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FIFTY-SECOND
ANNUAL REPORT
I903-I904
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
ON FEBRUARY I, 1904.
SOLOMON LINCOLN, President.
Term expires May i, 1906.
JOSIAH H. BENTON, jR. JAMES DeNORMANUIE.
Term expires May i, 1904. Term expires May i, 1905.
THOMAS F. BOYLE. - THOMAS DWIGHT.
Term expires May i, 1907. Term expires May 1, 1908.
Librarian.
HORACE G. WADLIN.
^Vith the Compliments of
THE TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE
CITY OF BOSTON.
FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE TRUSTEES
Public Library
CITY OF BOSTON
I903-I904
BOSTON
MUNICIPAL PRINTING OFFICE
1904
CONTENTS.
Page.
Report of the Trustees . . . . . .1
Report of the Librarian ...... 6
Report of the Examixing Committee .... 48
Appendixes :
I. Financial Statement ...... 53
II. I^xtent of the Library by years .... 76
III. Net Increase of the Several Departments, includ-
ing Branches . . . . . . .77
IV, Classification : Central Library . . l)roadside
V. Classification : liranches ..... 80
VI. Registration ..... broadside
VII. Circulation 83
VIII. Trustees for Plfty-two Years. — Librarians . . 85
IX. Examining Committees for Fifty-two Years . . .S7
X. Library Service, including Sunday and Evening
Service ........ 91
XI. Givers and Gifts 101
Index to the Annual Report, 1003-1904.
MILTON
iKKfcb Map
BOSTON
Public Library System
A. Lower Mills Reading Room, Washington,
B. Roslindale Reading Room, Washingti
e. South End Readini
D Mattapan Rtadini;
■. Richmond St.
Ashland St.
Room, Parker Memorial Uuildini;, 55 Herkeley ;
Oakland St.
Allston FM
Uorchuslijr .si.
North IJriHlUo
I a , S7" Talbot Ave.
,ii ijLii'.ciy Station, 157 Norfolk St
i'.iitlinB Room, 56 Market St.
: Delivery Station, wii Dorchester
ons Feb, i, 1904.
N. Mt. Pleasant Reading Room, Dudley, cor. Magazine Si.
P. Broadway Extension Reading Room, 13 Broadway Exte
Q. Upham's Corner Delivery Station, 75a Dudley St.
R, Warren Street Delivery Station, aaq Warren St.
S. Roxbury Crossing Reading Room, 1154 TremoiU St.
T. Boylston Delivery Station. Lamartine, cor. Paul (.'lorc Si
U. Ward Nine Delivery Station, 6a Union Park St.
W Industrial School Reading Room, 39 North Hennet St.
Y. Andrew Square Reading Room, John A. Andrew School H
Z. Orient Heights Reading Room, 1030 Bennington St.
•i. North Street Reading Room, 207 North St.
LIBRARY SYSTEM, FEBRUARY 1, 1904.
Dkpartments.
Opened.
Volumes
Jan. 31,
1904.
Home use.
Volumes,
1903-1904.
Central Library, Copley eq. Established May 2, 1854. ..
X East Boston Branch, 37 Meridian st
§ Soutli Boston Branch, 372 Broadway
II Roxbury Branch, 46 Millmont st
X Charlestown Branch, City sq
t Brighton Branch, Academy Hill rd
X Dorchester Branch, Arcadia, cor. Adams st
X South End Branch, English High School Building,
Montgomery st
X Jamaica Plain Branch, Curtis Hall, Centre st
X West Poxbury Branch, Centre, near Mt. Vernon st. . .
t West End Branch, Cambridge, cor. Lynde st
Station A. Lower Mills Reading Room, Washington st.
B. Roslindale Reading Room, Washington, cor.
Ashland st
C. South End Reading Room, 55 Berkeley st. . .
D. Mattapan Reading Room, River, cor. Oak
land st
E. Neponset Delivery Station, 49 Walnut st
F. 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, 157 Nor-
folk st
L. North Brighton Reading Room, 56 Market St..
M. Crescent Avenue Delivery Station, 1011 Dor-
• Chester ave
N. Mt. Pleasant Reading Room, Dudley, cor
Magazine st
Broadway Extension Reading
Broadway Extension
Room, 13
Upham's Corner Delivery Station, 752 Dud-
ley 8t
Warren Street Delivery Station, 329 Warren
st
Roxbury Crossing Reading Room, ll.')4 Tre-
mont st
Boylston Delivery Station, Lamartine, cor.
Paul Gore st
U. Ward Nine Deliverv Station, 62 Union Park
st ."
Industrial School Reading Room, 39 North
Bennet st
Andrew Square Reading Room, John A.
Andrew School-house, Dorchester st
Orient Heights Reading Room, 1030 Benning-
ton st
22. North Street Reading Room, 207 North st.
Total .
Mar. 11,
Jan. 28,
May 1,
July,
*Jan.,
*Jan.,
Jan. 25,
Aug.,
Sept.,
*Jan. 6
Feb. 1
June 7
Dec. 3
Mar. 31
Dec. 27
Jan. 1
Nov. 1
Mar. 11
July 26:
Nov. 12
May 9
June 25
Apr. 29
Jan. 16
Mar. 16
May 1
Jan. 18
Nov. 1
Dec. 27
Nov. 3;
Jan. 5
June 25
June 9
1895
1871
1872
1873
1874
1874
1875
1877
1877
1880
1896
1875
1878
1902
1881
1883
1886
1889
1890
1890
1892
1892
1892
1896
1896
1896
1897
1897
1898
1899
1901
1901
1903
663,094
13,665
15,570
34,917
29,974
16,010
18,176
14,149
14,467
5,693
13,435
163
2,973
147
1.56
1,525
169
2,353
367
104
23C
782
219
848,884
418,681
81, .507
100,417
85,583
53,442
37,965
61,420
85,586
56,571
28,087
138,456
7,036
40,961
10,973
5,400
9,300
19,250
11,033
9,030
10,761
5,773
9,609
16,1.57
27,420
16,078
13,222
15,696
10,758
22,052
8,767
7,591
8,336
4,069
* As a branch.
t In buildings owned by the City, and exchisively devoted to library uses.
X In City buildings, in part devoted to other municipal uses.
§ Occupies rented rooms.
II The lessee of the Fellows Athenreum, a private library association.
To His Honor Patrick A. Collins,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
The Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston
present the following report of its condition and activities
for the year ending January 31, 190-1, being the fifty-second
annual report.
Dr. Thomas D wight, whose term expired on April 30,
1908, oas reappointed a Trustee for five years, from May 1,
1903. The Board was organized in jNIay, 1903, by the
election of Mr. Solomon Lincoln as President and James
De Normandie, D.D., as Vice-President. Miss Delia Jean
Deery was re-elected Clerk of the Corporation.
In accordance with the ordinance of the city directing that
an Examining Committee shall be appointed annually by the
Trustees to examine the Library and make report of its con-
dition, the Trustees appointed the follownig persons for the
present year :
Charles S. Hamlin,
Chairman^
Miss Mary Boyle O'Eeilly,
Secretary,
Mrs. John A. Bellows,
Frank H. Briggs,
John S. Concannon,
Dr. William H. Devine,
William J. Doogue, jr.,
Dr. E. Peabody Gerry,
.John C. Gray,
.lohn Lathrop,
City Document Xo. 24.
Daniel O. S. Lowell, •
Miss Anna S. McDonald,
Edward A. McLaiighlin,
Miss Maud M. Eoelr^ell,
Heniv S. Eowe,
J. Montgomery Sears,
N. L. Sheldon,
Hazard Stevens,
Mrs. James J. Storrow,
Eev. James N. Supple,
Mrs John Tetlow,
Lucius Tattle,
Frederic P. Vinton,
Rev. James A. Walsh,
and their report which is herewith submitted has received
tlie careful consideration of the Trustees. It represents the
views and suggestions of a large committee who reside in all
parts of the city, who look at the Library from a different
standpoint from those who are daily engaged in its adminis-
tration, and whose recommendations may be of real value to
the Trustees.
The reports of all the departments of the Library will be
found joined to this report, giving a full account of the regu-
lar operations of the Library during the present year, with
all the information the public can desire to have in regard to
the practical results and the needs of the Library, and it is
only b}^ a careful examination of these that the public can
understand the varied interests and the large and increasing
place the Library fills in the literary and educational interests
of the city.
The Trustees invite special attention to the valuable and
interesting report mIucIi the Librarian makes of the first year
of his charge of the Library, and to the careful and wise
views he presents in regard to each department, to fiction, to
the Branches and Stations, to the work with the schools, and
the information about purchase, circulation, and home use of
books, newspapers, and manuscripts, the bulletins, the lec-
tures, the examinations, and the gifts the library has
received.
The following figures exhibit the receipts and expendi-
tures during the past year :
Receipts.
City appropriation . . . §.'l().'),r)00 00
Income from trust funds . . i;?,331> 33
Miscellaneous sources, gifts, etc.,
including cash on deposit in Lon-
don and unexi)endod balnnces of
trust funds .... 17,0o2 39
Carr ied foricard
$335, 8iU 72
S335,891 72
Library Department. 3
Brought forward . ..... $335,891 72
Expenditures.
Salaries, including Printing and
-1 Binding Departments . . $197,420 28
Books 39,928 '2%
Periodicals 5,922 07
Newspapers . . • . 1,757 73
General maintenance . . . 74,977 02
320,005 38
Balance *S15,886 34
There lias been, during the year, a large increase in the
stations and delivery agencies of the Library. There are
now one hundred and eighty-five in place of one hundred
and fifty-six last year, largely due, as w^ill be seen by the
Librarian's report, to the work in the schools; but it is evi-
dent that the very generous appropriation of the city cannot
be equal to these multiplying demands to have stations so
near together. It is not always an unminglecl literary interest
which makes these petitions, and the early enthusiasm often
dies away, while the expenses steadily grow. When a station
does not maintain nor increase its usefulness it becomes a
serious question whether it should not be merged with some
neighboring one, where the rooms for children and for
adult readers may be larger, the light better, the air purer,
with a larger supply of books and journals and papers,
making the whole much ampler in its Library accommoda-
tions ; in other words, whether the number of small stations
is not out of proportion to their usefulness.
The number of volumes added to the Library during the
year was 39,280, and the year before 34,635. The number
of volumes in the Library at the end of the year was 848,884,
so that we are now rapidly approaching the v^st total of one
million volumes.
Tlie Trustees have to record with great gratitude the
receipt during the year of the legacy of one hundred thou-
sand dollars from the estate of Mr. Robert C. Billings, an
estimable Boston merchant, and also in addition the sum
of eight thousand nine hundred and two dollars from his
executor for the medallion bust of Mr. Billings by Mr. St.
Gaudens, which is now in the court of the Library. The
Trustees also record with gratitude the gift of five thousand
*Thi8 balance is composed of certain items of trust fund income, accrued interest
on deposit, etc., as shown in the Auditor's detailed statement, Appendix I., page 63.
4 City Document Xo. 24.
dollars from Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis of Boston, and they have
established the same as a fund to be designated the Mrs.
John A. Lewis Fund, the income of which shall be used to
increase the collection known as the John A. Lewis Library.
The Library needs these gifts to supplement the generosity of
the city, and the Trustees would appeal to its friends to
remember that the appropriation of the city can never be
entirely equal to its effective w^ork. It needs, and will
always need, other funds to procure at rare opportunities
and without delay valuable collections of books, libraries of
special students, works of historical or literary or artistic
merit, which give to a Library great distinction.
The Trustees feel that one purpose of the Library is to aid
our rapidly increasing foreign population to find here good
reading in the English language, which they are all so eager
to understand, and that older persons, who can never become
quite familiar with it, should have a fair proportion of l)ooks
in their mother tongues.
In the early days. Public Libraries were looked upon with
much favor as helping young persons in every literary way
after they had finished their school years. The aid the
Library might give in all the work of the schools, or the
encouragement and enjoyment it might afford almost before
the school life begins, was not realized. The Trustees look
with interest and satisfaction upon the opportunities the
Library is offering to children — a field wliich is capable of
great expansion and usefulness.
While the Trustees would offer proper opportunity for
entertainment and information to the superficial inquirer,
they also regard it as of the greatest importance that stuJents
in every branch of investigation, — scientific, pliiloso[)hical,
historical, artistic, geographical, or in the dep;ntments of
travel and biography — not provided for in other special
libraries, should here have ample opportunities to pursue
their work. Nature 5<ometimes bestows the rarest gifts upon
children in the humblest homes, in even the lowest haunts of
city life, and tlie Public Library should be a place where any
such children may have developed those springs of genius
which shall one day be the city's greatest {)ride and homu';
and this is the reason for buying books which the general
public may never want, nor know of tiie beneficent opportunity
they afford in making careful and valuable investigation.
The Trustees also mark with much satisfaction the com-
paratively few complaints — although these are constantly
invited — made about the Library service. .V large amount
of the work of the Librarv is carried on in rooms where.
Library Department . 6
quietly and ploddingly, faithful men and women pursue their
tasks co)i amove, while others have to deal immediately with
the public, meeting those who are sometimes exacting and
impatient. Occasionally, no doubt, incidents occur, not
without provocation upoi;i each side, which are very trying
even to the most saintly natures ; but we desire and are
determined that each year the entire service of the Library
shall improve.
The rapid increase in the number of libraries, and of the
new fields opening to their usefulness, make them assume
each j-ear the character of a profession, and of a very imjjor-
tant profession, which in all its higher departments calls for
better preparation to meet the constantly increasing demands
of the public for information and guidance.
The Trustees beg leave to return their grateful acknowl-
edgment to the City Government for its liberal support of
the Library, and yet it is plain that year by year the appro-
priation must be increased in order to carrj^ on to advantage
the work expected of so great an institution, and the City
may reasonably require renewed efforts to make it worthy of
such constant generosity. We are confident it will receive
the intelligent and ungrudging support which has carried it
on thus far, and the popular assurance will deepen that no
part of the City's expenditure will give a richer return to
the public, and the I^ibrarj^ will be accepted as a necessary
instrument in the beginning and completion of our whole
system of public education, and more and more justify the
mottoes: "The Public Library of the City of Boston. Built
by the People and dedicated to the Advancement of Learn-
ing.'" " The Commonwealth requires the Education of the
People as the Safeguard of Order and Liberty."
Solomon Lincoln,
President.
James De Noemandie,
Vice-Preside7it.
JosiAH H. Benton, Jr.
Thomas F.' Boyle.
Thomas D wight.
May 20, 1904.
City Document No. 24.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Board of Trustees :
The report of the Librarian for the year ending January
31, 1904, is hereby submitted.
THE LIBRARY SYSTEM.
The Library system includes :
The Central Library on Copley Square.
Ten branch libraries with permanent collections of books.
Twenty-two delivery stations (of which thirteen are read-
ing rooms), and, also, as places of deposit or delivery, thirty-
eight engine houses, twenty city institutions, eighty-live
public and ten parochial schools, making a total of one hun-
dred and eighty-five agencies, as against one hundred and
fifty-five a year ago.
FINANCE.
A record of the receipts and payments for the year is to be
found in the statement of the Library Auditor (Appendix I.).
BUILDINGS, EQlll'MENT, AND GENERAL
ADMLXISTRATION.
At the central building tlie boilers have been in daily
operation, and tiie service has been found satisfactory. The
motors have been operated regularly throughout the year, and
are in good condition. The piping throughout is in proper
order, but repairs will be required during the summer upon
the four-inch main connected with the heating service.
iNlinor repairs upon' boilers, air compressor, feed pumps, ele-
vators, and elevator pumps have been made as needed, with-
out materially interfering with the service.
The refitting of the room and galleries occupied by the
Statistical Department required the installation of sixty addi-
tional electric lamps, and forty others have been placed else-
where in the buildino;.
No important changes in construction or in equi}mient
have been found necessary. The ordinary routine repairs on
Library Department. ^ 7
the central building have been carried out and the branch
buildings put in good order, as detailed hereinafter.
The consumption of soft coal, necessary while the coal
strike continued, was abandoned April 1. The deface-
ment of the building externally from smoke was apparent,
and the deposits of soot internally required much unusual
cleaning. Although we are now using hard coal, neverthe-
less the increasing amount of soft coal smoke in the city is a
constant menace to the valuable collections in the possession
of the Library. At times, e.speciall}^ when the windows are
open communicating with the stacks and Special Libraries,
great care is required to prevent damage from this source.
The severe winter has entailed much greater expense than
is usual for removing snow and ice at the central building
and branches, and the roof gutters have required constant
attention to prevent leaks. During the coming season
repairs should be made upon the roof tiling at Copley
square, and additional steam pipe provided through the
gutters to prevent accumulations of ice therein.
Works of Art.
In April the Library received from the estate of the late
Robert. Charles Billings of Boston the sum of $100,000 as a
permanent fund for the purchase of books, and the additional
sum of •?'8,902 to be used for the purchase of a bas-relief of
Mr. Billings, Under the conditions attached to this gift a
bronze bas-relief by Augustus St. Gaudens has been placed
in the wall of the building on the north corridor of the
court yard.
The Library has accepted from donors representing ten
States a portrait bust of the late Lucy Stone, in marble, by
Anne Whitney. This has been placed opposite the alcove
occupied by the Galatea Collection.
Books Received.
The total accessions for the 3-ear 1903-04 from all sources
amount to 39,280 volumes as against 34,635 volumes for the
year preceding.
The work of selection for purchase has required the regu-
lar examination of numerous periodicals and catalogues, the
personal inspection of the more important current publica-
tions in the English language, sent to the Library on approval
as they come from the press, and the systematic reading of
nearly GOO English and American sales catalogues. In this
work the Librarian has had the continued assistance of Mr.
8 City Document No. 24.
James L. Whitney, as well as that of certain chiefs of depart-
ments and members of the staff who devote particular atten-
tion to specialties. Mr. Thomas S. Perry has been entrusted
with the examination of current European Continental pub-
lication lists and catalogues. The plan of submitting current
fiction as received for examination, to be read by a volunteer
committee not connected with the official staff, has been
continued as usual.
The conservative policy which the Library is now pursuing
with respect to the purcliases of current fiction has restricted
recent accessions in that class to works by authors of estab-
lished reputation, or to volumes which have been before the
public long enough to have demonstrated their merit. It
should be borne in mind, however, that the Library already
contains an extensive collection of English and foreign fiction,
and selections for home reading have been facilitated by con-
tinuing the open fiction desk in the Delivery Room, supplied
with representative works, constantly changed. The publi-
cation of a new finding list of English prose fiction has also
been found very useful. A similar list of German fiction
and a special list of historical fiction are in preparation.
There is therefore no dearth of fiction in the Libraiy. easily
accessible, much of which is superior, not only as literature
but in general interest to the average reader, to the larger
part of that recently published.
It is not intended to underestimate the value of fiction as
a department of literature, or the place of the novel in
modern literary development. There are doubtless wiiters of
fiction in our day who are worthy to rank with the recognized
masters. It may be conceded, also, that it is one of the func-
tions of literature to afford pure amusement to the reader, or,
through the pathway of romance, to open to him a world
apart from our strenuous modem life, and that this may be
done by means of the novel as in no other way. Neverthe-
less it remains tiue that out of a thousand volumes of fiction,
more or less, that came from the press last year, there were
few which were of more than ordinary merit.
The demand for these books is stimulated by persistent
advertising, and with few exceptions they are out of vogue
within a short time after imblication. The Library should
serve all classes of readers, but, although the demand for
current fiction is insistent, due jn-oportion must be observed
in tlie various classes, of which fiction is but one.
The practical considerations, if there were no other — of
providing for accessions upon our shelves, of keeping the
catalogue within reasonable limits, financial limitations, the
Library Department. 9
constant increase in our fixed charges due to the natural
growth and expansion of our work, — these necessarily restrict
purchases within somewhat conservative limits.
In the aggregate, 680 volumes of current fiction passed
under consideration during the year. Of the entire num-
ber not more than 200 were by authors who are at all
widely known. Authors whose reputation is more than local
represented a much smaller number. Unless much restricted,
purchases in duplicate sufficient to supply the Central Library
and branches, to say nothing of deposit work, would liave
gone far toward exhausting our available funds. Out of the
whole, 135 titles were accepted, many of which should be
classed as fiction for young re'aders.
Naturally the restriction of purchases of curient fiction
has somewhat diminished the aggregate circulation, but,
excluding English fiction drawn by adults, the circulation
_ shows a slight gain.
For example, in the direct circulation for home use from
the Central Library there was a decline of 2.98 per cent in
1903-0-i as compared with the preceding year, and the circula-
tion of English fiction drawn by adults declined 11.51 per
cent. On the other hand, the circulation of books other than
English fiction drawn by adults increased 2.42 per cent, or
nearly as much as the aggregate circulation declined.
It is impossible to make a similar comparison with regard
to the circulation through all of the agencies of the Library,
since the recording system employed at the stations and at
two of the branches does not permit the separation of adult
fiction from the total. It may be done for eight of the
branches, however, and at these the total circulation for home
use declined 3.49 per cent in 1903-04 as compared with
1902-03; the direct circulation of English fiction drawn
by adults declined 9.22 percent, and, excluding English fic-
tion drawn by adults, the circulation remained practically
unchanged, increasing slightly, or from 359,101 to 359,703
volumes.
In combination, these statistics of direct circulation for home
use from the Central Library and eight imj^ortant branches,
covering in the aggregate 872,873 volumes in 1903-04 and
902,785 in 1902-03," show a decline of 3.31 per cent in the
total circulation in the later as compared with the former
year; a decline of 10.01 per cent in the circulation of
English fiction drawn by adults ; and a gain of nearly one
per cent (0.95) in the circulation excluding English fiction
drawn by adults.
The reports from the Issue and Branch Departments, from
10 City Document No. 24.
which extracts hereinafter appear, present other interesting
data relative to circulation, and especially relating to the
use of fiction.
A report prepared by Miss Theodosia E. Macurdy, Chief
of the Ordering Department, contains the following as to the
accessions for the year :
Added by purchase .....
Added by gift
Added by exchange .....
Added by periodicals (bound)
Added by Statistical Department (Gifts),
Central,
Branches,
Tot.-il
Volumes.
Volumes.
Volumes.
13,062
11,304
24,366
10,821
299
11,120
607
' —
607
2,263
—
2.263
924
—
924
:7,677 11,603 39,280
Books bought for Central Library
From the City appropriation ..... 11, .399
From the trust funds ...... 1,663
13,062'
Books bought for the branches :
From the City appropriation 10,230
From the Fellowes Athena-um 1,074
11.304
24,366
The number of volumes added by purchase (24, -36 6)
exceeds by 2,846 the number purchased in 1902-08. The
increase is principally in the books for the branches, namely,
2,519 volumes ; the net increase at the Central Library aggre-
gating but o27 volumes.
The number of volumes added bv gift (^11,120) exceeds
by 2,768 the number added in 1902-03.
The number added by gifts to the Statistical Department
is 924 as against 1,611 in 1902-03.
PAYMENTS FOR BOOKS, PEIIIODICALS, AND NEWSPAPERS.
The payments for 1903-04 have been as follows:
City money expended for books:
For Central Library (including $2,.583.43 for
deposit collection) * •?17,139 52
For branches 9,2.")2 49
?;26,392 01
City money expended for periodicals:
For Central Library $4,092 77
For branches and stations .... 1,829 30
.*>,922 07
Total City money expended $:'.2,314 OS
LiBKARY Department. ' 11
Brought forinard .$32,314 08
Trust funds expended for books . . . |il3,406 73
Trust funds expended for newspapers . . ],757 73
Total trust funds expended .... $15,16446
Carnegie gift. Expended for Galatea collection 129 54
. 15,294 00
Total City money and funds expended .... $47,608 08
Fellowes Athenjeum, paid for books for Roxbiiry branch,
purchased by the Central Library:
Books $1,013 31
Periodicals 213 80
1,227 11
$48,835 19
As will be seen, the total amount paid for books, periodi-
cals, and newspapers was -148,835.19 as against 1)44,421.16
in 1902-08.
In addition to the payments noted above, the Kum of
81,498.32 Avas charged against the amount due the Library
from the exchange sale of duplicates, thus making the total
sum expended for purchases -$50,333.51.
REVIEW OF PURCHASES.
In reviewing the accessions, the most noteworth}' purchases
appear to be those of early American newspapers, together
with broadsides and manuscripts of the same general period,
i.e., the Eighteenth Century. Closely allied to these in
importance and also in cost are works relating to the fine and
industrial arts, while subjects especially strengtliened are
psychology and philosophy, genealogy, electricity, the Shake-
speare collection, the Artz collection of first editions, and
the history and literature of the Philippine Islands.
No very large collection of books on any one subject has
been bought, with the exception perhaps of genealogy, and first
editions of Nineteenth Century writers, but an unusually large
quantity of rare tracts, published in New England and else-
where, has been secured, some valuable sets of periodicals
obtained, and a number of first and good editions of non-
current books culled from the sales catalogues of book
dealers. The selections from these lists of the older books
gradually supply the missing volumes needed to complete
our collection ; they are bought in most cases at a low price,
and are the " aftermath " for which the Library could afford
to wait.
