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A list of persons and institutions to whom we are indebted for gifts is appended to this report. Many of the presents made to us are valuable ; all of them have been acceptable.
It is my duty before concluding this report to allude to a sub- ject which I called the attention of the Board of Directors to last year, namely : The impending necessity for the enlargement of the quarters of the library. The reading-room of the Green Library is already too small, and in a few years there will be no more room in the building for the storage of books. Last summer we furnished with shelves such portions of the building as are available for additions to the reference library and were then
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unoccupied. The coming year it will be necessary to shelve and fit up a large part of the room remaining in the basement in order to provide for the natural increase of the number of books in the Circulating Department.
The librarian congratulates the Board of Directors on the fact that we enter on the second quarter of a century of the life of the library in a prosperous condition, and with facilities for doing a work of great usefulness if generously supported by the city government in the future as in the past.
Following is my account of money collected for fines, etc., with a copy of the signatures of the members of the Finance Com- mittee who have examined it.
CITY OF WORCESTER,
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, December, 1884.
We have examined the Librarian's account from December 1st, 1883, the date of the last settlement, and find it stands as follows :
Cash balance in librarian's hands December 1st, 1883, $160 96
Received for fines, from the sale of catalogues and from miscellaneous sources, 909,40
$1,070 36
Paid in return of temporary deposits, &c.,
$47 60
to W. S. Barton, City Treasurer,
825 29
$872 89
Balance in librarian's hands, December 1st, 1884,
197 47
$1,070 36
FRANCIS H. DEWEY, Finance Committee. SAMUEL D. NYE,
413
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
RECEIPTS.
Municipal appropriation, Income from invested funds : Green Library Fund, Reading-room Fund,
$12,000 00
$1,641 82 592 67
$2,234 49
Receipts from dog licenses,
$2,860 40
66 fines,
454 54
sale of catalogues,
409 63
Payments for missing and damaged books, Sundries,
4 21
Total,
$17,967 69
Cash on hand. at last report : Green Library Fund, Fines, catalogues, & c.,
$2,261 88
578 16
$2,840 04
Reading-room Fund (deficit),
84 54
$2,755 50
$20,723 19
EXPENDITURES.
BOOK ACCOUNT.
Books :
Green Library Fund,
$1,134 40
City appropriation,
3,780 82
$4,915 22
Periodicals :
Green Library Fund,
$103 84
City appropriation,
455 38
Reading-room Fund,
432 62
Binding,
$991 84 781 00
4 42
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BUILDING ACCOUNT.
Repairs and additions,
$820 06
Furniture and fixtures,
Insurance,
25 00
Fuel,
320 83
Lights,
808 80
SALARY ACCOUNT.
Administration (including wages of janitor),
$5,685 19
Cataloguing,
500 00
Extra service,
1,060 53
SUPPLY ACCOUNT.
Printing catalogues,
$1,180 26
Blanks and stationery,
166 40
Postage,
112 02
Sundries (including $11, the amount paid to depositors more than the amount received from them),
347 53
Paper covers (covering paper),
50 00
$17,764 68
Cash on hand, December 1st, 1884 :
Green Library Fund,
$2,665 46
Reading-room Fund,
75 51
Money received from fines, sale of catalogues, &c.,
197 47
$2,938 44
$20,703 12
Municipal appropriation transferred to the sinking-fund,
20 07
$20,723 19
ACCESSIONS.
Increase of volumes by purchase :
Green Library,
171
Intermediate department,
510 .
Circulating department,
2,062
2,743
Increase of volumes by gifts :
Intermediate department,
227
Circulating department,
38
265
415
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Increase of volumes by binding periodicals :
24
Green Library, Intermediate department,
196
Circulating department,
48
Increase by placing unbound periodicals in the library : Intermediate department,
4
Number of missing volumes restored since last report : Circulating department,
1
Number of volumes withdrawn since last report :
Intermediate department,
15
Circulating department,
142
Number of volumes missing since last report : Circulating department,
19
176
Net increase for the year,
3,105
Number of volumes in the library as last reported :
Green Library,
20,766
Intermediate department,
13,185
Circulating department,
24,148
58,099
Total number of volumes in the library, 1
61,204
Increase of unbound pamphlets by purchase :
Green Library,
2
Intermediate department,
40
-
42
Increase of unbound pamphlets by gifts : Intermediate department,
505
Total increase for the year,
547
Number of newspapers subscribed for : Reading-room fund,
99
Number of newspapers given to the reading-room,
36
Number of magazines subscribed for :
Reading-room fund, 80
9
City funds,
24
-
113
Number of magazines given to the reading-room,
10
268
3,281
157
-
Green Library fund,
416
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CIRCULATION.
