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1, 1902,
4
4 1-4 6. 66
Dec. 1, '92,
5,000 00
66
66
Oct.
1, 1893,
4 1-2
Feb.
1,'93,
5,000 00
66
66
Demand,
4
.
Total,
$61,000 00
NOTES PAID.
Date of Note.
When paid.
Amount.
Account.
Feb. 9, 1892,
-
Sept.
9, '92,
$6,000 00 Temporary Loan.
June 16, 1892,
66
16, '92,
10,000 00 Temporary Loan.
July 7, 1884,
66
20, '92,
1,000 00 Park Loan.
Apr. 21, 1892,
66
21, '92,
10,000 00 Temporary Loan.
July 21, 1892,
21, '92,
10,000 00
Temporary Loan.
Jan. 29, 1892,
29, '92,
10,000
Temporary Loan.
Feb. 1, 1890,
66
30, '92,
1,500
Hamilton School House.
June 1, 1887,
Oct.
I, '92,
4,000 00 Funded Loan.
May 1, 1891,
¡Nov.
I, '92,
5,000 00
Lincoln School House.
Nov. 13, 1883,
66
13, '92,
1,500 00
Hamilton School House ..
$59,000 00
6
66
Dec. 1, '92,
5,000 00
Oct. 1, 1893,
4 1-2
6.6
Nov. 17, '92,
5,000 00 Temporary Loan,
Sept. 17, 1893,
66
66
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STATE AID.
The Treasurer has paid the following individuals State Aid by di- rection of the Selectmen. This amount is annually reimbursed by the State.
Wm. W. Bessey, $48 00
T. J. Keogh,
$31 50
Margaret Bladden,
48 00
Lucinda Locke,
48 00
Mary V. Brown,
48 00
Margaret Madden, 48 00
W. W. Burbank,
12 00
James Miller,
8 00
Augusta M. Chandler,
48 00
Elizabeth Moses,
48 00
Peter Connell,
6 00
Mary Newhall,
48 00
Adah E. Cowdrey,
48 00
Lucien E. Newhall,
28 00
Lizzie S. Cutter,
48 00
Dennis O'Connell,
40 00
John Davis,
36 00
James Oliver,
54 00
Annette Davis,
36 00
Johanna Orpin,
48 00
Elizabeth Denison,
8 00
W. D. Parker,
48 00
James Dupar,
48 00
Flora W. Parker,
48 00
Hannah Dupar,
16 00
Andrew J. Ryder,
30 00
Rodney Edmands,
72 00
Florence A. B. Ryder,
28 00
Wm. O. Evans,
27 00
Emily O. Stoddard.
48 00
Honora Evans,
48 00
John P. Swain,
48 00
Patrick Fay,
4 00
Wm. Sweeney,
24 00
Mary Fay,
12 00
Chas. G. Swett,
16 00
Isaac E. Green,
24 00
Windsor M. Ward,
24 00
O. N. Gammons,
8 00
Lydia B. Ward,
48 00
Caroline Goodwin,
8 00
James Weary,
20 00
Mary A. Hall,
48 00
Maria Welch,
48 00
Micah Heath,
60 00
George H. Wiley,
48 00
Walter Holden,
30 00
Julia A. Wiley,
48 00
Justin Howard,
28 00
Louisa Winch,
48 00
N. C. Hunter.
24 00
Matilda L. Kidder,
48 00
Total
$1,865 50
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LOAN ACCOUNT.
Amount of loan, Feb. 1, 1892,
Since hired by Treasurer, .