The general, or what may be called the routine accessions,
consisting of books in all classes of literature currently issued
12 City Document No. 2-4.
in this country and abroad (the direct result of the regular
bibliographical research by the J>.ibrary staff) have no,t dif-
fered materially from those of last year.
Some of the most significant accessions referred to are here
given in detail, -since there is no other grouping of the addi-
tions of the year,
NEWSPAPERS.
About 800 numbers of the Pennsylvania Gazette, par-
tially covering the years 1739 to 1784 have been secured.
Of these, nearly 500 numbers are for the years 1789-69,
the j)eriod during which the Gazette was published by
Franklin, and contain Washington's Embass}- to the Indians,
Notes on the Expedition against Cape Breton, and notice
of the paper's discontinuance on account of the Stamp Act;
also 204 numbers of the Pennsylvania Chronicle and Uni-
versal Advertiser, 1708-1770. (Bought at the Proud sale,
Philadelphia.)
Large additions were also made to the files of the follow-
ing Boston newspapers for the years 1733-64 : The Boston
Gazette, The Boston Evening Post, The Boston Post Boy
and Advertiser, The Boston Weekly Newsletter, The Inde-
pendent Advertiser, The New England Weekly Journal,
The Weekly Rehearsal, and the Massachusetts Gazette for
1770 and 1771. (Bought at auction and jjrivate sale.)
BROADSIDES.
Among the more interesting of the fifty or moie broadsides
purchased at auctions and private sales, is the rare " Account
of a late Military Massacre at Boston, or the Consequences
of Quartering Troo])S in a Populous Town. Boston, March
12, 1770." This broadside was published by Holt of New
York, and contains a detailed account of the Massacre. On
the reverse side is the cut of five coffins, with the skull and
crossbones. (Bought at the Proud sale.)
Another is the '• Articles of Convention between Lieuten-
ant-General Burgoyne and JNIajor-General Gates, Boston,
October 23, 1777," in which (leneral Gates records that
" Lieutenant-General Burgoyne surrendered himself and his
whole Army, on the 17th instant into my hands : they are
now on their march towai'ds Boston." (Bought at the Bart-
lett sale.)
Still another is a poster, signed by Governor 'I'homas
Hutchinson, proclaiming a General Fast for April 15, 1773.
Boston, 1773 (bought at a New York sale), and a number
of pioclamations signed l)y (iovernors Shirley and Phips
Library Department. 13
relating to the mustering of troops for tlie expedition against
Crown Point.
FINE ARTS.
To the Fine Arts collection the accessions have been
numerous and varied, and include, besides current publica-
tions, many works of older date bought considerably under
the published price.
Since this resumd cannot be exhaustive, the following
titles (23) are selected as showing the general character of
the more important books added to this department:
Armstrong, Walter. Turner. London, 1902.
Arndt, Paul. La Glyptotheque Ny-Carlsbeig fondi^e par
Carl Jacobsen. Les monuments antiques. Munich, 1896-
1901. (Livr. 1-9.) (Greek and Roman sculpture.)
Baxter, Sylvester. Spanish-Colonial Architecture in Mex-
ico. With photographic plates by Henry Greenwood Pea-
body and plans by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. (Gomez de
INIora edition.) Boston, 1901. One of an edition of 150
copies.
Berenson, Bernhard. The drawings of the Florentine
painters. 2 vols. F*". New York, 1903.
Butler, Howard Crosby. Architecture and other arts.
(Part II. of the Publications of an American Archaeological
Expedition to Syria in 1899-1900.) New York, 1903.
Crowe and Cavalcaselle. A history of painting in Italy.
New edition as far as issued. London, 1903.
Davies, Gerald S. Hans Holbein the younger. London,
1903.
Espouy, Hector d'. Fragments d'arehitecture antique
d'apres les releves & restaurations des anciens pensionnaires
de r Academic de France a Rome. 100 plates. Paris.
1896.
Essling, Prince d' and iMuentz, E. P^trarque. Ses
Etudes d'art. 2 vols. Paris, 1902.
P'oster, J. J. The Stuarts. Loudon, 1902.
Goebel, Theodor. Die graphischen Kiinste der Gegenwart.
Neue Folge. Stuttgart. 1902.
Guadet, J. Elements et theorie de I'architecture. 3 vols.
Paris. 1902, 1903.
Havard, Henry. Historic et philosophic des styles
(architecture, ameublement, decoration). 2 vols. Paris.
1899, 1900.
Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-. The beginning of the
world. Twenty-five pictures (edited b}' Georgiana Burne-
Jones.) London. 1902. The text consists of chapters from
Genesis.
14 City Document No. 24.
Lehner, Ferd. The Bohemian painting-school of the XI.
century. (In Bohemian with transhition.) Prague. 1902.
Lukas van Leyden. Handzeichnungen, Stiche und Ge-
malde. ' Haarlem. 1903. Plates.
Meldahl, Ferdinand. Denkraaler der Renaissance in
Daenemark. Berlin. 1888. 47 plates.
Neumann, Wilhelm Anton. Der Dom von Parenzo. Mit
53 photographischen Tafeln von Josef Wlha. Wien. 1902.
52 photographs. 2 plans.
Pergamus Museum, Berlin. (Photographs of antiquities
from Pergamc^s, Magnesia and Priene, in the Pergamus
Museum.) Berlin. 1900. 23 plates.
Sargent, J. S. Work. With an introductory note by Mrs.
Meynell. London. 1903.
Tanner, Henry, Jr. English interior woodwork of the
XVI, XVII, and XVIIIth Centuries. . . Examples of
chimney-pieces, panelling, staircases, doors, screens, etc.
London. 1903. ^ 50 plates.
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Art and
architecture. By William Walton. Columbus edition.
Phihidelphia. 1898. 3 vols. Contents.— 1, 2, Art. 8,
Architecture.
Wren, Christopher, compiler, 1675-1747. Life and works
of Sir Christopher Wren. From the Parentalia or memoirs
by his son Christopher. (Edited from tlie original edition
by Ernest J. Enthoven and carried out under the supervision
of C. R. Ashbee, Campden, 1903.) The twenty drawings
of Wren's churches are by E. H. New, and the other designs
are reproduced from the 1750 edition.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
The 647 photographs added by purchase comprise 80 car-
bon reproductions from the Corporation Art Cialleries, Glas-
gow and Edinburgh; 52 photograplis of paintings and
sculpture in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ; 845 photo-
grai)hs of objects in the National Art Museum at Athens,
and 74 photographs of Interiors and Works of Art in the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
OTHER PURCHASES.
Others purchases of importance are noted as follows :
The first edition of the very rare tract by Thomas
Synnnes, entitled — Lovewell lamented. Or, a seniion occa-
sion'd by the fall of the brave Cap't. John Lovewell and
several of his valiant company in the late heioic action at
Library Department. • 15
Piggwacket. Pronounc'd at Bradford, May 16, 1725.
Boston in Xew England: Printed bv B. Green, Jr., for
S. Gerrish. 1725.
The first edition of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of
Virginia written in the year 1781, published in Paris, 1782.
The first edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Boston
in New England : Printed by Samuel Green upon Assign-
ment by Samuel Sewell : and are to be sold by John Usher
of Boston 1681. Tliis copy is the onl}^ one known at the
present time, and the title page has been reproduced by per-
mission of the Trustees b}^ Dr. S. A. Green iii his second
collection of rare prints.
A Sermon Preach'd at The Election of the Governour, at
Boston in New-England, May 19, 1669. By John Daven-
port. Printed in the year 1670. An extremely rare issue.
Matter, Cotton. Addresses To Old Men and Young Men,
and Little Children. In Three Discourses. Boston : Printed
by R. Pierce for Nicholas Buttolph. 1690.
Mather, Cotton. The world alarm'd. A surprizing relation
of a new burning-island lately raised out of the sea, near
Tercera. Boston: Printed by B. Green. 1721.
Mather, Increase. Greatest sinners called and encouraged to
come to Christ. Translated into Indian by Samuel Danforth.
Boston. 1698. The first book in the Indian language
printed in Boston.
Ken, Bishop. An exposition on the Church-Catechism, or
the Practice of Divine Love, composed for the Diocese of
Bath & Wells. London : Pr. for Chas. Brome. 1685. Bos-
ton in New England, reprinted by R. Pierce A.D. 1688.
Parsons, Robert, S. J. De persecvtione Anglicana libellus.
Qvo explicantvr afflictiones, calamitates, cruciatus, &
acerbissima martyria, quae Angli Catholici nuc ob fide
patiuntur. Romae, Cum Licentia Superiorum, M.D.LXXXII.
Dante. Comedia. Proemio. Comento di christophoro
Landino fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe alighieri poeta
fiorentino. (Colophon: — ) Fine del comento di christoforo
Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe poeta
excellentissimo. Et irapresso in Vinegia per Octauiano Sooto
do Monza. Adi. XXIIL di Marzo. M.CCCC.LXXXIIII.
(1484.) Folio. A remarkably tall copy of this early edition
of Dante, with illuminated initial letters.
Stradanus, J. Dante. Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
of Dante executed by the Flemish artist, J. Stradanus, 1587,
etc. Reproduced in phototype. London. Unwin. 1892.
Missale Romanum. Manuscript in Flemish. (Illuminated
capitals and some border illuminations. 15th century.)
16 . City Document Xo. 24.
Le Pseautier huguenot de XVIe siecle de Clement ]\Iarot
et Theodore de Bcze, avec la rausique. Paris. 1902. Xo.
93 of an edition of 125 copies.
Parker, H. W. Hora Xovissima. Full score. (For the
Allen A. Brown collection.)
Five volumes of Irish airs. ^Manuscript music by Henry
Hudson. (For the Allen A. Brown collection.)
Claudin. Anatole. Histoire de Timprimerie en France au
XVe et au XVIe siecle (as far as issued). (T. 1, 2.)
A collection of upwards of 140 early play bills of the
Tremont Theatre, Boston. Boston: 1839-1840; and 200
programmes of Theatres, Shows, Museums, etc., exhibiting
in Boston from Dec. 16, 1796, to March 12, 1827.
First edition of the Bible in Irish. (Leabhuir na Seinti-
orana.) The Books of the Old Testament translated into
Irisli by Dr. William Bedel. 1685. (For the John Boyle
0"Reilly collection.)
Audubon's Birds. In 7 volumes. Original edition.
1840-1844.
Anderson, .John. Zoology of Egypt. Revised and com-
pleted by W. E. de Winton.' London. 1902.
The International Library of Technology. In 29 volumes.
The reproduction of Amos Doolittle's picture of Federal
Hall. 1790.
Three views of the Streets of Boston (Summer and
Tremont) in 1843.
The national edition of the Writings and Speeches of
Daniel Webster, in 18 volumes, for the Artz collection.
Also for this collection, the Thistle edition of Stevenson's
Works (to protect tlie costly Edinburgh edition).
Garnett's Anthology of Universal Literature, in 30 vol-
umes, for Bates Hall reference.
A set of Stoddard's lectures, in 10 volumes, for circulation
in the Children's Department.
A complete set oi' the Woman's Journal, in 36 volumes, for
the Galatea collection.
To the periodical files have been added a complete set of
Country Life, in 10 volumes, London ; 21 volumes of the
JNIoniteur Officiel du Commerce, completing the file; &6 vol-
umes of the Deutsches Ilandels Archiv; Gaceta de Madrid,
in 77 volumes, beginning with 1735; and 102 numbers of
the Constitutional Telegraph published in Boston, 1800.
The fac-simile reproductions of the first folios of Chaucer
and of Shakespeare have been received, the first two volumes
of the Elizabethan Sliakes[)eare, edited by Liddell: the cata-
logue of the Library of Robert Hoe, as far as issued, and
Fasciculi Maylayensis, as far as issued.
I
Library Department. 17
The collection of works in psychology and philosophy
suggested by Miss Calkins, formerly of Wellesley College,
included the Works of Wundt, Goldscheider, Ebbinghaus,
Miinsterberg, and Psychologische Arbeiten, edited by
Kraepelin.
PURCHASES FOR NEW STATION.
The book equipment of the North Street Reading Room
was made at an expense of $271.74, and included Appleton's
Encyclopa'dia, Stanley's Atlas, Webster's Dictionary, Rolfe's
edition of Shakespeare in 40 volumes, and about fifty vol-
umes in the Italian language, selected with a view to their
use by the Italian residents of the North End.
ADDITIONAL COPIES.
A special purchase of additional copies of current popular
books, largely for use in the branches, was made in August.
Of these, 411 volumes, representing 108 titles, were fiction,
and 70 volumes, representing 33 titles, were non-fiction.
Twenty copies of the Boston Directory were bought and
placed in the Central Library, ten branches and six stations ;
and a number of reference books were procured for the
Statistical Department, duplicates of those in the Bates Hall
Reference collection.
GIFTS.
Among the gifts which may be especially mentioned are
the following, noted alphabetically by givers :
Walter H. Baker Co. Twenty-seven plays, published by
them, adapted to private acting.
J. H. Benton, Jr. Sixteen volumes relating to the LTnion
Pacific Railway.
William K. Bixby, St. Louis. The Private Journal of
Aaron Burr, reprinted in full from the original manuscript
in the library of ^Nlr. Bixby, in two volumes.
Boston Browning Society. Seven volumes for the
Browning collection.
Boston Camera Club. Three hundred and sixty-eight vol-
umes and 1,060 numbers relating to photography. This
valuable gift included the American Amateur Photographer
in 14 volumes ; Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, in 25 vol-
umes ; the Photo-Beacon in 10 volumes ; the Yearbook of
Photography in 13 volumes — all new files. To the existing
files, more than 60 volumes were added, in many cases com-
pleting the Library sets.
18 City Document No. 24.
Boston Philatelic Society. Eight hundred and nineteen
volumes relating to philately (804 were copies of a list of
works on philately in this Library)'
Allen A. Brown. One hundred and sixty-one volumes for
the collection of music.
Dr. Francis H. Brown. Fifty volumes — a miscellaneous
collection.
Dr. Henry P. Bowditch. Forty-five photographs of people
connected with the Dreyfus triah
Mrs. Harriet T. Boyd, Dedham. Four hundred and sixty-
six volumes — a miscellaneous collection.
George O. and Frederick B. Carpenter. One hundred and
seventy-five volumes, including 22 volumes of Harper's
Magazine, text-books and music, from the library of the late
George O. Carpenter.
Joseph H. Center. From the estate of Joseph H. Center,
2,480 volumes, nearly 1,800 of whicli were lacking in the
Library. Tiie collection consisted largely of 18th century
English literature, and in addition many serials which filled
gaps in the Library files. There were also included some
early editions of the New England poets (notably Whittier's
Legends of New England, first edition), and a copy of the
Boston Directory of 1798, containing the map wliich the
Library copy lacked.
Heman W. Chaplin. Sixty-nine volumes — a miscel-
laneous collection.
Mrs. J. Randolph Coolidge. Fort^'-four volumes — a mis-
cellaneous collection.
Capt. J. Stearns Gushing, Norwood. Two copies of The
Histoiie Book, a tale of two Avorlds for five centuries, 1537-
1688-1903. (The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com-
pany.)
EUery Ware Ellis. Eleven hundred and ninety-seven
numbers of newspapers, and 15 maps.
Essex Institute, Salem. Re{)roduction of original broad-
side in Essex Institute: — ''At a General Court held at
Boston the Sd of May, 1H76, for defraying the charges
already expended iipon the Warre."
Mrs. Thomas Gaffield. Seventeen volumes for the West
End Branch, containing Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant,
2 vols. ; Mather's Ecclesiastical History of New England;
Samuel Johnson's Lectures, etc.
Fred L. Gay, Brookline. Morton's New England Me-
moriall. The 71st issue of the Club of Odd ^'olumes.
German Patent Office. Two thousand three hundred and
eighty-eight numbers of the Patentschriften.
Library Department. 19
Great Britain Patent Office. Ninety-seven volumes of
Specifications of the Patent Office.
•^ Miss M. B. Hall, Brookline. Seventj'-five volumes (mis-
cellaneous) and twenty-three pamphlets.
Henry Lee Higginson. One hundred and one volumes,
including Jean Paul Richter's Sammtliche Werke in 14
volumes.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Ninety-one volumes for
the Galatea Collection.
Archer N. Huntington. Seventeen volumes, reprints of
rare editions of Spanish works in Mr. Huntington's library.
Rev. C. L. Hutchins. Twenty-seven volumes, including
editions of the Pointed Prayer Book, Chant and Service
Book, Church Psalter and Church Hymnal, and 21 volumes
of The Parish Choir.
Iconographic Society of Boston. Etching of Faneuil Hall,
Boston. 1870.
Italy, Ministero della Lstruzione Pubblica. Galileo
Galilei. Le opere. Edizione Nazionale. Vol. 12 (continu-
ing the Library set).
Charle's A. and Nathaniel T. Kidder, in the name of the
late Henr}' T. Kidder, 505 volumes, mainly classics of
French and Italian literature, in good editions and with
beautiful bindings.
David P. Kimball. Thirty-four volumes of Play-bills of
the Boston Museum, completing the Library file, also 40
volumes, many relating to railways in the LTnited States.
Mr. Kobayashi. One hundred and thirty-six Japanese
books and periodicals.
Alfred C. Lane. One hundred and thirty-three reports of
various institutions and 37 monographs.
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII., through the Congregatio de
Propaganda Fide, T. XL of the Works of Thomas Aquinas.
(Sancti Thomae Aquinatis. Opera omnia jussu impensaque
Leonis XIII. P. M. Edita.) (Continuing the Library set.)
Mrs. Arthur Lincoln. Thirteen volumes in Spanish,
among them Revista General de la Economia Politica ; Viajes
de Fr. Germidio.
Messrs. Little, Brown and Co. A set of the National
edition of the Writings of Daniel Webster published by
them, in 18 volumes.
V ' The Due de Loubat. Four volumes, including Codex
Vaticanus No. 3773 ; an old Mexican pictorial manuscript in
the Vatican Library. . . Elucidated by Eduard Seler. Vols.
1 and 2. Berlin, 1902-03. With colored plates.
20 City Document No. 24.
Thomas Minns. Eight hundred miscellaneous pamphlets,
reports, etc., and 500 Bankers" circulars of Stocks and bonds.
Norton, Professor Charles Eliot. A collection of the New
England Loyal Publication Society's Broadsides, with manu-
script letters and other material relating to the Civil War,
etc. The material given by Professor Norton, together with
that already possessed by the Library, has been arranged by
Mr. Thomas Tracy Bouve in three folio volumes, and prob-
ably approaches more nearly comj^leteness than any set in
the country.
Miss Elizabeth G. Norton. Sixty-four pieces of music.
The Old South Society for the Prince Collection. Church
of Scotland. True copy of the whole printed Acts of the
General Assemblies beginning at the Assembly holden at
Glasgow 27 Nov. 1638. Printed in 1682. (Contains the
autograph of Thomas Prince, Boston, 1741.)
The Papyrus Club. The sum of fifteen dollars towards
the purchase of a manuscript letter of John Boyle O'Reilly
to Mr. Whipple, dated 20th March, 1878, for tiie John Boyle
O'Reilly collection.
The Prince Society. An engraving of Sir Humphrey Gil-
bert engraved for the Prince Society fi-om a rare print. 1620.
Charles F. Stodder (through E. H. Whorff). The Log-
Book of the Boston Ship Volunteer, 1817-1821.
H. T. Thompson, London. Fac-similes of two " Histoires "
by Jean Foucquet from Vols. 1 and 2 of the Anciennetes des
Juifs. Four photographic fac-similes (by three-color process)
from detached pages of a Fifteenth Century manuscript.
Samuel Thurber, Roxbury. Eighty-four volumes (Italian
literature).
William Maxwell Wood, New York City. A Book of
Tales. Englished by Charles Erskine Scott Wood.
Young jNIen's Christian l^nion. Seventy-eight miscella-
neous volumes and 19 pamphlets.
Certain other gifts of inn)f)i-tant manuscripts are mentioned
hereinafter in connection with the general subject of manu-
scripts.
The Catalogue Department.
The following statements are taken from the report of Mr.
Edward B. Hunt, Chief of the Catalogue and Shelf Depart-
ments :
The total number of volumes and parts of volumes cata-
logued and re-catalogued during the year is 5o,2ol ; the
number for the previous vear was 51,002. The total number
of titles is 33,962; that for 1902-03 was 32,839.
Library Department. 21
These volumes and titles may be subdivided as follows :
]903-04. lil02-03.
Vols. Parts. Titles. Vols. Parts. Titles.
Catalogued (new)
Bates Hall .... 19,974 4,128 15,413 20,466 3,187 16,534
Serials 5,604 — — 4,862 — —
Branches 11,666 — 10,525 9,695 — 8,860
Re-catalogued .... 12,521 338 7,9.54 11,757 1,035 7,445
CARDS FINISHED AND FILED.
The number of cards added to the catalogue this year is
238,946 against 214,856 for the previous year. This is high-
water mark, the highest total hitherto being 232,321 in
1901-02. To the total above, 238,946, should be added
26,656 cards sent to the branches, and 5,701. added to the
Cooperative Index, making the number of cards added to the
entire Library, 271,303.
No account has been made of handling and sending to the
Library of Congress one copy of each title printed, approxi-
mately 40,000.
SHELF DIVISION.
The statistics of the Shelf Division as prepared by Mr.
William G. T. Roffe, officer in charge, will be found in
Appendix IV.
The net increase of the Central Library for the year was
8,389 volumes, and the total number of volumes on Janu-
ary 31, 1904 was 663,094. The total number in the Central
Library and branches was 848,884.
Publications.
The report of Mr. Lindsay Swift, Editor of the publications
of the Library, contains the following :
Publications. Date of issue. Pages. Edition. Price.
Monthly Bulletin* . First of ea. month- 440 5,000 Free
Books for summer
use June 1, 1903 24 1,500 Free
Periodicals currently
taken June, 1903 84 1,500 10 cts.
English Prose Fiction
List • September, 1903 200 5,000 10 cts.
Numbering s c h e m e
for Branches . . October, 1903 7 200 Library
use only
*The edition of the Bulletin for .luue, August, and Septemijer was 4,000; that for
July, 9,000, to meet the visit of the National Eiiucational Association.
22 City Document No. 24.
Piiblicatlons. Date of issue. Pages. Edition. Price.
His-torical Mss. No. 4. October, 1903 62 250 For exchange
Historical Mss. No. 5. January, 1904 70 ' 250 For exchange
Annual List * January, 1, 1904 246 .3,500 5 cts.
The total number of pages edited and published was 1,133 ;
for 1902, it was 979 ; for 1901, it was 886 ; and for 1900, it
was 821. The total number of pages of printed matter
aggregated 4,245,400.
The body of the Monthly Bulletin consists as usual of the
list of newly added books and of items of general library
interest. Besides this have been published a description of
Sargent's latest decoration (The Dogma of the Redemption),
written by Sylvester Baxter, and reprinted from the "Boston
Herald" (March, 1908); a Special Summer Finding List
(June, 1903), which was reprinted in an edition of 1600 ;
the Programme of Exhibition of Fine Arts at the Central
Library and branches for 1903-04 (October, 1903) ; Titles
suggested in connection with Free Lectures on Dante, given
under the auspices of the Circolo Italiano (October, 1903) ;
and a List of Books in the English Language on the Fine
and Decorative Arts, suitable for small libraries, with prices
added (December, 1903). The following lists of books for
reading in connection with lectures before the Lowell Listi-
tute, in each case suggested by the lecturer, and edited with-
out cost to the Library, have also appeared :
The Xew Testament in the Christian Church. By Doctor
Edward C. Moore (]\Iarch, 1903, page 130).
Life in the South. 1860-1865. By Frederick Bancroft,
LL.D. (April, 1903, page 166).
Some Topics of Logic bearing on questions now vexed.
By Charles S. Peirce, Esq. (December, 1903, page 448).
Bacteria in Modern Medicine. By Harold C. Ernst,
M.D. (January, 1904, page 27).
The History, Social Condition and Religion of Egypt. By
Professor George Steindorff, of the University of Leipzig
(February, 1904, page 60).
Early American History. B}- Professor Edward Channing
of Harvard University (February, 1904, page 61).
The Bindery.
During the year 35,874 volumes have been bound in the
Bindery Department, 3,187 volumes repaired, 1,L58 maps
mounted on cloth, 2,344 photographs mounted, and a large
amount of miscellaneous work performed, against which at
*Tbe edition Is siiinller by ,W0 copies than for I'.tOi.
Library Department.
23
least one-ninth of the total expense of the Bindery should be
charged. Although the work performed in this department
shows a constant increase from year to year, its standard of
efficiency has not been lowered.
The Printing Department.
The work of the Printing Department for the year covered
by this report, as compared with the preceding year, is shown
in the following statement submitted by Mr. Francis Watts
Lee, Chief of the department :
Requisitions on hand February 1
Requisitions received during year
Requisitions on hand January 31
Requisitions filled during year .
Card Catalogue (Central)
Titles (Printing Dept. count) .
