New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . the thirty-six years that the library has been open, twoperiodicals have been mutilated and a few pencil-marked. Nonehave been lost. Robert C. Ingraham was the first librarian and has officiatedin that capacity to the present time, a period of thirty-six of the success of the library is due to his zeal and library has grown under his care to be one of the best free pub-lic libraries in the country. He knows it thoroughly and his vast storeof information concerning its c
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . the thirty-six years that the library has been open, twoperiodicals have been mutilated and a few pencil-marked. Nonehave been lost. Robert C. Ingraham was the first librarian and has officiatedin that capacity to the present time, a period of thirty-six of the success of the library is due to his zeal and library has grown under his care to be one of the best free pub-lic libraries in the country. He knows it thoroughly and his vast storeof information concerning its contents is freely placed at the disposalof the seeker for knowledge or recreation among its volumes. Four. SEEING THE SIGHTS. assistants are required to do the work of the library. In the year1887, the latest for which statistics are available, forty-two thousandsix hundred fifty-seven volumes were taken out; this was a decreasefrom the number of deliveries of the preceding year, and it isaccounted for by the facts that for some months the library was closedfor repairs and alterations and that the delivery of works of fictionwas suspended for the purpose of preparing and printing a new cat-alogue. A number of trust funds have been established for the benefitof the library. The first was that of George Rowland, Jr., its amount,$1600, being the amount of his salary as mayor for two years. Thesecond constitutes the Charles W. Morgan fund and its amount is$1000. Then there is the Oliver Crocker fund of $1000, the JamesB. Congdon fund of $500, and the George O. Crocker fund of$10,000. The chief dependence of the trustees, however, for additionsto the library, is the bequest of Sylvia in Rowla
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