$103,160 84 . 61,000 00
$164,160 84
Amount paid since Feb. 11, 1892,
· 59,000 00
Amount outstanding,
$105,160 84
Distributed as follows :
Sweetser Lecture Fund, on demand, · $5,000 00
Thomas J. Skinner, Trustee, due Sept. 17, 1893,
. 5,000 00 Southbridge Savings Bank, due Sept. 20, 1893, 1,000 00 Wakefield Savings Bank, due Oct. 1, 1893, . 1,000 00 5 Coupon Notes to bearer, $1,000 ea., due Nov. 1, 1893, 5,000 00
Lynn Inst. for Savings, due Nov. 13, 1893, . 1,500 00 Wakefield Savings Bank, due Dec. 1, 1893, . 10,000 00 5 Coupon Notes to bearer, $1,000 ea., due Dec. 1, 1893, Wakefield Savings Bank, due Oct. 6, 1894, . 2,323 34
5,000 00
5 Coupon Notes to bearer, $1,000 ea., due Nov. 1, 1894, 5,000 00
$1,000 ea., due Dec. 1, 1894, 5,000 00 5
Wakefield Savings Bank, due Oct. 1, 1895, 3,000 00
66 66 due Oct. 6, 1895, . 1,337 50
5 Coupon Notes to bearer, $1,000 ea., due Nov. 1, 1895, 5,000 00 4
$1,000 ea., " Dec. 1, 1895,
4,000 00
5
$1,000 ea., " 6: Nov. 1, 1896, 5,000 00 4
66 $1,000 ea., Dec. 1, 1896,
4,000 00 5 66
66 $1,000 ea., " Nov. 1, 1897, 5,000 00
$1,000 ea., " Dec. 1, 1897, 4,000 00 4 66
· $1,000 ea., 66 Nov. 1, 1898, 5,000 00 5
5
$1,000 ea., Nov. 1, 1899,
5,000 00
$1,000 ea., “ Nov. 1, 1900, 5,000 00 5
$1,000 ea., " 66 66 Nov. 1, 1901, 5,000 00 5
Wakefield Savings Bank, due Nov. 1, 1902, · 8,000 00
Total,
$105,160 84
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TOWN DEBT.
Amount of Notes Outstanding, $105,160 84
Accrued interest to Feb. 1, 1893,
783 56
Outstanding Town Orders, . 694 61
Unexpended balance Lincoln Sc'l house,
1,878 17
Fire Dept. Bl'ding, 1,806 15
66 66 Hose House, Green-
wood, .
65 0I
Balance of interest due J. Nichols Tem- perance Fund, 188 91
Balance of interest due C. Sweetser Burial Lot Fund, . 371 68
Unexpended balance Beebe Town Li- brary, . 165 04
Total,
$111,113 97
LESS AVAILABLE ASSETS.
Cash balance in Treasury, $757 71
Due from State for State Aid, 1892,
1,884 50
" Military Aid, 1892, . ·
295 00
66 66 " State and Military Aid, for
January, 1893, 183 00
Due from County for rent of Court Room,
200 00
Uncollected taxes of 1892, warrant, . 18,332 73
" 1891, " . 6,831 67
Total, .
. 28,484 61
Net debt,
. $82,629 36
COMPARISON.
Net debt as reported above, . $82,629 36 Net debt as reported Feb. 11, 1892, 79,677 87
Increase in net debt, .
$2,951 49
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Dı. THOMAS J. SKINNER, Treasurer,
To Cash balance in Treasury as per report Feb. II, '92, $16,468 10 hired on Town Notes, . 61,000 00
Chas. F. Woodward, Collector, Taxes of 1892,
. 75,005 66
6 6 66 1891, . 9,280 47 66
66
66
1890, · 5,362 65
State Treasurer, acct. Corporation Taxes,
3,383 4I
66 . National Bank Taxes,
1,120 18
66 66 State Aid, 1891,
1,860 00
66 66 Military Aid, 1891,
302 00
66
66 Armory Rent, ·
400 co
County Treasurer, Dog Tax of 1892,
Selectmen, Receipts from Town House, .
·
549 00
66 Sale of School House to G. A. R., .
1 00
66 stove to Wm. Smith, . 10 00
Overseers of the Poor, receipts, 1,843 98
Road Commissioners, 66 .
374 05
Town of Lynnfield, Tuition,
91 00
J. C. Hartshorne, refunded from Miscellaneous appro- tion for Sweetser Lecture deficit, 24 75
Fish Committee, balance of receipts,
II
W. N. Tyler, Clerk of Court, bal. of fines due town,
207 22
John M. Fisk, House of Correction, "
21 90
Police Department, by A. L. Vannah, Chief,
20 40
W. G. Bryant, damage to Water Fountain,
10 00
WV. G. Strong, sale of Laboratory,
100 00
Peter McCulloch, concrete bill of 1890, .
