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RYERSON AND BURNHAM LIBRARIES. Art Institute, Michigan avenue and Adams-st. The Ryerson library of the Art Institute is It devoted to works on fine art and travel. contains about 17,500 volumes and collections of 46,000 photographs and 22,000 lantern slides. The Burnham Library of Architecture contains 3,771 books on architecture. Open daily from 9 to 5; Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to 5:30 p. m. and 6 to 9:30 p. m.; Sundays 2 to 6 p. m. (Open free at all times when open.) The library is primarily for the students of the institute, but is practically a free reference library on fine art. Librarian, Sarah Louise Mitchell.

FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
LIBRARY.

EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Orrington avenue and Church street. Free to residents of Evanston and open to others on payment of an annual fee of $2.50, or 25 cents a month. Reference department free to all. Library open from 8:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m. week days. Reading room open from 2 to 9 p. m. Sundays, except June 15 to Oct. 1. and from 2 to 6 p. m. on holidays, except Jan. 1, July 4, Thanksgiving day and Dec. 25. The Coe music collection, which contains 1.884 books. 695 pieces of sheet music and 457 pianola rolls, is open to all. The medical science room, containing over 1.300 medical books and periodicals, is open to resident physicians and nurses and to others The total number of by special arrangement. volumes Dec. 31. 1923, was 82.975. Librarian, Ida Faye Wright.

OAK PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY.
(Scoville Institute.)

Grove avenue and Lake street, Oak Park. The Oak Park public library contains about It is open every week day. 45.372 volumes. except some holidays, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. and on Sundays from 2:30 to 5:30 p. m. for reading and reference from Oct. 1 to June 1. South branch. 429 Harrison street, north branch, 212 Chicago avenue. Branches open Roosevelt road and Lake Michigan. afternoons and evenings, but not The museum library is Librarian, Elsic McKay. free reference Sundays. a library, confined to works on natural history,. including anthropology, and contains approximately 80,000 books and pamphlets. It is open to the public during the week from 10 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. and on Saturday to 12.

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LEWIS INSTITUTE LIBRARY. West Madison and Robey streets. The Lewis institute library contains about 26,000 volumes and 12,000 pamphlets. public is invited to use the library for ref. erence, but books are loaned only to instruc tors and students of the institute. Throughout the school year the library is open from 8 a. m to 5 p. m. daily except on Saturday, when it closes at 1 p. m.; during the session of the night school the library is also open from 8 a. m. to 9:30 p. m. Librarian, Miss Frances S. Talcott.

ELBERT H. GARY LAW LIBRARY.
Northwestern University building, North Dear.
born and West Lake streets, Chicago.
The Gary Library of Law was the gift of
Elbert H. Gary of New York, N. Y., to North-
It is open
western University Law school,
without charge to nonresident lawyers pre-
senting
Resident
satisfactory credentials.
lawyers who are graduates of Northwestern
University Law school are charged a registra-
tion fee of $1 per year for the privilege of
using the library; all other resident lawyers
are charged a registration fee of $4 a year.
The library in 1924 contained about 60.000
volumes. Librarian, F. B. Crossley.

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
Loyola avenue and Sheridan road.

PULLMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY.

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73 to 77 Arcade building, 112th street and Cottage Grove avenue.

Contains 14.200 volumes. Library open from 10 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. and in the evenings from 6:45 to 9 o'clock: also Sundays and holidays, 2 to 6 p. m. Librarian, Bertha S. Ludlam.

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PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
LIBRARY.

The library of the college of arts of Loyola Room 1547 Conway building, 111 West Washuniversity contains 50,000 volumes for the use of the faculty and students. Open to the public for reference.

Hours: 9 a.

m. to

5 p. m. Librarian, M. Lillian Ryan.
Loyola University School of Medicine Library.
706 S. Lincoln street.

The medical library of the university con-
ins 3,700 volumes.

The libraries of law and sociology are located in the Ashland block, Clark and Randolph streets.

ington street.

The library of the Portland Cement association is a reference library on the literature of the cement industry. It contains some 3.200 books, 8.900 trade catalogues. 7.200 pamphlets. 8.100 mounted clippings and 8,600 lantern slides. The library is open from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m., except on Saturdays, when it closes at 1 o'clock. It is a free public reference library. Librarian, Pyrrha B. Sheffield.

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CHICAGO LAW INSTITUTE LIBRARY.

1025 County building.

President-Charles C. Spencer.

Secretary-Alfred E. Barr.

Treasurer-James Rosenthal.

