4.229 15.529 10.508 3.483 1,132.35 8.45 8.115 4.0 Park Avenue Parks. St. Nicholas... North River, 72d to 129th, Riverside ave. St. Ann's ave., St. Mary's, 149th and Robbins ave.. St. Nicholas ave., 130th to 14st., St. Nicholas Rutherfurd pl., 16th. 111th, 1st ave., 114th, Harlem River Ave. A, Ave. B, 7th and 10th. Broadway, 14th, 4th ave., E. 17th Sedgwick ave., Harlem River, Washington 5th ave, and Waverley pl........ Kingston, Brooklyn aves., Park pl., Prospect Bay Parkway, Gravesend Bay, 21st and Eastern Parkway, Washington, Flatbush aves. Knickerbocker, Irving aves., Starr, Suydam.. DeKalb ave.. Washington Park, Willoughby, Fort Hamilton, 7th aves., 73d.... Coney Island Parkside, Caton aves. Richards, Verona, Dwight, Pioneer streets. Union Turnpike, Metropolitan, Division, Myrtle! | Richmond Turnpike, Eddy, certain lands. 13.0 39.9 6.8 30.5 7.5 13.0 6.1 139.8 28.9 4.6 The largest city in Switzerland is Zurich, which had a population of 189,088 on December 1, 1910. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. The New York Public Library, the most costly and the largest library in the world, was established by a consolidation of the Astor, Lenox and Tilden libraries on May 23, 1895. The Astor Library, which had been founded in 1849 by John Jacob Astor, consisted of 267,000 rare historical books, pamphlets and manuscripts. To this foundation the Lenox Library, founded by James Lenox in 1870, brought 267,000 volumes, consisting of a precious Biblical collection and books on American history, and the Tilden Library, founded by Samuel J. Tilden in 1884, a political library of 16,000 volumes and a foundation of $2,000,000. On March 25, 1896, the trustees made a formal address to the Mayor asking aid from the city in securing the site of the old Croton distributing reservoir in Bryant Park, in Fifth avenue, between 40th and 42d streets, for the new library. On May 19, 1897, the act providing for its erection was passed by the Legislature. The cornerstone was laid on November 10, 1902; at the end of November, 1906, the entire building was under roof, and on May 23, 1911, the new library was formally opened. The building, in the Renaissance style of architecture, is in the form of a rectangle, 390 feet long and 270 feet deep, built around two inner courts, each about 80 feet square. The area covered is about 115,000 square feet, the cubic contents 10,380,000 cubic feet. The material is largely white Vermont marble (375,000 cubic feet), bonded in brick walls. There are seats for 1,760 readers. In the main stack room are 334,530 feet of shelving, with capacity for about 2,500,000 volumes, and in the special reading rooms are about 70,000 feet of shelving, with capacity for about 500,000 volumes. The collection of books now numbers over 1,126,000 volumes and pamphlets. The building was erected by the city of New York at an approximate cost of $9,000,000; the value of the ground, which was owned by the city, is $20,000,000; the estimated value of the library and its contents is $50,000,000. This building serves as the centre of the whole library system and contains the administrative offices, the main reference collections, a branch for the circulation of books, and also the travelling library office and the library for the blind. On March 12, 1901, Andrew Carnegie offered to give $5,200,000 to the city for the construction and equipment of free circulating libraries upon condition that the city should provide the land and agree to maintain the libraries Circulating when built, and on April 26 an act was passed authorizing acceptance Libraries. of the gift. An agreement with the city was executed on July 17, the library acting as agent for Mr. Carnegie, under which forty-two buildings are to be erected in Manhattan, The Bronx and Richmond (later increased to fifty), on sites to be selected and purchased by the city, with the approval of the library, the