  ft.  a  minute.  This  has  been  installed 
in  the  centre  of  the  service  staircase,  which  has  been  more  or 
less  remodelled  for  the  purpose.  The  fact  that  this  elevator 
has  12  landings  within  a  lift  of  59  ft.,  indicates  the  business 
that  it  will  be  called  upon  to  do.  The  second  lift  is  an  elec- 
tric book-lift,  traversing  the  stacks  and  reaching  the  Special 
Libraries'  floor,  wiiich  carries  only  small  lots  of  books,  and  is 
operated  by  the  attendant  despatching  the  load ;  that  is  to 
say,  it  carries  no  attendant,  but  may  be  called  to  any  point 
and  despatched  from  it  by  the  pressure  of  a  button.  When 
being  loaded  at  any  point  it  is  automatically  exempt  from 
call  to  any  other  point. 

Editor's  Room^  Luncheon  Hooms,  etc. — In  the  Entresol 
(A),  south  side,  have  been  provided  an  office  for  the  Editor 
of  Library  Publications,  an  office  for  the  use  (jointly)  of  the 
Chief  of  the  Issue  and  of  the  Chief  of  the  Ordering  Depart- 
ments, and  luncheon  and  additional  locker-rooms  for  em- 
ployees of  both  sexes. 

The  alterations  above  described  represent  only  the  main 
features  of  the  work  on  the  building  accomplished  during  the 
past  eight  months.  Details  incidental  to  the  main  work  were, 
of  course,  many,  and  in  a  measure  costly.  As  in  the  case 
of  the  heating  and  ventilating  system,  the  total  work  actually 
done  has  exceeded  by  a  hundred  per  cent,  the  work  originally 
planned.  Its  total  cost  has  nevertheless  been  kept  within 
the  fraction  (•'170,000)  of  the  appropriation  available  for  it. 
This  has  been  possible  through  the  ingenuity,  skill  and 
exceedmg  watchfulness  of  the  architects,  and  through  the 
competence,  care  and  exceeding  integrity  of  the  general  con- 
tractors. For  such  work  as  was  to  be  undertaken  precise 
specifications  were  impossible.  The  architects  recommended 
that  a  competent  contractor  be  selected,  without  competition, 
and  the  work  done  by  and  under  him,  by  the  day,  Avith  a 
commission  upon  actual  cost.  The  Mayor,  under  advice  of 
his  consulting  architect,  assented  to  this.  As  a  result  the 
work  has  not  merely  been  careful,  thorough  and  appropriate, 
but  has,  I  believe,  cost  the  city  less  by  thousands  of  dollars 
than  if  carried  on  in  any  other  way,  and  it  has  been  done 
with  the  utmost  consideration  for  tlie  convenience  of  the 
public  and  of  the  admmistration.  It  was  so  arranged  that  it 
did  not  for  a  single  day  necessitate  absolute  cessation  of  the 
service  in  any  department. 


20  City  Document  No.  21. 

The  very  considerable  amount  of  furnitiue  and  fixtures 
necessary  to  the  equipment  of  the  new  or  enlarged  depart- 
ments has  been  pr5vided  for  out  of  the  balance  of  the  Library 
Building  Furnishing  appropriation. 

Repairs  incidental  to  the  alterations,  or  convenient  at  the 
time, — including  a  great  deal  of  painting  (catalogue  and 
periodical  rooms,  stacks,  corridors,  etc.),  —  have  been  paid 
for  out  of  the  general  appi-opriation.  Considerable  repairs 
reported  to  be  necessary  upon  the  roof  have  been  deferred 
until  the  coming  summer. 

The  cleaning  of  building  and  books  during  and  since  the 
alterations  has  involved  a  specially  heavy  expense,  also  met 
by  the  general  appropriation.  Ever}^  volume  of  the  half- 
million  odd  in  the  Central  building  has,  within  the  past  two 
months,  been  taken  down  and  dusted,  and  the  shelf  wiped 
off  beneath  it. 

The  improvements  above  described  do  not,  indeed,  abso- 
lutely perfect  the  building  for  present  uses.  The  issue  of 
books  from  the  stacks  for  reference  readers,  and  the  issue 
for  borrowers,  are  still  together  dependent  upon  one  set  of 
attendants,  one  system  of  mechanism  and  one  channel  of 
issue.  The  books  required  from  the  stacks  by  the  reference 
reader  in  Bates  Hall  must  still  be  forwarded  to  him  from 
the  issue  desk  by  hand,  through  a  public  room  at  times 
crowded  with  sightseers.  And,  ample  as  is  the  general  s^Dace 
provided  for  readers,  and  sufficient  (for  a  few  years)  as  is 
the  shelving,  there  is  very  great  need  of  rooms  set  off  for 
special  collections  for  the  use  of  classes  and  for  specialized 
research.  But  most  embarrassing  difiiculties  have  been  over- 
come, and  the  most  pressing  needs  of  the  moment  have 
been  met ;  and  what  has  been  done  will  add  greatly  to  the 
comfort  of  tlie  public,  and  greatly  to  convenience  in  admin- 
istration. 

I  have  treated  these  alterations  at  the  Central  Library 
building  somewhat  fully — to  the  necessary  condensation  of 
tliose  portions  of  my  report  touching  routine  —  for  the  very 
reason  that  they  were  out  of  the  routine,  and  formed  the 
most  significant  episode  of  the  year. 

Branches. 

No  new  structure  has  been  erected  for  any,  of  the  outlying- 
departments.  For  certain  alterations  effected — particularly 
at  the  Brighton  Branch  —  I  refer  to  the  report  to  me  of  the  Su- 
pervisor of  Branches,  an  extract  from  which  I  append  to  mine. 
'  It  is  obvious  that  library  facilities  are  distributed  very 
unequally  throughout  the  city,  and  that  such  as  exist  are 


LiBKAKv  Department.  21 

ill-proportioned  to  existing  needs.  One  district  has  the  bene- 
fit of  a  collection  of  books  numbering  35,000  volumes,  in  an 
independent  building,  ample,  well  equipped  and  attractive  ; 
another,  with  perhaps  double  the  population  to  be  served, 
and  more  remote  from  the  main  collection,  has  at  its  disjjosal 
but  a  third  as  many  books  (a  third  in  number — hardly  a 
fifth  in  efficiency),  and  for  accommodations,  meagre,  ill- 
ventilated,  inconvenient  and  uninviting  rooms,  in  a  building 
devoted  mainly  to  other  and  inconsistent  uses,  in  a  neighbor- 
hood tending  to  demoralize  its  readers.  Such  contrasts  exist. 
New  departments  may  be  established,  deficient  facilities  be 
supplied,  only  by  considerable  expenditure  and  laborious 
effort  applied  in  detail.  The  effort  to  improve  the  material 
facilities  and  the  service  in  existing  departments  (as  indi- 
cated in  the  Supervisor's  report)  is  now  earnest,  and  will  be 
persistent.  But  the  present  deficiencies  cannot  be  supplied 
without  a  large  direct  expenditure  upon  new  buildings  (in  cer- 
tain districts),  and  alterations,  repairs,  books  and  equipment 
in  others.  The  outlying  departments  cannot  be  brought  to 
reasonable  equality  or  into  reasonable  relation  with  the 
Central  Library  without  an  expenditure  on  buildings  and 
books  of  at  least  |500,000. 

A  supreme  advantage  would  be  the  application  of  such  a 
sum  all  at  once  under  a  general  scheme  of  improvement. 

Works  of  Art. 
Ghantrey' s  Scott.  —  A  copy  in  marble  (by  John  Hutchi- 
son, R.S.A.)  of  the  bust  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  by  Chantrey, 
has  been  received  as  a  gift  to  the  City  of  Boston  from  the 
Committee  on  the  Scott  Memorial  in  Westminster  Abbey. 
The  bust  is  a  duplicate  of  that  placed  in  Westminster  as  a 
result  of  contributions  from  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  The 
correspondence  with  reference  to  it  will  be  found  in  the 
appendix.  It  awaits  formal  presentation  to  the  public  before 
receiving  a  permanent  location. 

Books. 

Appendices  II.-V.  give  the  extent  of  the  Libi-ary  by 
years,  a  summary  of  the  contents  of  the  Library  on  January 
31,  1899,  the  net  increase  of  the  several  departments  during 
the  past  ten  years,  and  the  classification  of  the  material  in 
the  Central  Library  i  on  January  31,  1899. 

According  to  last  year's  report,  it  appears  that  the  number 
of  volumes  in  the  Central  Library  and  branches  on  January 
31,  1898,  was  698,888,  of  which  528,079  were  in  the  Central 

1  Owing  to  the  reclassification  of   the  lirancli   libraries,    recently  begun,  but    not 
completed,  classification  of  these  collections  has  been  omitted  in  this  year's  report. 


22  City  Documet^t  No.  21. 

Library.  By  the  tables  appended  to  this  report  it  appears 
that  on  January  31,  ]899,  the  number  in  all  departments  is 
716,050,  of  which  550,822  are  in  the  Central  Library.  The 
net  mcrease  is  thus  17,162  volumes.  The  net  gain  to 
the  Central  Library  is  22,743  volumes.  The  gain  to  the 
branches  by  accession  is  more  than  offset  b}^  considerable 
transfers  to  the  Central  Library  of  worn-out  or  unserviceable 
material,  so  that  the  year  leaves  outlying  departments  with 
5,581  volumes  less  than  at  its  beginning. 

The  total  expenditure  for  books  and  periodicals  durmg  the 
past  year  was  $34,935.10,  as  against  $40,351.62  in  1897. 
This  does  not  include  $1,836.40  expended  from  the  income 
of  the  Todd  Fund  for  current  ncAvspapers;  nor  $488.53  paid 
for  books  for  Delivery  P  out  of  the  special  appropriation ; 
nor  $732.17  expended  by  the  Fellowes  Athenaeum  for  books 
for  the  Roxbury  Branch. 

The  expenditure  was  distributed  as  follows: 

City  money  expended  for  books : 

1S97.  1898.  18l).s. 


For  Central  Library  (in- 

cluding deposit  collec- 

tion)          .          .          .    $20,497  84 

$13,175  51 

For   branches          .          .        5,303  28 

4,021   82 

$25,801   12     $17,197  33 
Trust  funds  expended 
for  books: 
For  Central  Library        .       8,114  74       11,837  71 


$33,915  86 
City  money  expended  for  periodicals  : 
For  Central  Library         .     $4,766  87       $4,276  66 
For   branches  .  .        1,668  89  1,623  40 


$29,035  04 


;,435   76 


5,900  06 

$34,935   10 

The  accessions  during  the  past  year  (as  distinguished 
from  the  statistic  of  books  actually  located,  and  excluding 
mere  transfers  from  one  department  to  another)  have  been 
as  follows  : 

Added  by  purchase  : 

Volumes.  Volumes.  Volumes. 

Central  Library     .   10,357     Branches     .   7,970     Total  .   18,327 

Added  by  gift : 
Central  Library     .     6,958     Branches     .       185     Total.     7,143 


17,315  8,155  25,470 

As  against  a  total  of  33,131  volumes  in  1897. 


Library  Department.  23 

The  library  of  the  American  Statistical  Association  will 
form  a  considerable  accession  not  included  in  the  above 
figures.  It  has  been  omitted,  because  the  portion  of  it  which 
is  to  be  retained  for  our  shelves  has  not  yet  been  divided  off 
exactly  from  that  which  is  to  be  used  for  exchange  or  other 
purposes. 

Purchases. 

Among  the  purchases  of  the  year  have  been  the  following : 

Americayia.  —  Hylacomylus.  "  Cosmographiae  introductio 
cum  quibusdam  geometriae  ac  astronomiae  principiis  ad  cam 
rem  necessariis.  Insuper  quattuor  Americi  Vespucij  navi- 
gationes."  1507.  Colophon.  (The  suggestion  to  which 
we  owe  our  national  name  is  found  on  the  reverse  of  the 
fifteenth  leaf.) 

Smith.  "  The  True  Ti'avels,  Adventures,  and  Observa- 
tions of  Captaine  John  Smith.  Together  with  a  contmua- 
tion  of  his  Generall  History  of  Virginia,"  etc.  London, 
1630. 

Smith.  "A  Map  of  Virginia."  With  a  description  of 
the  countrey  (sic),  etc.     Oxford,  1612. 

Hamor,  Ralph.  "  A  True  Discourse  of  the  Present 
Estate  of  Virginia."     London,  1615. 

Ptolemfeus.  "  Geograpliia  universalis,  vetus  et  nova, 
complectens     Claudii    Ptolomtei     Alexandrini     enarrationis 

libros  VIII Basilete  apud  Henricum  Petrum." 

1540.    (The  first  edition  of  Ptolemy  by  Sebastian  Munster.) 

Howgill,  Francis.  "The  Popish  Inquisition  newly  erected 
in  New  England."  London,  1659.  (Contains  an  account 
of  the  reception  which  the  Quakers  met  with  in  Boston.) 

Reeve,  John,  and  Muggleton,  Lodowick.  "  Joyful  News 
from  Heaven."     London,  1658. 

Lawne,  Fowler,  Sanders  and  Bui  ward.  "  The  Profane 
Schisme  of  the  Brownistes  or  Separatists."     1612. 

Also  An  indenture  given  and  signed  by  Edward  Tyng  and 
others  to  the  Company  of  the  Waterworks  to  lay  and  main- 
tain a  conduit  ''  in  the  street  now  called  Conduit  Street " 
(Union  street),  and  acknowledged  before  "  Jo.  Endecott 
gov."  1656.  (This  was  the  beginning  of  the  Boston 
Water  Works.) 

Broadsides.  —  At  the  Philadelphia  sale  of  the  Bancker 
Collection  of  broadsides  the  Library  had  of  necessity  to 
confine  its  purchases  to  those  of  especially  local  interest. 
They  mclude  : 

(1.)  Letters  from  Washington  to  Gage,  and  Gage  to 
Washington,  relative  to  the  cruel  treatment  of  prisoners. 
"  Phila.,  September  29th,  1775." 


24  City  Document  No.  21. 

(2.)  Bombardment  and  Burning  of  Falmouth.  "  An 
Express  just  arrived  from  General  Washington's  Camp  at 
Cambridge,  Oct.  24,  1775." 

(3.)  News  of  the  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  "  New  York, 
June  24th,  1775." 

(4.)  Account  of  the  death  of  Lord  Percy,  April  25, 
1775. 

There  may  be  mentioned  also,  a  highly  important  historical 
letter  describing  in  detail  the  Continental  and  British  de- 
fences in  and  around  Boston,  by  Jesse  Lukens,  one  of  the 
Massachusetts  Riflemen,  to  Jonas  Shaw,  dated  Prospect  Hill, 
September  15,  1775  ;  also  a  London  edition  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Charter,  published  in  1692,  and  "  The  Laws  of 
Maryland  made  since  1763."     Annapolis,  1787. 

Cuba,  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippines.  —  A  selected  col- 
lection of  works  relating  to  the  geography,  languages  and 
history  of  Cuba,  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippines,  was  pur- 
chased in  Leipzig  at  a  cost  of  1,300  marks. 

Statistics  and  Ecoyiomics.  —  From  Amsterdam  were  ob- 
tained some  rather  notable  files  of  statistical  and  economic 
serials,  containing  among  them  a  complete  set  of  the  Dutch 

Economist —  "  De  Economist'" - 1852-1897  ;  papers  relating 

to  economical  reform,  etc. :  "  Staatsblad  der  Vereenigde 
Nederlanden,"  1813-1897,  a  complete  set  of  original  editions 
of  the  Dutch  state  papers  ;  ''Staatsblad  van  Nederlandsch- 
Indie,"  1816-1897,  the  official  e<lition  of  the  state  papers  of 
the  Dutch  East  Indies;  and  "  Verzameling  der  Consulaire 
berichten  en  verslagen,''  etc.,  1865-1897,  the  Dutch  Con- 
sular reports. 

Maps.  —  The  most  important  purchase  of  maps  has  been 
the  collection  "  Hydrographie  fran(jaise,"  containing  the  offi- 
cial sea-charts  of  the  French  Navy  Department,  and  consisting 
of  more  than  1,400  maps  brought  together  from  1845-58. 
There  were  also  bought  and  mounted  for  the  new  map 
cabinet,  two  sets  of  Stanford's  maps  of  Europe,  Asia,  Africa, 
Australasia  and  North  and  South  America,  and  an  additional 
set  of  United  States  post-route  maps  for  the  same  purpose. 
Another  purchase  bearing  on  the  subject  is : 

"  Abel  Janszoon  Tasman's  Journal  of  his  discovery  of  Van 
Dieman's  Land  and  New  Zealand  in  1642.  With  photo- 
lithographic fac-similes  of  the  original  manuscript  .  .  .  and 
fac-similes  of  original  maps.     Amsterdam,  1898." 

The  geographical  serials  have  been  strengthened  by  the 
purchase  of  a  set  of  the  Italian  periodical,  "Cosmos,"  edited 
by  G.  Coro,  and  the  "-Deutsche  geographische  Blatter." 


Library  Departinient.  25 

Other  purchases  of  interest  bought  with  the  Trust  funds 
are  :  Thirty  volumes  of  the  Bampton  lectures,  including  the 
first  issued  in  1780  (the  set  is  now  but  six  volumes  ishort); 
the  Index  to  the  London  Times,  and  some  700  unmounted 
Photographs  which  incUide  a  selection  illustrating  the  French 
school  of  painting,  and  Northern  Schools  in  French  Galleries, 
Northern  Schools  in  the  National  Gallery,  and  in  Berlin, 
Munich  and  Vienna ;  late  photographs  of  the  Italian  school, 
besides  Sewall's  "  Canterbury  Pilgrims,"  and  a  number  of 
Copley  prints. 

Reference  Books  for  Children'' s  Room.  —  From  the  city 
appropriation  has  been  bought  a  collection  of  reference  books 
for  the  Children's  room,  for  which  the  sum  of  $1,500  was 
allowed.  Besides  the  encyclopa'dias,  dictionaries  and  atlases, 
the  collection  includes  the  large  illustrated  editions  of 
Duruy's  History  of  Greece,  and  of  Rome,  Guizot's  History 
of  England,  and  of  France,  Rambaud's  History  of  Russia, 
Green's  History  of  the  English  People,  and  Winsor's 
Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America.  The  Riverside 
Natural  History,  R^clus's  Earth  and  Its  Inhabitants,  the 
whole  series  of  the  Story  of  the  Nations,  also  Longfellow's 
Poems  of  Places,  Poole's  Index  to  Periodical  Literature, 
together  with  the  minor  reference  books,  biography,  etc., 
make  a  useful  reference  library,  for  which  as  far  as  possi- 
ble the  books  have  been  procured  in  strong  and  attractive 
bindings. 

English  Prose  Fiction.  —  Sixteen  hundred  and  thirteen 
volumes  of  current  English  prose  fiction,  representing  180 
titles,  were  bought  and  placed  in  the  Central  Library, 
Branches  and  Deposit,  at  a  cost  of  -11,492.  There  were 
also  bought  1,830  volumes  to  replace  those  worn  out,  and 
1,900  additional  copies  of  books  of  which  the  supply  was 
not  in  any  way  adequate  to  the  demand.  Fifteen  hundred 
of  these  were  for  Deposit  use,  and  included  500  books  for 
younger  readers,  making  in  all  an  aggregate  of  5,450  volumes 
purchased  at  a  cost  of  .|5,000  (as  against  -19,650  in  1897-98). 

French  arid  German  Literature  :  Replacements.  —  The 
works  of  Dumas  pere  (literally  worn  out)  have  been  re- 
placed by  a  complete  set  in  300  attractively  bound  volumes 
for  circulation.  There  were  also  replaced  some  400  volumes 
of  the  more  popular  French  and  German  authors. 

Purchases  under  the  last  three  heads,  with  the  duplicate 
copies  of  books  bought  for  use  in  connection  with  the 
schools,  about  200  volumes,  the  necessary  replacement  of 
worn-out  books,  the  books  of  the  day  (including  a  larger 
proportion  than  usual    of    those  relating  to   economics  and 


26  City  Document  No.  21. 

statistics),  have  been  made  from  the  money  which  could  be 
spared  from  the  city  appropriation  —  some  -19,000  less  than 
the  amount  spent  last  year.  With  lessened  resources  it 
has  been  necessary  to  defer  some  purchases  of  fiction, 
especially  for  the  branches.  The  outlay  for  current  fiction 
this  year  has  been  nearly  $800  less  than  last  year.  While 
the  sum  total  of  exjienditure  for  books  and  periodicals  shows 
a  difference  of  but  $5,400  less  than  last  year,  the  amount 
spent  from  the  city  appropriation  shows  a  difference  of  over 
$9,000  less.  The  purchases  from  the  Trust  funds  amount  to 
$4,000  more  than  in  1897-98,  and  that  this  was  possible  is 
due  to  the  fact  that  $1,500  was  drawn  from  a  fund  so  re- 
stricted as  to  be  seldom  available,  and  that  a  few  thousand 
dollars  had  accumulated  over  the  annual  income. 

Gifts. 

As  to  Works  of  Art  and  Endowment,  see  supra. 

Gifts  of  Books. — The  number  of  givers  for  1898  is 
greater  by  some  two  hundred  than  in  1897,  and  greater  by 
four  hundred  than  in  1896.  The  full  list  of  givers  appears 
in  Appendix  XIII.  Some  of  the  more  important  of  the  gifts 
of  books  and  manuscripts  I  note  here.  They  are  arranged 
alphabetically  according  to  their  donors. 

Gifts  of  Especial  Importance,  1898. 

From  the  American  Statistical  Association,  through  its 
Secretary,  Davis  R.  Dewe}^,  its  library  comprising  about  5,000 
books  and  pamphlets.  This  collection  is  rich  in  the  issues 
of  the  statistical  departments  of  foreign  governments,  and 
of  state  and  municipal  administrations.  A  notable  feature 
is  also  to  be  found  in  the  many  pamphlets  on  slavery,  mis- 
sions, and  local  institutions  of  charities  and  corrections. 
(^See  letter  of  gift.) 

From  the  Boston  Browning  Society — for  the  Browning 
collection  —  37  volumes  consisting  principall}^  of  editions  of 
the  Brownings'  Works,  and  three  photographs. 

From  Allen  A.  Brown,  Esq.,  264  volumes  for  the  Music 
Collection,  including  fifty  volumes  of  modern  operas  (French, 
German,  Italian),  and  fifty  volumes  of  choruses  for  male 
voices. 

From  the  Canadian  government,  at  the  histance  of  Sir 
Wilfrid  Laurier,  a  full  set  of  the  official  documents  of  Canada 
for  the  last  two  years,  to  be  continued  by  the  current 
issues. 


Library  Department.  27 

From  Prof.  Francis  W.  Chandler,  Boston,  two  folio  volumes 
of  ''  Municipal  Architecture  in  Boston.  From  designs  by 
Edmund  M.  Wheelwright."  1898. 

From  the  Earl  of  Crawford  and  Balcarres,  the  "  Autotype 
fac-similes  of  three  Mappemondes  "  of  the  sixteenth  century, 
from  unique  originals  drawn  at  Dieppe  in  153'6,  1546  and 
1550:  48  sheets  in  an  imperial  portfolio  with  a  quarto  volume 
of  accompanying  text,  by  C.  H.  Coote.  (Bibliotheca  Lindes- 
iana.  Collations  and  notes  No.  4.)  These  celebrated  maps 
(1)  the  Harleian,  1536;  (2)  Descellier's,  1546;  anc\  (3) 
Descellier's,  1550,  are  highly  interesting  in  connection  with 
Canada  and  the  explorations  of  Cartier  and  Roberval ;  100 
copies  only  have  been  privatel)-  printed. 

From  the  same  source  has  also  been  received  "  A  cata- 
logue of  English  broadsides  in  the  library  of  the  Earl  of 
Crawford,"  in  a  quarto  volume,  in  which  are  chronologically 
arranged  1,814  English  Broadsides  covering  a  period  of  nearly 
400  years  — 1505-1897. 

From  jNlessrs.  Copeland  and  Day,  eleven  volumes  —  cur- 
rent books  of  the  year  published  by  them. 

From  the  various  departments  of  the  French  government 
the  Library  has  received  important  gifts.  Among  them  are 
nine  volumes  of  the  French  patents  (Brevets  d'invention), 
to  be  continued  as  issued,  from  the  Minister  of  Commerce, 
and  a  set  of  the  "Bulletin  de  geographic  historique  et 
descriptive  du  Comity  des  travaux  historiques  et  scientifi- 
ques,"  1888-98,  from  the  Minister  of  Public  Instruction. 

From  the  family  of  the  late  William  Lloyd  Garrison, 
through  Mr.  Francis  J.  Garrison,  the  manuscript  Letters, 
"  relating  to  the  anti-slavery  movement  in  the  United  States 
during  the  years  1839-42."  This  collection  continues  an 
earlier  file  covering  the  years  1830-38,  the  gift  of  the  Gar- 
rison family  in  1894. 

From  the  German  Patent  Office,  the  continuation  of  the 
*f  Patentschriften  "  in  4,704  numbers. 

From  the  Committee  on  Education  of  the  Privy  Council, 
of  Great  Britian  65  volumes  of  their  Reports,  completing  the 
Library  file. 

From  the  Patent  Office  of  Great  Britain,  131  volumes  and 
45  numbers. 

From  Col.  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson,  105  volumes 
for  the  Galatea  Collection  (established  by  Col.  Higginson  in 
1895)  ;  and  in  this  connection  12  volumes  from  De  Witt 
Miller,  Esq.,  —  all  relating  to  the  history  of  woman. 

From  His  Majesty  the  King  of  Italy,  two  volumes  contin- 
uing the  campaigns  of  Prince  Eugene  of  Savoy  (Campagne 
del  Principe    Eugenio  di  Savoia). 


28  City  Document  No.  21, 

Through  the  generosity  of  Mrs.  John  A,  Lewis,  the  follow- 
ing books  were  bought  at  the  Deane  Sale,  and  added  to  the 
John  A.  Lewis  Collection : 

Byles,  God  Glorious  in  the  scenes  of  the  winter. 
Sermon.  Boston,  1744.  Cotton,  An  Abstract  of  the  Laws 
of  New  England.  London,  1641.  Cotton,  The  True 
Constitution  of  a  particular  visible  Church.  London,  1642. 
Cotton,  A  letter  of  Mr.  John  Cotton's  to  Mr.  Williams. 
London,  1643.  Cotton,  Sixteene  Questions  of  Serious  and 
Necessary  Consequence,  propounded  unto  Mr.  John  Cotton, 
together  with  his  answers  to  each  question.  London,  1644. 
Davenport,  J.  (Pastor  of  New  Haven),  Profession  of  the 
faith  of  that  Reverend  and  worthy  Divine,  Mr.  J.  D.  London. 
1642.  Moodey,  The  Great  Sin  of  Formality  in  God's 
Worship.  (Boston  Lecture.)  Boston,  1691.  Moodey, 
Dialogue,  containing  Questions  and  Answers,  from  Judas' 
Fall,  improved.  New  I^ondon,  1768.  New  England  Primer, 
New  York.  M.  Day.  Robinson,  A.  W.,  A  Justification  of 
Separation  from  the  Church  of  England.  1639.  Robinson, 
A.  W.,  A  Second  Manuduction  for  AL-.  Robinson.  1615. 
Shurtleff,  Sermon  preach'd  at  New-Castle  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, January  1,  1726,  in  Commemoration  of  the  Sufferings, 
etc.,  of  a  Company  of  ]\Luiners  shi^D-wreck'd  upon  Boon 
Island  Rock.     Boston,  1727. 

From  tlie  Due  de  Loubat,  Galerie  Am^ricaine  du  Musee 
d'Ethnographie  du  Trocad^ro,  part  2,  continuing  part  1, 
received  in  1897  ;  also  Ignacio  Borunda,  Clave  general  de 
Jeroglificos  Americanos.     Rome.     1898. 

From  the  Trustees  of  the  Old  South  Church,  for  deposit 
in  the  Prince  Library,  a  manuscript  fragment  of  the  "Annals 
of  New  England,"  consisting  of  nine  leaves  in  the  liand- 
writing  of  Thomas  Prince,  containing  some  matter  not  found 
in  the  published  work. 

From  the  Royal  Scottish  Society  of  Arts,  Edinburgh,  a 
complete  set  of  the  Society's  Transactions,  the  continuation 
to  be  sent  as  issued. 

From  the  U.  S.  Superintendent  of  Documents,  189  volumes 
of  Government  publications.  These  were  selected  from  a 
list  of  duplicates  sent  by  the  Superintendent,  and  filled  in 
the  Library  files  by  so  many  volumes. 

From  the  estate  of  Kate  Field,  through  her  literary  execu- 
tor Miss  Lilian  Whiting,  a  collection  of  between  700  and 
800  manuscript  letters,  —  the  correspondence  of  Kate  Field, 
covering  a  period  of  nearly  forty  years  —  together  with  a 
number  of  photographs,  and  manuscripts  of  some  of  her 
works.     Miss    Whiting   has    thoughtfully   given   a   sum    of 


Librae Y  Department. 


29 


money,  to  be  annually  renewed,  for  the  preservation  and  care 
of  this  material  to  be  known  as  the  "  Kate  Field  Collection." 
The  work  is  now  in  process  of  mounting  and  indexing  the 
manuscripts,  and  they  will  eventuall}"  be  bound  in  volumes 
similar  to  those  in  the  Chamberlain  Collection. 

From  His  Excellency  Governor  Wolcott,  the  "Abstract  of 
the  log  of  the  Cristobal  Colon  from  April  to  July  3,  1898." 

From  the  estate  of  Prof.  Josiah  D.  Whitney,  of  Harvard 
College,  fifty  books  and  pamphlets  relating  to  literature,  etc., 
and  including  some  early  editions  of  the  Latin  classics. 

From  the  Wyclif  Society,  London,  a  full  set  in  21  bound 
volumes  of  Wyclif 's  Latin  works. 

Binding. 

The  work  done  by  the  Library  binderj^  during  the  past 
year  is  indicated  by  the  following  schedule  : 


Books  bound  in  Bates  Hall  binding- 
Large  dail}"  newspapers        ..... 

Branch  newspapers      ...... 

Pamphlets  ....... 

Total 

Books  repaired    ....... 

Catalogues,  novels  and  periodicals  stitched  into  covers 
Cards  mounted  and  bordered        .... 

Maps,  charts  and  broadsides  mounted  on  cloth 
^"olumes  guarded 
Portfolios  made 


Boxes  made 

Blocks  made 

Pads  made 

Pouches  made 

Temporary  covers  made 

Sign  cards  leathered  and  lettered 

Library  publications  folded,  stitched,  and  trinnned 

Library  publications  folded,  sewed,  trimmed  and  covered 

Photographs  and  engravings  mounted  . 

Office  desks  covered     .  .  .  . 

Time  on  miscellaneous  work 

Time  cutting  and  bundling  for  the  Printing  Department 

I  quote  in  detail  these  figures,  because  they  are  significant 
of  the  various  unconventional  service  which  a  bindery  maj^ 
i-ender  if  well  equipped,  conveniently  at  hand,  and  under 
direct  control.  As  an  auxiliary  to  the  Printing  Department 
the  Library  Bindery  is  indispensable.  During  the  past  year 
it  has  l)een  crippled,  as  have  other    departments,   by  illness. 


Vols. 

8,890 
52 
58 

3,905 

12,905 

3,877 
1,545 
2,524 
1,056 
1,570 
154 
76 
602 
6 
15 
855 
10 
124,284 
9,019 
3,392 
2 
42^  days 
48  daj's 


30  City  Document  No.  21. 

The  aggregate  volume  of  work  done  has,  nevertheless,  in- 
creased over  that  for  1897.  The  number  of  library  publica- 
tions which  it  has  handled  (folded,  stitched,  trimmed,  etc.) 
58,424  in  1896,  and  102,442  in  1897,  rose  to  133,304  in 
1898 

In  January,  1899,  a  wire-stitching  machine  was  purchased 
which  will  handle  nmch  of  the  pamphlet  work  at  a  saving  of 
labor  and  expense. 

The  outside  contract  work  (binding  in  cheaper  form  of 
branch  books  and  old  Lower  Hall  books)  has  comprised  the 
binding  of  9,024  volumes  as  against  13,929  in  1897.  The 
total  cost  was  82,460.28.  This  was  greater  per  volume  than 
in  1897,  owing  to  the  new  specifications  which  call  now  for 
neater  and  more  durable  material,  more  thorough  sewing  and 
the  lettering  of  titles. 

Repair.  —  The  repair  of  books  in  the  first  stages  of  dilapi- 
dation is  the  work  of  special  attendants  in  the  Issue  and 
Branch  departments.  It  involves  each  year  stitching  or 
pasting,  or  both,  of  some  3,000  volumes. 

Arrearage.  —  The  output  of  the  Library  Bindery,  above 
detailed,  represents  no  more  than  is  necessary  to  cover  (1) 
the  binding  of  material  received  in  paper  covers,  (2)  the 
binding  of  the  1,500  odd  current  periodicals  of  the  twelve- 
month as  made  up  into  quarterly,  half-yearly,  or  yearly 
volumes,  and  (3)  the  rebinding  of  books  worn  in  the  current 
use  of  the  year.  If  the  allowance  for  this  latter  seem  large, 
one  need  only  consider  the  normal  wear  and  tear  incident  to 
an  aggregate  "circulation"  and  "reference  use"  of  over  two 
million  bound  volumes  a  year ;  and  consider  further  that  the 
stress  of  this  use,  so  far  from  being  distributed  evenly,  falls 
chiefly  upon  150,000,  perhaps,  of  the  700,000  volumes  in 
the  library  system.  An  estimate  of  15,000  of  these  volumes 
as  annually  needing  rebmding  is  an  allowance  of  but  ten  per 
cent,  of  the  portion  of  the  Library  in  most  active  use,  but 
2i  per  cent,  of  the  entire  collection,  and  but  y-^  of  one  per 
cent,  upon  the  use. 

In  addition  to  the  current  work  there  is,  however,  a  very 
great  number  of  books  scattered  through  the  main  collection 
whose  condition  demands  the  attention  of  the  binder.  The 
meagreness  of  space  in  the  Old  Library  Building  during  the 
later  years  of  occupancy,  and  the  meagreness  of  the  appro- 
priations, caused  postponement  upon  these.  The  handling 
incident  to  removal  and  relocation  has  by  no  means  improved 
their  condition,  and  now  there  is  scarcely  a  shelf  —  there  is 
certainly  not  an  alcove  —  in  the  new  building  which  does 
not  contain  volumes  with  at  least  signatures  or  plates  loose, 


Library  Department.  31 

or  backs  broken.  In  the  aggregate  these  must  number  thou- 
sands of  volumes.  They  cannot  be  denied  to  the  public, 
but  their  use  in  their  present  condition  may  (and  does)  result 
in  their  absolute  destruction,  or  the  loss  of  essential  portions, 
necessitating  the  replacement  of  the  entire  volume.  Some 
cannot  be  replaced ;  others  could  be  replaced  only  at  great 
cost ;  none  could  be  replaced  as  cheaply  as  they  could  be 
rebound.  To  neglect  them  now  because  of  the  expense  of 
rebinding  is  deliberately  to  project  the  far  greater  expense  of 
repurchase. 

With  its  present  force  and  equipment  the  Library  Bindery 
is  so  little  able  to  keep  up  with  the  current  work  assigned  to 
it  that  no  given  volume  can  be  depended  upon  to  come 
through  in  less  than  three  months  (four  weeks,  rather,  being 
a  proper  maximum).  With  its  present  appropriations  the 
Library  cannot  afford  to  place  out  to  be  done  by  contract 
more  than  tlie  books  of  the  Branch  and  old  Lower  Hall  col- 
lections, representing  the  current  wear  upon  the  more  popular 
departments  of  literature. 

The  great  accumulation,  therefore,  representmg  the  arrear- 
age of  past  years,  can  be  provided  for  only  by  some  extra 
provision ;  and  the  character  of  the  work  is  such  that  the 
expedient  provision  would  be  to  enlarge  the  force,  equip- 
ment, and  resources  of  the  Library  Bindery. 

This  need  was  called  to  the  attention  of  the  city  govern- 
ment in  your  message  trans mittmg  your  estimates  for  the 
coming  year,  "  a  special  expenditure  of  at  least  $30,000  " 
being  stated  as  necessary  on  this  account  alone.  The  esti- 
mates tliemselves  assumed  that  of  this  amount  at  least 
|!lO,000  should  be  applied  in  1899. 

The  appropriation  granted  does  not,  of  course,  cover  this 
item. 

Printing. 

The  outj)ut  of  the  Printing  Dej)artment  still  includes  all 
the  printed  work  of  the  Library  except  the  Annual  Report. 
The  figures  of  output  during  1898  of  the  leading  items  may 
be  summarized  as  follows  : 

Cards  for  the  Card  Catalogues  —  Central  Library:  18,114 
titles,  as  against  about  15,000  in  1897.  The  number  of 
cards  may  be  judged  from  the  fact  that  120,903  have  been 
inserted  in  the  catalogues,  as  against  93,783  in  1897\ 

Cards  for  the  catalogues  at  the  Branches,  544  titles. 

Stationery,  Forms,  etc. :  currently  consumed  stocks  of  all 
kinds,  521,539  pieces  (363,507  in  1897). 

Call  slips  (of  six  kinds),  2,222,514  pieces. 

Placards,  2,014  (1,394  in  1897). 


32  City  Document  No.  21. 

Books  and  pamphlets  to  the  number  of  27,  embracing  846 
pages,  in  editions  aggregating  129,250  copies.  (For  a  par- 
ticuhir  list  of  these  see  under  "Publications,*'  infra.) 

Service.  —  The  force  of  the  department  remains  as  last 
year. 

JPlant.  —  "  In  the  main  the  mechanical  equipment  of  the 
department  remains  unchanged.  During  the  summer  the 
room  was  substantiall}^  floored  with  hard  pine  (upon  concrete 
foundation)  to  protect  the  machinery  from  the  injurious  dust 
arising  from  the  former  cement  floor.  UjDon  the  reerection 
of  the  plant,  which  was  moved  to  permit  of  this,  each  machine 
not  already  so  equipped  was  fitted  with  an  independent  elec- 
tric motor.  This  change  has  j^roved  beneficial  in  preventing 
the  mutual  interference  of  the  different  machines,  which  had 
before  been  experienced.  The  necessary  gas  and  electric 
connections  were  laid  below  the  new  floor,  and  so  arranged 
as  to  allow  of  addition  to  the  jilant  of  a  third  linotype.  The 
room  has  been  connected  with  the  melting  furnace  in  the 
basement  by  a  hand-hoist.  A  similar  hoist  is  needed  to 
connect  it  with  the  stock-room  in  the  staircase  hall  above." 

The  addition  to  the  force  of  a  second  "  feeder "  and  a 
third  linotype  operator  and  to  the  plant  of  a  third  linotype 
machine  will  deserve  early  consideration.  One  of  the  present 
machines  having  to  be  devoted  to  special  work,  the  remain- 
ing one  does  not  suffice  for  the  card  catalogue  work ;  and  the 
titles  for  the  catalogue  are  delayed  beyond  the  time  when 
the  new  books  should  and  may  be  ready  for  the  public. 

In  the  meantime  the  estimates  for  1899  provided  for  the 
addition  to  the  present  machines  of  certain  recent  devices 
which  would  increase  their  range,  flexibility  and  output. 
But  the  appropriation  granted  may  not  admit  of  the  purchase 
of  these. 

Cataloguing. 

I  shall  offer  to  be  printed  as  a  supplement  to  this  report 
two  special  reports  compiled  hy  the  Chief  of  the  Catalogue 
Department  at  request :  one  a  memorandum  concerning  the 
genesis  and  scope  of  the  general  Card  Catalogue  of  the 
Library,  the  other  a  memorandum  concerning  the  prac- 
ticability' of  a  catalogue  in  book  form  of  the  entire  library. 
The  latter  was  suggested  by  a  passage  in  the  report  of  the 
Examining  Committee  of  last  year  urging  the  advantages  of 
such  a  catalogue.  As  such  a  recommendation  is  apt  to  recur 
from  time  to  time,  a  somewhat  detailed  statement  of  the  ele- 
ments involved  in  such  an  undertaking  has  been  thought 
advisable. 


Library  Department.  33 

I  condense  here  the  report  of  the  chief  cataloguing  under- 
takings of  the  past  3^ear. 

Number  of  vohimes  and  parts  of  vokuiies  catalogued     .       47,615 

Divided  as  follows  : 
Additions  to  the  Central  Library       .  ,     29,271 

Recatalogued  in  revision  work    .  .  .        9,070 

Continuations  of  serials     ....       3,358 
Catalogued   for  branch  libraries  .  .       5,916 

47,615 


Author  titles  prepared  for  the  above          .          .          ,  32,609 
Cards  placed  in  the  various  catalogues,   1898  (exclu- 
sive of  branches)          ......  120,903 

1897  (including  branches  for  three  months)      .          .  93,783 

1896   (including    branches)      .....  74,979 

1895           ii       ^           u              82,993 

In  addition  to  the  work  on  the  card  catalogues  the  time  of 
the  department  is,  of  course,  occupied  largely  with  the 
preparation  of  material  for  the  Bulletins,  and  Special  Biblio- 
graphical lists  issued  by  the  Library.  Of  such  undertakings 
mentioned  in  last  year's  report  the  following  have  been 
carried  forward  into  1898  :  The  Select  List  of  Books  on 
Social  Reform  ;  the  Bibliography  of  the  Geographical  Anthro- 
pology of  Europe ;  the  List  of  Pictures  and  Plans  of  Library 
Buildings,  and  the  List  of  Historical  Fiction.  The  status  of 
the  latter  list  is  as  follows:  America,  and  Europe  (except- 
mg  Rome,  Italy  and  Greece)  are  in  type  (225  pages)  in 
stereotype  plates  (having  appeared  in  sections  in  the  Quar- 
terl}^  Bulletins).  The  titles  for  Rome,  Italy,  Greece,  Asia, 
Africa,  Australasia  and  the  Hawaiian  Islands  are  prepared 
and  ready  for  final  revision.  (An  author  index  for  America, 
Great  Britain  and  Spain,  and  a  Subject  Index  for  America 
and  a  part  of  England  are  prepared,  in  manuscript.)  The  re- 
mainder, which  includes  the  Jews  and  the  Bible,  is  partly 
finished. 

The  list  should  be  completed  and  (if  the  funds  permit) 
printed,  during  the  coming  year. 

