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Vol. 1. MAY, 1910 No. 6 - --_- ._ ._-. - -- - PUBLISHED BY THIC report of Managing Editor of Special SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Libraries and discussion of the plan and Editorial Office, State Library. scope of Special Libraries. Indianapolis, Ind. For each of the first two sessions, the Applicntion pendlng for admission as second- discussion will be opened by a twenty min- class matter at the Postomce, Indianapol~s,Ind. ute address to be followed by a consider- able number of five minute talks in discus- Subscription...... $2.00 a year (10 numbers) Si0~Of the general theme and in descrip- Single copies...... -25 cents tion of the needs and methods of partic- The annual dues of the Special Libraries ular libraries. Association include a subscription to Special The importance of this meeting should be allparent to all librarians interested in Libraries. the development of co-operative methods. The special libraries association has ~ndi- President, JOHNCOTTON DANA Free Publlc Libmry, Newark. N. J cated by its activities the possibilities of Vice-president ROBERTH. WHITTEN a to-Operative plan through the publica- P~ibllcservice Cornrnlsslon, New yorlc Cjty. tion of Special Librarie~. Mrith the exper- Secretary-Treasurer - - - GET E. MARION ience gained by this new venture it will Arthur D. Little, Inc., 93 Broad St., , Mass be posslble to lay broad foundations for Executive Board ' I'RESIDBNT. VICB-PRISIDENT. the future work of the association. SECRETARY-T~EASUIIBR.GEORGE W. LEE. Stone The purpose of the assoc~ation being & Webster. Boston. HIRBFJRT0. BRIGFIAM, State Llbmry, Providence, R. I. primarily co-operative there is needed the Managing Editor or Speclnl Llbrarlcs : critical discussion necessary to make co- JOHNA. LAPP,Stnte Llbrary, Indianapolis. Tnd. o~erativeefforts most effective. The plan for a co-operative trades index CONTENTS and a public affairs index will receive The Useful Arts Department of the special attention. Many problems arise in this connection which will need to be Washington Public Llbrary. Joseph viewed from every angle of experience. L. Wheeler...... 33 The general approval which has been given Public Utilities References. G. W. to the plan for a trades index and for a Lee ...... 36 public affairs and newspaper index indi- Current References. John A. Lapp.. 38 cates that the special libraries association can do much to ~)romotethese desir~ble Boston Branch ...... 40 ends. -- THE tTSli;PUL ANPS 1)EPARTMENT OF The Special Libraries Association will meet in connection with the American THE \\'ASHINGTON PUJ351C: Library Association at Mackinac Island, LIBRARY June 30 to July G. Three sessions of the JosepIi I,. Wheeler. Assistanl Libmr~nn association will be held as follows: lhe inddslrial departnlents of the Prov- First Session. Discussion of library bul- idence, Newark and Pratt Institute libra- letins, publicity and methods of keeping a ries have been described in recent library special clientage informed concerning cur- periodiculs. The work of the Useful Arts rent literature of mterest. Department of the District of Columl~ia Second Session: Indexes to current lit- Public Library may be of similar mterest erature. The project for a trades index to readers of Special Libraries. This aims and a public affairs hdex will be especi- to be an efficient del~nrtmentof a typical ally discussed. public library, i. e., one which would be Third Session: Reports of committees of free and intimate service to every class and general busiiness of S. L. A. includ- of readers, and which would, so far as pos- ing electlon of officers. Reports will be sible, take active steps to interest them presented by Secretary-t'easurer and by in the library and its books. Chairmen of Committees on Public Utili- though this is a typical library. ties Libraries, Publ~cAffairs Llhrarles, In- Washington is an exceptional city and not surance Libraries, Technology Libraries, a typical one in its po~~ulation,as are NeviV- Sociology L~braries, Agricultural Libra- ark and Prov~dence. It is essent~allyres- ries, report of committee on Membershig, identin1 and professional and non-manu- 34 SPECIAL LIBRARIES facturing. ~n fact the idea of factories the seventh syatem. The book cases are and of grimy workmen speaking in strange five feet high, thus bringing all of the tongues is one which would be most dis- books within easy sight. The cases extend tasteful to real Washingtonians. In so far around the room, and an extra case runs as the library m.?ets readers of technical parallel to