buildings to be leased to the library and to be under its control. The city agrees to provide adequate yearly maintenance, 10 per cent of the cost of each building being agreed upon as a minimum. The first Carnegie building, known as the Yorkville branch, was opened December 13, 1902, at No. 222 East 79th street. To-day forty branch libraries are operated by the circulation department of the New York Public Library. Each branch maintains an adult department, with a collection of books for circulation for adult readers; a juvenile department, with a collection of books for the special use of children, and a reading room, in which are kept daily newspapers, current magazines and reference books. During the year ended June 30, 1912, the circulation of books for home use amounted to 7,969,160 volumes. The number of readers using the reference collection at the central building was 377,142, and the number of books Circulation. called for by them was 311,229. The number of readers and visitors in the central building was 2,210,324. There were 2,042,493 volumes in the entire library on June 30, 1912, of which 1,164,404 were in the reference department and 878.089 in the circulation department. The number of people on the staff of the reference department on January 1, 1911, was 360; on the staff of the circulation department, 567; total, 927. The total expenditures for the calendar year 1911 were $1,114,179.95, of which $419,712.70 was spent for the reference department and $694.467.25 for the circulation department. Of the reference department expnditures $80.254.57, or 19 per cent., went for books, binding and periodicals: $234.962.42, or 56 per cent., for salaries; $104,495.71, or 25 per cent., for all other purposes. Of the circulation department expenditures $185.667.18, or 26 per cent., went for books, binding and periodicals; $363,827.62. or 52 per cent., went for salaries; $144,972.45, or 21 per cent.. for all other purposes. The branches in Manhattan are: Central building, No. 476 Fifth ave., 40th to 42d st.; *No. 33 East Broadway (Chatham Square), *No. 192 East Broadway (Seward Park), No. 61 Rivington st., No. 388 East Houston st. (Hamilton Branches. Fish Park), No. 66 Le Roy st. (Hudson Park), No. 49 Bond st., No. 135 Second ave., 8th st. (Ottendorfer). *No. 331 East 10th st. (Tompkins Square), No. 251 West 13th st. (Jackson Square), No. 228 East 23d st. (Epiphany), No. 209 West 23d st. (Muhlenberg), No. 303 East 36th st. (St. Gabriel's Park), No. 501 West 40th st. (St. Raphael), No. 226 West 42d st. (George Bruce), No. 123 East 50th st. (Cathedral), No. 742 Tenth ave., 51st st. (Columbus), No. 121 East 58th st., No. 328 East 67th st., No. 190 Amsterdam ave., 69th st. (Riverside), *No. 1465 Avenue A, 78th st. (Webster), *No. 222 East 79th st. (Yorkville), No. 444 Amsterdam ave., 81st st. (St. Agnes), No. 112 East 96th st.. No. 206 West 100th st. (Bloomingdale), No. 174 East 110th st. (Aguilar), No. 201 West 115th st., No. 9 West 124th st., Mount Morris Park (Harlem Library), No. 224 East 125th st., No. 103 West 135th st., No. 503 West 145th st. (Hamilton Grange), No. 922 St. Nicholas ave., 156th st. (Washington Heights). The branches in The Bronx are: *No. 321 East 140th st. (Mott Haven), No. 78 Of the Irish-born population of the United States-2,000,000 in 1911-Pennsylvania had 205,909. West 168th st. (Highbridge), *No. 610 East 169th st. (Morrisania), No. 1866 Washington ave., 176th st. (Tremont), No. 3041 Kingsbridge ave., 230th st. (Kingsbridge). The branches in Richmond are: St. George, No. 5 Central ave. (Staten Island office of travelling libraries); Port Richmond, No. 75 Bennett st.; Stapleton, No. 132 Canal st.; Tottenville, No. 7430 Amboy road. The central building-including most of the reading rooms-is open from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. on week days (including all holidays) and from 1 to 10 p. m. on Sundays. The