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LIBRARY WORKERS MEETINCAPITAL Delegates Here From Canada , ^gnd Practically All the , American States. ' __ EDUCATION OF PUBLIC THEME FOR DISCUSSION Speakers Will Consider Ways of Making- Books More Useful to Average Man. Washington is -welcoming today to t 'i?- National Capital about 1,200 men and women who are doing a big work throughout this nation and Canada in the education of all classes, many of n horn, deprived of a chance to study jn classrooms, are using their spare time in home study under the sympathetic guidance of the librarians of tlie country. The American library Association opens a five-day conference here tomorrow. Delegations are coming in by every train and are being made comfortable by Dr. George F. Bowerman, local "librarian, who is chairman of the urrangements committee, and by George TV I'tlcy of Chicago, secretary of the American Library Association, who arrived here last evening. These librarians of state and city public libraries and of special libraries arc coming here for the purpose of ex hanging ideas and considering measnrcs designed to make the public and other libraries more useful. Delegates From Distant Points. Delegates have been registered from the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Canada, and from, nearly all of the states of the VnioFi. including Washington, Oregon. California and New Mexico. The most distaht delegate comes from Edmonston. Alberta. The American Library Association has TYInr.' than *> fiftO inomKoru ooottarod Throughout almost every important . ity and many small towns in the United States, Canada and some foreign countries. Several closely affiliated organizations will hold sessions concurrently, among them being the Normal and High School Librarians, Special Libraries Association, American Association of Law Libraries and League of Library Commissions. Separate meetings also will be held of the agricultural libraries section, profession training section, section on library work with children, catalogue section, trustees' section and college and reference section. In connection with the convention there will be an interesting exhibit at 1 the Washington Public Library, showing all the latest and most improved labor saving devices, an exhibiWof school libraries, brought togethegPby the United States bureau of education, and an exhibit of the work of the Washington Public Library. Sixtythree large manufacturers of these labor-saving devices have installed exhibits. To Cxtend Formal Welcome. Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of Congress, will extend the formal greetings to the delegates at the opening of the first general session Monday evening, to? which Edwin H. Anderson, director nf f Vi in TC AW Vnplf PiiKUn T.JKrorv president of the association, will respond. Immediately afterward Mr. Anderson will make his annual address as president speaking to the topic "The Tax on Ideas." The libraries of Washington will be shown in an illustrated lecture by H. H. B. Meyer, chief of the division of bibliography. Library of Congress. All arrangements for the conference have been made under the direction of Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Washington Public Library, and the exhibition of labor-saving devices has been arranged by C. Seymour Thompson, assistant to Mr. Bowerman. Of the four general sessions of the American Library Association the opening meeting tomorrow night and the meetings of Tuesday and Wednesday will be held in the auditorium of Memorial Continental Hall. The closing general session, Friday afternoon, will be held at the New Willard Hotel. All other meetings of the American Library Association and of the Special Libraries Association will be held at the New Willard. The National Association of State Libraries and the American Association of Law Libraries will meet at the New Ebbitt. Plan to Avoid Conflict. Th?- meetings of the affiliated organizations and the various sections will be held mornings and afternoons so as rrnt to conflict with the general sessions. The second general session, Tuesday evening, will include the following addresses: "The Need of National Archive Building." by I>r. J. Franklin Jamebon. director of the department of his- j torual research, Carnegie Institution of Washington: "The Library and the Immigrant." by John Foster Carr, di rerior. immigration r-aucation jso- j iety. New York city, and "Libraries for Rural Communities," by Dr. P. P. Claxton. United States commissioner of education. The third general session will discuss papers by C. K. Bolton, librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, on the "Present Trend': Katharine Ilinton Wootten, librarian Carnegie Library. Atlanta. Ga.. on "Recent Library Development in the South," and Robert "XV. de Forest, president, and Miss Leila "Mechlin, secretary, of the American J'ederation of Arts, on "The Educational Work of the American Federation of Arts." An interesting paper on "Prestige" v. ill he presented at the fourth session, Friday afternoon, by \V. N. C. Carlton, 1 orarian Newberry Library. Chicago. Miss Agnes Van Valkenburg. instructor of the Library School of the New York Public Library, will give a series of j.-adings from recent fiction. The Tel: ainder of the afternoon will be de> ..ted to business and the receipt of trie report of the tellers of election. Membership Embraces Europe. The Special Libraries Association, which will hold supplementary sessions, was organized in 11)09. and now has a membership of in which are represented braries in Kngland, Hungary. Belgium, udia ami Germany, as well as in practih 1!