Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — RARE BOOKS ARE LOST. [ARTICLE]

RARE BOOKS ARE LOST.

earning of the McClurg Book Store in Chicago. A. C. McClurg &, Co., the Chicago book merchants, lost their entire stock iu a fire which consumed the building occupied by the firm. The loss on the stock will foot up $450,000. The building was owned by the Rutter estate and was valued at $140,000. Fifty thousand dollars of the total loss is represented by the destruction of one of the most extensive and complete collections of rare books, fine bindings and costly manuscripts in the United States. This collection constituted a department in the business known as the “saints and sinners' corner,” a name given it by Engene Field and made famous by him in his writings.

President McKinley’s wedding present to Mrs. Henry Harrington Seott (nee Sampson) was the original of her father’s now celebrated telegram announcing the destruction of Cenrcra’s fleet. “All of the guests,” says one account, “were loud in their praise or Mr. McKinley for his dellcacy in thinking of such a gift for the daughter of the victor.”

The grave of Chief Justice Marshall in Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond, Va„ is utterly neglected, and a movement has been started to induce the Legislature of Virginia to take some action in the matter.