5 07
Freeman Emmons,
7 27
Dunshee Bros., for old buildings,
15 00
Tax Deeds, released,
200 88
Sundry Licenses,
41 00
Sundry families, aid of last year refunded, Premium on notes sold,
43 75
Interest on Beebe Town Library Funds, .
400 00
66 " Sweetser Burial Lot Fund,
40 20
37 3I
96 50
35 42
$179,235 22
" Sweetser Lecture Fund,
I35 00
180 00
Mrs. H. A. Shepard, Librarian receipts, Errors in Town Orders, refunded, Interest on deposits,
·
·
. 561 94
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in account with the TOWN OF WAKEFIELD, Cr.
By cash paid Selectmen's Orders, . $102,532 46
Principals on Loans,
· 59,000 00
Interest 66 66
4,282 43
State Treasurer, State Tax,
3,745 00
66
National Bank Tax, .
1,002 86
66 66 I-4 Liquor License receipts, 1 00
County Treasurer, County Tax, 4,181 38
State Aid to Sundry persons,
1,866 50
Town Library bills (see Library finances),
1,147 II
Reading Room bills, " 66
181 58
T. J. Skinner, Treas. Sweetser Lecture Income of Fd. 400 00
Chas. F. Woodward, Collector, acct. Tax deeds, 15 10
Cash paid acct. J. Nichols Temperance Fund, .
40 00
W. N. Tyler, Clerk of Court, bal. of fines due Court,
14 09
C. W. Eaton, acct. Tax deeds, 8 00
Interest on Flint Memorial Fund,
60 00
Total Cash paid out, . $178,477 51 Balance in Treasury Feb. 10, '93, 757 71
$179,235 22
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Dr. THOMAS J. SKINNER, Treasurer,
To Balance unexpended from last year, $78 64
Annual appropriation,
400 00
Dog Tax of 1891, .
616 20
Interest from Dr. Hurd Fund, 1 yr. to Dec. 1, '92, . 100 00
Interest from C. Wakefield Fund, 1 yr. to Dec. 1, '92, 20 00
Interest from Flint Memorial Fund to Feb. 1, '93, ·
60 00
Mrs. H. A. Shepard, Librarian, fines, cards, etc., ·
31 81
sale of catalogues, 5 50
$1,312 15
Dr. THOMAS J. SKINNER, Treasurer,
To Annual appropriation, $250 00
$250 00
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in account with the BEEBE TOWN LIBRARY, Cr.
By Mrs. H. A. Shepard, Librarian, salary to Feb. 1, '93, $596 32
sundry supplies, I7 94
Little, Brown & Co. acct. books,
. $184 34
N. J. Bartlett & Co., 66
174 65
W. E. Rogers, 66 1 49
J. G. Cupples & Co., 66 66 3 00
D. A. Morse, 66 66
6 00
S. L. White, 66 66
3 00
A. F. Grant,
50
H. S. Inman,
8 00
J. S. Rounds, 66 3 00
383 98
H. W. Upham, repairs of books, 52 50
V. H. Hall & Co., paper,. 8 40
Greenough, Adams & Cushing, sundries, Pierce's express, I 60
2 10
Wakefield Record, advertising,
3 00
M. P. Foster, printing and advertising,
53 02
R. H. Mitchell, labor and material, .
28 25
Total expended,
. $1,147 II Balance unexpended, . 165 04
$1,312 15
in acct. with the PUBLIC READING ROOM, Cr.
By C. A. Cheney, periodicals, $181 58 Transferred to Town House expense acct. to apply to services of Janitor, 68 42
$250 00
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INTEREST ACCOUNT.
Appropriation authorized,
. $4,500 00
Paid Coupon interest, . $2,880 00
Wakefield Savings Bank, 605 19
Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook,
219 79
Lynn Institute for Savings,
112 00
Southbridge Savings Bank, 68 89
Thomas J. Skinner, Trustee, .
