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The writing in the schools should be uniformly good ; and once we reach the standard we are striving for, it can be easily maintained.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
The instruction in the Grammar Schools has steadily improved during the year, and the results have been, in most cases, satisfactory. I have endeavored to make prom- inent in all the schools, and especially in these, practical language work. In addition to the regular exercises in dictation, letter writing, and composition, I have urged upon the teachers the necessity of giving especial attention to such exercises as would lead to correct and fluent expression on the part of the pupils. The ability to express one's thoughts on paper gracefully is an accomplishment greatly to be desired ; but the ability to express one's thoughts orally and readily is more than an accomplishment : it is a necessity.
To be able to do this grammatically is well worth any effort that may be required. Practice, constant, persistent practice, alone will do it. Good work in arithmetic has been
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accomplished in this grade. This is sometimes called a bread-and-butter science, and has ever appealed with great force to all classes. If a large proportion of what is offered in the written arithmetic should be treated as mental prob- lems, all manual operations being omitted, far more discipline and power would be the outcome. Mental arithmetic leads a pupil to read a problem intelligently, to see conditions readily, to think a correct conclusion, and express the same to others promptly and accurately - far more than can result from much of the figure work of to-day.
HIGH SCHOOLS.
The patient, quiet and progressive administration of the High Schools is making itself felt. The schools have continued to improve, both in the character of the work and in the spirit and conduct of the pupils.
The subjects of study are essentially the same as for the last few years, but the ways of dealing with these subjects are coming more and more into harmony with the laws of physi- cal, mental and moral growth.
The graduating exercises of the High Schools occurred at the close of the spring term, in the presence of audiences limited only by the capacity of the local Town Halls. The platforms were tastefully adorned with floral and other deco- rations. The well-delivered essays were of unusual excel- lence, presenting a pleasing variety of subject and thought in an easy and graceful manner.
The following programmes were given :
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PROGRAMME.
(Centre High School, Chelmsford, Mass.)
MARCH. Selected.
ORCHESTRA.
INVOCATION.
REV. GRANVILLE PIERCE.
OVERTURE. "Graduation." . Latann
ORCHESTRA.
SALUTATORY ESSAY. "Success." MASTER RALPH W. EMERSON.
FOLK-SONG. "There's One That I Love Dearly." QUARTETTE.
ESSAY. " A Charcoal Sketch."
MASTER HARRY A. DUTTON.
RECITATION. " An Order for a Picture." MISS MABEL F. FENDERSON. SELECTION FROM "1492."
ORCHESTRA.
ESSAY. " Class History."
MASTER EDWIN L. STEARNS.
"IF THE WATERS COULD SPEAK AS THEY FLOW." Graham DR. F. R. RIX AND QUARTETTE.
ESSAY. "Germs." MISS AGNES L. NICHOLS.
CORNET SOLO. "Une Serenadc." . Chapelle MASTER G. THOMAS PARKHURST.
ESSAY. "Last Decree of the Delphic Oracle." MISS EDNAH F. BYAM.
CLASS ORATION. "The Duties of Citizenship."
MASTER EDWARD J. ROBBINS.
SOLO. " To a Spring Flower."
.
·
Cirillo
MR. T. F. MOLLOY.
ESSAY. "Class Prophecy."
MASTER WILLIE HI. FULTON.
SERENADE.
Hartel
QUARTETTE.
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ESSAY. "Education."
MISS JESSIE M. HOLT.
"THOSE EVENING BELLS."
ORCHESTRA.
VALEDICTORY ESSAY. "Friendship."
MISS ALICE M. STEARNS.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
SUPERINTENDENT GEO. F. SNOW.
CLASS ODE.
BENEDICTION.
REV. II. A. CORNELL.
GRADUATES.
Ednah Florence Byam.
Jessie May Holt.
Harry Ayer Dutton.
Agnes Lee Nichols.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Edward Jenkins Robbins.
Mabel Florence Fenderson. Alice Margaret Stearns.
Willie Howard Fulton.
Edwin Lewis Stearns.
CLASS OFFICERS.
EDWARD J. ROBBINS, President. EDNAH F. BYAM, Secretary and Treasurer.
PROGRAMME.
(North Chelmsford High School.)
OVERTURE.
ORCHESTRA.
INVOCATION.
REV. S. I. BRIANT.
SALUTATORY WITH ESSAY. "Early American Literature." LOTTIE L. SNOW.
ORATION. " Architecture."
FRED CHANDLER.