Number of days the Circulating department was open,
307
Number of days the Reference department was open, 307
Number of days the lower Reading-room was open, 366
Number of volumes delivered for home use,
135,021
Number of volumes delivered for reference use,
57,497
Average daily use (home and reference), (Circulating department, 440; Reference department, 187), 627
Largest daily use (home and reference), March 15, 1884,
1,342
(Largest in Circulating department, March 15, 1884, 1,062 vol- umes; in Reference department, March 10, 1884, 373 vol- umes. )
Smallest daily use (home and reference), August 20, 273
(Smallest in Circulating department, June 25, 146 volumes; in Reference department, July 11, 31 volumes. )
Number of books lost and paid for :
Circulating department, 6
Number of books lost and not paid for :
Circulating department, 13
Number of books worn out and withdrawn : Intermediate department, 15
Circulating department, 142
157
Number of notices to delinquents,
5,214
Number of volumes bound,
1,758
Number of names registered during the year,
1,870
Total number of names registered (a new registry made July 1, 1873), 25,251
SUNDAY USE.
The Reading-rooms are open from 2 to 9 P. M.
Number of persons using the upper room,
4,378
Number of persons using the lower room,
9,985
Total number, 14,363
Average number of persons per Sunday using the rooms,
276
Largest Sunday attendance, February 24,
424
Smallest Sunday attendance, August 3,
82
Number of volumes delivered (for use within the building),
1,803
Average number of volumes delivered per Sunday,
35
SAMUEL S. GREEN, Librarian.
417
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
APPENDIX.
GIFTS TO THE LIBRARY.
DONORS.
Books.
Pamphlets
DONORS.
Books.
Pamphlets
Adams, Charles F. Jr., Quincy, Alden. Edwin & Bro., Cincin- nati, O.,
Alden, John B., New York,
1
1 Boston Athenæum, Boston Public Library,
2 Boston University, Bostonian Society, Boutwell, Francis M., Groton,
American Antiquarian Society, American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Mis- sions, 1 sheet, American Institute of Mining Engineers,
3
American Unitarian Associa- tion,
Ames Free Library, North Easton,
Amherst College, Anglim, James & Co., Washing- ton, D. C.,
1 Brown University, Cambridge Public Library,
1 1
1 1
3
42 Chadwick, John W., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
1
Archæological Institute of America,
Arundel Society,
1 Chicago Public Library,
Astor Library, New York City,
Bacon, Leonard W., Norwich, Conn., Barker, F. E.,
1 4
Cincinnati Public Library, 2
2 Cleveland Public Library,
Batchelder, Frank R.,
Bates, Theodore C.,
1 1
2 Cobb, William H., Uxbridge, Cobden Club, London, Eng., Colby University, College of the Holy Cross, Wor- cester,
1 1 1
1
1 College of New Jersey, Prince- ton, N. J., 1 Conaty, T. J., 1
1 Connecticut Agricultural Ex- periment Station,
1 5
3 Cornell University,
1 Boston, City of, City Council, City Messenger, Secretary of School Commit- tee, 1 1 5 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3
Bowdoin College, Bridgeport Public Library, Brighton Free Library, Brookline Public Library,
1 Brooklyn Library, Brotherhood Restaurant, New 1 York, 1 folded sheet.
1 Cambridge University, Cam- bridge, Eng., Carpenter, H. B., Boston,
Anonymous, 3 newspapers, 5 folded sheets, 3 card photo- graphs, 1 sheet, Apprentices' Library Company of Philadelphia,
1 Chalmers, Patrick, London, Eng.,
1
1 Chicago Atheneum,
1 1
1 Childs, George W., Philadel- phia, Pa., Cilley, Bradbury L., Exeter, N. H.,
1
3 1 2
Barrow-in-Furness Free Public Library,
Berkshire Athenæum, Pittsfield, Bigelow Free Public Library, Clinton,
· Blair & Son, 1 card photograph. Blanchard, F. S. & Co., 2 news- papers. Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng., Bolton, Sarah K., Cleveland, O., 1 folded sheet, 1
1
182
Allen, William F., Madison, Wis., Amateur Association, Worcester, 1
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DONORS.
Books.
Pamphlets
DONORS.
Books.