Cards finished (excl. "extras")
Titles in type but not printed
Headings for Guide Cards set (about)
Guide Cards printed
Card Catalogue (Branches)
Titles (Printing Dept. count)
Cards (approximately) .
Call Slips ......
Stationery and Blank Forms
Sij
igns
Blank Books
1902-03
2
250
7
245
35,885
214,856
272
13,600
1,923,250
615,510
790
133
1903-04
7
154
4
157
41,925
238,946
6,250
28,000
20,000
528
26,000
2,167,500
465,628
298
3
The regular and incidental publications of the year, put
in type by the Printing Department, have been mentioned
in connection with the report of the Editor of Library
publications.
Distribution of Documents and Supplies.
The Stock Department, in charge of Mr. George V.
jNIooney, Custodian, has distributed 78,064 Library publica-
tions during the year. The number of blank forms distrib-
uted aggregates 2,142,339, including 1,748,400 call slips of
various kinds.
Registration.
The total number of borrowers' cards outstanding and
available for use, i.e., "live cards," so-called, on January 31,
1904, was 70,138, as against 72,815 at the corresponding
date in 1903. This shows a loss of 2,677, which may be
proportionally distributed through the Central Library and
branches and the delivery stations. This loss is partly due
24
City Document No. 24.
to the failure to renew a considerable number of cards
issued to children under 12 years of age in 1901. The
amount of material handled by the Registration Department,
and the number of persons whose needs have been attended
to therein, have increased approximately fifteen per cent as
compared with the preceding year, notwithstanding the loss
in the aggregate number of cards outstanding.
The usual tables prepared b}' Mr. John J. Keenan, Chief
of the Registration Department, showing in detail the
statistics of registration, may be found in Appendix VI.
The Issue Department of the Central Library.
Tlie complete statistics of circulation from the Issue
Department of the Central Library, and other items of interest
concerning the work of this department, are covered by the
following extracts from the report of Miss ^Margaret D.
McGuffey, its Chief:
circulation.
The circulation from the Central Library was as follows :
Volumes.
Issue for
Home Use,
Central.
Daily Issue
Tlifoufrh
Branch
Division.
Totiil for
Home Use.
Recorded
Hall Use.
Total
Home and
Hall Use.
FebruMry, 1903
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
January, 1904.
Totals
30,881
34,156
2S,2C3
24,937
21.160
17,105
18,'f58
18,996
2(;,216
28.546
26,229
30,025
9,934
10,544
8,730
7 222
6,433
6,038
5,790
6,193
!r>,764
9,752
10,5^9
10,589
304,972
40,815
44,700
36,993
32,1.59
27,593
23,143
24,248
25,189
34,980
38,298
36,778
40,614
100,538
405,510
34,990
81,200
28,659
2;},045
18,844
18,041
19,793
19,530
26,696
26,853
26,777
32,678
76,805
75,900
65,562
65,204
46,437
41,184
44,041
44,719
61,676
65,161
63,656
73,292
307,006
712,516
These figures do not include the issue to Engine-houses,
Institutions and Schools.
Library DePx^rtment. 26
The following statement exhibits the statistics of circula
tion for home use in each of two successive years :
1903-04. 1902-03.
Home use, including Branch Department issue. . . 405,510 422,907
Home use, minus Branch Department issue 304,972 314,353
Other details relating to the circulation in 1903-04 are as
follows :
Volumes.
The average daily circulation in 1903-04 (home use only, but
including Branch Department issue) 1,129
Average daily circulation for home vise vpithout the Branch
Department issue 841
Largest daily issue, home and hall use (without the Branch
Department issue), 12 hours, March 7, 1903 3,338
The English fiction drawn by adults coming to the Central
Library, not applying through the branches or stations, for
the year 1903-04, comprised 107,882 volumes, as against
121,914 volumes, for the year 1902-03.
The total number of volumes recorded as issued for hall
use, chiefly in Bates Hall, 1903-04, is 3,007,006.*
LOSS OF FICTION FROM' OPEN SHELVES.
Owing to the unusual loSs of novels from the open shelves
in 1902-03, a closer supervision was provided this year.
During the months of June, July, and August, novels were
kept on the screen near the desk of the Custodian of Bates
Hall. Formerly they have been left in the case in the
Delivery Room.
The loss of fiction, according to Shelf Department records,
is this year, 221, as against 349 volumes in 1902-03.
SUMMER READING.
During the summer the experiment was made of allowing
certain books (not in active demand and not fiction) to be
drawn and held for three months without incurring fines.
A printed list of nearly a thousand titles of biographies,
histories, travels, etc., was issued, but in the haste of com-
pilation it was not feasible to make a carefully selected list.
It may have been due to the fact that it lacked balance that
it was not as largely used as might have been expected.
INIore than one-half of the number of borrowers who availed
themselves of the extended time preferred to make requests
*Thls does not include the use of books from open shelves in Bates Hall, the num-
ber of volumes so used being unrecorded.
26 City Document No. 24.
for other books than those included in the list. Each re-
quest was examined to see if the volume was available
for issue, and then submitted to the Librarian for approval.
The issue was confined to books in the Central Library. The
total number of volumes issued under this privilege was 364.
The .Children's Rooms.
The Children's Department at the Central Library has
become one of the important agencies of our work. A report
prepared by INIiss Alice M. Jordan, Custodian, presents the
following statistics and other details covering the operations
of the year :
ISSUE.
The number of books issued to applicants in the Children's
Department during the past year was 57,727 as against
63,993 for the year previous. The number of books issued
through the branches from the Children's Department has
increased from 12,797 in 1902 to 13,889, the highest figure
yet reached by daily issue to the branches. It is interesting
to note that during the months of July and August no fall-
ing off is apparent from year to year.
BRANCH REQUESTS.
The decrease in the personal applications here is undoubt-
edly due to the expansion of the Branch and deposit system.
The Children's Department at the Central Library is no
longer unique in providing accommodations for children — a
fact which in tlie early days swelled tl)e circulation and
crowded the rooms. It is, so far as provision of books is
concerned, only one in a large number of agencies for juvenile
supply.
DEPOSITS.
So long as books of all kinds are provided by deposit to
schools, especially to those schools which are near the
Librar}^ from which the latter naturally draws its youthful
clientele, there is an additional cause for decrease in circula-
tion from the Children's Department. Cooperation between
the Branch and Children's Departments exists, however, and
is to be desired.
Four collections have this 3'ear been sent from the Chil-
dren's Room to Home Library groups under the supervision
of the Children's Aid Society. A new experiment is here
involved — one for which this department is responsible and
Library Department. 27
which is possible only to a limited degree and under certain
definite conditions. Requests for these deposits were re-
ceived from the older circles which had read and outgrown
the extremely juvenile books furnished by the Children's
Aid Society. Three clubs of girls were supplied twenty
books each, the collection to be kept at the home of one of
the members and opened only by the visitor, once a week.
The other group to which books were sent is a self-govern-
ing club of boys — drivers, messengers, etc., working during
the day and meeting nightly in their own club rooms. By
no other method would the Library reach them.
Another established practice, easier to comply with since
its employment is required only in the dull summer season,
is that of sending books to the vacation schools and play-
grounds. Last year eight collections of twenty books each
were thus sent.
WORK OF THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT IN CONNECTION
WITH SCHOOLS.
In the face of these problems of circulation it is a gratifica-
tion to feel that never has the Library touched a greater
number of children than during the* past year — touched in
a way that is likely to make a more lasting, impression than
the mere drawing of books from the Children's Rooms.
Twelve hundred and fifty pupils have listened to instruction
upon the Library and its use in 1903. These lessons have
taken the form of a teaching exercise, lasting forty or fifty
minutes, and at different times the following subjects were
considered : Arrangement of the Library ; How to take out
books ; Use and peculiarities of the card catalogues ; Ele-
mentary reference books and how to use them. One class,
which by previous visits here, had already received this
instruction was given simple advice on what and how to
read .
Of the classes which have thus visited this building, the
larger numbers have come from the two upper grades
of tlie grammar schools in different parts of the city.
Two classes from the normal school have also been present,
and from these lessons to future teachers far-reaching
consequences may reasonably be expected, since much of
the guidance in the use of books belongs properly to the
teacher. Occasionally a difficulty arises because of the great
distance from which certain schools must come in order to
reach the Library. In one case this was met by going to the
school in Dorchester and giving practically the same exercise
28 City Document No. 24.
to a class of 120. Such an arrangement would be gladly-
accepted by not a few others, but would destroy one of the
prime objects in the whole plan, that of bringing children to
the Library itself. Progress has been noticed not only by^ a
batter unclerstanding of the use of books and catalogue by
the children, but by a wider knowledge of the children on
the part of the Custodian, and an added power to compre-
hend their needs and to help in their school work.
FINDING LIST OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
In 1901 a reprint of the selected list of juvenile books
was made to supply a demand for a printed catalogue of
children's books. This list is now rendered valueless by the
changes and additions of recent years. Work on a new list
has been confined to the Children's Department, and has been
subject to unavoidable delays. It is, however, now ready for
the Editor.
GIFTS TO THE CHILDREN'S ROOMS.
It has been a pleasure during the year to see the interest
felt in this department as evinced by the gifts which it has
received from v.arious friends. In February two casts were
given by^ Miss Elizabeth Thacher of Roxbury, figures from
the Luca della Robbia Singing Gallery. Miss Thacher was
one of the ladies who kept the room bright with flowering
plants last winter, and wlio has given others this year. We
are also indebted for plants to Mrs. John E. Hudson, Miss
Emily Osgood, Mrs. Francis Greene and ^liss lieal.
PICTURE BULLETINS.
No large exhibits have been held, but the display of
picture bulletins has continued. While comparatively little
labor has been thns expended, it has been possible to provide
a sufficient number of these bulletins to loan to stations
when wanted.
Bates Hall.
It is impossible to indicate the amount and character of the
work performed in Bates Hall by anv presentation of
statistics. It is the principal reading and reference room of
the Library and large numbers are daily supplied there with
books from the stacks or from the open shelves in the hall
itself. The number of volumes directly accessible to readers
Library Department. 29
from the open shelves increases constantly, and these are
extensively used. A selected collection of the new accessions
is each week placed upon the screen in the catalogue room.
The reference shelves have suffered a loss of 49 volumes
during the year, while but 43 volumes have disappeared from
the screen. This shows a considerable diminution in losses
as compared with previous years.
Mr. Oscar A. Bierstadt, the Custodian, reports as follows
upon certain phases of his work that are not perhaps so
obvious, as that relating to the distribution of books to
readers :
The attendants in the catalogue room devote part of every
morning to looking up shelf numbers for readers' requests
from the branch libiaries * * * Man}' letters asking
for information have been referred to this department. All
large libraries receive such inquiries in abundance * * *
The re-arrangement of the reference books in Bates Hall
may be regarded as virtually finished. One or two sections
need some slight replenishment, and as new reference works
are bought they must be given a place on. these shelves so
that individual changes will never end. The reference
collection is believed now to be second to none in the
country.
Special Libraries.
The following statements are taken from the report of
Mr. Otto Fleischner, in charge of the Special Libraries :
ACCESSIONS.
During the year, 3,564 volumes were added, distributed
as follows :
Vols.
Fine Arts , . 924
Industrial Arts 583
Music, General Collection 472
Music, Brown Library 309
Special Libraries 992
U. S. Documents 190
British Documents 94
Total 3,564
There are now located on the Special Libraries floor,
111,428 volumes. This number includes all the State and
City documents which were transferred during the year to
relieve the stacks, but does not include the collection of
maps and the Tosti engravings.
30 City Document No. 24.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
The sum of ^258.44 has been expended for the purchase
of 647 photographs. There are now in the collection 15,818
photographs, 424 colored photographs, and 6,250 process
pictures.
The catalogue of the photographs, by artists, is kept up to
date, but as yet no time has been found to make a catalogue
by subjects.
The shelf and accession list of photographs on cards has
been completed during the year, and that for the process
pictures is about half completed.
CIRCULATION.
There were 13,820 volumes issued for home use from the
Fine Arts Department during the year. The recorded hall
use is 37,800 volumes. This does not show the complete
use of the books in this department : for example, the
system of laying out collections for classes from the different
art schools cannot be represented by statistics. Such collec-
tions remain on the tables for days and sometimes for weeks
and frequently the same volume is used by a hundred pupils
in succession while only a single entry of use may be
recorded. The custom of laying out books for special occa-
sions has been continued.
BOOKS FOR THE BLIND.
The collection of books and curient periodicals has been
kept on the shelves and tables in the south gallery for two
years for the accommodation of the adult blind ; but there is
practically no use made of this collection.
THE BARTON-TICKNOR ROOM.
During the past year the card catalogues in the Barton-
Ticknor Room have been re-arranged. The main catalogue
was in four sections formerly ; these have been combined so
that the cards are now arranged under one alphabet. The
new case doubles the numlier of drawers, and gives room for
the future growth of the catalogutj. The map catalogue has
been put into a larger case, and brought out into the desk
room. The cards have been punched and fastened with
rods.
The number of books issued for hall use during the year
was 12,053 ; the number of maps, 943.
Library Department. 31
The use of stack books in the Barton-Ticknor Room is
increasing. A record for fifty weeks gives a total of 7,945,
with a weekly average of 158. Many of these books are
reserved on the tables for readers who come in day after day.
According to a record taken twice each week the average
number of books reserved has been 195, the smallest number
reserved at any one time being 20 (June 20, 1908), the
largest 342 (March 7, 1903).
ALLEN A. BIIOWN LIBRARY.
The statistics for the Music Room are briefly as follows :
Volumes added 309
Headings written on 878 packages (about 35,000 cards).
Cards filed 17,680
Volumes catalogued in the Music Room .... 112
A slight decrease in the number of books issued is probably
due to the improvement in the catalogue, which makes it
possible for applicants to find exactly what they want much
more readily. The effort to push the catalogue still nearer
com.pletion has occupied the greater part of the year's time,
and a month or two more will bring it to an end. In addi-
tion, the entire index to Mr. Brown's collection of magazine
articles (about 2,500 cards) has been copied on large cards
and revised so as to be uniform with the index to the current
periodicals. Indexes have been supplied to four volumes of
clippings and programmes.
The additions during the year have been chiefly prompted
by a desire to keep the Library abreast of musical progress
here and in Europe. Two scores by American composers —
Converse's " Festival of Pan" and Parker's " Hora Novis-
sima " — and Dohnany's Symphony in D minor, Debressy's
"• La demoiselle elue," and Elgar's " Dream of Gerontius "
are worthy of mention. The addition of a volume of pro-
grammes of concerts given by Theodore Thomas in Boston,
practically completes a series of programmes of orchestral
concerts in this city from 1833 to the present time.
Lectures.
The following lectures have been given in the Lecture
Hall:
1903.
March 6. " The Heart of the Rockies," by Mr. Arthur K. Peck. Illus-
trated by the stereopticon. Under the auspices of the Unity Art
Club.
32 City Document Xo. 24.
1903. ♦
April 2. "Gothic Architecture," by Prof. Charles H. Moore.- Illus-
trated by the stereopticon. Under the auspices of the Unity Art
Club.
May 2. " Architecture of the Renaissance in France, Spain, and Portu-
gal," by Mr. C. Howard Walker. Illustrated. Under the auspices
of the Unity Art Club.
July 6. '■ Literary Boston," by Miss Lillian Whiting.
July 8. "Decoration of School Rooms," by Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge,
Jr. Illustrated by the stereopticon.
July 9. "Artistic Boston,'' by Mr. C. Howard Walker. Illustrated by
the stereopticon.
July 10. " Old Boston,'' by Mr. Edwin M. Bacon. Illustrated by the
stereopticon.
(The four preceding lectures were given in connectix)n with the National
Educational Association Convention.)
December 17. " Early Christian Art," by Mr. H. H. Powers.
1904.
Januai'y 12. '"A Tour Through Greece," by Mr. Arthur S. Cooley.
Illustrated by the stereopticon.
January 14. Introductory lecture of Boston Architectural Club series,
by Mr. C. Howard Walker. Illustrated by the stereopticon.
January 28. " The Period of Pericles, "" by Mr. Thomas A. P'ox. Illus-
trated by the stereopticon. (B. A. C. series.)
Department of Documents and Statistics.
The space allotted to this Department has been much in-
creased by the opening of the new Patent Room, noted in the
report last year. Under the restrictions which formerly
existed, order, system, and effective management were im-
possible. Since the change, however, it has been possible to
more fully meet the needs of those wiio, in constantly increas-
ing numbers, use this special collection. Students and
writers on subjects connected with economics and sociology,
persons seeking commercial, financial, and historical data,
attendants at colleges and schools who have in preparation
theses or essays, find here material assistance in their work.
The report of Mr. James L. Wliitney, the Chief of this
Department, contains the following:
During the year 1,080 volumes have been added as new
accessions or by transfer from other departn)ents of the
Library. The gifts through the American Statistical Asso-
ciation (whose library, placed in our custody, formed part of
the original collection) numbered 924 volumes and about
2,000 parts. The entire collection, exclusive of the Con-
gressional documents of the United States, and the Parlia-
mentary documents of Great Britain, now numbers nearly
11,000 volumes. To bring the collection into order, and
make it in its new setting as accessible and helpful as
possible, has been the desire of those in charge.
LiBRAEY Department. 33
Manuscripts.
The Chief of the Department of Documents and Statistics,
Mr. Whitney, has custody of the general collection of manu
scripts. As to the more important documents received dur"
ing the year, he reports as follows :
Prominent among the historical documents received is a
collection of manuscripts, once in -the possession of the
Hancock family, presented to this Library by the executors
of the will of the late Alfred T. Turner. These papers
number about seventy-five, and include letters written by
John Hancock, or to him, and other contemporary papers.
With these may be mentioned numerous letters from Gov-
ernor Shirley, and other prominent persons in the early
history of New England, including a letter from Governor
Bellomont to Captain Kidd, inviting him to come to Boston,
and promising to intercede with the King for his pardon.
In the "Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll
Bowditch, by his son," is an account of George Latimer, who
was held in Leverett-street jail in Boston, as an alleged fugitive
slave, and of the efforts of Dr. Bowditch and others in his
behalf. The documents issued at this time, in manuscript
and in print, were preserved by Dr. l^owditch, and regarded
by him as very significant. His son. Dr. Vincent Y. Bow-
ditch, has given them to this Library.
From Miss Louise Imogen Guiney have been received
copies, made from the Hardwicke manuscripts, of unpub-
lished papers of Robert Emmet, in regard to the insurrection
planned at Dublin, July 23, 1803.
A brief list of the manuscript accessions acquired by pur-
chase is as follows :
Six manuscript journals, of some 175 pages each, kept by
William Russell while a prisoner of war in Mill Prison,
Plymouth, England, 1779 to 1782. (Russell was Sergeant-
Major of the Massachusetts State Train of Artillery, raised for
the defence of Boston, under the command of Col. Thomas
Crafts and Paul Revere in 1777.)
Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson's Reply to the Committee
of fifteen gentlemen chosen in Town Meeting the morning
after the Massacre, to request him to issue his orders for
the immediate withdrawal of the troops. Manuscript letter
signed by T. Hutchinson, dated Council Chamber, 6 March,
1770.
Letter from Richard Gridley to General Washington, dated
Boston, December, 1776, on the subject of the fortifications
around Boston.
34 City Document No. 24.
Twenty-four official letters, dated 1774 to 1776, signed by
Governor Shirley.
Autograph letter, signed, of Barlow Trecothick to the
Selectmen of Boston, May 10, 1770.
Manuscript note-book kept by William Russell at the
home of Mr. Easterbrook in Ashburton, County of Devon-
shire, in England. Begun May 2, 1813. Contains also
" Account of provisions expended on board the Cartel-Brig
Ann Maria on her passage from Dartmouth to America with
51 prisoners."
The orderly book of Nathan Alden of Roxbury, 1776.
Journals and records of the monthly meetings of the Bos-
ton Artists' Association from the beginning in 1841 to 1851.
2 vols.
Original manuscript instructions from the Department of
State of the Confederacy to Wm. L. Yancey, Pierce A. Ross
and A. Dudley iSIann, Commissioners to Great Britain,
France, Russia and lielgium. Signed by Robt. Toombs.
Letters of ^Margaret Fuller to James Nathan, 1844-46,
for the Galatea Collection.
It may be well to point out that the Library now contains
the following manuscrij)ts :
I. The Prince Collection, which was bequeathed by the
Rev. Thomas Prince to the Old South Church, and is now
deposited in this T^ibrary. An analysis of these manusciipts
is in the published Catalogue of the Prince Library.
IL The Chamberlain Collection, bequeathed to this Li-
brary by the Honorable ]\Iellen Chamberlain, its former Libra-
rian. A description of these manuscripts has been published,
and there is also an author index to a part of them and fuller
descriptions of the remainder..
IIL In the Allen A. Brown I^ibrary of Music are tran-
scripts of many manuscript orchestral scores of the great
composers. The catalogue of these is nearl}^ complete.
IV. Most of the manuscripts added to the general collec-
tions of the Library are enteied in the card catalogue in
Bates Hall, under the name of the author, the subject, and
the heading "Manuscripts in this Libraiy." Certain special
collections, more recently received, such as the anti-slavery
manuscripts, given by the Garrison family and others, are
being arranged and bound.
The manuscripts in the Library can l)e consulted for
serious study under necessary restrictions.
Library Department. 35
The Patent Room.
The convenience of the new Patent Room is manifest, and
apparently appreciated by those who use it. The lighting is
excellent, and the location of the room apart from the more
frequented parts of the building insures quiet.
The catalogue of the patent collection is in process, and, it
is expected, will be entirely revised and rewritten within the
coming j^ear. Trade catalogues, which are found of use in
connection with the patent collection, of which we have but
few at present, have been arranged and temporarily cata-
logued. It is proposed to increase the number gradually,
and to index them regula^l3^
The number of volumes in the Patent Room February 1,
1904, was 9,740. During the year the number of books con-
sulted was 47,659, the number of visitors being 2,937.
Periodicals.
No part of the Library is more constantly used than the
Periodical Room, and the attendance increases from year to
year. The following statement permits a comparison between
the two latest years :
Attendance at
10 a.m
12 M.
2 P.M
5 P.M
6 P.M
9 P.M
10 P.M
The number of bound volumes consulted during the day
for each of the two years compared was, 1903-04, 25,651;
1902-03, 23,557. The number consulted during the even-
ing and Sunday, 1903-04, 6,769 ; 1902-03, 6,921.- The use
of newly published, i.e., current periodicals is not registered.
The number of unbound back numbers consulted during the
day aggregates 17,796 for the year, and the number con-
sulted in the evening and upon Sunday 10,269.
Newspapers.
As in the Periodical Room, a large attendance is usual in
the Newspaper Reading Room, and on Sundays this room is
frequently too crowded. To a certain extent the adjacent
Periodical Room is used on such occasions. The number of
papers represented in the room February 1, 1903, was 323.
Year
Year
1903-04.
1902-03.
9,190
8,794
14,546
14,465
17,065
16,549
22,542
22,466
17,497
17,239
17,428
18,087
6,327
6,404
36 City Document No. 24.
During the year 8 papers have been added and 16 have been
dropped, transferred, or have ceased to be published, leaving
the total number taken February 1, 1904, 315, not including
duplicates. The use of the room is indicated by the following
table :
Attendance. Attendance.
Dates. Maximum number. Dates. Maximum number.
February 22, 1903 170 August 30, 1903 133
March 29 158 September 20 142
April 12 175 October 25 166
May 24 121 November 22 161
June 21 105 December 6 171
July 19 127 January 17, 1904 160
The maximum number for the year, 175, appears on April 12 at 5 P.M.
The Branch System.
The report of j\Ir. Langdon L. Ward, the Supervisor of
Branches and Stations, contains the following statement as
to the activities of the Branch system :
The total recorded circulation of the branch system, includ-
ing the branch libraries and the stations, is 1,158,588
volumes. This represents a loss as compared with the pre-
ceding year of one and four-tenths per cent.
BRANCH libraries.
The total recorded circulation of the branch libraries this
year, 742,262 volumes, is one and tliree-tentlis per cent less
than shown in the year preceding. The East Boston, South
Boston, and West End Branches, however, have gained. The
loss has been chiefl}^ in the circulation of fiction for adults,
where we should expect to find it. The following compari-
son of the average percentages of fiction and non-fiction cir-
culated from eight branches in two successive years is inter-
esting :
i;i03-04. 190-2-03.
Fiction for adults 38.0 41.8
Non-fiction for adults 20.3 19.3
Fiction for juvenile readers .... 29.2 27.6
Non-fution for juvenile readers . . .11.6 11.3
Total circulation 100.0 100.0
The average percentage of fiction, as a whole, is 68^^ as
against 69^'^ a year ago ; and the percentage of fiction
for adults only is 38^^^ as against 41^*'^^ a year ago.
It is a matter of encouragement that the loss in the recorded
home use of the branches has been so slight. The attempt
to furnish adult readers witli standard fiction and as much
attractive non-fiction as possible seems to have had some
success. The attention given to the school children, also, is
a factor in increasing the use of the branches.
