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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1899)
'OBIT' ' V espe- jvhlch and has ture room children to.thomselves , , " she s § Vown amazingly , ' /'corner ' as a sort of J out along with the "vagon to their vlsit- attYactlons of the city. Ubooks were first separated shelves in 1895 , " con- ' .Tobltt , "when they were given -lighted quadrangle fenced > " * exclusive use of children. The eadors were given the run of the They were allowed to delve Into on the shelves. In this way they often lured Into reading books of a literary or educational value which they would never have given a second glance In the catalogue , The walls were covered with sketches and reproductions of meritorious paintings and the place made homelike and attractive. "The growth of the circulating depart ment , however , this year made absolutely necessary more space and the children's juadranglo was appropriated. The Juvenile ooks wore moved Into the llttlo room to i left of the entrance , where the light i poor and the quarters narrow The 'uren looked upon the seizure with sur- Vo and displeasure , 'Wouldn't this make laugh ? ' exclaimed ono small patron iu , ? ust as ho viewed the new arrangement ' , they've moved us lntovftjpset. } ' j > > Thq children eon demonstrated tft tfihoy could nut bo tucked Into any nook wl < h Impunity , , Two hundred pf thenr swarmed about dally like bees and on Saturday a holiday crowd of 400 thronged the apart ment and overflowed Into the Corridors It was evident something had to bo done After consideration the library board do. elded to give the children the largo lecture room on the second floor , The lecture courses will be transferred to the third floor. " It lc of Clean IIiuiilN , Miss Tobltt Is greatly pleased with the experiment of giving the children free ac cess to the sh"tjive& Tlio department Is In charge of Mb's ' Oora Ilelmrod , who enforces strictly the nile of clean hands , The books are rarely soiled or damaged , the n'ttendant says , and during the lasri hrco jTni-s only twenty have disappeared under suspicion * ) circumstances. This la considered a re markable icc-yd , as In many libraries tiny * oral hiin-'red ' volumes are missing every ycari to. when the shelves arc not open to th'o I fc'c.Miss ' Helmrod says her email wards are orderly and enthusiastic and It T , LIBRARIAN OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY. bo popular when it is once generally under stood. "Another plan I hope we can adopt before long is the establishment of a book bindery In the basement. Enough work of that sort Is being done by the library to make Jt \vorth while. We have magazines and news papers constantly at the bindery and It ought to be an economical measure to do the work ourselvis. " Periodical IN ( I'liiiuliir. There arc now 111 periodicals and sixteen newspapers on the library's subscription list , with others constantly being added , so that the binding of the more Important ones amounts to a considerable Item. The pe riodicals which will bo taken for the first tlmo In 1000 nro the American Journal of Science , the American Naturalist , the Cath olic World , the Dublin , Heviow , the Journal Taker in an audience ? appointed as follows : "Resolved , That for t vasslng for the approach" tures the following dlv made : Poppleton and Ya nam street and to the alley and Allen to canvass Douglas * _ tbo alloy each way ; Shelton and Gaul canvass railroad , express and telegraph em are uSS ployes ; Brown and Swartzlander to canvass tlicro are r ! Dodge street and lawyers , physicians and The first Is the 'JJ TOi ( .uu'bl cities , the officials ; Henry and Reed to canvass Harnoy man who has gpt/lho bfttot .o'KJiIa rfatural , street and south " with the military officers. " inclinations ; audio's Just .llltci an jfly else ! A long list"of talent was brought to Omaha The second Is thd Boer farmer , . vrtKUfyctf not by these efforts and the library happily far from the towns , and lie , toohas toon' 1 launched In a room In the Simpson block , Improved by association with dvi on Fourteenth street , between Douglas and pie. The other variety Is the ono Dodge. The public was Invited to apply for first the 'farm' Boor , Now Year's cards on April 15 , 1872 , and the 2,283 him at the end of his sixty or volumes on the shelves wore at once In ac Journey to the 'nachtmaal' night meal hold tive demand. The library occupied the four times a. year. To this ho has traveled Simpson building for two years , when It gypsy fashion , and once there ho mixes ro was removed to better quarters In the Marshall llglon with seeing a bit of his 'brother Boer shall block on Dodge street , between Fcur- and getting ready for another three months' tconth and Fifteenth. Since that tlmo the hibernation. books have occupied a number of more or " less suitable repositories and are finally "You see them there , In their camp around lodged In the the great square , each family In Its tent threo-story buff brick structure formed by stretching a canvas 'eldu' from ture which will bo their permanent quarters The building Is substantially and artistically the roof of the wagoiu to the ground. They designed , proof hgalnst both fire and don't use horses or mules In traveling , but burglars. bullocks Instead , and these arc wandering To provide against the latter evil an cln- about cropping the grass. The scene Is berate automatic alarm system , connected quaint and the odor ovorpowerlntvTills rls with police headquarters , Is designed particularly the tlmo when the Boer < lees all lln market ularly to protect the Byron Reed room , ing , lays in all his provisions ami things for where the most valuable articles are stored use on the farm , ami It's the tlmd , too , when Several attempts of burglars have bo ° n his children are chrlHti'iicd or Ills ton or foiled through the operation rf the con daughter married. trivance On ono occasion the thief had "Mo goes primarily to paifake of the sawed a panel from the door In the hope of Loid'H supper. It Is a general season of evading the alarm and had only thrown the prayer and fasting , but usually closes with adjustment out of balance when ho molested a great shooting contest. That Is your articles on the shelves At another tlmo a Hour's gieatest delight Sociability ho baa burglar was obliged to make a hurried departure llttlo use for , nor for feasting or much mer parture from the second story window by a rymaking , but his holiday takes the shape of rope when detected by Vigilant watchman. a shooting match or a great 'fish' contest * t' , THE KNTRANCB IS .JMPOSINQ-.Photf ; by Heyn. nnl the ' NOU' Yc r Of 1UOO changes that It Js likely to ' ( bring of r ± ( 1)r0phC8y' " 'lt ' " ' > a toW , , of the oxlBtliiff conditions which tlio Kbvcrnmcnt will imvo to wlpo ' < t * ' ' VlU8 to th h'f ° " "ehtmnar Jwo days only tnat can bo cnl0i | ( f'OHNKH IN TIIK RKADII/fi / ROOM Photo by Iloyn holidays. ' These iiro 'Dlikniin'a day , ' December - comber 1C , the unnlversarytif a Boor victory over Dlngann , the Xiilu clluf. which Is al ways a tlmo for gathering If Boer veterans and llui great day of - ! , or Majuba day' on Kobnmry 17. At this tlmt all the veterans who can gel there HBHcmblt around the monument at Iwirdokraal , Ju outsldo the town of Kruguwlorp , and list"1 to BjiL'ooliiH by the president anu nome of/ ° other leadprs. AH for morrymliklng , oj'tho colobratlun of the day as wo BDOiild oMorve It thorolakijuiiu. Not oven H the ii etinK at thoTnofliiinent pnrllriiluru lively. The Doers nro poor fipeet'hmalef , an < | vflfBC uudltois , They are slow nnl | IoiiB-w nilPil on the platform and would/bo / Biirpr/sed If they nrouseU any onlhuBluBli. ' ' < Ypu know the liuor devours tlurold tcBla- " ' and hlmwelf tho. . . ini > nl"-3yltu avlUlty heliums . nntl-typo"bf the chlldr6 fls" that ho has a special dispensation to wipe out the Philistines and they , to him , are the blacks and the Britons. Ho la proud of his ancestry , too , and It IB an' uncommonly humble Boer who can't trace his family In a direct line for several centuries at leant. "