Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1896, Page 11

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Curtains Cut. $2 & $2.25.- Tre Houghton co, 1214 F Street. “Helps Weak Folks to Strength.” Ask for ©, ©. C. Tonic. re? Creuse, for “curtain. lens ws while such low prices on High-grade Lace Curtains ~ prevail here! Just in—a new lot of Fish. Net, Saxony and Nottingham” Lace” Cur- tains. - Should be_ $3. fg #4 | Our to you, n012-20¢ . An invigorator—a health- giver, and the Mest ting tn the world fer “Sees nomanaine remedy of known eeaenee Homenpae Homeopathic Pharmacy, 1331 G St. 0c28-2m,14 D'ISGNE ET CIE, 1415 H ST. N.W.—SPACIOUS lors; several rooms en suite; ing, Flair ‘Dressing, Facial’ Mareage “aod ‘Steaming: experts. Branch Importers of "Isgre Cremes, 1110 @ st. n.w. nof-lw* THE FREE LIBRARY An Important Factor in the Welfare of the Community. BOARD OF TRADE STAND TAKEN BY THE The Crying Need for Such an In- @ stitution Here. . . A PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY The report of the committee on public Ubrary of the Washington board ‘of trade, submitted and unanimously adopted at a meeting of the board’ March 27, 1894, is particularly timely just now and should be read with interest by every one who hopes to see a public library established here, especially in view of the steps al- ready taken to comply with the provisions of the act of Congress. The report is as follows: “Why is there not a majesty’s brary in every county town? ‘There is a majesty’s Jail and gallows in every one.” The re- Proach of Carlyle's question of more than half a century ago has been in large meas- ure removed in England through the series of public libraries acts; and in New Eng- land also, and in many states of other sec- tions of the republic, majesty’s Nbrarles— Ubraries of the American majesty, the peo- ple—are far more numerous and conspicu- ous than the jails. The school and the brary, = eecncioe of education, les- ‘or Into the background, P™°™ and push it An Educating and Civilizing Agent. Today there ts general recognition of the important educational position of the free circulating Mbrary and reading room, ac- cessible at hours when their treasures can be utilized by students, both from schools and colleges, and from among the work- ing people, whose daylight hours are large- ly occupied in bread-winning. Especially are such Ibraries appeciated in this land of free schools. In state after state, re- sponding to the popular demand for these educating and civilizing agencies, has leg- islation been enacted to supply each little municipal subdivision at the taxpayer's expense. So notable has been this move- ment that it has been reasonably predicted that the last quarter of the nineteenth century will go down in history as. the age of electricity and free libraries. ‘Ihe Progressive community needs the public library a» it does the telegraph and tele- phone. It is on the same footing with the common school; it is the free university of the people. In the public school a Iik- TOO Coo recccccccccoces District of Columbia. .. I subscribe $.... . . . . ° . ° ° ° . ° ° . ° . . . ° . . . . T. W. NOYES, + President Library Trustees, S Star Office, : City. Peer eerececoccccos I donate to the free public library and reading room of. the meVOIUMES| ales cicie's sisi os ests eee MOW AtNG! 55s heics cosioee oe -St.......Washington, which»I will send to the library rooms whenever notified or which may be called for at any time by an agent of the public library. for the purchase of books for the free public library and reading room. Cut out, fill up and mail to or out a single available lending library, with reading ‘rooms open at night, without even the command of books enjoyed by the working people of little northern and west- ern towns, detect a similar mockery in the library statistics. No satisfactory sub- stitute either for actual water er actual books is furnished by complimentary sta- tistics. want Amidst Pléaty.: The departmental Mbrariessat the capl- tal contain nearly three Hunde’d thou- rand volumes, accessible omly! te a few employes of the government, asm) closed to them early in the afternéon, "The vast ‘wealth of reading peatiae Jn t pees ry is practi ly outeof reac! Benth t parkbiemon: and_ schodl «children, owing to the hours of openitg amd closing | and the conditions placed «pons the en- joyment of its privileges. Not ome of the great government collections’ isopen in the evening, when alone the great: mass of the peosle can use the books.; There are fifty-two Mbraries in the District, each containing over cne thousand) volumes, and Not one of them is a free lending library, with a reading-room open at night for the benefit of the general public. Such an institution 1s the most urgent need of the national capitai, . Viewing this ocean of more than a million books, spread tantaliz- ingly before them, the