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PUBLISHED BY THE magazines, as there has for the engineer. SPECIAL LIBRARIES AS SO CIATION The wliole fleld Of artisan's trade literature Monthly except July and August has hardly been entered by specialists. The Editorial and Publlcntlon Oflice, Stnte Librnry, proposed Trades Index will open a new op- Indinnagolls, Ind. portunity, and one which will meet with Subscriptions, Oa Broad street, Boston, hfnss. fully as great appreciation and result as Entered at the Postoface at Indlanapolls, Ind., that of. the engineering work. as second-class mnttcr. The objectiou to a sliding scale subscrip- Subscription. ...$2.00 a year (10 numbers) tion is purely an academic one, justifled Single copies .26 cents neither by theory nor practice. Each 11...... brary pays for the service it uses, and not President ...... Robert 13. Whltten for what it may receive but does not use. Public Servlce Commission, New Pork Clty. The slidiig scale is already in use success- Vice-Presldent ...... Herbert 0. Brighnm fully. The fact that any co-operative Rhode Island State Library. inter-library publication would be well nigh Secretary-Trensurer ...... GUY E. Mnrion Library, Arthur D. Llttlc, Iuc., 93 Brotrd St impossible, makes it the more welcome news Boston. Mass. that the index is to be placed on a com- EXECUTIVD BOARD mercial basis. President, Vice-President, Secretary-Trensulrer, George W. Lee, Stone & Webster, Boston; W. THE STORY OF THE MADE IN NEWARK P Cutter, kglneerlng Socfetles, N. Y. MATERIAL. Managlng Editor of Speclnl Librnries :-John A. Lapp, Stnte Librnry, Indiannpolis, Ind. John Cotton Dana, Librarian. Rend nt the meeting of the Sgecial Librttries The Trades Index ...... 93 Ausocintlon, Sepl. 27, 1911. The Story of the Made In Newark ~eteri;~...... 93 The Office Llbrary and Statletical Bureau of A collection of trade catalogues in a libra- Financial Institutions...... 96 ry is no1 a new idea. There are several Publlc Utllltles Reference...... 101 libraries in the United States besides ours Notes...... 106 Munlcl~alYearbook ...... I07 which have collections of this sort. ------.-- ...- - - .- Naturally one would oxgect to find in- THE TRADES INDEX. cluded in such a collection the catalogues Joseph L. Wheeler. of the manuPacturers of the town in which the library is located. Newark has been less The report of the committee on a Trades successful with its own business men than Index offers much of suggestion as to the with manufactures all over the United future possibilities in one branch of indus- States. trial library work. Public llbraries have Some months ago the library took decis- done a good deal of talking on the subject ive steps to get together a collection of the of worlc with mechanics and busmess men, cntalogues, also lists or businsss cards, of but so far have accomplished little emcient the most imporlant trades in the city. It reference work with this class of readers, called for the expert advice of an advertis- compared, for instance, with what has been ing man, and got him to write the letters done with engineers. In reference worlc the which he thought would make the strongest line of least resistance has been followed. appeal and bring results. Finding the Engineering Index and other The flrst stey in the process was to indexes and bibliogi*aphies of engineering chcclr the business directory eliminating subjects at hand, libraries have naturally what the Census Ofice calls the "hand taken advantage of them and endeavored to trades", bakers, dress-makers, tallors, car- answer the demands of engineers. This has penters, plumbers and many others. The met with more success in quantity than directory was checked with great care, and quality, for few public libraries have the 2070 letters were sent out on June 12, 1911. expert staff to tender the kind of service The first letter read as follows: which specialists get at a special library. The woik which public (libraries have Gentlemen :- done with artisans and mechanics has been Your cntnlogs, prlcc lists nnd other printed mntter are needed by the Librnrg to complete made capital of in annual reports and to our flle of Busincss Liternture of h'ewttrk Alan- get appropriations from city councils. It ufacturers at the Business Btanch, 18 Cllnton has been largely the mere purchase and cir- Street. If you wlll mail them to us It w~llbe n fnvor culation of books. There has been nothing to us, and will help to mnke vnlonble nn im- in the way of an index to the artisan's portnnt new department of tbe Llbrnry ; nnd we SPECIAL LIBRARIES

know from the thousnnds of calls on the 1,lbrnry All answers to the circular letters are for iniormatlon, that you jWll dcnve Ilencfii acknowledged Whenever a manufacturer from I~nvlngprlce Ilsts and desrrlptlo~~aof your lines on file wlth us. sends a letter with his calalogi~e, an ac- A carefully nrrangcd double Indes Is kept, by Icnowledgement, No. 1, is sent which read nnmes of hrms nnrl by arllcles manafnctured, as follows: so that lnformntiorl nbout yon ~rnd your pro- ducls wlll be instnulls nvnllnble, cltller for per- Gentlemen :-A sonal inipectlon by I~iqulrera, or for our use in Thtmlc yo11 scrr m11cl1 for your printcd mntter answering lellcr nntl te1el)hone inilulr~es. Tour for our "1111tle lu h'ewnrlc" Blle nncl Indes, and cntnlor nt the llb~nrywlll be worth ten tlmev for your courtcsy iu wrlting us. as mlch ns nuy other copy goo serld out. If you wlll now put the Lilrrary on your Plcase hnve the rnnlllng clepnrtment send us n~a~lingIi5t lo ~ccrlvcnll new cntnlogs wc shnll all the prlnted mntter. Better, won't you per- be nblc lo Itccl) your cltrds in thc illden up to sonnlly mall it to us todny so thnl me slnlll clntc. be sure to get it7 We hnpc to Irc able in a few nw?lcs lo lnvlte Yurs truly, you ln cume to the Uuslness Iirnncll to Inspect LIBIlARIAN n coolplele cnlnlog flle. P. $.--If you do not issue a cnlnlog, send Yours trulv llsts of the thlngs yon ~n:~nuCnvtr~I'cor yollr * 'LIBI~AI~IAN. business cnrd, so that your nnme wlll be inclutled in thls "hlnde in Newark" flle When a catalogue is sent wilhout a Iet- To this letter No. 1, 470 answers wele re- ter, a postal, No. 2, is sent, as follows: ceived. Tlllnp' ~nndcin Newnrk: nn Index. Yon IIII~Ckinrlly scnt us your On July 3d, the flrst follow-up letter, No. cnt:llogq In rc5ponsc to our letter of 2', containing a stamped newspaper wrapper rcccnt dntc. Tllesc nre belnp inrler- etl nnd placcn with those of mnuv addressed to the Free Public Library was other nlnnnfllcturcrs of the city. We sent out to the 1600 who had not answerer1 ~l~nllnoon hnvc n very complete the first letler and read ns follows: sllnwlnc of lhc outout ol Ncwnrk's mnnni'tii.1 urers. Ce.ntlemen :- lht the I1l)rnry on yonr Iiqt to Plensc put your most rerent rntnlol: nrlcl prlre Iwrlve !!I1 of your fnl11l.e 1)nbllca- llst In the stnrnrled mnller enclos~d. They nre I~IIII\. J 111s will be WOL.III J.OIIP to be used to cdmnlete our "Jlaclc In X\'a\v~~rlc" \rllllr Depnrtmeul. Tours trnly. You are cordlnlly lnvltrd tn tislt the 1:11s:ncss TIIP Ipree Publlc IAbrnry, Brnnch. 18 Cllnton Etreet, In n few wrrlc,, Xemnrk, X J. when Ge hope we shnll have n 111nct1c;lllg ram: plete Index of evcry mnnufncl~uer nnf every article mnnnfactured in Newnrk, Inclurl~ng yo11 nnd vaur line Whenever a manufacturer sends the in- ~lioscnd S'our fr~cnds. formation that he does not publish a cnta- Also call on us nt nrls tlme, nnd often, when you wnnt to know wlltr- mnnnfnctures onylhlng logue, or whenever a business card and let- Just tclephone 23'20 I\' 3111rket ter is sent an aclmowledgement, No. 3 is Thin "Mnde in Newnl.h" ble Is tllc best in sent as follows. any cltg in the country. It wlll help to hcrensc Geutlemen .- your business. Yours trulv. LIURARIAN. P S.-If 3.011 do not Irslle n cnlnlog, send n ~~~ 11, ~u 1Ist of the lll111ns SI~Imnn11111ctu1~ or your 1)1151. We hope to IIC 1111le few werlcs lo Invite yon to wmc to tlw I:!!slness Urnnch to lneucot ness cnrd, so n~ntyour nnme mill be Incl~~Qcd i romplele Index. in tlils "Mnde 111 Scw~~rlc"flle. Yaws truly. To this letter No. 2, 332 answers were LIBRAILTAN. received. When .a business card is sent without a Six weeks later, on August 14th, the.sec- letter, n postal No. 4, is sent. ond follow-LI~Iletter, No. 3, was sent to 1,250 Tllings mnde In Sewu~k:nn In(ler. who had not answered either the Rrst or You hllve lcindly sent oa your cnt~llog