\ all the states of the t'nion. These librarians are associated with business organizations such as tire insurance companies, public service corporations. municipal reference libraries, ? ngineering firms, banking associations and houses, gas and electric companies, social service organizations, automobile and other manufacturers, financial institutions. and civil, electrical, me-, ? haniral and chemical engineering houses. Tli? - president of this organization is J?. X. Handy of the Insurance Ubrary As*<>i*Sition, Boston, and the secretarytreasurer is Guy E. Marlon of the Arthur 7?. Tattle Company. Boston. During the week there will be papers from Bugene 7 ". McPike, manager of the Central Fruit Irtspatch. Chi'-ago; G. W. L.ee of the Boston Co-operative Information Bureau; "Rrainerd Dyer of the National Carbon i'omoany. Miss O. M. Imhoff of the International Health Commission. B. C. Wolf of the Curtis Publishing Companv. Miss /, Massey of the Retail Credit Company of Atlanta, a? well as others. The meetings w ill be held in the New VVillard and special exhibits will be on display .:i the Gridiron room of the New Willard Hotel. ? PUBLIC NOW MAY SEE \ NEW BUREAU BUILDING Structure Is Regarded as a Model G in Accommodations for Employes. Good Meals Are Served by the Res- E taurant at a Minimum of Cost. The new building: of the bureau of engraving: and printing is now open to gi public observation, although there are tt many things yet to be done to add tc the touches of a finished structure, tt Competent guides will show sightseers tt about. sv The processes of manufacturing paper __ , money, bonds and securities, postage ~~ and revenue stamps and other engraved printing for Uncle Sam are exhibited from excellent vantage points. Small galleries run around each workroom of the big manufacturing plant, where visitors can look down upon the operations and gain adequate idea of how it is all done. The lunchroom on the top floor and i the adjoining roof gardens, now in full operation, will be especially interesting to onlookers. In the lunchroms. one for man and the other for woman employes of the bureau, there gather in the course of the day nearly every one of the more than 4,100 employes. In the course of the day 1,400 "regular" dinners are sold at a cost of 15 cents ! each. Dinners for 15 Cents. Here is a recent regular dinner menu: Broiled trout, escalloped tomatoes, creamed potatoes, bread and butter, coffee. Another: Braised short rib of beef, spaghetti, creamed potatoes, bread and butter, coffee. This means a piece of fish as big as one's hand and a portion of beef large enough for a mighty hungry man. Four pieces of bread go with best creamery butter. A bowl of clam chowder one day, a Brunswick stew another day and other dishes of the same category on other days with three pieces of bread and butter, are dispensed for a nickel. Five cents will buy two excellent oranges. And the bill of fare will contain baked beans, potato salad, spaghetti, lettuce and egg salad, lettuce and tomato sandwich, ham sandwich, cup custard, pies, pudding, baked apple and ice cream, strawberry shortcake. Some days there is deviled crab or a hot Frankfurter sandwich. Milk, ginger ale, coffee and tea are the drinks dispensed. Fruit and candy are offered in wide assortment. Cleanliness a Watchword. The lunch counters are attended by clean, white-aproned attendants. All || the pots and pans, containers and crock- || ery are as clean as hand labor can J! make them. I For the midday recess for luncheon || the employes are released from work in I three relays, each for a half hour, be- I tween the time of 11:45 and 12:45 II o'clock. After lunch the employes find II time to patronize the roof gardens. One ] is set apart for the use of the woman I employes and another for men. There I is a music box playing on the woman'a I roof during recess nour, and many a women practice the steps of the new H dances at this time. Others sit around II and chat or exchange visits. Smoking 11 is permitted on the men's roof, the 11 only place in the building. Awnings will be set in place on the II roofs in a few days, and provide an I agreeable shade from the heat of the II summer's sun. II PLAITS DAYLIGHT TRIPS. N. and W. Steamers to Adopt Hew Summer Schedule. Plans for the new day route which the I Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Com- 11 pany will this summer inaugurate be- II tween this city, Old Point and Norfolk || have been perfected. Commencing July I 2, the steamer Newport News will be put I on a triweekly schedule, leaving this || city at 7:45 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays || and Saturdays, and from Norfolk at the || same hour Wednesdays, Fridays and Sun- II days. This new service will give many | who have never been enabled to see | the Potomac river by daylight an op- | portunity to do so. Travelers say that | while the Potomac has not the grandeur I ; of the Hudson, which is visited each sea- | son by thousands of tourists, it is one of ] the most beautiful waterways in the | ! world and in a quiet manner rivals the If ! bold beauty of the Hudson, so that a trip || ! by daylight will be a revelation to those II unacquainted with it. The steamer will make these daylight i trips during July and August, when the ! days are long and the scenery can be enjoyed along the whole length of the Potomac and Chesapeake bay. The steamer Newport News has recently been made practically a new steamer and will be found well adapted for a pleasure outing of the kind the local I company has arranged. The Norfolk and I Washington line is the first of the Chesapeake bay lines to Norfolk to arrange daylight trips, but it is probable that the lines out of Baltimore will follow its example. The Washington Chamber of Commerce has arranged to make the trip on the steamer