The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1913 Page: 7 of 10
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V—Origin of Libraries.
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makes them priceless now.
During the latter part of the middle
State Fish and Game Commissioner
Sent Here By Governor
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COLONEL STERRETT
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Lieutenant Bristow Says We are In
Good Shape Compared to
Other Places.
and carried to Persia, but most of it
was afterwards returned. In Athens,
the library or Aristotle was first col-
lected, but Sulla, finding it a “white
elephant” on his hands, took the first
means of disposing of it to Ptolemy II.
The Romans were warriors and paid
little attention to the collection of
literature in their early history. The
first library 'in Rome was brought
from Greece as spoils of war, about
sixty-two years before Christ. ’ A cen-
tury later, libraries became a fashion
for men of wealth and many private
collections of books were made.
THE WORK OF
THE LIBRARIES
the owner was
he was even allowed to make a copy
of its contents.
Work of Restoration Important, And
A Necessity.
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Ours was mostly back water and
the mess and slop will prove ti be our
greatest nconvenience.
Julius Caesar is credited with first
planning a public library in Rome.
Caesar Augustus founded two libra-
ries, the Octavian and the Aventine i
and the Palatine in the Temple of I
Apollo. Each of these contained botlJany supplles or aW and gave “ as “s
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Latin and Greek collections. During
the reign of Trajan, there were twen-
ty-nine public libraries in Rome, many
of them in connection with the public
baths. The students would read while
taking their siestas following or pre-
ceding their baths.
The Herculaeum library was dis-
covered the latter part of the eigh-
teenth century and 1700 badly charred
scrolls of manuscript were recovered.
Sir Humphrey Davy of England found
a means of restoring and disciphering
about 400 of these, which have thrown
much light on the architecture and
arrangement of Roman libraries.
The first church library is suppos-
ed to have been founded by the martyr
Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem, about
A. D. 250. Saint Pemphilus, another
martyr, founded the Caesarea, a pub-
lic library of about 30,000 volumes,
consisting chiefly of theological
works. This is said to have been de-
stroyed by the Arabs in the seventh
century^ Saint Jerome had a large
library and also made frequent use of
the one at Caesarea. Constantine the
Great, in A. D. 336, founded a library
at Constantinople, which, at his death,
contained 6000 volumes. Under Julius
Theodosius it grew to 120,000 volumes.
the Emperor Theodosius the great He
permitted all the heathen temples to
be destroyed and the mot of fanati-
cal Christians, headed
bishop, attacked tiie
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their monasteries.
cases and afterwards, because of their
size, were placed on tables, to which
they were frequently fastened by
These old monastic books
Thos. H. Lewis *• C FofiIka
jjswzo $>. FOULKS
Attorneys-at-Law
Boney Building
We want to impress on. you the fact that this Bank is an Extra
Safe Place to deposit your money. Bring us
your checking account.
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Lieutenant Bristow, U. S. A. sta-
tioned at San Antonio arrived in
Bay City Tuesday morning over the
St. L. B. & M. via. Victoria to look
into the flood conditions with a view
of supplying tents, blankets and oth-
er necessities to flood victims.
When he reached here he was met
'■by the relief committee and went over
ithe situation with them. He was soon
convinced that Bay City did not need
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ARMY OFFICER HERE NO TIME FOR
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; brary.
During the middle ages the libra- —---
ries of the world became almost en-1 The first library in the United
tirely monastic. Boohs were merely; States was established at Jamestown,
i used to one end, this being the con-jVa., in 1621, but it was destroyed by
I version of heathens to Christianity, j the Indians the year following. The
The books collected during this period Boston library claims its history from
narrow in their scope, including 1673, when John Oxenbridge, a clergy-
library of Athens was at St. Peters at York and St. Albans tion to its books this library ci'I2<-vte(i
This j in London a century afterward. The a considerable number c* maps and
war Franciscan monks founded the first li- i prints.
and it is said that it was not safe
for a stranger to enter' Alexandria
with any kind of a book. It was 1
to be confiscated for the library and precious stones, and the only authen- [ Florence the first public library in
esteemed fortunate if tic copy of the procedure of the conn-j Italy by Niecoli, who was known as
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Occasionally we hear some man.
blame someone or something just
where and when he should praise the
work of others and jump in with
helping hand.
For instance, who has not heard the
five days work on the levee criticized.
Well, that work kept the waters out of
Bay City just five days and gave us a
six days flood instead of eleven. So
much for that. And, again, after the
citizens turned out and worked ha^
to repair the Bay City Cana^j|
and the flood waters came dovW
were thoughtless enough to saW
that work was thrown away. iS
wer to that we will state that the gK
done on that canal held the
back and let it in on the city in the cB
time instead of at night, saving cows
siderable property and no telling how
many lives.
There’s neither room nor occasion to
adversely criticize. Every man did his
duty and the relief committee has han-
dled the situation just as well as any
committee could have handled it and
they are going to as long astheir ser-
vices are required.
Bay City or any other town,
every cause to be proud of the work
of these patriotic and noble men. Not
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The credit for originating the
brary is commonly given to Egypt.
The first written library of which
there is any authentic record was
founded by an Egyptian king, in the
fourteenth century before Christ, and
was known as “the storehouse for
medicine for the mind.” An account
of this library was given by Diodorus
but was accounted fabulous until mod-
ern research had proved its truth.
This library was destroyed by the Per-
sian invasion several centuries later.