Besides  the  work  to  be  inferred  from  the  list  of  publica- 
tions below,  the  Catalogue  Department  has  prepared  or 
assisted  in  the  preparation  of:  A  new  edition  of  the 
Selected  List  of  Books  for  Younger  Readers  ("  Y  List")  ;  a 
Bibliography  of  the  Town  of  Boston  (begun  in  the  February, 
1898,  Bulletin)  ;  List  of  Scandinavian  Literature  (Bulletin)  ; 
List  of  Polish  Literature  (Bulletin)  ;  Memorandum  (by  Mr. 
Murdoch)  as  to  the  Geographical  Material  in  the  Library 
(Bulletin)  ;  a  brief  list  of  books  upon  the  Philippines,  Cuba 
and  the  West  Indies ;  reference  lists  to  be  used  in  connection 
with  the  Municipal  Free   Lecture   Courses  ( "  Imperialism," 


34 


City  Document  No.  21. 


etc.),  and  others,  with  the  lectures  on  art  given  by  the 
Supervisor  of  Drawing  in  the  Public  Schools,  these  latter 
lists  being  printed  by  the  Supervisor  with  the  syllabus  of  the 
course.  The  department  was  utilized  also  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  the  catalogue  of  the  Library  of  the  Massachusetts 
Hospital  Ship  "Bay  State,"  the  contribution  to  which  by  the 
Public  Library  (irrespective  of  some  contributions  of  money 
by  individual  employees)  consisted  in  the  selection  and  pur- 
chase of  the  books,  their  preparation  for  use,  including  shelf 
lists,  and  the  preparation  and  printing  of  the  catalogue. 

The  Catalogue  Department  has  continued  its  work  upon 
the  Maps  and  the  Allen  A.  Brown  (Collection  of  Music,  and 
the  transcript  of  titles  of  scientific  literature  in  adjacent 
libraries  ;  and  has  borne  its  share  in  the  Co-operative  Index 
of  Current  Scientific  serials,  mention  of  which  was  made  on 
page  33  of  my  last  report. 

The  Custodian  of  Bates  Hall  had,  just  prior  to  his  death, 
nearly  completed  a  revised  edition,  covering  over  4,000 
titles,  of  the  Genealogies  and  Town  Histories  in  the  Library. 

Publications. 


The  publications  iss 

ued  during  the 

year,  as 

tabulated  by 

the  editor,  Mr.  Swift,  are  as 

follows  : 

Date  of  Publication. 

Pages. 

Edition. 

Price. 

Annual  List       .          .     J 

anuary,  1,  1899 

176 

5,000 

.05 

Four     Great     Docu- 

ments   (Chamber- 

lain)     .          .          .     May, 

1898, 

56 

2,000 

Free. 

Branch  Finding  List,     May, 

1898 

16 

5,000 

a 

Galatea  Catalogue     .     ." 

une. 

1898 

40 

1,064 

.15 

Social  Eeform  .          .     July, 

1898 

72 

1,500 

.05 

Y  List  (new  edition),     July, 

1898 

68 

8,000 

.01 

C  o  d  m  a  n    Collection 

(Landscape  Archi- 

tecture.)     List  on 

Trees  and  Forestry,     January,       1899 

32 

500 

.10 

Monthly  Bulletins  :      1st  of  ea 

ch  month. 

March,  1898 

.56 

7,500 

Free. 

April,  1898 

24 

i.  i 

May,  1898 

56 

u 

June,  1898 

56 

(( 

July,  1898 

28 

i  t 

August,  1898      . 

28 

a 

September,  1898 

24 

( I 

October,  1898     . 

32 

I  ( 

November,  1898 

36 

( i. 

December,  1898 

24 

i  i 

January,  1899     . 

28 

i  i 

February,  1899  . 

36 

u 

Library  Department.  35 

The  character  and  scope  of  the  publications  of  the  year  is 
perhaps  sufficiently  to  be  inferred  from  their  titles.  So  far 
as  they  indicate  a  present  policy  the  policy  may  be  sum- 
marized as  follows  : 

1.  To  place  before  the  public  a  description  sufficiently 
full  for  identification,  not  exhaustive  to  the  point  of  tedious- 
ness,  of  the  books  neivly  added  to  the  various  departments  of 
the  Library.  To  do  this  at  short  intervals,  in  a  form  reducing 
cost  to  a  minimum.  (The  Monthly  Bulletins  of  accessions  to 
the  Central  Library;  the  Finding  Lists  of  accessions  to  the 
Branches.     Free.') 

2.  At  intervals  to  regroup  such  information  so  as  to  com- 
pact the  sources  of  information  covering  longer  periods. 
(The  Annual  List  —  a  consolidation,  without  recomposition, 
of  the  Monthly  Bulletins  of  the  preceding  twelve-month.) 

3.  As  occasion  may  suggest,  to  exhibit  the  resources  of 
the  Librar}^  in  an  entire  department  of  literature,  or  at  least 
its  resources  upon  a  particular  topic;  but  with  caution  to 
avoid  such  elaboration  as  might  delay  the  publication  of  the 
list  beyond  the  useful  occasion,  or  put  its  cost  beyond  the 
ordinary  reach,  or  bury  the  titles  of  use  to  the  general  reader 
beneath  those  of  interest  only  to  the  specialist.  (Select  List 
of  Books  upon  Social  Reform;  Trees  and  Forestry;  Philip- 
pines, Cuba  and  Porto  Rico ;  Art  Topics.)  Such  aids  need 
not  always  consist  of  lists  of  books ;  they  may  often  advan- 
tageously take  the  form  of  a  statement  suggesting  lines  or 
methods  of  research.  (Memorandum  upon  Geographical 
Material.) 

4.  (More  rarely)  to  issue  a  real  Bibliography,  thorough 
and  scholarly,  of  a  subject  peculiarly  of  interest  to  scholars. 
Especially  to  undertake  such  in  case  (1)  the  co-operation  of 
some  specialist  may  be  secured  in  the  "  evaluation  "  of  the 
material  and  (2)  the  department  of  literature  is  one  in 
which  the  Library  is  strong  or  takes  this  occasion  to  become 
so ;  the  bibliography  becoming  thus  a  subject  catalogue. 
(Bibliography  of  the  Geographical  Anthropology  of  Europe  — 
made  up  of  material  contributed  by  Prof.  Wm.  Z.  Ripley, 
and  reduced  to  bibliography  form  and  specific  application  by 
the  Library,  and  printed  and  to  be  published  by  it.) 

(5.)  As  opijortunity  may  occur  to  publish  the  catalogue 
of  some  special  collection  which  has  recently  come  to  the 
Library  by  gift.  (The  Galatea;  the  Codman  Memorial  Col- 
lection.) This  may  well  be  justified  even  if  the  collection 
be  not  integral  as  to  subject. 

It  is  to  be  noticed  that  in  the  foregoing  list  one  class  of 
publishing   enterprise  not  uncommon,   nor  untried    in    this 


36  City  Document  No.  21. 

Library  in  former  years,  fails  to  be  represented ;  the  repro- 
duction, in  fac-simile  or  otherwise,  of  unique  manuscript 
material  of  which  the  Library  may  have  become  the  owner. 
Whether  and  how  far  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Library  to  aid 
scholarship  by  the  publication  of  such,  —  how  far  its  publi- 
cation at  all  is  expedient,  —  whether  the  Library  should 
itself  undertake  such  jDublication  or  simply  encourage  out- 
siders to  undertake  it ;  these  are  questions  of  policy  that  may 
necessitate  careful  deliberation  and  comparison  of  experience. 

Registration. 

Statistics  of  registration  form,  as  usual.  Appendix  VI.  of 
this  report.  As  last  year,  the  tables  show  not  merely  the 
number  of  card  holders  in  gross,  but  their  classification  by 
sex,  occupation  and  district  of  residence,  and  an  estimate  of 
the  percentage  of  card  holders  in  each  ward  of  the  city  to  the 
total  population  of  such  ward. 

The  interest  of  such  statistics  is  as  by  comparison  they 
may  form  an  index  to  the  existing  relations  of  the  public 
with  the  Library  and  to  the  influence  upon  these  of  certain 
forces. 

In  the  aggregate  the  number  of  card  holders  (64,973  on 
February  1,  1898,  72,005  on  January  31,  1899)  has  in- 
creased during  the  year  by  7,032,  or  lO-^^-^  per  cent.  The 
proportion  of  existing  card  holders  to  the  total  population  of 
the  city  (including  minors  below  12  years  of  age  not  entitled 
to  cards)  13  per  cent,  on  February  1,  1898,  is  now  14^yg- 
per  cent. 

As  will  be  seen  by  the  tables,  the  increase  has  been  dis- 
tributed pretty  evenly  over  the  city,  except  that  it  has  been 
(proportionally)  nearly  three  times  as  great  in  Ward  10  as 
in  au}^  other  ward. 

The  classification  of  the  card  holders  shows  a  fairly  even 
division  by  sex.  This  is  usual  in  the  United  States,  but  not 
so  abroad-  At  Birmingham  in  1895-96  the  number  of  cards 
issued  to  borrowers  was  in  the  proportion  of  32  males  to  12 
females;  in  1896-97  as  28  to  12. 

The  classification  by  occupation  reveals  only  702  card 
holders  who  have  described  themselves  as  "  laborers."  This 
is  somewhat  curiously  in  contrast  with  the  considerable 
known  use  by  this  class  of  the  reading-rooms  at  the  Central 
Library  and  Branches.  It  represents,  however,  what  I  fancy 
to  be  a  conunon  experience  in  public  libraries,  both  here  and 
abroad.  At  Livea'pool  in  1897,  for  instance,  in  a  total  of 
24,353    card  holders  in  the   Public   Library,   only  322  were 


Library  Department.  37 

classified  as  "labourers."  The  adult  laborer  is  rendered  shy 
by  conscious  clumsiness.  He  overcomes  his  dififidence  so  far 
as  to  frequent  the  reading-rooms  of  a  public  library  (if  invit- 
ing and  informal)  ;  but  he  shrinks  from  the  formalities  and 
betrayals  incident  to  application  for  books  for  use  at  home. 
He  reads  many  library  books  at  home,  however,  or  hears 
them  read;  for  sometimes  his  wife  holds  a  card,  and  com- 
monly his  son  or  daughter  does.  The  books  that  interest  his 
children  are  apt  to  interest  him  —  for  though  of  uneq  ual 
ages,  the  child  and  the  father  of  the  laboring  classes  in 
America  are  by  no  means  necessarily  far  apart  in  their 
capacity  of  appreciation.  In  planning  a  children's  depart- 
ment of  a  public  library  one  of  the  contingencies  to  be  fore- 
seen is,  therefore,  that  any  particular  book  may  reach  beyond 
the  child  to  an  adult. 

An  essential  difficulty  in  the  comparison  of  statistics  of 
card  holders  in  different  libraries  is  caused  by  the  difference 
in  the  registration  period.  Inquiry  has  shown  that  very  few 
libraries  can  state  with  precision  the  number  of  "  active 
cards  outstanding." 

The  system  now  in  operation  here  considers  this  statistic 
of  essential  importance.  The  registration  period  is  now  to 
coincide  with  the  period  of  life  of  a  card.  A  new  registra- 
tion will  begin  February  1,  1899 ;  and  at  every  second  year 
thereafter  either  a  new  reo-istration  or  a  new  numerical  series. 


Use  of  the  Library. 
/.  —  Refe7-enee    Use. 

I  propose  to  append  as  supplements  to  this  report  state- 
ments somewhat  full  of  the  work  or  of  certain  of  the  aspects 
of  the  work  of  three  particular  departments  (the  Special 
Libraries,  the  Children's,  and  the  newly  organized  Statistical 
Department).  The  reference  work  of  the  Library  in  general 
does  not  seem  to  have  varied  from  that  of  last  year  suffi- 
ciently to  require  extensive  mention. 

Special  Libraries.  —  The  collections  now  grouped  and 
administered  under  this  title  comprise  now :  The  Fine  Arts, 
the  Industrial  Arts  and  jNIusic,  the  Maps,  the  Adams,  Artz, 
Barton,  Bowditch,  Codman,  Galatea,  Gilbert,  Hunt,  Lewis, 
Prince,  with  other  early  Americana,  Thayer,  Ticknor, 
Twentieth  Regiment  (military  alcove),  Whitman  —  in  the 
aggregate  about  69,000  volumes.  The  public  documents 
still  hold  place  on  this  floor,  but  their  custody  has  been 
transferred  to  the  Statistical  Department  under  Mr.  Ford. 


38  City  Document  No.  21. 

The  activity  of  the  Fine  Arts  Collection  has  continued  in- 
cessant ;  and  it  is  upon  this  division  of  the  work  of  his 
department  that  I  shall  quote  at  length  from  the  report  of 
the  custodian. 

Appended  to  his  report  is  a  list  of  the  artists  at  present 
represented  in  the  collection  of  photographs ;  a  list  of  the? 
books  (146  volumes)  containing  elaborate  plates  whose  con- 
tents have  been  indexed  on  cards,  so  as  to  become  almost  as 
accessible  as  the  individual  photographs ;  and  the  scheme 
adopted  for  the  classification  of  the  tyjDical  examj^les  (in 
plates)  of  the  fine  arts,  architectural  detail  and  of  the 
industrial  arts  which  have  been  secured  in  part  by  the  dis- 
section of  certain  serials.  The  main  purpose  of  the  collection 
last  named  is  to  offer  to  the  actual  worker  in  the  arts  and 
crafts  practical  suggestion  from  historical  example. 

These  appendices  I  omit  liere.  They  will  be  included 
with  other  material  in  a  special  publication  which  will  form 
a  hand-book  to  the  Fine  Arts  Collection  in  the  Library  and 
an  aid  to  its  use. 

Tliis  is  a  library  and  not  an  art  museum.  The  illustia- 
tions  which  it  may  supply  of  the  various  arts  do  not  pretend 
in  themselves  to  be  works  of  art.  The  most  of  the  photo- 
graphs, for  instance,  are  but  small  silver  prints,  not  the  large 
carbons  which  alone  could  meet  the  requirement  of  an  art 
museum.  Its  purpose  in  its  plates  and  photographs  is  more 
particularly  to  furnish  an  index  to  the  arts  —  an  index  sug- 
gestive to  the  eye  but  not  necessarily  satisfying.  It  seeks 
to  cover  the  largest  possible  field.  For  this  reason,  the  indi- 
vidual item  must  cost  little.  It  desires  to  offer  the  material 
to  be  handled  freely  and  informall}'-  in  connection  with  all 
sorts  of  inquiry  from  people  not  trained  to  care  or  dexterit}- 
in  its  use,  and  even  to  extend  its  use  outside  the  Library 
buildmg.  For  these  reasons  each  specimen  should  be  small 
in  dimension,  portable,  and  replaceable  at  small  expense. 
For  such  service,  therefore,  not  merely  silver  prints,  but  half- 
tone and  other  process  reproductions  may  be  and  are  utilized. 

As  will  be  seen  from  the  report  of  the  Chief  of  the  De- 
partment, these  photographs  and  plates  are  being  used  to  an 
increasing  extent  by  classes  and  schools,  and  for  display  (in 
subject  groups)  in  the  outlying  departments  of  the  Library. 
The  demand  for  such  use  is  eager.  At  present  it  can  be 
met  only  meagrely,  because,  although  the  collection  is  nomi- 
nally large,  any  one  subject  is  perhaps  found  but  once  in  it. 
With  funds  with  which  to  multiply  copies,  portfolios  of  these 
photographs  and  prints  (in  subject  groups)  might  be  circu- 
lated throughout  the  city,  in  the  Branch  libraries,  in  public 


LiBEARY  Department.  39 

institutions,  in  the  schools,  public  and  private,  at  the  meet- 
ing places  of  study  clubs,  and  at  lecture  halls,  in  connection 
with  lectures  having  educational  purpose.  A  few  hundreds 
of  dollars  would  accomplish  much  ;  a  few  thousand  would 
enable  us  to  create  a  system^  secondary  only  in  volume  to  the 
work  of  the  books,  and  auxiliary  to  it  in  service. 

Children'' s  Department.  —  The  addition  to  the  space  at  the 
Central  Librar}-  hitherto  available  for  this  department,  of  the 
large  adjacent  room  formerly  occupied  by  the  patent  collec- 
tion, will  furnish  opportunity  for  a  service  as  yet  not  satis- 
factorily accomplished  —  that  in  aid  of  the  children's  work 
at  the  schools.  For  this  reason,  I  have  asked  the  chief  of 
the  department  to  incorporate  in  her  report  a  somewhat  full 
statement  as  to  the  relations  existing  between  the  Library 
and  the  work  of  the  schools ;  and  it  is  this  section  of  her 
report  which  I  select  to  quote  as  a  supplement  to  mine. 

The  DejyartmeMt  of  Docuynents  and  Statistics.  —  In  June 
last  the  American  Statistical  Association  turned  over  to  us 
the  collection  of  books,  pamphlets  and  serials  which  it  had 
accumulated  by  gift,  purchase  and  exchange,  and  which 
formed  its  "  library."  The  collection  as  a  whole  numbered 
about  5,000  books  and  pamplets.  Of  these  a  large  part 
duplicates  material  already  here;  but  this  will  be  available 
for  exchange  and  thus  finall}^  represent  an  accession.  Future 
acquisitions  by  the  Association  are  likewise  to  be  turned  over 
to  us,  so  that  the  collection  will  continue  to  have  the  benefit 
of  the  purchases  of  the  Association  and  of  its  exchange  list. 
As  our  custodian  of  the  collection  is  corresponding  secretary 
of  the  Association,  and  thus  entitled  to  use  its  name  and 
prestige  in  application  for  material,  the  future  accessions  are 
likely  to  be  important. 

The  material  of  statistics  (vital,  economic,  political,  social 
and  industrial)  is  of  course  largely  in  documents.  A  statis- 
tical department,  therefore,  naturally  includes  the  important 
public  documents  in  the  Library.  But  if  it  is  to  be  set  off 
as  a  department  integral  in  itself,  a  department  equipped  for 
semmar  work,  for  instance,  it  must  include  as  well  much 
sociological  material  of  a  miscellaneous  character. 

Such  a  department  had  not  existed  in  this  Library,  nor 
had  the  Library  paralleled  in  the  domain  of  economics  the 
work  for  which  it  had  gained  reputation  in  history,  general 
literature  and  the  arts.  Its  collection  of  public  documents, 
though  uneven  and  witli  many  deficiencies,  is,  nevertheless, 
a  notable  one,  and  with  effort  might  be  made  a  full  one ; 
the  miscellaneous  material  which  it  possesses  in  the  general 
domam  of  economics  is  sufhcient  to  justify  an  expenditure 


40  City  Document  No.  21, 

which  will  render  it  reasonably  complete,  and  the  acquisition 
of  the  library  and  of  the  futnre  exchanges  of  the  American 
Statistical  Association  offered  a  special  opportunity  and  occa- 
sion. 

It  was  accordingly  decided  to  organize  this  new  depart- 
ment, which,  although  for  brevity  entitled  the  "Statistical," 
has,  in  fact,  the  custody  of  the  documents  also,  and  is  to 
bring  into  useful  relation  with  this  material  the  miscellaneous 
literature  of  economics  and  of  political  and  social  science. 
Its  charge  will  be  to  endeavor,  by  correspondence  and  other- 
wise, to  perfect  the  collections  themselves ;  to  classify  the 
material  with  reference  to  the  convenience  of  the  particular 
constituency  which  is  to  use  it  (ignoring,  if  necessary,  any 
and  all  schemes  of  arrangement,  notation  and  cataloguing 
existing  in  other  departments),  and  to  administer  it  in  the 
aid  of  inquiry.  The  department  is  not  to  compile  statistics. 
Its  function  is  to  guide  in  the  use  of  them.  It  must  know 
the  sources,  and  it  must  hnow  them  discriminatingly.  In 
perhaps  no  department  of  literature  is  the  untrained  inquirer 
more  helpless.  Tlie  facts  are  submerged  in  documents  vast 
in  dimension  and  forbidding  in  aspect.  The  practice  of 
libraries  seldom  extends  to  an  analysis  in  the  catalogues  of 
the  main  contents,  and  the  indices  are  apt  to  be  only  to  single 
volumes,  and  on  no  single  scale  of  proportion.  Such  facts 
as  he  finds  may  after  all  be  no  more  than  incompetent  infer- 
ences from  insufficient  data,  or  only  partial,  or  later  supei- 
seded. 

In  any  reference  department  of  a  library  a  very  small  pro- 
portion of  the  inquiry  is  for  a  given  book  ;  the  most  of  it  is 
for  the  best  material  upon  a  given  subject.  But  a  small  pro- 
portion of  the  inquirers  are  experts  in  the  subject;  a  smaller 
proportion  still  are  experts  in  the  use  of  the  Library.  If 
familiar  with  the  language  of  the  subject  they  are  still  un- 
familiar with  the  language  of  the  catalogues  and  other  biblio- 
graphic aids.  Their  demands  must  be  translated  ;  and  they 
may  be  translated  adequately  only  by  one  who  knows  both 
languages,  —  who  has  been  a  practical  expert  in  the  subject 
and  has  become  an  expert  in  the  meclianism  of  the  librar3^ 

If  this  is  so  in  general,  it  must  particularly  be  so  in  a  de- 
partment such  as  statistics,  where  a  given  subject  may  be 
approached  from  so  many  different  points  of  view,  where  pre- 
tence is  easy  and  voluble  and  carries  no  ear  marks  to  dis- 
tinguish it  from  real  authority,  and  where  the  aj)parent 
absence  of  technicality  in  the  vernacular  is  itself  a  peril. 

The  foregoing  considerations  explain  sufficiently  the  desire 
of  the  Library  to  place  in  charge  of  this  department  a  practical 


LiBRAEY    DePAKTJVIENT.  41 

statistician  ;  and  its  gratification  that  there  could  be  secured 
for  its  organization  and  present  conduct  one  of  the  first  of 
living  statisticians.  Mr.  Ford  coming  to  the  Library  after 
his  experience  as  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Statistics  at  Wash- 
ington, brought  also  a  useful  knowledge  of  the  most  effective 
methods  of  obtaining  the  material  itself,  requiring  familiarity 
with  official  usage  and  not  merely  patient,  but  dexterous 
application,  supported  by  precedents. 

Mr.  Ford  entered  the  service  of  the  Library  on  July  15th. 
His  work  has,  therefore,  covered  less  than  seven  months.  I 
have,  however,  requested  him  to  include  in  his  report  a  brief 
statement  as  to  the  proper  scope  and  functions  of  a  depart- 
ment such  as  this.  This  report  I  append  as  a  supplement  to 
mine. 

II.  —  Home  Use. 

Appendix  VII.  gives  the  number  of  volumes  circulated 
for  home  use  during  the  past  year  from  each  department  of 
the  Librarv,  and  compares  this  with  such  circulation  for  the 
year  1897." 

The  reduction  in  the  number  of  new  books  (especially  of 
lighter  literature)  purchased  in  1898,  the  inconvenience  of 
application  at  the  Central  Library  during  the  several  months 
of  the  alterations  (when,  though  the  issue  continued  it  was 
much  impeded  and  delays  were  excessive)  would  have 
tended  to  reduce  the  circulation.  In  certain  departments  it 
was  actually,  and  in  others  relatively,  smaller  than  in  1897. 
In  the  aggregate,  however,  it  was  greater  than  in  1897,  but 
not  by  an  increase  proportional  to  that  of  1897  over  1896. 

Gain. 


Home  Use. 

1897. 

1898. 

1898. 

Central     Library     (including 

Central      Library      books 

issued    through     liranches 

and  stations)    . 

388,489 

422,849 

34,360 

Branches    and    Stations   (di- 

rect issue) 

811,160 

822,993 

11,824 

1 

,199,658 

1,245,842 

46,184 

The  insertion  of  card  pockets  in  the  books  circulated  for 
home  use  was  begun  during  the  past  season.  It  may  lead 
ultimately  to  a  change  in  the  charging  system  to  the  advan- 
tage both  of  the  borrower  and  of  the  record. 

The  period  during  which  the  penalty  on  books  over  de- 
tained was  allowed  to  run  had  been  three  months.  An 
examination  into  the  usage  of  other  libraries  showed  that  this- 


42  City  Docuiniext  No.  21, 

period  was  exceptional  in  length;  the  amonnt  of  the  penalty 
appeared  to  operate  unduly  against  the  poorer  class  of  readers 
and  in  being  too  great  to  be  collected,  to  operate  also  to  the 
disadvantage  of  the  Library.  On  April  29th  the  period  was 
reduced  from  three  months  to  four  weeks.  The  accumu- 
lated penalties  (fines  and  messenger  notices)  at  the  end  of 
the  former  j)eriod  amounted  on  any  given  book  to  $3.33  ;  at 
the  end  of  the  latter  to  -fl.OO  ;  the  cost  of  the  book  (if  not 
finall}'  returned)  being  added  in  either  case. 

Branches  and  Stations. 

Under  present  conditions  and  without  special  expenditure 
the  development  of  the  outlying  departments  of  the  Library 
can  be  but  gradual  and  partial.  There  is  none  the  less 
reason  for  applying  effort  at  improvement  in  the  many  details 
that  may  be  improved  without  great  outlay.  If,  therefore, 
the  report  of  the  Supervisor  is  chiefly  a  recital  of  petty 
changes,  —  a  bit  of  plumbing  here,  a  new  fixture  there,  —  a 
few  score  more  books  on  open  shelves,  —  an  additional  attend- 
ant, an  enlargement  of  hours  —  it  is  to  be  remembered  that 
sweeping  changes  not  being  at  present  possible,  it  is  only 
upon  these  petty  items  that  zeal  for  improvement  may  be 
expended. 

The  regrading  of  the  Custodians  of  the  Branches  effected 
at  the  close  of  the  year  implies  a  higher  recognition  of  their 
present  responsibilities  and  an  additional  requirement. 

I  have  felt  obliged  to  omit  the  greater  portion  of  the  Super- 
visor's report,  and  shall  append  only  a  condensation  of  the 
statistics  and  certain  sections  which  deal  with  work  of  larger 
aspect. 

It  will  be  noted  that  Mr.  Hiller  C.  Wellman  did  not  retire 
from  the  Supervisorship  until  May  last ;  so  that  the  responsi- 
bility of  the  present  Supervisor,  T^Ir.  Ward,  covers  but  a  frac- 
tion of  tlie  Library  year. 

The  most  significant  of  the  undertakings  of  the  year  has 
been  the  reclassification  of  the  books  ujDon  a  single  system, 
with  relative  (instead  of  Jixed)  location,  and  identical  nota- 
tion; and  the  issue  of  a  Finding  List  of  recent  accessions 
classified,  located  and  numbered  on  this  system,  so  that  any 
copy  of  the  list  is  equally  a  catalogue  of  these  titles  at  any 
one  of  the  ten  branches.  The  work  of  reclassification  is  but 
begun.  Hand  in  hand  with  it  goes  the  work  of  weeding  out 
the  old  or  unserviceable  books  and  of  supplying  fresh  ones. 

Assume  the  branches  to  be  completely  reorganized  in  this 
way, —  their  collections  reduced  to  lowest  terms   and    then 


Library  Department.  43 

rebuilt  to  a  common  standard,  classified  alike  and  catalogued 
in  common :  and  the  basis  will  have  been  laid  for  a  future 
development  which  may  be  simple,  uniform  and  economical. 

Service. 

The  Library  has  suffered  serious  loss  by  death.  Most 
serious  indeed  was  the  loss  of  Arthur  Mason  Knapp,  for 
twenty-four  years  in  its  service,  and  for  the  last  twenty  years 
its  chief  reference  librarian  as  Custodian  of  Bates  Hall. 
Mr.  Knapp's  accumulated  experience  in  the  work  of  this 
position,  to  which  he  devoted  himself  with  absolute  concen- 
tration, stood  for  an  asset  of  exceeding  value.  Rather  than 
minute  here  too  briefly  the  record  of  his  career  and  service,  I 
append  to  be  printed  the  notice  published  in  the  Bulletin 
after  his  death,  and  passages  from  the  address  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  James  De  Normandie  (who  as  a  member  of  the  Library 
Board  spoke  with  particular  knowledge)  at  the  funeral  ser- 
vices. 

The  war  took  from  the  Library  two  employees,  of  whom  one 
is  still  in  the  field,  the  other — ■  Michael  Francis  Leonard  — 
died  in  the  hospital  on  his  return  from  Santiago. 

Among  the  resignations  has  been  that  of  Hiller  C.  Well- 
man,  Supervisor  of  Branches.  Mr.  Wellman  came  to  this 
position  from  the  Athenaeum  Library  in  December,  1896  ;  he 
left  it  to  take  the  office  of  Librarian  of  the  Brookline  Public 
Library  in  May,  1898.  Li  the  meantime  he  had  devoted 
active,  earnest  and  intelligent  service  to  the  reorganization  of 
the  outlying  library  system. 

The  accessions  to  the  service  have  brought  notable  capac- 
ity. Mr.  Oscar  A.  Bierstadt,^  who  comes  to  take  the  place  of 
Mr.  Knapp  as  Custodian  of  Bates  Hall,  brings  an  experience 
of  more  than  twenty  j'ears  in  the  Astor  Library,  the  latter 
part  of  which  stood  as  an  experience  most  nearly  akin  to  that 
of  JNIr.  Knapp,  in  a  library  most  nearly  akin  to  the  Boston 
Public  Library  (in  this  department). 

Mr.  Langdon  L.  Ward,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Wellman  as 
Supervisor  of  Branches,  was  not  directly  imported  into  tliat 
position,  but  was  promoted  to  it  because  of  work  (in  a  sub- 
ordinate department  of  the  Branch  system)  so  excellent  as, 
with  other  obvious  qualifications,  to  promise  success  in  ad- 
ministering larger  interests. 

The  acquisition  of  Mr.  Worthington  C.  Ford  for  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Statistical  Department  has  already  been  com- 
mented upon.     In  addition  to  his  special  knowledge  in  the 

1  Mr.  Blerstadt  does  not  }jegin  liis  duties  until  February  1,  IS'Jil. 


44  City  Document  No.   21. 

domain  of  statistics,  finance  and  economic  science  generally,, 
his  knowledge  of  the  sources  of  American  historj^  is  of  value 
to  the  Library  in  its  purchases  of  Americana. 

In  the  ordinary  service  the  usual  number  of  changes  has 
occurred.  The  Library  has  lost  by  death  or  resignation  in 
all  nineteen  persons  :  it  has  acquired  in  all  thirtj^-four.i  The 
latter  figure  includes  all  persons  who  have  entered  the  ser- 
vice whether  or  not  continued  permanently.  Of  these  thirty 
were  in  office  at  the  end  of  the  year. 

Examinations. —  i'ive  general  and  ten  special  examinationy 
were  held  during  the  year.  Of  the  general  two  were  for 
Grade  B,  one  for  Grade  C,  and  two  for  Grade  E.  Of  the 
special,  five  were  of  employees  qualifying  for  promotion  (to 
Grade  B  special,  one  ;  Grade  C  special,  two  ;  Grade  C,  one  ; 
Grade  E,  one);  the  remaining  five  were  of  outside  appli- 
cants (to  fill  vacancies  for  which  the  lists  returned  by  the 
general  examinations  did  not  seem  adequately  to  provide). 
Of  these  latter  special  examinations  one  was  for  Grade  B  ; 
three  were  for  D  special ;  one  for  E. 

In  all  236  papers 'were  received  and  considered — of 
which  67  were  from  male  applicants,  169  from  female.  Of 
the  thirty-four  persons  taken  into  the  service  twenty-three 
were  male,^eleven  female,  and  the  assignment  as  follows  : 

Grades.  Central.  Branches. 

B  3  1 

D  Special  4 

D  5  3 

E  5  1 

Ungraded  ^  8  4 

21  13 

It  would  be  ungracious  to  make  no  mention  of  the  volun- 
teer aid  that  is  constantly  offered  to  the  Library  and  some- 
times accepted.  The  most  of  it  desires  to  be  anonymous,  and 
a  great  deal  of  it  is  necessarily  so.  During  the  past  three 
years  one  service  in  particular  has  been  rendered  by  outsiders, 
which  has  been  of  very  great  usefulness.  A  conuuittee 
numbering  (at  any  one  time)  from  fifteen  to  twenty  persons 
(all  residents  of  the  city,  and  thus  far  all  women)  has  under- 
taken to  read  every  work  of  current  fiction  (in  English), 
under  consideration  for  purchase,  and  to  report  to  the  Libra- 
rian in  writing  certain  information  regarding  it.  The  infor- 
mation requested  is  in  chief:  is  the  book  suitable  for  child,  or 
for  adult?  is   it  historical,  or  purely  romantic?  narrative,  or 

1  Including  appointments  to  positions  not  subject  to  formal  examination  (Super- 
visor of  Branches,  Custodian  of  Bates  Hall,  etc.).    Also  janitorial  appointments. 


Library  Department.  45 

does  it  deal  with  some  contemporaiy  social  prol)leni?  if  his- 
torical, what  period  of  history  does  it  depict  ?  its  merits  and 
defects:  as  to  accuracy  (if  historical),  temper  (if  touching 
social  problems),  apparent  sincerity  (if  treating  religious 
problems),  morality  and  style ;  and  an  outline  of  the  j)lot 
sufficient  to  render  intelligible  the  information  above  de- 
scribed. 

Every  new  work  of  fiction  (in  English)  is  read  and  thus  re- 
ported upon  independently  by  two  persons  ;  if  their  reports 
disagree,  by  a  third.  Tlie  labors  of  the  Committee  may  be 
appreciated  from  the  fact  that  during  the  past  year  (a  normal 
one)  548  books  were  read  b}'  it,  and  reported  upon  in  writing. 

These  rej^orts  are  of  the  greatest  service  to  the  administra- 
tion of  the  Library,  and  have  been  made  use  of  by  other  in- 
stitutions or  boards  having  the  responsibility  of  selecting  from 
the  mass  of  current  publications,  l)ut  unable  to  examine  each 
book  in  detail.  And  the  labors  of  the  Committee  would  have 
received  appreciative  mention  before  this,  but  that  its  function 
is  so  liable  to  be  misunderstood. 

It  is  not  —  an  outside  body,  without  official  responsibility  — 
substituted  for  the  administration.  It  does  not  select  books 
for  the  Library;  it  inerely  furnishes  information  by  which  the 
books  ma}^  more  efficiently  be  selected  by  the  Librarian  and 
Trustees.  It  indicates  also  an  opinion  whether,  on  the  whole, 
the  book  is  worthy.  But  this  opinion  does  not  finally  con- 
trol. It  is  an  element  in  the  decision,  but  no  more.  And 
the  final  decision,  for  acceptance  or  rejection,  frequently  runs 
counter  to  it. 

The  Committee  is  not  a  body  of  experts;  it  is  composed  of 
persons  selected  at  large,  sufficiently  numerous  to  represent 
at  any  one  time  different  points  of  view.  Its  personnel 
changes  constantly,  in  order  that  the  variety  of  view  may  be 
still  greater,  and  that  merely  methodical  and  routine  judg- 
ment may  be  avoided.  The  purpose  (so  far  as  it  concerns 
the  mere  opinion  desired)  being  to  secure  the  average  instinc- 
tive judgment  of  the  general  public,  the  committee  is  not 
furnished  by  the  administration  with  any  standards  of  criti- 
cism ;  indeed,  its  requests  for  such  standards  have  regularly 
been  denied. 

Of  the  600  works  of  current  English  fiction  received 
during  the  year,  less  than  a  third  (with  necessarj^  duplica- 
tion of  copies)  could  be  purchased.  That  of  the  180  pur- 
chased last  year  it  may  be  said  that  not  one  was  placed  on 
the  shelves  without  having  been  read  and  reported  upon  by 
at  least  two  persons,  indicates  a  service  b}^  the  Committee 
sufficiently  deserving  of  gratitude.     That  to  the  selection  of 


46  City  Document  Xo.  21. 

these  180  titles  out  of  the  548  the  Committee  contributed  in- 
formation of  great  usefulness,  indicates  a  service  of  even 
larger  measure.  I  feel  that  to  the  members  of  the  Commit- 
tee, and  especially  to  its  permanent  chairman,  Miss  Mary 
jNIorison,  an  appreciation  on  the  part  of  the  Library  is  due 
which  ought  not  further  to  be  suppressed. 

All  the  departments  have  been  more  or  less  embarrassed 
during  the  year  by  illness,  and  upon  some  has  fallen  the 
special  strain  mcident  to  the  structural  alterations.  This 
was,  of  course,  heaviest  upon  the  Issue  Department,  which 
was  for  a  long  period  deprived  of  the  full  use  of  the  pneu- 
matic tubes  and  other  apparatus,  and  cutoff  from  its  ordinary 
passageway  to  the  stacks,  and  was  obliged  to  carry  the  ordi- 
nary burden  of  work  in  a  space  contracted,  noisy,  draughty 
and  dusty,  and  confused  with  carj)enters,  masons  and  painters. 
But  there  is  no  department  at  the  Central  Library  which  was 
not  in  some  way  or  measure  inconvenienced.  The  Ordering 
Department,  for  instance,  was  for  weeks  deprived  of  its  room 
entirely,  and  crowded  into  a  small,  ill-lighted  space  in  the 
Entresol.  Even  the  Catalogue  and  Shelf  Departments,  though 
remote  from  the  centre  of  operations,  suffered  much  embar- 
rassment during  their  course.  The  Shelf  Department,  for 
example,  has  had  the  special  burden  (in  addition  to  its  routine 
work)  of  moving  and  relocating  (without  the  use  of  lifts) 
more  than  300,000  volumes  affected  by  the  changes. 

The  strain  (especially  upon  the  attendants  in  the  Issue  De- 
partment) has  been  exceedingly  severe.  That  they  suffered 
from  it  I  know.  But  so  far  as  I  know  they  did  not  (by  a 
single  peevish  expression)  let  the  public  suffer  from  it.  Not 
a  single  complaint  came  to  me  that  the  service  was  too  ardu- 
ous ;  not  a  suggestion  that  the  work  ought  to  be  suspended 
even  for  a  single  day.  I  am,  however,  so  wonted  to  this  spirit 
of  unselfish  earnestness  among  the  employees  of  the  Library, 
and  their  eagerness  to  do  all  in  their  power  to  secure  the  best 
results,  that  it  is  only  by  an  effort  that  I  can  regard  or  men- 
tion this  recent  manifestation  of  it  as  significant. 

Herbert  Putnam, 

Librarian. 
Februaky,  1,  1899. 


LiBEARY  Department.  47 


SUPPLEMENTS     TO    THE    REPORT    OF    THE 
LIBRARIAN. 


(A.) 

MEMORANDUM    AS  TO    THE   GENERAL    CARD    CATA- 
LOGUE. 

To  the  Librarian  : 

The  Card  Catalogue  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  was 
begun  in  1871.  At  that  tirue  the  titles  of  books  under  au- 
thors and  subjects  in  the  first  Catalogue  of  Bates  Hall  (the 
Index,  1861)  and  its  First  Supplement  (1866)  and  the  Prince 
Catalogue  were  cut  from  those  volumes,  pasted  on  cards  and 
made  a  part  of  the  Public  Card  Catalogue.  The  Bulletins 
also,  which  contained  the  record  of  the  additions  to  the  Li- 
brary, from  September  1,  1867,  to  1871,  were  treated  in  the 
same  manner.  The  titles  in  the  various  Lists  for  the  Lower 
Hall  (now  Stack  4)  were  made  a  part  of  the  Public  Card 
Catalogue  for  that  collection. 

From  1871  on,  the  prmted  titles  of  all  books  received 
by  the  Library  (including  the  Ticknor  collection)  have  been 
added  day  by  day  to  the  Card  Catalogues.  An  exception 
was  made  in  the  case  of  the  Barton  collection,  for  three  rea- 
sons: 1.  The  collection  was  kept  by  itself  at  a  distance 
from  Bates  Hall,  in  a  room  where  no  attendant  was  stationed. 
2.  The  works  of  great  rarity  and  value  in  the  collection  it 
was  thought  best  not  to  bring  forward  into  prominence. 
Persons  entitled  to  use  them  could  find  them  through  the 
catalogue  printed  in  a  volume.  3.  On  the  other  hand,  the 
works  of  less  value,  such  as  modern  editions  of  Shakespeare, 
were  largely  duplicated  in  the  general  collection,  more  easily 
attainable,  and  preferably  to  be  used  to  the  saving  of  the 
rarer  editions. 

The  Officers'  Catalogue. 

The  second  Card  Catalogue,  kept  in  the  Catalogue  Room, 
from  1871  on,  is  in  the  main  a  duplicate  of  the  one  for  the 
use  of  the  public.  Its  basis  was  the  collection  of  titles  in 
manuscript  for  books  received  after  the  publication  of  the 
First  Supplement  to  the  Bates  Hall  Index,  which  titles  it  was 


48  City  Document  No.  21. 

intended  to  use  as  printers'  copy  for  a  Second  SuiDiDlement. 
These  additions,  so  far  as  they  covered  newly-pnblished 
books  and  others  of  especial  interest,  were  printed  in  the 
Bulletins,  and,  as  alread}'  stated,  these  selected  printed  titles 
were  added  to  the  Public  Card  Catalogue. 

The  Index,  the  Supplement  and  the  Prince  Catalogue  were 
not  cut  and  added  to  the  Officers'  Catalogue,  because  at  that 
time  it  was  thought  that  any  information  needed  by  the 
Library  staff  could  be  found  readily  in  the  catalogues  in 
printed  volumes. 

It  may  be  inferred  that  after  the  work  mentioned  on  the 
Public  Card  Catalogue  was  finished,  readers  had  at  hand  a 
fairly  representative  inventory  of  the  books  in  this  Library. 
This  was  the  case  so  far  as  the  titles  of  these  books  had  been 
put  into  type.  The  Index  and  Supplement,  however,  did  not 
contain  the  titles  of  all  the  books  in  the  Library ;  pamphlets, 
for  example,  being  generally  omitted,  and  subject  entries  not 
being  given  in  all  cases. ^ 

It  was  found  on  using  this  new  conglomerate  catalogue 
tliat  the  titles  in  small  type,  cut  from  the  printed  catalogues, 
when  placed  in  drawers  under  a  wire  were  read  with  diffi- 
culty ;  they  also  suffered  from  wear  and  tear. 

With  the  growth  of  the  Library  it  was  also  found  that  the 
titles  as  hitherto  printed  were  altogether  too  brief  for  useful- 
ness, and  that  it  would  be  necessary  to  recatalogue  and  re- 
print all  that  represented  books  received  by  this  Library 
during  the  first  twenty  years  of  its  existence. 

It  was  decided  also,  for  good  reasons,  to  make  the  Public 
and  Officers'  Catalogue  exactly  alike,  each  ultimately  to 
contain  a  record  of  all  the  books  added  to  the  Library  from 
the  beginning. 

This  work  has  gone  on  steadily  for  twenty-seven  years,  the 
cataloguing  of  former  years  being  brought  up  to  the  greatly 
advanced  present  standard. 

Since  moving  to  the  new  building  a  triplicate  Card  Cata- 
logue has  been  prepared  for  the  books  added  to  the  collec- 
tions in  the  Special  Libraries'  Department.  From  tests 
recently  made,  I  think  that  only  a  comparatively  small  num- 
ber of  books  in  the  Library  (outside  of  the  Barton  collection) 
will  fail  to  be  found  in  some  form  in  the  Bates  Hall  Card 
Catalogue. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

James  L.  Whitney, 

Chief  Cataloguer. 

1  Reference  is  made  to  an  irticle  (B)  which  follows  this  memorandum. 


Library  Department.  49 

(B.) 