Library Department. 37
But, on the other hand, the probable influence of deposits
at the schools in decreasing the total circulation should be
noted. For while such deposits call attention to the Library
and bring children to it, the fact must be taken into account
that the books themselves would have had a much greater
recorded use if they had remained on the shelves of the
branch than they receive under the conservative method of
computing the school use. Thus, one custodian, by careful
experiment in the case of certain popular books of which
there were copies both at the schools and at the branch, found
that there was a recorded use of such books at the branch
of 1,500 for a definite period, as against 318 at the schools.
DEPOSIT WORK.
To distribute collections of books to the institutions of
their districts, chiefly to the schools, is now as legitimate a
function of the branches as to distribute books to individ-
uals. Eighty-one different places have been supplied this
year. Fifty-seven schools are regularly provided for by the
branches as against 40 last year. The total number of vol-
umes sent on deposit for the year is 15,187 as against
11,107 in the year 1902.
Several schools which were once supplied from the Cen-
tral Library have been assigned to branches, leaving the
former more free to supply schools in the heart of the city
and those situated near reading rooms, and to meet the calls
for special deposits which the branches cannot farnish.
There are now several districts in the city in which every
grammar and high school is supplied by the branch.
BRANCH QUESTIONS.
The method of instruction of employees by means of
papers of questions on library science as applied to the
branches of this Library was fully described in the last annual
report of the department. Several additional lists of questions
and answers have been issued during the year. When an
examination in Grade B for employees was recently given, a
part of the paper was based on the branch questions which
had been issued up tp that time. The result in most cases
showed that the questions had been thoroughly studied.
PICTURE BULLETINS AND PICTURES.
The making of picture bulletins and collections of
mounted pictures has gone on steadily at certain branches,
38 City Docujment Xo. 24.
and there has been established this year a system for lending-
these bulletins and pictures among the branches and stations,
by which the reading rooms particularly will profit.
The monthly exhibits of pictures from the Special Libra-
ries have continued to be of great use at the branches and
reading rooms. The colored photographs are especially
popular.
One hundred and fifty -nine portfolios of pictures have
been sent to public schools, most of them in response to
applications through the branches and stations.
BOOKS.
The new books purchased for the branches number 6,007
volumes as against 4,559 volumes in 1902. There were
3,513 volumes of replacements, and in the previous year
only 2,719 volumes. The number of volumes of current
fiction bought was 972, representing 90 titles, as compared
with 711 volumes, with 63 titles, in 1902-1903.
HOURS.
The branches were closed at 6 P.M. this year from July
15 to August 31 only, instead of from July 1 to September
14. The use from 6 to 8 P.M. was good in June, and,
though not large in July and August, seemed sufficient to
justify the extension of hours, and perhaps further extension.
Seven branches were opened on Sunday for the winter,
beginning with November as usual. The hours are from
2 to 9 P.M. instead of from 2 to 10 P.M. as in former years.
The Sunday use of the branches has been more satisfactory
during the last three months of the year than during the
first three. But while the number of books issued has
everywhere increased, the percentage of adults who attend
shows a substantial decrease at four branches. In conse-
quence of this, and in order to encourage the Sunday use of
the branches by adults, children under twelve years of age
are hereafter to be entirely excluded on Sundays.
By a recent decision, children under twelve years of age
are also excluded after 7 P.]\I. every day from the branches
and stations.
REPAIRS AND I]\rPROVEMENTS.
The interior of the Brighton Branch has been repainted
above the basement, tlie tin roof repKaced by a new one, the
brick and stone work repointed, and the external wood work
Library Department. 39
repainted. At the West End Branch the ceih'ng has been
whitened and the paint and woodwork cleaned throughout
the interior. The external woodwork also has been repainted
and the roof thoroughly repaired. The building of the West
Roxbury Branch has been repainted by the Public Buildings
Department, and outside shutters placed on the windows as
a protection against fire. The same department has also
laid a granolithic walk from the street to the entrance of
Curtis Hall, where the Jamaica Plain Branch has its
quarters.
Ventilators of uniform pattern have been placed in several
branches, and have proved to be of great service.
The Children's Room at the South Boston Branch has
been enlarged and surrounded by a higher fence. A lunch
room for the employees has been made by means of
partitions.
At the Dorchester and East Boston Branches the gas
fixtures have been largely replaced by new ones, and addi-
tions made. Additions have been made to the steam-
heating apparatus at East Boston.
MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES.
The registrations at the branches this year are naturally
fewer, since the thorough visitations to the schools during
the past' two years.
Reference work with children increases in importance at
the branches, with a better supply of juvenile books and
greater interest in the Library on the part of the teachers.
THE BRANCH DEPARTMENT AND THE SCHOOLS.
The work of the branch department with the schools has
been so fully described in previous reports that there remains
little to note this year except its greatly increased volume.
All the former activities have been continued.
There have been sent on deposit to the public schools
during the past year from the Central Library and the
branches 18,082 volumes, as against 12,261 volumes in
1902. There is, therefore, an increase of 4:1 per cent, which
represents not only a much larger number of teachers who
have been supplied but a greater frequency of exchange.
Though some questions remain to be settled, and many
improvements to be made, the present system seems satisfac-
tory to the teachers. Under it they receive freely, so far as
the resources of the Library permit, just what they need for
their classes, with only so much formality as the safety of
40 City Document No. 24.
the books requires. When, as is often the case, the request
from a teacher is general in its nature, the books are chosen
by the custodian. To avoid burdening the teachers the use
of the books is estimated, but well within the limit of actual
use as determined by various tests.
STATIONS.
The total circulation of the stations, schools, and institu-
tions is 419,523 volumes, which is one and six-tenths per
cent less than the number of volumes circulated in 1902.
The reading rooms A, B, C, F, and U, and the shop stations
M and Q show a gain. No change has taken place during
the year in the number or location of the shop stations.
SERVICE STATIONS.
A new reading room. Station 22, the North Street Reading
Room, was opened on June 9 at the North End, in a large
room of the Guild House of St. Charles Borromeo. The
use of the room, together with light, heat, and service, was
given, through the agency of the Rev. Roberto Biasotti,
rector of the Italian Church of the Sacred Heart, by the
Society of St. ^Nlark. The placards announcing the opening
were printed in Italian as well as English. The reading
room has a small permanent collection of Italian books and a
considerable deposit of Italian fiction, as well as books in
English. Besides the usual periodicals, four Italian maga-
zines and two Italian newspapers are received regularly.
The station is open every day from 1 P.M. to 6 P.M., and
on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 7 P.M. to 9
P.M. With the establishment of this reading room the
number of service stations becomes fourteen. It should also
be noted that Station 22 is the sixth cooperative station of
the Library, the others being Stations C, N, S, U, and W.
The use of the station by adults, though not so great as
could be wished, seems to be increasing. The total circula-
tion for the month of January was 1,120 volumes, which
was more than that of Stations A, D, H, L, ]\I, Y, and Z
for the same month.
The increase of the service stations in numbers, equip-
ment, and functions has been fully noticed in the recent
annual reports of this department. Since 1897, no shop
station has been established, while two shop stations have
been converted into reading rooms and one abolished. But it
is noteworthy that no new station since 1897 has been estab-
Library Departivient. 41
lished, nor any station changed in essential character, with-
out either municipal or private cooperation with the Library
in the matter of expense.
It is with municipal aid that the next reading room is
likely to be opened, at Upham's Corner, where the city has
provided a large room for the Library in the new municipal
building on Columbia road. The furniture asked for has
been already installed, but a considerable collection of books
will be needed.
Plans have been drawn for a city building at Codman
square, Dorchester, for which an appropriation of $35,000 is
available, and in which rooms are to be provided for the
Library. The books of the permanent collection of Station B,
the Roslindale Reading Room, now number nearly 3,000
volumes. Its circulation for the year is over 43,000 volumes.
The reading room has had a considerable amount of new
shelving this year. A regular assistant has been appointed.
The hours have been extended, so that the station is open
continuously from 2 to 9 P.M. The charging system which
is in use in the branches has been installed.
At the other large reading rooms, Mt. Bowdoin, Broadway
Extension, and Roxbury Crossing, conditions in general are
excellent.
At Station W, by meetings held under the auspices of the
Industrial School, and by a deposit of books on sociological
subjects, placed in the reading room for adults, the interest
of the teachers and educators of the district has been much
increased. The Library sent a deposit of books to be used
in connection with Mr. Copeland's lectures on English litera-
ture at the Hancock School. Several Italian newspapers
have been sent regularly of late from the Central Library.
A continued effort has been made to attract adults, and with
some success.
Owing to the pressing needs of the branches and of the
deposit collection, the service stations have received as addi-
tions to their permanent collections only 1,519 volumes this
year as against 1,890 volumes in 1902. But Stations B and
P have had more than last year, and Station F has had 94
volumes. The smaller reading rooms have already, however,
very serviceable collections of reference books, though these
need to be enlarged.
There are missing from the permanent collections of the
service stations 109 volumes, as against 59 in 1902 ; from
the deposit books, Central and branch, 101 volumes, as
against 173 volumes in 1902. A large number of the
missino: books are from Stations F and P.
42 City. Document No. 24.
The monthly meetings of custodians, useful as a means of
instruction, have been continued. The Branch Questions
and Answers are sent to all custodians of service stations.
Records of the property of the Library at each service sta-
tion have been made by the custodians and verified by the
Central Library records.
In the course of a fire, the walls and ceilings of Station D
were damaged by water. They have since been re-tinted by
the trustees of the building. The work of the station was
only partially interrupted for two or three days.
OTHER AGENCIES.
The Franklin Park Reading Room has a recorded circula-
tion for the year of nearly 5,000 volumes, if the home use of
the periodicals furnished by the Park Commissioners be
included with that of the books of the Library. This is
about two-thirds of the circulation of the smallest station of
the Library system, yet the use of the -reading room may be
estimated to be about double what it was in the first months.
The lack of artificial light, which compels early closing in
winter, is a drawback. It is chiefly adults who use the read-
ing room. The deposit of Library books has been increased
to 500 volumes, and includes a small set of reference books
which were bought specially for this purpose in February
last. The reading room was rearranged and made more con-
venient last June by the Park Commissioners, in consulta-
tion with the Library. They still provide the means for a
delivery from the Central Library three times a week.
Two engine-houses have been added to our list, and two
Home Libraries, on account of exceptional conditions, are
being supplied for the first time.
The Anna Ticknor Library furnishes, in part at least, the
books for several institutions, among them tlie A\''ells Memo-
rial Institute and the People's Institute.
A deposit of 500 volumes has been sent to the Plant Shoe
Factory, and they have circulated well among the 2,700 em-
ployees. Mr. Plant has bought duplicate copies of many of
the books. The manager aims to apply commercial methods
to the circulation of books, and advertises them in various
ingenious ways. To the Social Club for the employees at
Messrs. Filene's store, the Library has sent 125 volumes.
At the last exchange the social secretary reported that con-
siderable interest had been shown in tlie books. Both the
above deposits are experiments. In each case the conditions
are unusual and very interesting.
Library Department. 43
DEPOSIT WORK.
There have been sent out on deposit from the Central
Library through this department during the past year, 35,727
volumes, as against 31,382 volumes in 1902, the gain
being 14 per cent. Forty-five per cent of these books
were fiction, while last year the percentage was 46. The
additions to the deposit collection number 4,346 volumes, as
against 5,618 last year. But as the Anna Ticknor Collection
is included in the latter number, the additions for specific
needs are much greater this year. The net gain of the
deposit collection is 3,200 volumes, 1,146 volumes having
been condemned. Books devoted to such uses as these
naturally wear out very fast. The collection now consists
of 24,421 volumes, but is not yet adequate to the work
which it performs. All but two volumes were accounted for
at the shelf reading, and one of these this department has no
record of having received. The shelf reading of the Anna
Ticknor Collection has not yet taken place. This collection
has proved valuable and has a moderate use. Probably
from 800 to 1,000 of its volumes are out on deposit at
present.
The deposit work responds more readily to initiative and
guidance than the daily issue, and hence steadily progresses.
It is more satisfactory than last year, both in the frequency
and nature of the requests received and in our ability to
meet them. The reference work done by some of the assist-
ants is of a high order.
THE DAILY ISSUE.
The daily issue to the branches and stations from the
Central Library amounts this year to 100,538 volumes, and
represents a loss of seven and three-tenths per cent. For
the last four months, however, the issue shows an average
increase of four per cent a month. The percentage of un-
successful cards is forty-six and six tenths, the same as that
of last year. The loss has been due, therefore, to decreased
applications.
The decrease aggregates 8,016 volumes, classified as
follows :
Fiction for juvenile readers 3,250
Non-fiction for juvenile readers 2,439
Fiction for adults 737
Non-fiction for adults 1,590
The proportions of fiction and non-fiction in the books
issued are as follows :
1903-04.
1903-03.
37.5
35.5
23.9
23.6
35.7
36.0
2.9
4.9
44 City Document No. 24.
Fiction for adults ....
Non-fiction for adults ....
Fiction for juvenile readers
Non-fiction for juvenile readers .
Total circulation 100.0 100.0
The decrease is therefore chiefly in the books for juvenile
readers, both fiction and non-fiction. The deposits at the
schools may partly account for this, and the lack of a printed
uvenile list has had an important influence. But the disap-
pointments caused by lack of sufficient copies at the Central
Library must not be overlooked. It should not l)e forgotten
that the branches play a very small part in the daily issue, the
overwhelming majority of applications coming from stations
where there is a very small supply of books of any class.
This makes the claim of borrowers upon the Central Library
a strong one.
A systematic examination into the unsuccessful applica-
tions was begun last May and continued from month to
month, with the purpose of supplying deficiencies by recom-
mending duplicates, at least of the non-fiction, of good qual-
ity which was most in demand. Many additional copies of
such books, including juveniles, were recommended and
bought. Possibly this action may have had a small part in
the recent increase of the issue. It is almost certain that
the new English Prose Fiction List has had an influence by
encouraging accurate applications for books which could be
furnished.
It is interesting to note that while the circulation of
fiction for adults has declined both absolutely and relatively
at the branches, in the issue from the large Central collec-
tion, by means of written applications, it has gained relatively,
and declined very little absolutely.
INTER-LIBRARY LOANS.
Lent to libraries in Massachusetts
Lent to libraries outside Massachusetts
Total
Applications refused in Massachusetts
Applications refused outside ^Massachusetts,
Total
Borrowed from other libraries
Volumes,
1903-04.
Volumes,
1002-03.
46.S
219
398
222
682
620
63
45
60
34
108
94
14
26
Library Department. 45
DISTRIBUTION OF PERIODICALS.
Twenty-one thousand and twenty-five copies of periodicals
have been distributed as usual to city institutions as against
20,325 copies in 1902.
COST OF BRANCHES AND STATIONS.
The aggregate expense of the branches for the year is
1,745.30, an increase of $5,266.52 as compared with the
preceding year. The principal items of increase are : Admin-
istration, $1,134.53 ; books and periodicals, $2,106.21 ; fuel,
$2,992.09 ; repairs, $2,434.61. The increase in expense of
administration, comprising the amount paid for services, is
unavoidable with the increase in the demands of the service ;
and the expenditure for books and periodicals justifies itself
in the legitimate enlargement of the collection and in fact
is not greatly larger than in 1901. The unprecedented
increase in the amount spent for fuel is due not only to the
high price of coal but to the fact that no large purchases
were made in the preceding year. The increase in the expen-
diture for repairs is due largely to extensive repairs carried
out at the Brighton and West End Branches. The amount
expended for furniture shows a decrease of $1,119.54 as
compared with the preceding year.
The cost of the stations for the year was $21,567.11, or
$256.68 less than for the preceding year. This does not
include the cost of distribution to the schools and engine-
houses which was $355.34 as against $251.15 in 1902; these
small amounts representing chiefly the proportional shares of
the expense of the delivery wagons.
There has been an expenditure of $1,043.13 for the new
North Street Reading Room, but no other important new item.
The Use of Books.
The table contained in Appendix VII. exhibits the circula-
tion for home use throughout the Library system for the
year. The aggregates are :
HOME USE.
Central Library (including Central Library books
issued through branches, stations, etc.) , . 418,681
Branches and Stations 1,045,356
Total ......... 1,464,037
As against 1,489,033 for the preceding year.
46
City Document No. 24.
For the purpose of I'eady comparison other figures relating
to circulation, contained in the extracts from the reports of
the Chief of the Issue Department and the Chief of the
Branch Department, which have been previously cited, are
here brought together.
Total circulation of stations, schools, and institutions 419,523
On deposit from Central Library .... 35,727
Daily issue to branches and stations from Central
(aggregate) 100,538
Direct circulation, home use, from branches . . 742,262
On deposit, to schools from branches .... 15,187
Sunday and Evening Service.
The usual evening service has continued throughout the
year. The Sunday attendance contuiues large, the circula-
tion gaining from year to year. Following the practice of
recent years the Library has been opened in the afternoon
and evening on two holidays (Washington's Birthday and
Patriot's Day), with a slight increase in circulation on
each. ]Mr. Frank C. Blaisdell, Chief of the Sunday and Eve-
ning Service, has prepared the tables which follow, showing
comparisons of circulation upon Sundays and holidays for the
years 1903-04 and 1002-03.
Sunday and Holiday Circulation.
Home Use.
Hall Use.
Totals.
Juvenile.
1902-03.
1903-04.
1902-03.
1903-04.
1902-03.
19C3-04.
1902-03.
1903-04.
Sundays
Feb. 22
April 19
37,793
646
531
39,623
679
416
42,798
920
482
42,509
1,001
609
80,591
1,565
1,013
82,132
l,f80
1,025
13,411
155
180
12.941
174
93
Resignations.
The service has been affected by the following resignations
during the year :
Name.
Department.
Entered
Service.
Discontinued.
Lucius P. Lane
Catalogue
Aug. 22, 1898....
July 21, 1902....
July 3, 1899
Mar. 1,1899
Resigned Feb. 9, 1903
Resigned Mar. 28, 1903
Resigned May 18, 1903
Resigned May 19, 1903
Ella L.M. Dibbe;-n
diaries A. Doyle
Bindery
Special Libraries..
Library Department.
47
Name.
Department.
Entered
Service.
July 2, 1900
Nov. 4, 1898
Sept. 18, 1900 . . .
Mays, 1897
Aug. 16, 1895 ...
June 15, 1903 . . .
Sept. 26, 1902 . . .
June 27, 1902 . . .
Feb. 21, 1898....
Aug. 2, 1895 ....
Nov. 4,1898
May 29, 1903....
Jan. 9, 1903
Dec. 1, 1902
June 11,1903....
Jan. 4, 1897
Dec. 7, 1891
July 2,1900
May 24, 1886....
Aug. 2, 1897
Oct. 17, 1902 . . . .
Aug. 16, 1895 . . .
June 8, 1900 . . . .
April 13,1902...
Feb. 8,1896
Discontinued.
Georgina I. Reid
William D. Kelly
Lillian L. Connor
M. Agnes McSweeney..
M . Florence Dale
Jennie T. Carey
John S. Wliite
Louis K. L. McNeil
EmniaBollig
Albert J. Plunkett
Irene E. Henderson
Elvira R. Binda
Royal A. Brown
Herbert Hirshberg
Harry J. Blake
Mrs. M. L. Chamberlain,
Alice A. Keleher
Joseph Kolsky
Mary H. Rollins
Anita F. Ilemniings —
Frances Baur
Bertha A. Olson
Lucy Perham
Benjamin F. Starkey . . .
Alice E . Mc Kirdy
Issue
West End
Issue
Catalogue
Brighton
Issue
Special Libraries .
Special Libraries .
Branch
Bates Hall
West Roxbury. . .
Station 22
Branch
Catalogue
West End
Special Libraries .
Ordering
Issue
Catalogue
Catalogue
Issue
Issue
Issue
Engineers
South End
Resigned May 31
Resigned June 10
Resigned July 15
Resigned July 18
Resigned July .31
Resigned Aug. 1
Resigned Aug. 10,
Resigned Aug. 24
Resigned Sept. 1
Resigned Sept. 15
Resigned Sept. 24
Resigned Oct. 1
Resigned Oct. 7
Resigned Oct. 8
Resigned Oct. 8
Resigned Oct. 14
Resigned Oct. 14,
Resigned Oct. 1
Resigned Oct. 21
Resigned Oct. 23
Resigned Oct. 29
Resigned Nov. 25
Resigned Dec. 5
Resigned Dec. 7
Resigned Dec. 15
1903
,1903
.1903
, 1903
, 1903
, 1903
,1903
,1903
, 1903
,1903
,1903
,1903
, 1903
,1903
,1903
, 1903
,1903
, 1903
, 1903
,1903
,1903
,1903
,1903
,1903
,1903
Examinations.
The following examinations have been held for the graded
service of the Library, namely : March 14, Grade B (30
applicants) ; July 15, Grade C (50 applicants) ; September
19, Grade E (51 applicants) ; December 29, Grade B (19
applicants) ; January 9, Grade E (23 applicants).
Respectfully submitted :
Horace G. Wadlin,
Librarian.
April 29, 1904.
48 City Document No. 24.
REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE
FOR 1903-1904.
The Chairman of the Examinms; Committee for 1903-04, Hon.
Charles S. HamUn, has transmitted to the Trustees the reports of
the sub-committees, from which the following are taken, embody-
ing the suggestions or conclusions based upon the examination of
the Library.
1. Administration (Rev. James N. Supple, Chairman). —
Your committee visited the Central Library in all its departments.
Our examination was necessarily superficial and somewhat hast}',
yet we could not fail to see the great machinery of this institution
working in its quiet and systematic manner as one body. Good
order, discipline, and attention to duty are very noticeable. The
public is well served, and the wants of all supplied. We appre-
ciate the magnitude of the work, and conse(iuently give i)raise,
well merited, to those who have brought it to the perfection it has
now attained.
2. . Branches and N'ew Modes of Distribution (Rev. James
A. Walsh, Chainnan). — This committee recommends: a. A
larger supply of standard fiction, b. Greater dui)lication of copies
of books in active demand. c. Prompt replacement of books
reported as missing from the shelves, d. An enlarged appropri-
ation for salaries at the branches, e. A new reading-room in
Ward 19. /". AVidcr advertising of the advantages presented by
the branches and stations.
General Hazard Stevens of the connnittee presented an inili-
vidual report embodying the result of his personal visits to
various branches, and suggesting various improvements, especially
the more extended use of plants and i)ictures at the reading
rooms to make them more attractive, larger jiurchases of books
for certain statiuns ; and remedial measures to diminish the pro-
portion of unsuccessful card applications for books from the
Central Library from ai)plicants through the branches and stations.
3. Catalogues., JiuUetins, and I^^inding Lists (Hon. John
Lathroi", C/iairinan). — The sub-connuittee finds this dei)artment
of the Library in good condition, and the work satisfactorily
done.
4. T^tnance (Mr. J. Montgomery Sears, Chairman). — The
present Library building covers an area, approximately, of 51,000
square feet. The old Library building on Boylston street covered
about 12,000 square feet. The area in scjuare feet, therefore, of the
new Library, is over four times greater tlian tliat of the old
Boylston street building. The yearly a])]noiiriation of the city
when the Library Avas in the old building (1894), was about.
Library Department. 49
S180,000. The appropriation for the j^ear 1902-03 was $300,000,
not twice the amount appropriated in 1894. When the Library
occupied, the old building in 1894 there were employed in all
its branches 185 persons. There were employed in 1902-03
in all branches about 378 persons. To sustain the branch
libraries and stations, which have increased greatly, new books
are constantly needed ; there is also the extra expense of rent,
binding, cataloguing, and transportation of books between
the Central Library and its branches and delivery stations.
The repair items have increased from about $3,600 in 1895 to
$15,400 in 1902-03. Salaries have increased from $94,139.34
in 1894 to about $191,350.44. The character of the office in the
Library should determine the amount of the salary, and not the
person holding the office. This increase in salaries is largely due
to increased help, both in the Central Library and the new
branches. With all this increase in expense, the increase in
yearly appropriations has not been proiwrtionate. The Board of
Trustees give their ser\dces, and their task is not a light one.
They do their work well ; and as the Library is for the City of
Boston, the City of Boston can ill afford to be other than very
liberal in carrying on this good work.
5. Printing and Binding (Mk. D. O. S. Lowell, Chair-
man). — The Committee on Printing and Binding finds that the
new linotype machine has done excellent work, but that it should
he supplemented by the purchase of a new press, in order to
prevent the congestion of work. As arrangements can be made
so that an automatic rotary press may be bought on the instalment
plan, the committee repeats its recommendation of last year, that
such a press be bought as soon as possible.
The work in the Bindery is in a thoroughly satisfactory condi-
tion.
6. Fine Arts (Mr. Frederic P. Vinton, Chairman). — The
committee suggested the addition of certain Fine Art periodicals ;
more extended advertising of the resources of the Art Depart-
ment, and the purchase of the larger carbon reproductions of the
works of the masters, to be systematically arranged under the
advice of artists to be appointed by the Trustees.
7. Books (Mr. John C. Gray, Chairman.) — The com-
mittee has examined especially the selection of new books placed
in Bates Hall, and has been much pleased with the wide variety
and judicious choice.