workingmen, the school children, the government clerks, the great mass of the citizens of Washington, thirsty for the knowledge which comes from reading, may well exclaim with the Ancient Mariner: ‘Water, water every- where, nor any drop to drink? A great national reference library for the wortd’s scholars does nét prevent in other capitals the existence of numerous popular lipraries, and should not in Wash- ington. “In London, where : the British ars, there are thirty local Hbraries, in ad- dition to many special libraties, open to various classes of students. In Paris, where the great national Ill is only open to readers well armed with creden- tials, there are sixty-four popular libraries, while Berlin has twenty-five. Children Demand a Free Library. To meet the absolute necessity of books as working adjuncts in the public schools, small libraries have been formed in con- nection with’ some of the. buildings, and the High School has a very creditable col- lection. But to complete and perfect its education system, already so admirable, Ly adding the people's free university to the free- school,- Washington absolutely needs the proposed public library, as an aid to the development of intelligent men and women, the gocd Americans of the fu- ture, the pillars of the republic. Its crea- tion’ is demanded in the name of the 63,- 000 children of school age in the District, and especially in the name of the 33,000 of this number who are over twelve years of age. Government Employes Demand a Free Library. “ Investigation of the departmental libra- ries shows that a very large percentage of their 300,000 volumes is composed of technical books and books of reference, which have a direct bearing cn the work of the department which possesses them; that there are only between 20,000 and SOCOH eer rrerorecesecccocccecooes FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. ; S. W. WOODWARD, ' (Chairman Com. on Donations, Library Trustees, ; 11th and F, City, : & SEO COO OOOO 3 ees ing for books, a desire and thirst for know!- edge, may naturally be acquired. The li- brary develops this liking and meets and gratifies this desire. The school imparts the ability to educate one’s self by the in- telligent use of books. The library supple- ments this instruction by providing the means and opportunity for such self-edu- cation. As Commissioner W. T. Harris of the bureau of education has aptly said: “The school: teaches how to read—how to use the printed page to get out of it all that it contains. The library furnishes what to read; it opens the storehouse of all huma” learning. These two are com- plementary functions in the great work of education.” : The library is, then, a true university, both for the graduates of the public schools and for the whole people, without regard to class, or sex, or age, or wealth, or pre- vious condition of servitude to ignorance. The people eagerly aval; themselves of the educational opportunities offered by the public library. It raises the whole com- munity to a higher intellectual plane. It is also not without its beneficent influence asa moral agent. In some of the small New England towns the record shows that as many as one out of every five inhabi- tants, counting men, women and children, is registered as a borrower of library books. More persons have there registered to read than have registered to vote. The statistics also show that at first fiction was most largely drawn upon by such readers, but that, as the taste for reading was devel- oped, stronger food for the mind was de- janded, and the ratio of serious reading steadily increased. The reading room has proved and will prove a strong rival to all demoralizing resorts in claims upon the evenings of many, esp ly the young, and has served and will serve more ard more as a satisfactory substitute for nightly idleness in dreary lodgings or on the streets. No Free People’s Library Here. What Carlyle sought for each English county town, and what many English and American villages now enjoy, the national capital lacks and seeks to obtain. It is fast becoming the republic’s educational center. Universities are founded in rapid succession within its limits. But the great free library university, for those whom Lincoln lovingly called the common peo- ple, is yet to be created. According to the statistics there are much more than a million books in the semi-public _libra- ries of Washington—about a twentieth of all in the republic; and when these have been apportioned among the citizens after the methods of statisticians it appears that the District workingman has fourteen times as many public bocks as the average American. And the only difficulty is that he cannot possibly make any use of them whatsoever. The resident in the more elevated sec- tions of Washingion who could get no wa- ter on the upper floors of his housc, and very little cn any floor, saw countless