,THE METHOD OF DOING THE WORK. directories like Hendriclr's Commercial Every name checked in the business di- Register of the U. S, and Thomas' American rectory was entered on a 3 x 5 card. Manuaftcurers are of great service in cle- The dates are stamped with a rubber termining the method of entry We dis- dater, the first date shows when the Arm covered, however, that these dire~:Cories is circularized, the second date shows that followed one scheme absolutely and it was not found practicable to adhere to their no answer is received and the follow-up methods entlrely in our own work. letter is then sent. The third date shows The chief point of de~arturefrom the when catalog, business card or letter is method adopted by I-Iendrlclzs for iiista,nce, received. is the illustrutkd by the entries under the CATALOGING. subject Urushes. Hendriclc's enters all As soon as a catalog is received the man- l3mslies under the heading followed by the ufacturer's name is wrltten at the top of sub-head descriptive of the lcinds of brush- a 3 x 5 shelf list card, wilh the address es listcd. This separates for exarngle, paint below Numbers are assigned to flrms in brashes froni the wh~lesubject of paints. the order in which their catalogs are re- We And it better Lo follow the heading ceived. Bruslies Ly sub-heads as follows: When mannfacture~sreuly that they issue Brushes-Uruss. no catalogs, the shelt-list card is stamped Bristle. wilh the date when this information is re- Carbon. ceived. This elim~nates from the mailing Graphite. list all except ihose issuing catalogs and Rubber. also enables the business library to know Wire. at orice that certain firms do not issue cat- Wilh this illan we enter the catalog of a alogs. maker of all lrinds of bristle brushes undor Then an author card is made on a 3 x 6 the heading Brushes-Bristle, and this en- card. The name of the manufaclurer and try ia sumcient for the man mterested In the address is written on the two toll lines the whole subject of brushes The man, and the number assigned is written on the however, intcrested in certain lcinds of left-hand margin of the card. brushes would not be served by this gener- On the face of the card is given a fairly al heading and we enter catalogs of manu- detailed list of the lines of goods inmu- facturers of specific brushsa like Paint, factuied, indicating specialties, etc. This Jewelers', I-latters', Dentists', etc., under information is taken largely from the let- their resyect~ve hendings. This keeps to- ter heuds, business cards and inLroductions gether in the catalog all information iselat- to catalogs and is intended to supplement iag to a specific trade. the subject headings. This card is flled Preceding every subject whenever neces- alphabetically. sary, is found a guide card referring to On the back of this card the subject head- other related subjects. ings adopted for each manufacturer are listed and also any trade names used. MlCTEIOD OF FILING CATALOGS, BUS- Then a s~tbJectcard is made under the INESS CARDS AND LETTERS. several headings designated and also under After careful consideration the Library the trade names. Bureau 2 drawer correspondence flle unit For instance the subject heading Trays- No. C9050 was 'adopted. As each catalog Metal covers not only the Tea Tray Co., but is received it is stamped with the date of on the same card will be found the names seccipt. of all other flrms manufacturing metal If the catalog bears an earlier date than trays with their respective catalog numbers the date of receipt the legend "Latest Cab in the left margin. &log Issued" is stamped across the top of The author and the subject cards are the tltle page thus settling $ny question flled in one alphabet like a dictionary cat- which might arige about the catalogs be- &lQg. ing up-to-date. A gummed Dennison label The method just described applies not No. 87 is then pasted 4 Inches from the only to catalogs but to business cards and bottom on the front cover and the catalog information found on letter heads or given is flled numerically in the Vertical File. by letter. In many cases this information Whenever a letter is sent with a catalog i6 fuller even than the printed catalog of it is tipped into the pamphlet directly back come manufacturers. of the title-page as It often gives informa- Each catalog, business or letter will have tion ~otcontained in the catlog Itself. from 3 to 25 or more cards, dependent upon When a letter is aent in place of a cat& the importance and variety of the lines log it is put in a manilla ~pvelope,10" x L3" maguf actured. and filed pumerically with cataloge. In cataloging it was found that trade Whep a busigegs card only is sent it is 96 SPECIAL LIBRARIES tho Bureau of Statistics, Department of mounted on a piece of 10" X 13" pulpboard and also filed numerically with catalogs and Commerce and Labor, which contain a num- letters. ber of things easy to flnd and often asked Th~smaterial is, of course, for use at the for. For instance, during the past week Business Library only and is never lent. people wanted to know what was the high- Eventually this material when catalogued st price paid for coffee, the highest market may be used in the compilation of an an- price, in a series of years. Coffee was go- nual volume to be called "Made in Newark." ing up on the New York Exchange to such If this is done it will doubtless be with the a point as to make it sell at 14 cents, Rio co-operation of the Board of Trade. basis, New York, compared with six and a half cents per pound three or four years ago. In the parlance of the Street, that THE OFFICE LIBRARY AND STATISTI- CAL BUREAU OF FINANCIAL "is going some" to people who have to meet INSTITUTIONS. obligations for future contracts on coffee, or who have to supply their warehouses Proceedings, Special Libraries Association, wlth a commodity which has crept up so 2nd Session, Sept. 27th, 1911. high in value as to make it necessary for New York City. them to consult their bankers before they send in another order to flll a consignment D,r. R. H. Whitten, Presiding. that goes to the interior. The rapid move- ment of values makes it necessary to have Note.