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el LRI X A NS Membars and their Families wiii be furnished with Urasd Stand Badges wioich "hev | are politely reguesied to exhibit by wearing. In caseoi.the Dudges not being worn the official in charge bas*the right to demand tae gulity parly o exiibit same and 1f this canno: he done, ad nittance will be reiused. Partias who are noi MMEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, and desire 1o darive theie Cars, or Carriagos within the enclosvre must pay 80 cencs per iiead. Tad Judees’ Stand, must be used oniy for the purpose intended, and oniy the Presi dent, Viee President, Judge, Judge’s Assistant, and Ulerk of Scales have access to said Stand. : ‘ No Person shal! be allowed to cross the coursa or leave any of the paths leading tu samea, after the be'l has been rung, exeept during the nail hour’s intermissionsetween the Riices. > s MUSIC IN ATTENDANCE MUSIC IN ATTENDANCE 1 Sec. & I'reas. tle that wiil be on exhibition ai the Red Star 25 cants siore. Rt. Rev. Bishop Greider will eoun: toe beans and on the Y4tin. Dec. 4 p. m. the dolls wiil be pre- sented to the winner. ' Go and see the Dolls and record your guess. | (Guessing cleses at poun Dec. 24th | The Bulletin, Dec. 15th. ‘ The Virgio Island Proteciive League has sent the sum of $30.50 for distribu- tionr (O the very poor of St, Thomas, St. | Johin and St. Croix so 'My." Rotbe:Blid Praneis of this city. He in turn has rennvied S2O 10 Mr. Joseph A. B 3 :njamin for the two towns of St. Croix and sl7 to Mr. Louis Sprauve ior St. John, whila the Dalance ‘willi be disiributed in Lne poor house here —Com.—7The Bulletin, Dec. 16th. | e s RS e A | THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ITS IN | AUGURATION. | After years of, endeavour, aft-r long years of weary weling, with deterred hope that maketh the heart sick, a Public | {,ibrarv in the island of St. Thomas, has at last become a thing accomplished. | Looking back into (he past, we see In- | dividuals as weli as the combined ef- forts of societies being made for the pro- caring of such an establishiment. We | remember, how 1n i898—1900, when some of the Dritish West llndia lslands, | ntably Dominica, were <pdowed with a library Ly hat gireat American philan- | thropist Carnegie, how we, thru ceriain interested sources iried to secure a like gift, but faited. Nothing daunted, some of our ieading and educated young men got together and forming themselvés in- to a literary society, endeavoured to gain | the goodwiil and f{inancial assistance of ihe populace toward the successful achievement of this project. but failed; | not through lack of endeavowt and initia- | tive ‘but through circumstances over | which they had no control. Death claim- | ed a Ytew; while circumstances militated | in sueh a manner, shat others had to | 20 abroad Lo earn a iucrative iivelirood. | Thus, the lictle band of heroes diminish- ! ed "in number, until today, that the | grand project has been realized, only a few, of that pioneer, band, remain, Some time after the occupation of these isiands by the Americans, repro- sentations wer2 made toc Governor U ver, reiative (o the need of a publie - 31"-.'{11';. in our znidst, [his re presantaiio: meiL with sympatiny, and ever since, i idea was never allowed to lay. Wiien our popular Governor Omean, succeeded to the gove:norsinp, represen- tations concerning he Public ibra were again _put iorwaid, and met wiih ready and spontaneous sympathy: at his hand. Since the:, vo swwne was left un turned to obtain a successful issue to | vur desires. KEventually, the <ovices of | that greatest of mothers—'t{he Ameri ran Red Cross which has cortributea | ¢3,000 to (he cause——were enlisted. Like- wise, were those of the American Libra- | ry Associatien whichh has contributed | right robiy to the cause of the Library. | ‘lO assist in this weli-merited scheme, tne Guvernment on May 14rh, introdueed in the Coloniai Councii an urdivance