The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
OUR SCHOOLS At ATLANTA
A Fair Lot of Photographs
Will Be Sent There
After All.
superintendent Moulder Has Stayed
the Patronage War and
Gone Ahead.

San Francisco is to have magnificent
Photographic display of schools and school
work at the Atlanta Exposition after all,
and it promises to be one that, in spite OF
recent difficulties, will be second to the
school exhibits of few other cities.
The idea of making huge Photographic
school exhibit at Atlanta originated with
the Bureau of Education at Washington,
and the Commissioners of Education
quickly secured the approval and CO.
operation of school authorities all over the
United States. Superintendent Moulder
here entered heartily into the scheme, and
every body concerned, including the Board
of Education, approved the idea.
To have all the best things in the San
Francisco schools photographed, it was
necessary to have an official photo
grapher" who would, as is usual in school
photography, charge the department moth
ing, but get his pay by selling copies of
the pictures. When the selection of this
official picture-man came up at the last
meeting of the board, there were three
candidates for the plum, with energetic
hackers, and the result was a. merry pat
ronage row, which ended in the board adj
| it seemed that San Francisco would have
no exhibit at all.
But Superintendent Moulder went
energetically ahead to get up an exhibit
himself, and yesterday, with the private
approval of President II. L. Dodge of the
| board, he effected arrangements that will
make the exhibit a success unless more
| "kickers' arise. First he automatically
arranged the main difficulty by getting
the three photographers to divide the
work. Each of the three is to take 12C
views by 10 inches in size, and the terri
tory has been divided somehow.
Yesterday Mr.. Moulder sent out to all
principals a circular explaining things
| giving instructions and suggestions and
| urging their best efforts to aid the work
A paragraph of the circular suggests the
nature and interest of the display. 1t says
'fYou will observe that the aim is not to
| limit our display to views of the children
in their ordinary classes, but to show, as
| far as photography will permit, the special
| features of interest which we have intro
duced into our school system. They will
| attract attention"
Among the things beside our best school
buildings that will be portrayed at At
| lanta are the following:
Cadets in uniform at Lowell High School:
| boys and girls under military drill as al
| Horace Mann School; classes under in
| struction in physical culture; girl exercis
| ing at calisthenics; manual training classe:
in carpentry, ETC., with boys in aprons
at their benches, tools in hand; sewing
| classes and attachments with the girls at
work; cooking classes showing girls before
their gas-stoves, utensils in hand; interior
| views of machinery, work-benches etc., in
Polytechnic High School with boys at work
modelling classes and some of their work
| laboratories in the Girls and the Lowell
| High schools chak drawings of special
merit on blackboards; grounds and sur
roundings of schoolhouses.
Mr.. Moulder has received an interesting
letter from the Commissioner of Education
stating that in view of the delay here spec
ial arrangements for receiving the San
Francisco exhibit will be made.