-The first paper, Technical Litera- these things on hand and to be ready to ture, Abstracts and Information Bureau turn to them at once because a question of Work of the United Gas Improvement Com- fifteen or ten or flve minutes of time may panw, of Philadelphia, by Mr. I?. N. Morton, make a difference of $100,000, to a firm in was published practically in full in the Sep- the conclusion of a contract for the future tember issue of Special Libraries. delivery of commodities. The value of time never impresses itself The Financial Library and Statistical as a factor in a well equipped statistical oi* Bureau. financial library upon anybody more clearly By John Franlrlin Crowell, of the Wall than it does in Wall Street. Information Street Journal. that can be gotten in three minutes is worth an immense amount to a man who To strike into the heart of the subject is questioning to sell 100 shares of a stock assigned to me, I might give the general about which there is some liltle informa- division with which the statistical bureau tion trickling in from some unlrnown source is pr~marilyconcerned. This comprises the as to the doubtful value of the security or facts of economic life, while the Anancial doubtful legality of the issue. You see, library is primarily concerned wlth those things go off with a snap and you have to things that pertain to the business of banlr- have your information in hand, or in reach, ing-a trust company, a l~ondor brokerage so that when the question is raised you house, or the public financing of a federal, are lhere to answer it. Questions come in state or city treasury. I conceive of the over the telephone to our library-not day statistical bureau as related to the financial by day, but hour by hour, sometimes min- library very much as the background for ule by minute-and the librarian is sup- the larger theme is related to the fore- 1)osed to lrnow a great deal about it. When ground. Under the general heading of the did J. P. Morgan say this or that? When things that ought to belong to a statistical d~dJudge Grosscup deliver his address at bureau, there are no less than a half dozen the University of Iowa? That is the sort public documents which ought to be on the of questions that come in, and these mat- shelf of everybody's working library. Be- ters of information are supposed to be on gin with the Yearbook of the Department hand. That would not come, probably, to of Agriculture. Add to that the Census Ab- every flnancial library, but I am speaking stract, the Statistical Abstract issued by the now from a standpoint of our experience, Bureau of Statistics of the Bureau of Com- and I think I have said enough to show you merce and Labor. Add to these the Inter- that familiarity wlth the facts is an essen- state Commerce Commission reports, and tial thing. then wind up possibly with the report of As to how to collect a library of this sort the United States Treasury, including the the best thing is to go to Washington and report of the Treasurer of the United States, make a round of all the bureaus. Many of the report of the Mint Bureau and the re- our libraries fail to appreciate the work port of the Comptroller of Currency. There that the government is doing in the collec- are other documents such as the monthly tion of statistical information. This good report of Commerce and Finance, issued by government of ours does more than any SPECIAL LIBRARIES other two governments in the world; prob- barley, olc., whatever it might be. If you ably more than any other five governments, start your people to work on these lines in the way of collecting and publishing and you begin to feel that you are becoming of diffusing statistical ~nformationof an econ- focal importance with the information omic character. available. Probably I halre indicated enough Many o! you probably live in cities where on the general scope of the statistical li- people are interested in the development brary. of trade in Latin America. I would attend The financial library depends so much on conventiciis at which that. was the import- lllesyarticular institution which it serves. ant prob,eni discussed. I suggest that li- If you mere the libinnrim of a bank of Pitts- brarians gather together information that burgh, which does a very large business in would put one in touch with the life there, gurcliasing bills of exchange and lrllls of ancl the conditions and people, their iinance, lading upon foreign countries Lor machinery their commerce, ancl other things that a ancl steel products going all over the world, merchant in~ghtwant to know of a general the very iuct lhat that is a large part o! slatistical character in contemplating a cam- the bank's business woulcl malie you want paign for the sale of his manufactures or to know all about Pittsburgh, and its manu- merchandise in Latin America. I do no1 factures and about the other yarls of the know whether you look at a meichant or a world to which these bills of exchange ap- manufacturer us an important asset of ply, so that the bank m~ghtknow all about patronage in your libraries. Uo you get lu Lhe flnancial coilclitions of these countries touch with the business ~~uogleof your coill- and lieel) alive on those subjects. You would mun~ty? When you do Lhat you will h:wc be clipping anylhing you llound about cer- found the best support arid backlng that tain iirins 01, l~eoglcin or Peru 01, you can find anywnere. The Lusiness pet- wherever it might be, from your l)eriodicals. gle are the people who pay the taxes They So also, in domestic business, anythi~lgthat are the yeoglc who 11osh enlerylises. Thcy referred to the intlividuals or members of are the yeople who open ol~portui~it~eslor that firm or the firm as a whole, woulcl the comnlunrty. They are the peol~lewho be naeful. If you Pound a lnnn who slif?llt have thelr eye on the public lnstitulions his days at business mil his nights son1e- and do a vasl amount of' work in Lheir en- wlie~~eelse than with his family, you would couragement and for the supl~ortof proLes- IJU~that fact in your lues, slin1)ly Ixcause dona1 yeogle, and they are the yeople whose the modern busirless wurld dcrnali(1s to wants ought to be studied. know mlicre men syencl thwr nights LIB well It seems to me there is a fleld for libraries as where they sl~enclLhwr tinys. That loolts to collect intolnlation relating to the Indus- like t~ remole Pact, IJUIit is an 1i11l)ortant tries and LIE' commercial lllovelimlts of the malier. I1 is a mattels of n~ol'alsnntl good smaller lowns, lo 8113~whaL the value 01: ~iti~cilsl~~l)and a man who has neither mor- their output is from year Lo yen and wlielc &IS 1101- good ciuzeushl]~is 1101 a raluable it goes. Nothing would stir the yricle of asset lo a bank That is a piece of' 1111ral~y your fellow citizens more than to Iss_ue a. work ~vhichl~robab~y is lloL usunlly iiialud- little mity, probably a yard sguare, sliowlng ttl, bul, nevel'tlielcss, it has got to 1,e ~uclucl- illem the nuinber oE l~ointsin the wo~~ld'sed if you want to save your bank fwm leiid- market to which their mnnuL'actured pro- ing money Lo a scoundrel who plays one ducts go. The teachers of your public schools ganle to LIE yublic eyc and another 111 his would welcome that, and from the confl- private life. dentisl position of the librarian the indus- I am throwing out these suggestions be- trial side of the locality could bc reached cause I think i~ostriblyyou may be iaterest- belkr than tlirough any other agency. Will etl in the wider Aeld illore than thc cletails. you have any c~iiiichltyin getting lhe pub- I had n long talk with the president ol' one lic autho~itiesto give you the flnan~icllsu11- of the big financial instituliolls in this city port that is necessary lor the rnt~intcnance some time ago about the rncthods of reach- of the library ullclel such clrcumsL:mces'? ~ngthe small investo~~--theman will1 a few Gel your grll) 011 the economic liie of the hundred cloIlnrs to invest. The question commuiuty. calm 1111 on how he would get at these If I were in a rural town and teaching pcople. Well, the thought was thrown out school in n country village, I would make that he woulcl httve to take a census of oc- out of my ch~ldren ccnsus takers and I cul~nl~ons;that he would have to find out woold know how many tanlilies there are how inany mnsons and how many carpen- in that district ancl in that township 11y ters ancl how innny ~Icrksand how nmiy their own efforts I would ltnow how many of this and how many of that class were farills there are, J would lrnow how many in a small town of ten thousand inhabitanls acres there are in those fmms ancl how where people were reinai~ltable for their many acres there are in rye, and wheat ancl economy, and who earned nioney ancl saved 98 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