one wall with a passageway be- literature, it naturally finds an overbal- eween. There are no cross cases, no ance of school trained syecialists such as cases higher than the eyes, and no cases llatent examiners, chemists, testing engin- between the attendant and any person who eers, road, bridge, electrical, sallitary and niay pe in the room. While the shelf space other experts, nearly all of whom are Con- 1s limited, and a continual weeding out of nected with the federal government. This comparativelY useless books is necessary, class of people, numerically and proporti- the result is very satlgfactory to all. The onally large, is partially served by the trade catalogs are placed in the least ac- scores of department, bureau and labora- cessible corner of the room, where they tory libraries, which are well organized will not be unduly handled by the curious. and sugported. Technical handbooks, such as Kent's and Taking into account the very decidedly Supplee's, are on two shelves behind the non-industrial character Of the pollulation attendant's desk, provided with locked and the existence of the special Ilbraries, glass fronts. This is t2le only thing in the as well as the Library of Congress, it room in the way of restriction. As an nlight appear at flrst sight that a gublic exam~leof the freedom shown, it is in- library industrial department would be terestmg to relate that a drawing board, scarcely necessary iii the District. Yet the T square and triangle have been safely department may be called s typical one in left on a table in tlie room for three every sense. It has won a heavy trade months. froni the professional class just mentioned, The usual eight foot tables, with table owing in part to the fact that the govern- lights are provided for readers. A filing ment special libraries close at 4: 30. Labor cabinet stands near the attendant's desk. is well represented, especially in the print- I11 this are kept the 4011owing: Subject ing and building trades, rather than the index of trade catalogs; firm index of manufactures. The amount and quality trade catalogs; charging record for un- of reference work done for the manufac- bound nlagazinee; flle of indexes of un- turers and thelr employes In Newark and bound magazines; (It may be explained Providence corresponds to the worlr done here that owing to lack of money, only here for architects and builders, and for iit'teen of the 21G magazines are bound. employes of the Governnlent Printing Of- These bound magazines are not allowed fice, carpenters and workmen generally. to circulate) ; file of pamphlet bibliograph- There is also the class of general readers ies and speciaI readig lists, flle of clip- which exists in every city-the school pu- pings and pamphlets useful in reference pils and the wives and families of the gov- worlr, (110 regular clipping is done). ernment employes, store clerks, etc. The Much attention is pa~dto the selection department furnishes them literature on of books, with special emphasis on secur- the sciences, amateur mechanics, garden- ing books which people request, whether ihg, house planning, etc. new books are duplicnte copies of older The room is well located and arranged works. Such regular lists as Publishers to carry out its purpose. A11 of the worlc- Weekly, Van Nostrand's Record, and the ing departments of the librury (except the IJ, S. catalog of copyright entries, are regn- Children's) are on the main floor of the larly checked. Any one who is acquainted building, the issue desk facing the main with industrial literature knows that a entrance and very near it. The prevailing great number of valuable books are never tone of the library is one of cordiality and listed in the first two of these, and even helgfulness, and the arrangement of rooms the regular copyright catalog falls to in- and furniture is meant to aid this. The clude everything. The monthly catalog readers have access to every part of the of pa~nphletco~yrights is tlie most valn- 'Ilseful Arts room. With a total linear able aid 111 running down small miscella- shelf space of 816 feet it is necessary to neous material, which often proves indis- keep the books selected according to their pens~bleto renders. The standards appli- usetuliiess, and old or foreign publications, ed to books on general literature can1101 seldom called for, are placed in the stacks. be applied to technical books, especially A small room adjoining the Useful Arts that of publisher's name. A book with a Room contains the overflow of recent un- queer title, brought forth by an unheard bound magazines-until the end of the of