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[Robert Garland to Colonel S.H. Church, February 2, 1915]
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| Title | [Robert Garland to Colonel S.H. Church, February 2, 1915] |
| Subject | Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence
Garland, Robert--Correspondence
Macbeth, George A.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh--Finance
Public libraries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Council
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| Description | A letter from Robert Garland to Colonel S.H. Church recounting the University Club meeting where Mr. Macbeth proposed the idea of charging patrons to use the library, which no one favored. The bottom of letter includes an additional typed note to Mr. Carnegie from S.H.C. |
| Creator | Garland, Robert
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| Publisher | Carnegie Mellon University Libraries; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, William R. Oliver Special Collections Room |
| Date | 2/2/1915 |
| Type | Letter; Text |
| Format | image/jp2; [1] p. ; 28 cm. |
| Identifier | Box B, Series 1, FF 25 |
| Language | eng |
| Relation | Andrew Carnegie Correspondence Collection
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| Rights | Archived at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/Copyright.html |
| Transcript | box00002_fld00025_bdl0001_doc0008_00000001.txt; council of the city of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA February 2, 1915 J.M Goehring Dr. G.A. Dillinger W.Y.English, Chairman Robert Garland, Chairman John S. Herron WM. A. Hoeveler Dr. J. Kerr Enoch Rauh Dr. S.S. Woodburn "R.G. Personal" Col. S.H. Church, President, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Dear sam: - I have yours of the 29th ult. and am very glad indeed to see you take this action. I attended a meeting at the University Club on a recent sunday evening, a meeting at the University Club on a recent Sunday evening, at which Messrs. Macbeth, Rauh, Craver and Cunningham, also statistician Breitenstein, from the City Controller's Office, were present. At that time Mr. Macbeth brought up this "pet" scheme, and I immediately riddled it, saying that the Library was free to the people; had the inscription "sculped" thereon; that Mr. Carnegie would not like anything of the kind, and further, the Trustees would have to be consulted. As Mr. Craver can further inform you, it was decided at that meeting, that so far as we could go as the Library committee, it would not be necessary to close any of the main Libraries. The action that Mr. Macbeth took was entirely his own, and, in my opinion, was not only exceedingly ill-advised but he arrogated considerable to himself. He is an old man, however, and we must be charitable. Even if his plan would be carried into effect, the amount of money received in a long period of time would probably not exceed one thousand dollars, yet he was very enthusiastic. It never occurred to me that he would carry it to the extent he did, but he stood severely alone, as neither Mr. Rauh nor I gave him any encouragement whatsoever. Very truly yours, Dear Mr. Carnegie: This is from Robert Garland. The Trustees all feel as I do about Mr. Macbeth's revolutionary proposal. S.H.C. |
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