ESSAY. "Flowers."
NELLIE B. TRUBEY.
WALTZ. Selected.
ORCHESTRA.
HISTORY AND ESSAY, "Lucy Larcom." HATTIE MAY HALL.
Eilenberg
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PROPHECY AND ESSAY. "Physical Education."
A. E. DUNCAN.
DUET. "Land of the Setting Sun."
MR. AND MRS. HUBERT BEARCE.
VALEDICTORY WITH ESSAY. "Self Control."
LAURA I. LUMBERT.
CONFERRING OF DIPLOMAS. SUPERINTENDENT.
SINGING OF CLASS ODE.
MISS CLARA A. WRIGHT, ACCOMPANIST.
SELECTION.
ORCHESTRA.
GRADUATES.
Nellie Bertha Trubey.
Laura Isola Lumbert.
Augustus E. Duncan.
Lottie Louise Snow. Hattie May Hall. Fred Chandler.
THE NATURAL SCIENCES.
I have learned to believe that children should be put, in their early years, to the study of nature. I did not think so once, but now I do. I have seen a school of intermediate giade, under a competent teacher, studying physics, botany, physiology, and other natural sciences with great enthusiasm and complete success. The work was done without a text- book. The instruction was given orally by conversation, charts, pictures, real objects, and experiments. The children were taught to analyze and draw flowers and plants, to observe and study animal life, and make experiments. The children had no time for mischief, and were very happy in their work. The school governed itself, and habits of careful and constant observation were formed. Of course, the higher ranges of these studies will be reserved for advanced grades
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and schools. But if a love for this work and proper habits of observation and reflection are formed in the lower schools they will ensure success in the upper.
I am confident that the proper way to enrich the studies of Grammar and High Schools is to lay the foundation for it in the lower grades. Let us throw out all along the line the rubbish and put in what is practical and disciplinary.
These are the things which interest children and prevent waste. Uninterested schools are noisy schools, but interested schools govern themselves. By saving waste, we shall save our children. I recommend the introduction of nature studies in the lower grades.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, I would remind you, gentlemen, and, through you, the citizens of the Town, that the personal, hearty co-operation and sympathy of all, with both teachers and pupils, are essential to the success of our school system. The most perfect of systems, and most learned of teachers, will not alone make satisfactory schools. A school can not be made to run like a piece of mechanism and perfectly accom- plish its work. It has a certain personality, whose attributes must be considered. Without enthusiasm on the part of teachers and pupils, school work becomes drudgery and heartless, servile toil. The machinery of the system may run smoothly, but the result will be boys and girls anxious to escape from the servitude of school rather than become educated men and women. What the schools most need now is an enthusiasm that will render the work of pupils and teachers less mechanical and formal, more hearty and earnest. For the inspiration of this enthusiasm, we are dependent almost entirely upon the encouragement and sympathy
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received from parents and citizens, and this encouragement and sympathy teachers and pupils have, equally, a right to claim at their hands.
I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the hearty co-operation that has been extended to me by all the members of the teaching staff, and take pleasure in acknowl- edging their willingness and industry in the performance of the duties of their position.
The harmony and good fellowship that has prevailed throughout has rendered my work easier and pleasanter.
I wish, also, to thank the members of the Board for the assistance given me in the discharge of my duties as Super- intendent. My relations with school official, teacher, child, and parent, were never more congenial.
I wish to leave this record of my gratitude for all favors. Wishing for the schools of Chelmsford the highest attain- ments and the richest success.
Respectfully submitted.
GEO. F. SNOW, Superintendent of Public Schools.
CHELMSFORD, MASS., Mar. 2, 1895.
Roll of Honor.
¿Scholars not absent or tardy; scholars not absent but tardy *. ]
CENTRE HIGH, NO. 1.
THREE YEARS - Alice M. Stearns, Jessie M. Holt *.
ONE YEAR AND ONE TERM - Chas. P. Holt, Edward J. Robbins *.
ONE YEAR - May B. Bartlett, Leslie R. Davis.
Two TERMS - Christina Ashworth, Theodore A. Cornell, Grace G. Garland, Arthur A. Harmon, G. Thomas Parkhurst, Ralph H. Stearns, Lizzie K. Stearns.
ONE TERM - Alexina Bremner, Harold H. Davis, Pearl F. Dyar, Hattie M. Emerson, John B. Emerson, Willie H. Fulton, M. Etta Gill, A. Hawthorn Howard, Edwin L. Stearns, Lizzie K. Stevens, Florence E. Ward, Annie M. Wood.