it. There, you see, you go out into basic use of government documents. In my own facls again. desk I keep a file of gpvernment documents, his great world of ours places before the some of them which he named and it is librarian of a financial library a vast num- snrl~risinghow in recent years the govern- ber. of very interesting problems. For in- ment has made and attempted to bring into stance, your firm undertalifs to float $3,000,- circulation the vital problems for the yublic (100 or bonds of an electric line which runs, to see jusl as soon as they see a demand say froin Forge to Philadelphia. lor them The Government has gublished The~eyou have an ol~l)ortunllyto brlng In hundreds of pamphlets which should be on an h~stolical fent~~rein \r r,l.liillg ull Your the reference desk in nearly every library, story. Son have to gel 1161 0111y the econ- MR. WHITTLESY, (IllveStOrs Agency, omic facts and the fin,~ncial reaoulces of New Yorlc) : Can the statistician be a li- those coniniunillrs, how many banks they blarian and can a librarian be a statisti- have, how many tillst ('oli~~)>l~lies2nd what cianVn our library, I do not think it would the occugalions ol Lht! 11oo:lle ale. b~lnl~uost be possible for the one who 1s the librarian ererylhing e,se that gives you an idea ol to (lo anything but library work, because the iesbulces ol that comiunnity :IS ],erraill- he is liept so busy, he and his assistants, ing to the utilizatio:! of transl~ltallon. YOU all lhe time, tllat he could not ~~ossiblycla 1111tai litlow something about the lllllci', 11s any statishcal worlr and cover the wide 11isto1~vnl stttlng. Here 1s a glace with an field that 11e does cover. I, as a statistician, l~l\ro~.ic.alb;wlcground, a 111ace where the couid not do any statistical worlr if I should ~~-tr!~,e~rcriot only living, bbt they low to go ~ntothe library and try to do any of li~rI~cra~~se they are 11roud of it. \Vhat the eal~ertworli that is requil-ed there. I kPc~~sl:col~le troll1 fleting, and if people re- thinl~that one of the essentials of the flnnn- ruse to flee in h;nnd times it means that cia1 libra~yit, that the stativtlcian ~honld the property will not deprecl:~te thcle; the nlalte his wants known lo the librnrian as tax collector need 1101 be anxious abont their colnaletely as possible and thnt the libl'ari- assessments. They l)ay their bills and grow an should try to fill those wnnts. The ac- and expand, and their children stay there countant as a rule has not much imagina- ant1 grow 1111 and you have a sound econo- tion. The statistician has to have soine mic community. That is a great factor imagination, but a librwlan should have when yon come to mortgage the community a great deal ot inlagination because you twenty or forty years ahead. never can tell what liind of a fool question The best way to And out what ltind of a is going to be aslied you. In a financial li- library llle financial inslllutlon needs is to brary, the librarian must lieep his irnaglna- find out what ~t 1s do~ng,what it has been t~onwo:I

-2 Statistics in the library and going over it carefully. .3 Bibliography MR. J. J. ~~IcF'ARLANE, (Commercial .4 General Museum, Phi.ladelphia) : It seems to m8 .5 Products that You cannot get along wthout the st&- .G Consumption tiatclan-librariaq, and the librariarpstatls- .7 Market ticlan. I am spealiing from my own ex- .8 Geographical perience I think ~t would be impossible Now a mass of clippings, possibly 20,000, for my librarian who assists me in the li- can be lalten and nuickly classifled by any brary work, unless there was an under- person having' enough intelligence to classi- standing Letween us, to have the informa- fy according to above categories. By com- tion on hand which we must have. In mf binatiops of the numerals used in the clas- work l~eollle come for information in busi- siflcation you can keep geographical sta- ness matters to which they must have tistics together and other combinations in llronlllt answers. I must be able to say: the same way. You can use tab cards and "Well, just go over to Lhe 4th case, on the they can be sub-divided indefinitely. One 3d shelf, in that l~ttlebook is the inform& person can In this way take care of ilu tion; go and get it." If I am merely a immense amount of deta~lmaterial. stativtician and do not know my library hIR. WlLLIS D. PORTER: (Babson Sys- I conld not do that, and I thinlr while the tem Financial Library, New York) . It is statistician or the technical man, whoever, very interesting to see this last illustration. he may be, is an absolute essential in a I reallxe how it could be tipplied to my own lihrary OE this liind, I do not thinlr his as- worlr, but loolcing at it from my own stand- sistant can afford to be much less a sta- point, statistics in these days, I believe, are tist~oian in order to follow ug the work. really what one may consider a form of As to the question whether you can get disease. Jt is something that gets into tpe along without a technicnl person in a libra- system of the people and the more they ry, I say no. The technical man is inlportr delve into facts and flgures the more scien- ant, but on the other hand many technical tific they illalie it uhtil in many cases they people do not know the duties of catalog- go beyond tlie pomt of practicality. This ing. is so, I thinlr, in the case ot financial instl- MISS SPENCER, (Nat~onalCity Bank, stutlons. Take the bond house as an ex- New York) : In my worlc I must worlr up ample. Eacli bond house as a rule is in- to the statistician always, but I think It terested in a few classes of securities. perfectly gossible for tlic librarian to have They specialize in one or two and yet they enough intelligence to have the material on will compile statistics on everything under hand without a statistician having to see the sun when they could to much better about it. In fact, it has worked out quite advantage compile figures on the broad well in the City Bank where I am work- issues in which they are interested and go ing and we cover a pretty wide scone. I into minute detail regarclmg that and elim- think that possibly the librar~an has In- inate a lot of general matter. telligence enough to co-operate with the I noticed just one or two tliing8:-the statist~cinnancl anticipate his needs. qualification of the librarian and statistician MR. McFARLANE: That may be so as of the financial institution, and I gather to some work, but it would be almost im- from Mr. Whittlesy that he thought the possible for the ordinary trained librarixn libranan should be independent of the to be familiar with the government docu- statistician. I believe both clegartments ments of every nation in the world. It is should be under one head because Mr. too much to expect. We don't get fa~niliar Whittlesy, for instance, when he wants to with them except when suddenly wanting know anything, he goes to the librarian them. Mine is purely foreign worlc and I and aslrs. He has to ask whether that ma- have to have publications of every country. terial is on hand ,or not. Yet. I believe I could not get on without the librarian. that the statistician should know what ma- I would not sag that I do not want a tram- terial there is in that library simply from ed librarian because I do. the economic standpoint; in other words, MISS CARR, (Wslc and Robinson, New if they have a lot of material in there that Yo~rlc): I just want to supplement what is absolulely invaluable it is costing them Miss Spencer said. I also have to work up money absolutely, and fllling space, too, and, to tlie stat~st~cianand it is Wrt of my of course, to have the most practical st& worlc to collect things. I do