CONSIDERATIONS    AS    TO    A    PRINTED    CATALOGUE 
IN    BOOK    FORM. 

To  the  Librarian  : 

When  the  Boston  Public  Library  first  occupied  the  new 
building  on  Boy  Is  ton  street  two  independent  libraries  were 
established  there:  1.  The  collection  of  popular  books  in  the 
Lower  Hall.  2.  The  more  scholarly  books  in  the  Bates  Hall. 
For  the  popular  department  a  Finding  List  was  printed  in 
1858,  which  has  been  followed  by  Class  Lists,  in  many 
editions,  down  to  a  recent  date.  For  the  Bates  Hall  a  List 
was  published  in  1861.  The  title  in  both  was  an  "Index  to 
the  Catalogue,"  etc.,  as  consisting  of  brief  entries  which 
pointed  to  a  card  catalogue,  or  the  books  themselves,  for 
fuller  particulars. 

These  Indexes,  moreover,  contained  the  titles  of  a  selected 
portion  only  of  the  Library,  but  few  pamphlets,  for  example, 
being  included,  unless  written  by  Boston  authors  or  relating 
to  the  affairs  of  Boston ;  while  subject-entries  were  not  given 
in  many  cases,  particularly  where  a  publication  contained 
less  than  one  hundred  pages  —  a  poor  test,  as  was  then 
allowed,  of  the  value  of  any  production,  and  particularly 
so  in  science. 

A  First  Supplement  to  this  Index,  on  a  like  plan,  was 
published  in  1866,  and  it  was  purposed  to  follow  these 
Indexes  with  supplementary  ones,  to  be  gathered  together 
at  some  future  time,  it  was  hoped,  under  one  alphabet. 

At  this  time  the  Library  took  a  great  stride  forward,  the 
annual  additions,  which  for  a  few  years  had  averaged  7,500 
volumes,  increasing  to  some  25,000  volumes,  including 
special  libraries,  such  as  the  Prince  and  Ticknor  collections, 
which  were  given  with  the  understanding  that  critical  and 
scholarly  catalogues  be  published. 

Mr.  Justin  Winsor,  soon  after  assuming  the  office  of  Superin- 
tendent, saw  clearly  that  this  great  increase  was  "  almost  a 
portent  of  future  unavailing  efforts  to  keep  up  in  print  with 
the  growth  of  the  Library,"  and  that  it  had  become  "  a 
question  of  prime  importance,  with  the  future  so  promising 
for  continued  growth,  whether  some  change  in  the  method 
of  presenting  the  record  of  our  accessions  to  the  public  will 
not  be  absolutely  forced  upon  us."  ^ 

In  the  meantime,  as  the  nearest  approach  possible  to  the 
catalogue  desired,  a   Bulletin   of  new  accessions  was  begun 

1  Annual  report,  1871. 


50  City  Document  No.  21. 

in  1867,  which  publication,  with  changes  of  form,  has  con- 
tinued until  the  present  time.  To  this,  from  time  to  time, 
have  been  added  catalogues  of  special  subjects  in  great 
number. 

It  is  understood  that  the  material  supplementary^  to  these 
catalogues  in  printed  volumes,  which  was  being  collected  in 
card  form,  was  intended  only  for  the  use  of  the  officers  of 
the  Library  in  preparing  a  new  Index  volume.  Readers  were 
obliged  to  examine  many  catalogues  and  bulletins,  which 
numbered,  in  1871,  in  both  libraries,  nearly  thirty- — a  state 
of  thmgs  which  was  felt  to  be  intolerable. 

At  this  time  the  foundations  were  laid  of  a  Card  Catalogue, 
intended,  under  author  and  subject,  to  give  full  entries  for 
all  the  books  in  the  Library.  This  involved  not  only  the 
cataloguing  of  the  new  accessions  to  the  Library,  but  also 
all  the  omitted  material  already  alluded  to,  together  with  the 
re-cataloguing  of  some  175,000  volumes.  This  work  of 
preparation  and  revision  has  gone  on  steadily  since  that 
time,  its  scope  and  methods  broadening  and  ramifying  with 
the  growth  and  development  of  the  Library.  Since  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Card  Catalogue  it  may  be  roughly  estimated 
that  400,000  volumes,  pamphlets  and  parts  of  volumes,  ncAvly 
added  to  the  Central  Library,  have  been  catalogued,  and,  on 
an  average,  12,000  volumes  a  year  of  older  material  have 
been  revised  and  recatalogued.^ 

A  Printed  Volume. 

While  this  work  has  more  than  met  the  anticipations  of  its 
projectors  and  has  proved  in  many  respects  an  ideal  catalogue, 
the  question  has  been  asked  from  time  to  time  by  those  who 
have  chafed  under  its  requirements  and  limitations,  whether 
it  might  not  be  possible  to  condense  all  this  material  into 
printed  volumes,  which  could  be  consulted  more  readily  and 
used  outside  the  Library  building. 

To  this  question  the  reply  of  the  Trustees  has  been  that 
owing  to  the  expense  involved  and  to  other  grave  consider- 
ations, they  were  not  prepared  to  enter  upon  an  undertaking 
so  vast  and  of  so  uncertain  an  issue.  At  least,  until  the 
Library  should  be  housed  in  a  new  building  and  all  of  the 
necessary  changes  of  shelf-position  and  shelf-numbers  had 
been  made,  a  printed  catalogue,  even  if  possible,  would  be  an 
unwise  project. 

Now  that  this  transfer  has  been  made  and  the  changes  men- 
tioned are  under  way  how  does  the  case  stand  ?  What  will 
the  proposed  catalogue  involve? 

1  From  1852-1897,  191,472  volumes  were  recatalogued  in  tbe  work  of  revision. 


LiBEAEY  Department.  51 

I.  In  the  first  place  the  work  of  revision  must  be  pushed 
with  vigor  to  the  end,  tlie  cataloguers  being  called  off  from 
all  other  special  work  to  receive  aid  in  this  undertaking  from 
an  extra  force  to  be  engaged  from  outside.  The  cards  for 
every  book  must  be  copied  in  abbreviated  form,  compared 
with  each  other,  and,  if  not  already  done,  with  the  cards  in 
the  Public  Catalogue,  with  the  shelf-lists,  and  with  the  book 
itself,  while  the  subject  headings  must  be  submitted  to  a  rigid 
test  as  to  their  correctness  and  their  indication  of  relationship 
to  the  headings  of  cognate  subjects.  The  catalogue  of  a  great 
library  is  a  constant  development;  to  its  latest  and  highest 
requirements  all  the  work  of  preceding  years  must  be  brought. 
Only  when  the  work  is  perfected  can  it  be  given  to  the  printer. 
The  time  needed  for  this  cannot  be  estimated,  but  only  guessed 
at  from  the  experience  of  other  large  libraries  which  have 
printed  their  catalogues. 

II.  Supposing  that  this  revision  is  finished  and  the  card 
catalogue  as  it  stands  now  is  read}^  to  print,  what  then? 

On  June  25,  1898,  the  Card  Catalogue  measured  12,523 
inches,  linear  measurement  through  the  thickness  of  the 
stock.  Reckoning  eighty  cards  to  an  inch  these  cards  num- 
ber 1,001,810.  Roughly  estimated,  from  numerous  tests 
made,  nine-tenths  of  these  cards  contain  one  title  each,  and 
one-tenth  two  or  more  titles.  It  might  be  said  that  there  are 
1,200,000  titles  (author  and  subject)  in  the  Public  Card  Cata- 
logues in  the  Bates  Hall  and  Delivery  Room.  This  leaves 
out  of  account  many  of  the  titles  in  the  Ticknor  and  Barton 
Catalogues,  which  it  would  be  desirable  to  include  in  con- 
densed form  in  a  general  catalogue  of  this  Library. 

An  estimate  may  be  made  in  another  way.  There  were 
in  the  Central  Librarj^,  exclusive  of  the  Duplicate  Room,  on 
July  1,  1898,  about  524,000  volumes,  or,  deducting  special 
collections,  say  500,000  volumes.  Reckoning  two  and  one- 
half  entries  for  each  book  (an  accepted  estimate),^  the  num- 
ber of  titles  to  be  printed  would  be  1,250,000.^ 

HI.  The  question  now  arises  shall  the  proposed  catalogue 
be  kept  up  to  date ;  that  is,  shall  the  titles  of  books  received 
while  the  work  is  in  progress  be  added,  or  shall  it  include 
only  what  was  in  the  Library  at  the  time  of  beginning  the 
work  ? 

For  the  past  seven  years  the  cards  placed  in  the  public 
catalogues    in    Bates    Hall    and    the    Delivery    Room    have 

1  Tlie  Dictionary  Catalogue  of  the  Boston  Athena'um  for  the  pei'iod  from  1872- 
lSi)4  covers  80,(100  bound  volumes  and  5,000  pamphlets,  and  is  estSmated  to  contain 
2i)l,840  cards,  or  nearly  three  and  one-halt  cards  per  title. 

-  In  this  estimate  no  account  is  taken  of  the  number  of  duplicate  coi)ies  on  these 
cards,  the  number  of  volumes  made  up  of  many  pamphlets,  or  the  number  of  woriis 
in  Ion 2-  sets. 


52  City  Document  No.  21. 

averaged  44,857  a  year,  or  about  150  a  day.  Since  the  prep- 
aration and  printing  of  these  titles  in  addition  to  those 
already  in  the  Library  would  push  forward  tlie  publication  of 
the  catalogue  indefinitely,  I  will  here  make  only  estimates 
on  the  collection  of  books  as  it  now  stands. 

Time. 

IV.  Assuming  that  these  1,200,000  titles  are  ready  for 
the  printer,  how  much  time  will  be  needed  to  edit  them 
through  the  press  ? 

From  an  examination  of  numerous  catalogues  of  this  and 
other  libraries,  I  judge  that  tlie  number  of  titles  to  a  page 
would  average  from  forty  to  fifty,  depending  on  the  fulness 
of  the  titles  given  and  the  style  of  printing.  Calling  it  the 
larger  number,  the  catalogue  Avould  fill  24,000  pages;  if  the 
smaller,  30,000  pages. 

The  Boston  Atheufeum  catalogue  was  printed  at  the  rate 
of  1  +  pages  a  working  day  ;  the  catalogue  of  the  Library 
of  the  Peabody  Institute  at  the  rate  of  less  than  two  pages 
a  day ;  the  Index-Catalogue  of  the  Library  of  the  Surgeon- 
General's  office,  United  States  Army,  at  the  rate  of  about 
three  and  one-third  pages  a  day.  Calling  the  rate  of  prog- 
ress for  the  proposed  catalogue  five  pages  a  day,  the  time 
needed  would  be  in  the  one  case  sixteen  years,  and  in  the 
other  twenty  years. 

The  catalogue  of  the  Boston  Athenseum,  work  upon  which 
was  begun  in  1856,  was  sent  to  the  printer  May,  1872. 
January  of  that  year  was  taken  as  the  limit  beyond  which 
no  book  should  be  added.  On  its  completion,  therefore,  it 
did  not  contain  the  titles  of  bopks  added  to  the  library  for 
the  preceding  ten  years.  To  tlie  Index-Catalogue  of  the 
library  of  the  Surgeon-General's  office,  and  to  the  catalogue 
of  the  Peabody  Institute,  the  titles  of  books  and  articles 
received  during  the  printing  were  added,  except  such  as  were 
included  in  the  part  of  the  alphabet  already  in  type. 

On  the  completion  of  the  Index  Catalogue  enough  material 
had  collected  in  the  letter  A  to  fill  828  pages,  while  in  the 
main  work  this  letter  occupied  only  718  pages.  In  the  Pea- 
body Institute  catalogue  this  letter  occupies  236  pages  in 
the  supplement,  and  only  136  in  the  main  work.  This  dis- 
proportion would  doubtless  disappear  in  the  later  letters  of 
the  alphabet,  yet  it  shows  that  the  titles  left  over  on  the 
completion  of  a  catalogue  may  be  as  numerous  when  the 
work  is  delayed  to  insert  matter  received  during  its  progress 
through  the  press  as  when,  receiving  no  additions,  it  is  put 
through  more  rapidly. 


Library  Department.  53 


Use. 


What  will  be  the  value  and  how  great  the  use  of  a  cata- 
logue which  does  not  contain  the  titles  of  books  added  for 
ten  to  twenty  years  previous  to  its  issue? 

On  the  completion  of  the  Boston  Athenseuni  catalogue  I 
examined  the  books  given  to  readers  at  the  Boston  Public 
Library  for  some  days,  and  found  that  seven  out  of  ten  had 
been  published  less  than  ten  years.  Of  course  such  a  cata- 
logue would  have  less  and  less  use  from  year  to  year.  ^ 

By  recent  tests  made  hy  Mr.  Chevalier,  of  the  Catalogue 
Department,  it  appears  that  of  books  taken  for  Home  Use  on 
given  days  24  per  cent,  were  published  before  1883,  while 
19  per  cent,  bore  date  between  1883  and  1888,  and  57  per 
cent,  between  1888  and  1898  ;  while  of  books  taken  for  Hall 
Use,  37  per  cent,  were  published  before  1883,  while  24  per 
cent,  were  issued  between  1883  and  1888,  and  39  per  cent, 
between  1888  and  1898.  On  the  completion  of  the  proposed 
catalogue  for  this  Library  it  probably  would  not  contain  one- 
fourth  of  the  books  called  for  by  readers. 

Extent. 

An  opinion  as  to  the  number  of  volumes  required  for  a 
printed  catalogue  of  this  Library  may  be  ventured,  based  on 
the  experience  of  other  libraries.  Six  years  ago  an  estimate 
was  made  that  the  titles  in  the  card  catalogue  of  the  Upper 
Hall  of  the  old  Library  building  would  fill  sixteen  and  one- 
half  volumes  of  the  size  of  the  Barton  catalogue  (Miscel- 
laneous part).  This  estimate  apparently  took  no  account  of 
the  titles  which  have  long  contents,  or  of  the  cases  where 
more  than  one  title  is  on  a  card,  and  in  my  opinion  it  falls 
far  short  of  being  correct. 

The  Boston  Athenaeum  catalogue  of  92,000  volumes  and 
about  36,000  pamphlets  is  in  five  volumes  with  3,400  pages. 
In  the  five  volumes  of  the  Peabody  Institute  Library  the 
5,000  pages  catalogue  a  collection  of  perhaps  100,000  volumes. 
The  Index-Catalogue  at  Washington  in  its  sixteen  volumes, 
or  16,000  pages,  represents  a  collection  somewhat  larger, 
minutely  analyzed. 

The  British  Museum  catalogue,  with  author  entries  only, 
which  ajjproaches  completion,   thus  far  fills  about  110,000 

columns  (two  to  a  page,  folio  size).     These  columns,  if  joined 

* 

1 "  While  the  use  of  the  catalogue  in  print  is  vastly  more  convenient  than  the  best  in 
manuscript,  and  while  our  printed  volumes  may  he  of  great  advantage  in  other  li- 
braries, and  to  a  few  students  wlio  possess  them,  it  is  very  apparent  from  observation 
that  the  great  bulk  of  users  of  the  Bates  Hall  are  in  search  of  the  newer  books,  which 
cannot  be  found  in  the  printed  catalogues.  "  — J'.  Winsor :  Superintendent's  Report, 
1872. 


54  City  Document  No.  21. 

to  one  another,  would  reach  more  than  seventeen  miles,  —  a 
vivid  illustration  of  the  proportions  which  the  catalogue  of 
our  own  Library  will  soon  reach. 

With  its  half  a  million  volumes  and  many  thousand  pamph- 
lets an  estimate  for  the  Boston  Public  Library  of  a  catalogue 
in  thirty  volumes  of  a  thousand  pages  each  is  probably  a 
moderate  one. 

Cost. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  estimate  the  cost  of  jDreparing  a 
catalogue  of  this  Library  for  the  press  and  printing  it.  In 
1881  the  Examining  Committee  made  a  statement,  based  upon 
estimates  furnished  them,  that  the  cost  would  be  nearer 
$200,000  than  8100,000.  The  Catalogue  of  the  Boston 
Athenaeum,  in  five  volumes,  is  said  to  have  cost  nearly 
$100,000.1  Of  the  Index-Catalogue  of  the  Library  of  the 
Surgeon-General's  office  one  volume  has  been  issued  yearly 
at  a  cost  for  the  printing  and  binding  alone,  and  not  including 
the  cost  of  preparation,  of  $12,000  a  volume,  or  $216,000 
for  tlie  eighteen  volumes  (first  and  second  series)  so  far 
issued,  in  an  edition  of  1,000  copies.  For  printing  the 
Catalogue  of  the  British  Museum,  which  was  begun  January, 
1881,  an  annual  grant  was  assigned  which  has  risen  by 
gradual  increments  to  X3,000  a  year.^ 

Sale. 

If  a  price  be  set  upon  the  catalogue  based  upon  its  cost, 
or  upon  the  charge  for  the  catalogues  of  other  libraries,  but 
few  copies  would  be  sold.  Even  if  a  nominal  price  were 
named,  judging  from  the  experience  of  the  Library,  the  sale 
would  probably  be  quite  limited. 

Special  Lists. 

As  already  stated,  in  place  of  a  new  general  catalogue  in 
a  printed  volume,  the  Bulletin  was  established,  which  gives 
ready  access  to  the  new  additions  to  the  Library. 

Moreover,  as  any  subject  has  come  forward  into  prominence 
or  general  interest  it  has  been  made  the  occasion  for  preparing 

'This  estimate  is  only  an  approximate  one.  (See  the  reports  of  the  Treasurer.) 
The  Librarian  has  stated  that  the  cost  of  printing,  paper,  binding,  etc.,  was  about 
820,000,  and  tliat  for  many  years  there  were  from  two  to  eight  persons  preparing  tlie 
manuscript  for  the  printer.  The  compilation  of  this  catalogue  was  attended  with 
peculiar  difficulties  (see  the  Preface),  and  its  cost  was  greater  than  might  be  expected 
in  similar  undertakings. 

2  For  the  British  Museum  catalogue  the  yearly  subscription  for  the  parts,  which 
began  to  appear  about  18S1,  is  £3  10s.  The  selling  price  of  the  entire  catalogue 
will  be  £84.  The  price  of  the  five  volumes  of  the  Peabody  Institute  catalogue  is 
S37,  and  $11.50  for  volumes  1-3  of  the  second  series.  The  Boston  Athenreum  cata- 
logue is  sold  for  five  dollars  a  volume,  and  to  libraries  at  twenty  dollars  for  the  entire 
work.  About  350  copies  have  been  sold.  The  price  for  the  catalogue  of  the  Library 
of  the  Surgeon-General's  office  is  $3.50  a  volume;  for  that  of  the  Biblioth^que  Naiion- 
ale,  fifteen  francs  a  volume. 


Library  Depart^nient.  55 

a  special  catalogue,  in  which,  with  the  aid  offered  by  sj^ecial- 
ists,  the  titles  of  the  most  helpful  and  authoritative  works 
have  been  gathered.  As  an  example,  there  may  be  cited  the 
list  of  books  on  social  reform,  published  this  year.  Such 
lists  as  these,  drawn  from  the  general  catalogue,  when  the 
interest  of  the  public  on  any  particular  question  or  depart- 
ment of  literature  is  ardent,  are  timely  and  of  service,  whereas 
such  a  topic  in  a  general  printed  catalogue  might  at  any 
given  moment  not  have  been  reached  or  be  a  dozen  years 
behind  the  time.^ 

Supplements. 

On  the  completion  of  this  proposed  catalogue  a  million 
cards  will  probably  have  accumulated,  necessitating  the  prep- 
aration of  the  first  of  many  supplements  to  follow.  The 
Library  would  then  be  confronted  with  the  state  of  things 
which  led  its  iirst  Superintendent,  Mr.  Jewett,  to  affirm  that 
"  Nothing  short  of  what  a  Card  Catalogue  is  in  plan  can  ever 
be  regarded  as  entirely  satisfactory  for  a  great  public  library,"  ^ 
and  his  successor,  Mr.  Winsor,  to  agree  with  the  view  of 
European  librarians  that  "printing  in  a  large  and  rapidly 
growing  library  is  impracticable."  ^ 

Printing. 

Nothing  has  been  said  in  regard  to  the  printer's  part  in 
the  proposed  catalogue,  for  the  reason  that  the  other  con- 
siderations adduced  are  the  vital  ones.  With  the  addition 
of  another  press  and  linotype  the  proposed  catalogue  could 
be  put  in  type  to  keep  pace  with  the  supply  of  matter  fur- 
nished b}^  the  editors. 

With  the  coming  of  the  linotype  there  was  a  suggestion 
that  the  Avay  might  be  open  for  a  catalogue  of  the  entire 
Library  in  printed  volumes,  and  moreover  that  by  holding 
the  solid  lines  or  "slugs,"  insertions  might  be  made  and  the 
catalogue  kept  up  to  date. 

In  this  Library  the  linotype  has  been  tested  in  catalogue 
work  to  the  f ollowmg  extent :  In  addition  to  the  printing  of 
the  titles  of  accessions  for  the  card  catalogue  and  the  special 
catalogues  a  Monthly  Bulletin  has  been  issued,  and  at  the 
end  of  twenty  months  about  two-thirds  of  this  matter  has 
been  reprinted,  with  some  changes,  from  the  same  slugs,  as 

iThe  Austrian  Library  Association,  at  its  meeting  held  on  March  26,  of  this  year, 
decided  to  abandon  the  plan  for  an  Austrian  General  catalogue,  owing  to  lack  of 
adequate  support,  but  in  its  place  it  voted  to  publish  bulletins  devoted  to  library 
matters.  —  Library  Journal,  September,  1S98. 

2xVnnual  Report,  1861. 

3  Annual  Report,  1872. 


56  City  Document  No.  21. 

an  Annual  List.^  Although  this  is  an  Author  Catalogue, 
arranged  simply  by  classes,  and  much  less  intricate  than  a 
Dictionary  Catalogue  of  authors  and  subjects,  many  diffi- 
culties have  been  met  with  in  its  development.  If  the 
attempt  should  be  made  to  unite  the  slugs  for  this  Annual 
List  with  others  for  a  two-year  list  or  a  five-year  list,  as  has 
been  proposed,  these  difficulties  would  multiply  many  fold. 
To  mention  one :  to  the  labor  of  finding  the  sbigs  and  re- 
arranging them  there  would  be  added  the  constantly  increasing 
necessity  for  a  new  grouping.  It  would  probably  be  more 
economical  to  set  up  the  whole  list  anew.  For  it  is  a  settled 
principle  that  work  ought  to  be  perfected  before  it  is  sent 
to  the  printer ;  all  changes  and  new  arrangements  after  that 
are  disastrous.  The  same  principle  holds  good  with  the  lino- 
type. Editorial  work  must  be  done  elsewhere  than  in  the 
printer's  office,  or  the  linotype  room. 

With  the  linotype  as  up  to  this  time  developed,  methods 
whicli  hold  good  for  printing  such  a  publication  as  the 
Annual  List  would  cease  to  be  operative  in  the  case  of  a 
larger  and  certainly  of  a  much  larger  catalogue.  The  cost 
of  arrangement  and  editing  would  be  out  of  all  proportion  to 
the  increase  of  titles. 

The  case  as  it  stands  is  as  stated.  Should  the  linotype 
ever  through  the  progress  of  invention  overcome  its  present 
limitations  and  effect  that  which  now  seems  impossible,  no 
one  will  rejoice  more  than  the  maker  of  catalogues. 

Suggestions. 

The  Examining  Committee  for  1886,  impressed  with  the 
requirements  of  the  Catalogue  Department,  suggested  ''  that 
$100,000  be  secured  by  public  grant,  private  subscription  — 
or  by  all  combined  —  the  income  of  which  should  be  ex- 
clusively devoted  in  perpetuity,  to  the  Bates  Hall  Catalogue." 

With  this  sum  in  hand,  it  would  be  worth  while  to  con- 
sider whether,  if  it  be  impossible  to  make  an  elaborate  author 
and  subject  catalogue,  some  quicker  and  less  expensive 
substitute  might  not  be  found. 

Author  Catalogue. 
I.  An  Author  Catalogue,  that  is,  one  in  which  entries  are 
given  only  under  authors'  names,  and  not,  as  in  a  Dictionary 
Catalogue,  under  subjects  also,  could  be  prepared  with  less 
delay  and  cost.  That  of  the  British  Museum  has  been 
mentioned.  The  Bibliotheque  Nationale  has  begun  the  pub- 
lication   of   such    a    catalogue,   of   which    the    first   volume 

>  This  was  followed  by  a  second  Annual  List,  January  1,  1899. 


LiBEARY  Department.  57 

contains,  in  565  pages,  11,067  titles,  or  about  one-fourth  of 
the  titles  of  works  of  authors  whose  name  begins  with  the 
letter  A.i 

As  to  the  value  of  an  Author  Catalogue  it  should  be  said 
that  however  the  case  may  be  in  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale, 
or  in  a  University  Library,  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  an 
Author  Catalogue  would  be  of  less  value  than  one  under 
subjects. 

One  comes  to  a  library  to  learn  one  of  two  things : 
1.  Whether  a  certain  book  is  there;  or  2.  What  the  library 
has  on  a  given  subject.  The  first  pomt  is  settled  by  an 
Author  Catalogue,  and  it  is  the  only  one  settled  except  the 
question  of  the  bibliographer,  who  wishes  to  learn  the  exact 
title  of  an  out  of  the  way  book.  An  answer  to  the  second 
question  is  found  in  a  Subject  Catalogue. 

The  scholar,  familiar  with  literature,  will  seek  what  he 
needs  in  an  Author  Catalogue.  Even  here  he  will  obtain 
more  satisfactory  results  from  the  Card  Catalogue  of  the 
Library  than  from  its  abbreviated  reproduction  in  book  form. 
The  general  inquirer,  however,  as  a  rule  does  not  know 
the  particular  book  required,  and  asks  what  books  are  in 
the  Library  under  a  given  subject.  This  question  cannot 
be  answered  by  an  Author  Catalogue  whether  in  book  form 
or  on  cards. 

The  publication  of  an  Author  Catalogue  for  the  benefit  of 
all  countries  may  perhaps  be  justified  in  the  case  of  the 
British  Museum  and  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale,  as  being 
national  libraries  and  containing  in  the  largest  gatherings  of 
books  in  the  world  an  approach  to  a  universal  collection. 
The  library  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  most  nearly  approxi- 
mating such  a  collection  ought  ultimately  to  be  our  own 
National  Library.  This  institution  receives  copies  of  every 
book  copyrighted  in  the  United  States.  Even  if  it  should 
not  attempt  to  publish  a  complete  catalogue  of  its  collection 
it  is  conceivable  that  an  Author  Catalogue  of  at  least  this 
portion,  representing  a  complete,  authoritative  description  of 
all  the  issues  of  the  American  press,  might  be  of  sufficient 
service  to  bibliography  to  justify  its  exj^ense.^  It  would  have 
the  advantage,  which  Trade  Catalogues  do  not  possess,  of 
being  a  full,  precise  and  scholarly  description.  Such  a  work, 
however,  needs  to  be  issued  under  the  authority  of  one  insti- 
tution only.  It  does  not  need  to  be  repeated  by  other 
libraries. 

1  The  Introduction  by  M.  Delisle  is  interesting,  especially  section  15.  "  Raisons  qui 
ont  fait  adopter  I'ordre  alphab^tique  pour  le  Catalogue." 

2  A  Catalogue  of  Authors  was  bsgun  by  tli3  Library  of  Congress  in  1878,  but  it  was 
continued  only  through  the  letter  C.  Its  catalogue  of  the  title  entries  of  books  and 
other  articles  entered  in  the  otlice  of  the  Register  of  Copyright  is  a  publication  in  the 
direction  indicated. 


58  City  Document  No.  21. 

If  each  national  library  would  at  least  undertake  such  a 
catalogue  for  the  issues  of  the  press  of  its  country,  the  pub- 
lications of  the  world  would  be  economically  recorded.  But 
however  proper  a  work  like  this  might  be  for  a  national 
library,  with  a  collection  of  copyright  material  presumably 
complete,  and  with  the  resources  of  a  nation  behind  it,  the 
Boston  Public  Library  stands  in  a  very  different  position.  It 
is  to  an  extent  a  scholars'  library;  it  is  also  a  popular  library. 
It  does  not  contain,  and  does  not  wish  to  contain,  more  than 
a  fraction  of  the  books  published  in  this  country.  The 
bibliographical  value  of  its  catalogue  in  print,  therefore, 
would  be  limited  accordingly,  while  the  material  published 
abroad  which  it  contains,  being  for  the  most  part  duplicated 
in  the  British  Museum  and  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale 
together,  is  adequately  recorded  at  their  expense  in  their 
catalogues. 

So  much  for  the  scholarly  side,  the  bibliography  pure  and 
simple.  For  the  popular  service,  the  Monthly  Bulletin  and 
special  lists,  as  they  are  issued  from  time  to  time,  are  ade- 
quate and  more  to  the  purpose. 

Classed  Lists. 

II.  The  titles  under  authors  might  be  grouped  under 
classes,  as  in  our  Monthly  Bulletin  and  Annual  List.  Such 
a  list  of  all  the  books  of  this  Library,  however,  would  need  a 
classification  so  extensive  and  indexes  so  minute  that  the  labor 
might  quite  equal  that  of  finishing  the  preparation  and  the 
printing  of  our  Dictionary  Catalogue  of  authors  and  sub- 
jects. The  Annual  List  is  only  a  selection  from  the  Monthly 
Bulletins,  which  are  themselves  only  a  partial  record  of  the 
books  currently  received.  From  the  labor  expended  on  this 
list  (which  is  without  indexes)  one  can  imagine  the  time 
needed  for  the  preparation  of  an  indexed  list  of  all  the  books 
received  by  this  Library  for  nearly  fifty  years. 

Selected  Subjects. 

III.  Some  years  ago,  in  the  Boylston  street  building,  when 
the  pressure  for  space  for  the  Card  Catalogue  was  a  matter  of 
concern,  a  plan  was  formed  to  take  out  certain  sections  and 
print  them  separately.  While  the  work  done  in  this  direc- 
tion has  great  value,  as  approaching  the  subjects  treated  from 
a  diiferent  point  of  view  from  our  Dictionary  Catalogue,  and, 
while  it  also  supplements  that  work,  the  Library  has  never 
seen  the  wisdom  of  substituting  these  lists  for  the  fuller 
entries  in  the  Card  Catalogue,  or  breaking  up  the  complete- 
ness and  continuity  of  that  great  work.  Still,  some  such 
plan  may  be  forced  upon  us  in  the  future. 


Library  Departiment.  59 

Conclusion. 
I  have  presented  the  question  of  a  catalogue  in  a  printed 
volume  for  the  Boston  Public  Library  succinctly,  and  I  trust 
fairly,  for  consideration. 

I  think  that  such  an  undertaking  would  be  unwise.     The 
decision  of  twenty-six  years  ago  was  based  on  reasons  which, 
have  gathered  strength  with  the  passing  of  time. 
Respectfully  submitted, 

James  L.  Whitney, 

Chief  Cataloguer. 

Postscript. 

The  following  statements  in  the  "  Quarterly  Review " 
for  October,  1898,  in  regard  to  the  Book  Catalogue  of  the 
British  jSIuseum,  supplement  the  information  given  in  the 
preceding  report.  It  is  there  stated  tliat  the  complete  cata- 
logue will  consist  of  about  six  hundred  volumes,  containing  on 
an  average,  250  columns  each.  During  its  progress  through 
the  press  the  accessions  to  the  library  have  exceeded  half  a 
million  titles,  only  a  fraction  of  which  will  appear  in  this 
catalogue.  The  number  of  copies  available  is,  about  250^ 
but  of  these  less  than  one-third  has  passed  into  circulation, 
and  even  of  that  number  about  one-half  has  been  given  gra- 
tuitousl3%  A  supplementary  catalogue  of  accessions  was 
printed,  which  a  subscriber  could  obtain  for  X3  a  year  in 
addition  to  his  subscription  of  <£3,  10s.,  for  the  principal 
catalogue.  But  this  Accessions  Catalogue  found  scarcely 
any  subscribers,  and  the  issue  has  now  been  contracted  within 
the  narrowest  possible  limits.  The  writer  adds  "The  present 
situation  may  be  sunnued  up  in  the  statement  that  the  Cata- 
logue of  the  British  Museum  is  almost  unknown  outside  of 
the  Reading  Room  ;  that  its  complete  form  is  found  in  the 
Reading  Room  alone  ;  and  that  the  very  few  persons  who 
have  access  to  it  beyond  those  precincts  possess  it  in  a  form 
which  is  so  incomplete  as  well-nigh  to  frustrate  the  chief 
reason  of  its  existence."  ^ 

In  the  magazine  "Literature,"  for  January  10,  1899,  it  is 
stated  that  the  officials  of  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale  have 
been  compelled  to  cease  printing  their  catalogue  by  reason  of 
the  great  expense  involved.  When  the  work  was  undertaken 
it  was  estimated  that  the  catalogue  would  occupy  some  eighty 
volumes.  The  first  volume  cost  =£1,600,  so  that  the  cost  of 
the  entire  work  might  be  X130,000. 

1  In  a  circular  from  the  British  Museum,  dated  April  15, 1899,  the  statement  is  made 
that  a  supplement  will  be  published  to  include  the  titles,  not  yet  incorporated,  of  all 
works  acquired  since  the  commencement  of  the  printing  of  the  catalogue  to  the  end  of 
1899. 


60  City  Document  No.  21. 

(CO 

EXTRACT     FROM     THE     REPORT    OF    THE    SPECIAL 
LIBRARIES,    DEPARTMENT    OF    FINE    ARTS. 

To  the  Ziibrarian : 

Five  lectures  were  given  during  the  year: 
In  the  Barton  Library. 

1808. 

February  23.        Mrs.    Hannah  Johnson  Carter.     On  the  Art  of 

Ancient  Egypt. 
March  1.  Lecture  on  Egypt  repeated. 

In  the  Fine  Arts  Room. 
April  21.  Prof.  D.  O.  Lyon  of  Harvard  College.     Assyrian 

art,    life    and    history.       Illustrated    by    the 

stereopticon . 

November  30.     Mrs.  Marie    Buckniau,  Secretary  of    the    Egypt 

Exploration  Fund.     Art  of  Ancient  Egypt. 
is«». 

Januar}'  31.         Mr.  C.  Howard  Walker.     Early  Greek  architect- 
ure and  ornament. 

Photographs,  etc.,  illustrating  the  lectures  were  supplied 
by  the  Library.  The  lecturer  was  secured  in  each  case  by  the 
Unit}^  Art  Club.  It  is  very  desirable  that  the  large  Lecture 
Room  be  made  available  for  these  lectures,  as  neitlier  the 
Barton  Library  nor  the  Fine  Arts  Room  is  adequate. 

The  collection  of  photographs  now  numbers  9,870,  of  pro- 
cess reproductions,  3,509.  Of  the  photographs,  1,696  have 
been  added  during  the  year  at  an  expense  of  $739.63  for 
purchase,  and  1)447.68  for  mounting.  The  process  pictures 
are  classified  and  catalogued.  The  work  is  continuing  on  the 
photographs,  less  than  25  per  cent,  of  which  remain  to  be  taken 
in  hand.  There  is  no  doubt  that  this  collection  of  photographs 
has  not  only  increased  the  usefulness  of  the  Fine  Arts  De- 
partment, but  has  stimulated  the  study  of  art  among  various 
classes  in  the  community. 

The  collection  of  topical  examples  of  objects  of  industrial 
art,  formed  after  the  pattern  of  collections  in  the  numerous 
industrial  museums  in  Europe,  Avith  the  aid  of  the  informa- 
tion and  material  gathered  by  Mr.  S.  R.  Kiihler  of  the  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts,  has  been  placed  in  a  suitable  case,  and  the 
arrangement  of  the  plates  advances.  The  collection  consists 
mainly  of  plates  (each  example  on  a  single  sheet)  from 
periodicals,  arranged  broadly  in  classes,  such  as  architectural 
detail,  ornament,  plastic  arts,  furniture,  etc.  As  the  collec- 
tion develops  I  intend  to  subdivide  by  countries,  styles,  and 
periods. 


Library  Department.  61 

The  use  of  the  Allen  A.  Brown  Library  has  noticeably 
increased  since  a  beginning  was  made  in  the  printing  of  the 
catalogue.  Nearly  8,000  cards  are  now  printed,  and  copy  is 
ready  for  the  printer  which  represents  at  least  60,000  more. 
These  it  is  desirable  to  hasten,  if  possible. 

The  catalogue  of  about  4,700  cards,  covering  analytical 
references  to  musical  works,  periodicals,  etc.,  and  biographies^ 
has  been  added  during  the  year.  The  collection  consisting 
of  magazine  articles,  newspaper  clippings,  etc.,  was  made  by 
Mr.  Brown,  and  has  been  bound  up  in  volumes,  over  fifty  of 
which  are  now  catalogued.  By  means  of  this  catalogue,  in 
which  works  of  importance  are  indexed  as  they  appear^ 
current  information  may  be  found  concerning  modern  music 
and  musicians.  Progress  has  been  made  as  well  in  the  col- 
lecting, arranging,  and  binding  of  the  series  of  concert  pro- 
grammes of  the  Handel  and  Haydn,  Philharmonic,  Mendelss- 
ohn Quintette  Club,  Musical  Fund,  Academy  of  Music,  and 
other  musical  and  choral  organizations  in  Boston  during  the 
past  seventy  years. 

Through  the  generosity  of  Mr.  Brown  the  resources  of 
this  collection  are  enlarged  systematically  by  the  addition  of 
new  publications  in  music  and  musical  literature.  The  col- 
lection of  works  for  orchestra  in  full  score  has  been  largely 
increased.  Worthy  of  mention  among  the  more  important 
additions  of  the  year  is  a  collection  of  part-songs  and  larger 
works  for  whole  chorus,  bound  in  fifty-two  volumes,  and  com- 
prising more  than  1,200  separate  publications. 


Exhibitions  in  the  Fine  Arts  Department,  Central 

Library. 

1898. 

Feb.      8-14  —Venetian    school.       Photo- 

graphs   ....  Barton  Lil)rary. 

Feb.    14-21  — German  and  Flemish  school. 

Photographs   .  .  .        "  " 

Feb.    21-28  —Dutch  school.  Photographs,        "  "■ 

Feb.  28-Mar.  7  —  French  school.  Photo- 
graphs   ....  Fine  Arts  Eoom. 

Mar.     7-14  — English       and       American 

schools.     Photographs     .     "        "        " 

Mar.  14-28  — School-room   decoration. 

Photographs    .  .  .      "         "        " 

Note.  —  The  above   six  exhibitions  illustrated  lectures  by  Mr.  J.  F.  Hopkins  to 
teachers  of  the  public  schools. 


62  City  Document  No.  21. 

Mar.  21-April  1 — Ancient  Egypt.  Photo- 
graphs, colored  plates, 
and  books,  to  illustrate  a 
lecture  by  Mrs.  Hannah 
Johnson  Carter        .  .  Barton  Library. 

M  ar .     2-20  —  Washi  ngton       portraits. 

Loaned  by  Mr.  George 
R.  Barrett      .  .  .        "  " 

Mar.  21-April  9 — Decorative  paper  covers. 
The  Walter  M.  Rowlands 
collection ,  supplemented 
by  contributions  from 
other  owners  .  .  .        "  " 

April    7-18  — Madonnas    of  the    old    and 

modern  schools  of  paint- 
ing and  sculpture  .  .  Fine  Arts  Room. 

April  15-May  10  —  Books  and  broadsides  pur- 
chased at  the  Ueane  and 
Baucker  sales  .  .      "       '•         " 

April  18-May  3 — Assyrian  art.  Photographs, 
colored  plates,  and  books, 
to  illustrate  a  lecture 
by  Prof.  D.  Ct.  Lyon  of 
Harvard  College       .  .,    "        "        " 

April  20  —  Creek    art.       Photographs, 

etc.,  in  connection  with  a 
conference  and  lecture  on 
Greece,  by  the  Unity  Art 
Club  of  Dorchester  .  Barton  Library. 

May     3-17  — Indnstrial  arts.    Recent  ac- 

cessions, plates,   etc.       .  Fine  Arts  Room. 

May  10-Junel2 — AmericusVespucius.  Books, 
maps,  portraits,  etc.,  in 
commemoration  of  the  cen- 
tenary    .  .  .  .      "        "        " 

May  17-June  G — Memorial  Day.  War  photo- 
graphs, colored  plates,  bat- 
tle flags,  brigade  flags  of 
Massachusetts  regiments 
in  the  battle  of  Gettys- 
burg. Loaned  by  Mr. 
Charies  B.  Brooks  ,     "        "       " 

June  6-July  12  —  English  cathedrals,  abbeys, 
castles,  university  build- 
ings, etc.     Photographs  .      "        "        " 

June  12-July  8  —  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 
Maps,  lu'oadsides,  docu- 
ments, portraits,  etc.       .      "        "        " 

June  20-^ug.  1  —  Edward  Burne-Jones.  Pho- 
tographs   of    the    artist's 


Library  Department.  63 

works,    to    commemorate 

his  death  on  June  17     .  Fine  Arts  Room. 

July   12- Aug.    1 — Japanese    architecture    and 

costume.     Photographs    .     "        "        "■ 

July  12-Aug.  19  —  Hawaiian  Islands.  Photo- 
graphs, plates,  maps,  por- 
traits, etc.  Loaned  by 
Hon.  Gorham  U.  Gilmau,     "        "        " 

Aug.     1-19  — Recent  municipal  architect- 

ure of  Boston.     Plates    .      "        "        " 

Aug.  1-Oct.  3  - —  The  typical  American,  male 
and  female.  Photographs 
of  statues  made  from 
measurements  by  Dr.  D. 
A.   Sargent     .  .  ,      u        n        u 

Aug.  19-30  — "Galerie  Amer.  du  Musee 

d 'ethnographic  du  Troca- 
dero."  Plates.  In  con- 
nection with  the  conven- 
tion of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science       .     "        "        " 

Aug.  30  Oct.  3  —  Constantinople;  American 
mural  decorations ;  mural 
decoratijons  in  the  Pan- 
theon,Paris.  Photographs,      "        "        " 

Sept.    2-8  — War  with  Spain.     Pictures 

cut  from  periodicals,  etc.,      "        "        " 

Oct.      4-17  — Classic  architecture  in  Italy. 

Photographs  .  .  .      "        "        " 

Oct.    17-24  — Assyrian     and    Babylonian 

antiquities.  Photographs. 
In  connection  with  the 
history  course  in  the  Bos- 
ton High  schools      .  .      "        "        " 

Oct.  24-Nov.  17  —  Portraits  from  the  historic 
schools  of  painting.  Pho- 
tographs .  ,  .     "        "        " 

Oct.  26-NOV.22  — P.  Puvis  de  Chavannes. 
Died  Oct.  24.  Photo- 
graphs of  his  work.  Cer- 
tain of  them  loaned  by 
Mr.  F.  P.  Vinton  and 
Mr.  A.  H.  Munsell         ,      "        "        " 

Nov.  17-Dec.  5  —  Ancient  Egypt.  Photo- 
graphs and  colored  plates, 
to  illustrate  a  lecture  by 
Mrs.  Marie  Buckman       .      "        "        " 

Dec.      5-15  — English    country    churches. 

