APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A.

In explanation of the estimates submitted by the Librarian of Congress (see pp. 19 to 23).

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,

Washington, October 14, 1913.

SIR: The following summary and explanation of the estimates for the year ending June 30, 1915, are respectfully submitted:

New positions suggested included in former estimates:
General administration—

1 assistant...

Submitted ($1,000) in annual estimates since and including the estimates for 1910.

Mail and delivery

1 assistant (in particular to operate the motor cycle in connection with the Library delivery service)................... Submitted in annual estimates for 1913.

Documents-

2 translators at $1,200 each....

1 assistant at $1,200 submitted in annual estimates since and including the estimates for 1910-2 translators at $1,200 each" submitted in estimates for 1913.

$1,080

600

2,400

900

Submitted in annual estimates since and including the estimates for 1910.

1 assistant...

New positions suggested not included in former estimates:
Manuscripts: 1 assistant (stenographer and typewriter).
Reading room: 2 junior stack assistants, at $600 each..

2 at $1,500 were included in estimates for 1913, but at the hearing the request for them was postponed as not
necessary for the first year.

1,500

$6,480

900

1, 200

2, 100

8,580

REMARKS.

Manuscripts division.-One assistant (stenographer and typewriter), at $900.

An assistant who is a stenographer and typewriter is required to attend to the correspondence of the division in connection with the acquisition of manuscript material and to aid in the preparation of the publications of the division. One is needed with the necessary education and training to search intelligently for historical data, to transcribe manuscripts into typewriting (often difficult because of the handwriting), to prepare copy for the printer, and to read and correct proof.

Reading room.-Two junior stack assistants, at $600 each.

Since July 1, 1911, there have been added to the Library 236,502 volumes of which 200,000 are shelved in the reading-room stacks-in particular in the recently erected southeast stack. In the meantime there has been no increase in the number of stack assistants and the force as provided is inadequate properly to cover the additional stack space now in use. The need for two additional junior stack assistants is, therefore, pressing.

Proposed increases of salary not included in former estimates. When in 1897 the Library was moved over from the Capitol it was a mass of nearly a million books and pamphlets, and nearly a half million of other articles-undigested and largely unsorted. It lacked a modern classification or catalogue, a shelf-list, and the other, even the most elementary, apparatus of record and use. When, in 1899, I assumed charge of it the most of this was still to be provided.

At the first opportunity I described the needs and outlined an organization to meet them. In doing so I recognized that the staff proposed-and the aggregate of salaries-must seem large in comparison with the one then existing. I wished to keep it as low as possible. I foresaw that a good deal of the preliminary work-upon the mass of material could be taken care of by "junior" employees not necessarily permanent; and I anticipated that even persons with considerable education and library training might be attracted to our service by small salaries, in the hope of advancement later. Accordingly I proposed a number of positions ranging from $900 down as low as $360

per annum.

Another situation now presents itself. With the collection now doubled by accessions, the mass to be treated requires still every position now on the rolls, but the processes require a service substantially permanent. For the present work now paid at from $600 to $1,000 per annum we are now under duty not merely to get but to hold the employees, or to lose the invaluable asset of their experience and training in our methods. We are not succeeding. The best of them are leaving us for better salaries elsewhere, and those who remain are engaged in an incessant struggle to meet expenses which during the 14 years have increased steadily with the cost of living. It is hard for them, it is injurious to their efficiency, and it brings the Library into discredit in comparison with other Government establishments.

A few of the lower salaries-for elementary junior work-may still be retained to advantage, and without injustice; and 29 of them are retained in the estimates. I recommend, however, a regrading of 150 positions ranging now from $360 to $1,080 per annum.

In place of $360 for the lowest grade, I recommend $480. There are 28 such positions. The 19 positions now paid $480, $520, and $540, and now largely occupied by adults, I would raise to $600. One at $600 should go to $900. (The position is that of a telephone operator in the reading room. She has to handle calls largely from the scientific bureaus for books with difficult titles and in foreign languages, and should not merely be quick and accurate, but have a knowledge of foreign languages.)

To the other groups I refer in detail in the inverse order of the salaries:
Fifty-eight assistants at $900; 4 increased from $800 and 54 from $720.

The positions at $800 and $720, which it is proposed to increase to $900, require the services of men and women of education. Sixty dollars a month is no longer an adequate compensation for such adults.