think, perhapa, tistlcal department, library economy is, I the ordinary tralned librarian as she first believe, to be practised in every case possi- starts In in Wall Street has not a very clear ble. Every inch of space means dollars in understanding of just whal Wall street the long run, ancl for that reason the ski- wants and of just the importance of the tistician could save a lot of real money by various documents But I thinlr she very taking an interest as to what is contained soon learns. As to Mr. Porter's contention 100 SPECIAL LIBRARIES that the statistician and the librarian pert so that he may make an Intelligent re- should be one, I thinlr in the case of smaller llort. Of course, questions of ageneral nature libraries that answers very well. 1 think are coming up all the time. I thinlr the they can combine. The librarian and sta- conlbiilat~on of the library and bureau of tistician, if they are not the same llersou, information is good and bound to be the should work together. ulthate one In certain lmes 01 busmess. DR. CRO~~LL:Our library of the Wall MR DRIGHAM: Has the tendency to Street Journal is open for You to inspect place libraries of this character in inanu- aIlu inquire about, and I should be glad facturing plants grronm w~thinthe last two to meet you any tune to-morrow there. I years? should like to show you what a Young inan MR. MARION : Continually some new can do as a librarian, with llracticall~no company bas adopted a library and. I be- help, not only In the way of classifying lleve thaL the library grip seems to be get- the contents of an eight-gage newsyauer t~nga cleaLh hold on the manufacturer. every day, putting ~t into scrap boolrs so \\71cl11n the last year there haye beer1 three as to give a continnous sto~yfrom clay to 01- lour, LO iny knowledge, who have gone day on any garticular subjecbt, but also in into it nnd establ~shed I~braries; for in- the way of answerlag q~lcsll011S. Also what sLuucc, the Btudebalier peoyle, Ijausch & c:~be done 111 the way of ~~sKU'C~,heca~ltie I~nnibO11Lical Co., Ucle~e Plow Co., etc. probably one of the most v~luableservlces Tllel-e is constantly a growth 111 this d~rec- of otu financial library IS tl~eanswering ti011 of qtlestions which colne tro~uall over the NR. CUTTER: In the public libraries, country t:nd nlany uill'ertnt COuntr~eS all the iictlon circulat~onis easy ti0 to 7O%, over the world, answering the111 either and the rest is history, biography and art, tllrougl~our periodical or ll~roughDrivuLe and all about things that have happened. corresguntlence Every (la3 you will find This kind of library has to do wlth the in tlie l~eriodical probably a third of a things that are hayl~ening every day, and co11un111 answering questions aboul n ~ar-I think that is the reason why it is grow- ticular lmid of security. This recluires re- ing so fast and will cont~nueto grow. search into nil the informatiol~ available AIH. MAlZlON: \\'\re have 171 sgecml li- that is l)ertinenl and the l~~esentict~onof braries on our l~stnow, as against 128 a tho rehults so that the 111ai1 in Old~~lionmyear ago. who ~vish~tito know about thls 07 thaL line MR. CUTTER: I just found out for a of illvestment ~111have the advantage of gentleman tlie rating for a l~lumbing firm an answer in the course ol' n few clays in New Zealand. I-Ie represents a hrm that People who hare the settlement of estates sells giulnps He waii~ed to find out an wrice just such quest~ons to us and they agent to sell these pun1l)s. I say it is for reqnire n good deal of i'esearch. the business of today and not 111e l~ictures MIL. \VHITTEN. \\'e had Nr. Norton's ot Reiubrnndss or the blogral~liy OF some- paper on Lhe llbrnry and i~itor~nationbur- one who has been dead hundr ecls of years. eau of u gas cowl)nny, and perhays there MR. htAiiION: 1 want to ask om aues- are olhe~swho \vuuld sl.ealr on that side, tion of the first speaker. Mr. Morton, do that is, on the library and information yon inclex arl~clesother tllall rhose that bureau in a ~llanoKwturing estnbllshment. you abstract, and how fully do you index? MR. i\lhILtOlV. JIy experience 1s some- MR. MORTON. We index every lhing -cvhnt nlonl: this he,--that my library is that can 1)ossibly apply to the manufacture iasl 1)ecolnmg dl1 inlormation bu~oau.While and disti9ibution of gas and eleclric lighl the iiblbary ie-~tnr*gets a11 rhe aLlentioil and power, all legisl~utive enactnlents, mu- that is nercssiwy, 1 seem to IJ~uaily answer- niciyal, state and national, Lhat al~glyto ing more and Inore tleflnite que~tionsfor this inclustry. In indexing we have between all ot c11r engineels iwl teclrnical Inen. 1 75,000 nnd 80,000 index cards, but in ab- presime that may coim lmssibly f~omthe stracting only all the articles oL' irnl~o~tance fact tllxt they llave g,otten 11artially satls- are noticed. A good many artic~ts colne factory answel s in Ihe past. Tire are con- out that we call "hot air articles" Those tinually lluy~n:: booirs. Our problems are are indexed, bot not abstracted, and a g~eat such and 0111 ~~urcl~nsesare so ;lrrangetl many articles are "rehashes" of things that we usnallv buy for the in~rnecllnte that have been pretty well Lhrashed ovcr needs. As the conllJany takes 111) new IJIec- before, and those we index but do not ab- es of W0lk or illvcstigations it lllay me:ln stract. We only abstract the new inater- that they are Solug inlo a field w11ic.h has la1 unless sonlething bas hugl~ened so long never been touched l efcre and that nil1 1.e- ago that it has probably been Eorgotten, uncl SulL ill the llbrar~be~ng obliged to equiy I Lhinli ~t IS desirable to store it 1111 again. itself with the most up-to-date boolis, get- hIR. ATEYER, (Library of Congress). ting eVe1'Y thing 1)Ossible in a short space I ~url~oselywaited to the end of the of time in order to equip the individual ex- cliscusslon to call your attentian to SPECIAL LIBRARIES the little work of clocuments that is service Companies in Massachusetts. Clin- doubtless familiar to most of you. A num- ton 1-1. Scovell & Co. June 20, 1911. ber of the speakers referred to the statis- tical publications of the government. If Ohio Public Service Comnlission act. you added all those together you would Chapter 128; L. 1911. An Act concerning st111 have an incomplete list. It is a very regulation and supervision of pul~licservice easy matter to get such a conlplete list corporations, Columbus, 1911. and also a good l~stof government publi- cations by writing to the Superintendent of Public Service Commission law of Nevada. Documents and asking 111111 for his price Electrical World Aug. 26, 1911. lists. Ask him for a complete sel. He will Nevada PuhHc Service Cozumlssion Law, send you one devoted to econolnics and an- 1911. other to rnechanics, etc., and in that way get a short cut to the inost valuable publl- State Control of l~ublicutilities. cat~onsin certain fields. I just throw that Electric Railway Journah Sept. 23, 1911. out as a hinl to those who do not hnow it. Public Service Commissions and electric railroad outlays. PUBLIC UTILITIES REFERENCES. Comrnerclal and Financial Chronicle, Sept. 30, 1911 Elec. Rwy. Section. F. N. Morton, Librarian, United Gas Im- provement Co., Ph~laclelphia. State Control of guhlic utility compan- - ies. com~nissionsshould not attemgt to og- MANAGEMENT. erate or manage property. T. N. Vail. Advantages of unified electric systems Public Seivice, . covering large territories. Wn. B. Jackson. Amended public utility law of New Jer- American lnstitute Electrical Engineers, sey. Feb. 1911, 11. 173-93, Apr. 1911, 11. 1009-1022. Electrical World, May 4, 1911 p. 1083. Risks of estabhshing public utilities: 1)er- Washington public utility lam: on March ils and struggles of the pioneers of the in- 18, 1911 Governor signed act to create Public dustry, difliculty of securmg caliital. 