Half-tone  pictures  .  .      "        "        " 


64  City  Document  No.  21. 

Dee.    15-31  — French   chateaux.      Photo- 

graphs ....  Fine  Arts  Roonu 

Dee.    l!)-ol  — Madonnas.     Photographs. 

Dee.   3  J -J  an.  10, 

181)i».  — Paris  and  Versailles.     Pho- 

tographs .  .  .      ''        "        " 

Dec.   31   .Jan.  10, 

1891).  —  Great  fa9ades  of  the  world. 

Photographs    .  .  .      '"        "        " 

1899. 

Jan.    14-26  — French  cathedrals.     Photo- 

graphs   .  .  .  .      "        "        "■ 

Jan.  27-Feb.  1 — Greek  architecture  and  orna- 
ment. Photographs  and 
colored  plates,  to  illustrate 
a  lecture  by  Mr.  C .  Howard 
Walker  .  .  .  .      "        "        " 

Exhibitions  at  the  Branch  Libraries  and  Stations. 

Collections  of  process  reproductions  on  the  subjects  in  the 
following  list  were  exhibited  during  the  year  in  the  ten  Branch 
Libraries,  and  certain  of  them  in  Stations  A,  D,  L,  and  S : 
Egypt,  Greek  sculpture,  Rome  and  Pompeii,  Italian  architecture, 
Italian  painting,  Florentine  school,  early  Renaissance  painters, 
Perugino,  Raphael,  Michael  Angelo,  Titian,  Madonnas,  Venice, 
Renaissance  architecture  and  sculpture,  Spain,  Spanish  archi- 
tecture, Northern  architecture,  French  cathedrals,  English  cathe- 
drals, EngUsh  country  churches,  Rembrandt,  Dutch  school, 
Italian  views,  Germany,  Holland,  Belgium,  School  decoration, 
Ci\'il  War  photographs,   and  others. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

Otto  Fleischner. 


(D.) 

REPORT  OF  CHIEF  OF  DEPARTMENT  OF  DOCUMENTS 

AND    STATISTICS. 


[  Librarian's  Note.  —  As  this  department  had  lieen  in  existence  only  eight  months, 
and,  as  its  chief  worl;  had  so  far  been  an  examination  of  the  collections  of  the  Library, 
the  receipt  and  classillcation  of  niMierial  from  the  American  statistical  Association, 
and  the  initiation  of  methods  of  exchange  and  solicitation,  catalonuing,  etc.,  it  stemed 
best  that  the  report  submitted  by  the  Chief  should  be  a  general  stateiiieiit  of  functions. 
The  experience  of  the  eight  months  had  shown  that  his  estimate  of  the  character  and 
probable  large  number  of  inquiries  addressed  to  the  department  was  likely  to  be 
justified  in  experience.] 

To  the  Librarian  : 

I  have  the  honor  to  submit  a  report  from  the  Statistical 
Department  of  this  Library.     As  it  will  cover  an  activity  of 


Library  Department.  65 

only  six  months,  and  applies  to  what  is  practically  a  new  de- 
parture in  library  administration,  the  results  of  which  are 
yet  to  be  determined,  it  will  necessarily  be  brief. 

The  general  plan  of  this  department  was  to  constitute  a 
working  laboratory  on  social  topics,  where  the  expert,  the 
student  and  the  general  reader  might  find  the  material  they 
desire,  and,  if  necessary,  advice  and  guidance  in  the  use  of 
this  material.  The  scheme  must,  therefore,  cover  two  im- 
portant divisions  of  each  social  question :  the  theory,  as 
developed  by  the  leading  American  and  European  writers  ; 
and  the  application,  as  recorded  in  the  investigations  of 
government  bureaus,  corporations,  associated  charities  or 
individuals.  If  the  entire  range  of  sociology  as  now  under- 
stood is  to  be  adequately  treated,  the  department  must  have 
collections  on  political  economy  in  its  widest  sense,  on  political 
science  both  in  theory  and  in  history,  and  on  statistics,  which 
records  and  generalizes  both  economics  and  history. 

The  Public  Library  possesses  large  and  valuable  collections 
on  economics  and  history,  and  an  intelligent  appreciation  of 
this  description  of  writings  is  clearly  evidenced  in  the  selec- 
tion. Indeed,  it  is  in  some  respects  one  of  the  best  collections 
of  its  kind  in  this  country,  and  it  would  be  difficult  to  dupli- 
cate it  within  any  reasonable  time.  This  great  and  solid 
foundation  is  now  being  rapidly  added  to  by  the  purchase  of 
current  works,  and  by  securing  such  as  are  out  of  print  with 
every  opportunity  offered. 

As  to  the  third  division,  statistics,  which  includes  all  forms 
of  state  activity,  the  principal  subjects  to  be  covered  are  : 

Vital  statistics. 

Commercial  statistics,  which  comprises  the  means  or  agen- 
cies of  transportation". 

Labor  statistics,  which  cannot  overlook  the  statistics  of 
production,  Avhether  agricultural  or  industrial. 

Financial  statistics,  and  all  questions  of  banking,  currency 
and  taxation. 

State  and  private  penal  and  charitable  institutions. 

It  will  be  necessary  to  provide  the  material  for  a  proper 
understanding  of  these  subjects  both  in  general  and  in  detail. 
For  the  general,  reference  may  be  made  to  the  condensed 
statements  of  economy  issued  by  each  of  the  leading  countries 
in  the  form  of  handbooks  or  abstracts.  I  have  received,  in 
some  cases,  full  sets  of  the  statistical  abstracts  of  the  following 
countries  :  United  States,  United  Kingdom,  France,  Germany, 
Italy,  Belgium,  Sweden,  Finland,  Switzerland,  Netherlands, 
Japan  and  India.     And  even  where  a  country  is  not  named 


66  City  Document  No.  21. 

in  this  list  the  most  essential  statistics  as  to  commerce,  pop- 
ulation, railroads,  telegraphs  and  finance,  may  be  learned  from 
some  of  the  abstracts,  like  that  for  "  foreign  countries," 
issued  by  the  British  government. 

These  abstracts  are,  however,  too  condensed  to  serve  the 
purposes  of  the  special  student,  and  a  vast  and  ever  increas- 
ing number  of  official  reports  must  be  obtained  for  his  needs. 
In  the  number  and  scope  of  these  reports  no  two  countries 
agree.  It  is  safe  to  say  tliat  every  leading  bureau  in  a  gov- 
ernmental department  prepares  and  prmts  an  annual  report, 
which  is  supplemented  by  special  reports,  and  by  the  labors 
of  legislative  commissions.  It  is  often  not  enough  to  have 
the  report  alone ;  tlie  debates  of  the  House  to  which  it  is 
submitted  are  useful  or  essential.  In  fact,  there  is  hardly 
any  limit  to  the  issues  of  this  description,  and  only  unremit- 
ting vigilance  will  enable  the  Library  to  keep  abreast  with 
them  in  a  manner  that  will  satisfy  the  demands  of  its  readers. 

In  planning  to  fulfil  the  high  purposes  you  designed  for 
this  department  I  have  laid  down  certain  broad  lines  of 
action  that  may  be  briefly  summarized  : 

1.  All  census  returns,  whether  of  the  United  States  or 
of  Asiatic  countries,  have  been  sought.  Vital  statistics  have 
been  more  fully  developed  than  any  other  branch  of  statis- 
tical science,  and  are  more  frequently  called  for. 

2.  In  commerce  the  detailed  annual  returns  of  the  four 
leading  commercial  and  industrial  nations  of  the  world  — 
the  United  States,  the  United  Kingdom,  France  and  Ger- 
many —  hold  the  first  place  in  importance.  Almost  as  nec- 
essary are  those  of  Russia,  Japan,  China  and  British  India  — 
covering  the  development  of  Asiatic  trade,  now  so  prominent 
among  the  world's  problems.  Canada  and  South  America 
are  of  great  interest  commercially  to  the  United  States,  and 
the  trade  of  colonies  and  dependencies  must  prove  suggestive 
in  studying  the  future  policy  and  growth  in  foreign  trade  of 
the  United  States.  Even  Africa,  with  its  failures  and  suc- 
cesses in  colonization,  and  its  internal  relations  affecting  the 
attitude  of  competing  powers  to  one  another,  carries  lessons 
that  cannot  be  neglected.  I  have  attempted  to  secure  com- 
plete conuuercial  returns  of  the  principal  nations,  and  am 
meeting  with  success. 

This  particular  branch  will  attract,  and  is  attracting  the 
attention  of  commercial  and  manufacturing  bodies  in  this 
region.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  full  replies  cannot  be  given 
to  every  question,  but  this  regret  will  become  less  as  the  col 
lection  of  commercial  statistics  increases.  Much  assistance 
towards  completing  the  wants   of  the  department   could  be 


LiBEARY  Department.  67 

given  by  commercial  bodies,  were  tliej'  to  turn  over  to  tbe 
Library  any  works  on  connnerce  received  and  not  immedi- 
ately needed  by  tbeir  own  members.  Tlie  process  of  collect- 
ing and  completing  this  will  necessarily  be  a  slow  one  ;  but 
the  commercial  interests  of  tlie  port  are  of  such  importance 
that  no  effort  should  be  spared  to  keep  the  records  of  the 
world's  commerce  to  date  and  as  full  as  circumstances  will 
permit. 

3.  The  problems  of  labor  have  many  phases,  no  one  of 
whicli  should  be  passed  over  lightly.  I  have  recently  segre- 
gated the  reports  of  the  State  Bureaus  of  labor  statistics,  and 
of  a  total  issue  of  more  than  300  reports,  this  department 
possesses  all  but  about  thirty  ;  and  even  these  wants  are 
being  made  good  by  way  of  gift  and  exchanges.  In  foreign 
countries  labor  is  represented  in  nearly  all  administrations, 
and  the  reports  of  labor  departments  or  bureaus  in  Great 
Britain,  France,  Germany,  Ital}^  and  Austria  are  received  in 
this  Library.  This  promises  to  constitute  one  of  the  most 
valuable  divisions  of  this  department,  because  of  the  many 
questions  of  daily  life  or  state  relations  discussed  in  these 
reports. 

To  cover  only  the  state  reports  on  labor  would  be  to  pass 
over  one  of  the  most  vital  aspects  of  the  labor  problem,  that 
which  is  usually  described  as  socialism,  but  which  takes  so 
many  forms  that  no  one  term  will  cover  them.  I  am  making 
a  specialty  of  the  proceedings  of  labor  congresses,  of  socialist 
periodicals,  and  even  of  anarchist  issues,  believing  that  the 
statement  of  grievances  and  formulation  of  reforms  by  the 
workingmen  themselves  will  be  of  future  value  in  history 
and  in  economics. 

4.  The  next  subject  is  that  of  finance,  and  its  importance 
cannot  be  exaggerated.  At  a  time  when  all  governments  are 
facing  deficient  revenues  and  rapidly  increasing  demands  on 
their  treasuries,  the  discussion  of  taxation  has  come  to  the 
front  and  is  exercising  national  as  well  as  local  taxing 
powers.  The  budgets  of  each  great  nation,  and  the  legisla- 
tive reports  and  debates  on  the  budget  propositions  ;  the  great 
financial  institutions,  state  and  private,  and  the  movements 
in  the  leading  money  markets  of  the  world  find  a  place  in 
this  department  for  future  reference.  No  questioner  has  been 
turned  away  unsatisfied  in  this  line  of  inquiry,  and  yet  much 
remains  to  be  done  towards  obtaining  the  material  that  is 
pertinent  and  timely. 

It  will  not  be  necessary  to  dwell  upon  the  value  of  state 
and  local  reports  on  charities  and  correction.  They  record 
the  results  of  an  exercise  of  functions  on  the  performance 


68  City  Document  No.  21. 

of  which  the  very  existence  of  the  state  depends.  Too 
close  attention  cannot  be  given  to  this  diseased  aspect  of 
society,  and  I  have  sought  for  the  best  products  of  treatment 
of  socials  ills  at  home  and  abroad. 

In  pursuing  these  objects  correspondence  has  been  opened 
with  experts  and  societies  in  the  United  States  and  in  foreign 
countries,  with  a  view  to  securing  early  notice  of  what  is 
published  on  the  various  matters  falling  within  this  depart- 
ment. The  response  has  been  gratifying,  and  is  proving  its 
utility  daily.  These  connections  have  been  facilitated  by  the 
deposit  in  the  Public  Library  of  the  collections  of  the  Ameri- 
can Statistical  Association. 

The  transfer  of  these  collections  was  not  completed  until 
January  of  this  year ;  but  the  books  and  pamphlets,  number- 
ing about  5,000,  have  been  arranged,  listed,  and  will  be  incor- 
porated into  the  Library  as  rapidly  as  time  will  permit. 
While  there  will  be  some  duplication,  yet  the  two  collections 
complement  one  another  in  a  very  satisfactory  manner.  The 
Public  Library  was  strong  on  economic  writings  of  a  general 
character,  but  weak  in  the  results  of  economics  applied  in  the 
administration  of  government ;  the  Statistical  Association 
was  strong  on  this  practical  side,  but  almost  wanting  in  theo- 
retical works.  Its  most  remarkable  feature  was  the  series  of 
issues  of  foreign  governments,  long  since  out  of  print  and 
difficult  to  obtain.  As  an  example  of  the  disinterested  zeal 
of  one  man  —  Dr.  Edward  Jarvis  —  the  collection  is  notable  ; 
as  a  foundation  on  which  to  build  for  the  future,  it  is  a  valu- 
al)le  accession  to  the  Public  Librar}-. 

Exchanges  of  duplicate  material  are  now  being  made,  and 
the  Statistical  Collection  has  been  able  thus  to  complete 
many  of  its  deficiencies. 

In  recognition  of  this  widening  interest  in  public  ques- 
tions, and  more  especially  in  the  foreign  relations  of  the 
United  States,  the  advantage  of  prompt  service  has  been  rec- 
ognized. The  best  results  will  be  attained  by  rather  antici- 
pating than  following  public  inquiry.  With  this  in  view 
arrangements  have  been  perfected  by  which  the  important 
state  papers  of  the  leading  governments  of  Europe  are  sent  to 
the  Library  as  soon  as  published,  thus  saving  six  weeks  or 
more  in  the  transmitting,  by  obviating  the  delay  of  formal 
orders  from  this  side.  German,  French,  Belgian  and  English 
bills,  reports  and  debates  have  been  brought  under  this  sys- 
tem, which  will  be  extended  to  other  countries  having  direct 
or  indirect  relations  with  the  policy,  foreign  intercourse  or 
commerce  of  the  United  States.  With  the  short  trial  already 
made  of  this  system    the   results  have  justified   the  course 


Library  Department.  69 

taken,  and  must  be  better  appreciated  as  the  facilities  offered 
to  the  public  become  better  known.  I  may  mention  that  the  Li- 
brary, through  this  means,  received  early  copies  of  the  Treaty 
(Spanish)  papers,  the  British  Blue  Book  and  the  French 
Yellow  Book  on  the  Fashoda  incident,  and  the  special  Par- 
liamentary reports  on  water  gas,  petroleum  and  local  taxa- 
tion, all  of  which  were  called  for  soon  after  receipt.  And 
that  the  system  must  prove  of  advantage  as  the  public  be- 
comes more  familiar  with  the  facilities  offered  is  sliown  by 
the  fact  of  inquiries  being  made  for  documents  of  foreign 
governments,  a  knowledge  of  which  was  gained  through  cable 
press  notices.  It  was  extremely  gratifying  to  be  able  to 
promise  the  document  "  in  a  few  days,"  a  promise  that  was 
fulfilled  through  the  careful  attention  of  the  foreign  agents 
of  the  Library,  acting  under  the  general  arrangement  already 
described. 

In  the  same  line  is  the  method  adopted  of  giving  notice  to 
the  public  of  the  receipt  of  important  or  timely  documents. 
I  have  been  enabled  to  publish  notices  in  the  Library  bulletin 
within  ten  days  after  the  document  listed  has  reached  the 
Library,  without  interfering  with  the  regular  process  of  the 
catalogue  department.  I  believe  that  so  prompt  notice  can- 
not but  be  useful  to  the  public. 

This  brings  me  to  the  relations  such  a  department  must 
bear  to  the  general  public.  It  is  not  to  be  denied  that  there 
has  in  late  years  been  an  increasing  attention  paid  to  eco- 
nomic and  political  studies.  This  attention  has  been  made 
necessary  by  the  ever  mcreasing  complexity  of  our  social 
relations,  as  well  among  ourselves  as  with  other  peoples. 
The  universities  and  high  schools  have  special  departments 
for  teaching  these  questions,  and  the  need  of  a  sjDecial  >de- 
partment  in  this  Library,  to  contain  the  works  necessary  for 
applying,  encouraging  and  continuing  these  studies,  has  been 
impressed  upon  the  Trustees  and  Librarian.  I  need  hardly 
enumerate  the  subjects  lately  coming  before  this  city  gov- 
ernment for  some  settlement :  the  expenditures  and  revenues; 
the  relations  to  the  city  of  corporations  using  the  streets ; 
questions  of  public  health  and  safety ;  and  the  proper  statis- 
tical records  of  municipal  activity.  In  the  State,  the  problem 
of  taxation  is  ever  present,  with  its  perplexing  difficulties  of 
assessments  and  valuation  of  real  and  personal  property; 
while  the  many  corporate  and  state  institutions  under  its 
control,  call  for  an  intelligent  regulation  as  well  as  a  high 
degree  of  practical  ability.  In  national  affairs  there  are  also 
matters  of  finance  of  extreme  importance,  and  the  increasing 
demands  of  government  for  power  to  enter  upon  new  areas 


70  City  Document  No.  21. 

of  state  action  call  for  the  highest  exercise  of  the  intelligence 
and  practical  faculties.  To  undertake  to  deal  with  such 
problems  in  ignorance  is  to  invite  disaster ;  and  it  is  only  the 
highest  ability  that  can  hope  to  master  their  intricacies  and 
point  out  the  proper  solution. 

To  another  rising  study  this  department  must  give  support 
and  direction  —  I  refer  to  the  study  of  commercial  geography. 
The  mere  boundaries  of  a  country,  the  names  of  its  capital 
and  leading  cities,  rivers  and  mountains,  convey  no  real 
meaning  to  the  child's  mind,  and  much  less  can  they  satisfy 
the  more  matured  student.  The  climate  and  productions  of 
the  region,  the  mineral  wealth  and  the  products  for  home 
consumption  or  foreign  trade,  the  manufacturing  industries 
and  the  great  commercial  roads  leading  to  or  through  it,  the 
general  habits  of  the  people  in  food  and  clothing,  and  the 
form  and  supply  of  labor  available  —  these,  are  a  few  of  the 
leading  topics  that  present  themselves  in  an  attempt  to  gain 
even  a  superficial  conce])tion  of  what  a  country  or  a  region 
implies.  The  prevailing  feverish  eagerness  to  penetrate  into 
new  and  undescribed  regions  enforces  such  a  study,  and  in 
the  intense  competition  for  colonial  dependencies  or  protec- 
torates, it  will  be  the  people  having  the  most  intelligent  mas- 
tery of  needs  and  resources  that  will  win  the  highest  rewards. 
In  Africa,  in  Asia,  and  in  South  America,  commerce  is  being 
pushed  as  never  bek)re,  and  vast  territories,  thought  a  short 
time  since  to  be  doomed  by  climate  and  unattractiveness  to 
lie  waste  for  many  generations,  are  being  subdued  by  labor, 
made  accessible  by  railroads,  and  subjected  to  organized  ad- 
ministrations designed  to  develop  their  possibilities  m  sur- 
face culture  or  in  mineral  wealth. 

A  special  feature  of  the  department  will  be  the  large 
number  of  collections  designed  to  give  what  is  known  of 
these  undeveloped  regions  of  the  earth,  and  what  is  being 
done  to  make  them  better  known.  The  proceedings  of  geo- 
graphical societies  are  valuable  for  general  descriptions  ;  the 
accounts  of  travellers  add  to  these  more  special  information. 
The  most  valuable  sources  are,  however,  the  reports  of  the 
consular  service  throughout  the  world,  for  they  are  governed 
by  certain  features  tliatmake  them  highly  instructive.  They 
are,  as  a  rule,  prepared  by  men  trained  in  commerce ;  they 
are  designed  to  picture  the  actual  movements  of  trade,  and 
compiled  from  year  to  year  offer  a  consecutive  record  of  the 
transactions  at  each  port  where  a  consular  officer  may  be 
stationed ;  they  reflect  the  spirit  of  the  commercial  "  drmn- 
mer,"  who  seeks  to  study  the  wants  of  the  market,  and 
examines  them  in  the  light  of  the  liome  industries  and  their 


Library  Department.  71 

ability  to  supply  what  is  wanted,  in  competition  with  rivals 
for  the  trade.  A  consular  report  is  thus  a  record  of  the 
actual,  and  a  suggestion  for  the  possible,  and  usually  cast  in 
such  a  form  as  to  illuminate  the  habits,  aptitudes  and  neces- 
sities of  the  people  at  or  near  the  port  of  commerce.  I  have 
therefore  sought  to  obtain,  and  promptly,  what  is  being  re- 
ported by  the  consular  services  of  the  respective  countries, 
and  there  are  on  file  the  following :  American,  German, 
British,  French,  Austrian  and  Italian. 

To  accomplish  the  best  objects  certain  modifications  must 
.be  introduced  in  the  library  arrangements.  The  classifica- 
tion adopted  for  the  collections  of  this  department  is  on  the 
decimal  plan  (Dewey's  system),  modified  by  such  changes  as 
the  special  nature  of  the  books  suggests.  After  much  con- 
sideration this  was  deemed  the  best  course  to  pursue,  and  its 
elasticity  commends  itself  in  use.  In  a  general  collection, 
where  the  reader  knows  what  is  wanted,  the  fixed  position  of 
the  shelf,  without  regard  or  with  little  regard  to  subject 
matter,  may  have  its  advantages.  But  in  a  special  collection, 
where  the  questions  are  often  vague  and  usually  general,  the 
classification  by  subject  becomes  almost  a  necessity.  The 
end  to  be  attained  is  the  grouping  of  the  records  of  one  line 
of  governmental  experience,  which  may  be  found  promptly, 
consulted  easily,  and  offer  facilities  for  comparing  results  of 
different  peoples  and  countries.  So  far  as  it  has  been  tested, 
the  system  has  proved  satisfactory. 

While  such  classification  will  be  of  great  assistance  to 
both  reader  and  department,  special  lists  will  still  further 
make  the  material  known  and  available.  Much  of  the  best 
statistical  work  is  published  in  government  reports,  or  peri- 
odicals, and  is  easily  overlooked  in  a  general  survey.  Some 
accessible  record  is  needed  to  refresh  the  memory  or  direct 
the  attention  of  the  investigator.  I  have  undertaken  to  pre- 
pare a  catalogue  of  the  English  Parliamentary  Papers  for 
recent  years,  and  have  in  process  a  catalogue  of  the  United 
States  Congressional  publications.  I  hope  to  carry  the  idea 
further  into  practice  by  noting  any  important  article  on  a 
social  topic  in  the  leading  reviews  and  financial  journals,  so 
that  the  inquirer  may  be  provided  with  the  latest  and  selected 
utterances  or  records  by  experts  upon  his  specialty.  With- 
out undertakmg  to  create  original  research,  or  to  influence 
judgment,  every  effort  will  be  made  to  encourage  study. 
The  highest  function  of  the  department  must  be  to  have 
ready  at  hand  the  material  foi-  all  who  may  apply.  I  may 
add  that  the  number  of  the  inquirers  is  daily  increasing,  and 
their  questions  cover  a  wide  range. 


72  City  Document  No.  21. 

I  cannot  close  without  expressing  my  appreciation  of  the 
readiness  you  have  shown  to  make  this  department  useful^ 
and  of  your  courteous  and  hearty  encouragement.  Praise  is 
also  due  to  my  assistant,  Mr.  Lane,  for  his  untiring  zeal  and 
his  organizing  abilities,  both  of  which  were  needed  in  intro- 
ducing order  and  arrangement  in  the  collection  of  the  Statis- 
tical Association.  I  have  been  much  gratified  by  the  willing 
co-operation  of  other  departments  of  the  Library,  even  when 
my  plans  traversed  their  methods. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

WOETHINGTON    C.    FORD. 


(E.) 

EXTRACT    FROM   THE    REPORT    OF   THE  CHILDREN'S 
DEPARTMENT. 


Co-operation  with  the  Schools.  . 

[Libbarian's  Note.  —  While  this  work  is  in  the  experimental  stag© 
seems  the  proper  time  to  point  out  certain  difficulties  that  have  devel- 
oped in  its  operation.  They  are,  perhaps,  due  to  misunderstanding  or 
but  partial  understanding.  But  as  they  are  not  insurmountable,  an 
endeavor  must  be  made  to  surmount  them ;  and  this  must  begin  with  a 
clear  appreciation  of  their  nature. 

At  my  request,  therefore,  the  following  report  contents  itself  with 
a  statement  of  the  system  instituted,  omits  expatiation  upon  success- 
ful results,  and  considers  more  especially  some  of  the  difficulties 
experienced. 

For  a  further  description  of  existing  work  with  the  schools  see  the 
Report  of  the  Supervisor  of  Branches,  hifra.] 

In  May,  1895,  an  order  was  passed  by  the  School  Com- 
mittee directing  the  Board  of  Supervisors  to  consider  plans» 
"  A  conference  was  held  on  the  14th  of  June  of  that  year, 
between  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  and  the  Board 
of  Supervisors.  The  Librarian,  Mr.  Putnam,  and  the  Super- 
intendent of  Schools,  Mr.  Seaver,  were  appointed  a  commit- 
tee to  draw  up  a  report  to  be  submitted  on  the  one  hand  to 
the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library,  and  on  the  other  hand  to 
the  Board  of  Supervisors  of  the  Public  Schools."  This 
report  is  to  be  found  in  School  Document  No.  14,  1895.  For 
the  carrying  out  of  the  plans  therein  contained  a  special 
appropriation  would  be  necessary,  and  thus  far  no  such  ap- 
propriation has  been  available.  Certain  recommendations 
have  been  adopted,  however,  by  the  Library,  and  are  included 
in  the  following  brief  account  of  the  accommodations  offered 
at  the  present  time  to  teachers  and  pupils : 


Library  Department.  73 

Teacher's  cards,  so-called,  have  been  provided,  allowing  the 
issue  o    six  books  for  a  period  of  four  weeks. 

School  children  under  twelve  (the  age  limit  below  which 
a  regular  card  is  not  issued)  are  allowed  privileges. 

Four  public  schools  as  well  as  the  Parental  School,  the 
Cottage  Place  and  North  Bennet  Street  Industrial  Schools, 
have  books  on  deposit.  The  Hancock  School  has  a  regular 
semi-weekly  exchange  of  about  100  books. 

Books  for  topical  reference  are  from  time  to  time  reserved 
in  the  branch  libraries,  either  selected  from  the  branch  col- 
lections or  sent  from  the  Central  Library.  This  is  done 
either  on  requisition  from  the  teachers  or  at  the  initiative  of 
the  branch  custodians. 

A  list  of  books  for  younger  readers,  including  1,116  titles, 
has  beeir  prepared,  representing  books  for  general  reading 
which  may  be  found  on  the  same  shelf  number  in  the  Central 
Library  and  all  the  branches.  This  was  sent  at  the  time  of 
publication  to  the  head  masters  of  all  the  public  schools, 
and  is  on  sale  at  the  nominal  price  of  one  cent  per  copy. 

In  the  Fine  Arts  Department  much  has  been  done  in  the 
way  of  circulating  among  the  schools  portfolios  of  photo- 
graphs, etc.,  and  arranging  for  meetings,  in  the  department, 
of  classes  in  architecture,  painting,  ornamentation,  and 
drawing. 

In  other  departments  similar  offers  to  reserve  topical 
material  have  been  made.  On  January  11,  1897,  a  circular 
was  addressed  by  the  Librarian  to  the  teachers  of  the  public 
schools,  in  which  he  urges  them  to  possess  and  read  the  above 
School  Document  No.  14,  1895,  and  requests  particularly 
that  they  will  "  inform  the  Library  systematically  of  topics 
to  be  studied,  that  they  will  request  books  to  be  set  aside 
touching  such  topics,  that  they  will  agree  that  while  such 
topics  are  pending  such  books  shall  be  reserved  instead  of 
being  issued  for  home  use."  The  Custodian  of  the  Fine 
Arts  Department  tells  me  that  he  does  receive  occasional 
requests  in  accordance  with  this  circular.  None  such  has 
been  received  in  the  Children's  Room. 

Attention  may  also  be  called  to  the  Avant  of  understanding 
among  teachers  of  the  necessary  limitations  in  the  use  of 
teachers'  cards.  With  the  circular  above  mentioned  was 
sent  a  short  letter  describing  this  use,  at  the  close  of  which 
it  is  expressly  stated  that  teachers'  cards  are  not  to  be  used  to 
draw  several  copies  of  the  same  book ;  yet  applications  are 
frequently  made  for  two,  three,  and  even  more  copies  of  a 
given  book,  which  if  granted  would  deprive  the  Library  of 
all  its  copies  for  other  use.     These  cards  are  also  frequently 


74  City  Document  No.  21. 

presented  for  current  fiction  and  otlier  classes  of  boolcs,  in  a 
way  to  indicate  an  intention  to  make  a  purely  personal  use 
of  them. 

It  may  be  asked  now  what  action  the  schools  have  taken 
in  response  to  the  report  of  1895.  On  page  7  of  the  report 
is  the  suggestion  that  the  teacher  shall  "•  submit  to  the 
Librarian  a  provisional  schedule  of  the  topics  to  be  assigned 
throughout  the  ensuing  year,  or  such  part  of  it  as  can  be 
planned  for  at  that  time."  Such  a  suggestion  (like  the  one 
below)  is  of  course  provisional,  and  perhaps  we  should  not 
have  expected  any  very  general  action  in  response  to  it ;  yet 
so  far  as  I  am  aware,  no  single  schedule  of  topics  has  been 
submitted. 

Agam,  after  calling  attention  to  the  desirability  of  placing 
collections  of  books  on  temporary  deposit  in  the  schools 
themselves,  the  report  continues :  "  Were  each  topic  studied 
contemporaneously  in  all  the  schools  such  a  deposit  would 
be  impossible  without  a  multiplication  of  copies  of  the  books 
needed  beyond  what  could  reasonably  be  afforded,  but  as  great 
latitude  is  allowed  to  the  various  schools  as  to  the  order  in 
which  assigned  courses  shall  be  pursued,  it  should  be  possible 
for  the  masters  of  the  schools  so  to  vary  the  order  in  which 
topics  are  taken  up,  that  but  a  small  number  of  classes  shall 
at  any  one  time  be  engaged  upon  any  one  topic."  But, 
putting  aside  the  question  whether  such  collections  should 
be  reserved  in  the  schools  themselves  or  in  tlie  Library,  if 
personal  observation  may  be  trusted  topics  are  commonly 
appointed  to  be  investigated  at  the  same  time  in  all  the 
schools,  without  regard  to  the  possibility  of  providing  books. 

This  is  observed  where  the  topic  concerns  an  anniversary 
such  as  Washington's  birthday.  Patriots'  day,  or  the  anniver- 
sary of  the  visit  of  Lafayette  to  Boston.  There  is  one  difficulty 
to  be  avoided,  however,  even  here.  We  cannot  render  proper 
assistance  if  the  request  comes,  as  has  happened,  only  the  day 
before  a  theme  is  due.  Last  fall,  at  the  time  of  the  anniver- 
sary of  Lafayette's  visit,  the  call  came  on  Tuesday  for  material 
on  Lafayette  for  a  theme  due  on  the  following  day.  The 
topic,  I  was  told,  had  been  assigned  only  the  day  previous. 
A  second  difftculty  lies  in  the  fact  that  topics  are  assigned 
which  are  beyond  the  comprehension  of  the  pupils,  which  are 
abstract,  and  cannot  be  made  matter  of  precise  reference.  In 
October,  four  children  came  to  me  who  had  been  told  to  find 
all  they  could  about  "  Grasses  "  in  the  encyclopaedias,  a  sub- 
ject one  of  the  most  difficult  in  botany,  concerning  which  all 
the  books  are  extremely  technical.  "  The  tariff,"  "  Capital 
punishment,"  '■'  The  woman  question,"  are  some  of  the  topics 


Library  Department.  75 

which  have  been  assigned  for  compositions  or  debates,  topics 
so  comprehensive  that  the  pupil  is  wholly  at  sea  and  bewil- 
dered in  his  attempt  to  treat  them. 

Furthermore,  although  the  report  directed  attention  to  the 
value  of  the  habit  among  pupils  of  coming  with  some  regu- 
larity to  the  Library,  and  urged  the  teachers  to  accompany 
them  on  the  first  visit  and  especially  to  help  them  become 
familiar  with  the  use  of  tlie  collection  of  reference  Ijoolcs  in 
Bates  Hall,  I  have  been  disappointed  at  the  small  number 
both  of  pupils  and  teachers  who  have  been  actively  interested. 

In  the  spring  of  1898  I  visited  eight  grammar  schools,  some 
of  them  several  times.  I  talked  with  the  teachers,  made  notes 
of  books  desired,  and  examined  those  provided  for  the  schools. 
In  accordance  with  recommendations  then  made  a  second 
circular  was  addressed  to  the  teachers  of  the  Latin,  High,  and 
grammar  schools.  I  quote  from  the  circular:  "■  The  facilities 
at  the  Central  Librar}'  will  be  increased  and  improved.  More 
space  for  the  use  of  pupils  and  teachers  is  to  be  provided. 
The  Kindergarten  Library  for  the  use  of  teachers  is  to  be 
enlarged.  A  special  reference  library  for  the  use  of  pupils  is 
to  be  placed  in  the  Children's  Room,  and  so  far  as  possible  a 
greater  number  of  books  needed  by  the  pupils  for  reference, 
collateral  and  supplementary  reading  is  to  be  supplied. 

''What  the  books  shall  be  should  depend  largel}^  upon 
recommendation  of  the  teachers  themselves. 

"  The  Library  invites  each  teacher  to  send  in  a  list  of  the 
books  that  will  be  of  service  to  teacher  and  pupil  in  connec- 
tion with  the  Avork  of  the  coming  school  year.  ...  It 
may  be  practicable  to  prepare  for  the  coming  year  a  graded 
list  of  books  for  collateral  and  supplementary  reading.  Such 
a  list  for  younger  readers,  as  well  as  a  list  classified  by  sub- 
jects, is  in  contemplation. 

'"  In  addition  to  the  lists  themselves  teachers  are  invited  to 
communicate  in  writing  or  otherwise,  suggestions  with 
reference  to  the  conduct  of  this  work  either  as  to  books  or 
as  to  service. 

"  Teachers  need  not  abstain  from  these  lists  or  from  these 
suggestions  simply  because  the  school  in  which  they  teach  is 
remote  from  the  Central  Library.  What  will  be  done  at  the 
Central  Librar}^  may  furnish  a  useful  example  of  what  may 
be  attempted  later  with  the  Branches  or  perhaps  through  the 
schools  themselves." 

One  thousand  one  hundred  and  fifty  copies  of  this  circular 
were  sent  to  the  Superintendent  of  Schools  for  distribution 
to  all  the  teachers  in  the  Latin,  High  and  grammar  schools. 
Replies  were  received  from  ten  of  the  some  one  hundred  and 


76  City  Document  No.  21. 

eighty  teachers  in  the  Latin  and  High  schools,  from  sixteen  of  ■ 
the  some  eight  hundred  and  ninety  in  the  grammar  schools,, 
in  all  twenty-six  replies. 

The  lists  were  examined  and  compared  with  lists  of  text- 
books and  of  books  for  supplementary  reading  furnished 
the  schools,  to  see  what  books  might  properly  be  supplied  by 
the  School  Committee,  and  what  came  within  the  province 
of  the  Library  to  supply.  The  lists  were  then  compared  with 
the  Library  catalogue  to  see  how  far  the  requests  were  made 
with  a  knowledge  of  the  already  existing  resources  of  the 
Library. 

In  many  instances  the  lists  showed  ignorance  of  the  Li- 
brary, in  otliers  a  determined  effort  to  multiply  copies  of  a 
useful  book.  Long  lists  were  made  up  almost  entirely  of 
books  standing  on  the  list  for  younger  readers,  and  already 
hberally  supplied  by  the  Librar3^ 

As  a  result,  between  forty  and  fifty  titles  were  sent  to  the 
Librarian  and  approved  by  him.  From  two  to  six  copies  of 
each  book  were  bought,  some  for  circulation,  some  for  the 
new  children's  reference  library.  While  certain  of  these 
titles  were  suggested  by  the  teachers,  many  were  the  result 
of  my  personal  observation ;  and  to  these  as  a  basis,  the 
Librarian  has  added  some  200  more  titles  to  form  a  children's 
reference  library  in  the  second  Children's  Room  about  to  be 
opened. 

To-day  the  department,  with  increased  space,  a  new  refer- 
ence library,  and  with  the  experience  thus  far  gained,  is  in  a 
better  position  to  assist  teachers  and  pupils  than  ever  before. 
A  more  active  co-operation  is  all  that  is  asked  for.  Many  of 
the  obstacles  to  effective  work  would  be  removed  were  a 
special  appropriation  available.  But  much  may  be  accom- 
plished with  the  present  funds  if  four  things  are  observed,  two 
by  the  School  Committee  and  Supervisors,  and  two  by  the 
teachers : 

I.  The  School  Committee  to  furnish  a  more  adequate 
supply  of  the  best  text-books  on  the  various  subjects,  so  that 
teachers  need  not  apply  to  the  Library  for  material  properly 
to  be  supplied  by  the  city  to  the  schools  themselves. 

II.  The  Supervisors  not  to  appoint  a  special  topic  for 
the  majority  of  schools  at  the  same  time. 

III.  Teachers  to  take  advantage  more  generally  of  the 
Library's  ability  and  willingness  to  meet  requests  for  re- 
served material,  and  to  locate  it  temporarily  in  the  branch 
libraries ;  a  notice  to  be  given  of  such  special  requests  far 
enough  in  advance  to  enable  the  Library  to  meet  them  con- 
veniently. 


LiBEAiiY  Department.  77 

IV.     Teachers  to  inform  themselves  and  their  pupils  more 
fully  as  to  Library  resources  and  Library  methods.^ 
Respectfully  submitted, 

Gertrude  P.  Sheffield. 


(F.) 

EXTRACT    FROM     THE     REPORT     OF     THE     BRANCH 
DEPARTMENT. 

Service   op  the   Branches  and   Stations   From  The 
Central  Library. 

The  Daily  Issue.  —  The  delivery  of  books  from  the  Cen- 
tral Library  on  cards  and  slips  to  the  branches  and  stations 
has  amounted  for  the  year  to  86,541  volumes,  an  increase 
of  30,007  volumes,  or  fifty-three  per  cent.,  over  the  number 
for  the  year  ending  January  81,  1898.  The  percentage  of 
unsuccessful  applications  has  fallen  during  the  year  from 
forty-nine  per  cent,  to  forty-one  per  cent. 

Active  extension  of  the  work  of  the  daily  issue  is  limited 
by  the  capacity  of  the  Branch  Division  at  the  Central  Library 
a.nd  of  the  library  wagons  to  care  for  it.  The  work  in  the 
Branch  Division  is  concentrated  in  point  of  time.  Few 
people  leave  slips  or  call  for  books  at  the  branches  and  sta- 
tions before  1  P.M.  The  mail  has  lately  been  used  to 
equalize  this  pressure  at  the  Central  Library.  In  addition  to 
this  difficulty  of  concentration  of  work,  the  public  suffers 
from  not  getting  its  books  on  the  same  clay  they  are  applied 
for,  since  the  slips  left  in  the  afternoon  and  evening  cannot  be 
filled  by  us  till  the  next  morning.  The  only  remedy  for  the 
evil  seems  to  be  a  second  daily  delivery  at  many  of  the 
branches  and  stations,  and  this  would  partially  solve  both 
problems.  It  would  require,  however,  the  employment  of  a 
messenger  and  of  another  wagon  during  part  of  the  day, 
together  with  extra  service  in  the  Branch  Division.  I  have 
already  submitted  to  you  a  report  on  this  subject. 

Deposit  Work.  —  There  are  now  f  ortj^-eight  places  to  which 
deposits  are  sent  as  against  forty-two  at  the  close  of  last 
year.  The  number  of  volumes  sent  out  this  year  was 
18,378;  last  year,  12,519.  The  increase  is  forty-seven  per 
cent. 

On  January  31,  1898,  there  were  5,041  volumes  in  the 
deposit  collection,  QQ  per  cent,  of  them  fiction.     There  have 


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been  added  during  the  year  2,947  volumes.  Since  seventy 
volumes  have  been  condemned,  withdrawn  or  transferred  to 
the  Central  collection,  the  present  total  is  7,918  volumes,  of 
which  sixty-three  per  cent,  are  fiction  and  juveniles. 

The  deposit  collection  is  a  very  effective  part  of  the  Library 
equipment.  The  books  are  shifted  constantly  from  one  to 
another  of  tlie  forty-eight  places  of  deposit,  and  from  less 
than  8,000  volumes,  there  is  a  circulation  of  more  than 
150,000  per  annum.  The  collection,  however,  should  be 
larger.  As  a  rule  not  more  than  twelve  per  cent,  of  the 
books  are  upon  the  Central  Library  shelves  at  one  time,  and 
many  of  these  are  unavailable  because  of  havmg  been  the 
round  of  the  stations.  Precisely  at  this  stage  in  the  life  ot 
the  collection  many  volumes  are  falling  for  the  first  time  into 
this  class  of  "dead  books,"  not  to  be  sent  to  any  station  again 
till  two  years  from  their  return  from  it.  Fourteen  stations 
out  of  eighteen  now  change  fifty  instead  of  twenty-five  vol- 
umes per  month,  and  this  exhausts  our  resources  more  rapidly. 
It  is,  of  course,  not  advisable  to  transfer  books  in  block 
from  one  station  to  another,  for  the  stations  differ  in  their 
needs.  To  give  scope  for  judicious  selection  in  making  up 
the  deposits,  and  to  enlarge  present  deposits,  several  thousand 
volumes  more  seem  needed. 

With  regard  to  the  quality  of  the  books  of  the  collection, 
the  additions  recommended  are  chiefly  such  as  pass  the  test 
of  permanent  value  or  enduring  interest.  There  is  a  propor- 
tion of  books  without  much  literary  merit,  which  are  useful 
as  stepping-stones  to  better  reading.  If  the  collection  fails  at 
all  it  is  most  likely  to  be  in  attractiveness  to  the  ordinary 
reader,  and  with  this  in  mind  there  has  been  a  systematic 
endeavor  to  avoid  respectable  dulness.  The  collection 
receives  general  approval  from  the  custodians,  with  the  im- 
portant qualification  that  the  demand  is  for  more  fiction. 

