FAIR,  1895.
 

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wards realizing the additional ten thousand
dollars, and although many disappointments
were had, they finally succeeded in securing
the desired sum, and the Aguilar Free Library
Society became a reality.

The officers and directors for the first year
were : Samuel Greenbaum, President; David
Leventritt, First Vice-President ; Dr. Henry
M. Leipziger, Second Vice-President; Louis
B. Schram, Secretary ; Nathan Herrmann,
Treasurer, and V. Henry Rothschild, Mark
Ash, Lee Kohns, M. W. Benjamin, J. A.
Kohn, Mrs. C. L. Sulzberger, M W. Platzek,
Wm. B. Friedberg, Harold Nathan, Mrs.
Julius Helburn, Directors. The society
opened three branches,   as follows : 206 East
 

The circulation for the fiscal year ending
October, 1894, was 253,349. The total number
of volumes now in the Library is 29,258.

A comparison of the circulation in the vari¬
ous branches for the first year with that of
last year is singularly interesting and instruc¬
tive. For the year ending 1887, the circulation
was distributed as follows :

East Broadway,          44,631

Lexington avenue,     32,258

Fifth street,                  4,972—Total,   81,861

For the year ending October, 1894 :

East Broadwa}^,        139,198

Lexington avenue,     90,536

Fifth street,                 23,615—Total, 253,349

The East Broadway branch shows a gain of
 

Aguilar Free Library Society—Library.
 

Broadway,   721   Lexington  avenue   and   624
East Fifth street.

During the first year of its existence, the
Library circulated 81,862 volumes, and in the
following year the circulation reached 110,766.
 

upwards of 94,000 volumes in last year's cir¬
culation over that of 1887.

In 1889, the idea of erecting the Hebrew
Institute building had taken practical shape
in an agreement executed between the Hebrew
 

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