CENTRE GRAMMAR, No. 1.
THREE YEARS - E. Belle Adams.
ONE YEAR - Arthur Adams, Ralph Adams, Mabel Nason *.
Two TERMS - George French, Arthur Hill, Fred Holt, Ella Hodson, Ever Briggs, Maud Ludwig, Lawrence Marshall, Sadie Newhall, Frank Melvin.
ONE TERM - Anna Bliss, Stanley Cotton, Arthur Staples, Arnold Perham. .
CENTRE INTERMEDIATE, No. 1.
ONE YEAR - Louise Adams.
Two TERMS - Willie Adams, Paul P. Davis, Emma G. Glid- den, Frank Hodson, Aibert Ludwig, M. J. Pratt, Bennie Rowell*, Ralph Caverly *.
ONE TERM - Fred W. Holt, Arthur J. Hill, Bertha E. Ober, Oscar Hodson, Ella Knowlton, Harry Harmon, Alfred Howard, Ethel Daw, Hattie Dryden, Herbert Chamberlin, Clarence Kelley*, Harlan E. Knowlton*, Charles Chamberlin *.
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CENTRE PRIMARY, No. 1.
ONE YEAR - Marion Adams.
Two TERMS - Edith Bliss.
ONE TERM - Willie Adams. Lina Chamberlin, Elsie Shat- tuck, Eugene Chamberlin.
MIXED NORTH ROW, No. 2.
Two TERMS - Eliza Spaulding.
MIXED SOUTHI, No. 3.
ONE YEAR - Sydney Dupee.
ONE TERM - Alta B. Byam. Elizabeth Byam, Albert Holtam.
MIXED SOUTH ROW, No. 4.
ONE YEAR-Walter Hosmer Redman, H. Stewart Redman, Willie Robbins.
Two TERMS - Edward B. Redman, Leon Parker.
ONE TERM - Frank Melvin, Percy B. Redman.
MIXED BYAM'S, No. 5.
Two TERMS - Carrie Newhall, Walter Crooker.
ONE TERM - Francis O. Dutton.
MIXED EAST, No. 6.
ONE YEAR - Marshall Dix.
'Two TERMS - Ralph Howland, James Leahy.
ONE TERM -Jay Plummer, Arthur Severance, Henry Dix, George Barris, Wilfred Leahy, Florence Leahy, Thomas O'Hara, Benjamin O'Hara, Pearl Dyar*, Harry Wilson*, Alice Dyar *.
NORTH HIGH, No. 8.
Two TERMS - Reginald Sheldon, Frank Hall, Walter Marinal, George Lumbert *.
ONE TERM - Stephen Ward, Fred Snow, Arthur Marinal, Florence Winship.
NORTH GRAMMAR, No. 8.
ONE TERM - Stephen Wood, Frank Hall, Regis Sheldon, Thomas McTague, Ina Lumbert, Georgia McEnnis, Hebert Worden.
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NORTH INTERMEDIATE, No. 8.
Two TERMS - Stewart MacKay, Walter Worden, Edwin Davis *.
ONE TERM - Willie Tobin, Ralph Clark, James McTague, Maud Wright, Georgia McEnnis, Ina Lumbert, May Belle Howard, Gladys Swain, Thomas Towle, Esther Bearce*, Thomas Larkin".
NORTH PRIMARY, No. 8.
Two TERMS - Fred MeEnaney, Clifford Queen, John Varney, May Mccluskey, Katherine Sheldon, Lester Worden, Chester Worden.
ONE TERM - Ethel B. Wotton, Esther A. Bearce, Martha Mccluskey, Florence Queen, Gladys Swain, James H. McCoy, Anna Mackay, Joseph MeTague.
WEST GRAMMAR, No. 9.
ONE YEAR - Herbert Jordan.
ONE TERM - Helen Knowles, Emma Holt, George Knowles, Charlie Martin, Ella M. Winship.
WEST PRIMARY, No. 9.
Two TERMS - Millie A. Dunn, Harry Daw, Nellie Aberham- son, Harrison Mason.
ONE TERM - Augusta Anderson, Sarah A. Boynton, Fannie Corrigan, Stella Daw, Henry Jordan, Walter Guyette, Patsy Flynn, Chris Newman, Willie Miller, Albert Miller.
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STATISTICAL TABLE OF SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF CHELMSFORD, MASS., FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEB. 28, 1895.