gal- lons wasted in the departments, in foun- tains and otherwise, and learned from sta- tistics that he and the other citizens were, in per capita’ average of gallons daily used, among the largest consumers of water in the country. The population of the capital, credited with fourteen times their due proportion of - boo! and with- 30,000 volumes suitable for a gener: = culating brary, and these gee ccunged malaly . to, three~departments. The Inte- rlor Department, with 10,000 volumes, and the War and Treasury departments, with 5,000 volumes each, possess nearly all these books. ‘The clerks in the departments which have no libraries need and demand them, and the favored departments need a wider range of reading material than the strall collection at the disposal of each prevides. There are, in round numbers about 20,000 persons residing in Washing- ton who draw salaries from the govern- ment. Many of these represent families, and the number of readers in this govern. ment constituency can therefore be esti- mated only by: the customary. multiplica- tion of the number of government em. Ployes. In the name, also; of this numer- gps ard book-loving Clement of the popula- creation of the pro jocal Ubrary 1s demandea, | Proposed I Workingmen Demand a Fee Library Last, but no: least, peal from the District workingmen. Some- times, in view of the notable absence from the capital of dirty, Noisy factories, which would tend to reduce. the city’s attractive- ness a8 a place of residence, the quest! is raised, ‘‘Is there any such individual as the District workingman?” The census of 1890 discloses the fact that, ‘while it is the policy of the capital to enéourage orly light and clean manufacturing, like that of Paris, over 23,000 adults were. the District mm lines of work classed as manufactures, omitting from consideration entirely ali thé; other nu- oe ote of labor... Ninetéen thousand are engaged jocal -in- dustries. Over 4,000 are disco : Se ae ta be in government employ, mainly’ in ‘the govern- sraving and printing. it sper oe a, As 1g. It appe from this t there: were in 1896 Jin th trict 2,300 manufacturing eatabilshineses with @ capital of $28,876,253: paying in Sane ieee materials costiag °. * an £ i Praducts‘@f the value To the census figures must bé added the thousands of working nen engaged in other lines of work not classed as manufactures, and then this number must be multiplied, since maay are the heads of families, to ascertain the number of readers, and, in behalf of this great multitude of people, a free lending lbrary and night reading room are now demanded. §- a, City Appeals for a Bree fdbrary. While attention has been ‘called to cer- tain elements of the populatioA: a@ stand- ing in special need of library facilities, it is to by remembered that only a small fraction of all the people in:-Washington have the leisure to utilize and-enjay a pub- lic Mbrary during daylight heurg, so that practically a whole city of inhab- itants makes this appeal: go . How Books May Be @tdsined. The first need of the free Nhrary+books— can easily be supplied. ‘The lMbrarian of Congress states that there are mamy thou- sands of duplicates in the €ongressional Library suitable for “the: of this } circulating Mbrary, which can be spared comes a powerful ap-. for such use if Congress will consent, and he has formally approved the granting of sueh consent by Congress. Ni The existing departmental circulating libraries might be added to these books from the Library of Congress and made into a general departmental library, to which the people of the District not em- Ployed by the government might also have -access. The circulating books, numbering between 20,000 and 30,000, accessible in the main only to the clerks in three of the de- partments, and accessible to them only so far as the fraction contained in their own Ubrary is concerned, would, if collected in @ general departmental library, be opened to all the clerks In all the departments. great body of government employes would enjoy privileges of which they gre tow entirely deprived. Those now having a departmental circulating brary at hand, instead of being limited to its 5,000 or 10,000 Yolumes. would have access to more than 20,000 in the general library, augmented by large additions from the Congressional Li- brary and by private contributions, which, if the library were once started, would un- doubtedly be considerable. The clerks in the particular buildings in which the circ lating departmental libraries are now ac- commodated might suffer a trifling incon- venience from the removal of the books for a short distance, but catalogues of the brary should be in all the departments, and delivery branches established in dif- ferent parts of the city. This inconveni- erce would thus be reduced to a minimum, and as an offset to it would be the finer Mbrary to which these clerks would have access