Work  with  Schools.  —  One  hundred  and  two  special  de- 
posits, with  a  total  of  755  volumes,  have  been  sent  to  the 
branches  and  stations  this  year,  chiefly  for  the  use  of  schools 
and  clubs.  To  systematize  this  work  we  have  had  printed 
a  form  to  be  used  by  teachers  in  asking  for  deposits.  Copies 
of  this  form  are  sent  to  the  neighboring  schools  by  the  custo- 
dians, together  with  a  circular  letter  to  the  masters.  Of  the 
number  of  books  reserved  at  the  branches  for  school  use  this 
year,  no  statistics  are  available. 

Work  with  schools  without  the  intervention  of  the  branch 
or  station  has  begun  to  develop  into  a  system.  To  four 
schools,  the  Brighton  High  School,  Roxbury  High  School, 
Charles  Sumner  School  (Grammar)  and  Rice  Training  School 


LiBEArvY  Department.  79 

(Grammar),  deposits  have  been  sent  direct.  A  charging- 
sj^stem,  with  the  use  of  the  regular  library  card,  has  been 
adopted,  and  monthly  reports  of  circulation  are  sent  to  us. 
These  schools,  therefore,  are  for  certain  limited  uses  stations 
of  the  Library.  At  the  Brighton  and  the  Roxbury  High 
Schools,  books  are  exchanged  twice  a  month.  The  circula- 
tion at  the  Brighton  High  School,  for  a  few  months  only,  has 
amounted  to  1,108  volumes  (home  and  hall  use),  and  we 
find  that  the  presence  at  the  school  of  books  which  may  be 
drawn  on  the  regular  library  card  rather  stimulates  the  use 
of  the  branch  than  otherwise. 

Since  many  books  could  not  be  spared  from  the  Central 
Library,  it  became  necessary  to  buy  extra  copies.  Nearly 
300  volumes  of  these  have  already  been  ordered.  They  form 
a  part  of  the  Central  collection,  but  the  special  stamp  "de- 
posit duplicate  "  indicates  that  they  are  at  the  service  of  the 
Branch  Division  for  the  use  of  schools.  They  have  been 
selected  chiefly  from  lists  of  recommendations  sent  in  by 
teachers.  In  connection  with  the  examination  of  these  lists 
a  record  has  been  made  of  several  hundred  volumes  likely  to 
be  needed  of  which  there  is  a  copy  at  our  disposal  on  the 
shelves.  Several  hundred  more  books  need  to  be  bought. 
The  books  for  the  Grammar  Schools  (ninth  grade)  can  be  sup- 
plied generally  from  the  deposit  collection.  They  are  of  the 
character  of  those  found  in  the  list^  entitled  "Books  for  sup- 
plementary reading  "  for  the  Boston  public  schools,  though 
no  books  actually  furnished  to  a  school  by  the  School  Com- 
mittee are  duplicated  by  us.  The  deposit  duplicates  are  in- 
tended chiefly  for  high  schools.  In  character  they  are  books 
for  topical  reference.  A  few  examples  are  given  here  : 
Rawlinson,  Herodotus ;  Stubbs,  Constitutional  history  of 
England  ;  Fustel  de  Coulanges,  the  Ancient  city ;  Dowden, 
Shakespeare,  his  mind  and  art;  Gosse,  Eighteenth  Century 
literature  ;  Lang,  Leaf e  and  Myers,  Iliad  of  Homer ;  Darwin, 
Power  of  movement  in  plants;  Liil)ke,  History  of  art;  Clarke, 
Ten  great  religions.  These  are  books  which  the  scholars  can 
use  freely  in  no  way  so  well  as  by  having  them  sent  to  the 
school  by  the  Library. 

The  extension  of  this  system  meets  various  obstacles. 
There  are  limitations  on  our  part  in  the  matter  of  labor,  of 
time  and  of  expense.  In  order  to  make  a  few  copies  of  a 
book  do  for  many  schools  it  would  be  necessary  (1)  that  the 
Librar}^  should  know  what  books  are  kept  in  permanence  at 
each  school ;  (2)  that  the  schools  should  not  all  take  up  the 
same  subject  at  the  same  time  ;   (3)  that  they  should  give 

iln  School  Document  No.  8,  1898. 


80  City  Document  No.  21. 

due  notice  of  subjects  to  be  taken  up.  Further,  if  this  direct 
work  of  the  Library  with  the  schools  is  to  become  general,  a 
method  of  co-operation  must  be  adopted,  as  was  recommended 
in  the  report  on  the  co-operation  of  the  Library  with  the 
schools  made  by  the  Librarian  and  the  Superintendent  of 
Schools  to  the  conference  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Public 
Library  and  the  Board  of  Supervisors  (1895). 

Unity  of  administration  of  a  portion  of  the  books  used  by 
the  schools  seems  to  be  desirable.  A  partial  inquiry  shows 
that  with  regard  to  size,  character  and  use,  the  collections  of 
books  held  by  the  scliools  are  diverse.  If  an  agreement  for 
co-operation  were  made  and  funds  were  provided,  in  addition 
to  furnishing  deposits  of  books  for  topical  reference  and 
general  reading,  the  Library  might  well  administer  the  col- 
lections now  at  the  schools,  outside  of  the  following  classes  : 
1.  Text-books.  2.  Books  for  analysis  in  the  class-room.  3. 
Permanent  reference  books.  4.  Collateral  reading  of  a 
systematically  didactic  character.  This  plan  would  secure 
uniform  methods  in  the  use  of  books,  and  records  of  their 
use.  It  would  define  the  functions  of  the  Library  and  make 
its  work  more  effective.  Such  a  general  extension  would 
involve  considerable  expense  in  transportation,  additional 
service  and  additional  copies  of  books. 

If  no  general  plan  of  co-operation  is  now  practicable,  a 
limited  agreement  of  the  same  nature  by  which  in  certain 
schools  the  Library  should  administer  the  books  described 
above,  in  addition  to  those  it  might  furnish,  would  be  a  step 
in  advance.  There  is  a  waste  of  effort  necessarily  involved 
in  present  conditions. 

Branches. 
Reclassification.  —  The  most  important  change  of  the  year 
has  been  the  reclassification  and  recataloguing  of  the  branches. 
The  collections  of  books  varied  in  size  from  4,000  to  34,000 
volumes,  and  they  varied  widely  in  character.  The  diversity 
in  this  latter  respect  was  so  great  that  an  examination  in  one 
department  of  American  history  showed  almost  no  books 
that  were  in  all  the  branches.  As  a  step  toward  uniformity, 
therefore,  we  began  last  June  to  reclassify  the  collections 
according  to  one  system.  This  involved  (1)  transferring 
unserviceable  books  to  the  Central  Library ;  (2)  renumber- 
ing books  accordmg  to  the  simple  system  of  the  West  End 
Branch ;  (3)  revising  the  card  catalogues,  or  m  some  cases 
making  new  card  catalogues.  The  revision  of  the  catalogues 
has  gone  on  contemporaneously  with  the  reclassification,  and 
the  result  will  be  complete  card  catalogues  at  all  the  branches, 


Library  Depart^eent.  81 

and  an  accurate  union  catalogue  and  shelf  list  at  the  Central 
Library. 

The  report  of  what  has  been  actuall}^  accomplished,  given 
elsewhere,  shows  that  one  branch  is  -practically  completed, 
that  in  two  more  Ave  can  see  the  end  not  far  distant,  and  that 
at  the  others  good  progress  has  been  made. 

Branch  Finding  List.  —  Since  Junel,  1897,  the  accessions 
common  to  all  the  branches  have  been  classified  according  to 
the  West  End  system  and  in  April,  1898,  a  finding  list  of  these 
books  was  issued,  covering  accessions  up  to  April  1.  This 
was  the  first  printed  finding  list  or  bulletin  of  all  the  branches. 
It  will  be  followed  by  others,  and  eventually,  it  is  hoped,  by 
a  comprehensive  union  finding  list. 

Open  Shelves.  —  At  Brighton  all  the  shelves  have  been 
thrown  open  as  far  as  the  reclassification  has  gone.  This 
has  involved  the  remodelling  of  the  interior  of  the  branch, 
which  was  completed  in  September  last.  By  the  new  arrange- 
ment, after  passmg  the  issue  desk  access  is  free  to  all  parts 
of  the  floor.  As  the  progress  of  the  reclassification  allowed, 
the  alcoves  have  been  thrown  open  till  only  one,  containing 
a  part  of  the  fiction,  remains  closed.  Placards  designating 
the  classes  have  been  posted,  and  a  notice  announcing  that 
the  shelves  are  open  to  all  card-holders  over  sixteen  years  of 
age.  School  children  under  the  age  of  sixteen  are  admitted 
to  certain  shelves  on  application. 

At  the  Dorchester,  Jamaica  Plain,  South  Boston  and  South 
End  branches,  where  the  arrangement  of  the  shelves  made  it 
possible,  the  books  in  history,  or  history  and  biography,  have 
been  removed  to  a  position  near  the  gate,  and  the  alcove 
thrown  open  to  the  public.  For  the  branches  where  this  is 
not  practicable  at  present,  i^lacards  have  been  prepared  an- 
nouncing that  card-liolders  over  sixteen  years  of  age  will  be 
admitted  to  the  shelves  for  special  purposes  on  application  to 
the  attendants. 

Sunday  Opening.  —  An  experiment  this  year  has  been  the 
issue  of  books  on  Sunday  at  Charlestown,  East  Boston  and 
South  Boston.  Last  year  these  branches  were  open  for  ref- 
erence and  reading  only.  The  Sunday  openmg  began  on 
November  6,  and  was  advertised  by  placards  and  by  items  in 
the  daily  papers  and  local  weeklies.  The  daily  averages  up  to 
February  1  are  here  given,  in  comparison  with  those  for  the 
same  months  of  last  year: 


1897-98. 

1898-99. 

November  - 

—  January. 

November—  January. 

Readers. 

Adults. 

Readers.     Adults.     Books  issued 

Charlestown, 

213 

28% 

299              30%                  57 

East  Boston, 

278 

8% 

270              20%                  33 

South  Boston, 

248 

36% 

258              45%                 26 

82  City  Document  No.  21. 

The  largest  issue  of  books  at  Charlestown  was  90,  at  East 
Boston,  62,  at  South  Boston,  46. 

The  attendance  and  the  percentage  of  adults  have  there- 
fore been  good,  but  the  issue  of  books  small.  There  has 
been,  however,  a  steady  gain  in  this  particular  at  Charlestown 
and  East  Boston,  the  average  for  January  being  6Q  at 
the  former  and  39  at  the  latter.  But  in  any  case  the 
experiment  must  be  tried  longer.  I  note  m  this  connection 
that  the  West  End  Branch  and  Station  P  continue  to  have 
a  good  circulation  on  Sunday.  As  to  expense,  it  costs  no 
more  to  issue  a  moderate  number  of  books  than  to  furnish 
suitable  service  on  Sunday  without  this  feature,  since  it  has 
been  found  that  two  attendants  at  each  branch  are  desirable 
merely  to  assist  the  readers  and  to  preserve  order.  The 
cost  has  been  '$7.60  or  less  at  each  branch,  $2  of  which  is 
paid  for  heating  the  rooms. 

Service.  —  At  the  weekly  meetings  of  the  custodians  a 
wide  range  of  topics  is  discussed,  as  is  shown  by  the  min- 
utes which  have  been  kept.  About  once  a  month  a  meet- 
ing of  a  special  character  has  been  held,  as  at  Brighton  to 
inspect  the  open  shelves,  or  at  the  Juvenile  Room  to  examine 
the  methods.  We  sometimes  have  a  paper  on  an  appointed 
subject  followed  by  a  discussion. 

Books. —  Four  thousand  two  hundred  and  twenty-two  vol- 
umes of  new  books  have  been  Iwuglit  for  the  branches,  as 
against  4,657  last  year.  Very  few  of  these  are  permanent 
reference  books,  or  books  for  younger  readers.  Since  last 
June  no  ucav  books  have  been  bought  for  Charlestown  on 
account  of  the  crowded  condition  of  the  shelves. 

Periodicals. — An  approximate  uniformity  seems  desirable 
in  the  periodicals  furnished  to  the  branches  as  well  as  in  the 
books.  The  lists  were  until  recently  very  diverse  in  size 
and  character.  Avoiding  sweeping  changes,  other  lists  have 
been  prepared  which  are  less  unequal,  and  a  radical  revision 
is  proposed  after  a  year  of  observation.  Periodicals  of 
narrow  scope  like  the  "  China  Decorator  "  and  the  "  Phonetic 
Review,"  and  others  of  small  literary  merit,  have  been  dropped, 
and  such  magazines  as  the  "  Review  of  Reviews  "  have  been 
put  on  all  the  lists. 

Circulatio7i.  —  By  the  table  of  circulation  it  appears  that 
the  total  for  the  branches  is  660,171  as  against  659,099  for 
the  year  ending  Januar}^  31,  1898,  a  gain  of  less  than  one 
per  cent.  There  are  special  conditions  which  affect  the 
circulation  at  some  branches,  as  at  Jamaica  Plain  which  the 
existence  of  the  Boylston  Station  no  doubt  injures,  or  at 
East  Boston  where  the   centre    of   the    reading   population 


LiBEARY  Department.  83 

moves  steadily  away  from  the  branch.  At  Charlestown,  lack 
of  new  books  must  be  taken  into  account.  The  fact  that 
this  has  been  a  transition  year  both  as  regards  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  department  and  the  re-classification  is  fairly  to 
be  noted,  and  perhaps  also  the  general  character  of  the  year, 
which  has  been  more  favorable  to  the  reading  of  newspapers 
than  of  books. 

Delivery  Stations  and  other  Agencies. 

Enlargement  and  Improvement.  —  One  new  delivery  station 
has  been  added  this  year.  Station  U,  on  Union  Park  street 
in  Ward  9.  It  was  opened  on  December  27,  with  a  deposit 
of  400  books.  The  circulation  for  January  was  1,490 
volumes,  325  of  which  were  drawn  from  the  Central  Library. 
This  shows  that  the  station  meets  a  need.  In  fact  there  is 
no  other  library  agency  actually  within  the  limits  of  Ward  9, 
and  the  district  is  densely  populated.  The  establishment  of 
the  station,  was,  however,  made  possible  only  by  the  offer 
of  rooms  by  the  Archbishop  and  the  clergy  of  the  Cathedral 
of  the  Holy  Cross.     In  type  it  is  therefore  like  Station  S. 

On  April  28,  a  deposit  was  sent  to  Station  E  at  Neponset, 
so  that  all  our  stations  have  now  the  deposit  feature. 

Portfolios  of  pictures  have  been  sent  for  the  first  time  this 
year  to  the  three  reading-rooms.  A,  D,  and  L,  and  to  Station  S. 
There  is  unfortunately  no  room  to  display  pictures  at  the 
reading-rooms  F  and  P. 

Seven  of  the  eighteen  stations  are  now  in  charge  of  Library 
employees,  and  meetings  of  these  custodians  have  been 
begun,  with  the  intention  of  furnishing  an  opportunity  for 
the  discussion  of  the  problems  and  interests  connected  with 
their  work. 

Sunday  Opening.  —  Two  of  the  stations  have  been  open 
on  Sunday  since  October  1,  Station  P  (Broadway  Extension 
Reading-Room),  and  Station  S  (Roxbury  Crossing),  the  latter 
for  the  first  time.  At  both,  books  have  been  issued  for  home 
use.  The  statistics  show  that  the  Broadway  Extension  Station 
is  literally  crowded  with  Sunday  readers.  Another  attendant 
has  been  added  for  the  evening.  The  average  number  of 
books  issued  has  been  54.  At  Station  S  there  has  been  a 
steady  but  smaller  attendance  and  issue.  The  collection  of 
books,  however,  is  not  so  attractive  as  at  the  former  station, 
and  only  one-quarter  as  large. 

Circulation.  —  The  circulation  this  year  directly  from  tlie 
stations  has  been  175,552  volumes  as  against  163,938  last 
year,  a  gain  of  seven  per  cent. ;  but  the  total  circulation  of  the 
stations,  including  the  institutions,  engine-houses  and  schools, 


84  City  Document  No.  21. 

264,672  volumes,  shows  a  gain  of  23.7  per  cent,  over  tJiat 
pf  last  year, 

Types  of  Stations.  —  There  are  now  three  types  of  stations, 
all  having  the  delivery  and  deposit  features  :  1.  Reading- 
rooms,  with  a  library  employee  in  charge,  and  with  periodicals 
'<ind  reference  books.  2.  Stations  in  charge  of  a  library 
employee,  but  having  no  periodicals  or  reference  books. 
3.  Stations  in  shops  where  the  proprietor  furnishes  space, 
light,  heat  and  service.  Stations  of  the  second  kind  may  for 
convenience  be  called  service  stations,  those  of  the  third 
kind,  shop  stations.  Stations  S  and  U  are  service  stations, 
though  Station  S  has  two  characteristics  of  a  reading-room, 
space  for  reading  tables,  and  a  few  periodicals.  Eleven  of 
our  stations  are  shop  stations. 

The  ideal  would  seem  to  be  the  reading-room,  and  next  to 
it  the  service  station.  The  latter  tends  constantly  to  develop 
into  the  former.  Station  P  was  not  originally  a  reading- 
room,  but  has  become  one,  while  at  Stations  S  and  U  the 
recent  small  donations  of  books  mark  a  change,  as  do  also 
the  enlargement  at  Station  S  and  the  addition  of  periodicals 
mentioned  above.  Considerations  of  expense  are  the  obstacles 
to  this  natural  development. 

But  the  conmion  characteristic  of  the  readhig-room  and 
the  service  station  is  that  each  is  in  charge  of  a  library  em- 
ployee, and  this  is  the  important  feature.  It  gives  both  the 
Library  and  the  public  the  advantage  of  more  intelligent 
service.  There  is  hardly  any  station  where  advice  and  in- 
formation about  books  is  not  asked  for  or  where  school 
children  do  not  come  with  questions.  It  is  desirable,  there- 
fore, to  have  in  charge  a  custodian  who  is  imbued  with  the 
library  spirit  and  is  capable  of  given  help  to  inquii'ers  ;  w^hile, 
further,  if  a  station  is  to  become  one  of  the  intellectual 
centres  of  its  district,  a  trained  custodian  is  absolutely  neces- 
sary. 

The  cost  of  maintenance  of  this  type  of  station  may  be 
estimated  at  about  $1,000  per  annum  if  enough  is  allowed 
for  rent  to  provide  a  room  of  moderate  size.  In  the  more 
distant  suburbs  -f  850  might  be  sufficient.  As  against  this, 
the  cost  of  a  shop  station  with  a  circulation  of  over  21,000 
volumes  is  approximately  $643  at  the  present  rate  of  com- 
pensation. The  difference  is  important  in  a  consideration  of 
ways  and  means,  but  it  does  not  offset  in  my  opinion  the 
additional  advantages  of  a  service  station.  The  extra  ex- 
pense must,  no  doubt,  prevent  action  that  might  otherwise 
be  taken ;  but  service  stations  might  be  established  as  easily 
as  shop  stations  if  the  rent,  light  and  heat  were  furnished  by 


Library  DEPARTiviEisrT.  85 

private  individuals  or  institutions,  with  a  reasonable  guarantee 
for  continuance.  Under  such  an  arrangement  for  sharing 
the  burden  of  expenses,  Stations  S  and  U  are  carried  on. 

Other  Agencies.  —  At  the  Hancock  School,  in  the  North 
End,  where  there  is  a  delivery  of  books  from  the  Central 
Library  on  cards,  the  circulation  for  this  year  has  been  6,831 
volumes  as  against  3,937  for  the  last  year.  To  the  Fleet-street 
Free  Reading  Room  for  Men  have  been  sent  deposits  of  books 
every  two  weeks,  from  the  West  End  Branch.  We  have 
sent,  as  heretofore,  monthly  deposits  to  twenty-two  engine- 
houses  and  ladder  companies.  No  more  can  be  served  at 
present  by  the  Library  wagons.  The  House  of  Reformation 
on  Rainsford  Island,  and  the  Cottage-place  and  North  Ben- 
net-street  Industrial  Schools  have  received  regular  deposits, 
but  those  to  the  Marcella-street  Home  ceased  in  October 
because  of  the  removal  of  that  institution.  In  September  last 
we  began  sending  large  deposits  from  the  Central  Library  to 
the  Parental  School  for  Boys  at  West  Roxbury,  in  place  of 
thirty  volumes  per  month  from  the  West  Roxbury  Branch, 
the  resources  of  which  were  insufficient  for  the  needs  of  the 
school. 

From  all  the  institutions,  records  of  the  use  of  books  are 
sent  to  us  each  month.  The  North  Bennet-street  School 
has  sent  us  the  first  number  of  an  interesting  little  magazine 
in  manuscript  prepared  by  the  pupils.  It  is  called  Book  Re- 
views^ and  contains  original  accounts  of  some  of  the  books 
furnished  by  the  Library.  In  January  a  deposit  of  books 
was  sent  to  the  Back  Bay  post-office  station  for  the  use  of  the 
letter-carriers. 

Branch  Division.  —  Central  Library. 

Inter-Lihrary  Loans.  —  The  number  of  volumes  lent  to 
other  libraries  this  year  was  22-1:  as  against  135  last  year. 
Twenty-seven  applications  were  denied.  Nineteen  books 
were  borrowed  from  other  libraries. 

Distribution  of  Periodicals.  —  A  new  function  of  the 
Branch  Division  is  the  distribution  of  periodicals  to  the 
penal  institutions,  the  pauper  institutions,  and  the  insane 
hospitals  of  the  city.  The  periodicals  are  those  not 
required  for  binding  at  the  Central  Library  or  the  branches. 
The  work  has  been  systematized,  but  statistics  must  be  post- 
poned to  another  year. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Langdon  L.  Ward, 
Supervisor  of  Branches  and  Stations. 


86  City  Document  No.  21. 


(G.) 

MEMORIAL     OF    THE    DEATH     OF     ARTHUR    MASON 
KNAPP,    1839-1898. 

On  Tuesday,  December  27,  1898,  died  Artliur  Mason 
Knapp,  Custodian  of  Bates  Hall  in  the  Boston  Public 
Lil)raiy. 

He  was  born  at  St.  Johnsbury,  Vermont,  August  3,  1839, 
the  son  of  Hiram  Knapp  and  Sophronia  Brown.  During  his 
boyhood  the  family  removed  to  Boston,  where  he  fitted  for 
college  at  the  Boston  Latin  School.  He  was  graduated  as 
the  first  scholar  in  his  class,  and  entered  Harvard  College  as 
a  member  of  the  class  of  1863.  He  held  from  Harvard  the 
degree  of  A.M.  as  well  as  that  of  A.B. 

After  teaching  for  some  years  in  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  in  the  Boston  Latin  School,  and  in  the  Brookline 
High  School,  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Library  January 
23,  1875.  His  first  appointment  was  to  the  charge  of  the 
special  collections  of  the  Library:  from  1878  until  his  death 
he  held  the  position  of  Custodian  of  Bates  Hall. 

His  knowledge  of  Shakespeariana  and  of  Elizabethan  litera- 
ture was  of  great  value  in  the  preparation  of  the  catalogue 
of  the  Barton  collection.  In  his  position  in  charge  of  the 
main  reference  department  of  the  Library,  his  special  knowl- 
edge of  the  subject  of  genealogy  and  local  history,  as  well  as 
a  thorough  general  knowledge  of  the  resources  of  the  Library 
on  all  subjects,  was  of  the  greatest  service  to  an  immense 
constituency  of  readers.  To  the  value  of  this  service,  ren- 
dered with  exact  conscientiousness  and  singleness  of  purpose 
in  its  relation  to  his  colleagues,  and  with  assiduity  and  per- 
sonal interest  towards  the  readers  and  students  who  came  to 
him  for  assistance,  the  warm  appreciation  of  all  those  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact  bears  witness. 

Passages  from  the  address  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  James  De  Nor- 
mandie  at  the  funeral  services,  December  30,  1898  : 

The  public  is  most  exacting  of  its  servants,  and  feels  that 
all  their  time  and  strength  and  acquisitions  belong  to  it  Avith- 
out  a  moment's  delay,  without  any  manifestation  of  impa- 
tience or  weariness.  To  have  been  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a 
century  in  such  a  service  is  itself  a  great  testimony  to  one's 
worth,  and  to  have  been  for  twenty  years  the  trusted  head  of 
one  of  the  leading  departments  of  the  Public  Library  is  a 
proof  of  merit  to  which  words  can  add  very  little. 


Library  Department.  87 

The  accumulated  and  well-arranged  learning  of  our  friend, 
as  if  it  were  all  in  a  multitude  of  familiar  drawers,  was  freely 
given  to  any  inquirer.  Many  came  every  day  to  ask  not  only 
for  books,  but  to  know  Avhat  books  or  what  essays  had  been 
written  upon  every  subject  recent  or  ancient,  plain  or  ab- 
struse, that  the  fertile  mind  of  man  has  ever  thought  of  — 
and  here  was  one  who  seemed  to  remember  all ;  whose  good 
taste  and  good  judgment  were  ever  ready  to  suggest  not  only 
books,  which  is  a  very  little  matter,  but  the  best  books,  which 
is  a  very  important  matter  touching  the  higher  question  of 
life  —  so  that  his  daily  work  was  to  give  to  hundreds  better 
ideals  of  humon  actions,  and  human  character ;  making  his 
mission  one  with  all  those  Avho  in  every  form  of  teaching,  in 
journalism,  in  schools,  and  in  the  church,  are  helping  this  to 
be  a  better  world. 

What  knowledge,  what  graciousness,  what  a  ready  and 
unfailing  sympathy,  what  a  sense  of  humor  which  so  lightens 
the  annoj^ances  of  public  station,  what  a  spirit  of  self-deny- 
ing, what  faithfulness  marked  his  daily  life.  When  St.  Paul 
would  express  the  highest  merit  of  a  steward,  he  says  "  it  is 
required  that  a  man  be  found  faithful,"  and  when  Jesus  Christ 
would  set  a  seal  of  divine  favor  and  divine  joy  upon  a 
man's  work  he  told  the  beautiful  story  of  one  who  was  faith- 
ful to  his  talents,  his  gifts.  Servants  and  stewards  of  the 
Most  High,  all  of  us,  our  best  reward  is  that  we  be  found  faith- 
fuL  Only  faitliful!  In  the  midst  of  so  much  that  is  unfaith- 
ful, in  the  midst  of  so  many  noisy  activities  which  count  for 
nothing  and  end  in  nothing,  God  grant  that  when  our  work 
like  his  is  done,  there  ma}^  be  written  upon  it  the  promise  of 
Jesus,  "•  thou  hast  been  faithful  over  a  few  things,  I  vvill  make 
thee  ruler  over  many  things,  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy 
*  Lord." 


City  Document  No.  21. 


REPORT    OF    THE    EXAMINING   COMMITTEE 

FOR   1898. 

To  the  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  : 

Gentlemen, — The    following    persons    were    appointed 
members  of  the  Examining  Committee  for  the  year  1898  : 


J.  Bapst  Blake,  M.D. 

Hon.  Patrick  A.  Collins. 

E.  Wmchester  Donald,  D.D. 

Mr.  C.  W.  Ernst. 

Mr.  Alfred  Hemenway. 

Mr.  John  H.  Lee. 

Miss  E.  F.  Mason. 

Mr.  James  J.  Roche. 

Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Williamson. 


Hon.  Henry  W.  Bragg. 
Rev.  Arthur  T.  Connolly. 
Wilham  H.  Ensworth,  M.D. 
Miss  Gretchen  Field. 
Mr.  Thomas  Hills. 
Mr.  A.  Lawrence  Low^ell. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  F.  Parker. 
Mr.  Charles  P.  Searle. 
Mr.  Frank  Wood. 


On  June  2,  1898,  the  committee  was  organized  by  the 
choice  of  Mr.  Hemenway  as  Chairman,  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  F. 
Parker  as  Secretary. 

The  following  sub-committees  were  appointed  : 

On  Administration. 
Mr.  Alfred  Hemenway,  C%airman. 
Hon.  Patrick  A.  Collins.       Rev.  E.Winchester  Donald,  D.D. 
Miss  Gretchen  Field.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  F.  Parker. 

Mr.  Charles  P.  Searle.  Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Williamson. 

On  Books. 

J.  Bapst  Blake,  M.D.,  Chairman. 
Mr.  C.  W.  Ernst.  Mr.  James  J.  Roche. 

On  Catalogues^  Bulletins  and  Finding  Lists. 

Mr.  A.  Lawrence  Lowell,  Chairman. 
Mr.  William  L.  Putnam.  Miss  E.  F.  Mason. 

On  Branches  and  New  Modes  of  Distribution. 
Hon.  Henry  W.  Bragg,  Chairman. 


Mr.  Thomas  Hills. 


Mr.  John  H.  Lee. 


On  Finance. 

William  H.  Ensworth,  M.D.,  Chairman. 
Rev.  Arthur  T.  Connolly.  Mr.  Frank  Wood. 


Library  Department.  89 

The  Sub-Committee  on  Books  reports  as  follows : 

As  Chairman  of  the  Sub-Committee  on  Books  I  have  the 
honor  to  submit  the  following  report : 

Your  committee  recalls  the  recommendations  of  the  pre- 
vious committee  and  agrees  with  them. 

They  were,  substantially,  that  the  three  great  libraries  of 
Metropolitan  Boston  should  not,  in  either  their  collections  or 
their  aims,  unnecessarily  duplicate  one  another,  and,  that  the 
Boston  Public  Library  should  be  particularly  strong  m  books 
upon  every  subject  related  to  the  city  of  Boston  itself. 

Your  committee  would  emphasize  particularly  the  latter  of 
the  above  two  recommendations,  and  would  again  call  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  there  are  not  sufficient  reference  books 
in  the  various  rooms ;  that  the  collection  of  maps  and  atlases 
is  by  no  means  to  be  compared  in  completeness  with  the  files 
on  most  other  subjects  ;  and  that  the  Library  is  particularly 
weak  in  guide  books  of  modern  years.  Your  committee 
recommends  that  these  departments  be  strengthened. 

The  Sub-Committee  on  Catalogues,  Bulletins  and  Finding 
Lists  reports  as  follow^s  : 

There  are  now  in  the  Library  the  following  catalogues  : 

1.  The  Lower  Hall  card  catalogue  in  the  Delivery-room, 
relating  chiefly  to  recent  fiction. 

2.  The  catalogue  of  the  Barton  Library  in  the  bound 
volume  of  cataloefues  near  the  Bates  Hall  catalogue. 

This  is  a  special  librar}^,  chiefly  relating  to  dramatic  works, 
and  containing  many  Shakespearian  editions. 

3.  The  card  catalogue  of  articles  in  scientific  periodicals 
not  only  in  this  library,  but  in  a  number  of  associate  libraries. 
This  has  been  recently  started,  and  is  kept  near  the  Bates 
Hall  catalogue. 

4.  The  Bates  Hall  card  catalogue  which  covers  the  books 
and  bound  periodicals  not  in  the  preceding  catalogues,  and 
many  of  the  books  that  are  also  in  the  Lower  Hall  catalogue 
and  the  Barton  catalogue. 

5.  Special  card  catalogues  in  different  rooms,  devoted  to 
the  special  class  of  books  kept  in  that  room. 

6.  Printed  catalogues,  in  bound  volumes,  on  special  sub- 
jects or  branches,  issued  from  time  to  time  by  the  Trustees. 

7.  Lists  of  books  on  special  subjects,  which  have  come 
out  in  connection  with  different  numbers  of  the  Bulletin. 

8.  The  Annual  List  of  all  books  received  during  the  year, 
arranged  by  subject. 

At  first  sight  it  seems  as  if  there  must  be  an  unnecessary 
multiplication  of  catalogues,  but  to  a  large  extent  it  will  be 
found  that  they  serve  different  purposes. 


90  City  Document  No.  21. 

The  first  five  classes  of  catalogues  are  intended  to  enable 
people  searching  for  a  book  to  find  it,  and  also  to  enable  them 
to  discover  what  books  are  in  the  Library  on  any  subject.  In 
all  of  these  the  book  will  be  found,  as  a  rule,  under  the 
name  of  the  author,  under  the  subject,  and  often  also  under 
the  title. 

The  last  three  classes  of  catalogues  are  intended  primarily 
to  inform  the  public  what  books  are  to  be  found  in  the 
Library,  to  bring  its  contents  to  their  notice,  thus  fostering 
an  interest  in  good  reading. 

The  Bulletins  are  distributed  free. 

The  Annual  List  of  the  important  books  received  is  sold 
for  five  cents,  and  the  books  are  classified  by  subject,  so  that 
a  person  interested  in  any  branch  can  ascertain  quickly  what 
new  books  he  ought  to  read.  We  cannot  too  highly  commend 
the  institution  of  catalogues  of  this  character. 

The  question  of  extending  the  Bates  Hall  catalogue,  so  as 
to  include  all  the  books  of  the  Lower  Hall  catalogue  and  of 
the  Barton  catalogue  and  special  periodical  catalogue,  so  as 
to  make  the  Bates  Hall  catalogue  a  complete  list  of  the  entire 
Library,  has,  we  understand,  been  carefully  considered  by  the 
Trustees.  While  there  is  much  to  be  gained  by  this  course, 
there  are  advantages  on  the  other  side,  and  we  do  not  feel 
that  the  investigation  that  we  have  been  able  to  make,  neces- 
sarily brief,  warrants  us  in  recommending  any  change  in  this 
respect. 

We  recommend,  however,  that  there  be  posted  conspicu- 
ously in  the  Delivery  Room  and  the  Bates  Hall  catalogue 
room,  in  the  Reading  Room,  and  perhaps  in  other  conspicuous 
places,  a  summarized  list  of  all  the  catalogues  open  to  the 
public,  with  the  class  of  books  contained  in  each,  and  the 
place  where  the  catalogues  may  be  consulted;  and,  incident- 
ally, we  think  that  the  sign  over  the  Lower  Hall  card  cata- 
logue in  the  reading-room  should  be  changed  so  as  to  indicate 
that  the  Bates  Hall  catalogue  is  the  principal  one  in  the 
Liljrary. 

These  changes,  we  think,  will  save  time  in  finding  books. 

It  is  becoming  more  and  more  important  and  necessary 
that  everything  shall  be  done  to  improve  and  complete  sub- 
ject catalogues,  and  we  especially  commend  the  course  of  the 
Trustees  in  obtaining  the  assistance  of  persons  specially  con- 
versant with  the  subject  in  the  preparation  of  some  of  the 
more  recent  special  lists  and  bulletins.  This  course  should 
be  followed  in  future  wherever  possible.  A  special  catalogue, 
made  up  only  by  the  employees  of  the  Library  from  the 
Bates  Hall  catalogue,  is  much  less  helpful  than  one  made  by 


Library  Departiment,  91 

a  person  who  has  made  a  study  of  the  subject,  and  is  familiar 
not  only  with  its  bibliography,  but  with  the  relative  value 
of  the  different  books.  It  is  liable,  also,  not  to  displa}^  in 
proper  relative  importance  the  full  resources  of  the  Library. 

We  again  recommend  for  the  consideration  of  the  Trustees 
the  suggestion  made  last  year  —  that  the  card  catalogues 
used  in  making  these  special  catalogues  be  kept  up  to  date, 
and  that  duplicates  be  placed  in  the  Bates  Hall  catalogue. 
We  also  suggest  that  where  a  subject  in  the  Bates  Hall  card 
catalogue  comprises  many  titles  and  is  much  subdivided,  a 
table  showmg  briefly  the  arrangement  of  the  divisions  be 
placed  on  the  first  card. 

In  many  of  the  larger  subjects  treated  by  the  card  cata- 
logues, the  subdivisions  are  indicated  by  larger  cards  of  a 
brown  color,  Avhich  are  easily  distmguished  in  glancing  along 
the  top  of  a  drawer  full  of  cards.  This  is  excellent  as  far 
as  it  goes,  but  we  recommend  that  the  system  be  greatly 
extended,  and  that  all  the  drawers  be  subdivided,  and,  as  it 
were,  indexed  in  this  way.  The  saving  of  time  which  can 
thus  be  effected  will  be  very  material. 

The  special  catalogue  of  articles  in  scientific  periodicals  is 
one  of  the  most  hopeful  signs  of  the  times,  for  it  is  an  ex- 
periment in  co-operative  work  among  a  number  of  large 
libraries.  The  catalogue  itself  was  mtended  to  cover  peri- 
odicals not  included  in  Poole's  and  other  indices ;  at  least  it 
was  intended  to  do  so  in  certain  branches  of  study.  Such 
an  experiment  is  necessaril}^  incomplete  at  first,  and  it  is  to 
be  hoped  that  before  long  the  list  will  be  extended  so  as  to 
include  all  the  good  periodicals  in  any  branch  of  learning 
that  is  covered  at  all.  This  is  very  far  from  being  the  case 
now,  and  the  gaps  are  numerous  and  striking. 

In  making  these  suggestions  the  committee  is  thoroughly 
sensible  of  the  fact  that  the  Boston  Public  Library  has 
carried  the  art  of  cataloguing  to  a  higher  point  than  any 
other  library  of  the  size  in  the  world.  But  this  does  not 
exclude  the  possibility  of  improvement  in  details. 

The  Sub-Committee  on  Branches  and  New  Modes  of  Dis- 
tribution reports  as  follows  : 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Finance  canvasses  so 
thoroughly  the  necessity  of  suitable  buildings  for  most  of  the 
Branches,  and  the  impossibility  of  obtaining  appropriations 
for  any  such  improvements,  that  your  committee  forbears  to 
do  more  than  emphasize  the  suggestions  of  that  report. 

The  rooms  occupied  by  the  East  Boston  Branch  are 
entirely  inadequate  and  unsuitable,  and  almost  any  change 
would  be  an  improvement. 


92  City  Docu^iext  No.  21. 

The  furniture  and  appliances  are  of  the  cheapest  kind  ; 
the  reading-room  which  is  practically  a  part  of  the  stack 
room,  lias  no  means  of  ventilation,  and  is  improperly  heated 
and  lighted. 

The  surroundings  are  such  that  young  people  who  are 
expected  to  resort  to  the  Library  are  subjected  to  sights  and 
influences  which  can  only  prove  baneful. 

The  Charlestown  Branch  is  the  largest  branch,  and  now 
contains  over  32,000  volumes,  while  it  has  room  for  only 
25,000  volumes,  notwithstanding  no  new  books  have  been 
added  since  May  1,  1898.  This  overcrowded  condition 
could  be  temporarily  relieved  by  the  removal  to  the  Central 
Library  of  some  4,000  volumes  comprising  the  "Harris  Col- 
lection," which  are  seldom,  if  ever,  used,  and  each  year 
become  more  valuable,  as  the  collection  nuist  always  be  com- 
posed of  books  j^nblished  prior  to  1850. 

The  income  of  the  Harris  Fund  has  accumulated  to  about 
$4,000,  and  opportunities  to  increase  the  collection  are  fre- 
quently lost,  by  reason  of  lack  of  space  above  referred  to. 
This  would  be  obviated  by  the  removal  of  this  collection  to 
the  Central  Library,  where  it  would  be  not  only  protected 
against  loss,  but  be  of  actual  service  to  many  now  debarred 
from  its  use.  Such  removal  has  been  heretofore  earnestly 
opposed,  but  we  have  yet  to  learn  of  any  ground  for  such 
opposition,  except  a  vague  sentiment,  not  shared  by  those 
who  have  the  only  right  to  urge  it. 

The  whole  library  is  exposed  to  the  danger  of  fire  from 
the  adjoining  buildings,  which  are  used  for  stables.  This 
risk  can  be  greatly  reduced  by  placing  iron  or  tm  shutters 
upon  the  rear  windows  at  a  small  expense. 

There  should  be  some  means  of  separating  the  adult  read- 
ing room  from  that  of  the  juveniles. 

The  chairs  should  be  provided  with  rubber  tips  to  prevent 
the  noise  which  cannot  be  avoided  otherwise. 

There  should  he  periodical  racks  for  the  tables,  thus  avoid- 
ing disorder  and  preserving  the  magazines  for  binding. 

Most  of  these  suggestions  are  applicable  to  each  of  the 
branches,  and  as  the  expense  to  be  incurred  is  small,  and  the 
benefits  to  be  derived  are  large,  it  seems  wise  economy  to 
adopt  and  complete  these  improvements  at  once. 

The  West  End  Branch  is  the  best  equipped  of  all,  probably 
because  it  is  the  most  recent.  The  marked  success  in  re- 
modellmg  this  old  church  for  library  purposes,  suggests  the 
propriety  of  the  city  securing  one  of  the  churches  in  Charles- 
town  for  a  like  experiment.  The  church  on  Monument 
square  is  the  most  centrally  and  conveniently  located,  is  now 


.    LiBEAEY  Depaetjveent.  93 

vacant,  and  probably  could  be  purchased  at  a  very  reasonable 
price,  and  could  at  small  expense  be  converted  into  a  light, 
airy  and  convenient  library  building. 

An  increased  use  of  the  branches  and  consequent  relief  to 
the  Central  Library  will,  we  think,  be  found  to  follow  an 
increase  of  reading  matter  and  better  accommodations  for 
their  readers ;  and  if  the  appropriation  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Trustees  will  admit  of  larger  expenditure  for  these  purposes, 
a  larger  circulation  and  a  larger  attendance  in  branch  reading- 
rooms  would  doubtless  result.  What  seemed  the  ample 
space  of  the  West  End  Branch  is  often  crowded  and  among 
the  items  of  mcreased  expense  to  be  first  considered  should 
be  the  moderate  cost  of  furnishing  a  section  of  its  gallery  for 
a  juvenile  department  —  giving  to  adults  the  exclusive  use 
of  the  main  floor.  An  opportunity  exists  to  greatly  increase 
the  efficiency  of  the  West  Roxbury  Branch  at  a  small  ex- 
pense by  adding  an  unoccupied  and  now  useless  room  to  its 
contracted  quarters.  In  both  these  cases  the  need  is  so  ob- 
vious and  the  first  cost  so  moderate,  that  nothing  but  inad- 
equate appropriations  that  will  not  admit  of  adding  to  the 
cost  of  administration  the  compensation  of  the  increase  of  the 
working  force  that  would  be  required  to  manage  the  larger 
area  in  use,  should  postpone  the  improvements. 

The  uniform  numbering  of  the  books  of  all  the  branches 
which  we  found  in  progress  is  a  decided  advance  over  former 
methods.  When  finished,  and  every  book  in  any  branch 
bears  the  duplicate  number  of  the  same  work  in  any  other 
branch,  it  will  be  possible  to  publish  a  branch  library  cata- 
logue of  works  common  to  all  branches,  to  be  supplemented 
by  printed  cards  for  the  card  catalogues  of  the  larger 
collections. 