publieher and sold for fifty cents, is as Year. The room contalns about 7,000 worthy of notice as a more pretentious books, arranged by the Expansive classifi- work published by Macmillan or Wlley. cation. Those in classes R, S and T have All of the most essential books are not pub- recently been changed from the sixth to lished, as the best fictlon is, by a few stand- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ard houses. The trade and engineering is saved the attendants by the charging magazines are examined for book notices and return of books at the main issue and reviews. The importance of such care- desk, which every person has to paas on ful notes as appear in the Engineering his way in and 0Ut of the building. News, has been emphasized by library The circulation of unbound magazines workers. Just as much time js given here has been given special attention, as ~t has to the advertisements and book columns met with apllreciation and seems very use- of the minor trade papers, such as Amer- ful. From January to April, 4,237 cir- ican Blacksmith, Wood-worker, etc. culated. The current Ales of magazines The foregoing shows the nleans of keep On useful arts, about 250, %re kept in the ing informed on new publications. The room. Pamphlet boxes are laid flat upon placing of orders depends almost entirely the book cases all around the room; in on demand, actual or probable. In othw these all except the current issues are plac- words the books bought are the ones which ed. The current numbers are placed in the publlc call for, and ,lot ones which Johnson binders and laid on the pamphlet merely theoretically the library should boxes. A reader nlay borrow for one week have. The following instance illustrates as many loose numbers from the boxes as thls: A pamphlet was recently issued at he wishes, and in addition to his regular $1.00 entitled "The Philo System of Poul- boolrs. The magazines are charged and try Culture." A copy was purchased as returned in the room, on special multi- soon as advertised. The demand was im- graphed forms. Certain oncs are restrict- mediate and heavy, and postal card re- ed as to the number which a person may serves were filed by readers. Another borrow. Such magazines as Country Life copy was bought, but six reserves were on in America and Scientific American are file. After waiting two nlonlhs the de- circulated freely only when duglicatee are mand was almost as insistent, and two received as gifts. more cogies were bought The booklet was Instances illustrating the kind of work one of scarcely 100 pages, with pager done might he glven in abundance, but covers, and issued by the author. The they are of much the same nature as those library failed to buy several expensive im- described in the accounts of other indus- imported technical books, published by trial departments. Elvery eftort is made T,ongmans, Griffin and the other standard to give readers satisfaction before they English flrms. By buying only one copy leave the building. The attendants are of the poultry book, a $3.00 work of per- all young men with some acquaintance manent value could have been bought. The wlth technical subjects. Their custom is, library wus better justlfled in not disap- when a reader is seen to be in need of pointing thirty readers of poultry books help, to ask if they call be of assistance. rather than to glace on its shelves a work The common complaint, that a book is which might not be called for twice in a "out,," is often the cause for an investiga- year l.ion ae to just what is the reason that a In its work wlth readers, the usual reader npglies in vain several times for it. methods are used. The indexes, biblio- In reference work, when the exact infor- graphies and specla1 lists are at hand for mation desired is not obtained at the mo- reference. The Technical Press Index, the ment, further search is made after the flrst volume of which appeared in Novem- reader has gone. To cover this individual ber, is the most valuable tool of all, partly work in a thorough manner, and to keel) on account of the self Index which is print- track of it until the reader has finally ed at the back. The flve year volunie of been satisfled, n. n~ultigraphed"plnk slip" the Engineering Index, 1900-1906, with is nsecl as follows: its alphabetic subject arrangement is also Look further for (subject or book) , Attd used continually. The department hae not Date had a card catalog as yet, but expects to Inventory have one nregared before the next season. Due In lieu of this there is a rough card index Date wanted Letter sent Reserved of the subjects in the room, showing thelr' Has seen Not in Ble classification. The International Library Bindery of Technology has been analyzed on cards r,ost which are filed with the class index cards. Readers narne Address The current issues of the lcngineering In- Ordered dex are not cut ug and mounted on cards 111 the ndverttsing of the del~artment, as they are in some libraries, but are used the multigraph plays an ln~imtant1)art in their monthly form. 