178 85
Flint Memorial Fund, . '60 00
J. Nichols Temperance Fund,
47 25
C. Sweetser Burial Lot Fund,
12 86
Cambridge Savings Bank,
134 67
T. Winship, Cashier, 83 04
Total, $4,402 54
Less premium received on sale of
notes,
135 00
$4,267 54
Balance unexpended, .
232 46
$4,500 00
The Treasurer would recommend that the sum of $4,500 be raised and appropriated for the payment of interest upon the Town Debt and for temporary loans.
It will be necessary also to provide for the payment of $2,500 of the principal of the debt maturing during the coming year. This amount was left unprovided for by the rescinding of votes (July 22, 1889) relative to the Hamilton School House Loan and the Park Loan.
I recommend, therefore, the raisiug of $2,500 for the payment of the town debt.
Other loans maturing during the year are provided for by previous. votes of the town as follows :
$4,000 Funded Loan, as voted April 2, 1888.
$1,000 Renewal of Loan, as voted July 22, 1889.
$5,000 New School House, as voted March 2, 1891.
These will be included in the tax levy of 1893 without further action by the town.
Of the parties named in my last report as delinquent in the pay -.
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ment of concrete and highway bills for the year 1890, Messrs. Peter McCulloch and Freeman Emmons have settled with the Treasurer. To this list is to be added the following names who were reported in the last Auditor's report as indebted to the town for concrete bills of 1891, and who have not yet made settlement :
William Batchelder, $29 43
Edward N. Sweetser, .
58 16
Albert G. Sweetser, . 26 66
Joseph Cartwright,
26 79
I have caused an article to be placed in the Annual Warrant to see what action the town will take in relation to these unpaid claims.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS J. SKINNER,
Treasurer. WAKEFIELD, MASS., Feb. 10, 1893.
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ASSESSORS' REPORT.
Value of Buildings, exclusive of land, . $2,815,135 00
" " Land, exclusive of buildings, . 1,507,415 00.
Total value of Real Estate, . $4,322,550 00
Value of Personal Property,
602,665 00
" Resident Bank Stock (Nat. Bank of South Reading), .
77,280 00
Total valuation,
$5,002,495 00
Number of dwellings taxed,
1,426
horses ·
66
492
66 COWS 66
2 70
66 swine 66
85
Value of real estate and machinery of corpora-
tions, .
$791,535 00
Value of church property exempted by law from taxation,
194,500 00
Number of steam boilers, . 26
Aggregate horse power of steam boilers,
1,079
Town appropriations, .
$95,830 00
State tax, .
3,745 00
County tax,
4,181 38
$103,756 38.
Estimated receipts,
$7,000 00
Tax on polls 2,212 male and I female,
4,424 50
Amount assessed on property,
$11,424 50 $92,331 88
Whole number of tax payers, 3,052
Persons paying tax on property, .
1,650
poll tax only,
1,402
Non-residents assessed on property,
354
CHAS. F. WOODWARD, CHAS. F. HARTSHORNE, ALSTEAD W. BROWNELL,
Assessors.
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COLLECTOR'S STATEMENT.
TAX OF 1890.
Uncollected balance, Jan. 30, 1892, $5,365 03
Re-assessed by Assessors, .
12 00
Received as interest, .
416 57
$5,793 60
Paid Town Treasurer,
$5,362 65
Abated by Assessors, . .
43º 95
$5,793 60
TAX OF 1891.
Uncollected balance, Jan. 30, 1892,
$16,458 62
Received as interest, .
225 90
$16,684 52
Paid Town Treasurer,
$9,280 47
Abated by Assessors,
572 38
9,852 85
Balance uncollected, .
$6,831 67
TAX OF 1892.
Total amount assessed,
$97,536 38
Received as interest, .
·
5 50
Paid Town Treasurer,
$75,005 66
Discounts allowed,
·
2,847 40
Abated by Assessors, .
1,356 09
79,209 15
Balance uncollected, .
$18,332 73
CHAS. F. WOODWARD, Collector.
JAN. 31, 1893.
$97,541 88
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OVERSEERS' REPORT.
Again has the year rolled round when it becomes the duty of the Overseers to make their annual report.
