with the intellectual and moral culture of all classes of the citizens
of Fitchburg.

On the seventh of April, the Trustees of the Public Library took
appropriate action on the gift of Mr. Wallace. The following account
appeared in the _Sentinel_ of April 8:

"At a meeting of the Trustees of the Public Library, Monday
evening, the board adopted the following resolution, offered by
Henry A. Willis, and on motion of Rev. P.J. Garrigan it was
voted to enter the same on their records, request the daily
papers of the city to publish the same, and that Rev. P.J.
Garrigan, Henry A. Willis and L.H. Bradford be appointed a
committee to present the action of the board to Mr. Wallace:

_Resolved_, That we have heard with great satisfaction of the
proposed gift by Honorable Rodney Wallace of land and a building
for the use of the Public Library, thus providing for a want
long felt by the Trustees, viz: facilities for making the
Library fully available to the people of the city, which it
never could be in its present confined quarters; that we will
fully co-operate with the generous donor in any manner desired
by him in carrying out the details of his proposed undertaking;
and that we desire here to place upon our records our keen
appreciation of the generous spirit which has moved him to
tender this munificent gift."

The new library building fronts on Main street, and looks out upon
Monument Park and the beautiful Court House of North Worcester County.
It is of Greek classic style, and is built of Trenton pressed brick. It
has sandstone trimmings. It has a frontage of seventy-four feet on Main
street, and is sixty-five feet deep. The basement is ten feet in height.
It is two stories above the basement. The library floor is sixteen feet
high. The second story, which contains the picture gallery, is ten feet
high on the outside, and thirty-two in the centre. The extreme height is
therefore fifty-eight feet. The front of the building is especially
imposing. It has a projection in the centre, twenty-five feet wide and
six feet deep, which extends the whole height of the structure and
terminates in a gable, which is surrounded by a decorated pediment. The
main entrance is approached by massive steps of granite, twelve feet
wide, flanked by heavy buttresses. At the top of the steps is the
entrance porch, eleven feet wide, six feet deep, and arched overhead.
Pol