Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1915 — ROYAL IN ITS MAGNIFICENCE [ARTICLE]

ROYAL IN ITS MAGNIFICENCE

“Founder’s Room” In Pittsburgh Carnegie Library Is a Splendid Apartment. A recent report of the Pittsburgh Carnegie library cbntains a picture of the "founder’s room," of which a writer in the Boston Evening Transcript says: "It seems to be a vast apartment, about fifty or sixty yards long and nearly as wide. It has indirect lighting and a flagged floor, upon which one might play hopscotch if one felt inclined. There are four or five thrones in the room, one on each side of the fireplace, and there is a table with a lamp on IL The room is very magnificent; it has all the spaciousness and discomfort of a royal palace. "What Mr. Carnegie does in this room we are not told. There are no sleeping accommodations, unless one of the thrones is really a folding bed. It does not look cosy enough to use for an oflfce."*