and the public benefit of a great ex- pansion of the number of readers to whom the accumulated books would be available. Other departments and bureaus than those which now have circulating Mbraries have applied in some instances and intend to ap- ply in others for like privileges. The es- tablishment of a general departmental library, open also to the public, would save the government the expensive duplication of books in numerous small collections, ard would also economize in the room space devoted to departmental Hbrary pur- Poses. Apparently the government and the clerks would profit by the project, as well as the population in general of the city. When the nucleus of a library properly housed is once obtained, the collection will certainly grow rapidly through private do- nations of books and money, and when ft has demonstrated its usefulness and the fact that it is appreciated by the public some one of Washington’s wealthy men may be moved by local pride or other good motive to endow it and attach to it his name. No citizen could erect to himself a nobler memorial. If only a small fraction of: the books in Washington can’ be made accessible to the mass of its people, the city will be well supplied. It will no longer starve in an overflowing granary. The project of a public and departmental circulating libra- ry and reading room, open in the evening, is worthy of the strongest and most en- thusiastic labors in its behalf. It will doubtless receive the hearty support of the board of trade, of every public-spirited citizen and of all friends of the capital and its people, who appreciate the fact that a city of a quarter million of inhabitants contains men to be considered, and not merely streets, buildings, trees, statues and monuments. PUBLIC SCHOOL INSTRUCTION. A Reader Who Prefers the Old-Fash- foned Ways. To the Baltor of The Evening Sta: Noticing several communications lately on the subject of our public schools, I beg space in which to say a few words. I can- rot understand why our children, in their infancy you might say, should be brought into contact with the sciences of botany and geology. I mean the study of the various portions that go to make up a plant or flower and the pilgrimages they make to the country to study the forma- tion of the earth’s surface and its compo- nent parts. When your humble servant at- tended the public school all the informa- tion upon these subjects was imparted in what is now called the eighth grade, where we had Gray's Botany and Warren’s Phys- ical Geography, ‘and where a boy or girl, having passed through the lower grades, was intelligent enough to understand these advanced studies The lower grades in those days were de- voted to spelling, reading, writing and Seography, and grammar, arithmetic, his- tory and the Constitution of the Unitea States were added to the studies as a boy or girl advanced. In these grades we got the fundamental principles of an English education. Something that every boy and girl is justly entitled to. Now it is quite different. I understand the spelling book has been tabooed. What is the result? It is simply this: We are making our children miserable spellers, end this is not confined to the lower grades, either. Reading is not’ given the attention that was once given to it, and the result is we are making poor readers. A friend of mine in the printing business Wanted a boy as a topyholder, and, after trying several of our school boys, gave up in despair. He was finally so fortunate as to get a boy who had been taught reading in a country school. As to grammar, until the past year, I understand it was tabooed, too. Now the boys tell me they have fifteen grammars for forty-five pupils. Why is this so? Can- not each pupil have a grammar? What is the result of throwing out the grammar? It is simply this: A large number of our children do not know a noun from a verb and have little or no knowledge of the dif- ferent parts of speech that go to make up the queen’s English. As to history, I un- derstand some of the schools have six or seven different works, but only a few of each—not enough to go around. Could not better results be accomplished by adopting one of the six or seven and providing each pupil with a book? I do not know if the Constitution is studied or not. If it is not, why is it not? I do not know but I think we got better results out of the old system than we are getting out of the present one. This is the way it looks to an OLD FOGyY. “Pater Famili Again, To the Editor of The Evening Star: “Floret’s" reply has been carefully con- sidered, but, so far as I can perceive, con- tains no reason why we should not “sim- plify public school instruction.” Of course, I am aware of the use of flowers, fruits and insects as a basis of language work, and, in fact, had several bottles of grass- hoppers pickled in coal oil on hand a few days since. “Floret” sums up by