SPRING TERM.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Months.
Days.
No. registered.
Average member-
Average attend-
P.r cent. of at-
tendance.
| Over 15 years.
Between 8 and 14.
Wages per month.
Total Wages.
High, Centre .
1 Susie M. Emerson ..
32
31.54
30.72
07.4
25
2
$76 00
$228 00
Grammar, Centre ..
1 Susie S. McFarlin .. 1 Caroline L. Adams.
46
44.50
42.16
94.73
43
42 00
126 00
Int'rm'di'te, Centre
. .
37
34 5
32.99
95.63
36
36 00
108 00
Primary, Centre ... Mixed, North Row
3
|14
12.3
11.1
90.
2
8
32 00
96 00
Mixed, South ..... . .
3
25
22.67
20.28
92.
17
34 00
102 00
Mixed, Southi Row.
3
26
24.7
22.7
91.80
17
34 .0
102 00
Mixed, East.
3
43
38.2
31.71
90.8
28
36 00
108 00
High, North.
3
423
20 48
19 59
95 57
19
.
84 00
252 00
Grammar, North ...
3 ..
3-
33.92
32.20
07.42
3 17
36 00
108 00
Interm'diate, North
8 Nellie M. Baker .... 3
..
41
37.09
35.23
94.97
40
36 00
108 00
Primary, North .... Grammar, West .... Primary, West ...
9 Ella A. Hutchinson 3
23
21.2
19.66
93.
21
36 00
108 00
9
Agnes Naylor. . .
3
31
30.2
28.07
93.
. .
16
36 00
108 00
FALL TERM.
High, Centre ..
1 Susie M. Emerson.
3 .. 38
34.66
97.8
22
5 $76 00
$228 00
Grammar, Centre ..
1 Susie S. McFarlin. 3
126 00
Int'rm'di'te, Centre
1 Caroline L. Adams 1
5.43
46.25 41.
33.93 42.83 39.77
92.59 97.
..
41
36 00
45 00
Int'rm'di'te, Centre Primary, Centre ...
1, Frances Clark ..... 1
15
..
42
36.12
32.79
91.01
1.2
36 00
108 00
Mixed, North Row
2 Daisy Hadley ..
. .
131
10.
9.5
95.
1
8
32 00
96 00
Mixed, South ... .
3 Belle B. Iladley ....
3
30
23.
20 G
92.
21
34 00
102 00
Mixed, South Row.
3 4 Helen M. Osgood .. .. 5 Grace E. Mansfield 3 ..
20
18.5
17.4
94.
..
15
34 00
102 00
Mixed, Kast
3
..
29
25.78
34.26
32.55
93.84
31
36 00
108 00
Grammar, Northı ... Intermedi'te, North
8 Fannie Voter ... ...
3
39
31.78
30.55
95.18
38
36 00
108 00
l'rimary, North .... Grammar, West ... l'rimary, West ..
9 Carrie E. Erskine .. 3
.. 19
18.75
16.98
90.
.. 17
36 0
108 00
3
.. 39 36.43
33.8
92.
.. 21
36 00
103 00
WINTER TERM.
Iligh, Centre .. ..
2 16
37 34.5
32.89
95.3
24
5 $:6 00
$228 00
Grammar. Centre ..
1 Susie M. Emerson. 1 Susie S. McFarlin .. 1 Frances Clark ..... 2
2 |16
50 42.46 41 37.48
39.28
91.94 92.60
1
49
42 00
126 00
Intermedi'e, Contre
1 Alice G. Wheeler .. 2
G
36.25.6 13 10.
9.8
98.
4
6
36 00
96 00
Mixed, Southı ......
3 Helen G. Fulton ... 3
6
20 14.4
13.4
93.
1
12
34 00
78 20
Mixed, South Row.
4 | Helen M. Osgood .. 4|Grace 1. Washburn
3
.
|14 12.
11.04
89.
11
32 00
96 00
3
.
39 36.
34.51
95.9
20
40 00
120 00
3
..
37,30.99
29.12
94 18
18 13
84 00
252 00
Granmar, North ...
2
38 23.03
21.19
90.16
28
36 00
92 70
Grammar, North ...
8 Fannie Voter.
.
31 32 82
20.12
91.66
35
36 00
108 00
3
..
50 41.83
38.06
91.
. .
12
36 00
108 00
Primary, North .... Grammar, West ... Primary, West ..