'rhe only expense is for the time and Paper. The circulation is heavy and has increas- In an hour the operator Can set llP, run, od rapidly ever since the opening of the and take down the type for five hundred room. From January 1 to May 1, 10,723 copies of a one page list, a circular letter books were issued. Much tlme and labor or postal earl; ~~utice.These lists and SPECIAL LIBRARIES

notices are sent out to all auprogriate ad- way of uniform practice; public account- dresses that are obtained. list On arts ants sh~uldstudy values. i3. G. Stockwell, and crafts was distributed at a lecture on Jrnl. of Accountancy-1-1 0-18 9-2 21). that subject held in the library lecture Rntrs, Costs, I'rices, Vatllmtion, letc. hall ~i~t~automobiles and aeronaut- Sliding Scnle. Regulation of prices ics were distributed at a" mtornoblle show. and rates of dividend for gas companies. ~t a recent exhibit of office appliallces and A. E. Forstall, Am. Gas Inst, 10-20-09.- methods ill the Treasury Ilepartment, the Am. Gas Lt. Jrn1.-1-24-10-15 6-l-913. n1ultigral)ll co~npanyran off a circular let- l'dcc of 13lectdcity. An analysis of ter which had been prepared at the library costs and ~~rices,with especial reterence lo descrlbl~lgthe business'boolrs in the library. the Boslon Edlson Co. R. 9. Hale (N. E. This served to advertise the multigmph L. A., N. E. Section, 3-1 0-E1'1 Review- and bring the Iil~raryto the attention of 4-23-1 0-8 44-2-111. the right class 01 yeollle, lnnlly of whom Ihtcs of the Hypothetical El. Company; \\-\.ere not cart1 holders. News items, we- the 11rol)er methods of arriving at rates of pmed at the library, t'recluelltly appear in an el. It, and l)r co. W. J. Hagenah of the local papers, all of wh~chare friendly Wis. It. R. Commsn. El'l Woild-2-10-10 to the library. The Trad9s Un~on~st,a -3 58-0-41). local weekly, printed a number of spec- IhSitisl~ Crntn~l-Station Rntcs. Flat ial lists and an editorlnl. During the win- rates mil nlasimurn demand system, sliding ter e~ghtof the larger labor unions were scale rates, two-rate system, contract sys- visited, and pr~ntedcirculars bearing the unioii label were distributed. These circu- tem F. 1-1. Dav~s,El'l. World, 3-1 0-7 0- 62 8-1-7 11, lars were also given out by several busi- ness Arm in the city through their pay C!c.t~t~.ol-St:~tion-V:~luatio~li111cl Rnte envelopes Every one of these advertising ~i.Important decision by Wis. efforts has had result in increased circula- Commsn.; "going value," late of re- tion and in b~inginggermnnent readers and turn; schcdule of Itg rates; decision in ambitious workmen to the library. One case of State Journal Pr~ntmgCo, vs Mad- of the. labor unions organized a study ison Gas & El. Co. El'l World, 3-17-10- class wh~ch met on Monday evenings G75-1-21). for several months, in one of the library Valnntio~lsof public service corporatiolls; study club rooms. using the boolts on their rates; cal)~tal~xation,elc. :lbs W. H. Wil- craft. So far the relations between the liams (Am Econ. Assn. D Am. Pol. $(,I. library and the unlons have been very cor- Assn. 12-30-09). El. Ry. Jrnl., 14-1 0-- dial, and of practical helpfulness to bolh 7G-21). part~es. 0l'l'ic.inl Va~lnationof I'riwtc. I'laopc~-ty. In the foregoing account, the aims ancl Vt~rious measures oY valur, "irrevocable n~ethodsin wh~ch this del)artment differs costs; " the original cost. Abs. BredS;c fronl others, or whicli it emyhnsizes more W. Whitridge (Am. Econonl~cAssn., 1)ec. lully, have been brought out. '09 ) El. Ry. *JrnI.-1-15-10-110-2- 51). I'I'IIIITC' I'T~IJLTIHHRI~~PIGRENCICS The 'tl'arch Qncstio~~.Presenl corldition of Amer St. and interurban Rys.; educat- (: \V. Idbe, I,I~II-;~.I.I~Ston(, ;1ntl \Veb.stc~r, ing the ~iublic, benefits confer~.ed by el. rhflll m.in Public T'tillties C'onimlltre rys. W. J Clark, (A~ner.St, and inter- urban Ry Assn., Jan. 10.) El. Ry. 2-1 2-1 0 --279---1-61).; El. Tractn. Weelrlv, 2-1 2- 1 O--l7l-l-311. Valn:~tionof \\'ntcar 180wrv. Case of B,?