Under the efficient management of the Superintendent and his wife the farm has maintained the excellent standard which has char- acterized it for the past ten years.
We have built along Farm street fifty rods of substantial wire fence ; we have also put upon the house a fire escape, which became neces- sary as we were ordered to do so by the Inspector of the District Police.
On account of wet weather no work has been done this year toward reclaiming the meadow land along the Saugus river and there- fore no muck has been obtained.
There has been one birth and one death at the house this year and there has been more sickness this year than usual owing to the advanced age of many of the inmates.
The crops have been fair and better prices have been obtained. We have received over one thousand dollars from the sale of milk. We have changed our policy somewhat on cows from former years and this year have pastured them at a small expense, rather than sell them when they dried up and buy new ones, and we are well satisfied with the result of the experiment.
In the outside department we have had more calls than usual the past year. The insane account is getting to be a formidable affair, and we have very recently had several more persons placed on our hands whose names do not appear in the itemized accounts, as the bills came to hand after closing our accounts.
The Board have engaged the services of Mr. and Mrs. Donald for another year, and they again extend to all citizens of Wakefield a hearty invitation to visit them at any time and inspect the premises.
Respectfully submitted, HIRAM EATON, JOHN G. MORRILL, W. A. CUTTER,
Overseers of the Poor.
WAKEFIELD, Feb. 8, 1893.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
OF THE
BEEBE TOWN LIBRARY
AND
PUBLIC READING ROOM,
WITH
LIST OF PERIODICALS
IN THE READING ROOM.
1893.
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ORGANIZATION OF TRUSTEES.
Chairman, .
. Samuel K. Hamilton.
Treasurer, . · · . Thomas J. Skinner.
Secretary, .
. William E. Rogers.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
LIBRARY.
Thomas Winship, C
Junius Beebe,
George E. Dunbar.
FINANCE.
Solon O. Richardson, Junius Beebe, George E. Dunbar.
BOOKS.
William E. Rogers, Charles J. Ryder, Reuben H. Mitchell,
Otis V. Waterman, Samuel K. Hamilton.
READING ROOM.
Otis V. Waterman, Thomas Winship, William E. Rogers,
Solon O. Richardson, S. K. Hamilton.
CATALOGUE.
Reuben H. Mitchell, Charles J. Ryder, William E. Rogers.
Librarian,
. Hattie A. Shepard.
Janitor of Reading Room,
Rufus F. Draper.
Purchasing Agent for Library, .
. William E. Rogers.
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TRUSTEES' REPORT.
The Trustees of the Town Library are again called upon by the compilers of our quasi town history to fill a new page of its contents, and, as usual, are expected to set forth a new and startling record of achievements in its line of usefulness.
To those of our readers whose quizzical glance scans our report only to find out how much more money we would like to squander than was accorded us last year, we cheerfully say, "pass on, friend critic ; reserve your thunder for some other board of public robbers ; turn the page, lest you waste your time."
To the honest critic, however, who looks not with envious eye at the amount we spend but how we expend it, we extend a friendly hand. You tell us we have 11000 books now and not more than half of them go out once a year. That may be very nearly the truth. What of that? Some of us save our newspapers and file them away after we have read them. How often do we go back to them save to ascertain if this thing was so, or that was not? Just so with the book. It was new and contained news to us once ; it is so no longer.
An article of food is pleasant to the taste and nourishing to the body, live on it from day to day and it will soon become worse than a drug. A new coat is comfortable but time will wear it threadbare and it outlives its usefulness. Just so with a thousand books on our shelves, their leaves and covers battered and torn by the hand of man, like their theories and alleged facts within, buffeted and con- troverted by the ever-progressing mind of man, have both served their purpose and are alike discarded.
You tell us, brother critic, we buy too many novels-too much fiction. Well, we are buying for the town, for the public, for Jack and for Jill, for the student and for the boy who will not touch a book that has a yawn in it. You may spend an evening of delightful profit over Prof. Theo Rist's last essay, but you could not hire your neighbor on the one side of you nor the daughter of the one on the other to read the first chapter of it. This is an intensely busy and
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hard work-a-day life of ours and four-fifths of us, when we get the time of an evening to read, haven't got the moral courage to set our minds and brains to work on something solid. We envy the other fifth but we ourselves want relaxation, and we get it in reading what other people do and think and say and how they live. Many novels of today are pictures of actual life, thought, action. We must buy what people want and call for, and we can't compel you to read what . you don't fancy.
