The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-26
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
PARklN HERE TO SELECT MEN
FOR RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
Exhibit Of Ingenious and Attractive
Articles Made at Vacation School
Rockaway Wants to Secure Devery
If Ninth District Fails Him.

NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-Much inter-
est ls felt here in the arrival Of @. r..
Parkin, who has been intrusted with
the details of organizing a system for
the selection of English-speaking
young men who are to receive the two
hundred scholarships of 81 500 each a
year endowed by Cecil Rhodes. Mr.
Park1n also has suggested that II
would be good plan for some wealthy
American or group of Americans ia
establish fund for the education OF
100 young men Of Great Britain in the
universities Of the United States He
has had several conferences with Mr.
morgan, and the f1nancier is said to
De much interested, not only in tbs
Cecil Rhodes scholarships, but in the
plan which Mr.. Parkin proposes fol
rec1procating the offers made under
the will of the South African leader.
Mr.. Parkfn said that his object in
coming to this country was to visit
various seats Of learning, and to talk
With educators and men Of affairs
Under the provisions Of the will of Mr..
Rhodes each state and territory in the
United States is to have a scholarship
Mr.. Parkin will arrange for cornpeti
1--WE examinations or some such means
or selecting those who are to receive
the scholarships. He will then visit
Canada, the West Indies and the
Australasian and African colonies.
Vacation School Work.
Numerous interesting things are dis
played in the exhibit of the work Of
the vacation schools, now to be seen
at the offices of the school board. at
F1fty-ninth street and Park avenue.
The brushwork is one Of the first
Things to attract the eye. 1t runs all
the way from the apples and horse
shoes, boats and slices of watermelon.
by the little six-year- odds up to the
line rug, wall paper and pottery de-
signs or the grammar classes. The lat
ter, brushed in in rich colors by pupils,
makes a fine showing.
Some of the intermediate work, like
that of pupils of an average age of
thirteen years, is most interesting 1t
SHOWS brush work from life, little,
black, masculine figures that betray in
every line the fact that the model was
taken from the class, and stood I'D in
front for his colleagues to make a pic
ture. Then there are little landscapes,
rather fmpressionistic; a dab Of paint
on the horizon for tree, two Wriggly
lines down the front for a path. The
un1nluated could not tell it from real
ART. Some of the sketches of wisps
OF grass, bits of geranium, nasturtium
blossoms, Japanese lanterns on
string, and the like, are attractive. All
the usual paper folding and cuttina
Ia
There are sheets of bristol board,
marked "The Home" 'HThe City" 1.-THE
Seashore," and so on, and on each are
paper folded articles appropriate to the
subject; utensils and bits of furniture
Tor the home, street cars and elevated
tralns Tor the city, boats, shells and
bathing houses for the seashore. A
fine doll house has been completely
furnished by the Undergraduates of one
school, and at the sign of Apartment
TO Let" there is an elaborate fiat, with
Kitchen, dining room, bedroom and
parlor, fitted with woven rugs, draped
curtains, furniture, pictures on the
wall, and even a basket of clay pota-
toes on the kitchen table
In the Grammar Cardboard Con-
struction" children of twelve and thir-
teen have made all kinds of things OF
cut and folded cardboard. Many of
them have exercised their ingenuity in
reproducing the familiar objects of the
street, the pushcart the bootbIack's
stand and the news stand, with a great
store or newspapers folded and in
place. Large numbers of little gar
ments, underclothes and dresses testify
to the excellence of the sewing.
Devery Has Another String.
Should the Ninth district by anv
chance prove ungrateful for the free
Ice and free beer, the free excursions
ana free theatricals, the music and
parades and the one hundred and one
other philanthropic devices of the Hon.
william s. Devery and fail to acclaim
him as its leader, Rockaway, in the
borough of Queens, will receive him
with open arms. RockaWay yearns TO
take Big Bill to it's bosom.
1t has him annually as a summer
guest, for Big Bill owns $500 600 villa
IN Arverne, which is part and parcel of
Rockaway, but it wants him for the
whole year round, and it almost would
rejoice in defeat which would drive
him to its hospitable shores as to a
refuge.
Rockaway IS the second string to
Devery's bow. His friends will not adj
INIT the possibility of failure in the
light against Sheehan and Goodwin.
but If such a thing were imaginable.
they say, Devery still could enter pol
itics through the Rockaway door. All
ne would have to do would be to re-
sumo his legal residence in Queens.