- 'I'l~c'P~wt~i~et~l of 1)~~)1w~inii011. Diverge11 loit CVater, Gas & El. Co. before \\'IS H li. i'ulings of 1nterst.ate Commerce Commsn., Comnin. Egrg Hecoril-"5-10-1 63-13. S. Y. 6: \\'is. R. K. Commsns, and Rurcau -41). of lnterllnl revenue; methods of charging Thc I~;\vtlttt~tiot~ol' \Vntt3ta Kightr;. Method returns into property from income, etc. F. of determining the value of n water right 1:. 1:. I~ord(Amer. St. 6c Interul*ban Ry. Assn., and its npl)licntion to a tylical case Ar- .Jn. I'Jln.) El. Iiv. .Trni., 2-12-1 0-384 thur Hnlsteacl, ICgrg. Hrcorrl-2-213-lo-- --:; 11 2 l5-.1---6[). I)tq~twli~tiot~.Egrp. nsl)ect; 1)llysicnl rle- I ntc.~.t~~l):i11 Mny ('oll(.c5t lhc'i hh l~'i~ty~ill (.:I) : obsolescence, etc ; cstimate 01 "lil'e" Scw Yo~~k.N. Y. Pub. Serv. Commsn., 2nd ol niarhinery and i~lant;acctg. asl)ect, \\'. Thst , susltrins the legality of the I)ract~cct A. .I. O'hlenra. Electrician-4-8-1 0-1 07 2 of internrban com])anies in collecting TI- --')-- 4 .I 1). cent excess I are f r'om passengers not hold- Ikq)twildio~l. Renewal and replacen~eat ing tickets, but requires an extension of trcrts. I concl'd. I ~wioustheories; lack of the ti~ne1m1t I'or redeeming excess Tare u~~lrorniityin repts of rrs. st, rye. and recei1)ts. El. Tract. \\%eklv. 2-5-1 n-1.15 III~c.oq)llt..: I)rart~citldiffic~lltir~s ill the - I- I (IM) SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Vnluation of El. By. Property. Work utilities commission acts. Five states of valuation; methods of determining nh~s- have. thus far Provided for the control of ical and intangible values. H. R, Badger, ~ubllcService corporations by state com- El. Tractn. Weekly-2-1 9-10--19 7-3p. missions. Massachusetts, New York and Going Value. As an element in the ap- Wisconsin have now passed the experimen- praisal of Pub. utility properties; compar- tal Stage in such regulation. Bills for sim- ison of Wisconsin Commsn. theory as ilar commiseions have been introduced in shown in its rulings, and that of Mr. John lmcticall~every state of importance in Alvord advanced in "Notes on going value the Ullion but thus far have failed of pas- and methods of its computation'' before sage. A bill was introduced in Congress Am. Water Works Assn. Wnl. E. Bryan by Senator LaFollettd for a ~ublicutili- (Egrs. Club of St. Louis, Oct. '09.) Jrnl. ties commission for the district of Colum- of Ely. Pr. & Gas-1-8-10-31-4-7p. bia in 1908. The Pub. Scrvicc Corpn. A gen. dis. of ltapiil Transit--~oston. Special report rate regulatiop, the corgn's relations with of the Board of Railroad Commissioners the public, delweciatinn. etr. C. TA ~oryto the State Senate on the advisability of and dls. (A. I. E. E.,San Francisco sec- constructing additional subways, tunnels tion.) #Jrnl, of Ely. Pr. & Gas-3-26-10- and elevated structures in the city of Bos- 2 72-1 0-31). ton. 34 Pages. Senate Document No. 28. Going Vnlue and Good Will. Bxtracts 1910. from olmion of the Wis. Utilities Commsn. in determining the compensation to be Fmllclli~e-Street Railway-Cleveland. paid by the village of Cashton for the prop- An ordinance granting a renewal of the erty of the Cashton Lt. & Pr. Co.-Pub. street railway grants of the Cleveland Service-2-10-63-3-9p. Railway Company, Axing the terms and li~tteRegulution. Senator Bailey an cost conditions of such renewal grants, chang- of service vs value of service in rate regala- ing the rates of fare, regulating transfers tion; a reasonable rate of return must and terminating existing grants. Febru- mean olie wllich affords the ry. a just ary 19, 1910. Ordinance No. 16238a. 86 compensation for Its service. Ry. Age pages. Published by the city. Gazette-2-25-10-388-111, (Ed.) Street Railwi~ys-District of Columbia. A 'l'nlk on Rates. A strtement to the Regulations for the operation and equip- gublic. W. 17. Davldson. Selling Ely.- ment of street railway cars in the District 3-10-97-2-53. of Columbia adopted by the Interstate 1W)lic Servicn Com~nissionsnntl Corpornte Commerce Commission , September 15, Comtrol 1909,asamendeduptoMarch8,1910. 7 pages. Pub. Scrvice Colnn~sns. R. R. Commsna. Street RailwnyscDistrict of Columbln. especially the Mass. Commsn; legislation Secopd Annual Report of the Interstate In Mass.;effect of obtaining charters eas- Cotnlllerce Commission on the street rail- ily; issuing securities; flnancial conditions roads in the District of Columbia. 1909. of Mass El. Rys. P. F. Sullivan, (Amer. 10 pages. Contains the report of the St. & Interurban Ry. Assn., Jan. 1910.) Distrjct Electric Railway Comm18sion to El. Ry. .Jrnl.