Pamphlets
Correspondence University, Ithaca, N. Y.,
Green, Samuel S., 1 newspaper, 1 folded sheet, 3
24
Cotgreave, A., Richmond, Eng., Cowell, Peter, Liverpool, Eng.,
Cox, William R., M. C.,
3 Hammett, J. L., Boston, 1
1
1
Davis, Edward L.,
Davis, George L., North Ando- ver, Davis, Mary W.,
1 1
Deuerlich, G., Göttingen, Ger- many,
1
Dewey, F. H.,
Dickinson, William,
1
Donnell, E. J., New York,
1
1
Dummer Academy, Byfield,
Dundee Free Library, Dundee, Scotland,
Earle, Pliny, Northampton,
1
Hobbs, W. H., Auburn,
1
Huling, Ray Greene, Fitchburg,
3 Indianapolis Public Library,
Estes & Lauriat, Boston,
4 International Inventions Exhi- 1 bition, London, Eng.,
1
Ferguson, A. M. & J., Colombo, Ceylon, 1
Jameson, J. F., Baltimore, Md., Jannery, J. R.,
1
1
Firth, Abraham, Boston,
Fiske, John, Cambridge, 1 folded sheet.
Fletcher Free Library,
Flinn, Alfred D., 22 folded sheets,
1 Lancaster Town Library,
Foster, Emma E., 36
17 Larison, C. W., Ringos, N. J.,
Fowler, Rufus B.,
1 Lascell, G. W., Lynn,
1
Friends' Free Reading Room and Library, Germantown, Pa.,
Galvin, Edward I., Chicago, Ill., 1 circular,
Gariel H., Grenoble, France,
1 Leicester Public Library, Leominster Public Library, Levi Parsons Library of Glov-
1
2 1 1
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, New York City, Gilman, John, Green, James, 3
1 ersville and Kingsboro,
2 New York, 1 8
97 Library Company of Philadel- phia, 2
Little, James L., Boston, Lowell City Library,
1 1
1
1 121 1 paper,
Hallam, John, Toronto, 1 news-
Cumming & Brinkerhoff, New York, 1 Damon, Mrs. Charles B., 14 1
Hammond, Timothy W., Handsworth Public Library, Harlow, A. J., Boston, 1
11
Hartford Library Association, Hartford Steam Boiler Inspec- tion and Insurance Co., 1 Harvard University,
4
Harvey, Augustus J., London, Eng., 5 sheets.
Hawley, Goodrich & Co., Hart- ford, Conn ..
1 1
1 Hazard, Thomas R., Hewett, George F.,
2 Historical and Philosophical So- ciety of Ohio, 1 sheet.
Emerton, J. H., New Haven, Conn.,
Estabrook, James E.,
Fall River Public Library,
1 Johns Hopkins University, Bal- timore, Md., Kurtz, D. Morris, Ithaca, N. Y.,
8 1 1 1 2 1
Francis, George E.,
2 Lawrence Free Public Fibrary, 1 Leavitt, George A. & Co., New York, 1
1 Leeds Public library, Leicester Academy, 2 folded sheets, 1
1
Green, Samuel A., Boston, 6 folded sheets, 9 sheets, 3 broadsides, 1 circular, 1 newspaper, 1 11 |Lynn Public Library,
1 Lancaster, George Y.,
1 Hoar, George F., U. S. S., 1 newspaper, 3 12 12 1 1
Draper, W. F., Andover,
419
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
DONORS.
Books.
Pamphlets
DONORS.
Books.
Pamphlets
McCalla & Staveley, Philadel- phia, Pa., Malden Public Library,
Manchester, Eng., Public Free Libraries,
Manchester, N. H., City Li- brary,
Mansill, Richard, Rock Island, Ill., 1 newspaper.
Marden & Rowell, Lowell,
Maryland Historical Society,
Massachusetts, Board of Rail- road Commissioners,
1
Secretary of Commonwealth, State Board of Health, Luna- cy and Charity,
1
State Library,
State Lunatic Hospital, Wor- cester,
State Normal School, Worces- ter,
Massachusetts Institute of Tecli- nology,
May, George T., New York,
May, Samuel, Leicester,
Mercantile Library Associa- tion of New York,
Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, Mercantile Library of Philadel- phia,
Middlesex Mechanics' Associa- tion, Lowell, 1 sheet.
Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Scot- land,
Morse Institute, Natick,
Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, Museum of Comparative Zoöl- ogy, through Alexander Agassiz, Cambridge,
1
30 Rotherham Free Public Library, Rowell, George P. & Co., New York,
1 1
National, Association of Wool Manufacturers,
1
New Bedford Free Public Li- brary,
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston,
1 Salisbury, Stephen,
San Francisco Free Public Li- brary,
1
1
1
Savary, John, Washington, D. C.,
1
1
New York Free Circulating Li- brary,
1
1
1 1 1
1
1
2
1
1 1
1
1
1
2 1
1
1
Providence Public Library,
1 Publishers of Independent, Publishers of Polybiblion, Publishers of Railway Review, Publishers of Unity,
Reed, Charles G.,
1 Rice, W. W., M. C., 19 2
1 Roe, Alfred S., Rogers, Horatio, Providence, R. I.,
1 1
1 Royal Society of Canada, Sabin, H., Clinton, Iowa, Sage Public Library, West Bay City, Mich.,
1
1 St. Louis Public School Li- brary,
1 3 1 128 1 2
New York State Library, 1 sheet, New York Chamber of Com- merce, Secretary of, New York Civil Service Reform Association,
2
1 Paine, Nathaniel, Peabody Institute, Danvers, Peabody Institute, Peabody, Peabody Library, Peabody, Perkins, Frederic B., San Fran- cisco, Cal.,
2 1 Perkins Institution and Massa: chusetts School for the Blind,
1 Plymouth, Eng., Free Public 1 Library,
Poole, William F., Chicago, Ill., 2 Pope, Albert A., Boston,
2 Portland Public Library, I news- paper.
11
Pray, John H. Sons & Co., Bos- ton,
1
Providence & Worcester Rail- road Co.,
1 2 1 15 1 1 1 1 1
Museum of Fine Arts, School of Drawing and Painting, Boston, 1 sheet
1
Sauveur, Lambert, Burlington, Vt.,
1 Oakland, Cal., Superintendent of Public Schools,
Orvis. Charles F., Manchester, Vt.,
1
1 Newburyport Public Library, Newton Free Library,
1 Northboro Free Library, Noyes, S. B., Brooklyn,
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DONORS.
Books.
Pamphlets
DONORS.
Books.
Seaver, Edwin P., Boston, Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College,
1
Naval Academy, Naval Observatory,
1 11 1
1
Shuey, W. H., New York City, Sleeper, William T.,
Smith Henry M.,
Smithmeyer, J. L., Washing- ton, D. C.,
2
Snow, Marshall S., St. Louis,
Waterhouse, Sylvester, St.
Louis. Mo.,
5
Society for Political Education, New York,
1
1 Watertown Free Public Li- brary,
1 1
South Carolina, Department of Agriculture,
Southbridge Public Library,
Spelling Reform Association,
Springfield City Library Asso- ciation,
Stallard, William, Worcester, Eng.,
Staples, Hamilton B.,
Staples, Samuel E.,
Stevens, B. F., London, Eng.,
2 Winchester, G. F., Middletown, 1 Conn.,
1
Winchester, Eng., City of,
1 Winsor, Justin, Woburn Public Library,
Swansea, Wales, Public brary,
Li-
Taunton Public Library,
Thayer, F. C., 1 sheet.
Thayer Academy, Braintree,
Thompson, Charles O., Terre Haute, Ind.,
Toledo Public Library,
Toronto Public Library, 1
Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund,
18
Tucker, Sarah D.,
2
Young Men's Association, Buf- falo, N. Y.,
2
Tyler, Jessie E., 1 newspaper.
2 Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, New York City,
1
Chief of Engineers,
Department of Agriculture,
Department of the Interior,
70
Department of State,
15
Zetterman & Lätt,
1 2
Department of the Treas- ury, ?
Department of War, 1 262 630
|Pamphlets
1 2 1
1
Society to Encourage Studies at Home,
1 Watson, Paul B., Cambridge, Wendte, Charles W., Newport, R. I.,
1
1 1 Wheeler, Leonard,
3 Wheelock, Charles A., Ux- bridge,
1
2 Whiting, Charles B. & Co., 1 Wilkinson, Charles, 1 folded sheet.
21
1 1 Wilson, G. H., Boston,
1
Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library, Stockin, A. C., Boston, 1
1 1
1 City Clerk, 1 folded sheet, 3 City Hospital,
1 2 1
1 Worcester Academy, Worcester County Free Insti- tute of Industrial Science, 1
7
1 Worcester County Musical As- sociation,
1 Worcester Society of Antiquity, Yale College,
1 1 3
Tufts College.