0. T. Service Cominission to succeed the Railroad Crosby. Commission. Public Service, SelL 1911 y. 139; Street Electric Eailway Journal Agr. 29, 1911 p. Railway Rulletin Sepl 1911 1). 470-2. 755. Value of Research : growing ~1)preciation List of states showing status of policy of the value of research es a. finalma1 ns- wlth Ivespect to public util~ti~scommiwions, set. Dec. 1910. Engineering Record, Se11t. 23, 1911 11. 346. Stone & Webster Public Service Journal Edlt. Feb, 1911 I). 113. Financing of ~mbl~cnt~lities' tl new de- RATES. parlure 1s the consol~clntio~~under one man- New princll~iesin rate fixing. C. K~nzbrun- agement of a number of coml~artltivelysmall ner. utility plants. R. J. Graf. Elelitrotechnilr und 11Iasch1nenban, Feb. Municil~alEngineering Sept. 1911 1). 203. 12, 1911. COM%IISSIONS. Fallncics ot the rate decislans: Intel state Coniiacr~cCan~mss~oner 1.une's opinion bas- Ohio public utility 1~111. ed cn m~slc:ldi?~gfignres. Slason Thoml~son. Electrical World Jmle 8, 1911, July 29, A11,ody's Ma~rmi~ie,Muy 1511. 1911. 11. 259 Abs. D. L. Gasltill. Public Service Bug. 1911 11. 49. Rxte cases 111 fcderal courts: Findings and repor1 of Hon. Charles U. Otis, Master in Houston gublic util~ty corporation act Chnncery. May 15. 1911, Houston, Tex Ninnesota Ra~lroad Con~n~~ssionReport, Electric ra~lwaysand the public utility 1910. 11 67-154. commissions. Pelroleum Tele~honeCo and Johnston Con~mercialand Financial Chronicle, June Telephone Co, vs. Bell Telel~hone Co. of 24, Electric Ra~lwaySection. Pennsylvmia. Kansas ~lublic utility act, Topeka, ICan., Pennsylvania. State Railroad Commission, 1911. 1911 Cases 32-1-525. Giving certnin periods of Cree telellhone servlce in consideration ot Rellort on policies and ndministrative contracts for n longer perlocl is illegal aud work ol' the commissions regulating public nnlamtnlly rl~scrinlinatory. 102 SPECIAL LIBRAR.EES

Discrimination in central-station fates. Basis of rate-making as a golicy. Frank F. Fowle, Engineering Magazine, June Central Law ~ourn'al,Sept. 22, 1911. 1911. Denver electric power development; rates Cost anlysis and other fundamental con- of the Denver Gas & Electric Light Co.; siderations in the determination of a rea- off-peak, long-hour and day loads; electric- sonable return for public fire hydrant serv- ity in building construction; miscellaneous ice. Leonard Netcalf', Bmil Kuichhng and power servlce. Wm. C. Hawley, Electrical World, Segt. 16, 1911, p. 695, Engineering-Contracting, Juna 7, 1911. Rates for gas service: valuation, real es- Studies in railway economics. W. M. Ac- tate, sheet mains; services. C. L. Cory. worth. Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas, Railway Age Guzette, Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27; Sept. 23, 1911. p. 276. Feb. 3, May 19, 26; June 2, 9, 1911. Far Roclraway, N. Y. rate dacision; invest- Legal phases of central statlon rate mak- ment in property; fair rate of return; de- ing tor electric supply, including the status preciation, estimated earnings and expens- of the wholesale customer, the status of tha es. special customer and reasonable profit, its Progressive Age, Sept. 1, 1911, p. 737; definition, collection and d~slribution.James Sept 15, 1911, g. 779. V. Oxtoby 1911. Beloit utility decision by Railroad Com- Report of rate research committee mission of Wisconsin; gas and electric rate National Electric Light Association, 1911. schedules Arnerlcan Gas Light Journal, Sept. 11, Two Theories of rate-miilring. 1911 g. 162. Engineering-Contracting, June 21, 1911. Progressive Age, Aug. 16, 1911 11. 689; Elec. World July 29, 1911 p. 262. Flat rates for small consumers. Electr~calWorld, July 1, 1911, Edit. 458: Gas Rates in Chicago, overhead construc- 146. tion charges, operating revenue and ex- l~enses. Abs, report, W. J. Hagenah. City of Havelock vs Lincoln Traction Co. Municipal Engineering Sept. 1911 p. 206 -Apl~lication to Increase rate of fare. Edit. Nebraska State Railway Commission, 1910 Engineering Contracting May 17, 1911 p. Central Station Rates, V. S. Beck. 572 Edit. 557. Minnesota Engineel. Rates of the Queensborough Gas and Elec- The right of the state to fix intrastate tric Co ; the first commodity rate case of rates so far as the commerce clause is con- the Public Service Commission for the First cerned. District of New Yorlc; land appraisal; going Central Law Journal, Bug. 11, 1911. value; unimpaired investment; fair return; development costs. In the matter of the investigation of the Eng~neermg News, Aug. 31, 1911 11. 266 rates charged by tha Consolidated Gas Co. Edit, p. 262. of Long Branch lor electric current and gas. New Jersey Public Utility Commission- Adjustment of American street car fares: ers, July 25, 1911. growth of cities makes live-cent rate ungro- Investigntion by this Conmission concern- fitable; charge based on production cost; ing the rates, charges, and tolls, demanded, advantages of light equipment; origin of exacted, charged, and collected by tha New five-cent tare; gositlon of New York Com- Yorlc Telephone Company for the transmis- mission. G. H Davls. sion of messages in the City of New York. Public Service Aug. 1911 p. 53. Public Service Commission, Second Dis- S~olcaneRate Decision: ~tsbearing on trict, No. 107 June 1, 1911. New England; water competition coastwise Street Railway rates, with esl~ecialrefer- merchant marine service. ence to cliffel'ent~ation. G. I?. Watluns. Chamber ot Commerce News July 31, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Aug. 1911; Commercial & Financial Chronicle 1911 p. 623-49. July 29, 1911 p. 267; Railway World July 28, 1911, p. 598. Questions involved in New Jersey regula- tion, d~scussionon before Board of Public Existing fares of Wisconsin road uaheld Utllity Comm~sr;ionersinvolving gas and by Commission after a valuation. (Eastern electric rates. Wisconsiri Railway & Light Co. of Fond du Electric Railway Journal, Sept. 30, 1911. Lac). SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Electric Railway Journal, July 29, 1911 p. DEPRECIATION. 183. Depreciation as related to electrical pre. pert~es. Henry Floy. Combination rates for steam heating and Proceedings of Amer. Inst. of Electrical electric service. Engineers, p. 1143. Electric Electrical Worlcl, July 1, 1911 p. 45. Railway Journal, July 1, 1911. Worcester street lighting case; haarings Gas Acts: question of depreciation. Alex- upon petition of Mayof Logan for a reduc- ander Wilson. tion in prices charged by Worcester Electric Journal of Gas Lighting, June 13, 1911. Light Co. for street lighting service. Electrical World, June 16, 1911 P. 1545. Sinlting fund reserves (So-called). War- ren S. Pangborn. Determination of the "fair rate of return" Journal ot: Accountancy, Bug. 1911. on the value of the grol~ertyof the Madlson Gas bt Electric Co.; two theories of rate Policy of railway sinking funds making. Railway Age Gazette, Aug. 25, 1911. Engineering Contracting, June 21, 1911 p. 726 Xdit. p. 699. Absolute and theoretical depreciation: a distinction of much importanca in appmis- Schedule of rates involving the invest- al. (Abs. I-Ienry Floy.) ment cost of reaching the consumer. J. Engineering Record, Sept. 18, 1911 p. 335. C. I>awler. Electrical World, June 15, 1911 p. 1662. Del~reclation problem of electric street railways. W. B. Jackson Important Massachusetts rate decision: Public Service, Selit. 1911 p. 71. Mass. Gas & Elec. Light Commission has 1s- sued an order reducmg prices of gas and Depreciation accounts: their treatment by electricity as charged by North Adams Gas Interbo~oughRapid Translt Co. Light Go Electric Ra~lwayJournal, Aug. 12, 1911 p. 280; June 3, 1911 p. 972. H. M. Edwards. Progressive Age, June 1, 1911 p. 473; En- (Abs.) Electrical Review, June 10, 1911 p. gineering News, May 4, 1911 1). 