-2-12-10-280-2-311.; Ell. the Interstate Conmerce Commission. Tractn. Weekly-2-12-10-168-2-1p. Public Utilities-3Inryln1id. Public Ser- Proposed Utilities Commvn in Maryland; vice Coinmiss~onLaw passed by the Gen- some objections to the bill. El. Ry. Jrnl. eral Assembly of Naryland, 1910, 57 -319-10-482-1-1~. New Jersey Public Utility Commsn. Lnw. pages. Published by the State Test of the bill; comparison of important RJlronrls - %tnssuchusetts. Forty-first provlslons of N. Y. & N. J. Commsn, laws .\nnual Report of the Railroad Commia- El. Ry. Jrnl., 4-2-1 0-62 G--2-7 p.-5 61 sloners for the year 1909. 387 pages. -0-91). (Ed.) )I1t.n~~chise-Ne'cvv York City. Compila- Legislntion for Control of Corpns. Leg- tion of laws and ordinances enacted from islntion in various states; lnclr of uniform- January 1, 1887 to January 1, 1908, re- ity; British laws. J. E. Sterrett( Nat'l lating to railroads and other corporations, Civic Federation Cong. on uniform legisla- including ferries, in the citf of New York tion. ) .Trnl, of Account~tncy--2-10-2'11 1908. 37 4 and 74 pages. Coml~iledand -6-511. ,~ublished by the Corporation Counsel or St~~llresand I'ublic Utilities. A remedy ; , 1909. legislation for reve en ti on of strikes; l)ow- Gl-n(le Crossings. Report on grade cross- ers of .Pub, service conlmuns. W. G. Mer- illgs in New York City and the need of ritt. Outlook-1-8-10-85-51). change in the grade crossing law. Report Current Notes nnd I[icferei~ccs submitted by Commissioller Bassett to The Maryland and New Jersey legisla- New York public Service Commission for tures at the recent sesslons passed public rhe Frst District. 35 Pages. 1910. 38 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Tclepllo~le-Pennsylrnnin. Opinion of Apr. 4, 1910, 30 S. C. R. 493, as not of- Pennsylvania Railroad Commission in the fending "due process of law" or "deny- matter of the complaint of Consolidated ing the equal protection of the laws." Telephone Companies of Pennsylvania I)runke~iness. Drunkenness in Massachu- against Slate Belt and Bell Telephone Com- setts, conditions and remedios. Special l~nuies. 1910. 4 pages. Case No. 246. report of the board of trustees of the Fox- Published by Pennsylvania State Railroad borough state hospital to the legislature. Commission. Relates to requirement of Boston, 1910. 70 gages. This report was 11hysical connection. made in accordance with a resolve of the legislature of 1909. Contains bibliography OURREXT REFERENCES of inebriety John A. Lnnv, Indiana State Llbl-my, Cha~r- Fire Marshnlls. Digest 3f the laws of mall Leg~bli~ti~cnnd Munlci~al Ret- the state, prepared by the legislative ref- erenca Librnrles Committee. erence department of Indiana. Tabula- Ihkeries. The Wisconsin sanitary bak- tion.. Typewritten copies. Apr. 1910. ery law of 1903 as amended in 1907 gro- IBsemption From Tnxntion. Report of hibiting bakeries in basements more than the tax conlmission ot hf~ssachusetts on flve feet below the surface, was upheld by the ePeects of the exemption from taxation the IVisconsin Supreme Court as a health of ~ro]~ertyof educational and public in- regulation in Benz vs. Kremer. 126 N. W. stitutions. Boston 1910. 68 pages Con- 99, Feb. 22, 1910. Dissenting opinion by siders the subject of reimbursement of one justice. cit~esand towns in which such property ISl~rcklisting. The Texas blacklisting is located. statute Acts 30th Leg. ch. 67, requiring Incl~st~iinlEclucution. Report of the service letters to be given to discharged Committee of ten of the Natlonal Society employees showing true Teasons for his dis- for the Promotion of Industrial Education charge,-. held constitutional in ever nartic- on the relation of industrial training to ular. St L. and S. W. Ry. Co. vs. ~ixon, the general system of education In the 126 S. W. 338. United. States, New York, 1910. 16 pages. Child Labor. Summary of the laws in Indr~striirl Poisons. A summary and force in the U. S. in 1910. Prepared by list of industrial poisons prepared for the Miss Laura Scott. Published by the Amer- international association for labor legisla- ican Association for Labor Legislation. tion. Published in Bureau of Labor bulle- John B. Andrews, Executive Secretary, tin, No. 86, Washington, Jan. 1910. 21 Madison, Wis., 1910. 139 pages. pages. Cold Storage. Use oi cold storage. Data Inehrintrs. The report of the Inspec- on cold storage and cold storage products tion under the inebriate acts of 1579 to by Dr. H. W. Wiley. Washington, April, 1900 for the year 1908. Parlimentary pa- 1910. 23 pages. Senate Doc. No. 486. per, 1910. 