Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — Brooklyn Behind the Times. [ARTICLE]

Brooklyn Behind the Times.

Brooklyn is becoming very much mortified because he has no free public library, and a lively movement is on foot to secure one. A member of the New York Library Association added to the mortification of the Brooklyn people by reminding the board at a recent meeting that out of 352 towns in Massachusetts there are only twenty-four which have no public libraries, and only eight, from their geographical position, which are without facilities for reaching these Institutions in some place near.