saying that “if the child has been attentive and understood the lesson, the nthere is no need of a dictionary to help him, or of the parents writing the sentences for him.” There can be no question that if the child of seven years understands the botanical lesson and can so charge his memory therewith as to retain it through many games of marbles, etc., he will not need a €ictionary or his parents’ help that night in writing out the several sentences. Is not the teacher “talking over the aver- age child’s head” in such scientific dis- courses and could not the time be better employed in teaching the “three R's” now so sadly neglected, especially “readin’ and ritin’.” The immediate occasion of my former article arose ds follows: I was busy going over The Star to find out just what Mc- Kinley’s majority was, and was deeply en- grossed therein when a voice at my left sald: “Papa, give me a sentence with ray- floret in it.” I looked up and asked him to repeat the question and spell the word, which he did from a slip of paper. Then I asked what ray-floret meant. He did not know, and as I had never heard of the word, I had to get down the dictionary. In thé ;meahtime, I was still full of the election returns and’ anxious to get back to The Star, according to my custom of thirty-odd years. Well, no such word could be found, so I looked up “ray” and “floret,” and for the benefit of somé, reader who may be as ignorant of botany as your hum- ble servant and not have a dictionary con- venient, the meanings are as follows: “ -—A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as ar aster; one of th: pedicels of an urubel or other circular fower cluster.” Buy Your Furniture On Credit. Most people find it a trifle hard to pay cash for new Parlor, Dining Room or Bed Room Furniture. We reasoned this out years ago, and determined that you should not go without hadn’t the ready cash. Any article in the store is yours—upon your promise down and a little each wee Our “credit” prices ar. the cash dealers. That is w! rather vou doubted our wo! i yourself. We know where udden’s Rudden’s 513 Seventh St. simply because you to pay us a small sum k! ¢ as low as those asked by hat we claim. But we'd rd and investigated for you will buy then! redit ouse, redit H ouse, LOPOOPLOLLALAL ALLO SLOOL ODO ORIOL SI OIO DELO ISO L I OOOO OOO ID : AT OUR SECES OPE SESS ON SATURDAY, cents’ worth for 30 cents, or ‘We-warit your trade, and prefer our goods. ae Re iy y Re ye : % y RA 7 Re + STARDS, 608 & 5 Subntnintabatadotad-tatet HERE IS GOLD FREE. ‘ “But Only for One Day.” 503 & 504 Center Market One dollar’s worth of our Fine Cakes for 60 cents, or 50 You will find a nice assortment of Angel, Sunshine, Lady, Paris, Fruit and Pound Cake, New England Ginger Pound Cake, Boston Brown Bread and a nice yariety of small cakes—all of superior quality and fineness. to have you give us a trial, knowing that you will hereafter LEARY & SCHNEIDER, aos STANDS, SEELSE ESE ae NOVEMBER 14. Kk dy ep .) 25 cents’ worth for 15 cents. offer you above inducement VESSES LESH G In" ss a 04 CENTER MKT. v al aki2 trata Sea Si Spa tre Son Ben Bene Ben Se dy oe “ala an an aa “ana Yana Yay Aw SA “Floret—A little flower; the partial or separate little flower of an aggregate flower.” I think Mrs. incoln gives “floret” (not our “Floret’’) as “‘an imperfect or in- complete little flower.” This was simple work for one of “Floret’s” little chaps who had paid attention and understood the sub- ject, but it floored me. “Cosmos” is not to be mentioned alongside of “ray-floret,” for I immediately associated the former’ with the order of creation, especially at _ The Hebrew Cosmogony” of Professor Waring had only recently afforded me instructive and entertaining reading. Right here let me say that “Mater Fami- las” is, in my opinion, wrong in stating that “we must all confess that * * * our children are much better taught and have more knowledge than did we at the same age.” They may have a smattering of a greater number of subjects, “geolosy,” for instance, but so far as ‘my experience shows they are not so well grounded in the rudiments. I saw a geological expedition starting out yesterday from a public school and from the way one poor blue-looking creature was shivering I thought what a waste of time and what a risk to health. ‘The geology of the seventh or cignth grades would doubtless be good reading for the “higher criticism” and “higher educa- tion” classes, but what use it Is, or ever the average child is a ee PATER FAMILIAS. Studies. Slighting Fundamental ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: In regard to teaching children in the public schools, it seems to me that a mis- take is made in slighting the fundamental studies, and too much attention paid to ther things. < What is the use of cramming a small child's head full of geology, botany, anat- tomolot Tet us have more ge0staphy, arithmetic