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halls where they are not allowed to work unmolested. The machines 

 and ventilators are set up in the basement, whereby injurious tremors 

 and disturbing- noisi^s arc occasioned in the building. The electric 

 light is furnished l)y the Edison Company. The ventilation was at 

 first so arranged that no air could enter through the. windows, which 

 were tightly screwed down, it being forced into the building already 

 washed and purified. However, one "couldn't breathe there," so it is 



Fig. 50.— Newberry Library. Plan (if seeond floor. 

 42, history (56 by 68 feet) ; 43, corridor; 44, philosophy (60 by 66 feet); 48, large reading room (.59 by 6S 

 feet); 49, bound periodical.s (26 by 50 feet); 50, annex to art and literature (30 by 33 feet); 51, art and 

 literature (56 by 68 feet); 52, women's closet; 65, shaft. 



now ventilated by opening the windows, which have been altered for 

 the purpose. The apparatus is either not rightly set up or not 

 properly run, for similar ones are working satisfactorily in the Con- 

 gressional Library at Washington and elsewhere. I shall speak more 

 fully of this important subject when I treat of the public library (see 

 p. 473). While the books could, with the ventilation that was designed, 

 be kept free from dust or nearly so, now they arc soiled without hin- 

 drance or require a greater expenditure for cleaning, and although the 



Vu;. 51. — Newberry Lilirary. Plan of third flroor. 

 56, -'Friday Club" (.56 by 68 feet); 57, geneaology, music (50by 62 feet); 58, corridor; 62, anteroom; 63 

 and 65, lecture rooms; 66, empty (33 by 60 feet); 67, men's closet; 68, lunch room; 71, natural sci- 

 ences (66 by 68 feet); 72, shaft. 



situation of the Newberry' Ijibrary is not so unfavora])le for soot and 

 dust as that of the Crerar and public libraries, these bad conditions 

 are notably present. 



The building its(>lf was constructed throughout in a tircproof man- 

 ner, with nothing combustible except the window frames and doors. 

 Clumsy wooden book stacks have, however, been installed, although, 

 almost ever}' where these have in recent times given place to iron ones, 