Of the 58 assistants at $800 and $720, 11 have been in the service of the Library for over 10 years and 17 for more than 5 and less than 10 years. Of the remaining 30, 13 are graduates of universities or colleges, and nine of these had had library training before their appointment to the Library service. Of the other 17, 4 had had library training and 6 are stenographers and typewriters.

Thirty assistants at $1,080; increased from $900.

Of the 30 positions that would be affected 10 are filled at present by persons trained before entering the Library, all of them college graduates and all of them with a knowledge of at least two foreign languages, and some of four or five foreign languages. Seven more had had library training or experience before coming to the Library of Congress; and of the remaining 13, one has been in the Library service for 16 years, two for 14 years, one for 13 years, three for 11 years, one for 8 years, three for 7 years, and one for 5 years.

Eight assistants at $1,080; increased from $1,000.

Of these 8 positions 6 are connected with the Catalogue Division, and call for special training and experience. I list below the assistants who hold these positions at the present time, together with a statement of their qualifications when appointed. I may add that of these 6 assistants one has been in the service for 10 years, three for 9 years and the other two for 6 and 5 years, respectively.

Brown, Nellie B. Iowa. Central High School, Washington; George Washington University; Washington Public Library (7 years), 1900-1907; United States Bureau of Education, 1908. Languages: Good working knowledge of German; slight knowledge of French. Koehler, Hedwig J. Massachusetts. High school, Roxbury, Mass.; editor's assistant, American Art Review; with Boston Society of Decorative Art and Associated Artists, New York; assistant curator, prints department, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1890-1899; assistant, 1899-1904 (classifying and cataloguing prints). Special service, Library of Congress. Languages: German, French; working knowledge of Italian, Dutch, and Spanish. Ladd, Mary B. District of Columbia. Western High School, Washington; Columbian University, certain courses; Columbian Languages: Reading knowledge of French and German; cataloguing knowledge of Latin and Spanish.

University Library School.

Manypenny, Sara L. Tennessee. Private tutors in Paris, Berlin, Geneva; Girls' High School, Hanover, Germany; Southern Library Training School, Atlanta, Ga.; proof reader, teacher. Languages: German, French; cataloguing knowledge of Italian and Spanish. Nelson, Ina F. West Virginia. West Virginia State Normal School (graduate); Eastman Business College; West Virginia University; Drexel Institute Library School (graduate); teacher of English and mathematics; cataloguing work, Jefferson Medical College library; assistant librarian, West Virginia University library; typewriting. Languages: Good working knowledge of French and German; slight knowledge of Latin. Patterson, Grey.

Pennsylvania. University of Wooster, Ohio; Carnegie Free Library, Allegheny, Pa. (delivery and reference work, 1891-1893; head cataloguer, 1894-1902). Languages: German, French; working knowledge of Latin.

Finally, there is a group of five positions as to which there are additional special considerations. They are listed as

Five assistants, at $1,200; increased from $900.

These five positions are at the delivery desk in the main reading room. They are concerned with the direct service of books, and aid to readers; not merely to the general public, but to Senators and Representatives presenting requests or inquiries there. Even with the best efforts of the higher officials to deal with the more difficult questions a large percentage of these must be handled by these men. To handle them efficiently and discreetly they must have had the equivalent of a college education, library training or experience, tact, and address. At $900 we have never succeeded in keeping such men. Now we can no longer even get them.

Certain letters received during the past year will sufficiently indicate the situation. I quote from three of them: Letter of J. I. Wyer, jr., director New York State Library School, December 14, 1912:

I know that in times past we have occasionally been able to recommend a man for your reading room who has seemed to have suitable equipment and who was willing to begin at $900. I declare that we may never be able to do this again. * * Certainly at the present time I know

of no one to suggest to you.

*

Letter of J. C. M. Hanson, associate director, University of Chicago libraries, December 19, 1912:

I have delayed my answer to your inquiry of December 12 in the hope that some person might come to my notice likely to qualify for the position mentioned. If a woman were wanted I could supply several names, but it seems almost hopeless now to secure a man with some education and training for $900 a year, at any rate here in Chicago. * *

*

Not

Letter of Miss J. A. Rathbone, vice director, School of Library Science, Pratt Institute, January 6, 1913: You may be sure that your letter of December 12 would not have gone so long unanswered if I had had any man to recommend to you. one of our men graduates, whom I think at all fitted for the work at Washington, is getting as little as $900, so I can be of no assistance in the matter.

I give below a list of the present assistants together with a statement of the qualifications they presented when appointed:

Castimore, Clarence.