43 pages. Price 434 d. This Commission Governnlent. Report of the rel~ortcovers the work done in this im- Sub-committee of the Illinois Legislature portant field. The agitation of the subject appointed to investigate the operation of ~nebriateasylums In this country nlakes of the commission form of city government the experience of England ~alnable. The in Galveston, Honston and Dallas. Spring- report of the departmental committee in Id,I 109 11 pages. This commit- 1908 on the operation of the law relating tee visited the cities in question. Report to inebriates is especially vnluable. This summarizes the charters and workings report contains 39 pages Price 4% d. Cost of Living. Report of special com- Minutes of evidence and appendices are mittee of the Mass. legislature appointed published separately. hiarch 9th to investigate the increased cost Insunu~cc. Law placing costs ot suits of living with special reference to the tar- in contested claim cases on the insurance iff. House document, Boston, May 1910. company, if the company loses, was held This document which will contain over 700 inval~din Colo. as discriminating in favor pages exonerates the tariff and trusts from of a plaintiff. Pac. Mut, lJfe Ins. Co. vs. the blame for high prices. Too much gold, Van Fleet, 107 Pac. Rep. 1087 waste, extravagance and advanced stand- -- , The i'eport of the insurance ards cited as causes. department of for 1909, reviews Cowts-Inferior. Report of the Page fire insurance rates, loss ratio in large commission in New York appointed to in- cities, proper building laws, and state rale quire into courts of inferior criminal iuris- making The superintendent declares in diction in cities of the flrst clase. Albany, favor of control or review of fire rates. 1910. Reviewed fully in the Survey, Apr. J~isnranec,Casualty. Uniform law for 30, 1910. standard provisions in accidznt and health 1)runimers. Arkansas law grohibit- insurance prepared by the Natlonal asso- ing drummers for certain kinds of business ciation of insurance commissioners, has from soliciting business on railway trains been presented in most of the states hold- was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, i~lgsessions this year. The ~irepnred bill SPECIAL LIBRARIES provides for a review of the superintend- ~?aygrounds,especially relating to super- ents' opinions by the courts. An attempt v1slon. to cut this provision out of the bill in N. Y. Plnn~be~s.An ordinance of the city of failed. Atlanta, Georgia, requiring exaplinatlon Ji~vcliileConrt. Report of the first di- and license of plumbers declared unconsti- vision of the c~tyof New York, Court of tutional Mar. 3, 1910, 67 S. E. 390. Dis- special session, 1909. Contains statistics criminates by pernlitting a firm or corpo- of cases that have come before the court ration to engage in plumbing if one mem- and u, discussion of methods ot dealmg ber is licensed while individuals are not. with juven~ledelinquency. Prhnry Elections. The Wisconsin pri- Lal1or Ilaws. Review of labor legisla- mary election law was upheld by the state tion for 1908-1909. Bulletin of the U. S. su1)reme court in the case of State vs. bureau of labor, Nov. 1909. 41 gages. Fear, 125 N. W. 7. Separate concur- This number also contains the test of all ring opinion by Justice Marshall. In this l~borlaws ~)assedin the U. S. since ,Jan. case the right to submit a law to a referen- lst, 1908. 320 pages. This bulletin sup- dum is examined and upheld. ~~lementsthe 22nd annual report of the P1.illlnlmyElectio~is. The Tenn. primary bureau of lnbor and brings the labor laws election law of 1909 (L.1909 C. 102) was down to 1910. declared unconstitutional by the Tenn. Su- I~iqiro~~-lnji~i~rtio~ls.Law of Iowa pro- weme Court, Beb. 26, 1910, 125 S. W.. viding for an injunction agiunst the sale of 103G. Discriminates in placing some judic- liquor and preventing v~olnttons by con- ial omcers under the law and others not. tempt proceedings held val~d by Iowa Imposes fees upon candidates. Part of the Supreme Court. Brown vs. Bennett and law not covered by the title. Powers, 125 hT. W. 833. l'robntion. Report of the depart~nental Miii~ic~il)l~lO\\nci0ship. lieturus of the committee on the probation of offenders County council, the corl)oratlon of act of 1903. Minutes or evidence and ap- 1,ondon and the ~rletro])olitancouncils, on ~Iendices. Parli~nentarypaper. 1910, 3 2 6 municipal trading. Part IV showing all pages. Price 1s Id. facts ronnectcd with these undertakings. I

