. Portland [Me.] its representative business men and its points of interest. ing chairs. The corridors of the building are paved in black 34 IORTLAND AND ITS JOIXTS OF INTEREST. and white tiles, and the building is finished in hard woods. Jhe stairs are cast iron, and the doors of hardwood. All the rooms are hard plastered and tinted, and the ash trimmings are very light and building is ligiited by the incandescent electric light, and pi|3ed for gas. The reading-room and stack-room are particularly attractive quarters. The stack-room is a room ofample proportions, and in it are se
. Portland [Me.] its representative business men and its points of interest. ing chairs. The corridors of the building are paved in black 34 IORTLAND AND ITS JOIXTS OF INTEREST. and white tiles, and the building is finished in hard woods. Jhe stairs are cast iron, and the doors of hardwood. All the rooms are hard plastered and tinted, and the ash trimmings are very light and building is ligiited by the incandescent electric light, and pi|3ed for gas. The reading-room and stack-room are particularly attractive quarters. The stack-room is a room ofample proportions, and in it are sets of shelves containing something over thirty thousand books. Theshelves are solid and substantial, and of finished white-wood. Large windows let in an abundance of lio-htin the daytime, while incandescent lights will make everything brilliant at night. On the ends of dieshelve tops, facing the centre of the room, are numerous busts, which are the property of the as they are, they look very picturesque, and add greatly to the beauty of the room. The books. CoNGKtbS ANl^ CuNCRESS StREFT. NEAR LIBRARY. are arranged upon the shelves according to the system used in thu Boston Circulating Library, and verylargely throughout the country, wiiich has been found by trial to be the best. The books are arranged forconvenience, those most often consulted being nearest the desk, and those less used farther away. In thecentre of the room are desks for the use of the clerks. The reading-room has been made very attractive by the many pictures which have been hung. Nostranger should leave the city without visiting this room, for at one side of the room has been placed PaulAkers beautiful and justly celebrated sculpture, The Dead Pearl Diver. It occupies a conspicuousplace, surrounded by a gilt railing, and set off by a maroon background, where its beauty is seen to goodadvantage. The room is large, airy and light; and here we can look at the latest pictorial papers, th
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