The  delivery  stations  of  the  several  branches  in  the  out- 
lying districts  are  widely  scattered,  their  collection  of  books 
for  home  reading  must  of  necessity  be  limited,  and  it  often 
happens  that  a  resident  of  a  district  where  a  station  is  sit- 
uated who  desires  a  work  from  the  Central  Library  comes 
from  a  considerable  distance  to  apply  for  it,  and  comes  again 
the  succeeding  day  only  to  find  that  it  has  not  been  received 
at  the  station.  The  expenditure  of  time  and  energy  may 
have  been  material,  but  when  the  object  of  both  visits  has 
been  accomplished,  such  expenditure  is  but  the  fair  share  of 
sacrifice  and  exertion  of  the  student  or  reader.  A  house  to 
house  delivery  of  books  called  for,  by  the  teams  or  messengers 
of  the  city,  would  be  too  expensive  to  be  seriously  considered. 
But  when  time  is  expended  and  distance  travelled,  only  to 
ascertain  that  the  book  applied  for  could  not  be  obtained  and 


94  City  Document  No.  21. 

that  another  trial  must  be  made,  more  than  the  fair  share  of 
work  is  put  upon  tlie  applicant  if  a  method  can  be  devised 
that  will  save  the  waste  of  what  may  be  valuable  time.  It 
seems  to  the  committee  that,  without  expense  to  the  depart- 
ment and  with  but  little  trouble  to  the  custodians  of  branches 
or  stations,  a  very  simple  method  will  meet  the  requirements 
of  a  case  where  the  delivery  of  a  book  applied  for  must  for 
any  cause  be  delayed.  Postal  cards  printed  in  proper  form 
for  the  iilling  of  blanks  could  be  furnished  those  in  charge  of 
library  work ;  these  could  be  paid  for  and  properly  addressed 
by  any  persons  desiring  their  use,  who,  when  the  desired 
volume  reached  the  station,  would  receive  by  mail  notice  of 
the  fact  of  its  arrival  and  that  the  book  applied  for  awaited 
their  call. 

The  Committee  on  Finance  reports  as  follows: 

The  committee  finds  that  the  system  of  auditing  and  pa}?- 
ment  of  bills  is  a  good  one,  and  that  the  salaries  and  expenses 
for  the  past  year  have  been  satisfactory. 

A  system  of  checks  has  been  introduced  into  the  printing 
and  binding  department  that  Allows  instant  detection  of  any 
loss  or  waste  of  material,  and  points  to  where  such  loss  has 
occurred. 

The  committee  recognizes  that,  in  the  not  distant  future, 
the  Central  Library  will  have  to  be  enlarged.  Although  the 
Central  Library  has  been  in  use  but  five  years  the  demand 
made  upon  it  has  exceeded  anticipation,  and  in  some  respects 
the  building  is  already  inadequate  in  space. 

The  stack  room  is  rapidly  being  filled.  Its  total  present 
capacity  is  500,000  volumes.  It  contained  on  January  31, 
1898,  410,007  volumes.  The  increase  by  accession  the  past 
three  years  was  47,341  volumes.  The  increase  for  the  year 
1897-98  was  16,344  volumes.  With  the  present  ratio  of  in- 
crease the  stack  limit  will  be  reached  in  little  more  than  four 
years.  It  would  seem  wise  to  be  prepared  to  meet  the  demand 
in  advance. 

There  are  two  pieces  of  property,  probably  available,  in  the 
rear  of  the  library,  either  of  which  would  be  ample  and  each 
has  merit. 

The  one,  facmg  on  Blagdon  street,  consists  of  a  block  of 
six  houses,  giving  an  area  of  13,250  sq.  ft.,  which  is 
assessed  with  buildings,  for  -$153,000.  This  property  is  on 
the  side  with  the  present  stack  room. 

The  other  is  the  property  facing  Boylston  sti-eet  at  the 
corner  of  Exeter  street,  owned  by  Harvard  L^niversity.  It 
contains  an  area  of  33,000  sq.  ft.,  and  is  assessed  with 
building,  for  $264,000.  This  latter  property  already  contains 
a  building  that  could  be  used  with  advantage  by  the  Library 


LiBKARY  Depart:s[ent.  95 

for  its  more  popular  side,  and  thus  much  relieve  the  present 
building. 

While  this  need  is  not  an  absolute  necessity  the  present 
year,  the  committee  would  recommend  its  early  serious  con- 
sideration. 

As  to  the  branches,  the  Finance  Committee  confined  itself 
to  four.  While  the  other  branches  are  well  taken  care  of  in 
the  matter  of  buildings,  these  four,  in  great  contrast  to  the 
others,  are  sadly  in  need  of  new  library  buildings. 

First,  and  by  far  the  most  needed  in  the  way  of  new  build- 
ings, is  a  new  branch  library  building  in  East  Boston.  We 
coincide  with  the  report  of  the  Examining  Committee  for  the 
past  two  years  when  it  says  that  "  this  branch  is  unfortunate 

(a)  in  its  room,  which  is  dull  and  dingy  by  day,  poorly  lighted 
by  night  and    unattractive    and  ill-ventilated  all    the  time; 

(b)  in  its  material  equipment,  botli  of  books  and  furniture; 

(c)  in  its  surroundings,  being  over  a  municipal  court-room 
and  opposite  a  police  station;  and  (d)  in  its  location  with 
reference  to  the  centre  of  the  population  it  is  meant  to 
serve." 

East  Boston,  by  its  isolated  geographical  position,  is  entitled 
to  a  well-equipped  library,  yet  it  has  at  present  the  poorest 
library  accommodations  of  any  locality  of  its  size  in  the  State. 

The  Charlestown  Branch  is  inadequately  provided  for  in 
unsuitable  rooms  over  a  police-station. 

The  South  Boston  Branch  is  in  rooms  whose  rent  is  $2,500 
per  annum,  the  equivalent  of  3%  on  a  principal  of  $88,000. 
The  city  should  own  its  own  library  buildmg  here. 

The  South  End  Branch  is  in  the  High  School  building, 
and  must  soon  vacate  to  make  room  for  the  needs  of  the 
school.  This  branch  should  be  located  nearer  Washington 
street. 

In  view  of  the  obvious  need  in  these  four  districts  for  new 
buildings,  we  would  recommend  that  the  city  government  be 
petitioned  for  an  appropriation  of  $400,000  for  the  purpose 
of  building  and  equipping  these  four  new  buildings.  A  simi- 
lar appropriation  of  |500,000  has  been  recently  granted  to  the 
School  Committee  for  the  erection  of  four  new  high  schools, 
and  its  wisdom  has  been  approved.  It  would  seem  that  these 
much-needed  educators  and  adjuncts  to  the  schools,  the  libra- 
ries, should  be  similarly  favorably  considered. 

While  the  Central  Library  building  has  been  generously 
considered  in  the  very  recent  past,  the  branches  have  not 
received  any  consideration  bej^ond  their  routine  expenses  for 
many  years.  It  would  seem  that  before  any  large  amount  is 
again  spent  on  the  central  building,  the  much-needed  new 
branches  should  be  provided  for. 


96  City  Document  No.  21. 

The  various  branches  present  opjDortunities  for  generously 
disposed  persons  who  wish  to  benefit  their  fellow-citizens, 
and  at  the  same  time  leave  a  memorial  to  their  efforts,  to 
establish  a  modern  library  building,  in  Avhole  or  in  part,  this 
building  or  part  of  building,  to  be  named  for  the  donor,  as  is 
Bates  Hall  or  the  Ticknor  or  Barton  libraries  among  the 
various  book  collections. 

We  recommend  such  disposition  to  those  whose  means  and 
desires  allow  such  action  as  an  excellent  method  of  benefit- 
ing, for  many  years  to  come,  their  fellow-citizens  in  the 
locality  in  whose  midst  they  reside;  and  to  such  others  who, 
although  they  may  not  live  in  one  of  these  districts,  may 
desire  to  furnish  a  much-needed  benefit  to  a  chosen  locality. 
An  excellent  example  has  recently  been  set  along  the  line  of 
public  benefaction  by  Mrs.  Ahl,  of  the  Back  Bay  District, 
who  bought,  furnished  and  presented  to  the  citj^  of  Boston  a 
gymnasium  in  East  Boston. 

While  it  has  been  a  custom  among  public-spirited  citizens 
of  means  to  endow  schools  and  colleges,  these  very  necessary 
adjuncts  to  education,  the  libraries,  have  seldom  been  remem- 
bered in  Boston  to  the  extent  of  a  new  building  or  part  of  a 
building. 

The  Sub-Committee  on  Administration  reports  as  fol- 
lows : 

The  investigations  of  the  committee  have  confirmed  its 
belief  in  the  capacity  and  faithfulness  of  the  Trustees — and 
that  the  money  expended  on  the  Boston  Public  Library  lias 
been  wisely  used.  Among  scholars  it  has  a  world-wide  repu- 
tation. To  strangers,  aside  from  our  historic  places,  it  is  the 
chief  attraction  of  our  city.  In  the  value  of  its  books  it  far 
exceeds  the  Library  of  Congress  —  and  by  reason  of  wise  pur- 
chases that  value  is  constantly  increasing.  The  internal 
arrangements  of  the  Library  building  are  far  from  ideal,  but 
the  recent  changes,  not  yet  completed,  at  least  mitigate  obvi- 
ous defects  and  add  to  its  efficiency.  The  calls  for  books 
will  be  more  quickly  answered.  The  time  of  the  reader  will 
be  saved. 

The  Children's  Department  has  been  greatly  improved. 
Their  rights  have  been  secured  witliout  serious  detriment  to 
their  elders. 

The  ventilation  of  the  building  has  been  made  better. 

The  courtesy  of  the  employees  is  Avorthy  of  commendation. 

The  condition  of  the  Librarj^  is  one  of  progressive  improve- 
ment. 

So  long  as  perfection  is  unattainable  there  is  always  room 
for  criticism.     But  the  sentiment  which  found  expression  in 


Library  Departjseent.  97 

the  founding  of  the  Library  is  still  strong,  and  the  faith  of 
the  people  in  its  future  is  unfaltering.  "No  entertainment  is 
so  cheap  as  reading,  nor  any  pleasure  so  lasting,"  says  Lady 
Montague. 

"Books,"  saj-s  Cicero,  "are  the  food  of  3-outh,  the  delight 
of  old  age,  the  ornament  of  prosperity,  the  refuge  and  com- 
fort of  adversity." 

"  If  the  riches  of  both  Indies,"  says  Fenelon,  "  if  the  crowns 
of  the  kingdoms  of  Europe  were  laid  at  my  feet,  in  exchange 
for  my  love  of  reading,  I  would  spurn  them  all."  These 
seem  extravagant  words.  They  exhaust  the  language  of 
eulogy.  But  riches  and  crowns  are  but  adventitious  and  inci- 
dental possessions.  They  are  only  the  frame  of  the  picture. 
He  who  loves  to  read  has  a  shield  against  calamity.  The 
inequalities  of  life  are  hard  to  bear.  But  the  Public  Library 
tolerates  no  inequality.  It  dispenses  its  benefits  with  an  even 
hand.  Within  its  walls  all  are  noble ;  there  is  no  peasantry. 
It  is  a  republic  and  all  are  sovereigns —  there  are  no  subjects. 
To  this  temple  its  worshippers  should  come  with  clean  hands 
and  pure  thoughts.  Books  are  no  longer  chained.  Emerson 
said  that  the  colleges,  while  they  provide  us  with  libraries, 
furnish  no  professors  of  books,  and  no  chair  is  so  much  needed. 

The  Boston  Public  Library  is  open  to  no  such  criticism. 
The  Librarian  is  not  a  mere  custodian.  To  that  office  belongs 
the  higher  duty  of  assisting  readers  in  their  use. 

The  more  a  book  is  read  the  more  valuable  it  becomes.  Of 
all  useless  things  the  most  useless  is  an  unread  book. 

In  the  time  of  Queen  Anne,  INIacaulay  tells  us  that  a  shop- 
keeper or  a  farmer  who  found  any  pleasure  in  literature  was 
a  rarity.  To-day  a  taste  for  reading  is  well-nigh  universal. 
Over  2,000,000  persons  enter  the  various  departments  of  the 
Library  daring  the  year.  So  universal  is  this  taste  that  we 
are  apt  to  forget  that  it  needs  direction.  Omnivorous  read- 
ing is  not  wise  reading.  A  cultivated  is  better  than  an  onmiv- 
orous  taste.  Desultory  reading  is  mental  dissipation.  It 
does  not  promote  mental  growth.  We  cannot  commend  too 
highly  the  courtesy  and  intelligence  of  the  Librarian  and  his 
assistants  in  their  wise  endeavor  to  render  all  possible  aid  to 
readers  of  all  capacities  who  come  to  the  Library  for  "  light 
and  leading." 

The  reports  of  the  respective  sub-committees  were  ac- 
cepted and  adopted  by  the  Committee. 

(Signed.)        Alfred  Hemenway, 

Chairman. 
(Signed.)        Elizabeth  F.  Parkkr, 

Secretary. 


APPENDICES. 


1898. 


LIST    OF    APPENDICES. 


Page. 
I.     Financial  Statejient  .          .  .  .          .          .101 

II.     Extent  oe  the  Library  by  Years       .  .  .125 

III.  Net   Increase    of    the    Several    Depart3ients, 

including  Branches  .  .  .  .  .126 

IV.  Classification  :    Central  Library        .  .          .     129 
V.     Classification:    Branches.      [Omitted   in    1898- 

99] 130 

VI.     Eegistration         .......      130 

VII.       CiRCLLATION  .......        134 

VIII.  Trustees  for  Forty-seven  Years.      Librarians,      136 

IX.  Examining    Committees  for   Forty-seven  Years,     138 

X.  Library    Service  (March    31,    1899),    including 

Sunday  and  Evening  Schedule        .  .  .     141 

XI.  Graded  System  of  Service          ....     152 

XII.  Correspondence,  Bequests,  etc.           .          .          .156 

XIII.  Givers,  and  Amount  cf  Gifts    .  .  .  .161 

XIV.  Orders   of    City  Colncil,    and  Memorandum    of 

Petitions,  etc.          ......     196 


LiBRAEY  Department.  101 


APPENDIX   I. 


Finance. 


Boston  Public  Library, 
Auditing  Department,  February  1,  1899. 
To  the  Trustees: 

Gentlemen, — The  undersigned  herewith  presents  a  statement 
of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  Library  Department  for 
the  financial  year  commencing  February  1,  1898,  and  ending 
January  31,  1899;  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  1898-99. 

Respectfully, 

A.  A.  Nichols, 


Auditor, 


Receipts. 

Balance  from  1897-98      .          .          .  $356  89 

Appropriation,  1898-99   .          .          .  245,000  00 
Transfer   hy  City  Auditor,   January 

31,  1899      .    '     .          .          .          .  1,498  98 


Income  from  Trust  funds  : 

Balance  from  1897-98  .  .  .        $4,868  00 

During  the  j'ear  ....         11,306  67 


$246,855  87 


16,174  67 


London  accounts  : 

Balance  in  hands  of  J.  S.  Morgan 
&  Co.,  February  1,  1898  :' 
Trust  funds  income  $14,628   19 
Cit}'  appropria- 
tion, $12,573  92 
Interest,       311  39 

12,885  31 

During  the  year : 

Interest  .         .  460  18 

$27,973  68 

Balance  in  hands  of  Baring  Bros. 

&  Co.,  February  1,  1898^.  .  72  75 


28,046  43 


Carried  forward      .  .  ....    $291,076  97 


102  City  Document  No.  21. 

Brovght  forte  ard     .  .  .        .        .        .$291,07697 

Donations  : 

From    W.    C.    Todd,    unexpended 

February  1,  1898      .  .  .  §310  04 

From  Woman's  Education  Associa- 
tion,   unexpended    February    1, 

1898 1   87 

From  Boston  Numismatic  Societ}',  300  00 

From  Elizabeth  Lewis  : 
Unexpended     Feb- 
ruary 1,  1898     .  S8  50 
Duriuo-  the  year     .            200  26 

208  76 


From  sundry  sources  for  the  pur- 
chase of  photographs  : 
Unexpended  February  1,  1898   . 
From  Old  South  Church  Society    . 
From  Lilian  Whiting     . 


85 

21 

30 

00 

25 

00 

960  88 


Exchange  account :  lost  l)ooks,  sales  of  duplicates, 
etc.  : 
Balance  from  1897-98 .  .  .        $1,036  42 

During  the  j^ear   ....  335  36 

1,371   78 

Interest  on  bank  deposit        .....  1,600  61 


$295,010  24 


Expenditures. 

Genei'al  liln-ary  accounts,  including 
the  cost  of  maintaining  branches  : 
Salaries  : 

General     administra- 
tion      .  .  .$128,109   74 
Sunday  and    evening- 
force     .          .         ^      17,166  98 


;145,276   72 


Books : 

City  appropriation     .    $17,197  33 
Income    from     Trust 

Funds   .  .  .      11,837   71 

29,035  04 

Periodicals 5,900  06 

Newspapers  : 

Income     from    Todd 

Fund     .  .  .      $1,836  40 

Balance  from  1897-98,        310  04 


2,146  44 


Carried  forward     .  .  .    $182,358  26    $295,010  24 


Library  Department. 


103 


Brought  forioard    . 
Binding  : 

Salaries    .  .  .    $12,607  57 

Stock        .         .         .        1,499  48 
Equipment         .  .  419  66 

Contract  work  $2,918  46 
Contract  worlv. 


$182,358  26    $295,010   24 


(British  patent                 oaq     a  a 
specifications. )                 ouj    '±'± 

-  3,287  90 

17,814 

61 

Printing  : 

Salaries    . 

$4,806   19 

Stock 

2,601   24 

Equipment 

1,068  02 

Contract  work  . 

1,547  31 

10,022 

76 

Furniture  and  fixtures  . 

5,931 

74 

Gas     .... 

1,825 

14 

Electric  lighting    . 

1,968 

74 

Cleaning 

7,404 

85 

Small  supplies 

2,416 

13 

Stationery    . 

2,023 

91 

Rents  :  Branch  Libraries  and  Read- 

ing-rooms 

. 

5,600 

00 

Fuel     .... 

, 

6,789 

78 

Repairs  :  stock  and  contract  work, 

7,079 

41 

Freights  and  cartage 

. 

751 

66 

Transportation  between  Central  Li- 

brary,   Branches    and 

Delivery 

Stations    . 

3,573 

17 

Delivery  stations,  service 

4,030 

40 

Water-rates 

1,718 

60 

Telephone  service 

334 

60 

Postage  and  telegrams  . 

1,054 

52 

Typewriting           .       .  . 

261 

83 

Travelhng  expenses 

495 

90 

Advertising . 

326 

75 

Examination  of  accounts 

300 

00 

Insurance     . 

135 

00 

Grounds 

2 

40 

Books  :  E.  Lewis  gift   . 

208 

75 

Books  :  Old  South  Church  Society 

gift  .... 

30 

00 

Books  for  West  End  Branch  : 

Woman's  Education   Association 

gift        . 

. 

1 

87 

Books  :  Boston  Numismatic  Society 

gift        . 

• 

62 

87 

Carried  forioard 


$264,523  65    $295,010  24 


104  City  Document  No.  21. 

Brought  forward     .  .  .    $264,523   65    $295,010  24 

Photographs,  subscription  gift  .  43  00 

Exchange  account : 

Refunded  for  books  returned          .  13  39 

264,580  04 


Balance $30,430  20 

The  balance  is  made  up  of  the  following  items,  viz.  : 
Cash  in  City  Treasury  : 

Income  from  Trust  Funds $7,903  26 

Cash  on  deposit  in  London  : 

In  hands  of  J.  S.  Morgan  &  Co.  : 

Trust  Funds        .  .    $9,473   12 

General  Funds    .  .      9,717  72 

Photograph  Fund         .  42  21 

$19,233  05 


In  hands  of  Baring  Bros.  &  Co.  : 

General  Funds    ....  72   75 


Cash  on  deposit  with  New  EngVind 

Trust  Co.  : 
Unexpended  of   donations  carried 

to  account  of  1899-1900  : 
Boston  Numismatic  Society  . 
Lilian  Whiting     .... 
Elizabeth  Lewis  .... 

Exchange  account :  lost  books,  etc. 
Interest  on  bank  deposit 


19,305  80 


1237  13 

25  00 

01 

262  14 
1,358  39 

1,600  61 

$30,430  20 


Library  Department. 


105 


GENERAL  APPROPRIATIONS. 

Comparative  statement  for  fiscal  years  ending  Jaimary  81,  1896,  1897  and  1898. 


1895-96. 


1896-97. 


1897-98. 


Salaries :  General  administration  — 
"  Sunday  and  evening  force. 

Binding :  Salaries 

Stock 

"  Contract  work  

"  Equipment   

Books   

Periodicals  

Furniture  and  tixtures 

Gas 


Electric  lighting  and  power 

Water-rates  

Telephone  service 

Expense :  Miscellaneous 

"  Cleaning 

Printing :  Equipment 

"  stock 

"  Contract  work 

"  Salaries 

Stationery  and  Library  supplies. 
Fuel 


Rents '. 

Repairs :  Stock  and  contract  work 

"         Salaries 

Transportation,  postage,  etc 

Transportation  between  Central  Library  and 

Branches  

Rent   of   deliveries,    including    Custodians' 

services  


§93,904  80 

11,130  60 

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 

3,285  43 

2,347  25 


$113,004  21 

17,558  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 

390  72 

1,473  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 

3,562  25 

3,105  38 


§119,698  26 

17,386  11 

11,960  65 

1,623  17 

3,802  11 

296  53 

26,486  83 

6,435  76 

1,871  42 

1,673  58 

1,991  03 

1,455  80 

355  45 

858  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 


$208,608  05 


$231,525  33 


$246,541  79 


KOTE.  — 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  api)ropriate  items,  and  payments  from  the  revenue  from  the  old  Library 
Buiidiug  for  the  West  End  and  Mattapau  Branches. 

The  cost  of  maiutaiuiiig  the  branches  makes  part  of  the  general  items  of  the  several 
appropriations : 


Cost  of  Branches,  1895-96 
Cost  of  Branches,  1896-97 
Cost  of  Branches,  1897-98 


$47,997  23 
62,785  39 
58,282  49 


Amount  expended  for  books  is  for  liills  paid  out  of  the  city  appropriation  only. 
The  amount  expended  for  books  and  liinding  (not  included  above)  paid  from  trust 
funds  and  city  money  in  hands  of  Loudon  bankers: 


For  1895-96 
For  1896-97 
For  1897-98 


$9,516  29 
9,590  82 


106 


City  Document  No.  21. 


gejSTERAl  appropriation. 

Expenditure  for  fiscal  year  ending  January  31,  1899. 


1898-99. 

$128,109  74 

17,166  98 

12,607  57 

1,499  48 

2,918  46 

419  66 

14,188  45 

5,898  24 

5,931  74 

1.825  14 

1,968  74 

2,416  13 

7,404  85 

1,068  02 

2,601  24 

1,547  31 

4,806  19 

2,023  91 

261  88 

6,789  78 

5,600  00 

7,079  41 

751  66 

3,573  17 

4,030  40 

495  90 

1,054  52 

1,718  60 

334  60 

300  00 

326  75 

135  00 

2  40 

$246,855  87 

Salaries :  General  administration  — 
"  Sunday  and  evening  force 

Binding :  Salaries 

Stock 

"  Contract  work , 

"  Equipment 

Books 

Periodicals 

Furniture  and  fixtures 

Gas 


Electric  lighting 

*  Supplies , 

Cleaning 

Printing:  Equipment 

Stock 

"           Contract  work 
"  Salaries 

*  Stationery    

Typewriting 

Fuel     


Rents 

Repairs 

Freights  and  cartage 

Transportation  between  Centi-al  Library  and  Branches. 

Delivery  stations 

Travelling  expenses 

Postage  and  telegrams 

Water-rates 

Telephone  service 

Examination  of  accounts 

Advertising   

Insurance 

Grounds 


The  cost  of  maintaining  the  branches  makes  part  of  the  general  items  of  the  several 
appropriations : 

Cost  of  Branches,  1898-99 $59,913  71 

The  amount  expended  for  newspapers,  books,  and  binding  (not  included  above) 
paid  from  trust  funds  and  city  money  in  hands  of  London  bankers : 

For  1898-99 $8,782  84 

The  amount  expended  for  books  (not  included  above)  paid  from 
ti'ust  funds  in  hands  of  City  Treasurer $8,271  41 

*  These  items  cannot  be  compared  with  the  similar  items  of  the  three  preceding 
years,  because  the  classification  has  been  changed  to  agree  with  that  adopted  by  the 
City  Auditor. 


Library  Department.  107 

Special  Appropriations. 
Library    Building,    Dartmouth    street,    balance   of 

appropriation,  February  1,  1898        .  .  .      $76,430  62 

Appropriation,  May  27,  1898  (Chapter  475,    Acts 

1898) 100,000  00 

Payments  on  account  of  alterations  : 

Masonry,  Connery  <fc  Wentworth 

Iron  work,  Smith  &  Lovett 

Ventilating  system,  Lynch  &  Wood- 
ward  ...... 

Electrical  work,  Public  Buildings 
Department  .... 

Architects'  services,  A.  S.  Jenney 
and  T.  A.  P^ox     .... 

Expert  service  in  heating  and  ven- 
tilating, S.  Homer  Woodbridge     . 

Decorating,  Elmer  E.  Garnsey 

Plumbing,  Isaac  N.  Tucker 

Carriers,  Lamson  Store  Service 
Company     ..... 

One  hand  lift  ..... 

Carpentry  and  small  items 

Balance,  February  1,  1899   . 

The  balance  will  be  required  to  settle    outstanding  contracts 
and  claims. 

Library  Building,  furnishing,  balance  of  city  appro- 
priation, February  1,  1898    ....      $15,730  01 
Payments  on  account : 

Mellish  &  Byfield  Company 

J.  H.  Pray,  Sons  &  Co.   . 

A.    B.    &   E.  L.  Shaw,  designs    for 

furniture 
Foster  Brothers 
Sundry  small  accounts 

2,393  80 


$176,430 

62 

844,291 

6,487 

85 
00 

6,053 

44 

3,541 

03 

1,871 

41 

948 

1,550 

719 

95 
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10 

670 
125 

56 

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84 

66,314 

62 

$110,116 

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40 

513 

36 

242 

77 

115 

00 

107 

27 

Balance,  February  1,  1899    ....      $13,336  21 

Branch  Library,  Broadway  Extension,  improve- 
ments, balance  of  appropriation,  February  1, 
1898 .'  .      $3,989  56 

Payments  on  account  : 

Books $457  48 

Periodicals      .  .  .  .  .  31   05 

Furniture  and  fixtures      .  .  .  36  65 

Repairs  .  .  .  .  .  .  7  50 

532  68 


Balance,  February  1,  1899   ....         $3,456  88 


108 


City  Document  No.  21. 


LONDON   ACCOUNTS. 


Balances 

from 
1897-98. 


Interest, 
1897-99. 


Total 
Credits. 


Expendi- 
tures, 
1898-99. 


Balances 

to 

1899-1900. 


J.  S.  Morgan  &  Co., 

J.  S.  Morgan  &  Co., 
Interest 

J.  S.  Morgan  &  Co., 
photograph  fund, 

Baring  Bros.  &  Co., 


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5,756  15    8 


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8  13  11 
15    0    0 


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library  trust  funds. 

BiGELOw  FuND.^ — This  is  a  donation  made  by  the  late  John  P. 
BiGELOW,  in  August,  18.50,  when  Mayor  of  the  city. 

The  income  from  this  fund  is  to  be  appropriated  to  the  purchase  of 
books  for  the  increase  of  the  library. 
Invested  in  one  City  of  Boston  Four  per  cent.  Bond,  for       .     $1,000  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,  18-53. 
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  authority 
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,  for $10,000  00 

The  vphole  income  in  each  and  every  year  to  be  expended  in  the  pur- 
chase of  books  of  permanent  value  and  authority  in  mathematics  and 
astronomy. 

Phillips  Fund.  —  This  is  a  donation  made  by  the  late  Jonathan 
Phillips  of  Boston,  in  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  bequest  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  they 
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 

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        .     $5,000  00 


Library  Department.  121 

TowNSEND  Fund, — This  is  a  donation  from  William  Minot  and 
William  Minot,  Jr.,  executors  of  the  will  of  Maky  P.  Townsend,  of 
Boston,  at  whose  disposal  she  left  a  certain  portion  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  tlie  income  of  the  said  sum  is  to  be  expended  annually  in  the 
purchase  of  books  of  permanent  value,  either  in  the  Sijanish  or  Portu- 
guese language,  or  in  such  other  languages  as  may  be  deemed  expedient 
by  those  having  charge  of  the  library.  These  books,  bequeathed  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  condi- 
tions 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  books  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,  1803,  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  oae  City  of  Boston  Four  per  cent.  Bond,  for       ,     $1,000  00 

Treadwell  Fund.  —  By  the  will  of  the  late  Daniel  Treadwell, 
of  Cambridge,  late  Rumford  Professor  in  Harvard  College,  who  died 
February  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 
convey  one-fifth  part  thereof  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  in 
the  City  of  Boston. 


122  City  Document  No.  21. 

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  best  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.  R.R.  Co.  stock,  par  value  $100 

each 600  00 

Invested  in   12  shares  Fitchburg  R.R.  Co.  stock,  par  value 

1100  each 1,200  00 

Invested  in  1  share  Vt.  &  Mass.  R.R.  Co.  stock,  par  value 

$100  each 100  00 

$10,450  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  1850.  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 
Oharlestown,  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  jjurchase  of  books 
of  permanent  value.  The  last  heir,  Joseph  Scholfield,  died  November 
18,  1889,  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 
"  "  "  "  "  ,      11,600  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 


South  Boston  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 


Library  Department.  123 

Charles  Greely  Loking  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  Lirrary  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 

Artz  Fund. — This  is  a  donation  made  in  November,  1896,  by  Miss 
ViCTOKiNE  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  REaiMENT  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  appro- 
priated 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  New  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 

Bradlee  Fund.  —  A  bequest  of  the  late  Rev.  Caleb  Davis  Bradlee 
to  the  Boston  Public  Library. 

Invested  in  one  City  of  Boston  Three  and  one-half  per  cent. 

Bond "     .         .       $1,000  00 

Henry  Sargent  Codman  Memorial  Fund.  —  This  is  a  contribu- 
tion from  the  friends  of  the  late  Henry  Sai-gent  Codman  to  be  used  to 
perpetuate  the  memory  of  Mr-.  Codman  by  the  jjurchase  of  books  upon 
landscape  gardening.  It  is  the  desire  of  the  subscribers  that  a  special 
book-plate  shall  be  inserted  in  each  one  of  the  volumes  purchased, 
identifying  it  as  part  of  the  memorial  collection. 

Cash  in  City  Treasury,  January  31,  1899         ....        $2,852  41 


124 


City  Document  No.  21. 


Recapituxation  op  Public  Library  Trust  Funds. 


Scholfield  Fund 

Bates  Fund 

Todd  Fund 

Phillips  Fund    . 

Phillips  Fund    . 

Bowditch  Fund 

Charlotte  Harris  Fund 

Abbott  Lawrence  Fund 

Treadwell  Fund 

Artz  Fund 

Twentieth  Regiment  Memorial  Fund 

Pierce  Fund 

Towusend  Fund 

Ticknor  Fund   . 

Charles  Mead  Fund  . 

Green  Fund 

Bigelow  Fund  . 

Thomas  B.  Harris  Fund 

Franklin  Club  Fund 

John  Boyle  O'Reilly  Memorial  Fund 

Bradlee  Fimd    . 

Edward  Lawrence  Fund 

Charles  Greely  Loring  Memorial  Fund 

South  Boston  Branch  Library  Trust  Fund 

Codman  Memorial  Fund .... 


$61,800  00 

50,000  00 

50,000  00 

20,000  00 

10,000  00 

10,000  00 

10,000  00 

10,000  00 

10,487  69 

10,000  00 

5,000  00 

5,000  00 

4,000  00 

4,000  00 

2,500  00 

2,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,000  00 

500  00 

500  00 

100  00 

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APPENDIX  11. 


125 


EXTENT   OF   THE   LIBRARY   BY   YEARS. 




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Years. 

Years. 

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Years. 

1-3 
U 

1 

"l852-53 

9,688 

17 

1868-69 

152,796 

33 

1884-85 

453,947 

2 

1853-54 

16,221 

18 

1869-70 

160,573 

34 

1885 

460,993 

3 

1854-55 

22,617 

19 

1870-71 

179,250 

35 

1886 

479,421 

4 

1855-56 

28,080 

20 

1871-72 

192,958 

36 

1887 

492,956 

5 

1856-57 

34,896 

21 

1872-73 

209,456 

37 

1888 

505,872 

6 

1857-58 

70,851 

22 

1873-74 

260,550 

38 

1889 

520,508 

7 

1858-59 

78,043 

23 

1874-75 

276,918 

39 

1890 

536,027 

8 

1859-60 

85,031 

24 

1875-76 

297,873 

40 

1891 

556,283 

9 

1860-61 

97,386 

25 

1876-77 

312,010 

41 

1892 

576,237 

10 

1861-62 

105,034 

26 

1877-78 

345,734 

42 

1893 

597,152 

11 

1862-63 

110,563 

27 

1878-79 

360,963 

43 

1894 

610,375 

12 

1863-64 

116,934 

28 

1879-80 

377,225 

44 

1895 

628,297 

13 

1864-65 

123,016 

29 

1880-81 

390,982 

45 

1896-97 

663,768 

14 

1865-66 

130,678 

30 

1881-82 

404,221 

46 

1897-98 

698,888 

15 

1866-67 

136,080 

31 

1882-83 

422,116 

47 

1898-99 

716,050 

16 

1867-68 

144,092 

32 

1883-84 

438,594 

VOLUMES   IN   LIBRARY   AND   BRANCHES,    JANUARY   31,  1899, 
ACCORDING    TO    LOCATION. 


535,687 
15,135 

Brighton 

13,886 
31,956 

550,822 

19,461 
13,398 

15,413 
11,814 
12,496 
14  912 

Jamaica  Plain 

South  Boston 

South  End 

West  End 

13,909 
10,825 
4,322 

88 
98 

Lower  Mills  (Station  A) 

Mattapan  (Station  D) 

bja  f  Fellowes  Athenseum 

•^  S  1  Collection  owned  by  City. 

Mt.  Bowdoin  (Station  F) 

North  Brighton  (Station  L) . . . . 
Broadway  Ext.  (Station  P) . . . . 

992 
76 

W           Total,  Roxbury  branch. 

32,859 

1,582 

126 


City  Document  No.  21. 


APPENDIX   III. 


NET   INCREASE    OF    THE   SEVERAL   DEPARTMENTS. 


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cc 

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11,857 
710 
330 

13,518 

l's50 

419 

15,306 
1'S23 
2,355 

16,499 

818 

I's 9,143 

20,493 
loss  455 
loss  542 

32,491 

746 

I's8.0i56 

11,821 
313 

20,273 
2,890 

26,579 
8,603 

20,680 

Duplicate  room 

2,063 

Brighton  branch 

130 

91 

167 

98 

23 

292 

107 

1,217 

276 

I's  3,190 

Charlestown  branch . . 

rs70 

233 

421 

22 

339 

300 

loss  16 

I's  112 

398 

2,095 

Dorchester  branch  . . . 

309 

269 

222 

209 

134 

358 

loss  73 

1,415 

159 

I's  1,402 

East  Boston  branch. . 

63 

58 

59 

5 

48 

126 

112 

1,021 

147 

I'S  1,478 

Jamaica  Plain  branch 

294 

150 

214 

112 

221 

329 

273 

1,277 

374 

I'S  1,286 

4 

12 

224 

84 

63 

I'S  1,861 

48 

Roxbury  branch 

199 

146 

308 

loss  352 

147 

382 

1,202 

I's  2,896 

I's  1,628 

Fellowes    Athenaeum 

397 

361 

438 

289 

318 

318 

407 

348 

402 

936 

South  Boston  branch 

159 

115 

200 

51 

55 

401 

loss  289 

1,509 

loss    69 

113 

South  End  branch .... 

248 

187 

365 

loss  67 

26 

276 

138 

1,435 

308 

I'S  683 

1,897 
4 

6,522 
626 

1,555 

loss  8 

385 

185 

466 

W.  Roxbury  branch . . 
Lower  Mills  Reading 



6 

10 

33 

169 

85 
73 
74 
74 

3 

24 
932 

Mattapan    Reading 

1 
loss    30 

Mt.  Bowdoin  Reading 

16 

North  Brighton  Read- 

8 

1 

Broadway  Extension 
Reading  room 

261 

724 

807 

290 

Total 

14,636 

15,519 

20,256 

8,633 

20,915 

29,927 

18,695 

35,698 

35,129 

17,162 

1  CoUection  transferred  to  West  End  branch. 


Library  Department. 


12T 


APPENDIX   III.  —  Concluded. 
Located  February  1,  1898,  to  January  31,  1899. 


Located. 


Condemned, 

missing, 
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 

Roxbury  branch,  Fellowes  Athena3um. 

South  Boston  branch 

South  End  branch '. . . 

West  End  branch 

West  Roxbury  branch 

Lower  Mills  Reading  room 

Mattapan  Reading  room 

Mt.  Bowdoin  Reading  room 

North  Brighton  Reading  room 

Broadway  Extension  Reading  room  . . 


Total 


23,867 

3,764 

523 

2,200 

596 

711 

548 

68 

975 

926 

525 

551 

181 


16 
1 

419 

35,866 


3,187 

1,701 

3,713 

105 

1,998 

2,189 

1,834 

1,691 

39 

813 

1,208 

85 

12 


129 

18,704 


20,680 

2,063 

loss  3,190 

2,095 

loss  1,402 

loss  1,478 

loss  1,286 

loss  1,628 

936 

113 

loss  683 

466 

169 


16 

1 

290 

17,162 


128 


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1 

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1866. 

1869. 

1871. 

1878. 

1875. 

1877. 

1880. 

1889. 

1890. 

1892. 

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604 
232 
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1,017 

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640 

1,648 

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13,121 
14,297 
67,740 
46,784 
23,963 
11,147 
17,333 
9,973 
3,087 
14,610 
23,036 
7,151 
33,851 
20,932 
7,217 
8,080 
21,433 
16,834 
20,125 
13,873 
16,883 

249 

36 
17 
107 
77 
60 
11 

9 

9 
22 

2 

1,887 

68 

147 

6 
65 

3 

3 

15 

4,039 

9 

13 
6 

322 

615 

617 

1,092 

868 

622 

326 

1,423 

1,181 

96 

329 

733 

6 

5 

43 

833 

114 

7 

2 

8 

197 

21 
690 
135 
812 
3,204 
2,474 
337 
264 
617 
200 
226 
471 

15 
S3 
424 
385 
2,460 
670 
184 
191 
23 
64 
61 
53 

2,414 
14,810 
15,727 
75,e!S 
68,115 
28,296 
12,062 
19,763 
12,146 

7.«77 
16,178 

ao,6is 

7,209 

6 

7 
47 
29 
37 

6 
27 
22 

1 
14 
26 

2 
8 
148 
11 
8 
6 
4 
3 

67 

....278 

669 

10 
1 
475 
18 
8 

75 
270 
4 
1 
2 
1 
1 

8 

881 
4,746 

425 

12 
106 
246 
197 
104 
9 
45 
8 

1 

31 

1 

1 

2 

603 

6 

1 

64 
363 
21 
68 
31 
26 
132 
4,207 
4 
260 

679 

668 

11 

329 

36 
1 

English  history,  biography  and  geography 

VI. 

vn. 

VIII. 

IX. 

X. 

XI. 
XIlo. 

French  history,  biography  and  geograp  y. 

4 
1 

1 

1 
3 

469 

1 
1 
28 

1 

German  history,  biog  aphy  an    geogr  p  y 

Greek,  Latl    a      p     o    gy            ^ 

1 
6 

. 

16 
16 

2 

1 

14 

3 

4,648 



Tr  n 

5 
36 
3 
1 
8 
8 
30 
25 
33 

6 
4 

les 

7 
9 
3 
34 
12 
6 

3,622 
1,360 
98 
307 
76 
170 
136 
13 
30 

683 
52 

381 
121 
24 
63 
6 
32 
63 
36 
14 

246 
130 

17 
28 
27 
89 
48 
16 
43 
84 
93 
3,231 

248 

66 
2 
2 
6 

31 
2 

59 
400 

10 

12 

29 

I 

1 
321 

1 
2 

2 

6 

243 

6 

16 



7,666 

11,469 

21,630 

16,275 

24,478 

14,337 

25.666 

158 

434 

3,232 

659 

45,263 

•  l.i.l.l'i 

14 
23 

I 
26 

1 

1 
25 

1 

129 

101 

2,819 

36 
39 

4 

XVIII. 

103 

xrx. 

19 
5 

1 

1 

20 
12 

XX. 

4 

309 
261 



XXI. 

7,874 

30 

1 

XXII. 

50 

\ 

XXIII. 

20 

101 

46 

12 

1 

(160 

XXIV. 

Shakespeare  

XXV. 

Books  for  the  blind 

559 
45,263 

XXVI. 

Stack  4  and  Y 

2,704 

1,646 

672 

XXVII. 

HiipUcate  room 

1 

16,136    

XXVIII. 

UepoBit  collection 

1 

f2,846  1       2,845 

. 

19,183 

2,016 

1,171 

467,093 

6,349 

13,854 

2,047 

129 

6,209 

13,491 

6,388 

669 

698 

422 

6,666 

681 

668 

2,819 

7,S74 

fl60 

624 

4,659 

329 

343 

===zr 

1,184 

EpLANATiox.  —  Class  111.  includes  general  history,  etc.,  when  embracing  several  countries,  and  collected  works  of  historians 

»:-  ass  IV.  includes  the  collected  works  of  American  writers,  and  what  of  American  literature  is  sometimes  termed  "polyeranhv  " 

f.        ,*..,■'  '^'•1  '^''•'  ""^  '^I^-  '"'^^  ">*  *""'*  scope  (or  the  respective  countries  that  Class  IV.  has  (or  America. 

n      i!    •  '""^'I'les  also  Belgium,  the  Netherlands,  Switzerland,  and  the  Scandinavian  nations. 

p,      XIV.  includes  political  science  and  ethics,  education,  etc. 

^'lass  XIX.  includes  mechanics,  military  and  naval  arts,  agriculture,  domestic  arts,  etc. 


Class  XXIV.  does  not  include  the  Shakespeare  collection  of  the  general  library. 

Class  XXVI.  contains  the  former  "  Lower  Hall "  collection,  which  has  a  different  classification.    It  Includes  26,697  volumes  of  Action. 

•1,701  taken  (by  exchange,  etc.)  from,  and  3,764  added  to  last  vear's  total  of  13,072.  ,        ^  .  ,   ,,. 

tThe  Deposit  collection  is  In  9  classes— 1.  Children's  bocks:  -2, ;  3,  Fiction;  4,  Lileratnie;  6,  Biograihy;  6,  History;  7,  Travel ;  8,  Science;  9,  Misc. 