But you say, " You are not buying us books that will last and which will contain the truth for all time, like the valuable histories, works of art, books of technics, although we call for them. Why not leave out the novels and save up some of these before they get out of print and doubly valuable ?" Actual questions. We reply that such books for obvious reasons cannot go into circulation, and as we have no fit accommodations for those who would consult such books we do not believe in locking up the town's money until we can see it bearing income, i. e. until the books can be conveniently consulted- when we can have quarters spacious enough to do without ladders and have consultation tables within the inspection of the librarian, then we will devote much of our money to filling this long felt and . often acknowledged want. And so it goes ; we admit there is much to criticise, but come and tell us what better we can do, and we will try.
For some time past all teachers in our public schools have been allowed to take such books from the library as may help them in their work and keep them out so long as they may have need of them. Books from families in which an infectious disease has been existing are not allowed to be returned until all danger is past and they have been thoroughly disinfected. We are having our public documents, reports and the like bound and unbound, put into such shape and condition that they can be found when wanted and con- sulted when called for. The work involves much time and no little manual as well as mental labor together with some expense, but it is fairly under way and under the inspection of one of the most inter- ested and painstaking of our board.
You will note that we have bought fewer books than in previous years, and that we ask for a smaller appropriation than for some time past. The reason is that we have hardly room for them on our shelves and we have no place in which to erect new ones. In the course of two or three years we shall not need an appropriation for the purchase of books.
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What the town ought to have now for its Library is a large, well- lighted room, sufficiently spacious for its book-shelves, (no ladders) librarian's desk, tables for the papers, periodicals and magazines now in the Reading Room, as well as separate tables for the exclusive use of those wishing to consult our books of reference ; all of which should be within sight of the librarian, who with an able assistant could then make our Library and Reading Room what it ought to be. Give us this and we will wait years for the palatial quarters of Woburn and Malden with only an occasional outburst of longing instead of an annual wail at being squeezed.
But to our report of the Beebe Town Library. Well, it is full- full of books, full of people, full of catalogues for sale to those who want to know what is in it.
The Public Reading Room is fairly well provided with the current literature of the day, it is well lighted and heated, poorly ventilated, the patronizers are numerous and the small boy is kept as quiet as the pay and patience of the janitor and the human nature of the boy himself can lead us to expect. Here are a few of the books we call your attention to among the year's purchases. On
BIOGRAPHY.
Life of Cotton Mather,
Marvin
Life of Christopher Columbus,
Winsor
ESSAYS.
The Platform,
Jephson
Historical and Political Essays,
Lodge
FICTION.
Jason Edwards,
Garland
Miss Baggs' Secretary,
Burnham
Van Bibber and others,
Davis
The Little Minister,
Barrie
A Window in Thrums, .
Barrie
The Quality of Mercy,
Howells
Flying Hill Farm,
Swett
Love for an Hour is Love Forever,
Barr
Dukesborough Tales,
Johnston
Dally, .
Pool
Calmire,
Anon
In Greek Waters, . ·
Henty
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The Dash for Khartoum,
Henty
A Rosebud Garland of Girls,
Perry
David Alden's Daughters,
Austin
Don Orsino, .
Crawford
Three Fates,
Crawford
The Green Fairy Book,
Lang
Jane Field, .
Wilkins
A Pot of Gold,
Wilkins
A Golden Gossip,
Whitney
A Fellowe and His Wife,
Howard
Characteristics,
Mitchell
The Ivory Gate,
Besant
HISTORY.
Franco-German War,
Von Moltke
England,
Gardiner
France,
Kitchin
The People of the United States,
. McMasters
A Half Century of Conflict,
Parkman McCrackan Lowell
The Eve of the French Revolution,
Three Episodes in Mass. History, .