The committee has but one suggestion to make. The practice
of bookbinding, not merely as a useful but as a fine art, is
ra})idly increasing in this city, and in no art are good examples
more instructive. The committee is aware how expensive good
specimens of binding by the great masters, either ancient or
modern, have l)ecome. The Library, although it has some
remarkable pieces of bookbinding, is, upon the whole, not rich in
this respect. We think the acquisition of beautiful bindings, so
far as a moderate expenditure will permit, would answer to a real
need.
APPENDIXES
I903 — 1904.
LIST OF APPENDIXES.
Page
I. Financial Statement ..... 53
II. Extent of the Library by Years . . . 76
III. Net Increase of the Several Departments,
INCLUDING Branches ..... 77
IV. Classification : Central Library . . broadside
V, Classification : Branches .... 80
VI. Registration ...... broadside
VII. Circulation ....... 83
VIII. Trustees for Fifty-two Years. Librarians . 85
IX. Examining Committees for Fifty-two Years, 87
X. LiBKARY Service, Including Sunday and Even-
ing Service . . . . . . 91
XI. Givers and Gifts . . . . . .101
Index to the Annual Report, 1903-1904.
LiBRAKY Department. 53
APPENDIX I.
Financial Statement.
Boston Public Library,
Auditino Department, February 1, 1904.
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,
1903, and ending January 31, 1904 ; also, a statement con-
cerning the trust and other funds, statements covering
special appropriations, and a statement of expenditures on
account of the branches for the twelve years ending 1903-
1904.
Respectfully,
A. A. Nichols,
Auditor.
Receipts.
Appropriation, 19'03-1904 8305,500 00
Payments for lost books, sales of duplicates, etc. . 347 35
Income from Trust Funds, 1903-1904 . . . 13,339 33
Interest credited :
From J. S. Morgan & Co. . . $224 11
Ou Bank Deposits . . . . 38 94
263 05
Gifts, 1903-1904:
From Andrew Carnesfie . . . . . 100 00
Total receipts . . . . . . $319,549 73
Balances, February 1, 1903.
Ou deposit, J. S. Morgan & Co.,
London :
From income of
Trust Funds (in-
cluding S839.04
interest credited), §12,025 11
Carried forward, $12,025 11 $319,549 73
64 City Document No. 24.
Brought forward, $12,025 11 §319,549 73
From General Funds
( City appropria-
tion) ... 224 39
812.249
50
72
75
1,832
07
On deposit, Baring Bros, & Co.,
London . . ...
Interest accrued on bank deposits
Gift, unexpended balance :
From Boston Numismatic Society . 5 11
Exchange account. (Amounts ac-
crued from payments for lost
books, sales of duplicates, etc.), 335 31
Income of Trust Funds. (Unex-
pended balance in City Treas-
ury.) . . . ' . . 1,847 25
16,341 99
Total balances and receipts .... 8335,891 72
Against the aggregate Trust Fund income
balances (-ii^l 3,872.30) was charged the sum of
$33.27 over expenditure of previous years, leav-
ing net book balance of 813,839.09, as shown
on page (il.
Expenditures.
Salaries (general lilirary acc't, including branches) :
General administra-
tion . . . 8152,286 91
Sunday and evening
force . . . 19,463 84
8171,750 75
Books :
From city
appro-
pria-
tion, 822,380 88
City ap-
propria-
tion,
(London
account) 3,328 47
825,709 35
From exchange ac-
count (receipts
from lost books,
sales of duplicates,
etc.) ... 682 66
CarHed forward, $26,392 01 8171,750 75 8335,891 72
Library Department.
55
Brought forward
, $26,392
01
$171,750
75 $335,891
72
From trust fund in-
come (includino
London account)
13,400
73
From gifts :
Andrew Carnegie .
129
54
39,928
28
Newspapers, from '
rodd fund
in-
come
,
.
1,757
73
Periodicals, including London
ac-
count
.
5,922
07
Binding Department :
Salaries .
$19,802
86
Stock .
2,457
20
Equipment
185
33
Electric power
44
00
Contract work
3
80
Contract work (Brit-
ish patent specifica-
tions, paid througL
1
J. S. Morgan & Co.
London)
248
28
Eent
918
50
Miscellaneous ex-
pense .
441
30
24,101
27
Printing Department :
^d 1
Salaries .
$5,866
67
Stock
2,710
69
Equipment
1,312
68
Electric power
173
88
Contract work
235
13
Rent
518
54
Miscellaneous ex-
pense ,
361
65
11,179
9,270
24
Furniture and fixtures
37
Gas
1,878
96
Electric lighting
2,195
86
Miscellaneous expense
.
79
75
Cleaning
6,652
65
'
Small supplies
2,001
15
Stationery
2,170
39
Rent of branches and
reading i
ooms.
6,174
96
Fuel
.
14,832
09
Repairs .
,
7,812
28
Freights and cartage
791
49
Carried forw a rd
$308,499 29 $335,891 72
56 City Document No. 24.
Brought forward
Transportation between Central Li-
brary, branches and delivery sta-
tions ......
Delivery stations, rent and service .
Telephone ser\ice .
Postage and telegrams
Typewriting .
Travelling expenses
Grounds
Liability insurance .
Premium on suret}' bond
Expenses on account of installing the
Sargent painting ....
Total expenditures for year . . . 320,005 38
$308,499
29 §335,891 72
4,550
24
3,758
42
510
42
1,195
45
21
76
494
63
2
25
48
00
5
00
919
92
Balance . §15,886 34
The balance includes the following items :
Cash City Treasury, Trust Funds income . S5,623 40
Cash City Treasury, Carnegie gift ... 26 34
On deposit, London :
J. S. Morgan & Co.
Trust Funds in-
come (including
interest credited).
*S6,423 83
General Funds (city
appropriation)
1,863 90
<i,S *''>S7
73
75
Baring Bros. & Co.
72
Cash on deposit. New England Trust Co. :
UuexiH'uded balance
of gift, Bos-
ton Numismatic Societv . . §5
11
Interest accrued on d
.'posits . . 1.S71
01
8,360 48
1,876 12
S15,.S86 34
*Af;ainst the a^greprate Trust Fund income balances (Sr2,(M7.-23) will be cliarjjecl
$37.'27 to extinguish over expenditure of previous years, leaving net book balance
312,009.96, as shown on page 01.
Library Department.
57
GENERAL APPROPRIATION.
Comparative Statement for Fiscal Years Ending January 31, 1903 and 1904.
1902-1903. 1903-1904.
Salaries :
General administration . . . .
Sunday and evening force
Binding":
Salaries
Stock
Contract work ,
Equipment
Electric power
Books
Periodicals
Furniture and llxtures.
Gas
Electric lighting.
Supplies
Cleaning
Printing:
Equipment
Stock
Contract work.
Salaries
Electric power.
Stationery
Typewriting
Fuel
Rents of branches and reading rooms
Repairs
Freights and cartage
Transportation between Central Library and branches.
Delivery stations
Travelling expenses
Postage and telegrams
Telephone service
Miscellaneous expense
Insurance
Grounds
Expenses on account of Installing paintings
Remittance to J. S. Morgan & Co., London
$150,
19,
$300,158 11
$15'2,2Sfi 91
19,463 84
19,802 86
2,457 20
3 80
185 83
44 00
23,191 92
5,915 .S8
9,270 37
2,187 30
2,251 97
2,001 15
6,684 14
1,312 68
2,710 69
235 13
5,866 67
173 88
2,170 39
21 76
14,832 09
7,612 00
7,812 28
1,198 50
4,550 24
3,758 42
494 63
1,195 45
510 42
84 75
48 00
2 25
919 92
5,000 00
$306,256 32
The cost of maintaining the branches makes part of the general items of the sev-
eral appropriations :
Cost of branches, 1902-1903 $76,553 72
Cost of branches, 1903-1904 81,667 75
The amount expended for newspapers, books and binding (not included above)
paid from trust funds and city money in the hands of London bankers:
For 1902-1903 $6,147 97
For 1903-1904 9,185 00
The amount expended for books, newspapers and photographs (not included above)
paid from trust funds in the hands of the City Treasurer :
For 1902-1003 $8,629 38
For 1903-1004 9,563 18
Special Appropriations.
Li])raiy building, Dartmouth street, balance of
appropriation February" 1, 1903
Payn^kents on account :
Bronze doors, Daniel C. French on account
Balance, February 1, 1904
S71,190 44
8,000 00
$63,190 44
This balance will be required to settle outstanding contracts.
58
City Document No. 24.
Library building, furnishing, balance of city apjM-o-
priation February 1, 1903 .... 84,821 81
Payments on account :
Electrical work and fixtures .... 2,472 00
Balance, February 1, 1904 . . . 82,349 81
LONDON ACCOUNTS.
Balances
from
1902-1903.
Remittances
and Interest
1903-1904.
Total
Credits
1903-1904.
Expendi-
tures
1903-1904.
Balances
unexpended
.Jan. 31, 1904.
J. S. Morgan & Co.
J. S. Morgan & Co.
£. s. d.
2,,t09 17 1
£. s. d.
1,023 10 10
4.i 18 6
£. s. d.
3,579 6 5
15 0 0
£. s. d.
1,882 8 6
£. s. d.
1,696 17 11
Baring Bros. & Co.
1.1 0 0
15 0 0
2,5-.'4 17 1
1,069 9 4
3,594 6 5
1,882 8 6
1,711 17 U
Library Department.
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LIBBART TRUST FUNDS. — INVESTED IN CITY OF BOSTON BONDS.
U,v.„.
A.OU...
When received.
N0.„,B„„..
When due.
Income.
Provisions.
J hn» Bates!
»»,»oo
j 20,000 00
8104
April,
April,
on
J2.000
To buy "books of permanent value."
{ " To the maintenance of a free public library.-
April,
April,
863
8,106
906
( " PurchBse of books."
Abbott LawraDce
May,
August.
mn
281
July,
Books having a periimnent vahie.
Books for Churlestown branch, published before 1860. *
" Books of permanent value for the Bates Hall."
Booke Ave years old In some one edition.
Books In Spanlab and Portuguese. Ave years old In some one edition.
Cliarlotte Harris
m
T Pi »
«-i
April,
Oct.,
Mar ^P TownaeiKl
April,
AprU,
B-O
qoq
George Ticknor
4,000 00
879
2.068
920
160
John P. Blgelow*
1,000 00
August,
860
9.106
April,
913
40
Purchase of books.
1,000 00
June,
m
Jan'y.
914
40
Books of permanent value, preferably books on government and
political economy.
r 60000
November.
878
( 12.47C
Oct..
9S9
16
,
Sa uel A Green
1 -2'>
April,
April,
50
^Books relating to American history.
April,
884
1,243
20
September,
December,
J<ily,
S0,000 00
m
2000
11,S00 00
July.
April,
July,
4-2
914
40
2,000 OO
1 October,
April,
917
1,400 00
1,000 00
November,
July,
689
2,210
Oct.,
919
271
To be expended by the Trustees In such manner as they may deem
for the best Interests of the Library.
360 M
894
2,452
Oct.,
»;3
[ 600 00
January,
896
9,391
Jan'y,
916
Edward LawreiH-i-
500 00
May.
886
1.383
April,
916
20
" To hold and apply the Income antt so much of the principal as they
[the Trustees] may choose to the purchase of special books of
reference to be kept and used only nt the Charlestoivn Branch of
said Public Library."
10,000 00
January,
890
1,816
Jan'y,
920
360
For " the purchase of books of permanent value and authority In
mathematics and astronomy," to be added to the Bowdltch eol-
Family o( 1
600 00
January,
696
9,479
Jan'y,
910
20
Mcmorlnl Fund, from the Income of which books ore to be bought
for the West End Brunch.
October
8116
tlT
Ko,c.„,bcr,
896
10.305
917
For the purchnse of valuable and rare editions of the writings, either
In vereo or prose, of American and of foreign nuthors, " to be
known as the Longfellow Memorial Collection."
„ .,. 1
1 000 00
Mny,
April,
mn
10 531
July,
Oct.,
tl"
40
John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial Fund " for the purchase of books."
" For the purchase of books of a military and patriotic character, to
be placed In the alcove appropriated as a Memorial of the
Twentieth Regiment."
Twonlletti Regiment Aasociutlon..
6.000 00
897
.0.786
91,
200
,,0,000 00
Oc,„1,er,
™
10.890
Ocl.,
927
2,».0
The Income to be expended annually for current newspapers of this
and other countries.
r^T
11 244
Jan'r
IIS
35
Unrestricted
Friendo of 1
Henry Sargent Codman (
jRnunry,
899
11,586
April.
«
98
For the purchase of books upon landscape gardening.
J
„.
.
For the purchase of books adapted to youth.
For the purchase of books and for binding for the Abram E. Cutter
collection.
4.000 00
Mny,
»,
April,
931
f ^■***""*
May.
903
f 13.98S
April,
923
April,
April,
60,000 00
1 13,989
9-«
Mrs. John A. Lewis
6.000 0(1
April,
1003
14.639
Oct..
923
176
Forthepurchaseof old and rare books to be added to the John A.
Lewis librarj'.
$885,160 00
»15,'290
> Joshua Bates, bom In Weymouth, Massachui
of books to the Library.
•The gift of Mayor Pierce, previous to his roti
,.,,...- ,....^ II Intended fi ~ ' "
MEMORANDA.
783, died in London, as the head of the house of Baring Brothers & Co., 1
It from ollice. The principal or Interest may be expended as is deemed best,
Mr. Bigelow on rctlrine from the mayoralty - ■ -
" Charles Mead Public Library trust fund."
I fund, he gave S50,0<
I from the mayoralty, and was transferred by him to this purpose.
STOCKS AND CASH OTHER THAN CITY BONDS HELD BT TREADWELL FUND, PUBLIC LIBRARY.
■— •
Par value
sill..
from Trustee.
Truetec.
■ „c„n,e.
l,en,.r...
IS B. AA.R.R. Co
(100 00
100 OO
»179 00
1.M0O
»2,6S5 00
1.077 00
1,002 00
1 r' 'tni 00
, »r.,.is5 m > 49 00
9 Fltchburg R.R. Co
Ajirilfi, 1PS7. TheccitlllcHHsof 9 ahar.'s of K. R.R. exchanged fern
certlilcJite of 12 shares jireferrfd slock in same corporation, par
value «1U0. Total, •l.m
LCB. 88 00
Less paid May |0. 18M. to City Collector, per order of Board of
Trustees of Publl.- Library.
»6,4S7 00
Cash In Cit Tre e r
1
Library Department. 63
LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS.
e
BiGELow Fund. — This is a gift from the late John P. Bigeloav of
Bostou, in August, 1850, when Mayor of the City.
The income from this fund is to be appropriated for 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 gift from the late Joshua Bates of London
in March, 1853.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $50,000 00
" The income only of this fund is to be, each and every year, ex-
pended in the purchase of such books of permanent value and 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
of Boston. Received January, 1890.
Invested in one Citv of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bond, for . " $10.000 00
The whole income in each and every year to be expended in the pur-
chase of books of permanent value and authority in mathematics and
astronomy.
Phillips Fund. — This is a gift from 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 in his will, dated September 20, 1849.
Invested in one City of Boston Six per cent. Bond for . $20,000 00
The interest on this fund is to be annually devoted to the maintenance
of a Free Public Library.
Abbott Lawrence Fund. — This is the bequest of Abbott Law-
rence of Boston. Received May, 1860.
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 Edward Law-
rence of Charlestown. Received May, 1886. The following clause
from his will explains 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 gift from Henry L. Pierce, Mayor of the
City, November 29, 1873, and accepted by the City Council, December
27, 1873.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $5,000 00
64 City Document No 2i.
TowNSEND Fund. — This is a gift from William Minot and William
Minot, Jr., executors of the will of Mary 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 following conditions to
the legacy: "The income only shall, in each and every year, be ex-
pended 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."" Received April, 1879.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half 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, five years old in some one edi-
tion. At the end of twenty-five years the income of said sum is to be
expended annually in the purchase of books of permanent value, either
in the Spanish or Portuguese language, or in such other languages as
may be deemed expedient by those having charge of the Library.
These books 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 trusts and conditions faithfully executed, the books, manuscripts
and money are to be given to the President and Fellows of Harvard
College.
In order that the City miglit receive the immediate benefit of this
contribution, Anna Ticknor, widow of Mr. Ticknor, relinquished her
right to retain during her life the Itooks and manuscripts, and placed
them under the control of the City, the City Council luiving 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. Received April, 1871.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $4,000 00
Franklin Ct.uij Find. — This is a gift made in .Tune, 1SG3, 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 Reeil, 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: "Intrust
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.
Received Juno, 1S63.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 GO
Treahwei.t, Find. — By the will of the late Danikt, Tueadwkix of
Cambridge, late Rumford Professor in Harvard College, who died Feb-
ruary 27, 1872, he left the residue of his estate, after jxiymcnt 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
Library Department. 65
remaining in the bands of the trustees as therein provided, and convey
one-fifth part thereof to the Trustees of the Public Library in the City
of Boston.
The City Council have 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 vrhich is to be expended by
said trustees, 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 Boston & Albany R.R. Co. stock, par
value -^lOO each 1,600 00
Invested in 6 shares Boston & Providence R.R. Co. stock,
par value -f^lOO each 600 00
Invested in 12 shares Fitchburg R.R. Co. stock, par value
flOO each 1,200 00
Invested in 1 share Vermont & Massachusetts R.R. Co.
stock, par value flOO 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
Oh^rlestown, for the benefit of the Charlestown Public Library. Re-
ceived April, 1884.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
ScHOLFiELD Fund. — Bequest of Arthur Scholfield, who died in
New York, January 17, 1883. The interest to be paid to certain heirs
-during their lives, and then to be used for the purchase of books of
permanent value. The last heir, Joseph Scholfield, died November 18,
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
11,800 00
^1,800_00
Green Fund. — Gifts from Dr. Samuel A. Green, of Boston, of
$2,000, the income of which is to be expended for the purchase of books
relating to American history.
Invested in one City of Boston Five per cent. Bond, for . $1,000 00
" " " " Four " " " . 500 00
" " " Three " u ii _ 5qq qq
$2,000 00
South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund. — Gift of a citizen
of South Boston, the income of which is to be expended for tlie benefit
of the South Boston Branch Library. Received September, 1879.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $100 00
66 City Document No. 24.
Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund, — This is a gift 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. Received January,
1896.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $500 00
Charles Mead Public Library Trust Fund. — Received from
the estate of Charles Mead the amount of his legacy, 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. Received October, 1896.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $2,500 00
Abtz Fund. — This is a gift made in November, 1896, by Miss Vic-
TOBINE 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 Boylk O'Reilly Memorial Find. — This fund was received
from the members of the Papyrus Club, May, 1897. The income thereof
is to be expended 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 . S 1.000 00-
Twentieth Rk(;imknt Memorial Fund. — This is a gift made in
April, 1897, by the Association of Officers of the Twentieth Massachu-
setts Volunteer Infantry. It is to be used for the purchase of books of
a military and patriotic character, to be placed in the alcove appropri-
ated 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 William C.
Todd, of Atkinson, New Hampshire. The income is to be expended
annually in payment for such current newspapers of this and other
countries as the board of officers for tlie time being having charge of the
Public Library of the City of Boston shall j>urchase.
Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond, for . $50,000 00
Bkadlee Find. — A be<iuest of the Rev. Caleb Davis Bradlee,
D.D., of Boston, to the Boston Public Library. Received November,
1897.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bond, for $1,000 GO
Henry Saroent Codman Memorial Fund. — This is a contribu-
tion from the friends of the late Henry Sargent Codman, to be used
to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Codman by the purchase of books
upon landscape gardening. Received January, 1898.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half jier cent
Bond, for $2,800 00
Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1901 .... 54 41
$2,854 41
Library Department. 67
Ford Fund. — A bequest of Daniel Sharp Ford to the Public
Library of the City of Boston. Received June, 1900.
Invested in one City of Boston Three per cent. Bond, for . $6,000 00
Cutter Fund. — A bequest of Abram E. Cutter, the income of
which is to be expended for the purchase of books and for binding for
the Abram E. Cutter collection.
Invested in one City of Boston Three per cent. Bond, for , $4,000 00
Lewis Find. — A bequest of Mrs. John A. Lewis for the purchase
of such old and rare books as shall be fitly selected to augment the col-
lection known as the John A. Lewis Library, to be known as the Mrs.
John A. Lewis Fund.
Invested in one City of Boston Three and one-half per cent.
Bond, for $5,000 00
Billings Fund — A bequest of Robert Charles Billings. "This
sum to constitute a permanent fund for said Library, to be called the
Robert Charles Billings Fund, the income only to be used for the pur-
pose of the purchase of books for said Library."'
Invested in City of Boston Three and one half per cent,
bonds $100,000 00
Recapitulation of Public Library Trust Funds.
Robert Charles Billings Fund $100,000 00
Scholfield Fund 61,800 00
Bates Fund 50,000 00
Todd Fund 50,0( 0 00
Phillips Fund 20,000 00
Treadwell Fund 10,487 69
Phillips Fund 10,000 00
Bowditch Fund 10,000 00
Charlotte Harris Fund 10^000 00
Abbott Lawrence Fund 10,000 00
Artz Fund 10,000 00
Ford Fund 6,000 00
Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund 5,000 00
Pierce Fund 5,000 00
Mrs. John A. Lewis Fund 5,000 00
Townsend Fund 4,000 00
Ticknor Fund 4,000 00
Cutter Fund 4,000 00
Codman Memorial Fund 2,854 41
Charles Mead Fund 2,500 00
Green Fund 2,000 00
Bigelow Fund 1,000 00
Thomas B. Harris Fund 1,000 00
Franklin Club Fund 1,000 00
John Bovle O'Reilly Memorial Fund 1,000 00
Bradlee Fund 1,000 00
Edward Lawrence Fund .500 00
Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund .500 00
South Boston 'Branch Library Trust Fund .... 100 00
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APPENDIX II.
EXTENT OF THE LIBRARY BY YEARS.
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16,221
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1871-72
192,958
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3
1854-55
22,617
21
1872-73
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1855-56
28,080
22
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40
1891
556,283
5
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34,896
23
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276,918
41
1892
576,237
6
1857-58
70,851
24
1875-76
297.873
42
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597,152
7
1858-59
78,043
25
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8
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44
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97,386
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45
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10
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28
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1897-98
698,888
11
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29
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30
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49
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50
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51
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34
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460,993
52
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17
1868-69
152,796
35
1886
479,421
18
1869-70
160,573
36
1887
492,956
VOLUMES IN LIBRARY AND BRANCHES JANUARY 31, 1904,
ACCORDING TO LOCATION.
643.172
19,922
West Roxbury
5,693
Lower Mills (Station A)
Rosllndale (Station B)
South End (Station C)
Mattapan (Station D)
163
663,094
23,814
11.103
2,973
147
156
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Mt. Bowdoin (Station F)
North Brighton (Station L) . . .
:Mt. Pleasant (Station N )
Broadway Ext. (Station P)...
Roxbury Crossing (Station S),
Ward Nine (Station U)
Industrial School (Station W),
Andrew Square (Station Y)..
Orient Heights (Station Z) . . .
North Street (StJition 22)
1,525
(5 L Tot.Hl,Roxbury branch,
Brigbton
34,917
16,010
29,974
1S,176
13,605
14,467
15,570
14,149
13,435
125
169
2,353
415
367
104
South Boston
South End
West End
236
782
219
Library Department.
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NET INCREASE OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING
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11,821
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20,273
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26,579
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20,680
2,063
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2,095
21,937
6,894
471
25,049
8,093
20,482
2,224
20,368
19,649
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1,217
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248
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1,415
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585
595
532
537
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126
112
1,021
147
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I'S 255
495
569
376
666
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329
273
1,277
374
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29
467
615
372
488
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382
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1,202
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I'S 1,628
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I's 424
loss 324
I's 250
1088 979
loss 318
Fellowes Athenteum
318
407
402
990
1,070
911
570
812
South Boston branch
401
1088 289
1,509
loss 69
113
I's 440
loss 118
1,166
396
1088 346
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276
138
1,435
308
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loss 505
599
335
399
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1,897
6,522
1,555
385
466
498
721
470
338
583
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loss 8
185
169
199
414
93
297
368
Lower Mills reading
85
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1,524
41
382
29
540
6
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South End reading room,
Maltapan reading room .
527
134
27
13
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loss 5
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455
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loss 6
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114
221
142
43
92
48
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readi ng room
261
724
307
290
172
213
295
loss 5
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126
67
37
30
8
Industrial School read-
7
Andrew Square reading
203
13
756
23
9
Orient Heights reading
room
17
North Street reading
219
Total
29,927
18,695
35,698
35,129
17,162
30,333
34,994
30,887
23,640
12,980
1 Collection transferred to West End branch.
78
City Document No. 24.
PLACED ON THE SHELVES FEBRUARY 1, 1903, TO JANUARY 31, 1904.
Placed on
the Shelves.
Condemned,
missing,
transferred.
Net Gain.