517. 1162. Public Utility's Cost of Living, effect of high prices on charge for furnishing serv- Depreciat~on account of the Mekomo, Marion & Western Traction Co. ice; predicament of street railways; table Electr~cRailway Journal, July 22, 1911 p. showing increase in cost of materials dur- 166. ing past 10 yeara. W. F. Brashears. Public Service, p. 133. Where a theory fails: del~reciationa phy- St. Louis valuation and rates; statement sical fact. R. W. Child. regarding report re valuation of the proper- Stone & M'ebster Public Service Journal, ty of tile Union Electric Light & Power CO.; June 1911 11. 422. flndings of Commission very disappointing Depreciation: a practical discussion; dif- to Company. ferences of opinion re theory concerning Electrical World, April 6, 1911 p. 829; actual rate of depreciation. F. F. Fowle. Mar. 16, 1911 13. 6%; Edit. p. 648; Engineer- Southern Electrician, June 1911 p. 227. ing Record, Mar. 11, 1911 p 261. Decisions of utility commissions; a study F~xecl costs in industrial power plants; of governing principles. A. E. Forstall. conments on same; investment; insurance; American Gas Inst. Oct. 1910; Progressive intereat, del~reciation; ol~solescence; fair profit. J. C. Parker. Age, Mar 1, 1911 p. 197. Proc. Amer. Inst. Electrical Engineers, Flat Rate vs. Meter charge for service; Afar. 1911 11 467. court holds that company cannot be made to change fi'om one method to another if Renewals as defined by the Board of Su- price is reasonable; decision by Supreme pervlsing Engineers, Chicago Traction; gen- Court of North Carolina. aral ruhngs, etc. Public Service, Mar. 1911 1). 90. Electr~cRailway Journal, Mar. 4, 1911 p. 374. Railway rate theories of the Interstate VALUATIONS. Commerce Cotnmission. Distance as a fac- Annual report. Kansns City Public Util- tor it1 rate malting; natural advantages of itits Coinm~ssion,1911. location; campetltion as a factor in rate making. Sdmmary of railroad valuations. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Feb. 1911 Texas Railroad Comlnission 1910 1). 433- 11. 279. 484. 104 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Report on the investigation of the Chi- Railway World, April 14, 1911 p. 288. cago Telephone Co., W. J. Hagenah. 1911. Engineering Contracting, Feb. 15, 1911 p. 192; Feb. 22, 1911 p. 225. Appraisal of the Third Avenue Street Railroad system, New York City. Development expense as a factor in the Engineering Contracling, June 7, 1911, p. valuation of public service property. (Abs.) 66G. 13. P. Gillette. Amer. Soc. C. E. v. 37, 11. 264. Deficit theory 01 develogmerlt exgense of Engineering Contracting, Mar. 8, 1911 p. public service corporations, and an erron- 203. eous application of the theory of the Wis- Electric Traction Weekly, Mar. 11, 1911 consin Railroad Commission. 11. 2G2'. Engineering Contracting, June 14, 1911. New Haven Valuation just completed, a Elements affecting the fair valuation of pioneer of ~tskind, Mass. legislature flrst plant and property. \V. F. Wells, 1911. to incl~~dean interslate rallway system, one operullng 111 four states. Conlgarison of Going Value. Stevens' al)]~rt~isalof two ycars ago with tha Electrical Review, July 1, 1911. new valuation. Engineering ~ontl-acting,June 14, 1911 p. Rnilway Age Gazette, Mar. 10, 1911 11. 431. 691; Echt. 11. G7l. Necessity for Valuations: what a coinplete Valuation, a fair return and reasonable allpraisal should show; franchise values; capital~xation. Frederick P. Royce. clepreciation. Abs. H. A. Foster (A. I. E. Stone L Webster Public Service Journal, E., Los Angeles, Oct. 25, 1910.) July 1911. Journal of Electricity, Power & Gas, Feb. St~eetRailway B~nlletin,July 1911, p. 355. 25, 1911 1). 176. Report u11on the price of gas in Chicago ACCOUNTING. for the Chicago Council Committee on gas, Uniform accounts for systems of water oil and electric light Xdward W. Bemis, supply. 1911. Government Accountant, Jan., Feb., Nar., Apr., 1911. Valuation of Milwaukee propert,~es; Mil- Nevada Public Service Commission, 1911. waukee Electric Hailway & Light Co., Mil- waukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.; iVIi1- 12ecent Legislation affecting electric rail- wanlree Central Heating Co. way accounting. Henry J. Davies. Eleclric Railway Journal, July 22, 1911 p. Electric Railway Journal, July 1, 1911, 11. 1GO. 26. Eleclric Traclion Weekly, July 8, 1911, 1). Valuation of Manitowoc water works; as 7S2. determined by ?Viscousin Railroad Comrnis- sion. Form of general balance sheet statement Engineermg Record, July 8, 1911 p. 40. for exl~ress companies. Interestate Com- merce Comrn~ss~on,First Issue, July 1, 1911. Responsibilities of electric41 engineers in making al~yraisals; franchise terms ; abuses Munici~alaccounting and efficiency : Her- of the past, al~l~raisalas a basis of ratas; bert R. Sands. responsibility of aglmisal. Engineeling Record, Sagt. 30, 1911. Electric Railway Journal, July 1, 1911 p. Standard telephone accounts: commen- 16. tary on accounting circular So. 6. Charles C. DuUois. Valuation of railroads in xew Jersey; re- Govelnment Accountant, June, Suly, hug. qulrenients of the State Tax LRW;cletermin- ation of "true value" of real esta.te, true 1911. value ot tangible parsonal ~ropertyand val- S~ml~lilyingthe arcounl names: a code of ue of the remalnlng prollerty, including the sginbols used by big public servlce corl~or- f ranchise. H Hansel. a~ionsto identify accounts. A. L3. Neill. Engineering Record, May 27, 1911 p. 594. Boolikeel~er,Sept. 1911 11. 235. Federal regulal~on of railroad securities Electric railway storeroom accountiiig and valuation 01 railroad properties. inethocls: discussion of the general ln'iuci- Railway IVorld, ;\lay 19, 1911 1). 390. pies of storeroom accounting nnrl srodc 1ieel)lng and a desc~il~tionof the new store- Physical valuatiou vs railroad rates; ex- room and record forms ot the Moblle Light tract from statanlent prepared by Henry and Iiailroad Co. M. 51'. Glover. Fink, Chairnlan oC Norfolk & Western Rail- Electric Railway Journal, Sept. 9, 1911 11. way for Ka~lwnySewritlc~ Conm~iss~on. 425. SPECIAL LIBRARIES 105

General accounting of public utility cor- COMPETITION. porations. Little Rock Railway and Elec- Duplication cost due to competition of tric Co. W. P. Tharp. public service companies. Street Railway Bulletin Aug. 1911 D. 422. Zlectrical World, May 25, 1911. N. E. L. Ark. Assn. Pub. Utility ~~&ators,-~ittleA. Convention issue. Rock, May 3, 1911. Electric Railway Journal, May 13, 1911 p. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. 842. Boston's gas street lighting system: prl. TAXATION. vate vs. municipal operatlo? of same; ar- Taxation of corporations. Part 3. U. S. guments against municipal operation. G. Comnllssioner of Corporations, 1911. Calvert. Public Service, Sept. 1911, p. 80. Tax legislation, State of New York. New York Tax Reform Association, 1911. in Seattle: Is the municipal lighting plant being conducted Irregularity of railroad taxation methods. wi~~~~le?$$~~~o&~~\ept lgl, B. ~ailaayWorld, Aug. 26, 1911. Electric Traction Weekly.~. Mar. 25. 1911 Assessment of public sarvice corporations. A. E. Bolcomb, Pamphlet, 1911. Pinacial Chronicle, Feb. 13, 1911 p. 421. The German Inlperial tax On the earned Model municipal ownership franchise in increment. Robert C. Brooks. Milwaukee: provisions of the franchise: Qual'terly Journal of Economics, Aug. railway officials forced to reject socialist 1911, p. 682. measure. Public Service, July 1911 p. 7. Taxation of seculSiLies in New York; we- Electric Traction ~aelrly,June 10, 1911 p. n~7 cia1 reference lo the recent amendment of ""8. the tax law. W. H. . CAPITALIZATION. Moody's Magazine, Sept. 1911 p. 179. Proper capitalization.