A. Beard. The Short Ballot and Politics political economy, municipal, state and without politicians by Richard A. Childs. national statistics, reports ol' con~missions, All reprints by the Short Ballot Organlza- and other reference works; to the Patent tion, 383 Fourth Ave., N. Y. This organ- Room, with its collection of upwards of ization is distributing moch educational 10,000 volumes, rich also in German and material on the subject of the simplifica- Eng11sh patents, with a goodly number tion of the ballot of French; to the l~arlia~nentarypapers Tax Commipsionu. Permanent state tax of Great Brit~an;to the Bates Hall general commissions. A comparative digest of the reference collection of soino 10,000 vol- laws of the states providing for permanent umes, which is most handy for the gen- tax commissions. Prepared by S. Johnson, eral reader. He spoke of the broad legislative reference librarian. Bismark, N. svirit in which the Library is conducted D., Apr. 1910. 96 pages. and the service that it gives in answering Taxation-Personal Pmp~ty. The abo- inquiries from all parts of the world. It lition of the personal property tax was ad- is obvious that the Boston Branch will vocated by Mayor Gaynor of N. Y. Bills are look to this Library as a chief factor in pending to that end in the legislature. The co-operation. Nerchants Association Committee on Mr. Lane, Librarian of the Harvard flnance and taxation made a report in favor University Library, told of its many of repeal. Proceedings Apr. 1910, 4 pages. speclal collections. Obviously in history, The Tax Refor~nAssociation of N. Y., 54 art and science we can imagine its wealth, Pine St. has also issued several leaflets in but less obviously would ono think of its favor of repeal. One of the strongest ar- special collections of city maps, of guments in favor of abolition of the tax chamber of colnlnerce reports, building is the report of the Mayor'8 advisory com- laws, state railroad commission reports, mission issued in 1906. and of college catalogues. Wder conservation. Laws of water con- Dr. Bigelow, Librarian of the Massa- servation and use. W. R. King. . Address chusetts Institute of Technology, said before the state bar association of Oregon, thut Ule library system there Is entirely Sov. 17, 1908. Office of the state engin- a collection of special libraries. Each eer, Salem. Conservation nlethods dis- has ~tsown index, while the so-called cussed and suggestions for legislation General Library (specializing in general made. literature and English works) has an in- Water Supplics. The public water suy- dex to thein all. The Institute in its plies of Indiana, by Chas. Brossman, Sec. thirteen departments receives some 0 0 0 Ind. Engineer~ngSoc., Indianapolis. Pub- different periodicals, which are, perhaps, lished in the Public Officials Magazine, its strongest feature. Libraries on chem Indianal~olis, Apr 1910. 5 pages with istry, physics, electrical engineering, maps showi~igpublic water supplies of the naval architecture, mechanical and civil state. engineering, mining and metallurgy, bi- Women-Hours of Lnbor. The Illinois ology, etc., go to make up Ilie group. law limiting the hours of labor of women One of the early problems of the Boston to ten hours was upheld 11y the supreme Branch should be to take account of thesc court of that state,. following generally three great libraries and of the lesser the Oregon case decided oy the supreme ones of the vic~nity,as well as the small court of the U. S., Feb. 24, 1908. collections of different offices, and issue a report upon the facilities that they offer BOSTON BRANCH. to the special interests of the members The second meeting, looking to the ot this Association. formal organization of the noston Branch, The next nleeting of the Boston Ri'anch was held on Tuesday, April 12th, at 4 will probably be in Jane, ehc~tlyl~revious o'clock, at the Boston Pul~lic Library. to the annual meeting of the Association This meeting was devoted especially to nt Mackinac. bringing ont the facilities offered by the ---- Boston Public Library, thi? Harvard Col- HPWCIAL TJTHRAR~NSI)IRW(IFORY. lege Librar~es, and the Libraries of the Corrections and additions to the Massachusetts Institute ~f Technology, special libraries directory pul~lishedin the suggesting some of the best available re- April issue will be made from time lo sources in Boston for gettillg at inforlna t~me. The secretary and editor urgently tton. The American l~ublicis well aware request information concerning such mis- that the Boston Public Library is a takes or omissions pioneer among libraries in this country. The library of the Western Society qf nnA that it contains a wealth of special Engineers, 173 5 Monadnock Block, Clii- collections. Mr. Wadlln, the Librarian, cago, Ill., should be listad as an enti- called attention to the Statistical Uepart- neering library instead or mnnicigal, J. inent wtth its open shelves of books on H. Warder, Librarian.

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