Pennsylvania. Waverly (Pa.) High School; Colgate University, A. B.; with Colgate University library

3 years. Languages: Working knowledge of German, French, and Greek. Collins, Charles W.

Alabama. Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B. Sc.; University of Chicago, Ph. B. and A. M.; student librarian of Haskell Oriental Museum, University of Chicago (1 year); Harvard University (1 year)-graduate student constitutional law; law student (private tuition-3 years); admitted to Alabama bar, 1901; author of "The Fourteenth Amendment and the States"; "Contemporary British Criticism of the Fourteenth Amendment." Languages: Reading knowledge of French and German; working knowledge of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic.

Dowdell, Thomas J.

Alabama. Public schools, Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B. S. 1903; assistant in library, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1903-4; typewriting. Languages: Working knowledge of French and German. Keyser, Herbert F. New Hampshire. Colgate University, A. B.; with Colgate University library (summer 1911); teacher; typewriting, bookkeeping. Languages: Working knowledge of French, German, and Latin. Wilson, George ĤI. Pennsylvania. Central High School, Washington; George Washington University, 1906-7; Washington Public Library; typewriting. Languages: French; working knowledge of German; high-school courses in Latin and Greek.

The regrading of these 150 positions would involve an additional annual expenditure of $23,020. This is no trifling sum. It would represent, however, an addition of but 6 per cent to the present appropriations for salaries; it would benefit no less than 150 persons nearly 40 per cent of the entire staff; and it would give a lift to the service and assurance to the work far beyond the amount involved.

Note. The proposal does not extend to the Copyright Office, the service in which is now more nearly on the basis of the executive departments.

Card distribution.-Increase of $3,500 requested.

The volume of business increases at the rate of about 20 per cent per annum.

During the year 1912-13 the receipts from sales covered into the Treasury exceeded by $22,206.44 the appropriation for service.

In the past four years the receipts have increased from $24,452 in 1909 to $46,706 in 1913; a gain of $22,254, or nearly 100 per cent.

For the same period the appropriation for service has increased from $16,800 for 1909 to $24,500 for 1913; an advance of $7,700, or 45 per cent.

The appropriation for 1914 is $30,000.

The sales for the first quarter of the year 1913-14 ($12,096) exceed by nearly $2,800 the sales for the first quarter of the year 1912-13 ($9,308), an increase of 30 per cent.

Increase of the Library. For purchase of books: For general increase $100,000 per annum is but a normal sum. From 1908 until 1911, inclusive, it was annually granted. For 1911-12 it was reduced to $90,000, and continued at that sum for the years 1912-13 and 1913-14.

Very respectfully,

The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,

HERBERT PUTNAM, Librarian of Congress.

Washington, D. C.

APPENDIX B.

Statement of buildings rented within the District of Columbia for the use of the Government, as required by the act of July 16, 1892 (27 Stat., p. 199), and act of May 1, 1913 (38 Stat., p. 3, sec. 3).

Buildings rented within the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of State, as required by the acts of July 16, 1892, and May 1, 1913. (Estimate for 1915 on p. 28.)

Buildings rented by the Treasury Department, number of square feet of floor space occupied in each, the yearly rental per building, the rental per square foot of space, and the assessed value of each building, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1914. (Estimate for 1915 on p. 44.)

Building.

Cox Building, New York Avenue NW., between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets (first, second, and third floors occupied by
files of the Auditor for the War Department; fourth floor by photograph gallery, Office of the Supervising Architect)..
Merchants Transfer & Storage Building, E Street NW., between Ninth and Tenth Streets (third, fourth, and back part of fifth floors
rented; used for files). Light, janitor, and elevator service included..
Treasury Department stables, 400 Nineteenth Street NW

Small Building, Fourteenth and G Streets NW. (second, third, fourth, and fifth floors rented; also small room in rear of second floor;
heat, light, elevator, and janitor services included. Occupied by Office of the Auditor for the State and Other Departments).
Union Building, G Street NW., between Sixth and Seventh Streets (department rents back part of first, all of the third and fourth,
one-half of the fifth, and all of the sixth floors; heat, light, elevator, and janitor services included. See separate table below for
details).....

Buildings rented by the War Department in Washington for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, as required by the act of June 16, 1892 (27 Stat., p. 199) and section 3 of the act of May 1, 1913 (38 Stat., p. 3). (Estimate for 1915 on p. 66.)