Central Library
Central Liljrary, Duplicate room
Brighton branch
Charlestown branch
Dorchester branch
East Boston branch
Jamaica Plain branch
Roxbury branch, city collection
Roxbury branch, Fellowes Athenaeum. .
South Boston branch
South End branch
West End branch
West Roxbury branch
Lower Mills reading room
Roslindale reading room
South End reading room
Mattapan reading room
Mt. Bowdoln reading room
North Brighton reading room
Mt. Pleasant reading room
Broadway Extension reading room
Roxbury Crossing delivery station
Ward Nine delivery station
Industrial School reading room
Andrew Square reading room
Orient Heights reading room
North Street reading room
Total
■24,194
2,194
1,150
1,175
997
1,199
685
25
1,185
1,747
677
1,057
425
6
558
13
3
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18
12
515
29
12
8
5
18
228
4,545
13,454
814
976
460
533
197
343
373
2,093
278
474
57
524
12
4
1
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1
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19,649
loss 11,26(>
336
199
537
666
488
loss 318
812
loss 346
399
583
368
6
527
13
3
56
loss 6
12
loss 9
17
8
loss 3
17
219
38,229
25,249
12,980
APPENDIX IV.
CENTRAL LIBRARY CLASSIFICATIONS.
CLASSES.
Special Libraries.
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1866.
1869.
1871.
1873.
1876.
187J.
1880. 1889.
1890. 1892.
1894.
1894. 1894.
1896. 1896.
1897.
1898.
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53.019
27,5C2
12,299
20,304
11,136
3,479
17,821
25,084
7,430
38,093
24,889
7,3.'J4
9,291
24,692
18,948
23,76«
8,200
8,913
23,367
61
690
1,020
3,688
2,268
1,176
435
1,076
311
139
996
731
104
1.079
1,102
135
189
680
1,026
1,078
696
699
1,438
1,918
15,971
17,900
83.032
65,175
28,696
12,702
21,373
11,402
3,610
18,776
25,796
7,633
39,127
25,830
7,488
9,464
25,232
19,948
24,774
8,740
9,496
24,703
249
35
17
108
77
60
11
9
9
22
2
1,387
58
146
6
66
3
3
15
4,665
14
322
614
655
1,093
858
623
327
1,425
1,179
95
329
736
6
5
43
831
114
7
2
8
197
21
691
135
813
3,210
2,474
337
2.54
617
500
225
471
15
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424
387
2.45S
669
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191
23
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61
53
31
13
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876
1,217
293
76
59
66
54
178
462
22
367
48
60
21
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67
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28
1,209
52
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2
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23
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2,118
6,767
241
416
74
84
156
2
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5,874
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1,180
34
3
11
428
95,066
70,396
V.
Engl8lihl3tor), og p y, g gr p J
33,691
VI.
French hislorj, ogr p y, g g p y
13,700
Til.
1
3
839
1
1
28
1
4
a an so >. og p y, g g
24,336
VIII.
Germanhslory og I j, b gr p J
13,660
l.\.
i> sy
8,408
.\'.
SpanlBliand Porlugueae history, etc
1
5
2
6
19,809
Oriental history, etc
1
14
2
6,218
35,482
XW:
7,702
3,.521
1,361
98
307
75
170
135
13
684
62
361
121
24
63
32
63
36
246
130
17
28
27
89
48
16
248
67
2
2
6
31
2
69
12
29
2
9
1
1
3
1
16
690
3
6
44,764
'
■iHl science meti h sirs etl'
30,361
13,461
14
23
1
25
103
3,019
2
46
47
2
1
8
13,J1S
4
25,848
Medical science
110
30,569
20
5
1
1
1
29,876
XXn.
4
4
367
9,140
9,502
Fine Arts
13
36
30
1
1
26
1
129
14
43
84
93
3,275
401
10
1
9,497
12
.33
260
2
1
20
97
35,302
60
159
139
513
652
47
13
2
150
16
1,036
X.XIV.
Bound Toluiiiea of miscellant-'ous nuinuscripts
3,276
614
29,612
31,182
10,482
30
1,865
2,264
4,346
644
23.854
19,347
19,897
644
Stack 4 and.Tuv
2,378
12,3.W
931
6,245
1,739
23,854
19,347
-XXVIII.
Deposit Collection
!
19,897
Totals
5.i7,B.«
■ 1
29,421 j 10,495
7,362
563,120
7,009
13,866
2,0.50
129
6,366
13,543
5,391
069
641
422
8,366
093
1,221
3,019
9,498
424
2,058
771
1,784
6,229
448 1 4.622
10,756
663,094
KxpLANATiON. — Class III. includes Kcneral history, etc., when embracinK sevwral countries, and collected works of historian
Class VIII. Includes also Belgium, the Netherlands, .Switzerland, and the Scandiuavian uatlona.
Class XIV. includes polUtca) science and ethics, education, etc.
Class XIX. Includes mechanics, military and naval ails, etc.
iXXIV doeB not include the Shakespeare collection of the general library.
J XX VL contains the former '; Lower Hall ■; •^o'^^ction^ whidi^has •:j, ^iff^^ent clasBificatiou.
1 these collections we
.cquired by the Library.
1 XI. include history, geography, biography, belles lettres, and language of the countries specified.
Library Department.
79
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City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX V.
CLASSIFICATIOX.
Branch Libraries,
As reported by Custodians of branches January SI, 1904.
s
a
^
o
a
o
s
m
go
O
a
n
«
o
«
O
Q
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1<
Reference books
Genealogy and heraldry,
Biography
History
Fine arts, archaeology. ..
Geography, travels
Language
Literature
Medicine, hygiene
Natural science
Pliilosophy, ethics, edu-
cation..!
Religion, theology.
.Sociology
Law
Useful and Industrial
arts
Amusements,
sports
Fiction
Books for tlie young.
Bound periodicals. . .
Unclassified
Total.
12
1,445
1,582
306
1,039
97
1,728
93
567
315
308
212
16
303
80
4,728
1,947
865
16,010
1,433
6
1,553
2,363
351
986
80
1,679
74
456
222
443
154
19
211
74
4,
1,865
1,462
12,177
29,974
391
1
1,462
1,459
344
985
85
1,481
97
454
216
215
125
8
243
79
5,526
2,424
1,27
1.304
18,176
415
23
1,193
1,378
278
766
70
1,448
92
401
184
170
126
16
214
74
3,883
2,213
584
137
13,665
426
5
1,335
1,249
342
804
98
1,304
72
46
214
210
140
7
242
75
4,057
1,876
1,208
336
14,467
184
35
939
738
14S
626
45
957
61
198
132
244
52
5
114
56
3,846
738
1,476
509
11,103
1,229
74
2,570
3,005
609
1,611
91
4,121
280
1,090
369
1,168
401
74
399
50
1,887
1,606
3,180
23,814
415
'i
1,265
1,379
378
885
70
1,441
110
487
229
264
138
21
238
80
4,342
2,191
1,501
133
15,570
342
5
1,.565
1,357
318
808
76
1,466
87
480
232
229
132
23
205
75
4,108
1,624
14,149
575
8
1,326
1,302
287
139
1,317
82
621
266
853
244
7
339
74
2,457
1,954
690 ;
13,435
1
484
506
118
367
19
527
26
186
67
56
67
1
81
19
1,235
1,486
256
24
5,693
APPENDIX VI.
REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.
Statistical Seport, February 1, 190S, to January SI, 1904.
CAKDS ISSUED FEBRUARY 1, 1903 — JANUARY 31, 1904.
Ee-Registrations.
Over Under
Over Under
New Registrations.
Over Under
Over Under
Over Under
Over Under
'S^
Central Library
Brighton Branch
Charlestown Branih, . . ,
Dorchester Branch
Kast Boston Branch —
Jamaica Plain Branili..
Roxhury Branch
South Boston Branch. .
South End Branch
West End Branch
West Roxbury Branch.
Station A
B .
at Franklin Parii
21,902
1,729
3,111
3,872
3,4G1
2,932
4,536
5,.')18
2,718
4,116
970
1,277
1,000
3 1
1
2
2 1
2
1 1
32,243
11,203
21,040
2,.')fi7
911
1,656
4,483
2,114
2,369
5,630
2,130
3,506
5,413
1,775
3,638
4,404
1,444
2,960
6,620
2,2,i3
4,367
7,978
3,149
4,829
3,661
1,431
2,230
6,307
2,168
4,139
1,535
477
1,058
2,117
1,998
2,418
1,331
2,331
1,397
1,5.53
5,674 3,092 3,734 4,811 3,405 108,489 38,351 70,138 *2,677
1,489
146
3,645
160
2,007
139
3,983
96
612
152
26
6,072 29,338 10,797
Library DepartiMent.
81
CLASSIFICATION OF HOLDERS OF "LIVE CARDS"
JANUARY 31, 1904.
By Sex and Occupation.
Classes.
Permanent
Residents.
1 Non-
residents.
Males.
Over 21 years of aye.
Professional classes
Teachers
Students
Business men
Unemployed
Laljorers j . . .
Under 21 years of age.
Clerics ;...
Ollice and errand bojs
Unemployed
Pupils of Latin and High schools .'
Pupils of Grammar schools
Other students
2,280
370
1,490
6,934
1,992
2S.'>
1,388
789
292
1,276
8,978
244
140
172
1,008
124
380
6
Females.
Over 21 years of age.
Professional classes
Teachers
Students
Business women
Married
Single, unemployed
Under 21 years of age.
Clerks
Errand girls
Unemployed
Pupils of Latin and High schools
Pupils of Grammar schools
Other students
Totals.
381
1,854
1,798
4,291
7,773
8,376
1,791
468
1,492
1,261
8,993
247
6.1,093
213
1,510
191
180
563
81
2
94
11
31
53
1 Including persons temporarily sojourning in Boston.
N.B. — Of the 2,998 teachers' cards issued prior to February 1, 1904, 609 are live
cards; of these, 51« are held by permanent residents, in addition to their ordinary
cards (not included in permanent residents' column above), and 93 are held by non-
residents (which are included in non-residents' column above).
Of the 892 special privilege c;nds issued prior to Fel)ruary 1, 1HP4, 2.'i9 are live cards;
192 are held by permanent residents, and 67 are held by non-residents.
82
City Document No. 24.
By Wards.
Ward Xo.
1.
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
1,498
1,378
1,102
1,184
1,106
1,862
1,561
4,068
3,002
8,460
4,816
5,132
1,576
li
Pi
^ sS
22,832
.0656
22,924
.0601 j
14,564
.0756 1
13,248
.0893 !
12,840
.0861
30.546
.0609
14,782
.1056
28,817
.1411
24,583
.1221
22,142
.3820
19,275
.2498
23,641
.2153
22,835
.0690
Ward Xo.
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Total
^■6
:j
1,891
1,864
2,012
2,190
2,204
2,071
4,276
4,289
2,893
2,981
3,740
2,982
70,138
c2
y
21,453
19,700
20,017
25,038
22,401
27,178
32,556
23,868
25,610
23,637
27,126
19,279
560,892
.0881
.0946
.1005
.0874
.0983
.0762
.1313
.1796
.1129
.1261
.1378
.1546
.1250
Total number of application blanks, borrowers' cards, cer-
tificates, etc., filled in, and filed alphabetically each year since
the present numerical record of borrowers was commenced
on February 1, 1899:
189'.)-r.»0(»
1900-1901
1901-1902
1902-1903
1903-1904
58,193
67,305
7(;,394
71,406
81,881
Total
355,179
Library Department.
83
APPENDIX VII.
CIRCULATION OF BOOKS.
Home Use Only.
Central Library:
A, direct
B, through branches
and stations
Brighton
Charlestown
Dorchester. .•
East Boston
Jamaica Plain
Roxbury
South Boston
South End .*. .
West End
West Roxbury
Station A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
Carried forward
Total Circulation.
Home Use.
1902-
1903,
1903-
1904.
314,3.i3
120,.548
4>,213
55,322
66,130
80,009
56,552
87,735
100,132
88,404
134,495
28,200
6,520
39,700
7,353
4,984
10,031
17,790
13,459
10,379
11,142
5,650
5,984
1,307,085
305,172
113,509
37,965
53,442
61,420
81,507
56,571
85,583
100,417
85,586
138,456
28,087
7,036
40,961
10,973
5,400
9,300
19,250
11,033
9,030
10,761
5,773
1,277,232
From Central
Library through
Branches and
Stations.
Included in
Central Library
Circulation, " B."
1902-
1903.
1903-
1904.;
934
891
794
1,038
702
715
1,860
1,973
1,333
1,290
705
695
851
929
1,173
1,260
3,453
3,022
1,414
1,415
1,715
1,594
3,079
2,207
1,148
1,884
2,929
2,365
2,457
2,138
4,403
3,947
5,021
3,497
4,291
3,840
5,857
5,265
1,429
1,757
1,901
47,305
41,866
From Branches
through Stations.
Included in
Branch Circulation
1902- 1903-
1903. 1904.
!378
= 874
3 66
= 706
2,024
2 424
3 29
M47
1,405
84
City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX VII. - Concluded.
Brought forward
Station M
N
P .....*
Q
R
S
T
U
W
Y
Z
Cottage Place
Franklin Park
GuiUl St. Elizabeth
House of Reformation. ..
Parental School
Schools
Back Bay P. O
Enfiine-houses
Institutions, etc
Total Circulation.
Home Use.
1902=
1903.
1,307,085
9,750
17,896
29,491
14,799
14,471
15.267
11,736
20,832
9,783
8,450
9,896
1903-
1904
Total.
909
676
1,321
3,825
1,085
11,671
1,489,03:}
1,277,232
9,609
16,157
27,420
16,078
13,222
15,696
10,758
22,052
8,767
7,591
8,336
4,069
1,050
3,.i82
1,564
2,125
757
17,972
1,464,037
From Central
Library through
Branches and
Stations.
Included in
Central Library
Circulation " B."
1902= il903-
1903.1 1904
47,305
3,194
6,575
2,528
5,180
5,107
5,080
4,418
7,422
15,227
4,512
1,678
174
1 100
> 9,300
12,594
120,548
41,866
3,403
6,278
2,894
5,817
4,452
3,960
3,290
6,290
13.946
4,036
2,411
1,314
938
143
19,650
1 Z.Sil
113,509
From Branches
through Stations.
Included in
Branch Circulation
1902-
1903,
2,024
* 1,977
"ll
4,012
1903-
1904.
1,405
* 1,792
3,197
* Number sent ou deposit. Nun)l)er useil on premises not recorded.
' Included in Dorchester Branch circulation.
3 " •' Brigliton " "
* " " Roxbury " "
* " " South Boston " "
Library Department.
85
APPENDIX VIII.
TRUSTEES FOR FIFTY-TWO YEARS.
The Hou. Edward Everett was President of the Board of
Trustees from 1852 to 1864; George Tickuor in 1865; William
W. Greenough, from 1866 to April, 1888; from May 7, 1888,
to May 12, 1888, Prof. Henry AV. Haynes ; Samuel A. B.
Abbott, May 12, 1888, to April 30, 1895; Hon. F. O. Prince,
October 8, 1895, to May 8, 1899; Hon. Solomon Lincoln has
served since -May 12, 1899.
The Board for 1852 was a preliminary organization ; that for
1853 made what is called the first annual report. At first it con-
sisted of one alderman and one common councilman and five
citizens at large until 1867, when a revised ordinance made it to
consist of one alderman, two common councilmen, and six citizens
at large, two of w^hom 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
Maj^or.
Citizens at laro-e in small capitals.
Abbott. Samuel A. B., 1879-95.
Allen, James B., 1852-53.
Appletox, Thomas G., 1852-57.
Barnes, Joseph H., 1871-72.
Benton, Josiah H., Jr., 1894-
1903.
BiGELOw, Hon. John P., 1852-68.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1865-
68.
Bowditch, Henry P., M.D., 1894-
1902.
Boyle, Thomas F., 1902-1903.
Bradlee, John T., 1869-70.
Bradt, Herman D., 1872-73.
Braman, Jarvis D.. 1868-69.
Braman, Jarvis D., 1869-72.
Brown. J. Coffin Jones, 1861-62.
Burditt. Charles A., 1873-76.
Carpenter, George O., 1870-71.
Carr, Samuel, 1895-96.
Chase, George B., 1876-85.
Clapp, William W., Jr., 1864-66.
Clark, John M., 1855-56.
Clark, John T., 1873-78.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D.,
1878-88.
Coe, Henry F., 1878.
Crane, Samuel D., 1860-61.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1873-75.
Dennie, George, 1858-60.
De Normandie, James, D.D.,
1895^1903.
Dickinson, M. F., -Jr., 1871-72.
Drake, Henry A., 1863-64.
Dwight, Thomas, M.D., 1899-1903.
Erving, Edward S., 1852.
Everett, Hon. Edward, 1852-64.
Flynn, James J., 1883.
Frost, Oliver, 1854-55; 1856-58.
Frothingham, Richard, LL.D.,
187.5-79.
Gaffield, Thomas, 1867-6g.
Gkeen, Samuel A., M.D., 1868-78.
Greenough, William W., 18.56-88.
Guild, Curtis, 1876-77; 1878-79.
Harris. William G., 1869-70.
86
City Document No. 24.
Haynes, Prof. Henry W., 1858-59.
Haynes, Pkof. Henry W.,
1880-95.
HiLLARi), Hon. George S., 1872-
75; 1876-77.
Howes, Osborne, .Jr , 1877-78.
Ingalls, Melville E., 1870-71.
.lackson, Patrick T., 1864-65.
Jenkins, Edward J., 1885.
Keith, James M., 1868-70.
Kimball, David P.. 1874-76.
Lawrence, James, l^'52.
Lee, Hon. John H., 1884-85.
Lewis, Weston, 1867-68.
Lewis, Weston, 1868-79.
Lewis, Winslow, 1867.
Lincoln, Hon. Solomon, 1897-
1903.
Little, Samuel, 1871-73.
Messinger, George W., 1855.
Morse, Godfrey, 1883-84.
Morton, Hon. Ellis W.,
. 1870-73.
Munroe, Abel B., 1854.
Newton, Jeremiah L., 1867-68.
Niles, Stephen K., 1870-71.
O'Brien, Hon. Hugh. 1879-82.
Pease, Frederick, 1872-73.
Perkins, William E., 1873-74.
Perry, Lyman, 1852.
PlERCK, PlIINKAS, 1888-94.
Plummer, Farnham, 1856-67.
Pope, Benjamin, 1876-77.
Pope, Richard, 1877-78.
Pratt, Charles E., 1880-82.
Prince, Hon. Frederick O.^
1888-99.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1868-77.
Reed, Sampson, 1852-53. ^"^';
Richards, William R., 1889-95.
Sanger, Hon. George P., 1860-61.
Sears, Philip H., 1859-60.
Seaver, Hon. Benjamin, 1852.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey N., 1878-79.
Shurtleff, Hon. Nathaniel B.,
18.52-68.
Stebbins, Solomon B., 1882-83.
Story, Joseph, 1855-56; 1865-67.
Thomas, Benjamin F., LL.D.,
1877-78.
TicKNOR, George, LL.D, 1852-66.
Tyler, John S., 1863-64; 1866-67.
Walker, Francis A., LL.D.,
1896.
Warren, George W., 1852-54.
Washburn, Frederick L., 1857-58.
Whipple, Edwin P., 1868-70.
Whitmore, William M., 1882-83.
WiiiTMORE, William H., 1885-88.
Whitney, Daniel A., 1862-63.
Wiiitten, Charles V., 1883-85.
Wilson, Elisha T., M.D., 1861-63.
Wilson, George, 1852.
WiNsoR, JrsTiK, LL.D., 1867.
Wolcott, lion. Roger, 1879.
Wright, Albert J., 1868-69.
LIBRARIANS.
1852 to date.
(From 18.)8 to 1877, the chief executive ollicer w.is entitle<l Supcriutendciit.)
Capen, Edward, Librarian, May 13, 1852-December 16, 1874.
Jewett, Charles C, Superintendent, 1858-January 9, 1868.
WiNsoR, Justin, LL.D., Superintendent, February 25, 1868-September
30, 1877.
Gref.n. Samuel A., M.D., Trustee, Acting Librarian, October 1, 1877-
Septeraber 30, 1878.
Chamrerlain, Mellen, LL.D., Librarian, October 1, 1878-September
30, 1890.
DwKiMT, Theodore F., Librarian, April 1.3, 1892- April ,30, 1894.
Putnam, Heuhert, Librarian, February 11, 1895-April ;]0, 1899.
Whitney, Jamks L., Acting Librarian, March 31, 1899-December 21,
1899, Librarian, December 22, 1899-January 31. 1903.
Wadlin, Houack G., Librarian, February 1, 1903.
LlBRAEY DePAKTMENT.
87
APPENDIX IX.
EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR FIFTY-TWO YEARS.
The following 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 thirty-
fourth year was from May 1 to December 31, 1885, a period of
eight months, for which no Examining Committee was appointed.
Abbott, Hon. J. G., 1870.
Abbott, S. A. B., 1880, 1894.
Adams, Brooks, 1894.
Adams, Nehemiah, D.D., 1860.
Adams, William T., 1875.
Alger, Rev. William R., 1870.
Allen, Hon. Charles, 1899.
Amory, Miss Anna S., 1890, 1891.
Andrew, Hon. John F., 1888.
Andrews, Augustus, 1892. 1893.
Appleton, Hon. Nathan, 1854.
Apthorp, William F., 1883, 1899,
1900.
Arnold. Howard P., 1881.
Arnold, Miss Sarah L., 1902.
Aspinwall, Col. Thomas, 1860.
Attwood, Gilbert, 1877.
Babson, Thomas M., 1900, 1901.
Bailey, Edwin C, 1861.
Ball, .Joshua D., 1861.
Bancroft, Robert H., 1894.
Bangs, Edward, 1887.
Barnard, .James M., 1866.
Barry, Rev. Richard J., 1895.
Bartlett, Sidney, 1869.
Bates, Hon. John L., 1896, 1897.
Beebe, James M., 1858.
Beecher, Edward, D.D., 1854.
Bellows, Mrs. John A., 1903.
Bent, Samuel Arthur, 1890, 1891.
Bigelow, Jacob, M.D., 1857.
Bigelow, Hon. John P., 1856.
Blagden, George W., D.D., 1856.
Blake, J. Bapst, M.D., 1897, 1898.
Blake, John G., M.D., 1883, 1891.
Blake, Mrs. Mary E., 1894, 1900,
1901.
Bod fish. Rev. Joshua P., 1879,
1891.
Bowditch, Alfred, 1899, 1900.
Bowditch, Henry I., M.D., 1855.
Bovditch, Henry I., M.D., 1865.
Bowditch, Henry P., M.D., 1881.
Bowditch, J. Ingersoll, LL.D.,
1855.
Bowman, Alfonso, 1867.
Bowne,Prof. Borden P., 1896,1897.
Bradford, Charles F., 1868.
Bragg, Hon. Henry W., 1898, 1899.
Brewer, Thomas M., 1865.
Hriggs, Frank H., 1903.
Brimmer, Hon. Martin, 1890, 1891.
Brooks, Phillips, D.D., 1871.
Brown, Allen A., 1894.
Brown, Francis H., M.D., 1899,
1900.
Browne, Alexander Porter, 1891.
Browne, Causten, 1876.
Buckingham, Charles E., M.D.,
1872.
Burdett, Everett W., 1896, 1897.
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, Jr., 1869.
Byrne, Very Rev. William, 1899,
1900.
Carpenter, Rev. Carlos C, 1901,
1902.
Carr, Samuel, 1894.
Carrutli, Herberts., 1892.
Chadwick, James R., M.D., 1877
Chamberlain, Mellen, LL.D., 1894.
Chaney, Rev. George L., 1868.
Chase, George B., 1876.
Chase, George B., 1877, 1885.
Cheever, David W., M.D., 1894.
Cheever, Miss Helen, 1896, 1897.
Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D., 1881.
Cla2)p, William W., Jr., 1864.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D.,1877.
Clarke, James Freeman, D.D., 1882.
Clement, Edward H., 1894, 1895.
Coale, George O. G., 1892, 1893.
Colby, John H., 1900. 1901.
Collar, William C, 1874.
Collar, Mrs. William C, 1900, 1901.
Collins, Hon. Patrick A., 1898,
1899.
Coiicannon, John S., 1903.
Connolly, Rev. Arthur T., 1898,
1899.
Corbett, Hon. Joseph J., 1896,
1897.
Cudworth, Warren H., D.D., 1878.
88
City Document No. 24.
Curtis, Charles P., 1862.
Curtis, Daniel S., 1872.
Curtis, Thomas B., M.D., 1874.
Gushing. Thomas, 1885.
Dalton, Charles H., 1884.
Dana, Samuel T., 18.57.
Davis, .James C, 1899, 1900.
Dean, Benjamin, 1873.
Deniiv, Henry C, 1876.
Derby, Ilasket, M.D., 1895, 1896.
Devine, William H., M.D., 1902,
1903.
Dewart, Mrs. William H., 1901,
1902.
Dexter, Henry M.^ D.D., 1866.
Dillingham, Kev. Pitt, 1886.
Dix, James A., 1860.