au- | thorizing the establishment and main- tenance of a Public Library, and toward which, the sum of Fres, 6,000 was bud- | getted. Securing the assistance o! some ladies, they with the zeal so characteris- iic of them, when engaged iu charitable work, collected from the general publie - the sum $659.14. Things having tnos beer got ‘‘under way,’’ the sight for the | Library the upper storey of the huilding | east oi the [Lutheran Church was secured: while a iew days later saw the arrival irom the Stutes ol viisses Adelina Zach- | art and Eleanor ‘iieascn to take charge | of the operations. i With heart and miad set upon ithe work | before them, it was noi long befcre things began (o take on a definite shape. | Soon books began coming in from the | States and elsewhere, znd so rapidiy was the work accomplished, that a date {or | the definite opening of the much needed | and highly prized institution couid be set. : Friday mght, December 10th, saw th> | formal opening of the institution | Previous (o its being turned aver 10 the commanity, appropriate exercises, | consisting ot musieal sclecrions by mem- bers of the J. S. Navy Band, addresses and a vocal solo by Mr. Pnil Gomez, ' | were rengdered, 1n she spacious ball voom of the Grand*Hotel. With the Hon’ble U. S. Kean membe: of the Coloniat Coun- il and Chairman of the Library Com- mission in the chair, the meerting was called to oyder at 10 p. m. Among the vas' audience were His Exceliency Gov- - ernor Uman and #rs. Oman and mem- bers oi thc Governor’s stats, the Chair- man and members of the (oloma. (un- cil, the teathers of the various schoois, . members ot the elergy, and wmany of our rmerenants aud prowinent Citlzens. Next on the programmme, after u few prefatory remarks by the Chairman, was . a short address and prayer by the Revw. Fr. Guillo, ~ 8. 5. K., followed by & short address oi. welcome by the Chair: man. Then came (he selection ‘"Ameri- ¢a’’ bv the Band. Then followed the ad- dress of the evening by the Rev. A. H. Leslie. Ihis was in itseif a lterary treat, and we regre: that lack ot space praveats us irom giving some exeerpis from this briiliant oration. it was fine! Anofner muasicai selection by the Band fotlowing. Aiss Zachart was Introduced t 0 she audience, and gave a suecinet ac- count of Lie work, sie and her colleague | -—Miss Gleason—had done. ‘l'aken up with ne=r subject, sbe carried the audi- ; ence along with her, as pnase aitter | phase in the preliminary work of the . Library was unfolded. 1 Al he close of her addiress. She re. ceived well—deserved ovation Ihe Li- | orary having now been formally handed | over, ihe Chairman accepred same. | Then, followed a short address on Libraries by Mr. ieroy Nolte. This . was feillowed by a song by Mr Phiiip | omez beautifully rendered gs usual, ooana aceempanied DY oud PlSing pianist Master Hugo sbornn. | After the closing adoress by the R, . nev. oishop Greider, President of the American Hed Cross, and tie playing of the National Anthem, the vastgathep- ~ing surged lorwuard on their way over , to the Library Building. | Herc, a beaulifui collection of books . of every description, met the eys—histo- - ries, biograpiies, natural study, fiction, poetry, encyciopaedias, books of all sorts. . And with cager, glisiening eye, and ba- - tedbreath, as the vast throng passed from room to room oi its tour of inspection, one couid read nothing hut aypreciation and high expectation of the work aeco - plished. ' > As one, wio nas always had the- idea of the crection of a Public Library in our midst ; as one, who ior years has planned and worked towards it realization, we haii the opening of the Publie Library with joy. With acclaim. we hail the 10tk day of December as a red-letrer day in the 'fe of our community. Long live the Public Library! Long live the Ama: vican hed Cross and the other assoeis. tions ihat have helped to make the open. ing of the Public Liorary a suecess I St Thomas Mail Notes, Dec. 13th.