Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-19
THE ART LEAGUE.
Annual Report Contains Much
of Interest.
What Has Been Accomplished IN Deco
rating Public School Rooms During
the Past Year

The Public School Art League has
published its report for the last year.
and much of interest is found within the
slender pamphlet Besides giving the
personnel of the League, the report con-
tains list of the contributions from
private sources and six half tones, one
of the recent Public School Art League
exhibition at the Public Library, and
five of decorated schoolrooms in the
Millbury and Dix street, the Blooming
dale and classical high schools The re-
port which is to be Incorporated in the
annual report of the school board for this
year, is as follows:
AT a meeting of the school board in
March, 1895, at the suggestion Of Rev.
A. s Carver, one of its members, an
organization TO be called the Worcester
Public School Art League, was formally
approved by the board, and the follow
ing persons were appointed to have the
charge of its management:
Representing the school board: John
T. Duggan, NJ D., Austin S. Carver.
In their official capacity: The presid-
ent of the Worcester Art Society, the
president of the Art Students Club, the
president of the Women's Club, the Ii
brarian of the Worcester public library,
the superintendent of schools, the su-
pervisor of drawing, the first assistant
supervisor of drawing.
Mrs. Edith Loring Getchell, Miss
Frances NJ Lincoln.
The school board later gave the
league the privilege of adding six more
persons to it's membership, of which
number four have been added: Miss
jeanne Lea Southwick, Mr.. Lincoln n.
Kinnicutt, Mr.. Charles S. Hale, Mr..
Charles N. Lincoln.
The first official meeting of the league
was held April 9, 1895, through the
courtesy of the librarian, in his private
room at the public library. With the
least formality possible, the following
officers were elected: Austin S, Carver,
president; Frances NJ. Lincoln vice
president; jeanne Lea Southwick, Sec
rotary; Samuel S. Green, treasurer
The officers have remained the same
with the exception of the president,
Frank J. Darrah being elected to that
office on the resignation of Mr.. Carver.
The membership of the league changes
slightly from time to time with the
change in office, and by the appoint
ment of the two representatives of the
school board. The two latter are now
and have been for the past year, Geo.
l. Alden and Mrs. Helen A. B. Morse.
MIS-. ILlid l.. L. IodluWll DIS JltSlN4CllL
of the Women's Club, was a most valu-
able member and a great loss TO the
league on her retirement from office.
At the annual meeting, in 1896, few
bylaws were adopted to regulate the
business proceedings of the league, and
among them are the following which
are of general interest:
6. The object of the league shall be
to cultivate in the people, through the
influence of the public school pupils, a
desire for a finer life by creating among
them a love for the beautiful, promot-
ing and Strengthening this love among
the pupils by a more extended and ar
tistic decoration in the school rooms.
Each member of the league Shall en-
deavor to interest the school board and
public in the good that can be accom-
plished by more artistic surroundings in
our school rooms. and to raise money
for the purchase of suitable objects for
decoration.
I, The league shall consider the fit
ness of contributions from others and
shall direct their use in decorating the
rooms.
The regular meetings of the league
are held the third Friday of each
month, except the months of July and
August, and the annual meeting is the
Friday after the January meeting of
the school board.
The first money raised by the league
was obtained by an exhibition of post
ers, held in the Walnut street school
house, and amounted to $SS.24 1t was
with this money that the fifty-one pho
tographs presented to the league by
Miss Lincoln were framed and placed
in the following schools in May 1895.
Dix, grade TX; Thomas, grade WI;
Ward, grade VI; Freeland, grade VII;
Oxford, grade III.
The league appropriated $25 to fur
Their increase the decorations in the
oxford street school, and $50 to be
spent in the principals room at the
Millbury street school, grade TX Mr..
Charles n. Lincoln was appointed
committee to select suitable colors for
tinting the walls of these rooms, and
also for whatever walls the superintend-
ent of public buildings was going to tint
in the summer. The tints used for these
rooms are a very delicate pale grayish-
green, the ceiling being cream, and the
results are quite satisfactory. The pres
ent committee on the tinting of walls is
composed Of Mr.. Lincoln, Mr.. Alden and
Mr. Darrah, and there has been some
very successful work done under their
direction, notable at Bloomingdale, where
the rooms have geen tinted a green
gray and the corridor rich red, and at
Salisbury street, where the sunny rooms
have received a pale green tint and
rooms with little or no sun have been
tinted a grayish-yellow tone to give an
effect of warmth and light. In the spring
of 1896 about $400 was raised by popular
subscription for further work The fol-
lowing schools were selected on which