(  Framed. 

Note.  — The  dates  given  In  the  special  libraries  column  show  the  year  when  these  c<illecl ions  were  acquired  by  the  Library. 


Library  Department.  129 


APPENDIX   \. 

CLASSIFICATION. 

Branch    Lihrakies. 

[This  table  is  omitted  from   this  j'ear's  report,  owing  to  the 
reclassification  now  in  process  and  uncompleted  in  the  Branches.] 


130 


City  Document  No.  21. 
APPENDIX   VI. 


REGISTRATION  DEPARTMENT. 

Statistical  lieport,  February  1,  1898,  to  January  31,  1899. 
Former   Registrations. 


Date. 

No.  of  Names. 

jfirst              

1854-1858 

17,000 

52,829 
227,581 

1859-1807 

Third                  

1868-April  30,  1880 

Eoiirth              

May  1,  I88e-March  31,  1894 

April  1,  1894-December  31,  1894... 
January  1,  1895-January  31,  1899.. 

124,396 
25,443 
97,509 

Fifth             

Sixth         

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 
1892 
1893 
1894 


11,502 
11,707 
11,029 
29,971 


Average,  16,677. 
Live  Cards  Outstanding. 


Date. 


Number. 


Gain. 


February  1,  1899. 
February  1,  1898 . 
February  1,  1898. 
February  1,  1897. 
February  1,  1897. 
February  1,  189G. 
February  1.  1890. 
•Jamiary  1,  1895. 


Total  uain. 


72,005 
64,973 
04,973 
45,606 
45,606 
34,842 
34,842 
29,971 


7,032 

19,367 

10,764 

4,871 
42,034 


Central  Library 

Brighton  Itrant'li 

Cbarlcstown  Brnncli  .... 

Dorchester  Branch 

East  Boston  Branch 

.lamaica  Plain  Branch  . 

Uoxliury  Branch 

South  Boston  Branch.. 

South  End  Bnmch 

West  Eml  Branch 

West  Uoxlmry  Branch. 
Slallou  A 


I). 


Totnls  ai.Wa 


JS.SSH 
1,25C 


3,124 

3.802 
4,.'iTS 
4,189 
2,210 


CARDS    ISSUED  FEBnUARY   1,  IKS— .JANUARY  31,  1800. 


RE-RKUISTRAT10N8. 


Over     Un<ler 


Over     Under 


Over     Under 


Over  :  Under 


■4  41        3,i«6       3,M3       4,-|>4 


Over     Under 


4,201 
4,2S.-i 

4,8.*7 


33S4 
C,S&4 


1,130 
1.431 

I.0T7 
2,018 
l.t^58 


3I,II>7       2,273 


3,81(1 
3,2.W 


3,036       2,.104        6,42.^       2,434       07,B01)     25,S04  '   "2,00S  I     7.0J2  MO       3,7.V' 


Library  Department. 


131 


CLASSIFICATIOlSr  OF  HOLDERS  OF 
JANUARY   31,   1899. 


LIVE  CARDS 


By  Sex   and  Occupation. 


Classes. 


Permanent 
residents. 


1  Non- 
residents. 


Special 
cards. 


Males. 

Over  21  years  of  ar/e. 
Professional  classes 


Teachers 

Students 

Business  men 

Unemployed 

Laborers 

Under  21  years  of  age. 


Clerks 

Oflice  and  errand  boys 

Unemployed 

Pupils  of  Latin  and  High  schools  . . 
Pupils  of  Grammar  schools 


Pupils  of  Grammar  schools  under  12 
years 


Other  students. 


2,916 
497 
1,242 
8,361 
1,932 
702 

1,313 
689 
421 
917 

9,0(il 

287 
468 


102 
121 
1,114 
89 
182 
3 

23 
2 

7 
13 
4 


142 
15 


Females. 

Over  21  years  of  age. 
Professional  classes    


Teachers 

Students 

Business  women 

Married 

Single,  unemployed 

Under  21  years  of  age. 
C'lerlis 

Errand  girls 

Unemployed 

Pupils  of  Latin  and  High  schools. 

Pupils  of  Grammar  schools 


Pupils  of  Grammar  schools  under  12 
years 


Other  students. 


268 
1,704 

718 
4,562 
9,781 
8,207 

l-,537 
453 
1,268 
1,321 
8,406 

342 

370 


45 

179 

1,296 

72 

37 

570 

89 
1 


131 
23 


4,130 


1  Including  persons  temporarily  sojom-ning  in  Boston. 
N.B.  —  Of  the  1,848  teachers' cards  issued  priorto  February  1,  lS99,816are  livecards; 
of  these,  657  are  held  b.v  permanent  residents,  in  addition  to  their  ordinary  cards  (not 
included  in  permanent  residents'  column  above),  and   159  are  held  by  non-resident ?i 
(which  are  included  in  non-residents'  column  above). 


132 


City  Document  No.  21. 

By  Wards. 


d 

'A 
•d 

03 

No.  Of 
card- 
holders 

Popiilation 
census  of  '95. 

Percentage 
of  card- 
holders. 

6 

1 

No.  of 
card- 
holders 

Population 
census  of  '95. 

Percentage 
of  card- 
holders. 

1... 

1,748 

21,007 

.0832 

14... 

2,014 

19,186 

.1049 

•2... 

1,136 

21,588 

.0526 

15... 

1,498 

18,623 

.0804 

3... 

1,256 

13,943 

.0900 

16... 

1,807 

16,320 

.1107 

4... 

859 

13,375 

.0642 

17... 

1,758 

21,114 

.0832 

5... 

1,158 

12,986 

.0891 

18... 

2,293 

21,679 

.1057 

6... 

1,307 

27,860 

.0469 

19... 

2,388 

22,372 

.1067 

7... 

1,8!)5 

16,973 

.1116 

20... 

4,394 

21,528 

.2041 

S... 

4,809 

23,130 

.2079 

21... 

4,618 

19,274 

.2396 

9... 

2,872 

23,174 

.1239 

22... 

3,189 

22,289 

.1430 

10... 

9,079 

22,.554 

.4025 

23... 

2,909 

18,283 

.1591 

11... 

4,839 

19,930 

.2420 

24... 

3,912 

18,240 

.2144 

12... 

5,395 

21,591 

.2498 

25... 

3,108 

15,001 

.2071 

13... 

1,764 

24,900 

.0708 

Total 

72,005 

496,920 

.1449 

Library  Department. 


133 


PUBLIC   SCHOOLS,    TEACHERS    AND    PUPILS. 
June  30,  1898. 


General  Schools. 

Number 

of 
schools. 

Number  of 
Regular  Teachers. 

Average" 
number  of 

pupils 
belonging. 

Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

1 

11 

.07 

556 

69 

2 

70 
121 

9 
105 
687 
556 

11 
175 
808 
556 

265 

4,599 

Grammar — 

Primary 

Kindergartens 

36,547 
29,379 
3,988 

Totals     

694 

193 

1,493 

1,686 

74,778 

Special  Schools. 

1 

1 
1 

• 

13 
1 

25 

7 
6 
6 

113 

21 

Central                                              

1,775 

212 

152 

187 

3 

58 

2,460 

Special  teachers  (not  included  above), 

20                88 

108 

Evening  Schools. 
October,  189T-March,  181)8. 

12 
5 

139 
26 

3,148 

481 

^' 

165 

3,629 



714 

213     !       1.581 

2,017 

80,867 

1 

134 


City  Document  No.  21. 


APPENDIX    VII. 


CIRCULATION. 
Home   Use   Only. 


Centi'al  Library. 

Brigbton 

Charlestown 

Dorchester 

East  Boston 

Jamaica  Plain . . . 

Roxbury 

South  Boston. ... 

South  End 

West  End 

West  Roxbury.. . 
Station  A 

B 

D 

E 

F 

G 

H 

J 

K 

L 

31 

N 

P 

Q 

R 

S 

T 


Total  Circulation. 
Home  Use. 


1897-98. 


Carried  forward. 


A. 

.388,489 
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,.')44 

14,090 

17,004 

2,600 


1,195,413 


1898-99. 


B. 

422,849 

36,217 

,54,927 

.55,768 

60,435 

.52,225 

8fi,C23 

75,407 

88,408 

115,655 

22,376 

5,205 

13,.501 

2,702 

3,895 

10,236 

9,041 

7,410 

8,886 

3,412 

3,914 

7,057 

9,946 

27,718 

15,.590 

11,873 

14,653 

9,875 


1,235,204 


From  Central 

through  iiranches 

and  Stations. 

lucludett  in 

Central  Library 

Circulation, 


1897-98. 


Included 
in  "A." 


618 
1,046 

818 
1,077 
1,543 

647 

861 
1,883 
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,.3S3 
1,013 


52,597 


1898-99. 


Included 
in  "B." 


909 
1,039 

729 
1,693 
1,4,36 

760 

951 
1,388 
1,893 
1,932 
2,008 
6,409 
3,649 
2,090 
2,543 
4,567 
3,667 
3,979 
3,038 
1,862 
2,961 
5,215 
2,208 
5,6,30 
7,743 
2,901 
6,174 


79,374 


From  Brandies 
through  Stations. 

Included  in 
BranchCirculation . 


1897-98, 


Included 
in  "A." 


3  1,916 
=  2,632 

3  4,255 

*667 
s  1,721 


■  2,071 


13,262 


1898-99. 


Included 
in  "B." 


S854 
1,022 


3  2,212 


«880 
'■2,063 


0  1,974 
"4 


9,009 


LiRRARY  Department. 


135 


APPENDIX    YII.  —  Concluded. 


Total  Circulation. 
Home  Use. 


1897-98.  1898-99 


Brought  forward 

Station  U 

Brighton  High  School.. . 
Charles  Suninev  School . 

Cottage  Place 

Hou'^e  of  Reformation. . 
Marcella-street  Home  . . . 

North  Ben  net  street 

Parental  School 

Roxbury  High  School . . . 

Hancock  School 

Engine-houses 


Total. 


1,195,413 


1,3-25 

1,903 

425 

.592 


1,199,658 


1,235,204 
1,300 
1,108 

277 
1,281 
4,515 

398 

464 
1,047 

248 


1,245,842 


P>om  Central 

through  Branches 

and   Stations. 

Included  in 

Central  Library 

Circulation. 


1897-98. 


52,597 


3,937 
1 5,275 


1898-99. 


79,374 
,336 


6,831 
1 6,300 


61,809         92,841 


From  Branches 
through   Stations. 

Included  in 
BranchCirculation. 


1897-98.  1898-99 


13,262 


13,262 


9,009 


9,009 


1  Number  sent  on  deposit.    Number  used  on  premises  not  recorded. 

2  Included  in  Jamaica  Plain  Branch  Circulation. 

3  "         "   Dorchester  "  " 

4  '1         I'   Brighton  "  " 

5  "         "   Roxbury  "  " 

Gain. 
1897-98.  1898-99.  1898-99. 

Central  Library 388,489  422,849  34,360 

Branches 811,169  822,993  11,824 

Total 1,199,6.58  1,245,842  46,184  = 


3% 


136 


City  Document  No.  21. 


APPENDIX    VIII, 


TRUSTEES   FOR   FORTY-SEVEN    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  April  30,  1895;  Hon.  F.  O. 
Prince  since  October  8,  1895. 

The  Board   for  1852  was  a  preliminary  organization;  that  for 

1853  made  what  is  called  the  first  annnal  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  appointed  by  the 
Mayor. 

Citizens  at  large  in  small  capitals. 


Abbott,  Samuel  A.  B.,  1879-95. 
Allen,  James  B.,  18o2-5:^. 
Appleton,  Thomas  G.,    1852-57. 
Barnes,  Joseph  H.,  1871-72. 
Benton,  Josiah  H.,  Jr.,  1894-98. 
BiGELOW,  John  P.,  1852-()8. 
BowDiTcir,  Henry  I.,  1865-68. 
BowDiTCH,  Henry  P.,  1894-98. 
Bradlee,  John  T.,  18r)9-70. 
Bradt,  Herman  D.,  1872-:]. 
Braman,  Jai'vis  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.,  187(')-85. 
Clapp,  AVilliam  W.,  Jr.,  1864-6(). 
Clark,  John  M.,  185.5-56. 
Clark,  John  T.,  1873-78. 
Clarke,  J  a  m  e  s  F  r  e  e  m  a  n, 
1878-88. 


Coe,  Henry  F.,  1878. 
Crane,  Samuel  D.,  1860-61. 
Curtis,  Daniel  S.,  1873-75. 
Dennie,  George,  1858-60. 
De  Normandie,  James,  1895-98. 
Dickinson,  M.  F.,  Jr.,  1871-72. 
Drake,  Henry  A.,  1863-64. 
Erving,  Edward  S.,  1852. 
Everett,  Edward,  1852-64. 
Flynn,  James  J.,  1883. 
Frost,()liver,  1854-55;  1856-.58. 
Frotiiingiiam,  Richard,  1875-79. 
Gaffield,  Thomas,  1867-68. 
Green,  Samuel  A.,  1868-78. 
GREENOUGH,Wn.LIAM  W., 1856-88. 
(7uild,  Curtis,  187(i-77;   1878-79. 
Harris,  William  G.,  1869-70. 
Haynes,  Henry  W.,  1858-59. 
Haynes,  Henry  W.,  1880-95. 
HiLLARD,    George    S.,    1872-75; 

187(5-77. 
Howes,  Osborne,  Jr.,  1877-78. 


Library  Department. 


137 


Ingalls,  Melville  E.,  1S70-71. 
Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  1864-05. 
Jenkins,  Edward  J.,  1885. 
Keith,  James  M.,  1868-70. 
Kimball,  David  P.,  1874-76. 
Lawrence,  James,  1852. 
Lee,  John  H.,  1884-85. 
Lewis,  Weston,  18()7-68. 
Lewis,  "Weston,  1868-79. 
Lewis,  Winslow,  1867. 
Lincoln,  Solomon,  1897-98. 
Little,  Samuel,  1871-73. 
Messinger,  George  W.,  1855. 
Morse,  Godfrey,  1883-84. 
Morton,  Ellis  W.,  1870-73. 
Munroe,  Abel  13.,  1854. 
Newton,  Jeremiah  L.,  1867-68. 
Niles,  Stephen  R.,  1870-71. 
O'Brien,  Hugh,  1879-82. 
Pease,  Frederick,  1872-73. 
Perkins,  William  E.,  1873-74. 
Perry,  Lyman,  1852. 
Pjekce,  Phineas,  1888-94. 
Plummer,  Farnham,  1856-57. 
Pope,  Benjamin,  1870-77. 
Pope,  Richard,  1877-78. 
Pratt,  Charles  E.,  1880-82. 
Prince,  Frederick  O.,  1888-98. 


Putnam,  Geokge,  1868-77. 
Reed,  Samson,  1852-53. 
Richards,  William  R.,   1889-95. 
Sanger,  George  P.,  1860-61. 
Sears,  Phillip  H.,  1859-60. 
Seaver,  Benjamin,  1852. 
Shepard,  Harvey  jST.,  1878-79. 

S  H  U  R  T  L  E  F  F,      NATHANIEL     B., 

1852-()8. 
Stebbius,  Solomon  B.,  1882-83. 
Story,  Joseph,  185.5-56;  1865-07. 
Thomas,  Ben.jamin  F.,  1877-78. 
TiCKNOR,  George,  1852-66. 
Tyler,  JohnS.,  1863-64;   1866-07. 
Walker,  Francis  A.,  1896. 
Warren,  George  W.,  1852-54. 
Washburn,  Frederick  L.,  1857-58. 
Whipple,  Edwin  P.,  1808-70. 
Whitmore,  William  H.,  1882-83. 
Whitmore,  William  H.,  188.5-88. 
Whitney,  Charles  V.,  1883-85. 
Whitney,  Daniel  H.,  1802-03. 
Wilson,  Elisha  T.,  1861-63. 
Wilson,  George,  1852. 
AViNSOR,  Justin,  1867. 
Wolcott,  Roger,  1879. 
Wright,  Albert  J.,  1868-69. 


LIBRARIANS. 

1852  to  date. 
(From  185S  to  1877  the  chief  executive  otlicer  was  entitled  Suiieriuteudeut.) 

Capen,  Edward,  Librarian,  May  13,  1852-December  16,  1874. 
Jewett,  Charles  C,  Superintendent,  1858-January  9,  1868. 
WiNSOR,  Justin,  Superintendent,  February  25,  1868-September  30,  1877. 
Gkeen,  Dr.  Samuel  A.,   Trustee,  Acting  Librarian,  October  1,   1877- 

September  30,  1878. 
Chamberlain,  Mellen,  Librarian,  October  1,  lS78-September30,  1890. 
Dwight,  Theodore  F.,  Librarian,  April  13,  1892-April  30,  1894. 
Putnam,  Herbert,  Librarian,  February  11,  1895. 


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APPENDIX   IX. 


EXAMINING  COMMITTEES  FOR  FOETY-SEVEN  YEARS. 

The  followiug  have  served  on  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  thirt}'^- 
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,  Nehemiali,  D.B..  1860. 
Adams,  Wm.  T.,  1875. 
Alger,  Rev.  Wm.  R.,  1870. 
Amory,  Miss  Anna  S.,  1890,  1891. 
Andrew,  Hon.  .John  F.,  1888. 
Andrews. Augustus,  1892,  1893. 
Appleton,  Hon.  Nathan,  1854. 
Apthorp,  Wm.  F.,  1883. 
Arnold,  Howard  P.,  ]8S1. 
Aspinwall,  Col.  Thomas.  1800. 
Attwood,  G.,  1877. 
Bailey,  Edwin  C.  1801. 
Ball,  .Joshua  D.,  1861. 
Bancroft,  Robert  H..  1894. 
Bangs,  Edward,  1887. 
liaruard.  .James  M.,  1866. 
Barry,  Rev.  Richard  .J.,  1895. 
Bartiett,  Sidney,  1869. 
Bates,  Hon.  John  L.,  1896,  1897. 
Beebe,  James  M.,  1858. 
Beecher,  Rev.  Edward,  1854. 
Bent,  Samuel  Arthur,  1890.  1891. 
Bigelow.  Jacob,  M.B.,  18.57. 
Blgelow,  Hon.  John  P.,  1856. 
Blagden,  George  W.,  D.D.,  1856. 
Blake,  J.  Bapst,  J/.D.,  1897,  1898. 
Blake.  John  G.,  M.B.,  1883,  1891. 
Blake,  J/r.s.  Mary  E.,  1894. 
Bodfish,  Rev.  Joshua  P.,  1879,  1891. 
Bowditch,  Henry  I.,  M.B.,  18.55. 
Boivditch,  Henry  J.,  3/.Z).,  1865. 
Bowditch,  Henry  P.,  M.B.,  1881. 
Bowditch,    J.      Ingersoll.     LL.B., 

1855. 
Bowman,  Alfonzo,  1867. 
Bowne,    Prof.     Borden     P.,    1896, 

1897. 
Bradford,  Charles  F.,  1868. 
Bragg,  Hon.  Henry  W. ,  1898. 
Brewer,  Thomas  M.,  1865. 


Brimmer,  Hon.  Martin,  1890,  1891. 
Brooks,  Rev.  Phillips,  1871. 
Brown,  Allen  A.,  1894. 
Browne,  Alex.  Porter,  1891. 
Browne,  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.,  3f.B.,  1877. 
Chamberlain,  Hon.  Mellen,  1894. 
Chaney,  Rev.  George  L.,  1868. 
Chase,  George  B.,  1876. 
Chase,  George  B.,  1877.  1885. 
Cheever,  David  W.,  M.B.,  1894. 
Cheever,  Miss  Helen,  1896,  1897. 
Cheney,  Mrs.  Ednah  D.,  1881. 
Claj)}),  Williain.  IF.,  Jr.,  1864. 
Clarke,    James     Freeman,     B.B., 

1877. 
Clarke,  James  Freeman,  B.B.,  1882. 
Clement.  Edward  H.,  1894,  1895. 
Coale,  George  O.  G.,  1892,  1893. 
Collar,  William  C,  1874. 
Collins,  Hon.  Patrick  A.,  1898. 
Connolly,  Rev.  Arthur  T.,  1898. 
Corbett,    Hon.    Joseph    J.,     1896, 

1897. 
Cudworth,  Warren  H.,  B.B.,  1878. 
Curtis,  Charles  P.,  1862. 
Curtis,  Daniel  S.,  1872. 
Courtis,  Thomas  B.,  M.B.,  1874. 
Cusliing,  Thomas,  1885. 
Dalton,  Charles  H.,  1884. 
Dana,  Samuel  T.,  1857. 
Dean,  Benjamin,  1873. 
Denny,  Henry  G.,  1876. 
Derby,  Hasket.  M.B.,  1895,  1896. 
Dexter,  Rev.  Henry  M.,  1866. 
I3illingham,  Rev.  Pitt,  1886. 
Dix,  James  A.,  1860. 
Doherty,  I^hilip  J.,  1888. 


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139 


Donalioe,  Patrick,  1869. 
Donald,  Rev.  E.  Winchester,   1898. 
Durant,  Henry  F.,  1803. 
Duryea,  Joseph  T.,  B.D.,  1880. 
Dwight,  John  S.,  1868. 
Dwight,  Thomas,  M.D.,  1880. 
Eastburn,  Manton,  D.l).,  1803. 
Eaton,  Williams.,  1887. 
Ecles,  Henry  H.,  1886. 
Eliot,  .Samuel,  LL.D.,  1868. 
Ellis,  Arthur  B.,  1888,  1889. 
Ellis,  Calvin,  3/.Z>.,  1871. 
Ellis,  George  E.,  D.D.,  1881. 
Endicott,  William,  Jr.,  1878. 
Ensworth,  William  H.,  i/.Z>.,  1898. 
Ernst,  Carl  W.,  1897,  1898. 
Evans,  George  W.,  1887,  1888, 1889. 
Everett,  Sidney,  189rj. 
Farlow,  John  W.,  M.D.,  1892,  1893. 
Field,  Miss  Gretchen,  1898. 
Field,  Walbridge  A.,  1866. 
Fields,  James  T.,  1872. 
Fitz,  Reginald  H.,   1879. 
Fitz,  Walter  Scott,  1894. 
Foote,  Bev.  Henry  W.,  1864. 
Fowle,  William  F. ,  1864. 
Freeland,  Charles  W.,  1807. 
Frost,  Oliver,  1854. 
Frothingham,  Richard,  1870. 
Furness,  Horace   Hovrard,  LL.B., 

1882. 
Gannett,  EzraS.,  D.D.  1855. 
Garland,  George  M.,   M.D.,   1895, 

1890. 
Gay,  George  H.,  187(). 
(iilchrist,  Daniel  S.,  1872. 
Gordon,  George  A.,  D.D.,  1885. 
Gould,  A.  A.,  M.B.,  1804. 
Grant,  Robert,  1884. 
Gray,  John  C,  LL.D.,  1877. 
Green,  Samuel  A.,  M.D.,  1808. 
Green,  Samuel  S.,  1895. 
Greenough    William  W..  1858,  1874, 

1883,  1880. 
Grinnell,  Charles  E.,  1874. 
Hale,  Rev.  EdAvard  E.,  1858. 
Hale,  Mrs.  George  S.,  1887,   1888. 
Hale,  Moses  L.,  1862. 
Hale,  Philip,  1893. 
Haskins,  Rev.  George  F.,  1865. 
Hassam,  John  T.,  1885. 
Hayes,  Hon.  F.  B.,  1874. 
Haynes,  Henry  W.,  1879. 
Haynes,  Ilenry  IF.,  1881,  1884. 
Hay  ward,  George,  M.D.,  1863. 
Heard,  John,  Jr.,  1888,  1889,  1891. 
Heard,  John  T.,  1853. 
Hellier,  Charles  E.,  1895. 
Hemenway,  Alfred,  1898. 
Herford,  Brooke,  i).Z>.,  1884. 
Herrick,   Samuel   E.,   D.D.,    1888, 

1889. 
Hersey,  Miss  Heloise  E.,  1895,  1896. 


Higginson,  Thomas  W.,  1883. 
Hill,  Clemont  Hugh,  1880. 
Hillard,  Hon.  George  S.,  1853. 
Hillard,  Hon.  George  S.,  1873. 
Hills,  Thomas,  1898. 
Hodges,  Richard  M.,  jV.Z).,  1870, 
Holmes,  Edward  J.,  1881,  1884. 
Holmes,  Oliver  W.,  J/.D.,  1858. 
Holmes,  Oliver    W..    Jr.,  LL.D., 

1882. 
Homans,  Charles  D.,  M.D.,  1867. 
Homans,   3frs.  Charles   D.,     1885, 

1886,  1887. 
Homer,  George,  1870. 
Homer,  Peter  T.,  1857. 
Hubbard,  James  M.,  1891. 
Hubbard,  William  J.,  1858. 
Hudson,  JohnE.,  1895,  1896. 
Hunnewell,  James  F.,   1880,   1893, 

1894. 
Hutchins,  Miss  Emma,   1895,  1896. 
Hyde,  George  B.,  1879. 
Irwin,  3Iiss  Agnes,  1894. 
Jeftries,  B.  Joy,  M.D.,  1809. 
Jeffries,  William  A.,  1893. 
Jenkins,  Charles  E.,  1879. 
Jewell,  Hon.  Harvey,  1863. 
Jordan,  Eben  D.,  1873. 
Kidder,  Henry  P.,  1870. 
Kimball,  David  P.,  1874. 
Kimball,  Henry  H.,  1865. 
Kirk,  Edward  N.,  Z>.2>.,   1859. 
Lawrence,  Hon.  Abbott,  1853. 
Lawrence,  Abbott,  1859. 
Lawrence,  Miss  Harriette  S.,  1890. 
Lawrence,  James,  1855. 
Lee,  Miss  Alice.  1889,  1890,  1891. 
Lee,  Hon.  John  H.,  1897,  1898. 
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,  Loring,  1800. 
Lowell,  A.  Lawrence,  1897,  1898. 
Lowell,  Augustus,  1883. 
Lowell,  Edward  J.,  1885. 
Lunt,  Hon.  George,  1874. 
Lyman,  George  H..  M.D.,  1885. 
McCleary,  Samuel  F..  1890. 
McNulty,  Rev.  John  J.,  1890,  1897. 
Manning,  Rev.  Jacob  M.,  1801. 
Mason,  Rev.  Charles,  1857. 
Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  1898. 
Mason,  Robert  M.,  1809. 
Maxwell,  J.  Audley,  1883. 
Metcalf,  Rei'.  Theodore  A.,   1888, 

1889. 
Minns,  Thomas,  1864. 
Minot,  Francis,  1860. 
Morisou,   MiiiS  Mary,    1892,    1893, 

1895. 


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Morrill,  Charles  J..  IsSo. 
Morse,  John  T.,  Jr.,  1871). 
Morse,  Eobeit  M.,  Jr.,  ISTS. 
Jforion,  Hon.  Ellis  TF.,  ISTl. 
Mudge,  Hon.  E.  R.,  LSTl. 
Neale,  Rollin  H.,  D.D.,  IS.");]. 
Xoble,  John,  1882. 
Norcross,  Otis,  ISsO. 
O'Brien,  Hon.  Hugh,  1879. 
O'Callaghan.  John  J..  1895. 
O'Reilly,  John  Boyle,  1878. 
Otis,  G.  A.,  1860. 

Paddock,  Bt.  Rev.  Benj.  H.,  1876. 
Parker,  Charles  Henry,  1888,  1889. 
Parker,   Mrs.    William   L.,     1897, 

1898. 
Parkman,  Henry,  188-"). 
Parks,  Eev.  Leigbton,    1882.   1896, 

1897. 
Perkins,  Charles  C,  1871. 
Perry,  Thomas  S.,  1879,  1882,  1883, 

1884,  1885,  1890,  1891. 
Phillips,  John  C,  1882. 
Phillips,  Jonathan,  1854. 
Pierce,  Hon.  Henry  L.,  1891. 
Pingree,  lliss  Lalia  B.,  1894. 
Prescott,      William      H..     LL.D.. 

1853. 
Prince,    Hon.   F.    O.,    1888,     1889, 

1890,     1891,     1892,      1893,     1895, 

1896. 
Piitndm,  George,  D.D.,  1870. 
Putnam,  Hon.  John  P.,  1865. 
Putnam,  William  L.,  1898. 
Randall,  Charles  M.,  M.D.,  1884. 
Rice,  Hon.  Alexander  H.,  1860. 
Robbins,  Elliott,  M.I).,  1893. 
Roche,  James  Jeftrey,  1898. 
Rogers,  Prof.  William  B.,  1861. 
Rollins,  J.  Wingate,  1888,  1889. 
Ropes,  John  C,  1872. 
Rotch,  Benjamins.,  1863. 
Runkle,  Prof.  J.  D.,  1882. 
Russell,  Samuel  H.,  1880. 
Sampson,  O.  H.,  1892,  1893. 
Sani/er,  Hon.  George  P.,  1860. 
Seai-Ie,  Charles  P.,  1898. 
Seaver,  Edwin  P.,  1881. 
Shepard,    Hon.    Harvey  N.,     1888, 

1889. 
Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas,   1893,  1894. 
Slmrtlef,  Hon.  Nathaniel  B.,  1857. 
Smith,  Azariah,  1895,  1896. 
Smith,  Charles  C,  1873. 
Smith,  ,"l/rs.  Charles  C,  1881,  1886. 
Smith,  Miss  Minna,  1892. 
Sowdon,  A.  J.  C.  1892,  1893. 


Sprague,  Charles  J.,  1859. 
Sprague,  Homer  B.,  1882. 
Stedman,  C.  Ellery,  M.D.,  1888. 
Stevens,  Oliver,  1858. 
Stevenson,  Hon.  J.  Thomas,   1856. 
Stockwell,  S.  N.,  1861. 
Stone,  Col.  Henry,  1885,  1886,  1887. 
Story,  Joseph,  1856. 
Sullivan,  Richard,  1883,  1884. 
Teele,  John  ().,  1886. 
Thaxter,  Adam  W.,  1855. 
Thayer,  George  A.,   1875. 
Thayer,  Bev.  Thomas  B.,  1862. 
Thomas,  B.  F.,  LL.D.,  1875. 
Thomas,  Seth  J.,   1866. 
Ticknor,  Jiiss  Anna  E.,  1891. 
Ticknor,      George,     LL.D.,     1853, 

1854,  18.55.  1859,  1863,  1866. 
Tillinghast,  Caleb  B.,  1895,  1896. 
Tobev.  Hon.  Edward  S.,  1862. 
Todd,  William  C. ,  1894. 
Twombly,  Eev.  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.B.,  1875. 
Ware,  Darwin  E.,  1881. 
Warner,  Hermann  J.,  1867. 
Warren,  Hon.  Charles  H.,  1859. 
Warren,  J.  Collins,  M.B..  1878. 
Waterston,  Rev.  Robert  C,  1867. 
Weissbein,  Louis,  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  H.,  1862. 
Whitney.  Henry  A.,  1873. 
Wightman,  Hon.  Joseph  M.,  1869. 
Williams,  Harold,  M.D.,  1888,  1889, 

1890. 
Williamson,  William  C,  1881. 
Williamson,  3/rs.  William  C,  1897, 

1898. 
Wilson,  Elisha  T.,  M.D.,  1861. 
Winsor,  Justin,  LL.D.,  1867. 
Winthrop,  Hon.  Robert  C,  1854. 
Wiuthrop,  Robert  C,  Jr.,  1887. 
Wood,  Frank,  1897,  1898. 
Woodbury,  Charles  Levi,  1871. 
Woolson,  Mrs.   Abba  Goold,    1888, 

1889. 
Wright,  Hon.  Carroll  D.,  1884. 


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APPENDIX    X. 


SCHEDULE  OF  LIBRARY  SERVICE. 

Kote.  — This  has  been  brought  down  to  M.nrch  31, 1899.    The  order  is  (1)  by  rank  in 
grades,  and  (2)  alphabetical,  within  each  grade. 

Summary. 

Central  Library     .  .  .        167     Males     88     Females     79 

Branches  and  Readino-  rooms  64         "  15  "  49 


231 


103 


128 


Evening  and  Sunday  service,  Central  Library, 
Sunday  service,  Branches,  12. 

Extra  assistance  is  employed  at  the  branches. 


65 


Name. 

Putnam,  Herbert 
Savage,  Philip  H. 
t  Mooney,  George  V. 
Deery,  D.  Jean. 
Learned,  Lucie  A. 
Cellarius,  Theodore  W. 
Hutchins,  Fernald 
McFarland,  Peter  V. 
Nichols,  Adelaide  A. 
**  Bicknell,  Margaret  M. 


Whitney,  James  L. 
^Swift,  Lindsay 
Chevalier,  Samuel  A. 
Hunt,  Edward  B. 
Murdoch,  John 
Burnell,  Carrie 
Rollins,  Mary  H. 
Seaver,  Mrs.  Lillian  F. 
Rice,  Edwin  F. 
Tenney,  Mary  A. 
Bartlett,  Mary  R. 
Cutler,  Dora  L. 
Gould,  Ida  W. 


[VE   DEPARTMENT. 

Entered. 

Grade. 

1895 

Librarian. 

.       1896 

Librarian's  Sec 

.       1889 

B.  Special. 

.       1891 

B. 

.       1891 

B. 

1892 

D. 

1896 

D. 

1896 

D. 

1868 

Auditor. 

1896 

C.  Special. 

n^E    DEPARTMENT. 

1869 

Chief. 

1878 

A.  Special. 

1894 

A. 

1883 

A. 

1896 

A. 

1881 

A. 

1886 

A. 

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  .S5,  evenings;  40,  Sundays. 

**  Auditor's  Assistant."  t  Custodian  of  Stock  Room.  If  Editor  Library  Publica- 
tions. 


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Xanie. 

Entered. 

Grade. 

Hemmings,  Anita  F.  . 

.       1897 

B. 

Leuvitt,  Luella  K. 

.      1895 

B. 

Brennan,  T.  Frank      . 

.       1890 

C.  Special. 

Dolau,  Charles  W. 

.       1894 

D. 

Shaughnessy,  John  F. 

.       1898 

E. 

ORDERING 

DEPARTMENT 

Maciirdy,  Theodosia  E. 

.       1889 

Chief. 

Coolidge,  Marie 

.       1893 

B.  Special. 

SeemuUer,  Mary 

.       1899 

B.       " 

Frinsdorff,  Emily  0.   . 

.       1894 

B. 

Goddard,  Mrs.  Frances  H. 

.       1892 

B. 

McGrath,  Mary  A.      . 

.       1868 

B. 

McFarland,  Thomas  A. 

.       1891 

C.  Special. 

Keleher,  Alice  A. 

.       1891 

D. 

St.  Louis,  Robert  F.   . 

.       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. 

Eberhart,  John 

1894 

C.      " 

Reardon,  John  H. 

1896 

C.       " 

Caiger,  Eliza   F.  A.    . 

.       1895 

D. 

Lucid,  John  F. 

.       1893 

D. 

Shawno,  Robert 

.       1898 

D. 

BATES   HALL. 

Bierstadt,  Oscar  A.      . 

.       1899 

Custodian. 

t  Blaisdell,  Frank  C.  . 

1876 

A.  Special. 

Buckley,  Pierce  E. 

.       1891 

B. 

Doyle,  Agues  C. 

.       1885 

B. 

Plunkett,"Albert  J.      . 

1895 

D.  Special. 

Hannigan,  Frank  J.    . 

1898 

D. 

Hardy,  Charles  A.       . 

.       1896 

D. 

SPECIAL 

LIBRARIES. 

Fleischner,  Otto 

.        1891 

Custodian. 

Hitchcock,  Grace  A.  . 

.       1895 

B.  Special. 

Hall,  Belle  S.      . 

.       1895 

B. 

Patten,  Mary  L. 

1898 

B. 

Whitney,  Margaret  I). 

.       1898 

B. 

Ward,  Joseph  W. 

.       1891 

C.  Special. 

Cassidy,  Margaret  L. 

.       1895 

D.'      " 

Kelly,  Charlotte  H.      . 

.       1895 

D. 

t  In  charge  of  Patent  and  Newspaper  Departments. 


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Xanie. 

Entered. 

Grade. 

Smith,  Arthur  PL  F. 

.      1897 

D. 

McKiernan,  John  L. 

.     1896 

D.  Runner 

Maiers,  WilHamC,  Jr. 

.     1897 

D. 

DOCUMENTS    DEPARTMENT. 
Ford,  Worthington  C.  .  .      1898         Chief. 


Lane,  Lucius  P. 


1898 


B. 


Weudte,  Frederika 
Ford,  Mary  E.  A. 
Maguinness,  Jaines 


Sercx,  Frederic 
Keenan,  Matthew  T. 


PERIODICAL-EOOM. 

.      1895  C. 

.      1895  D. 

.      1897  D.  Runner, 

NEWSPAPER-ROOM. 

.      1895  B. 

.     1896  D.  Special. 


ISSUE  DEPARTMENT. 


McGuffey,  Margaret  D.      . 
*  Sheffield,  Mrs.  Gertrude  P. 
Forrest,  Gertrude  li. 
Barry,  Edward  F.     . 
Cufflin,  M.  Florence 
McCarthy,  Michael,  Jr.     . 
Sheridan,  Mary  C.    . 
Desmond,  Louise  L. 
Richards,  Florence  F. 
Shumway,  Marion  H. 
Bertram,  Lucy  I. 
Cunniff,  Nellie  L. 
Dowling,  S.  Jennie  . 
McCarthy,  Marion  A. 
Murphy,  Annie  G.   . 
Reynolds,  Mary  A.  . 
Roett,  Louis  W. 
Wiechmann,  Catherine  A. 
Connolly,  Nelly  L.   . 
Daly,  Margaret  C.    . 
Ethier,  Lillian  E. 
Gorman,  John  E.      . 
Kiernan,  Letitia  M. 
Lucid,  Joseph  A.      . 
Mayer,  Harry  F.       . 
Olson,  Alphild 
Olson,  Bertha  A.       . 
Williams,  Grace 


.      1895 

Chief. 

.     1896 

B.  Special 

.      1895 

B.       " 

.      1890 

C.       " 

.      1892 

C.       " 

.      1892 

C.       " 

.    -1881 

C.       " 

.      1895 

C. 

.      1875 

C. 

.     1895 

C. 

.     1895 

D.  Special 

.     1895 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.     1895 

D. 

.      1888 

D. 

.      1894 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.     1895 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.     1895 

D. 

.      1897 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

.     1895 

D. 

.      1895 

D. 

^  In  ch.irge  oi  Juvenile  Department. 


144 


City  Document  No.  21. 


Name. 

Entered. 

Grade. 

Zaugg,  Joanna, 

.       1895 

D. 

Zaiigg,  Otto  K. 

.      1895 

D. 

Barry,  Margaret  M. 

1897 

D.  Runner. 

Bryce,  Jean  M. 

1898 

D. 

Cole,  Grace  E. 

1897 

D. 

Hagerty,  Mary  £.     . 

1897 

D. 

Hersey,  Edna  M, 

1898 

D. 

McKenzie,  Kenneth 

1897 

D. 

MeSweeney,  M.  Agnes     . 

1897 

D.        " 

Schnlz,  Henry  A.  C. 

1898 

D. 

Shaughnessy,  Mary  A. 

1897 

D. 

Stetson,  Nina  M.      . 

1896 

D. 

Gorman,  Annie  L.    . 

1899 

E. 

Schnabel,  Paul  J. 

1898 

E. 

ISSUE  DEPARTMENT 

r.   BRANCH  DIVISION. 

Ward,  Langdon  L. 

.      1.S96 

Supervisor  of  Branches 

?                  ~ 

and  Delivery  Stations. 

Kueffner,  Cecilia  W. 

.      1898 

B. 

Painter,  Florence  McM.     . 

.      1897 

B. 

Heimann,  Otto  A. 

.      1890 

C.  Special. 

Morse,  Maud  M.       . 

.      1877 

C.       " 

Bollig,  Emma  . 

.      1898 

c. 

Maier,  Joseph  A. 

.      1892 

D.  Special. 

Brown,  Richard 

.      1898 

D. 

Conroy,  Michael  J .    . 

.      1897 

D.  Runner. 

REGISTRATION 

f  DEPARTMENT. 

Keenan,  John  J. 

1885 

B.  Special. 

Murray,  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 

1.  i 

Ives,  Birdsey  F.        . 

1896 

Feeder. 

BIN] 

DERY. 

Ryder,  Frank 

1883 

Foreman. 

Collins,  Dennis  J.     . 

1887 

Finisher. 

Dougan,  William  J. 

1898 

Forwarder. 

Fuerst,  Alexander    . 

1896 

it. 

Hoeffner,  George 

1891 

a 

Ivory,  John  W. 

1893 

a 

Lof Strom,  Konrad  A. 

1892 

i 

Library  Department. 


145 


Xaiiie. 

Entered. 

Position. 

Murphy,  John  F. 

1883 

Forwarder. 

Sullivan,  J.  Heniy    . 

1898 

i  1. 

Hemstedt,  William  P. 

.      1883 

Pressman. 

Bowen,  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 

1876 

Sewer. 

Doiron,  Joanna 

.      1896 

" 

Healey,  Margaret     . 

1899 

" 

Kiley,  Margaret  J.   . 

.      1889 

( i 

Mori  art}',  Mary  (t.    . 

1875 

" 

Nolen,  Sarah    . 

1891 

" 

Potts,  Ellen  F. 

.      18'.I2 

" 

Soule,  Ellen  E. 

IS  91 

( i 

ENGINEER    AND    JANITOR    DEPARTMENT. 

Niederauer,  Henry    .          .     ' 

1894 

Chief  Engineer. 

McCread}',  Alexander 

1895 

Engineer. 

Malone,  John  P. 

1.S95 

K 

O'Neill,  Harry 

1896 

(( 

Zittel,  (George,  Jr.    . 

1891 

i  I 

Herland,  Nils  J. 

1895 

Fireman. 

Moran,  John  A. 

1894 

i  i 

Karlson,  Charles  W. 

1896 

Book  Motors. 

*  Williams,  John  L. 

1886 

Janitor. 

Lawrence,  John  A.  . 

1898 

( ( 

Frye,  Henry     . 

1898 

a 

McCarty,  Dennis 

1888 

Watchman. 

McGee,  Alexander  D. 

1896 

Painter. 

Wall,  Frank  A. 

1897 

Carpenter. 

Hanna,  William  T.  . 

1895 

Marble  polisher. 

Chavies,  Samuel  H. 

1899) 
1898   - 

Elevator  and 

Cole,  William  E.       .          .          . 

Coat  room 

Thomas,  Arthur  C. 

1898  ) 

attendants. 

EAST    B08I 

ON    BRANCH. 

Xame. 

Entered. 

Grade. 

Walkley,  Ellen  0.     . 

1897 

B.   Special. 

Braekett,  Marian  W. 

1897 

C. 

Wing,  Alice  M. 

1873 

C. 

Bickford,  Lillian  A. 

1891 

D. 

Hosea,  George  H.     . 

1873 

Janitor. 

