The Manchester public free libraries; a history and description, and guide to their contents and use . municipal buildings, a coffee tavern andchess and billiard rooms. The total cost, including thesite, was about iS^ 15,000, and towards this the WhitworthLegatees contributed ;!^8,50o. A procession was formedof the Committee in the Reception Hall, and they pro-ceeded to the main entrance, where a gold key waspresented to Mr. R. C. Christie, who formally opened thedoor. A meeting was then held in the Public Hall, whichwas well filled with an interested audience. The LordMayor (Sir Anthony Marsh
The Manchester public free libraries; a history and description, and guide to their contents and use . municipal buildings, a coffee tavern andchess and billiard rooms. The total cost, including thesite, was about iS^ 15,000, and towards this the WhitworthLegatees contributed ;!^8,50o. A procession was formedof the Committee in the Reception Hall, and they pro-ceeded to the main entrance, where a gold key waspresented to Mr. R. C. Christie, who formally opened thedoor. A meeting was then held in the Public Hall, whichwas well filled with an interested audience. The LordMayor (Sir Anthony Marshall) presided. There werealso present Mr. Christie and Mr. R. D. Darbishire(Legatees of Sir Joseph Whitworth), Councillor Southern(Chairman of the Libraries Committee), Alderman Hoy(Chairman of the Technical Instruction Committee),Alderman Crosfield, and Councillors James Robinson,James Saxon, and David Taylor (representatives of Open-shaw Ward), and other members of the Corporation ;Mr. C. W. Sutton (Chief Librarian), Rev. J. P. Airey, ;Rev. Robert Sutton, Rev. W. H. Cory Harris, Rev. Samuel. y^C THE OPENSHAIV BRANCH. 205 Taylor, Mr. J. W. Beaumont, Mr. James Brierley, ;Mr. William Charlton, ; Mr. Stanhope Perkins, P. Sharp, Mr. Arthur Painter, Mr. John Jee, Dr. Bailey,Mr. Alfred Stansfield, Mr. James Pollitt, Mr. J. (representin^r Messrs. Neill, the contractors), Saxon, Mr. H. B. Brown, Mr. J. Finlayson, andothers. The Lord Mayor said he felt highly honoured athaving been invited to preside at the meeting that after-noon. The occasion was one of which they might allfeel proud, and they might all rejoice in the great andnoble effort that had been made in erecting such amagnificent pile of buildings for the use of the citizensof the district. The Corporation, it would be admitted,had not been slow in using to the full the privileges thatwere given to them under the Free Libraries Act. Theyhad done so because they felt that free libraries
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