The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . conditions werecomplied with and land on the southerlyside of Livingston Avenue was purchasedand the present library building erectedand finished in 1903. The number of volumes in the PublicLibrary at the close of the last fiscal year was 26,181, and the number of volumescirculated during the year was 77, the year, the reading room wasused by 23,142 readers. In addition to the Free Public Librarythere are located in our City the RutgersCollege Library, which is housed in theVoorhees Library Building on HamiltonStree
The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . conditions werecomplied with and land on the southerlyside of Livingston Avenue was purchasedand the present library building erectedand finished in 1903. The number of volumes in the PublicLibrary at the close of the last fiscal year was 26,181, and the number of volumescirculated during the year was 77, the year, the reading room wasused by 23,142 readers. In addition to the Free Public Librarythere are located in our City the RutgersCollege Library, which is housed in theVoorhees Library Building on HamiltonStreet and which has 51,000 volumes,and the Gardner A. Sage Library, whichcontains 47,000 volumes; and the use ofthe books in both of these libraries is opento the citizens of New Brunswick. Thereare also about 4,500 volumes in the HighSchool Library and 2,500 in the Desh-ler Memorial Library, which is an addi-tion to the High School Library, both ofthese libraries being for the exclusive useof the scholars and teachers of the pub-lic schools. 64 LIBERTY HOSE LIBERTY Hose Company wasorganized on July 31, 1853,when Common Council passedan ordmance for the organiza-tion of a new hose Company. It is to-dayone of the best equipped companies con-nected with any fire department in the has a combination wagon equipped withhook and ladder outfit, chemical apparatusand a full supply of fire hose, which waspurchased in October, 1902. The Com-pany still has the old hose carriage whichwas drawn by hand. Under the present arrangement of itsfire alarm system Liberty Hose Companyanswers all box alarms and still still alarm work is the especial prideof the Company, and this part of its workis not generally known. A system of callbells and telephones enables a good work- ing crew to be summoned immediatelywhen a still call is sent in and the Com-pany responds immediately, and a greatmany still fires have thus been extinguishedbefore they gained any headway and alarge ex
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