8 Laura G. Iloyt ..... 9 Carrie E. Er kine .. 3
19 17.67
15.65
88.
17
36 00
108 00
9 Agnes Naylor. ..
..
38 33.9
30.86
91.
.0
36 00
108 00
. .
51 45 51
41.76
88.53
22
36 00
108 00
2 Daisy Hadley.
..
..
..
3
8.65
95.
5
32 00
96 00
Mixed, Byam's ..
8 Laura G. Hoyt ..... 3
..
62
46.97
44.83
95.
..
17
36 00
108 00
..
57
45 58
43.15
95.
..
13
36 00
103 00
Primary, Centre ... Mixed, North Row.
Daisy Hadley ..... 3
.
26 19.8
18.8
94.
.
21
34 00
102 00
Mixed, South Row.
5|Grace E. Mansfield 6 Helen E. Gookin ... 8 Arthur W. Trubey.
8 Jennie Mckenzie .. 8 Nellie M. Baker ....
7
.
..
...
..
Total schools, 15.
Total tenchers, 15.
Total wages, $5,605 30
..
41
36 00
108 00
16
34.71
22.83
90.7
8
36 00
90 00
Mixed, Byam's ...
6 Helen E. Gookin ... 8 Arthur W. Trubey. 8 Nellie M. Baker ...
46,41.88
39.3
93.8 95 39
24
40 00
120 00
Higli, North ..
3
..
15|12.67
11.72
92.
11
3
84 00
252 00
3
.. 38
..
..
.
34 00
23 80
.
14
Mixed, Byam's ..
Mixed. East
High, North ..
36 00
12 60
Intermedi'te, North
..
..
43
42 00
36 00
63 00
1 Alice G. Wheeler ..
..
32 00
96 00
3 Belle B. Hadley ....
4 Helen E. Osgood .. 5 Grace E. Mansfield. 6 Helen E. Gookin ... 8 Arthur W. Trubey. 8 Winnifred Miller ...
.
..
..
ship.
ance.
| No. of School.
1 Alice G. Wheeler .. 3
..
24.62
3 8 Laura G. Hoyt ..... ..
9 Agnes Naylor ..
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF THE
TOWN OF CHELMSFORD, MASS.,
FOR THE
Year Ending February 28, 1895.
Report.
The Board of Trustees of the Free Public Library respectfully submits the following report concerning the second year's adminis- tration of the Library :
After organizing by the selection of Mr. H. S. Perham as Chairman, and Mrs. H. M. Bartlett as Secretary, the first duty of the Board was to secure the service of a competent person as Librarian, in place of Miss Nettie M. Stevens, who had resigned. Rev. H. A. Cornell was induced to accept the position, and has served faithfully during the entire year, giving many hours' extra labor to the promotion of the Library's interests, and securing some valuable donations. With the aid of his son, Theodore, the service to patrons has been much expedited, greatly relieving the discomfort and inconvenience of the narrow quarters to which the Library has been confined. It has been impossible to provide any waiting-room for the patrons save the entry of the Town Hall, and as this could not be heated during the cold season, there was much exposure and discomfort, which seemed inevitable, but which has been patiently endured in hope of better things to come. These inconveniences, which were spoken of at length in our former report, have been felt even more during the past year than during the previous one, on account of the longer season during which the Library has been open, and on account of the larger number of persons using it. There is, however, we are happy to say, a prospect of early and permanent relief.
The Library has been open for public use for eleven months of the past year, 96 periods of two hours each, viz. : on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 o'clock, and on Saturdays from 6 to 8 o'clock P. M. The smallest delivery of books at any one time of opening was 36 on June 27, and the largest was 122 on Jan. 2. There is no basis for a comparison of the circulation of this year with previous ones, since the Library was open for but a part of the first year of its ex- istence. Yet such figures as can be given show a gratifying increase of patronage. The number of volumes taken out during the last
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year of the old Social Library was reported as 1,910; the number during the first year as a Free Library, open for about five months, was 2,647; the number from March 22, 1894, to Feb. 20, 1895, eleven months, has been 7,342. The first two months of the present year, March to May, show a circulation of 1,374; the last two months, December to February, a circulation of 1,512. The num- ber of persons using the Library this year was 408, against 269 last year. Such an increase amply demonstrates the wisdom of the Town's action in establishing the Library on the basis of a free public, rather than a subscription, library. May we not believe that the public benefit from the circulation of a high class of litera- ture, not simply in the way of amusement, but as well in the increase of intelligence and refinement, has increased in like proportion ? An encouraging index of the gratification of such hopes is to be found in the large use of the Library by pupils of the Grammar and High schools, to a considerable extent under the advice and direction of the teachers.