leaving here Saturday, July 18. WELSH BOYS TO SING. Bomilly Choir to Appear at Calvary Sunday School House Friday. The Romilly School Boys' Choir, from Barry. Wales, is scheduled to sing at the Calvary Baptist Church Sunday school house. Friday evening, at 8 o'clock, for the benefit of the Italian mission supported by the Baptist churches of this city. The choir is closing a two-month educational tour of this country, and has been warmly received at other places at which It has stopped in the United States. The choir carried off the highest honors at Wrexham, Wales, in 1910, participated by special invitation at the Kmr?ire musical festival in London in 1911, and in 1912 won the gold prize at the international musical contest In Paris. ! The bovs. whose ages are from nine to fourteen years, sing in Welsh and English. The choir is composed of thirtyfour members, and is under the direction of Prof. W. M. Williams, assisted by Miss Laffey and Miss Norton as soloists. The boys' orchestra of stringed instruments will take part in the concert. LAWYERS HAVE SHAD BAKE. Three Hundred Members of Bar Association Take Trip. j About '100 members of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia attended the twenty-seventh annual shad bake of the organization at Marshall Hall yester day. The attorneys went down the river on the steamer Charles Macalester. the boat leaving Washington at 7 o'clock yesterday morning and reaching the city on the return trip shortly after o'clock last night. A bas#- ball game between nines captained by Justice Gould and Justice Wright was the amusement feature of the day. and no records as to the final score were preserved. Music on the trip down the river, as well as on the return trip, was furnished by George O'Connor and Matt Horn, "assisted*' by a chorus composed of members of the association. The committee in charge of the afTair waa composed of Chkrles J. Murphy, chairman; Clarence Ft. Wilson. Edward B. Kimball. H. Preacott Gatley. Stanton J. Peelle, George T. Dunlop. Joseph A. Burkhart. George H. O'Connor. Alexander H. Bell. Charles H Bates and Edmund Brady. r IORMAL SCHOOL 'GRAB PRESENT GREEK PL) -o to Homer for Idea, Bat the Li] Are Original in "Gnardinin of the Hearth." iramatic Talent Displayed a Fie ant Surprise to Those in the Large Audience. The fourteen young women who i raduate in the kindergarten course le Normal School next month sho? their friends last night just W ley con do In the dramatic line wl ley choose. 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It is nicely flnishe door pull, and is fitted with ? has claw feet and is priced vei JIJ complete theatrical assembly room of Th V the James Ormond Wilson School, and to< |J the name of the production is "Guar- otl dians of the Hearth." ha 1W Sounds a bit odd? Like it might be mi If something on ^the order of the Boy < I Scouts? or "Way Down East"? Not at dr all. This dramatic performance is ac- m claimed by Normal School girls as the [ies topnotch of amateur production in the p? classics. It is an episode from Homer's th "Odyssey," with a brunette Ulysses, w< Greek boys, maidens, a king and queen ?a and others, all played by the aforementioned fourteen young women. te You may search the records of the wi drama for ages and you will not find any te mention of "Guardians of the Hearth," re for there isn't any record of It. No one ever heard of it before. 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It has three large drawers, one of which is lined for silver, and two large cupboards. All are fitted with wood pulls and cabinet locks. It has a heavy plate glass mirror, with beveled edges, and is a real value at this price. |k pFC] Sale of lllll I -f ( Our last big RSTf? y, China and Japan is i BpSS? fresh, new mattingrs at as MI is fresh, new stock and yiEjf * _ . Mattings make the clea J&JT summer floor covering. 15c Closely Wovei lall ^ ^5c Heavy Cochin 30c Extra Heavy 1 IU Matting W 45c 116-Warp Lin Matting 35c Finely Woven 40c Extra Quality A ley were aided, and very materially, 1 ), by Miss Marietta Stockard and i isr members of the faculty, but all nds agree that the class should get as ich credit as possible. !)ld Homer himself probably never earned that his poetic anecdote of ysses on the Isle of Phaeacla would er be played here in Washington by urteen fine-looking young women who .inted their own back drops, struck eir scenes, did their own stage-hand jrk and then drew the applause of 500 mds whose owners probably did not low that slight liberties had been taken th Homer's text Just to make it inresting. However, the liberties taken fere justifiable. Progressive kitidergarn students can't be bound down to. a actionary like Homer. A Revelation to Homer. 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And, of course, there >' is a love story in it Pallas Minerva is 1 responsible for it She appeared to Kau- I sicaa. Princess of Phaeacia. and told her J a lot of things that set the girl to think- c ing, whereupon she fell in love with li the first man she eaw. which happened to be the tattered Ulysses. However, it was Telemachus she married, and Tele- t maohus. as any high echool lad In the j classical course will tell you, was the j son of the wanderer Ulysses, who euf- ^ fered so much he was always mention- . ing it (after a glass of wine). ^ Saved by King's Daughter. j F The greatest touch of genius, according A to the audience, lies in the little scene in E the second act wherein a young Greek boy e is accused of stealing "the purple grapes a which hang on the wall.'* King Alcinous seemed to have taken over the jurisdiction of the present-day juvenile court and was t >unts Closed in 30 Days r. W. 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