Doherty. Philip J., 1888.
Dolan, Rev. F. X., 1901, 1902.
Dole, Rev. Charles F., 1901, 1902,
Donahoe, Patrick, 1869.
Donald, E. Winchester, D.D., 1898,
1899.
Donnelly, Charles F., 1899, 1900.
Donovan. Edward J., 1902.
Doogue, William J., Jr., 1903.
Drevfus, Mrs. Carl, 1901, 1902.
Dauphy, .James W., 1900, 1901.
Dnrant, Henry F,, 1863.
Duryea, .Joseph T., D.D , 1880.
Dwight, John S.. 1868.
Dwight, Thomas, M.D., 1880.
Eastburn, Manton, D.D., 1863.
Eaton, William S., 1887.
Edes, Henry 11.. 1886.
Eliot, Samuel, LL.D., 1868.
Ellis, Artliur 15., 1888, 1889.
Ellis, Calvin. M.D , 1871.
Ellis, George E., D.D., 1881.
Endicott, AVilliam, Jr., 1878.
Ensworth, William II , M.D., 1898,
1899.
Ernst, Carl W., 1897, 1898.
Evans, George W., 1887, 1888, 1889.
Everett, Sidney, 189.").
Fallon. Hon. Jo.seph 1)., 1899, 1900.
Farlow, John W., M.D., 1S92, 1893.
Field, Miss Gretolien, 1898.
Field, Walbridge A., LL.D., 1866.
Fields. James T., LL.D., 1872.
Fitz, ReginaUl H., 1879.
Fitz, Walter Scott, 1894.
Foote, R<>v. Henry W., 1864.
Fowle, William F., 1864.
Freeland, Charles W., 1867.
Frost. Oliver, 1854.
Frothini/li'tm, Rirlianh J.L.D., 1876.
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D.,
1882.
Gannett, Ezra S., D.D., 1855.
Gargan, Thomas .1., 1899, 1900.
Gargan, Mrs. Thomas J., 1901,
1902.
Garland, George M., M.D., 1895,
1896.
Gay, George H., 1876.
Gerry, E. Peabody, M.D., 1902,
1903.
Gilchrist, Daniel S., 1872.
Gordon, George A., D.D., 1885,
1899, 1900.
Gould, A. A., M.D , 1864.
Grant, Robert, 1884.
Gray, John C, LL.D., 1877, 1902,
1903.
Green, Samuel A., M.D., 1868.
Green, Samuel S., 1895.
Greenougli, William W., 18-58, 1874,
18{<3, 1886.
Grinneli, Charles E., 1874.
Hale, Edward E., D.D., 1858.
Hale, Mrs. deorge S., 1887, 1888.
Hale, Moses L., 1862.
Hale, Philip, 1893.
Hamlin, Charles S., 1902, 1903.
Haskins, Rev. George F., 1865.
Hassam. John T., 1885.
Hayes, Hon. F. B., 1874.
Haynes, Prof. Henry W., 1879.
llaynes. Prof. Henry \V., 1881,1884.
Hayward, (Jeorge, M.D., 1863.
Heard, Jolin, Jr.. 1888, 1889, 1891.
Heard, John T., 18.53.
Hellier, Charles E., 1895.
Hemenway, Alfred, 1898, 1899.
Herford, Brooke, D.D. 1884.
Herrick, Samuel E., D.D., 1888,
1889.
Hersey, Miss Heloise E., 1895, 1896.
Higginson, Francis L., 1899, 1900.
Higginson, Thomas W., LL.D.,
1883.
Hill, Clement Hugh, 1880.
Hillard, Hon. George S., 18-53.
Ilillurd, Hon. Georr/e S., 1873.
Hills, Thomas, 1898, 1899.
Hodges, Richard M., M.D., 1870.
Holmes, Edward J., 1881, 1884.
Holmes, Oliver W., M.D., 18.58.
Holmes. Oliver W, Jr., LL.D., 1882.
Homans, Charles D.. M.D., 1867.
Homans, Mrs. Cliarles D., 1885,
1880, 1887.
Homer, George, 1870.
Homer, Peter T., 18.")7.
Horton, Rev. Edward A., 1899,
1900.
Hubbard, James M., 1891.
Hubbard. William J., 18.58.
Hudson, John E., 1895, 1896.
Hunnewell, James F., 1880, 1893,
1894.
Hutchins, Miss Emma, 1895, 1896.
Hyde, George B., 1879.
Irwin, Miss Agnes, 1894.
JelYries, B. Joy, M.D., 1869.
Library Department.
89
Jeffries, William A., 1893.
Jenkins, Charles E., 1879.
Jenney, Bernard, 1901, 1902.
Jewell, lion. Harvey, 1863.
Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, 1900,
1901.
Johnson, Rev. Robert F., 1900,
1901.
Jordan, Eben D., 1873.
Kellen, William V., 1901, 1902.
Kidder, Henry P., 1870.
Kimball, David P., 1874.
Kimball, Henry H., 1865.
Kirk, Edward N., D.D., 1859.
Lathrop, Hon. John, 1903.
Lawrence, Hon. Abbott, 1853.
Lawrence, Abbott, 1859.
Lawrenpe, Miss Harriette S., 1890.
Lawrence, James, 1855.
Lee, Miss Alice, 18S9, 1890, 1891.
Lee, Hon. John H., 1897, 1898.
Leiois, West'Oi, 1872, 1878.
Lincoln, Hon. Frederic W., 18.56.
Lincoln, Hon. Solomon, 1886.
Little, James L., 1864.
Lombard, Prof. Josiah L., 1868.
Loring, Hon. Charles G., 1855.
Lothrop, Loring, 1866.
Lowell, A. Lawrence, 1897, 1898.
Lowell, Augustus, 1883.
Lowell, Daniel O. S., 1902, 1903.
Lowell, Edward J., 1885.
Lunt, Hon. George, 1874.
Lyman, George H., M.D., 1885.
McCleary, Samuel F., 1890.
McDonald, Miss Anna Sprague,
1903.
McLaughlin, Edward A., 1903.
McNulty, Rev. John J., 1896, 1897.
Manning, Rev. Jacob M., 1861.
Mason, Rev. Charles, 1857.
Mason, Miss Ellen F., 1898, 1899.
Mason, Frank S., 1899, 1900.
Mason, Robert M., 1869.
Maxwell, J. Audley, 1883.
Metcalf, Rev. Theodore A., 1888,
1889.
Minns, Thomas, 1864.
Minot, Francis, 1866.
Morison, Miss Mary, 1892, 1893,
1895.
Morrill, Charles J., 1885. •
Morrison, William A., M.D., 1901,
1902.
Morse. John T., Jr., 1879.
Morse, Robert M., Jr., 1878.
3Iorton, Hon. Ellis W., 1871.
Morton, Johnson. 1901, 1902.
Mudge, Hon. E. R., 1871.
Neale, Rollin H., D.D., 1853.
Noble, John, 1882, 1899, 1900.
Norcross, Otis, 1880.
OBrien, Hon. Hugh, 1879.
O'Callaghan, John J., 1895.
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1878.
O'Reilly, Miss Mary Boyle, 1902,
1903.
Otis, George A., 1860.
Paddock, Rt. Rev. Benj. H., 1876.
Parker, Charles Henry, 1888, 1889.
Parker, William L., 1900, 1901.
Parker, Mrs. William L., 1897,
1898.
Parkman, Henry, 1885.
Parks, Rev. Leigh ton, 1882, 1896,
1897.
Perkins, Charles C, 1871.
Perry, Thomas S., 1879, 1882, 1883,
1884, 1885, 1890, 1891. '
Phillips, John C, 1882.
Philliios, Jonathan, ]8rj4.
Pierce, Hon. Henry L., 1891.
Pingree, Miss Lalia B.. 1894.
Prescott, William H., LL.D., 1853.
Prince, Hon. F. O., 1888, 1889,
1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896.
Putnam, George, 1900, 1901.
Putnam, George, D.D., 1870.
Putnam, Hon. John P., 1865.
Putnam, AVilliam L., 1898, 1899.
Randall, Charles M., M.D., 1884.
Reed, Henry R., 1899, 1900.
Rice, Hon. Alexander H., 1860.
Robbins, Elliott, M.D., 1893.
Roberts, Rev. W. Dewees, 1899,
1900.
Roche, James Jeffrey, 1898, 1899.
Rockwell, Miss Maud M., 1902,
1903. .
Rogers, Prof. William B., 1861.
Rollins, J. Wingate, 1888, 1889.
Ropes, John C, LL.D., 1872.
Rotch, Benjamin S., 1863.
Rowe, Henry S., 1903.
Runkle, Prof. J. D., 1882.
Russell. Samuel H., 1880.
Sampson, O. H., 1892, 1893.
Sanger, Hon. George P., 1860.
Searle, Charles P.,' 1898, 1899.
Sears, J. Montgomery, 1903.
Seaver, Edwin P., 1881.
Sheldon, N". Louis, 1903.
Shepard, Hon. Harvey N., 1888,
1889.
Sherwin, Mrs. Thomas, 1893, 1894.
Sfnirtlefr, Hon. Nathaniel B., 18.57.
Smith, Azariah, 1895, 1896.
Smith, Charles C, 1873.
Smith, Mrs. Charles C. 1881, 1886.
Smith, Miss Minna, 1892.
Sowdon, A. J. C, 1892, 1893.
Sprague, Charles J., 1859.
Sprague, Mrs. Henry H., 1899,
1900.
Sprague, Homer B., 1882.
Stedman, C. Ellery, M.D., 1888.
90
City Document No. 24.
Stevens, Gen. Hazard, 1903.
Stevens, Oliver, 1858.
Stevenson, Hon. J. Thoma's, 1856.
Stockwell, S. N., 1861.
Stone, Col. Henry, 1885, 1886, 1887.
Storrow, Mrs. James J., 1902, 1903.
Story, Joseph, 1856.
Sullivan, Richard, 1883, 1884.
Supple, Rev. James N., 1903.
Teele, John O., 1886.
Tetli>vv, Mrs. John, 1902, 1903.
Thaxter, Adam W., 1855.
Thaver, Rev. George A., 1875.
Thayer, Rev. Thomas B., 1862.
Thomas, Benjamin F., LL.D , 1875.
Thomas, Seth J., 1856.
Tioknor, Miss Anna E., 1891.
Tirknor, George, LL.D., 1853,
18.54, 1855, 1859, 1863, 1866.
Tillinghast, Caleb B., 1895,1896.
Tobey, Hon. Edward S., 1862.
Todd, William C, 1894.
Turner, Miss Frances H., 1899,
1900.
Tuttle, Lucius, 1903.
Twombly, Alexander S., D.D.,
1883, 1884.
Updike, D. B., 1900, 1901.
Upham, J. Baxter, M.D., 1865.
Vibbert, Rev. George H., 1873.
Vinton, Frederick P., 1903.
Wadlin, Horace G., 1899, 1900.
Wales, (ieorge W., 1875.
Walley, Hon. Samuel H., 1862.
Walsh, Rev. James A., 1902, 1903.
Ward, Rev. Julius H., 1882.
Ware, Charles E., M.D., 1875.
Ware, iJarwin E., 1881.
Ware, Mrs. Darwin E., 1899, 1900.
Warner, Hermann J., 1867.
Warren, Hon. Charles H., 1859.
Warren, J. Collins, M.D.. 1878.
Waterston, Rev. Robert C, 1867.
Weissbein, Louis, 1893.
Wells, Mrs. Kate G., 1877.
Wells, Samuel, 1900, 1901.
Wendell. Prof. Barrett, 1895, 1896.
Wharton, William F'., 1886.
Whipple, Edicln P., 1869.
Whitmore, WiUiain 11., 1887.
Whitney, Daniel H., 1862.
Whitney. Henry A., 1873. .
Wightman, Hou. Joseph M., 1859.
Williams, Harold, M.D., 1888, 1889,
1890.
Williamson, William C, 1881.
Williamson, Mrs. William C, 1897,
1898.
Wilson, Elisha T., M.D., 1861.
Winsor, Ju.'^tin, LL.D., 1867.
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, 1854.
Winthrop, Robert C, Jr., 1887.
Wood, Frank, 1897, 1898.
W^ood, Miss Maria E., 1900, 1901.
Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1871.
Woolson, Mrs. Abba Goold, 1888,
1889.
Wright, Hon. Carroll D., 1884.
Library Department.
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APPENDIX X.
SCHEDULE OF LIBRARY SERVICE.
Note. — This schedule has been brought clown to May 1, 1904. The order is (1) by
rank in grades, and (2) alphabetical within each grade.
Summary.
Central Library . . . 195 Men 105 Women 90
Branches and readino- rooms . 78 " 16 " 62
273
121
152
Evening and Sunday service, Central Library, *104.
Smiday service, branches, 32.
Extra assistance is employed at the branches.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Name.
Entered.
Gi
ade.
Wadlin, Horp,ce G.
1903
Lib
rarian.
Fleischner, Otto .
1891
Ass't Librarian.
Nichols, Adelaide A. .
1868
Auditor.
Deery, Delia Jean
1891
B.
Special.
Learned, Lucie A.
1891
B.
( i
t Mooney, George V. ,
1889
B.
a
McFarland, Peter V. .
1896
D.
** Bicknell, Margaret M.
1896
C.
Special.
**Berran, Mary A. C.
1902
—
McKenzie, Kenneth
1897
—
Waldron, John J. A. .
1903
Runner.
CATALOGUE D
EPARTMEXT
Hunt, Edward B.
1883
Chief.
% Swift, Lindsay
1878
A.
Special.
Chevalier, Samuel A. .
1894
A.
Murdoch, John .
1896
A.
Perry, Thomas S.
1902
—
Rice, Edwin F. .
1885
B.
Tenney, Marv A.
1897
B.
Gould, Ida W. .
1884
—
Hinckley, George L. .
1903
—
* Serving from three to seven evenings a week each. The total number of positions
is 39, evenings; 47, Sundays.
** Auditor's Assistant. f Custodian of Stock-room. IT Editor Library Publica-
tions.
92
City Document No. 24.
Name.
Entered.
Grade.
Bartlett, Mary R. .
1897
B.
Coolidge, Elsie W .
1903
—
Cutler, Dora L
1887
B.
Duraiid, Susan M. .
1900
B.
Leavitt, LuelUi K. .
1895
B.
Mackay, Susau H. .
1901 .
B.
Taylor, Lucieu E. .
1903
—
Brennan, Thomas Frauds
1890
C.
Special.
Lilienthal, Flora N. .
1902
—
Whitman, Frances N. A. .
1903
—
Campbell, M. Theresa
1902
—
Dolan, Charles W. .
1894
D.
Sullivan, Jeremiah J.
1900
D.
Runner.
ORDERING DEPARTMENT.
Macurdy, Theodosia E.
1889
Chief.
Seemiiller, Mary
1899
B.
Special.
Frinsdorff, Emily 0.
1894
B.
Goddard, Mrs. Frances H.
1892
B.
Collins, jNIarjiaret F.
1903
—
Cunniff, Nellie L.
1895
—
Maiers, William C, Jr. .
1897
C.
San ford, Euuna D. .
1 902
—
Daly, Gertrude B. . .
1901
D.
R miner.
SHELF DE
PARTMENT.
Roffe, William G. T.
1881
A.
Div. 2.
Locke, John F,
1894
B.
Special.
Connor, George II. .
18'.»1
C.
a
Eborhart, John
1.S94
C.
a
Reardon, John II. .
1896
C.
u
Caiger, Eliza F. A. .
1895
—
]Muckensturm, Matthew .
1899
—
Lucid, John F.
1893
D.
Gorhani, Katliarine .1.
l'.)02
—
Guinan, Thomas H.
1901
—
Schnabel, Paul J. .
1898
D.
Hennessey, Alice M.
1901
D.
Kunner.
BATEi
3 HALL.
Bierstadt, Oscar A. .
1899
Custodian.
*BlaisdelI, Frank C. .
1876
A.
Special.
Doyle, Agnes C.
1885
B.
a
Buckle}', Pierce E. .
1<S91
B.
JNIcCarthv, Michael, ^v. .
1892
C.
Special.
Ward, Joseph W. .
1 Si) I
C.
a
Conrov, INIichael J. .
l.s|»7
—
Gallagher, Edward J.
1!M)3
—
■* In cliariro of Talent and Newspaper Departniouts.
Library Department.
93
Name.
Entered.
Gillis, Thomas H. .
1902
Herekson, Charles E.
1903
SPECIAL
LIBRARIES
Forsyth, Walter G. .
1902
Barton, Marguerite .
1900
Prouty, Louise
1902
Rowlands, Walter .
1903
Cassidy, Margaret L.
1895
Kelly, Charlotte H. .
1895
Doyle, Charles A. .
1899
Doyle, James L.
1900
Meehan, Michael J. .
1901
Athridge, John W. .
1904
McHugh, Gerald
1903
Mclnnis, Victor . . .
1903
Mackin, Timothy J.
1903
Grade.
DOCUMENTS DEPARTMENT.
Whitney, James L. . . . 1869 Chief.
Wheeler, Horace L. . . . 1900 B.
McGowan, William A. . . 1903 —
PERIODICAL ROOM.
Wendte, Frederika
Mulloney, William J. . . 1892 D. Special.
Horgan, John .
1895
B.
1892
D.
1902
—
NEWSPAPER ROOM.
1895
B.
1900
—
Serex, Frederic
Ennis, William J.
PATENT ROOM AND NEWSPAPER FILES.
Keenan, Matthew T. . . 1896 —
Rosenberg, Morris J.
1901
—
Sullivan, James L. .
1902
—
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
McGuffey, Margaret D. .
1895
Ch
Sheridan, Mary C. .
1881
—
Cufflin, M. Florence
1892
C.
Richards, Florence F.
1875
C.
Shumway, Marion H.
1895
C.
Dowling, S. Jennie .
1895
D.
Murphy, Annie G. .
1888
D.
Reynolds, Mary A. .
1894
D.
Weichmann, Catherine A.
1895
D.
Williams, Grace
1895
D.
Zaugg, Joanna
1895
D.
Special.
Special.
94
City Document No. 24.
Name.
Entered.
Barry, Margaret M. . . 1897
Bryce, Jean M.
1898
Cole, Grace E.
1897
Fogel, Axel Z.
1902
Hagerty, Mary E.
1897
Olson, Alphild
1895
Quinlan, George H.
1901
Shaughnessy, 3Iary A.
1897
Williams, Eleanor M.
1899
Day, Josephine E. .
1899
Dixon, Robert F.
1902
Doonan, Anna G.
1903
Hayes, Clement T.
1903
Kiley, Mary G.
1903
McLaughlin, Alice
1902
McNeil, Anna M.
1903
Rogers, Anna F.
1903
Sullivan, ^Marv M.
1902
Toy, MayC. '.
li>03
Walsh, Katherine E
li»03
Zaugg, Julia R.
1903
Grade.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT, CHILDREN'S ROOM.
Mordan, Ahce M. . . . 1900 —
Daly, Margaret C. . . . 189.') 1). Special.
Ethier, Lillian E. . . . 189o D. "
Hersey, Edna M. . . . 1898 D.
REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.
Keenan, John J. . . . 188."> B. Special.
Murray, Ella K. . . . 1886 C.
ILannigan, Frank J. . . 1898 —
Fillebrown, Eiuilv F. . . 1895 D.
PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
Name.
Entered.
Tosltlon.
Lee, Francis W.
1894
Chief.
Geyer, Willfried IL
1896
Pressman.
Boyle, Mary T. M. .
1903
Compositor.
Land, Annie F.
1.S96
a
Munson, Minnie A.
1902
n
O'Keefe, Charles ,].
18:)'.)
,Iol> pressman.
AValsh, John E.
1903
BINDERY.
Apprentice.
Ryder, Frank .
1883
Foreman.
ColUns, Dennis J. .
1887
Finisher.
*In charge.
LiBEARY Department.
95
Name.
Lofstrcim, Konrad A.
Conolly, John F.
Doyle, Michael J.
Fuerst, Alexander
Hoeffner, George
Ivory, John W.
Murphy, John F.
Ochs, Alfred G.
Sullivan, J. Henry
Watson, John H.
Hemstedt, William P.
Cellarius, Theodore W.
O'Brien, John J,
Carroll, Margery H.
Barrett, Margaret A.
Carroll, Bessie R.
Denney., Ida G.
Doiron, Joanna
Downing, Susan L.
Doyle, Carrie .
Kiley, Margaret J.
McElaney, Mary T.
Moriarty, Mary G.
Nolen, Sarah .
Farrow, Susan G.
Potts, Ellen F.
'Soule, Ellen E.
Entered.
Position.
1892
Finisher.
1900
Forwarder.
1902
( (
1896
a
1891
a
1893
u
1883
u
1900
((
1898
(;
1902
u
1883
Pressman.
1892
Apprentice
1902
Runner.
1902
Cl^rk.
1903
Sewer.
1903
( (
1902
i i
1896
a
1902
a
1900
u
1889
a
1902
u
1875
((
1891
a
1903
i i
1892
ii
1891
a
ENGINEER AND JANITOR DEPARTMENT.
Niederauer, Henry .
1894
Chief Engineer.
McCready, Alexander
1895
Engineer.
Malone, John P.
1895
a
O'Neill, Harry
1896
u
Zittell, George, Jr. .
1891
((
Herland, Nils J.
1895
Fireman.
Moran, John A.
1894
u
Karlson, Charles W.
1896
Book Motors.
Williams, John L. .
1886
Janitor.
Berrane, Edward
1903
u
Frye, Henry W.
1898
;(
Kelley, James J.
1900
((
]\IcCarty, Dennis
1888
Watchman.
McGee, Alexander D.
1896
Painter.
Lawrence, John A. .
1898
Carpenter.
Hauna, William T. .
1895
Marble polisher.
Cole, William E.
1898)
1903 y
1901 )
Elevator and
Graham, Henry J. .
coat-room attend
Lufkin, Ernest S.
ants.
96
City Document No. 24.
BRANCH DEPARTMENT.
Name.
Entered.
Grade.
Ward, Langdon L. .
1896
Supervisor of Branched
and Stations.
Kueffuer, Cecilia W.
1898
B.
Stevens, Alice V.
1899
B.
Adams, Amy W.
1903
—
Heimann, Otto A.
1890
C. Special.
Morse, Maud M.
1877
C. "
Kiernan, Letitia 31. .
1895
C.
McCarthy, Marion A.
1895
D. Special.
Maier, Joseph A. .
1892
D. "
Brown, Richard
1898
D.
Fazakas, Chester A. S.
1901
—
Gallagher, George W.
1903
-^
EAST BOSTON BRANCH.
AValkley, Ellon 0. .
1897
Custodian.
Braekett, Marion W.
1897
C.
Wing, Alice M.
1873
C.
Bethunc, Florence M.
1903
—
Bickford, Lillian A.
1891
D.
Matthews, Everett F.
1900
Janitor.
Taylor, Charles F. .
1897
(«
SOUTH BOSTON BRANCH.
Roljinson, AUce M.
1902
Custodian.
Eaton, Ellen A.
1873
C.
Sampson, Idalene L.
1878
C.
McQuarrie, Annie C.
1894
D.
Grcutt, Alice B.
1887
D.
Baker, Joseph
1872
Janitor.
ROXBl
JRY BRANCH.
Bell, Helen M.
1878
Custodian.
Berry, Martlia L. C.
1 8H3
C.
Puffer, Dorothy
1878
c.
(iriggs, Sarah W.
1S86
D.
Lynch, Gertrude A.
1894
D.
Monahan, William .
1883
Janitor.
Connell, Gertrude L.
1903
—
CHARLES
TOWN BRANCH.
Cart(f'e, Elizal)eth F.
1886
Custodian.
Livermore, IMrs. Susan E.
1X85
C.
Keagen, EhzabetliK.
1895
C.
Donovan, Annie M.
1899
D.
O'Neil, Margaret M.
1892
D.
Sullivan, FUen L. .
1903
—
Smith, Thomas E. .
1874
Janitor.
Library Department.
97
Name.
Hall, Belle S.
Conle}', Ellen F.
O'Neil, Thomas J.
Watson, Geneva
BRIGHTON BRANCH.
Entered. Grade.
1895 Custodian.
1891 C.
1902 Janitor.
1904 —
DORCHESTER BRANCH.
Reed, Mrs. Elizabeth T.
Griffith, Mary E. .
Donovan, Mary G.
Brick, Mary L.
Kellogg, Grace E.
Halligan, John F.
1873
1886
1891
1899
1898
1902
Custodian.
C.
C.
D.
D.
Janitor.
SOUTH END BRANCH.
Sneridan, Margaret A.
Rogan, Katharine S.
Lynch, Emma F.
Meehan, Margaret F.
Driscoll, James S.
1875
1896
1885
1893
1901
Custodian.
C.
D.
Runner.
JAMAICA PLAIN BRANCH.
Swain, Mary P.
Riley, Nellie F.
Albert, Katie F.
3IcEttrick, Alice .
Kenney, Thomas H.
1877
Custodian
1878
C.
1892
c.
1902
—
1897
Janitor.
WEST END BRANCH.
Davis, Mrs. Eliza R.