The patronage has come most largely, as would naturally be expected, from the population of the Centre Village and its vicin- ity. The Trustees have not as yet felt justified in expending any considerable portion of the funds for the transportation of books to other parts of the Town. The service has been performed for the people of South Chelmsford, by Mr. A. Heady Park, one of the members of this Board, for a very small compensation, exchanging the books once in two weeks. The hearty thanks of the Trustees are due and are hereby given to Mrs. N. B. Lapham of South Chelmsford for her kindness in allowing her house to be used with- out compensation as the distributing and collecting agency for the books circulated in that community. There has also been a fair share of circulation in the East Chelmsford neighborhood, the patrons coming individually. The remainder of the Town has made almost no use of this Library, the people of the North and West Villages being much more conveniently served by the North Chelmsford Library Association, whose excellent collection of books has been made free to all inhabitants of the Town for the past year by an appropriation for its support granted by the Town at its last annual meeting.
Donations have been received during the year as follows : Miss E. Walton, 2 vols., State of Massachusetts, 13; South Chelms- ford Library, 4; Geo. A. Parkhurst, 1; New York World, 1; United States Bureau of Education, 6 ; Prentiss Webster, Esq., 1 ;
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Civil Service Commission, 1; J. Adams Bartlett, 1; Rev. H. A. Cornell, 4; Smithsonian Institute, 3 vols. and a large number of pamphlets ; Dr. S. A. Green. 2 vols. and 1 document; Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 1 vol. and 12 magazines; Miss C. A. Stanley, 13 magazines ; Hatch Experiment Station, 15 pamphlets. These have been duly acknowledged by the Trustees, with thanks in behalf of the Town.
There have been added by purchase 168 volumes.
The Trustees can not close this report without expressing their great pleasure in anticipation of the occupancy of the new and very handsome and commodious Library building now nearly completed in this village through the generosity and public spirit of our former townsman, Mr. Amos F. Adams of Boston - Messrs. J. A. Bartlett and C. E. A. Bartlett also having greatly aided in securing for the building a fine location, the former by the donation of a valuable piece of land, and the latter by grading the land at consid- erable expense. Mr. Thomas M. Adams of South Chelmsford has also placed in the hands of the Trustees a donation of $500 for the purchase of books.
We are expecting a great increase in the public use of the Library through the increased convenience and attractiveness thus to be supplied. We are planning for considerably longer hours of open- ing and for an increase of facilities for service. The Reading Room, a feature we have not hitherto possessed, will no doubt be appreciated by the general public as well as by ourselves as a most valuable and almost indispensable adjunct to the collection of books which forms the Library.
We announce with regret that Miss Louisa A. Allen, after having served acceptably for two years as a member of this Board, has tendered her resignation.
The extraordinary expenses of removing and re-arranging the present materials of the Library, of preparing for circulation the large additions already donated, and for the care and maintenance of the building, will call for an additional appropriation for the coming year, as follows :
We recommend, if the Library be maintained under the pres- ent conditions, an appropriation of $250 for the coming year ; and if the new building be accepted and the Library removed thereto an additional appropriation, as above, of $350, or $600 in all.
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STATE OF THE LIBRARY.
Number of books and documents in the Library per report of last year.
2447
Added by donations, volumes 40
Added by purchase, volumes 168 208
2655
Destroyed because of infection, volumes 6
Lost and untraceable 1
7
Present number of volumes and documents. 2648
Net increase for the year . 201
There are, in addition to the above, a large number of unbound magazines and pamphlets and two maps.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Money appropriated by Town. $250 00
Received from fines and sale of catalogues ..
14 08
Paid for books. $164 95
Miss Nettie Stevens, for arranging books and preparing accession list,
12 60
Harold Davis, for assisting in same. ..
2 50
for stationery and library cards.
9 00
" Supplies
6 30
" Librarian's services
50 00
A. Heady Park, for transporting books to South Chelmsford. 13 00
$258 35
Unexpended balance
5 73
$264 08
$264 08
Donation of Thomas Minot Adams in the hands of the Trustees, $500.00.
Respectfully submitted. HENRY S. PERHAM, MRS. HARRIET M. BARTLETT, LUTHER H. SARGENT, S. INGERSOLL BRIANT, A. HEADY PARK,
Trustees.
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