and grammar. REFORM. ———_— THREE FRIENDS LIBELED. Steamer’s Owners Charged With the Violation of the Neutrality Laws. The steamer Three Friends, which was seized at the mouth of the St. John’s river Saturday evening by the revenue cutter Boutwell, acting under orders from the ‘Treasury Department, through the collec- tor of the port of Jacksonville, Fla., was formally libeled and attached yesterday. The boat is now in charge of a deputy mar- shal. The libel Is now under section 5263 of the Revised Statutes, which provides against the fitting out of an armed vessel to cruise or to commit hostilities against the subjects or property of any foreign country with which the United States is at peace. Under the section the Three Friends is charged with being fitted out on May 23, 1896, as an armed cruiser, with intent to be employed by certain insur- gents, or other persons on the Island of Cuba, to cruise or to commit hostilities against subjects and property of the Island of Cuba, and against the King of Spain. The attachment is returnable beiore the United States court on the first Monday in December. The government’s informa- tion is said to have been secured through two persons who were passengers on the trip, and who afterward made their way back to New York, going thence to Wash- ington, where they divulged the facts to the Spanish minister. Ifthis be true, they will need a bodyguard en they come to Jacksonville to give testimony in the case. See te CASES WHERE DANDRUFF, SCALP ‘DISEASES, falling and grayness of the tair appemx, do not tole ike Hs henewers te tonic like Hall's KAISER TO THE RECRUITS. Their Duty to Set a Good Example by Their Obedien, The ceremony of swearing in the re- cruits for the garrisons of Berlin, Span- dau, Charlottenturg and Gross-Lichterfelde yesterday afternoon took place in front of the royal palace in Berlin. Emperor William delivered an oration, in the course of which he said: “You have just taken an oath upon the crucifix and the standard to me, your war lord, and to the fatherland. Just as the crown is naught without the altar the crucifix, so the army is nothing with- out the Christian religion. You are called as soldiers in my keeping to serve me in single-minded allegiance. Ever remember that you have received your weapons to protect the crown and the altar. In view of the gereral mistrust now prevailing it is especially your duty by obedience al- ways to set a good example. You are en- tering the army in the year we celebrate as the centenary of the birth of the great Emperor William. Never forget what he accomplished. We are duly bound to main- tain what he created. His eye rests upon the whole army. God grant that at the call of heave... we may appear worthily before him.” The London Daily Mail's Berlin dispatch says: The following words, held to indicate his persoral feelings in regard to the re- cent Brusewitz incident at Carlsruhe, oc- curred in Emperor William's speech: “Hold your uniform in honor. The man who insults your coat insults your king; who assaults the king's ccat assaults your chief war lor The Brusewitz incident, it will be re- membered, was that of a German army officer who ran a sword through the body of a workman who had inadvertently brushed against him in a cafe, and who declined to apologize on the ground that no insult was intended. ——_+ee SYSTEMATIC FOOD INSPECTOR, The Plan That San Francisco Ha: Just Adopted. San Francisco has something among the cities which makes her distinctive. She has four food inspection stations, planned after fashion of a custom house or the taxing stations of the old-walled towns of ¢con- tinental Europe—a clearing house through which the milk, meat and vegetables of the city must come. There are four of these stations, one at the ferries, one at 4th and Berry’ streets, one at Central ave- nue an@ Geary street and the fourth at Alabama and Army streets, which was formally opened Wednesday night. The credit for the original idea belongs to J. B. Reinstein, attorney for the board of health, and the carrying out of these plans hai been done by Milk Inspector Dockery. There was no formal dedication the other night. Only the big shed at Army and Alabama streets blazed with electricity against its whitewashed interior. Governor Budd dropped in formally, driven in a four- in-hand and swaddied with rugs, and the invited guests of the board of health sat down with the board to a substantial ban- juet. “NAM the gentlemen waited to sec the first wagons come into the depot. At midnight the big doors rumbled back, and the first wagon clattered in for inspection. After that there was a steady stream until al- most daylight, and Mr. Reinstein’s clever scheme has received its first practical ex- emplification. The plan cost the city just $10,000, The consumer, who buys directly from the producer, will know that every- thing he eats bears the city’s hall mark.