Librarian-Capt. Edward Maher.

GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE LIBRARY.
Evanston, Ill.

This is a reference library of theology for the use of the faculty and students of the institute and neighboring clergymen, but open to the public October to September from 8 contained 106,045 volumes and 14.887 pamphlets. Librarian, Doremus A. Hayes: associ ate librarian in charge, Samuel G. Ayres.

The library contains about 72,000 volumes. a. m. to 10 p. m. Sept. 15, 1924, the library

CHILDREN'S SCIENCE LIBRARY.

The Chicago Academy of Sciences, Lincoln park, contains more than 500 volumes for children on natural history, including plants, animals, astronomy, geography and industries. The reading room is open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. each weekday.

FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION

LIBRARY.

Room 2132, 175 West Jackson boulevard. The library of the Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest contains 5.000 bound volumes, containing information relative to fire insurance and allied subjects. Library open from 9 a. m to 5 p. m., except Saturdays, when it is closed at 1 o'clock.

The library of the Fire Insurance club of Chicago, room 2132 Insurance Exchange building. 175 West Jackson boulevard, contains 1.000 volumes on fire insurance. Hours same as above. Librarian, Emma L. Quackenbush.

LOMBARD FREE LIBRARY.

The Lombard free library contains 5,450 volumes. The librarian is Frank A. Warren.

MAYWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY. South 5th avenue, near St. Charles road. The Maywood public library, the building for which was given by Andrew Carnegie, in August, 1905, contains 10,989 volumes and about 2.000 pamphlets. All residents of the village have the privilege of taking out books. All high school students in Proviso township have the same privileges as residents. The library, which contains a large reading room and also a children's room, is open from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m.; Sundays, 2 to 5 p. m. It had a circulation in 1923 of 53.694 volumes. Librarian, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Southward. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES. Evanston and Chicago.

NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL LIBRARY
AND INFORMATION BUREAU.
Federal Life building, 168 N. Michigan Ave.
The library of the National Safety coun-
cil is a working reference library specializ
ing in safety literature. The library files con-
tain interesting data on hundreds of specifie
questions on accident prevention, industrial re-
The library is
lations. and allied problems.
daily, except on Saturdays, when it closes at 1
open to the public 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m.
m., and is closed on Sundays and legal holi-
days. Librarian, Mary B. Day.

RIVER FOREST LIBRARY.

The River Forest free library was established in 1900 and contains 8,472 volumes. The hours are from 2 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. daily except Sunday; also on Saturday from 10 a. m. to 12 noon, and from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The librarian is Miss Queenie A. Barker; assistant librarian, Miss Ila G. King.

FOREST PARK LIBRARY.

The Forest Park free library is open from 1:30 to 9 p. m. daily. It contains 5.600 volumes. Librarian, Miss Florence M. Barry: assistant librarian, Miss Cecilia Lahnde.

FLAG DISPLAY DAYS IN CHICAGO,

In accordance with an order issued May 8, 1915, the American flag should be hoisted on the buildings of Chicago under the jurisdiction of the city government on all election days and on the following anniversaries: Feb. 12-Lincoln's birthday. Feb. 15-Sinking of the Maine. Feb. 22-Washington's birthday. April 19-Battle of Lexington, May 30-Memorial day. June 14-Flag day.

The Northwestern university libraries contained approximately 237,000 bound volumes and 182,726 pamphlets July 1, 1924. The library in Evanston is open during the college year from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. daily, ex- June 17-Battle of Bunker Hill. cept Sunday, and during the summer vacation July 4-Independence day. from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. The building is Oct. 9-Chicago day. known as the Orrington Lunt library. Other Oct. 12-Columbus day. parts of the Northwestern university libraries Oct. 17-Battle of Saratoga. are located in Northwestern university build-Oct. ing, North Dearborn and West Lake streets, Chicago, and in the Northwestern Medical school, 25th and South Dearborn streets. Chicago. Librarian, Theodore Wesley Koch.

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19-Surrender of Yorktown. Nov. 25-Evacuation of Yorktown.

On all the foregoing dates the flag should be hoisted at full staff, with the exception of Memorial day and the anniversary of the sinking of the Maine, when it should be at halfstaff. The hours of displaying the flag are from sunrise to sunset.

By an ordinance passed Feb. 5, 1917, by the Chicago city council, the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" in public places in any way except as an entire and separate composition and without embellishments of national or other melodies is prohibited. The playing of the air as dance music or for an exit march is also prohibited. Violation of the ordinance by proprietors or performers is punishable by a fine of $100.

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