central circulation room is open on Sundays only from 2 to 6 p. m.; the print room closes at 6 p.m. on week days and Sundays; the maps, music, Oriental, children's and patents rooms close at 6 p. m. on week days and for the entire day on Sunday, and the library for the blind at 5 p. m. on week days and the entire day on Sundays. Except as above noted, all reading rooms are open till 10 p. m. every evening. The picture galleries close at 6 p. m. every evening. The administrative offices close at 5 p. m. on week days and for the entire day on Sundays. The branches, with a few exceptions, are open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.. on week days. The trustees of the library are John W. Alexander, William W. Appleton, John L. Cadwalader, Andrew Carnegie, Cleveland H. Dodge, John M. Farley, Samuel Greenbaum, John Henry Hammond, Lewis Cass Ledyard, J. Pierpont Board of Morgan, Morgan J. O'Brien, Stephen H. Olin, Henry Fairfield Osborn. Trustees. William Barclay Parsons, George L. Rives, Charles Howland Russell, Edward W. Sheldon, George W. Smith, Frederick Sturges, Henry W. Taft, William Stewart Todd, William J. Gaynor, Mayor of the City of New York (ex officio); William A. Prendergast, Controller of the City of New York (ex officio); John Purroy Mitchel, President of the Board of Aldermen (ex officio). The officers are: President, John L. Cadwalader; first vice-president, George L. Rives; second vice-president, Lewis Cass Ledyard; secretary, Charles Howland Russell, No. 476 Fifth avenue; treasurer, Edward W. Sheldon; director, John S. Billings; assistant director, Edwin H. Anderson. *Carnegie buildings, open full hours every week day (legal holidays included). SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1912. Elementary Schools. Manhattan. Bronx. | Brooklyn. | Queens. | Richmond. Summary, Elementary and High Schools, All Boroughs. VOTE OF NEW YORK CITY SINCE CONSOLIDATION. Mayor, Controller and President of the Board of Aldermen. Mayor. 1897. Controller. President of Municipal Manhattan Brooklyn... 55,834 143,666 77,210) 66,399 137,762 59,408 62,690 145,419 63,252 48,187 77,435 50,231 6,918 9,396 3,820 Richmond.. 2,779 4,871 2,798 3,323 4,903 1,718 3,267 4,986 1,707 Total.. 101,873 233,997 151,540||124,017|230,122|113,881||121,062|237,236 119,010 Plurality... 82,457 106,105 116,174.... The second largest city in Russia is Moscow, which had a population of 1,359,254 in Boroughs. Scattering Vote, 1897. Mayor-Henry George, jr., Jeffersonian Democracy, 21,693; Patrick J. Gleason, President of the Municipal Council-Jerome O'Neill, Jeffersonian Democracy, -; Winfield S. Overton, United Democracy, 846; Charles H. Matchett, Soclalist Labor, 15,600; Francis Crawford, Prohibition, 1,744. 1901. Mayor. President, Boroughs. Controller. Fusion.. sen, D... George M. Van Hoe 13,118 13,679 13,106 13,502 113,180 88,914 13,791 6,772 6,009 6,832 5,885 6,732 5,971 261,773 34,040 Manhattan and The Bronx 162,292 Brooklyn Queens Richmond Total. Plurality Scattering Vote, 1901. Mayor-Alfred L. Manterre, Pro., 1,192; Benjamin F. Keinnard, Soc. Lab., 6,141; Controller-Francis Crawford, Pro., 1,250; John J. Kinneally, Soc. Lab., 6,417; Benjamin Hanford, Soc., 9,715. Morris Braun, Soc., 9,521. President of the Board of Aldermen-John McKee, Pro., 1,225; John H. Moore, Soc. Lab., 6,560; Henry Stahl, Soc., 10,158. For Mayor-Charles L. Forman, Soc. D., 16,956; John McKee, Pro., 869; James T. Hunter, Soc. Lab., 5,205; William S. Devery, Devery, 2,960. For Controller-Morris Braun, Soc. D., 17,640; Levi Hoag, Pro., 906; John J. Kinneally, Soc. Lab., 5,572; Louis W. Morrison, Devery, 2,616. For President of the Board of Aldermen-Peter J. Flanagan, Soc. D., 17.967; William H. Draper, Pro., 1,039; Elmer E. Snyder, Soc. Lab., 5,596; William J. Stewart, Devery, 3,061. The largest city of Russian Central Asia is Tashkent, which had a population c 164.749 in 1904. 1 2 |