Taxation of franchises; basis for taxa- Progessive Age, July 153 1911- tlorl rests won use of i~ublichighways by Government regulation of security the corporation. of publlc utility c~r~oiations.Halford Er- Electrical Review, July 22, 1911 p. 164. iclrson. eration of decision in case of assessment of Stock Wm. Z. Ril)ley. Hudson & Manhattan R. R. Political Science Quarterly, Mar. 1911 p. Electric Railway .Journal, Mar. 25, 1911 p. 98. 489. Government Regulation of railway capi- Califorma's new corporation franchise tax: talization; price at which new securities distinction recognized by courts between the should be issued; "physical valuation" of primary and secondary franchises. W. ra~lway~roperty. H. T. Newcomb. Dodge. Railway World, Mar. 17, 1911 p. 203. Coast Banker, Mar. 1911 1). 170. LIBRARIES. Corporation tax: Supreme Courl dec~sion Library and its facilities. (Stone & Web- regarding same. ster Library) G. W. Lee Stone & Webster. Commercial and Financial Chronicle Mar. Public Service Journal, July 1911. 18, 1911, 11. G97. Journal of Accountancy, Feb. 1911, p. 297. Railroad correspondence file: reviaw of E. E. Cnbell, Commissionel.. book describing system used in omce of sev- eral large railroads. ELECTROLYSIS. Railway Age Gazette, Sept. 15, 1911. Electrolysis of water pipes in the city of Public utility references; franchises, ta: Chicago. as ,etc. G. W. Lee. Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency, July Special Libraries, Mar. 1911, p. 83. 1911. Books as tools of business; many refer- Electrolysis lltigation in Pittsburg, with a ence books analyzed and theif value shown; general discussion of the principles in- needs of the book hunting public. G. W. volved. Lee. Engineering Co'ntracting, Aug. 16, 1911. New Boston, Apr. 1911 p. 533. 106 SPECIAL LIBRARIES FRANCHISES. Rubber Co., Watertown, Mass. This adds Protection for municipal franchises, with another manufacturer to the many who model sections for a commission go-v~n- have come to find the library an essential ment charter, 1913. Delos F. Wilcox. asset in the progress of their business. Franchises of electrical corporations in Greater New Yorlc: Report submitted to the Gunn, Richards and Co., the well known Engineers and Public Accountants with of- public Service Commissioll for the First District. Milo R. Mnltbie, 1911. fices at 43 Wall St, and 43 Exchange Place, New Yorlc City, have made a beginning The ethics of a franchisa. with a special library. Mrs. Arthur E. Selling Electric~ty,Apr. 1911 p. 161. Vars has recently visited the secretary's office in Boston, to get in touch with meth- Public and company rights: right oi the ods as used by Arthur D. Little, Inc. With public; obligations of a utility corngany. A. consulting experts of any standing the li- S. Huey beiore annual convention of officers brary has become a real necessity for they and eml~loyees of H. M Byllesby L Co. are fast becoming the torch bearers of the Public Service, Peb. 1911 11. 40. business laymen in every line. With the Progresswe Age, Feb. 15, 1911 11. 158. general advance of scientific methods these engineers are forging constantly str,onger REGULATION. and better relations with their clients and Railway regulation in Texas. to keen in the van, a well kept, live collec- Journal of Polit~cal Economy, Lewis 13. tion of literature on the subjects they cov- Haney, June 1911. er has beocme a necessity. National Civic Ferleratlon on regulation of interstate and rnl~nlcipal utilities. The Dodge idanufacturing Co., of Misha- Railway World, Aug. 18, 1911. waka, Indiana, manufacturers of power transmitting machine^ y, has estabhshed a Rules and instructions for gas and elec- special manufacturers library. tric service in the stata of Nevada. Nevada Public Service Comnlission. Cir- An excellent short bibliography of Effici- cular KO. I, June 3, 1911. ency and Sc~entificManagement embracing Government regulation of securities: com- both boolcs and magazine arlicles has been mission appointed to investigate a report published in connection with a "Report of on the subject. W. H. Lawton. the Joint Committee on Engineering Ac- Journal of Acccuntancy, Segt. 1911 p. 357. counting" addressed to the Am Electric Ra~lwayAccountants Association and the Water power legislation in Oregon: fear Am. Electric Railway Engineering Associa- of monopoly led last legislature to place two tion and lead before their recent meeting restrictions on their deve1,opment. during October, 1911, at Atlantic City, New Engineering Record, June 24, 1911 g. 713. Jersey. The Secretary of the Am. Electric Railway Association may be addressed as Public Utility Commission conferences in follows: 13. C. Tonecker, 39 West 39th St., N. J, mlnilnum requirements for govarning New Yorlc City. operation of street railways; way and struc- tures; block signals; car equipment; dis. The Iibrary of the New Yorlc School of on R R crossings, etc. Philanthropy began recently the issuance Electric Rallmay Journal, April 29, 1911 p. of special bulletins containing bibliogra- 750. phies on special subjects. Bulletin No. 1 was a bibliography on Farm Colonies, a sub- State control of water powers in Colora- ~ectnow of great importance in aonnec- do; leading l'eatures of the bill introduced tion with ?iscussions concerning unemploy- into Colorado legislature. ment and penal farms. Bulletin No. 2 is Electrical Review. Mar. 11, 1911 p. 477. on vocational guidance. The bibliography is devoted in the main to industrial edu- NOTES. cation connected with elementary schools, preparatory trades schools and evening A municipal reference section has been continuation schools-courses in trade train- added to the St. Louis Public Library and ing designed f,or pupils from 14 to 18 years Mr. Jesse Cunningham, formerly of the New of age. All references are carefully select- York State Law Library has been placed in ed and annotated. The references are to charge. publJcatioqs of the last three yeaw, and are therefore up-to-date. These bulleuqs Miss Mary Alice Hagarty has recently are sent free to all who are interestad ip taken up some library work witb the IEood social work, provlded 8 request is .sent to SPECIAL LIBRARIES the New York School of Philanthropy Li- (a) A directory of municipal oflciale. brary, 105 Etl~t22nd SL. The next bulletin, (b) Statistics of the cities. R, survey of tlle best b001is on social (c) To11ical consideration of important subjects, will appear January 1, 1912. municipal questions. Tliorc will be no bibliographical bulletin for December. (5) For cities of 30,000 and over. full information should be given; for cities of The secretary's ofllce has on flle at pres- irom 10,000 to 30,000 there should be lese ent several names of IibrarlJns of varied detailed information. exl~eriencewho are ol~cn to ndva~lcement (G) The Directory and general informo or desire to change their l~resentpositions. tion should be arranged alphabetically ac- qordlng to states, and pder states, the cities, alphabetically. MUNICIPAL YEAR BOOK. (7) The form of organizat~onshould be Report of the Chairman of the Joint Com- determined after consultation mith the pub. miltee of the Special Libraries Association lisher, Mr. Woodruff being authorized on and the National Assoc~ntion01: Slate Li- behalf of the Conference to see what terms braries with Reference to hfuaicipal Tear could be made In the matter of publication Book. (S) No objections to advertising being inciucled in the volume. As Chairnlan of the Joint Colmnittee of this Association, and of the Natlonal (9) There should be the widest possible Asiocialion of State Libraries, to bring co-ordination of existing agencies, and there about, if gasible, the matter at' the publica- should be a close relationship estdblished tion ot an annual municipal year book for with the census bureau. America11 cities, I would report the follow- Mr Woodruti was authorixecl on behalf ing : of the Conference to prepare an outllne of the subjecl to be subn~ittedin turn to the On June 10, there was held in the C~ty valious committees for an expression of Club, in lie Cily of New Yolk, a mosl MI- porbmt conference on this subject wlticll opinion: lasted nearly three hours, when the whole (1) As to what should be included un- aulljoct wn8 thoroughly canvassed. The der all circumstances. following is the rel~ortof this conference: (2) TYllat should be excluded. Organ~zalionsleyrmx~ted: (3) What should be included if space Sl~cuialLlbra~ies Association: Committee, should permit. Ba~uuclI-1. Ranck, C'llnton Rogera Woodruff, The above report was drawn up by hfr. Frcdc~iclc Rex. Cl~nton Rogers Woodruff, who acted as State JAibrarians Association: Committee, Secretary of the New Yorlc Conference. At Dr. 11. H. Wailten, James L. Gillia, H 0. this Conlerence Mr. WoodruPP was delegated Br1ghn111 lo see several publishe~smith reference to National Rlunic~lml League: Committee, the l~ublicatlonaof such a volume. He has Albert bushnell Hart, M N. Baker, L. S. since taken this matter up with two New Rowe. Yorlr publishers, and In a letter just receiv- ed from him he states that he has gotten a Of Llie above there were present: Messrs. fairly satisfnctory reply from one and the Ranclc, Woodruff, Whitten, Hart, Baker, and other still has the matter under considera- Rowe. tion. This phase of the wolSli wll mces- The others invited were: Professor sarily require a considerable amount of Charles A. Beard, Columbia University, Dr. time. W. F. Willoughby, Washington, Dr. L. G. As Chairman of your Committee I would Powers, Bureau of the Census, Dr. W. B. recommend that the Committee of the Spe- Munro, Harvard University. cial Libraries Association which has this After a discussion lasting nearly three matter in hand *be continued. The Commit- hours, the following conclusions were unan- tee would be glad to have any suggestions imousl y reached : from the members with reference to this matter. It must be understood, however, (1) A Municipal Year Book is needed. that a good many of the details must of (2) It should include references to the necessity be left open, inasmuch as they state oficials and departments having to do will be of vital concern to the publishing with municipal affairs. house undertaking the issuapce of such a volume. (3) It should include American and Very raspectfully, Canadian cities. SAMUEL H. RANCK, (4) It should include: Chnlrman.