CONDITIONS OF COMPETITION. 1. The Board of Trustees of the Bangor Public Library pro- poses to erect a Library Building to cost not over one hundred and thirty thousand dollars ($130,000) on a plot of ground mea- suring 295 feet by 220 feet on Harlow Street, between Prospect and Spring Streets, in the City of Bangor, Maine, and to se- lect an architect by means of a mixed competition. 2. The Board has engaged as professional adviser Professor F. W. Chandler, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to aid them in formulating instructions to architects, in conducting the competition, in making the award, and in other ways. 3. The invitation to enter this competition is personal to the architect invited, and the competitive drawings are to be prepared by the competitor in his own office and without assistance other than the usual force of his office. The invitation is not transferable to a new partnership including an architect not considered in this invitation. 4. Designs will be received from the following architects who have signified their desire to compete and have proved their ability and sufficient experience through work already executed: Mr. Wilfred E. Mansur, Bangor ) Mr. Fred L. Savage, Bar Harbor ) Residing and practic- Messrs. Coombs Bros., Lewiston ) ing in the State of Mr. G. Henri Desmond, Portland ) Maine Mr. Austin W. Pease, Portland ) Messrs. McLean & Wright, 110 Tremont St., Boston. Four other architects, practicing and residing in New England, have been specially invited to compete. They are: Messrs. Bigelow & Wadsworth, 3 Hamilton P1., Boston Mr. A. W. Longfellow, Tremont Bldg., Boston, Messrs. Parker, Thomas & Rice, 110 State St., Boston Messrs. Peabody & Stearns, 53 State St., Boston.