(Carnegie Library will be enlarged by its founder: great steel manufacturer to provide thousands for needed room)

              CARNEGIE LIBRARY WILL BE ENLARGED BY ITS FOUNDER.
GREAT STEEL MANIJFACTTJRER TO PROVIDE   THOUSANDS   FOR NEEDED ROOM.
WILL BE DONE VERY SOON.
IT IS THOUGHT   THE   WORK   MAY COMMENCE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
STRUCTURE WILL BE COSTLY.
To Be Erected in tlie Same Style of Architecture and Cost Half as Much as Main. Building;.
BOARD TRUSTEES READY TO ACT.
Cswnegie library, Pittsburg, is to be enlarged by an addition that will provide enough room for many years to come for all the different departments of that institution. An announcement to that effect will be made shortly. The addition will cost at least half as much as the original building, which was $820,000. Andrew Carnegie will provide the funds for the erection of the addition.
It has long been recognized that the library, art gallery and science department, the latter including the museum, have not enough room to meet their needs. The subject of an addition to the building was spoken of about a year ago, and at that time Mr. Carnegie stated that he would gladly provide the necessary money to build an addition to the present library whenever the time come to do so. Quite recently the gentlemen interested in the library talked the matter over and the pressing need of more room was fully discussed. It was decided that the addition would have to be built, but as the plans and specifications of such a building take time to perfect, it is not known just how soon the matter will be taken up and disposed of, but it will be during this spring.
The addition to the building will be in the same style of architecture, Italian renaissance, and will probably be extended to the east of the present building. When completed there will be some changes, it is thought, in the interior arrangement of the different departments, such as the shifting of the art gallery entire or the library, and the giving up of the space thus vacated to the department left in the main building. The basement room of the addition will be used for the extension of the museum, giving it all the jroom that will be needed for years to come.
A reporter for "The Post" called on W. N. Frew, president of the board of trustees of the library, last night and questioned him concerning the reported addition to the building.
In reply Mr. Frew stated that the trustees had long recognized the fact that the library and departments were much crowded and that an addition to the building would be built, but just how goon he would not say. Mr. Carnegie, he said, had promised to* furnish all the money that was needed to build the addition and there would be no trouble or delay on that score. An enterprise of that kind, however, that is to stand for years for the benefit of the people cannot be handled rapidly, he said, and the preparation of plans for the building would require time. As soon, however, as the trustees had fully decided upon what was to be done and what was necessary, the plans would be forthcoming and the �*� ^   Carnegie.