United States, Bureau of Edu- cation, 2 4 1
3 14 Young Men's Democratic Club, New York City,
1
4
1 Ordnance Department, Patent Office, 2
Signal Service, 1
1 2 University of Minnesota,
Walker, A. G.,
Smithsonian Institution,
1 Walsall Free Library, Ware Bros., Philadelphia, Pa.,
1
1 2 1 5 Wood, Mrs. Alphonso, 2 sheets,
1 Worcester, City Auditor,
1
Young Men's Mercantile Li- brary Association, Cincin- nati, O.,
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY.
To the Directors of the Free Public Library :
The Committee on the Library report that during the past year they have held twelve meetings.
They have recommended for purchase twenty-seven hundred and forty-three volumes, distributed as follows :
Green Library, 171
Intermediate Department, 510
Circulating Department, 2,062
It is gratifying to notice that 1,000 more volumes have been bought this year than during the previous year. The generous provision made for the purchase of books during the year just past accounts in part for the large growth in the use of the library, which is announced in the report of the librarian.
The committee is pleased to find that the library grows in favor and in usefulness every year, and is convinced that it deserves generous support at the hands of the city government.
JONAS G. CLARK. ALBERT WOOD. C. M. LAMSON. ADIN THAYER. JAMES E. ESTABROOK.
.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE READING-ROOM.
To the Directors of the Free Public Library :
The Committee on the Reading-room appends to its report lists of papers and other periodicals taken in the reading-rooms for the first time during the past year, of such as we have ceased to take and of gifts which have been made to us.
Two hundred and fifty-eight periodicals have been accessible to the public during the year as against two hundred and fifty-four in the year before.
The use of the reading-rooms has been very large. It will be still larger the present year as many persons are at this time out of employment. Large numbers of such persons use the reading- rooms for the purposes of acquiring information or deriving enter- tainment, and their use of it is desirable and profitable.
It will be necessary the coming year not only to keep the list of periodicals taken full, but probably to add to it somewhat in order to meet reasonable wants of citizens.
This committee asks the Finance Committee to put into the estimates to be presented to the in-coming city government the sum of $350, to be used with the income from the Reading-room fund, in providing the reading-matter demanded by the best interests of citizens.
Our thanks are due to individuals and associations who have kindly given us the papers and magazines acknowledged in the appendix. They have enabled us by their gifts to afford the public increased facilities for instruction and entertainment.
THOMAS J. CONATY. GEORGE SWAN. W. A. WILLIAMS.
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FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
PERIODICALS AND PAPERS ADDED TO OUR LIST DURING THE YEAR.
Andover Review.
The Foreign Eclectic.
The Berkshire Courier.
The Keynote.
The Library Chronicle.
Bulletin of Massachusetts Natural History.
Latine.
Life.
The Commercial and Finan- cial Chronicle.
Engineering News.
Outing and The Wheelman. Shakespeariana.
PERIODICALS DISCONTINUED DURING THE YEAR.
+Capital and Labor. +Coal.
+The Continent. The Public.
GIFTS TO THE READING-ROOM.
American,
American Gas Light Journal,
*American Journal of Education,
American Machinist, Baptist Missionary Magazine,
F. A. Gaskill.
Berrow's Worcester Journal,
Charles H. Birbeck. . Publishers.
Bookbuyer,
Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers,
Association.
Publishers.
Universalist Publishing House.
College Argus,
E. A. Welch.
Christian Register,
American Unitarian Association.
Congressional Record,
W. W. Rice.
Courrier de Worcester,
Donahoe's Magazine,
Publishers. Thomas J. Conaty.
Engineering, Fitchburg Weekly Sentinel,
Sentinel Printing Co.
Fonetic Techer,
Editor.
Freidenker,
Publishers.
Good Cheer,
H. D. Watson.
George F. Hoar.
Publishers.
J. L. Smith.
Maine Farmer,
Proprietors of the Spy.
Massachusetts Ploughman,
Proprietors of the Spy. Publishers.
Missionary Herald, . *Monthly Notes of the Library Associ- ation of the United Kingdom,
Musical Herald,
Musical Times,
S. S. Green. Publishers. Publishers.
*Discontinued.
+Publication stopped.
Publishers.
G. Warren Dresser, Editor.
J. B. Merwin, Editor. Proprietors of the Spy.
Caldwell Tribune,
Christian Leader,
Publishers.
