It stands in front of the Hall and Library in Diamond Square, which I presented to Allegheny, and bears this inscription: To Colonel James Anderson, Founder of Free Libraries in Western Pennsylvania.

He opened his Library to working boys and upon Saturday afternoons acted as librarian, thus dedicating not only his books but himself to the noble work.
This monument is erected in grateful remembrance by Andrew Carnegie, one of the "working boys" to whom were thus opened the precious treasures of knowledge and imagination through which youth may ascend.
[Illustration: COLONEL JAMES ANDERSON] This is but a slight tribute and gives only a faint idea of the depth of gratitude which I feel for what he did for me and my companions.

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it, as the founding of a public library in a community which is willing to support it as a municipal institution.

I am sure that the future of those libraries I have been privileged to found will prove the correctness of this opinion.

For if one boy in each library district, by having access to one of these libraries, is half as much benefited as I was by having access to Colonel Anderson's four hundred well-worn volumes, I shall consider they have not been established in vain.
"As the twig is bent the tree's inclined." The treasures of the world which books contain were opened to me at the right moment.