Adams
Encyclopedia of U. S. History,
Lossing
Peru,
Markham
Formation of the Union,
Hart
Norway and the Norwegians,
Keary
HISTORICAL RESEARCH.
The Discovery of America, .
Fiske
The Spanish Story of the Armada,
Froude
LITERATURE.
History of Early English Literature,
Brooks
History of Literature, · ·
Carlysle
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fly Fishing and Fly Making, Keene
Souvenir of the G. A. R. held in Boston, 1891
Physiology and Pathology,
Halliburton
Taxation and Work,
Atkinson
God's Image in Man,
Wood
'The Rise of the Swiss Republic,
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The Speech of Monkeys,
Garner
Epitaphs from Burial Hill,
Kingman Riis
Children of the Poor, .
Road, Track and Stable,
Merwin Millet
The Danube,
Historical Landmarks of Edinborough, .
Hutton
In Lynn Woods, .
Hawkes
PHILOSOPHY.
Spirit of Modern Philosophy,
.
Royce
REMINISCENCE.
Memoirs of Baron De Marbot,
Butler
Duchess of Angouleme,
. St. Amand
Duchess of Berry,
. St. Amand
Among Typhoons and Pirate Craft,
. Anderson
Memoirs of John E. Owens,
Owens
Round London,
Montague Williams
TRAVEL.
Travels Amongst the Great Andes, . Whymper
Journeys in Persia,
Bishop
From the Arctic to the Yellow Sea,
· Price
Indika, Hunt
Equatorial Africa,
. Du Chaillu
West from a Car Window,
Davis
In closing our report we recommend that the town appropriate the sum of $300 and an amount equal to the proceeds of the dog tax for the Library and $175 for the Public Reading Room. The terms of office of Messrs. Waterman, Mitchell and Rogers expire with the current year and three trustees must be elected by the town each to serve three years.
For the Trustees,
WILLIAM E. ROGERS, Secretary.
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
Number of volumes in the Library February 1, 1892, 10,846 Added by purchase during the year, 302 ·
66 to replace worn-out volumes,
40
66 donation,
I8
.66 Magazines bound from the Reading Room, 40
11,246
Volumes worn out during the year, ·
·
54
Total number of volumes in the Library February 1, 1893, 11,192
Volumes added in various classes as follows:
Fiction,
148
Social Economy, ·
7
History,
41 Political Economy,
Biography,
28
Poetry,
5
Magazines,
40 Religious, 8
Literature,
17 Public Documents, 14
Science,
.
I5
Miscellaneous,
14
Travel,
I4
360
Donations from
Donations from
United States,
5 Robert J. Whidden, Esq., . I
State of Massachusetts, .
9
H. L. Gordon, Esq.,
P. L. Converse, Esq., ·
I
A Friend,
I
Persons having signed Application Cards during 1892,
267
Total number of cards issued,
3,084
Number of books delivered during the year,
20,589
Delivered during March, 1892,
2,454
Largest number delivered in one day,
320
Number of volumes replaced,
40
" rebound,
I68
.
.
HARRIET A. SHEPARD, Librarian.
WAKEFIELD, February 1, 1893.
127
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS IN READING ROOM.
-
MONTHLIES.
Atlantic.
Century.
Cosmopolitan. Godey's Magazine. North American Review.
Arena.
Poultry World.
Carpentry and Building.
Eclectic. Blackwood's.
Harper's Monthly.
Harper's Young People.
Hall's Journal of Health.
Magazine of American History.
Scribner's.
New England Magazine. St. Nicholas.
All the Year Round.
Littel's Living Age.
Good Housekeeping.
Columbian Exposition.
Ladies' Home Journal.
Lippincott's.
FORTNIGHTLY. The Literary World.
WEEKLIES.
Forest and Stream.
Wakefield Record.
Harper's Weekly.
Wakefield Citizen and Banner.
Harper's Bazaar.
American Architect.
Irish World.
Texas Siftings.
Judge.
National Tribune.
Puck.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated.
Life.
London Graphic.
Scientific American.
Electrical World.
Youth's Companion. Metal Worker.
N. Y. Tribune. American Field.
Shooting and Fishing.
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