Barton, Margaret S.
Forbes, George W.
Kiley, Mary E.
Mooney, Katharine G.
Millmeister, Rebecca
Riley, Mary E.
Menaker, Naaman
Prout, William C.
Sullivan, Daniel J.
Morse, Carrie L.
Woods, Eugene B.
Willis, Rebecca E.
1877
Custodian
1885
C.
1896
C.
1896
c.
1885
c.
1899
D.
1891
D.
1903
—
1902
—
1898
Janitor.
ROXBURY BRANCH.
1890
Custodian
1898
Janitor.
1903
—
98 City Document No. 2-1.
DELIVERY STATIONS.
Station. Grade.
A. Lower Mills Reading Room., . .Hill, M. Addie D. Special.
B. Roslindale Reading Room Murray, Grace L D. Special .
Regan, Alice M Assistant.
Stackpole, Freeland E Janitor.
C. South End Reading Room Cross, Laura M.
D. Mattapan Reading Room Capewell, Mrs. Emma G., D. Special.
E. Neponset Delivery Station Savil, Susan.
F. Mt. Bowdoin Reading Room. . .Fairbrother, Mrs. Eliz.G., D. Special
Wetherald, Isabel E. —
G. AUston Delivery Station Howe, W. A. tfe Co.
H. Asbmont Delivery Station Weymouth, Clara E.
J. Dorchester Sta. Delivery Sta. . .Sexton, Mrs. Annie M.
L. No. Brighton Reading Room. . .Muldoon, Katherine F. . .D. Special.
M. Crescent Ave. Delivery Station. .Smith Brothers.
N. Mt. Pleasant Delivery Station. .AVitherell, Anna M D.
P. Broadway Extension Reading ( Stewart, Cora L D. Special.
Room \ Barnett, Florence. —
Q. L'pbam's Corner Delivery Sta. . Rolland, Ezra X.
R. Warren St. Delivery Station. ..Smith, H. De Forrest.
S. Roxbury Crossing Delivery Sta. Yeaton, E. Christine .... D. Special.
T. Boylston Delivery Station Peirce, George L.
U. Ward Nine Delivery Station . . . McGratli, Amelia F C.
W. Industrial School Delivery Sta. Guerrier, Edith.
Y. Andrew Square Reading Room . Marsball, Jeanette M . . . . D. Special.
Huckner, Thomas Janitor.
Z. Orient Heights Reading Room . . McDougall, Helen M D. Special.
22. North Street Reading Room .... Boggiano, Iside. —
Evening and Sunday Service.
Central Lihrari/.
Bates Hall. — Officers in charge: Frank C. Bhiisdell, Samuel
A. Chevalier, Edward B. Hunt, Lindsay Swift. Assistants : John
Murd<X'h, William (i. T. Hoffe, Kdward Tiffany. Central desk:
George IL Connor, .John II. Keardon, David L. "Williams. Care
of reference books : Fernald Hutchins, Peter \ . jNIcFarland,
Kenneth IMeKenzie, . Joseph A. Maier, Michael .1. Meehan, Paul.].
Schnabel. Collector of slips : .loseph B. Comi)ton, Bradlej-
Jones, William A. ^NIcGoAvan, John A. Mattimore, Thornton T.
Penrose, Aram Tatian, Frederick II. Toye. Runners: Abram J.
Knoring, Timothy J. Mackin, Bartholomew ,1. O'Brien, John A.
Sullivan.
Issue Department . — Officers in charge : Fiank C. Blaisdell,
Pierce E. Buekley, .John II, Keardon. Receivers of books:
Fred "W. Blaisdell, 'lliomas F. Brennan, (ii'orge II. Connor,
Michael McCarthy, Jr. Deliverers of books : Fred W. Blaisdell,
John II, Reardon, Care of indicator: Michael J. Conroy, John
L. JNIcKiernan, James L. Magninness. Assistants at indicator:
William J. Funis, Axel Z. Fogel, Thomas G. Goodwin, Max H.
Newman, George II. (^uiulan, Sylvester P. Russell. Care of
LiBEARY Department. 99
slips : Daniel J. Ford, Frank J. HanuJoan, Otto A. Heimann,
Harry F. Mayer. Desk attendants : Edwin F. A. Benson,
William J. Ennis, Daniel J. Ford, Fernald Hutchins, Peter
V. McFarland, Joseph A. Maier, Harry F. Mayer. Care of
tubes : Charles D. Campbell, Robert F. X, Dixon, Thomas H.
Guinau, Peter V. McFarland, Matthew Muckensturm, Frank T.
Sullivan. Care of carriers : William J. Ennis, Thomas H.
Guinan, Joseph A. Maier, Matthew Muckensturm, Morris J.
Rosenl)urg, Frank T. Sullivan, Jeremiah J. Sullivan. Bookcase
attendant: Augustus F. McAloon. Runners: Howard C. Blake,
Walter M. Broderick, Richard Brown, Edward E. Bruce, George
G. Bulfinch, Jr., Timothy J. Conners, Robert F. X. Dixon,
■Charles W. Dolan, Michael J. Downey, Axel Z. Fogel, Warren
B. Follansbee, Daniel J. Ford, Charles H. Gelpke, Thomas H.
Gillis, Thomas G. Goodwin, Frank P. Hagerty, William P.
Hemstedt, Jr., John Horgan, Bradley .Jones, Joseph Kolsky,
Walter J. Lambert, Daniel M. Lyons, William T. Mcllvana,
Victor A. Mclnnis, Timothy J. Mackin, John A. Mattimore,
Thornton T. Penrose, Sylvester P. Russell, Nathaniel A. Sher-
man, Frank T. Sullivan, Jeremiah J. Sullivan, Aram Tatian,
Frederick H. Toye, Nelson G. Trueman, James W. Warren.
Children's library attendants : Margaret C. Daly, Lillian E.
Ethier, Maud M. Morse, Marion L. Owen, Marion H. Shum-
way, Joanna Zaugg. Extra attendants : William P. Hemstedt,
Howard C. Blake, Edward J. Gallagher, Thomas G. Goodwin,
William P. Hemstedt, Jr., Max H. Newman, James J. Sullivan.
Special Libraries. — In charge of Barton Library : Francis
W. Lee, Louise Prouty, Edward Tiffany. Assistants : Edwin F.
A. Benson, Edward E. Bruce, Walter J. Lambert, Joseph A.
Murphy, Paul J. Schnabel. In charge of Fine Arts Department :
Frank A. Bourne, Walter G. Forsyth, George Gibbs, Jr., Walter
Rowlands. Assistants : James L. Doyle, John L. McKiernan,
William C. Maiers. Extra Assistants : Edwin F. A. Benson,
Howard C. Blake, Michael J. Downe}", Edward .T. Gallagher,
Augustus F. McAloon, Michael J. Meehan, Max H. Newman.
Music room : James L. Doyle, Walter J. Laml^ert, Michael J.
Meehan, Joseph A. Murphy, James A. Pitts.
Nev;spaper Room. — Thomas F. Brennan, George H. Connor,
Frank J. Hannigan, James L. Maguinness, Kenneth McKenzie,
Albert J. Plunkett. Newspaper files : Howard C. Blake, Arthur
E. Cuttiin, Thomas H. Gillis, John Horgan, Morris J. Rosenberg,
James L. SulUvan.
Patent Room. — Walter F. Hannigan, James L. Maguinness,
Albert J. Plunkett.
Periodical Room. — Daniel J. Ford, William J. MuUoney,
Albert J. Plunkett.
100 City Document No. 24.
Registration Desk. — John J. Keenau, Matthew T. Keenan.
Replacement of Books. — .John F. Lucid, Michael McCarthy,
Jr., Joseph W. Ward.
Statistical Department. — Frederic Serex, Horace L. Wheeler.
Coat Room. — Joseph Kolsky.
Elevator. — James W. Warren.
Sunday Service.
* Branch Bibraries, Novennher 1 to ^lay 1.
Brighton Branch, 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge: §Lydia E.
Stevenson, §Ellen F. Couloy ; assistant : Alice H. O'Neill. Jani-
tor : Thomas J . O'Neil.
Charlestown Branch., 2 to 10 P.M. — In charge : Edwin F. A.
Benson, William Kice. Janitor : Thomas Smith.
DorcJiester Branch., 2 to 10 P. 31. — In charge : William J.
Kennedy, §Mary E. Griffith, §Mary L. Brick, §Mary G. Dono-
van.
PJast Boston Branch, 2 to 10 P. 31. — In charge : Robert J.
Kissock, §Lilhan A. Bickford, ^Everett F. Matthews. Janitor:
Charles F. Taylor.
Jatnaica Plain Branch, 2 to 10 P.3r. — In charge: §Katie
F. Albert, §NeUie F. Kilcy ; assistant : Mary A. C. Berran. Jani-
tor : Thomas H. Kenney.
Ro-rbury Brunch, 2 to 10 P.3L — In charge : JfDorothy Puffer,
§iMartlia L. C. Beny, Mabel L. Harrington ; assistants : jJGertrude
L. Connell, §Ellen B. Scott. Janitor: AVilliam Monahan.
South Boston Branch, 2 to 10 P.3f. — In charge : Alice B.
Orcutt, Joseph Baker. Janitor: Thomas Saunders.
Station C, 2 to 6 P. 31., 7 to 9 P.3f. — In i-liargc : Alphild A.
Olson.
Station P, 2 to 6 P.M., 7 to 9 P. 31. — In charge : Cora L.
Stewart; assistant: John Binda.
Station S, 2 to 0 P. 31., 7 to 9 P. 31. — In charge : Margaret
Barry.
* Wltli the cxcei>tion of the Wust End Rraucli, wliifli is open Sundays throughout
\.\w year. Here certain members of the regular week-day force serve Sunday(>, their
compensation being for seven days per weelt.
§ Alternate Sundays.
Library Department.
101
APPENDIX XI.
GIVERS AND GIFTS.
The following list of gifts has heeu prepared by the Chief of
the Ordering Department :
1902-03.
1903-04.
Givers ......
2,231
2,138
Vohunes ......
11,327
14,723
Numbers ......
20,017
19,203
Broadsides ......
4,098
3,567
Photographs, engravings, etc. .
304
311
Newspaper subscriptions (gifts of the pub
lishers) ......
78
78
1. Endowments.
(,See page 3.)
2. AVoEKS OF Art.
(See page 7.)
3. Miscellaneous Gifts of Money.
From Andrew Carnegie, through Mr. Thomas AVent-
worth Higgiuson, for the purchase of boolis for the
Galatea Collection, the sum of . .
$100 00
4. Photographs, Engravings,
Ames, Winthrop .....
Anonymous ......
Avery, Samuel P., New York City
Barnard, James M. .
Bowditch, Dr. Henry P
Bowditch, Dr. Vincent Y. ...
Century Company, New York City
Chamberlain, Mrs. M. L. .
Coolidge, Baldwin .....
Coohdge, Mrs. J. Randolph
Curtis and Cameron .....
Dow, Arthur AV., Ipswich, Mass.
Firmin, A.
Gage, Hon. Lvman J., New York City
Gay, Mrs. Elizabeth G. . .49 Prints,
Etc.
8 Photographs.
3 Photographs.
2 Etchings.
1 Engraving.
45 Photographs.
1 Drawing.
5 Photographs.
17 Photographs.
12 Photographs.
14 Photographs.
3 Photographs.
14 Prints'!
1 Photograph.
1 Photogravure.
11 Photographs.
102
City Document No. 24.
Green, Dr. Samuel A. . .2 Picture;
leonographic Society of Boston .
Jones, Rev. Jesse H. and Francis .J. Garrison,
Luce, S. B., Newport, R. I. . . .
Macomber, Miss M. L.
Massacliusetts Institute of Teclinology
Norton, Miss Margaret, Cambridge, Mass.
Paris. Administration Municipale 2 Engraving
Prince vSociety .....
Rowlands, Walter ....
Russell, Mrs. G. O. C, St. Louis .
Stebbins, N. L. ....
Tobey, Rufus B.
"Watson, J. A. .
2
1
37
1
4
19
3
s, 3
1
> —
1
2
9
Photographs.
Etching.
Portraits.
Photograph.
Photographs.
Photographs.
Photographs.
Lithographs.
Engraving.
Prints.
Portrait.
Photographs.
Photographs.
Photographs.
5. Books, Periodicals and Newspapers.
Abbott, Rev. Edward, Cambridge, Mass
Abbott Public Library, Marblehead
Aberdeen PubHc Library .......
Academy of Science of St. Louis .....
Actors' Fund of America, New York City
Actuarial Society of America, New York City
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, Crosby, Chicago .......
Aeltesten, Die, der Kaufmannschaft von Berlin
Agassiz, Alexander ........
Aguilar Free Library, New York City ....
Ainsvcorth, D. H., Newton, Iowa .....
Aitkon, Hamlet F
Albany, \. Y. Public Works Department
Albree, .lohn, Jr., Swampscott, Mass. ....
Alcuin Club, London ........
Alexander A: Co.
Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y
Alkaloidal Clinic, Publishers, New York City .
Alleghany County Workiiouse and Inebriate Asylum,
Claremont, Pa. .........
Allen, Willard S
Allston Golf Club
Aluminum World, Publishers, New York City .
Amberg, Dr. Em 11, Detroit
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ....
American Academy of Medicine, P^aston, Pa. .
American Anti-Vivisectiim Society, Philadelphia
American Anticiuarian Society. Worcester, Mass.
American Art in Bronze and Iron, Publishers .
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Newport, Vt
American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech
to tlio Deaf, Philadelphia
American Baptist Home ^lission Society ....
American Baptist Missionary Union
American Har Association, Baltimore ....
American Bible Society, New York City ....
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
American Chamber of Commerce, Paris ....
American Church Building Fund Commission, New York
City
Vols.
1
1
1
1
884
• 1
1
1
Xos.
1
84
Library Department.
103
American Citizen, Boston . . . 1903 subscription
American Climatological Association, Philadelphia
American Congregational Association
American Coiiperator, The, Lewiston, Me.
American Economic Association, Baltimore
American Free Trade League ....
American Geographical Society, New York City-
American Institute of Architects, Washington, D. C
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New I'ork
City
American Institute of Mining Engineers, New Y'ork City
American-Irish Historical Society ....
American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia .
American Jewish Historical Society ....
American Journal of Psychology, Publishers .
American Laryngological Society, New York City .
American Mathematical Society, New York City
American Medico-Psychological Association .
American Missionary Association, New York .
American New Church Tract and Publication Society
Philadelphia
American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, New
York City
American Otological Society, Washington, D. C.
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia .
American Purity Alliance, New York City
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, New
York City
American Seamen's Friend Society, New York City
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals
American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City
American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools
for Nurses .......
American Surgical Association, Philadelphia .
American Tract Society, New Y'ork City .
American Unitarian Association
American Water AVorks Association, Elmira, N. Y
American Young Men's Christian Associations
Amerikanische Turnzeitung, Milwaukee.
1903 subscription
Amerikas Westnesis, Boston . . 1903 subscription
Amherst College
— Gilbert Museum of Indian Relics .....
Among the Clouds, Mt. Washington, N. H.
1903 subscription
Amsterdam. Bureau Municipal de Statistique
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commandery
of Massachusetts
Anderson, Alexander, Glasgow
Andover Alumni Association
Andover Theological Seminary
Angier Brothers, London, Eng.
Animal Rescue League
Ann Arbor, Miclu Public Library .
Annales des Sciences Politiques, Paris
Anonymous. 33 miscellaneous circulars,
61 programmes (theatre) .
Antwerp. Conseil Communal .
Appleton, Mrs. William C. .
Appleton, William S., Jr. .
9 newspapers
Vols.
2
8
1
Nos.
13
14
1
2
63
2
38
14
11
25
11
62
104
City Document No. 24.
Apprentices Library Company of Philadelphia
Archaeological Institute of America .
Argentine Republic. Biblioteca Publica Provincial
— Direccion General de Estadistica .
— Ministerio de Agricultura ....
— Ministerio de Obras Publicas. Direccion de Vias de
Communicacion .....
Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station .
Armenian Economic Association, Baltimore
Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago
Armstrong, Collin, New York City .
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Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society .
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Vismara, Enrico, Milan
Voelkel, Dr. T., New Y'ork ....
Volckmar, F., Leipzig. 1903 subscription to Nea E
Wade, James M
Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia
Waites, Alfred, Worcester
Walcott, Robert
Waldeyer, Wilhelm, Berlin ....
Waldie, James, J. P., Leith, N. B. .
Walker, Joseph B., Concord, N. H. .
Walker, Clarence E., Louisville, Ky. .
Walker, N. U
Walsh, F., Sydney, Australia ....
Waltham, Mass. City Clerk ....
Waltham Hospital, Waltham, Mass. .
Waltham Training School for Nurses, Waltham, Mass
Walton, Dr. G. L
Wandsworth, Borough of, London
Ward, Mrs. A. J., Spencer, Mass.
Ward, J. M
Ward, John, & Son, New ITork City .
Ward, Langdon L. ..... .
Warder Public Library, Springfield, O.
Ware, William, and Co
Warfield, Prof. Benjamin B., Princeton, N. J. .
Warren, E. Burgess ......
Warren, Fiske, 3 mos. subscription to Renacimiento
(Manila)
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Warren Social Science Club, Warren, Pa
Warren Steam Pump Co., Warren, Mass,
Warvelle, George W., Chicago .
Washington, D. C. Central Dispensary
Washington Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.
Washington National Monument Society .
Washington University, St. Louis
Washington University Association, St. Louis
Washingtonian Home .....
Wasmuth, Ernst, Berlin ....
Watertown, Mass. Free Public Library .
— Water Department
Watson, Mrs. G. M
Watson, J. A
Webber, Charles F
Webster, Miss M.
Weekly Gazette (Colorado Springs) . 1903 subscription
Weekly Mirror 2 subscriptions
Weil, Henry J
Welch, Dr. William H., Baltimore
Welcker, Adair, San Francisco .
Wellcome Research Laboratories, Heme
Wellesley College ....
Wellington, Miss Amy, Somerville, Mass.
Wendtt-, Miss F
Wenham, Mass. Public Library
Wesley, Wm., & Son, London
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
— Library ......
West Virginia. Agricultural Experiment
— Chief Mine Inspector
Westborough, Mass. Public Library
Western Australia. Geological Survey
— Government Statistician .
— Registrar-General ....
— Superintendent of Census
Western Reserve University
Western Unitarian Headquarters. Chicago
Westminster, Eng. Town Clerk
Weston, Edmund !>., New York City
Weston, Mass. Town Clerk
Wetherell, Ellen F., Lynn, Mass.
AV'hipi)lo, Wayne .....
White and Werner, Hartford, Conn. .
Whiting, Miss Lilian ....
Whitman, William ....
Whitney, Mrs. Gertnulo C .
Whitney, .James L. . . . .
Whitney, Hon. William C, New York City
Whiton, James M., New York City
Whorf, Edward H. . . .
Wilcox, Timothy E., Vancouver, Washington . 1 medal
Wilkes-Barre Times . . . 1903 subscription
Willard State Hospital, New York City ....
Williams, (ieorge 11
Williams, Rufus P., Cambridge, Mass
Williams, Mrs. Rufus P., Cambridge, Mass.
Williams College ........
Willis, Dr. J. L. M., Eliot, :S[e. . .
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. ....
Wilmington Institue Free Library, Delaware .
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Winchester, Mass. Town Clerk
Winchester Home Corporation for Aged Women
Winona Copper Co., New York City .
Windeyer, Miss Margaret, Sydney, N. S. W.
Winthrop, Robert C, Jr.
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Wisconsin. Agricultural Experiment Station
— Department of Public Instruction
— Free Library Commission
— State Board of Health
— State Superintendent
Wisconsin State Historical Society
Wisconsin Teachers' Association
Witherell, William O.
Woburn, Mass. Public Library
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
AYoman's Education Association, Cambridge, Mass.
Woman's Education Association, Lancaster, Mass.
Woman's Medical College, Baltimore
Woman's Relief Corps, Bradford, Vt.
Woman's Relief Corps, Dept. of Massachusetts
Women's Educational and Industrial Union
Wood, Henry
Wood, William M., New York City ,
Wood, William, and Co., New York City
Woodbury, John. ....
Woolf, Arthur 11., London .
Worcester, Mass. Board of Health .
— City Clerk
— Free Public Library
Worcester County Law Library
Worcester County Musical Association
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Wright, J. O., New York City .
Wright, Walter C
Xavier Free Publication Society for the Blind,
City
Yale College ....
— Astronomical Observatory
— Library . .
Yarmouth Library Association .
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, England
Young Men's Christian Associations, International
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Young Men's Hebrew Association of New York
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Zoological Society of Philadelphia
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INDEX.
Anna Tickiior Library, 42, 43.
Appropriations. See Finance.
Architecture, accessions of books on, 13.
Art, works of, 7.
Auditor, report, 53.
Barton-Ticknor Koom, work of, 30.
Bates Ifall, use of, 28.
Benton, Josiali H., jr.. Trustee, 5.
Billings, Kobert C, legacy, 37; sum for
medallion bust, 3, 7.
Bindery, work of, 22.
Blind, books for, 30.
Books, numlier of , 3, 21, 76; received, 7;
purcliase of current Action, 8; use of,
9, 45, 83; added, 3, 10; sum expended
for, 10; purcbases of, 11; for new sta-
tion, 17; additional copies, 17; loss of
fiction from open shelves, 25; summer
reading, 25; finding list for children,
28; net increase, 77; placed on shelves,
78.
Boyle, Thomas F., Trustee, 5.
Branch Libraries, use of, 36; deposit
work, 37; instruction of employees, 37;
new books for, 38; hours, 38; repaii's
and improvements, 38; work with
schools, 39; daily issue from Central
Librarv. 43; cost of, 45; expenditures,
1892-1903, 68; ciassitication, 80.
Branch Libraries and Stations, Super-
visor of, report ot, 36.
Broadsides, added, 12.
Brown, Allen A., Library of Music, 31.
Buildings, equipment, and general ad-
ministration, 6.
Bulletin, Monthly, 22.
Catalogue Department, 20.
Children's Rooms, work of, 26.
Classification, Central Library, 78;
branches, 80.
Clerk of the Trustees, Miss Delia Jean
Deery, elected, 1.
Coal, 7.
Codman square, Dorchester, rooms in
city building to be provided for
Librar}', 41.
Deery, Miss Delia Jean, elected Clerk of
the Trustees, 1.
DeNormandie, Rev. Dr. James, Vice-
President, 1, 5.
Deposit work, 37, 43.
Documents and Statistics, Department
of, report, .32.
Dwight, Dr. Thomas, re-appointed Trus-
tee, 1,5.
Employees, instruction of, 37; list of, 91.
Evening and Sunday service, 46; sched-
ule, 98.
Examinations, 47.
Examining Committee, list of, 1; report
of, 48; list of, for fifty -two years, 87.
Fiction, as to purchase of current, 8;
loss of, 25.
Filene's Social Club, deposit to, 42.
Finance, US.
Fine arts, accessions of books, 13.
Fine Arts Department, use of, 30.
Franklin Park Reading Room, 42.
Givers and gifts, 17, 28, 101.
Inter-library loans, 44.
Issue Department, 24.
Lectures, 31.
Lewis, Mrs. Elizabeth, bequest, 3.
Librarian, report of, 6.
Librarians, list of, 86.
Library, extent of, 76; net increase, 77.
Library agencies, 3, 6, 42.
Library service, schedule, 91.
Lincoln, Hon. Solomon, President of
Trustees, 1, 5, 85.
Manuscripts, accessions, 33.
Monthly Bulletin, 22.
Music, accessions, 31.
Newspapers, sum e.xpended for, 11; files
added, 12; use of Reading Room, 35.
North Bennet Street Industrial School,
41.
North Street Reading Room, books for,
17; opening of, 40.
Patent Room, 35.
Periodicals, sum expended for. 10; use
of Reading Room, 35; distributed, 45.
Photographs received, 14, 30; gifts of, 101.
Picture bulletins, 28, 37.
Plant Shoe Factory, deposit to, 42.
President of the Trustees, Hon. Solomon
Lincoln, elected, 1.
Printing Department, work of, 23.
Publications, issued, 21; distributed, 23.
Purchase of books, 11.
Registration, statement of, 23; statistics
of, 80, 81, 82.
Resignations, 46.
Roslindale Reading Room, 41.
Schools, work with, 27, 39.
Special Libraries, work of, 29.
Stations (Roslindale Reading Room), 41.
Station W (North Bennet Street Indus-
trial School), 41.
Station 22 (North Street Reading Room),
books for, 17; opened, 40.
Stations, 40, cost of, 45; expenditures,
1892-1903, 70.
Statistics. See Documents and Statis-
tics.
Stone, Lucy, portrait bust of, 7.
Summer reading, 25.
Sunday and evening service, 46 ; schedule,
98.
Trust funds, 59, 63.
Trustees, report of, 1-5; list of, for fifty-
two years, 85.
Upham's Corner, Reading Room to be
opened, 41.
Vice=Presldent of the Trustees, Rev. Dr.
James De Xormandie, elected, 1.
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