As the early Egyptian books were all
appyrus rolls, which were more fra-
gile than the stone and clay tablets
composing the other ancient libraries,
the records of them are'1 less complete.
From its early days Babylon was a
seat of learning, and every temple
containing a library of its own.
books ofthese libraries would
strange to modern eyes. They
small clay tablets with cuneiform in-
scriptions, but they were carefully
shelved with a certain system of clas-
sification.
This is indicated by the library dis-
covered at Nippur in the great tem-
ple of Bel, which was destroyed in
the Elamite invasion, 782, B. C. Dur-
ing the past ten years, extensive ex-
cavations at this place have restored
this library to the learned world after
more than twenty-six centuries. Many
of its books have been placed in t he
University of Pennsylvania and
inent scholars are giving attention to
their translation with considerable
success.
The foundation of the great Alex-
andrian library . by Ptolemy Soter
about 250, B. C., marked the beginning
of the real library movement of the
world. ..^Whatsoever their faults, the
early Ptolemies had a love of books
■ pels, bound in place of gold weigh- of the Vatican was rounded in
' ’ 3 was founded
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Col. W. B. Sterrett, state fish and
game commissioner arrived in the ci-
ty Tuesday morning via. Matagorda
having been sent here by Governor
Colquitt to investigate conditions
and to render a report of the exact
state of affairs to the governor.
He was met by the relief committee
and was given a detailed statement
of the exact conditions and will make
his report accordingly.
Col. Sterrett came to Matagorda by
boat and on the Santa Fe as far as
its train could run this way, being
brought to high ground by boat.
WILL 8. HOLMAN
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Bay City, Texas.
Will practice in Appellate, Supreme ano
Federal courts.
4®" Office in the court ouse. “©a
FOR RENT—80 acres of improved
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on Matagorda road. Apply to R. A.
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opinion that we are in a much better
cindition in every way than any other
town in the flooded district that he
knows of.
Lieutenant Bristow met the relief
committee and was told just the con-
'dition and had explained to him
manner in which everything was
ing done. He expressed himself
well pleased and stated that he never
saw any better management of any
work of a public nature.
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We offer one year’s subscription to
any one pointing out 1,000 destitute
people or even one tenth of that
number.
cilt of Nice. Among its curiosities. the Florentine Socrates. Cosmo de’-
was a manuscript of Homer measuring i Med 1-1 erected a building for it and
120 feet in length written on serpent’s; under his grandson, Lorenzo Medici, it
skin in letters of gold. j acquired the name of Laurentian li-
a one of them wanted to be placed
that committee—who would? ]
they were and they have devoted
ery moment to the welfare and
fort of every one and the city in
eral.
It is not the time, we say, for criti-
Get out and get to work in
bringing Bay City out of the mud and
putting her in shape to bid her usual
smile of welcome to the outside
world.
by an arch-
.Serapeum and -
carried off mo?*- of its literary treas-' chains,
ures in the year 391. Later when were all manuscript and each volume j longing to “the Junto,’
Alexandria was taken by the Arabians represented months, sometimes years, i club, also founded by Franklin, should
it was said that there were books of patient toil. M~~;- 4-1 "T x- -----
enough yet remaining in the library embellished with illuminations, which
to heat the city baths for six months.
The Arabians cared little for books
at that time. But after their con-
quests were accomplished and Khalifs
became patrons of learning and mod- J be considered the first real circulating. in America,
ern civilization owes much tothe Mos- libraries. “
lzem libraries they found in Syria, Ara- in Canterbury, the oldest library in Library, was also founded by Frank-
bia, Egypt and Spain.
The first
seized by Pisistratus, 400, B. C.
was seized during the Persian
Everyone Expected Duty
and do it Well.
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The Alexandrian library was par-
tially destroyed by Julius Caesar dur-
ing the seige of Alexandria; later,
Mark Anthony, wishing to placate
Cleopatra, presented her with the li-
] brary of Pergamum, which has already ;
become a rival and thereby he first!
excited the wrath of educated Romans
by his devotion to the Egyptian queen. ■ were
Part of this library was kept in the ’ chiefV scriptures, works of the fath- man, bequeathed for public use his
Serapeum, the temple of Serapis, j era, theological controversies and le- collection of books, which included
where it remained until the time of Sends of saints. The Benedictine assortment of standard and classical
monks established a library in each of j works. The early development of li-
They were kept in braries in America owes almost as
much to Benjamin Franklin as the
present progress over to Andrew Car-
negie. As early as 1731 he had drawn
i up the plans by which the books be-
longing to “the Junto,” an artisan’s
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be available to all who were willing
to pay a moderate subscription to-
wards their use. The Junto, in 1,742,
numbered a .hundred members and is
ages loans of books between monas- recognized as the mother of subscrip-
teries were frequent, and these may | tion libraries afterwards so numerous
Another library, known
The Christ Church library; as the American Philosophic Society
brary at Oxford.
During the fourteenth century many
libraries were established in Europe,
including one at Prague in 1348, one
at Heidelberg in 1336, and one at Leip-
zig in 1409. All of these were Ger-
man. The growth of the movement
during the Reformation gave an im-
petus to the foundation of royal and
It contained a copy of the four gos- town libraries In Italy the library
i 1447.
in 1437 at
mana i uuuiiu ° v
likely inS fifteen pounds and enriched with j Before this
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1913, newspaper, December 5, 1913; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299656/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.