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in time advance to a hig-h rank and by the liberal principles of its 

 administration become of great use. We may well l)e anxious to know 

 how its librarian, Mr, C. W. Andrews, will solve the great problem of 

 a new building after the many notable attempts in this line that have 

 been made in the United States. 



14. NEWBERRY LIBRARY. 



This li1)rarv, like the John Crerar Library, owes its existence to the 

 generosity of a rich citizen of Chicago, Walter Loomis New])erry/' 

 who died in 1S68. In a will made in 1860'^ he left half of his prop- 

 erty after the death of the direct heirs for a "free public library'' 

 in the northern part of the city, and directed his two trustees to use a 

 portion of the bequest for buildings, but to invest the remainder as 

 they might think proper "for the growth, preservation, permanence, 

 and general usefulness of such librar}'." After the direct heirs died 

 in 1885, the property in question amounted to over $2,000,000,' and 

 in 1887 there was $67,778 income available, so that steps could be 

 taken toward its foundation. The two trustees took counsel with 

 some other gentlemen, and it was decided to establish a reference 

 library whose })ooks should not be lent out — like the John Crerar 

 Library, which has adopted that plan — as distinguished from a circu- 

 lating library from which the books may be taken out. In the same 

 year the erection of a temporary building on the site of the testator's 

 residence in the northern part of the city was taken in hand, some 

 rooms were rented for immediate use, and there was appointed a 

 librarian, W. F. Poole, who for fourteen years had occupied a similar 

 position in the public library of Chicago and was one of the leading 

 librarians of America (among other things he founded in 1853 the 

 Index to Periodical Literature which is still continued), and two other 

 emplo3"ees. Forty thousand dollars was appropriated for books and 

 pamphlets. In the spring of 1888 some 14,000 volumes were installed 

 in the provisional building, and the library was opened to the pul)lic. 



At the beginning of 181>u a removal was made to another provisional 

 building not far from the tirst one and near the site on which it was 

 intended to build the final structure. This was a one-storied, fireproof 



« W. L. Newberry, born in 1804; his ancestors caine from England to America in 

 1630. He lived subsequent to 1833 as a banker in Chic-ago, possessed a fine library, 

 belonged among others to the Chicago Board of Education, and was president of the 

 Historical Society. From 1857, because of his health, he spent every winter in 

 southern France. Not only is he renowned for his own magnificent benefaction 

 which keeps his memory permanently green, but his example induced the founda- 

 tion of the John Crerar Library in another part of the city (see p. 451). 



&See The Newberry Library, Chicago. Certificate of Incorporation and Incor- 

 poration Act, p. 13 (27 pp. )• 



<■ Already in 1894 it had increased to $6,000,000, and as a great i)ortion of it is 

 invested in houses and lots it is continuallv rising in value. 