Taylor,  Charles  F.    . 

1897 

(( 

SOUTH    BOS 

TON    BRANCH. 

Bullard,  N.  Josephine 

1883 

B.   Special. 

Eaton,  Ellen  A. 

1873 

C. 

Sampson,  Idalene  L. 

1878 

C. 

McQuarrie,  Annie  C. 

1894 

D. 

Orcutt,  Alice  B. 

.      1887 

D. 

Sumner,  Alice  F.      . 

1897 

D. 

Baker,  Joseph 

1872 

Janitor. 

Charge  of  book  motors,  evenings. 


146 


City  Document  No.  21. 


ROXBURY 


Name. 

Bell,  Helen  M. 
Berry,  Martha  L.  C. 
Puffer,  Dorothy 
Griggs,  Sarah  W. 
Lynch,  Crertrude  A. 
Monahan,  William 


BRANCH. 

Entered. 

1878 
1883 
1878 
1886 
18i)4 
1883 


Grade. 

B.   Special. 

C. 

C. 

D. 

D. 

.Janitor. 


Cartee,  Elizabeth  F. 
Livermore,  Mrs.  Susan  E 
Keagen,  Elizabeth  R. 
O'Neill,  Margaret  M. 
Rogan,  Katharine  S. 
Smith,  Thomas  E.     . 


CIIARLESTOWN    BRANCH. 

1886  B.   Special. 

1885  C. 

189.5  C. 

1892  D. 

1896  D. 

1874  Janitor. 


BRIGHTON 


Hobart,  ]Martha  N.  . 
Conley,  Pollen  E. 
Dale,  M.  Florence    . 
Warren,  Edward  A. 


BRANCH 

1896 
1891 
1895 
1898 


B.   Special. 

C. 

D. 

Janitor. 


Reed,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  T 
Griffith,  Mary  E.      . 
Donovan,  Mary  G.  . 
Kellogg,  Grace  E.    . 
Mefteu,  Margaret 
Davenport,  Edward 


DORCHESTER    BRANCH. 

1873  B.  Special. 

1886  C. 

1891  D. 
1898  D. 

1892  D. 
1875  Janitor. 


SOUTH    END    BRANCH. 


Sheridan,  Margaret  A. 
McKirdy,  AUce  E.    . 
Lynch,  Emma  F. 
Meehan,  Margaret  F. 
Miilloney,  William  J. 


1875 
1896 
1885 
1893 
1892 


B. 
C. 
D. 
D. 
D. 


Special. 


Swain,  Mary  P. 
Riley,  Nellie  F. 
Albert,  Katie  F. 
Kenney,  Thomas  W. 


JAMAICA    PLAIN    BRANCH. 

.  1877  B.  Special, 

.  1.S78  C. 

.  1892  D. 

,  l.si)7  Janitor. 


WEST    END 


Davis,  Mrs.  Eliza  R. 
Barton,  Margaret  S. 
Forbes,  George  W.  , 
Mooney,  Katharine  G. 


BRANCH. 

1877 
1885 


1896 
1885 


Special, 


Library  Department. 


147 


Name. 

Entered. 

Grade. 

Kiley,  Mary  E. 

.      1896 

D. 

Riley,  Mary  E. 

.      1891 

D. 

Kelly,  William  D.     . 

.      1898 

D.  Runn 

Porter,  Frank  C.       . 

.      1896 

D. 

Sullivan,  Daniel  J.   . 

.      1898 

Janitor. 

Morse,  Carrie  L. 
Henderson,  Irene  E. 
Woods,  Euoene  B.    , 


WEST    ROXBURY    BRANCH. 

.      1890         D.   Special. 


1898 
1898 


E. 

Janitor, 


DELIVERY   STATIONS. 
Station.  Custodian.  Grade. 

A.  Lower  Mills  Reading-room Hill,  M.  Addie D.    Special. 

B.  Roslindale  Delivery  .Station. . .  .Davis,  William  W. 

C.  West  Roxbury  Branch See  above. 

D.  Mattapan  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.  Allston  Delivery  Station Howe,  W.  A.  &  Co. 

H.  Ashmont  Delivery  Station ....  Weymouth,  Clara  E. 

.1.  Dorchester  Sta.  Delivery  Sta.. .  .Sexton,  Mrs.  Annie  M. 

K.  Bird-st.  Delivery  Station Morris,  Antoinette. 

L.  No.  Brighton  Reading-room.  ..  Mnldoon,  Katherine  F.  .D.   Special. 

M.  Crescent-ave.  Delivery  Station.. Johnson,  Charles  E.,  &  Co. 

N.  Blue  Hill-ave.  Delivery  Station, Riker,  Mrs.  S.  A. 

■D  xji^o„  -c^i-^^o..-^^  T^„i;,r^  „  cj^„     r  Stewart,  CoraL D.  Special. 

r.  B  way  Extension  Delivery  Sta..  <,  ,,  t^      •       •      a      •  j.     ^        -rv 

*'  •'  [  Myers,  Benjamin,  Assistant.  .  ..D. 

Q.  Upham's  Corner  Delivery  Sta.  .Bird,  Mrs.  Thomas  H: 

R.  Warren-st.  Delivery  Station. .  .Woodward,  C.  E,  &  Co. 

S.  Roxbury-crossing  Delivery  Sta..Yeaton,  E.  Christine..  .  .  D.  Special. 

T.  Boylston  Delivery  Station Locke,  Joseph  B. 

U.  Ward  9  Delivery  Station McGrath,  Amelia  F C. 


EVENING    AND   SUNDAY   SERVICE. 

Central  Library. 

6  P.M.  TO  10  r.M.  Winter  Schedule. 
Sundays,  2  to  lo  P.M. 


Bates  Hall 


Offlcers  in  Charge. 

Chevalier,  Samuel  A. 

Fleischner,  Otto 

Hunt,  Edward  B,     . 

Swift,  Lindsay 
Assistants. 

Roffe,  William  G.  T. 

Walsh,  William  A. 
Central  Desk. 

Buckley,  Pierce  E. 

Reardon,  John  H. 

Williams,  David  L. 


See  Issue  Department 


See  Fine  Arts. 

See  Issue  Department 
See  Deliverers  of  Books 


Hours. 

4 

8 
10 
10 

H 

15i 


4 
20 


148  City  DoouivrENT  No.  21. 


Hours. 


Care  of  Reference  Books. 

Heimann,  Albert  E.          ......  24 

Plunkett,  Albert  J.     See  Newspaper  room         .          .  8 

Collectors  of  Slips. 

McKenzie,  Kenneth           ......  9 

Pearson,  John  A.     See  Runners        ....  7 

Pitts,  James  A.     See  Fine  Arts  Extra  Assistants       .  9 

Runners. 

Beckford,  Fred  A.     See  Cars,  Book-case  and  Runners,  9 

Campbell,  Charles  D.     See  Issue  Dep't  Runners         .  3 

Sullivan,  Frank  T. 10 

Zaugo-,  Otto  E.     See  Issue  Department  Runners        .  3 

Issue  Department. 

Officers  in  Charge. 

Blaisdell,  Fra^nk  C. 20 

Buckley,  Pierce  E.     See  Central  Desk       ...  4 

Chevalier,  Samuel  A.     See  Bates  Hall       ...  8 

Receiver  of  Books. 

Blaisdell,  Fred  W. 25 

Deliverers  of  Books. 

Clarke,  William  S.      See  Indicator.     Runners    .  .        12 

Reardon,  John  H.     See  Central  Desk        .  .  .13 

Care  of  Indicator. 

Clarke,  William  S.   See  Deliverers  of  Books.  Runners,        13 
Hannigan,  Walter  T.     See  Care  of  Tubes  .  .        12 

Assistants  at  Indicator. 

Currier,  Ulysses  S.   G.     .          .         .          .          .          .         7 

Gorman,  John  E.     See  Tubes  and  Juvenile  Library  .         3 
Tenny,  Robert  M.     See  Cars  and  Fine  Arts      .  .        12 

Care  of  Slips. 

Heimann,  Otto  A.   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  7 

Hughes,  John  A.      .......        18 

Desk  Attendant. 

Ford,  Daniel  J.      See  Runners  ....       25 

Care  of  Tubes. 

Gorman,   John  E.     See    Assistants  at  Indicator  and 
Juvenile  Library  ......  3 

Hannigan,  Frank  J.  .  .  .  .  .  .  9 

Hannigan,  Walter  T.     See  Indicator         ...        13 

Care  of  Carriers. 

Beckford,  Fred  A.     See  B.  H.  Runners,  Book-case  and 

Issue  Department  Runners    .....  6^ 

Lucid,  John  F 9 

Roett,  Louis  W.     See  Book-case       ....  3^ 

Tenny,    Robert    M.     See    Indicator   Assistants    and 
Fine  Arts     ........  6 


Library  Department. 


149 


Book-case  Atteudauts. 

Beckforcl,  Fred  A.     See  B.  H.  Ruuuers,  Carriers 

Glover,  John  H.     See  Runners 

Roett,  Louis  W.     See  Cars       .... 

'St.  Louis,  Robert  E.         .  .  .  .  . 

Runners. 

Beckford,  Fred  A.     See    B.    H.    Runners,    Carriers 
and  Boole-case       ...... 

Benson,  Edwin  F.  A. 

Campbell,  Charles  D.     See  B.  H.  Ruuuers 

Clarke,  William  S.   See  Indicator.  Deliverers  of  Books 

Conners,  Timothy  J.  ..... 

Conroy,  Michael  .1 . 

Doyle,  Charles  A.    . 

Ford,  Daniel  J.     See  Desk  Attendant 

Glover,  Johu  H.     See  Book-case  Attendants     . 

Hughes,  Thomas  F. 

Lucid,  Joseph  A.     . 

McFarland,  Peter  V 

Mackinnon,  Bergan  A.     See  Juvenile  Library    . 

Maier,  Joseph  A.     . 

Maiers,  William  C,  Jr.   ..... 

Mayer,  Harry  F.      .....  . 

Martin,  D.  Clifford.     See  Barton  Library  Assistants 

Pearson,  John  A.     See  Collectors  of  Slips 

Trueman,  Nelson  G.         . 

Weller,  Waldo  W.     See  Fine  Arts  Extra  Assistants, 

Zaugg,  Otto  E.     See  B.  H.  Runners 


H 

10 

19 

7 

25 

H 
25 
7 
4 
9 
7 
9 
6 
9 
9 

n 

18 

3 
22 

9 

6^ 


Barton  Library. 

In  Charge. 

Lee,  Francis  W. 

Tiffany,  Edward      . 
Assistants. 

McKiernan,  John  L. 

Martin,  D.  Clifford. 

Smith,  Arthur  E.  F. 


See  Runners    . 
See  Fine  Arts 


Assistants 


16 

16 

12 

8 

12 


Fine  Arts  Department. 

In  Charge. 

Bourne,  Frank  A.    . 

Walsh,  AVilham  A. 
Assistants. 

Smith,  Arthur  E.  F, 

Ward,  Joseph  W.   . 
Extra  Assistants. 

Pitts,  James  A.      See  Collectors  of  Slips 

Shawno,  Robert       .... 

Weller,  Waldo  AV.     See  Runners 


See  Bates  Hall  Assistants 
vSee  Barton  Library  Assistants, 


20 
12 

12^ 
12i 

8 
12 
12 


150 


City  Document  No.  21. 


Pekiodical  Room. 
Conners,  John  F. 


Hours. 


32 


Registration  Desk. 

Fallon,  William  E. 
Keenan,  .Tohn  .J. 

Juvenile  Library. 

Attendants. 

Hall,  Belle  S. 

Kelly,  Charlotte  H. 

Owen,  Marion  L. 
Extra  Attendants. 

Gorman,  .Tohn   E. 
Tubes 

Mackinnou,  Bergan  A 

Russell,  J.  Edward 

Patent  Room. 
Attendants. 

Keenan,  Matthew  T. 
Serex,  Frederic 

Newspaper  Room. 

Attendants. 

Brennan,  Thomas  F. 
Connor,  George  H. 
Plunkett,  Albert  J. 

Replacement  of  Books. 

Barry,  Edward  F.    . 
McCarthy,  Michael,  Jr, 


See  Assistants  at  Indicator  and 


See  Runners 


See  Care  of  Reference  Books 


2H 


6 

H 
H 


4 
4 

28 


16 
16 


12 

16 
4 


12i 
12i 


SUNDAY    SERVICE. 

*  Branch  Librariefi. 

NOVESIBEK    1    TO    MAV    1. 

*  With  the  exception  of  the  West  End  Brancli,  whicli  is  open  Sundajs  througliout 
the  year;  the  regular  weeli-day  attendants  serve  Sundays,  tlieir  compensation  being 
for  seven  days  per  weeli. 

Charlestown  Branch,  2  to  10  P.M. 

In  Charge.  '  Hours. 

Day,  John       ........  8 

Harrington,  Walter  ......  8 

Janitor. 

Smith,  Thomas         .......  8 


Library  Dkpartjment.  151 

East  Boston  Branch,   2  to   10  P.M.  Hours. 

In  Charge  Issue  Desk. 

Bussey,  George  D.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  7 

In  Charge  Reading  Room. 

Hosea,  George  II.    .  .  .  ...  .  .  8 

Heat  .lanitor. 

Taylor,  Charles  F.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  8 

South  Boston  Branch,   2  to  10  P.M. 

In  Charge. 

Orcutt,  Alice  B 7 

Janitors. 

Baker,  .Joseph  .......  8 

Saunders,  Thomas    .......  8 

Station  P,   2  to  6  P.M.,  7  to  9  P.M. 

In  Charge. 

Herr,  Irving    .  .  .  .  .  .  ...  6 

Assistant. 

Brown,  Richard        .......  2 

Station  S,   2  to   (5  P.M.,   7  to  !•  P.M. 

In  Charge. 

Damon,  Helen  G.     .  .  .  .  .  .  .  6 


152  City  Document  No.  21 


APPENDIX  XL 

SYSTEM  OF  SERVICE. 

As  IN  Force  March  31,   1899. 

The  system  of  graded  service  with  provision  for  examinations 
as  set  forth  in  Article  VI.  of  the  By-laws  quoted  l)elow  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  some  cases,  therefore,  the 
salaries  of  present  employees  do  not  yet  accord  precisel}^  with  the 
salaries  of  the  grades  under  which  they  are  classed.  But  increases 
of  salary  that  may  be  recommended  on  the  ground  that  the  ser- 
vice 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.  —  Evarnindtlons.  Semi-annually, 
or  oftener  if  expedient,  examinations  shall  be  held  under  the 
direction  of  the  Librarian,  for  admission,  b}'  promotion  or  other- 
wise, to  all  grades  of  employment  in  the  Public  Library,  except 
the  positions  of  Librarian,  Assistant  Librarian,  Librarian's 
Secretary,  Auditor,  Chief  Cataloguer,  Chief  of  Shelf  Department, 
Custodian  of  Bates  Hall,  Chief  of  Ordering  Department,  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  wliich  they  seek  employment,  ap- 
pointments shall  be  made  by  the  Trustees  upon  nomination  by  the 
Lil)rarian  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  holidays,  and 
of  the  weekly  half-holiday  allowed  by  the  cit}^  ordinance,  to  be 
arranged  by  the  Librarian.  No  allowance  shall  be  made  for 
absence  from  duty  except  as  above  provided. 


Library  Department.  153 

Section  3.  The  President  or  Librarian  shall  have  power  to 
suspend,  with  loss  of  pay,  an}'  person  in  the  Library  service  until 
the  first  succeeding  meeting  of  the  corporation. 

The  following  notice  and  application  blank  are  furnished  to 
applicants  for  euiployuient  in  the  Library  service  : 

Notice  to  Aptlicants  foi;   Employment. 

Applications  nuist  be  made  upon  the  printed  l)lanks  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  be  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,  moreover,  is  regarded  as  a  preliminary  test, 
merely.  It  must  be  followed  by  a  test  of  capacity  iu  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  service. 

The  entire  Library  service  (excepting  the  Engineer,  Janitor, 
and  Printing  Departments  and  the  Bindery,  and  the  Sunday  and 
Evening  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  satisfactory 
to  the  Trustees.  The  maximum  reached,  no  further  increase  is 
possible,  except  by  promotion  to  a  higher  grade.  Such  promotion 
also  is  based  upon  an  examination,  combined,  however,  with  cer- 
tificate 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  ability,  etc.)  are  more  particularly  required. 

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. 


154  City  Document  No.  21. 

To  the  above  general  qualifications  must  be  added  in  each  case 
such  special  qualifications  as  may  be  requisite  for  the  particular 
positions  to  he  filled. 

Herbert  Putnam, 

lAbrarian. 

Blank  for  Application. 

THE    PUBLIC    LIBRARY    OF   THE   CITY    OF   BOSTON. 
application. 

I  lierel)y  make  application  to  be  examined  for  a  position  in 
Grade  of   the  Public    Library   service    of   the  City  of 

Boston. 

As  part  of  my  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.  Wliere  do  you  reside  and  what  is  your  post-office  address? 
(G-ive  town  or  city,  including  street  and  number.) 

3.  How  long  have  you  been  a  resident  of  said  cit}^  or  town? 

4.  Are  you  a  citizen  of  the  United  States? 

5.  What  is  the  date  and  place  of  your  birth? 

6.  What  is  your  father's  and  mother's  full  name?  Give  name 
whether  living  or  dead. 

7.  Have  you  ever  been  examined  for  the  pulUic  service  in 
any  State  or  city?  If  so,  when,  where,  for  what  branch  and 
grade  of  the  service  and  with  what  result? 

8.  Are  you  in  good  health?  Have  you  any  mental  or  physi- 
cal incapacity  of  which  you  are  aware? 

9.  What  is  your  present  occupation  and  what  has  been  your 
past  occupation?  Give  places  and  dates  of  emplo3'ment  as  near 
as  you  can. 

10.  In  what  schools,  academy  or  college  were  you  educated? 
Give  the  name  and  length  of  course  in  each. 

11.  Have  you  any  experience  or  do  you  possess  any  special 
qualifications,  such  as  a  knowledge  of  book-keeping,  stenog- 
raphy, typewriting,  foreign  languages  or  a  familiarity  with  other 
branch  or  branches  of  knowledge,  which  in  your  opinion  would 
be  useful  in  the  service  of  the  Public  Liljrary,  and  not  included 
among  the  requirements  for  the  grade  in  which  you  are  an  appli- 
cant ? 

12.  What  experience  in  library  work  have  you  had? 

13.  In  what  department  of  this  libraiy  do  you  think  3'our 
capacities  would  be  useful? 

[Signature:    all  names  in  full.] 
Bost07i^ 189     . 


Library  Department.  155 

Any  other  facts  you  desire  to  mentiou  :  [Certificates  and  tes- 
timonials may  be  mentioned,  and  copies  may  be  enclosed.  The 
originals  need  not,  unless  called  for.] 

Whe?i  filled  out,  fold  twice,  as  indicated,  and  return  to  the 
Xiibrarian  of  the  Boston  Puhlic  L,ihrary. 


156  City  Document  No.  21, 


APPENDIX   XII. 


CORRESPONDENCE,  BEQUESTS,  ETC. 

Kate  Field  Collection. 

Boston,  April  20,  1898. 
Herbert  Pltxam,  Esq., 

Librarian.  Public  Library  : 

My  Dear  Mr.  Putnam,  —  Last  autumn  you  most  kiudly  ac- 
ceded to  my  desire  to  be  permitted  to  give  to  the  Library  the 
MSS.  and  autograph  letters,  from  famous  persons,  belonging  to 
Kate  Field  ;  and  I  have  just  now  received,  by  this  morning's 
mail,  a  letter  from  Mr.  T.  Sanford  Beaty,  the  executor  and  the 
chief  and  residuary  legatee  of  Miss  Field,  a  letter  saying : 
' '  It  seems  to  me  a  most  charming  idea  to  so  preserve  dear  Miss 
Field's  MSS.,  and  I  should  certainly  advise  you  to  turn  them  over 
to  Mr.  Putnam." 

Mr.  Beaty  has  just  returned  from  a  long  absence ;  and  while  I 
knew  he  would  approve  this,  I  had  no  right  to  do  so  until  1  had 
his  official  permission. 

That  Miss  Field's  memoiy  may  be  thus  "kept  green "  by  a 
"Kate  Field  Collection'"  in  the  noble  Library  fulfils  the  dearest 
wish  of  my  heart. 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

(Signed)  Lilian  Whitinc^. 


Library  of  the  American  Statistical  Association. 

Boston,  Mass.,  June  16,  1898. 

To  the  Trustees  of  the  Loston  Public  Library : 

G-ENTLEjrEN,  —  The  American  Statistical  Association,  of  which 
General  Walker  was  President  for  so  many  years,  until  the  time 
of  his  death,  and  of  which  Colonel  Wright  is  now  President,  has 
a  valuable  library  of  statistical  works,  especially  rich  in  public 
documents  of  foreign  countries.  ...  At  the  last  meeting  of 
the  Association,  held  in  April  of  this  year,  the  Libraiy  Commit- 
tee of  the  Association  was  given  power  to  transfer  the  library  to 


Library  Department.  157 

the  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  if  they  were  willing  to 
accept  the  gift,  the  only  condition  being  that  the  purely  statisti- 
cal portion  of  the  library  should  be  kept  together,  and  that  mem- 
bers of  the  Association  should  have  free  access  to  the  shelves  of 
this  collection.  In  the  wish  that  this  collection  be  kept  together, 
there  is  no  desire,  however,  to  handicap  the  Public  Library  in 
any  way  in  the  administration  of  its  work.  Undoubtedly  there 
are  many  pubUc  documents  which  are  duplicates  of  those  in  the 
Public  Library.  If  so,  those  volumes  of  the  Statistical  Associa- 
tion should  be  separated  and  given  to  some  other  institution. 
Other  works  which  are  not  of  a  statistical  character,  which  have 
found  their  way  into  the  Library  of  our  Association,  should  also 
be  separated  and  shelved  according  to  the  general  classification 
now  in  use  by  the  Public  Library. 

Yours  very  truly, 
(Signed)  Davis  E.  Dewey, 

Secretary. 

I  should  add  that  current  periodicals  and  issues  received  by 
the  Association  would  be  given  to  the  Library  at  stated  dates. 


Bust  of  Sir  Walter  Scott. 

BoLESiDE,  Galashiels,  N.  B.,  21st  July,  1898. 

The  Sir  Walter  Scott  Memorial. 

Sir,  — The  United  States  Ambassador  has  sent  me  your  letter 
to  him  of  the  6th  instant,  accepting,  on  behalf  of  the  City  of 
Boston,  of  the  bust  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  purchased  by  the  West- 
minster Committee  from  Mr.  Hutchison,  R.S.A.,  Edinburgh, 
with  their  surplus  funds,  and  intended  for  the  Public  Library  of 
your  city.  I  shall,  accordingly,  at  once  cause  the  bust  to  be  for- 
warded to  the  care  of  Your  Honor.  I  believe  that  it  will  be  ap- 
preciated, not  only  as  a  beautiful  work  of  art,  but  as  affording  the 
citizens  of  Boston  the  gratification  of  having  amongst  them  a  very 
faithful  counterpart  of  the  features  of  that  great  genius,  whose 
shrine  so  many  of  them  annually  visit.  It  is  a  very  perfect 
copy  of  the  famous  Chantrey  Bust  in  Abbotsford,  and  is,  as  you 
are  aware,  a  duplicate  of  that  placed  last  year  in  Westminster 
Abbey.  I  enclose  a  list  of  the  subscribers  to  the  Westminster 
Bust,  which  may  not  be  without  interest  to  the  Library  Trustees. 
have  the  honor  to  be,  Mr.  Mayor, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

(Signed)  Richard  Lees. 


158  City  Document  No.  21. 


The  Hox.  Josiah  Qlincy, 

Mai/ or  of  Boston ,    U.   S.  America. 

The    Westminster    Committee    on    the     Sir    Walter    Scott 
Memorial,  Richard  Lees,  Honorary   Secretary: 

Sir,  — The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  in  the  City  of 
Boston  have  received  from  His  Honor,  Josiah  Quincy,  Mayor, 
the  Bust  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  purchased  by  the  Westminster 
Committee  from  ]Mr.  Hutchison,  R.S.A.,  for  deposit  in  this 
Library, 

We  are  glad  to  have  so  faithful  a  copy  of  Chantrey's  celebrated 
work  among  our  treasures  of  literatui'e  and  art,  and  we  are  grate- 
ful for  the  generosity  of  the  subscribers,  and  still  more  for  the 
siDirit  which  has  prompted  the  gift. 

We  recognize  in  this  act  of  international  courtesy  a  mark  of 
that  growing  harmony  of  interests  between  the  two  leading  pow- 
ers in  the  civilization  of  the  world,  which,  if  sometimes  latent, 
always  has  been  strong  beneath  all  disturbing  incidents,  and 
which,  well  directed,  may  be  the  assurance  of  peace  and  pros- 
perity to  the  nations  of  the  earth. 

The  patrons  of  this  Library  will  always  view  with  admiration 
the  l)ust  of  this  great  magician  who  touched  all  the  incidents  of 
history,  the  customs  of  the  period  and  the  eminent  characters  of 
the  time,  bringing  them  into  finished  and  immortal  pictures  which 
have  put  succeeding  ages  under  grateful  obligations. 

If  Sir  Walter's  genius  was  descriptive  rather  than  creative 
there  yet  runs  through  all  his  writings  such  a  loftiness  and  purity 
of  moral  sentiment  that  they  have  furnished  the  world  with  avast 
amount  of  cheer  and  hope,  and  we  rejoice  to  find  that  this  delight 
which  he  has  already  provided  for  three  generations  shows  no  de- 
cline in  the  readers  of  a  great  Pul)lic  Library  to-day. 

With    highest  respect   and   esteem,   the  Trustees  of   the  Public 
Library  of  the  City  of  Boston  : 

(Signed)       Frederick  O.  Prince,  President. 
.losiAH  H.  Benton,  Jr., 
h.  p.  bow^ditch, 
James  De  Normandie, 
Solomon  Lincoln. 
Herbert  Putnam, 

Librarian  and  Clerk  of  the  Corporation. 

Dated  at  Boston,  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
U.S.A.,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1898,  and  of  the  founding  of 
the  city,  269. 


Library  Department.  159 


Original  Blocks  of  Wood  Engravings,  Executed  by  Egbert 
Louis  Stevenson. 

Care  of  Mitchell  it  Baxter,  W.  S.,  Jl  South  Charlotte  Street, 

Edinburgh,  Scotland,  November  8,  1808. 

Secretary,   Boston  Library  : 

Dear  Sir,  —  Mrs.  R.  L.  Stevenson  begs  me  to  write  and  ask 
you  whether  the  Library  would  care  to  receive  as  a  gift  a  set  of 
twenty-four  wood  engravings  (original  blocks)  executed  by  her 
husband,  the  well-known  novelist?  Fac-siniile  impressions  of 
these  blocks  were  used  in  the  Bonus  Volume  of  the  "Edinburgh 
Edition  "  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson's  works,  and  must  therefore 
be  already  known  to  you.  At  present  the  blocks  are  in  the 
possession  of  Messrs.  Constable  &  Co.,  the  Edinburgh  printers, 
who  are  printing  from  them  a  limited  number  of  copies  for 
certain  subscribers  on  the  understanding  that  when  the  work  is 
completed  the  blocks  shall  be  handed  to  a  pul)lic  institution  which 
shall  bind  itself  that  they  shall  never  be  used  again.  Would  your 
great  Library,  therefore,  be  willing  to  receive  these  blocks  on  this 
pledge  of  never  re2yrocli(cinf/  copies  from  them.''  The  blocks 
are  valuable  only  from  the  sentiment  and  association  attached 
to  them. 

If  the  Library  should  be  willing  to  accept  them,  might  1  ask 
you  to  write  accordingly  to  Mr.  Charles  Baxter  .  .  .  the 
late  Mr.  Stevenson's  executor  —  whom  I  have  instructed  to  send 
you  the  blocks  on  the  completion  of  the  volume  at  present  in 
Messrs.  Constable's  hands.  Mrs.  Stevenson  is  leaving  in  a 
week's  time  for  ^Madeira,  where  she  is  to  spend  the  winter,  and  is 
therefore  unable  to  take  charge  of  the  matter  herself. 

I  remain 

Very  trulj^  yours, 
(Signed)  Lloyd  Osbourne. 


Henry  Sargent  Codman  Memorial. 

Brookline,  January  i',  1899. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Puhlic  Library  : 

Gentlemen,  —  Under  date  of  May  24,  1897,  and  January  21, 
1898,  your  Board  has  received  from  Mr.  Charles  F.  McKim  com- 
munications with  reference  to  a  fund  which  friends  of  the  late 
Henry  Sargent  Codman  of  Brookline  propose  to  turn  over  to 
the  Boston  Public  Library  to  be  known  as  the  Henry  Sargent 
Codman  Memorial  Fund. 

Mr.  McKim  addressed  you  as  Trustee  of  the  fund,  and  under 
date  of  January  21  he  enclosed  a  check  for  the  amount  then  on 
hand,  $2,852.41. 


160  City  Document  No.  21. 

He  communicated  to  you  the  aim  of  the  donors  that  the  fund 
should  be  used  "  to  perpetuate  the  memory  "  of  Mr.  Codmau 
"■  by  keeping  alive,  maintaining,  and  from  time  to  time  adding  to 
the  plants,  trees,  and  other  foliage,  within  the  Public  Library, 
provided  this  should  be  acceptable  to  the  Trustees." 

Since  the  above  was  written,  consideration  has  induced  the 
donors  of  the  fund  to  believe  that  it  might  more  effectively  be 
utilized  in  some  other  way,  for  instance,  particularly  by  the  pur- 
chase of  books  upon  landscape  gardening. 

1  am  now  authorized,  acting  in  behalf  of  Mr.  McKim  as  well  as 
of  the  various  contributors  to  the  fund,  to  assent  to  this  disposal 
of  the  fund.  And  this  assent  applies  both  to  the  amount  already 
turned  in  and  to  any  contributions  that  may  l)e  subsequently 
added  to  it. 

It  is  the  desire  of  the  donors  that  a  special  book-plate  shall  be 
inserted  in  each  one  of  the  volumes  purchased  from  the  fund, 
identifying  it  as  part  of  this  memorial  collection. 

"N'ery  truly  yours, 
(Signed)  M.  R.  Sargent. 


Library  Department. 


161 


APPENDIX     XIII. 


GIFTS. 

See  also  pp.  5,  10,  21,  23,  2G-2y  of  main  body  of  report. 

Givers     ........ 

Volumes  ....... 

Numbers  ....... 

Photographs,  engravings,  etc. 

Newspaper  subscriptions.      (Gift  of  tlie  publishers) 

1.     Endowments. 

January  2,  1899.  From  tlie  friends  of  the  late 
Henry  Sargent  Codman  for  the  purchase  of 
books  on  landscape  gardening,  the  sum  of 


1,946 

11,245 

15,560 

309 

69 


!,852  41 


2,     Works  of  Art. 

From  the  Committee  on  the  Scott  Memorial  in  '\^'^estminster 
Abbey,  a  copy  in  marble  (by  John  Hutchison,  R.S.A.)  of 
the  bust  of  Sir  Walter  Scott  by  Chantrey. 


3.     Miscellaneous  Gifts  of  Money. 

From   Miss   Lilian    Whiting,    for    arranging  the   Kate 
Field  Collection  of  Manuscript  Letters,  the  sum  of 


4.     Photographs,  Engravings,  etc. 


Abbot  Memorial  Library 
Anonymous    . 
Avery,  Samuel  P.  . 
Ball,  William  T.  W. 
Barnard,  James  M. 
Bayridge  Free  Library    . 
Boston  City  Hospital 
Boston  Browning  Society 
Brockton  Public  Library 
Brown,  Dr.  Francis  H.  . 
Bullivant,  William  M.     . 
Carnegie  P'ree  Library     . 
Butte  Free  Public  Library 
Case  Memorial  Library  . 
Chevalier,  Samuel  A. 
Columbia  University 

Coolidge,  Baldwin  . 
Curtis  &  Cameron  . 
Erie  Public  Library 


$25  00 


1  Photograph. 
10  Photographs. 

2  Engravings. 

1  Silver  Medal. 
1  Photograph. 

1  " 

2  Photographs. 
3 

2  " 

4  Engravings. 

1  Bronze^Medal. 

1  Photograph. 

2  Photographs. 

2  " 

1  Photograph. 
1  Photograph  and 
1  Bronze  Medal. 

3  Photographs. 

4  " 

3  Illustrations. 


162 


City  Document  No.  21. 


Everett,  Fred  E 

Fleiscliner,  Otto     .... 

Foster,  .John  R.,  and  Stephen  B.     . 

Foster,  William  E.  .  .  . 

Gail  Borden  Public  Librar}^ 

'Green,  Dr.  Samuel  A.    . 

Greenough,  J.  F.    . 

Groton  Public  Library    . 

Hamilton  Pu1)lic  Library 

Hartford  Free  Library    . 

Heaton,  A.  G.        . 

Hubbard  Free  Library    . 

Iconographic  Society 

Illinois  College,  .Tones  .Memorial  Library 

Indianapolis  PuV)lic  Library 

James  Prendergast  Free  Lil)rary 

King,  George  R.     . 

Knapp,  Arthur  Mason     . 

Meekin's  Library    .... 

Monks,  Br.  George  H.   . 


New  York  Public  Library 
Omaha  Public  Librar}'     . 
Osterhout  Free  Library  . 
Pasadena  Public  Library 
Peck  Memorial  Library  . 
Perabo,  Ernst         .... 
Putnam,  Misses  Shirley  and  Brenda 
Richards  Library    .... 
San  P'rancisco  Mercantile  Library    . 
Sargent,  Br.  Dudley  A. 
Small,  Maynard  &  Co.    . 

Smith,  Miss  Sarah  S.      . 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  Robert  Louis 


Stokes,  3Iiss  Caroline  P.  .  .  . 

Switzerland.     Bureau    International    des 

Administrations  Telegraphiques 
Tufts  Library 

United  States  Naval  Academy 
"Warren,  Samuel  M. 
Watts  de  Peyster  Library 
"VMiitney,  James  L. 
Winona  Fi'ce  Public  Library    . 
Wiuslow,  Lieut.- Com.  Herbert,  U.S.N. 
Winther,  Charles  A.  G. 


1  Photograph. 
LS  Photographs. 


1  Photograph. 
1  Engraving. 
4  Drawings. 
1  Engraving. 
4  Photographs. 
1  Photograph. 
1  " 

3  Photographs. 
1  Etching. 

1  Engraving. 

1  Photograph. 

1 

1)  Photographs. 

1  Photograph. 

1  '^ 

117  Photographs  and 
Engravings, 

2  AVater  Colors. 

4  Photograi)hs. 
1  Photograph. 

I 

1  " 

1  " 

2  Photographs. 

1  Drawing  (framed). 
1  Photograph. 

5  Photoo'raphs. 

6  ^' 

27  Photographs  and 
Prints. 
1  Engraving. 
24  Wooden  Blocks, 
engraved  by 
Mr.  Stevenson. 
1  Engraving 
(framed). 

8  Charts. 

1  Photograph. 

2  Photographs. 
1  Copperplate. 

1  Print. 

13  Photographs. 

2  "" 

1  Photograph. 
1  Enoravino-. 


LiBKAKY  Department. 


163 


5.     Books,  Newspapers  and  Periodicals. 


Abbott,  Rev.  Edward,  Cambridge^  Mass. 

Abbott,  Dr.  Samuel  W 

Abbott  Memorial  Library,  Dexter,  Me.        .         .         1  plan 
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Valentine,  John  J.,  San  Fraiicisico,  Cal. 
Vance,  Mrs.  Frank  L.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
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Vermont  State  Library,  Montpelier,  Vt. 
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Venezuela.  Legaciou  de  los  Estados  I'nidos  de  Venezuela 

Washington,  D.C 

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Virginia  Agricultural   Experiment   Station,   Blacksburg. 

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Walker,  David  R.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.   . 

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Walton,  Dr.  George  L.  . 

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Ware,  Arthur  L.   . 

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Washburn,  Prof.  Fredex'ick  L.,  Eugene,  Ore. 
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Woburn  Public  Library,  Wohitrn,  Mas!^.     . 

Wolcott,  Governor  Koger 

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ton,  England      ........ 

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Church 

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Woodruff,  Thomas  T.,  La  Junta,  ('ol. 
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Yersin,  Misses  M.  and  J.,  Neio  York  City  . 

Y^oneyama,  U.,  Tokio,  Japan 

Young,  Prof.  C.  Howard,  Hartford.  Conn. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Associations  of  North  America, 

International  Committee,  Trustees  of,  Neio  York  City, 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  the  Citv  of  New 

Y^ork 

Zaborowski,  Dr.  S.,  Paris,  France 
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APPENDIX     XIV 


ORDERS  OF  THE  CITY  COUNCIL  AND  MEMORANDUM 
OF    PETITIONS,    ETC. 

The  following  nre  the  orders  passed  l)}^  the  City  Government 
during  the  year  ending  January  31,  18'.)9,  which  have  been  com- 
municated to  the  Trustees  as  affecting  the  Library  Department : 

City  of  Boston, 
In  Boakd  of  Aldermen,  March  7,  1898. 
Ordered^  That  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  be  requested 
to  include  in  their  estimates  of  appropriation  for  the  Library 
Department  for  the  current  year  the  sum  of  fifteen  hundred 
(1,500)  dollars  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  reading-room 
and  delivery  station  of  the  Public  Library,  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
junction  of  Hampden  and  Dudley  streets,  Roxbur3\ 

Passed.     Sent    down    for   concurrence.    "March    10    came    up 
concurred. 
A  true  copy. 
Attest : 

(Signed)  John  T.  Priest, 

Assistant  City  Clerk. 


City  of  Boston, 
In  Common  Council,,  March  24,  1898. 

Ordered.,  That  the  Trustees  of  the  Pul)lic  Library  be  authorized 
to  draw  from  the  city  treasury  the  sum  of  fifteen  hundred  (1,500) 
dollars  to  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Library  Auditor  for 
meeting  petty  current  expenses,  to  be  accounted  for  before  the 
close  of  the  fiscal  year ;  the  same  to  be  charged  to  the  appropria- 
tion for  the  Library  Department. 

Passed.     Sent  up  for  concurrence. 


In  Board  of  Aldermen,  March  28. 
Concurred.     Approved  by  the  Mayor,  March  31,  1898. 
A  true  copy. 
Attest : 

(Signed)  John  T.  Priest, 

Assistant  City  ClerJc. 


Library  Department.  197 

City  of  Boston, 
In  Common  Council,  May  19,  189S. 

Ordered^  That  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library,  through  His 
Honor  the  Mayor,  be  requested  to  erect  a  flag-staff  and  fly  a  flag- 
therefrom,  in  front  of  the  Central  Library  Building  ;  the  expense 
of  the  same  to  be  charged  to  Library'  Appropriation. 

Passed.     Sent   up    for  concurrence. 


In  Board  of  Aldermen,  May  23. 
Concurred. 

The  foregoing  order  was  presented  to    the   Mayor,  May    24, 
1898,  and  was  not  returned  by  him  within  ten  days  thereafter. 
A  true  coi:)y. 
Attest : 

(Signed)  John  T.  Priest, 

Assistant  City  Clerk-. 

The  following  reply  of  the  Librarian,  dated  June  9,  1898,  was 
approved  by  the  Trustees  June  10,  1898  : 

June  9,  1898. 
Hon.  Josiah  Qdincy, 

Mayor  : 

Dear  Sir,  —  In  behalf  of  the  Trustees  I  beg  to  acknowledge 
the  receipt  of  a  copy  of  an  order  of  the  City  Council  as  follows  : 
(Order  as  above.) 

With  reference  to  the  above  I  beg  to  state  that  there  is  already, 
and  has  been  for  some  time  past,  a  flag-staff  projectinf/  in  front 
of  the  Library  building ;  and  that  a  flag  has  been  displayed 
thereon  consecutively  for  weeks  past,  and  was  so  displayed 
at  the  time  the  above  order  was  introduced. 

Very  respectfully, 

(Signed)  Herbert  Putnam, 

Librarian. 


City  of  Boston, 
In  Common  Council,  December  29.  1898. 

Ordered,  That  the  Trustees  of  the  PubUc  Library  be  requested, 
through  His  Honor  the  Mayor,  to  submit  to  the  Board  of  Appor- 
tionment in  their  annual  estimates,  an  additional  sum  of  two 
thousand  (2,000)  dollars,  to  be  expended  for  the  establishment 


11^8  City  Document  No.  21. 

of    a   reading-room    in    the   vicinity    of    Andrew    square,   Soutli 
Boston. 

Passed.     Sent  up  for  conciUTence. 


In  Board  of  Aldermen,  December  .31. 
Concurred. 

A  true  copy. 

Attest : 

(Signed)  John  T.  Priest, 

Assistcmt  City  Clerk. 


City  of  Boston, 
In  Common  Council,  January  26,  1899. 

Ordered^  That  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library,  through  His 
Honor  the  Mayor,  be  requested  to  estabhsh  a  reading-room  in 
Ward  13. 

In  Common  Council,  January  26,  1899. 
Referred  to  His  Honor  the  Mayor. 

(Signed)  Daniel  J.  Kiley, 

President. 


City  of  Boston, 
In  Common  Council,  January  26,  1899. 

Ordered,  That  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  be  requested 
and  authorized,  through  His  Honor  the  Mayor,  to  establish  a 
Public  Reading-room  in  the  building  formerly  the  pumping 
station,  and  now  used  for  ward-room  purposes,  on  Elmwood 
street,  Roxbury. 

Frederick  W.   Klemm,  Ward  21. 

In  Common  Council.  January  26,  1899. 
Referred  to  His  Honor  the  Mayor. 

(Signed)  Daniel  .1.   Kiley, 

President. 


Memoranda . 


Two  petitions  were  received  during  the  3^ear,  one  from  residents 
praying  for  a  Branch  Library  at  Grove  Hall,  one  from  District 
13  Conference  of  the  Associated  Charities,  for   a  Reading-room 


Library  Depabtjvient.  199 

aud  Delivery  Station  in  Ward  17.  In  addition,  conunuuications 
have  been  received  from  seven  private  soiirce.s  recomnieudiug  the 
establishment  of  stations  in  several  sections  of  the  city. 

From  time  to  time  question  has  been  raised  as  to  the  proper 
form  of  a  gift  or  bequest  for  the  benefit  of  the  Library.  The 
following  form  is  therefore  appended.  The  Trustees  are  a 
corporation,  and  are  entitled  to  receive  and  hold  bequests.  Gifts 
or  bequests  to  the  city  for  the  benefit  of  the  Library  would  of 
course  be  equally  applied  to  its  uses  : 

Form  of  Bequest. 

I  give  and  bequeath  unto  The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library 
of    the   City  of  Boston,  a  corporation  created  by    and  existing 
under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  the  sum  of 
dollars,  to  be  applied  for  the  benefit  of  the  Public  Library  of  the 
City  of  Boston. 


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