*Hawaiian Gazette, Index, Locomotive,
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New England Farmer, New England Staaten Zeitung, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, *Orange County Reporter, Our Dumb Animals, Public Ledger, *Puck,
*Roxbury Advocate, *Sabbath Sentinel,
*Sanford Journal, Signs of the Times,
Southern Workmen,
Sunday Herald,
Anonymous.
Publishers. Tufts College.
American Unitarian Association.
T. J. Conaty.
S. D. Harding.
Publishers.
Edward F. Tolman.
Sarah F. Earle.
Publishers.
Publishers.
Publishers.
Publishers.
Publishers.
World's Crisis, Zion's Herald,
Proprietors of the Spy. Publishers.
United States Patent Office.
Editor.
Publishers.
George W. Childs, Proprietor.
Spencer & Soule.
Publishers.
Publishers.
Publishers.
Eliza Thayer.
Mrs. P. S. L. Canfield.
Travailleur,
Tuftonian, Unitarian Review, *United Ireland. Universalist Quarterly, Watchman,
*Wheelman, *Woman's Journal, Worcester Daily Spy,
Worcester Daily Times,
Worcester Evening Gazette, Worcester Home Journal,
Anonymous.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE BUILDING.
To the Directors of the Free Public Library :
The Building Committee reports that the building under its charge has been kept in good order during the past year.
Such floor room as remained unoccupied in the upper story has been covered with cases of shelves, and thus arrangements have been made to utilize such space as is available for use in providing for the increase of the reference library.
It will be necessary to fit up and shelve an additional room in the basement the coming year in order to make room for the year's growth of the circulating department. It is evident that all the room in the building available for the storage of books will soon be filled and that the building must before long be enlarged or new quarters provided.
About $300 will be needed for ordinary repairs, furniture, brushes, &c., the coming year, and it is desirable that a new boiler to be used in heating the building should be bought.
The estimates for a change in the heating apparatus and for fitting up the room in the basement are respectively $600 and $300.
WM. DICKINSON, S. A. PORTER, SAM'L D. NYE,
Members of the Building Committee.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.
To the Directors of the Free Public Library:
The Finance Committee herewith submit the financial state- ment of the Free Public Library and the Green Library Fund for the year ending November 30, 1884.
The result showing the present amount of the Green Library Fund to be $40,939.60, an increase from the previous year of $534.61.
The amount of the City appropriation last year was $12,000, and from the dog license money, fines and miscellaneous receipts at the library, $4,102.89, making a total of resources of $16,- 102.89, and the expenditures were $16,082.82, leaving $20.07. An examination of the details of the expenditures will show that they have been judiciously made. The Committee herewith present to you their estimate of the necessary expenditures for the coming year.
Besides the ordinary expenditures, it will be necessary to finish one of the lower rooms and shelve it for books belonging to the circulating library at an estimated expense of $300, and the Reading Room will require an appropriation of $350 at least for its proper maintenance.
It is desirable that a new boiler to be used in heating the building should be bought, both to furnish the necessary heat and for the saving of coal. The estimated expense of the change in the heating apparatus as made by the Building Committee is $600.
The Committee having carefully examined the accounts of W. S. Barton, Esq., the City Treasurer, and the securities in his custody belonging to the Public Library, again express their appreciation of the accuracy with which the accounts are kept by him.
FRANCIS H. DEWEY, JONAS G. CLARK,
SAM'L D. NYE,
Finance Committee.
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. 427
CITY APPROPRIATION.
Financial Statement for the year ending November 30, 1884.
RESOURCES.
City appropriation,
$12,000 00
Dog money,
2,860 40
Fines, sale of catalogues, &c. (two years),
1,242 49
EXPENDITURES.
Binding,
$781 00
Binding Catalogue,
607 00
Printing lists of additions,
156 06
Other printing and charging slips,
123 26
Freight, postage, stamps, expressage and minor running expenses,
288 92
Paper for covering books and stationery,
70 64
Postal cards for notices to delinquents,
66 00
Cards for cataloguing,
22 50
Repairs, furniture, brushes, etc.,
396 56
Coal and wood,
320 83
Gas,
808 80
Water,
93 63
Salaries of assistants,
3,060 19
Salary of Librarian,
2,500 00
Wages of janitor and messenger,
625 00
Additional library service,
1,060 53
Insurance,
25 00
Shelving,
423 50
Printing Catalogue,
417 20
Books,
3,836 20
Papers and periodicals (in addition to the amount of money spent from the income of the Reading- room fund),
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