Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
BUILDING DEDICATED
TODAY AT THOMAS
PHILLIPS MORGAN SCHOOL.
Addresses by Commissioner Macfar-
land, A. T. Stuart, Superintendent
Of Public Schools, and Others.

songs by bright faced school children, and
with speeches filed with encoura cement,
congratulation and eulogy delivered by
prominent men of the District, the beau
tiful new building known as the Thomas
Phillips Morgan Public School, on Callfor-
mia avenue between Florida avenue ana
18th street in Washington Heights, was
dedicated this morning at IL o'clock. Inc
scene within the building only added to the
brightness of the day, and probably no more
enjoyable exercises of similar nature
have ever been witnessed in the District
Along both sides of the entrance hall palms
and tropical plants were banked with pleas.
ing effect, while the large southeast
room on the first floor of the edifice, where
the exercises took place, was beautifully
decorated with palms and flowers ana
American flags, which latter were taste
fully draped about the walls and over the
windows. The happy faces of the school
children seated in the room lent a pleasing
charm to the scene.
Many parents and friends of the pupils
and residents of the Heights witnessed the
exercises, presided over by Mr.. j. Holds
worth Gordon of the board of education.
Among those who delivered addresses IN
addition to the presiding officer were Com
missioner H. B. F. Mcfarland, DR.. A +.
Pardon, chairman Board of Trade COM
mittee public schools; Mr.. A. T. Stuart,
superintendent of District schools, and Mr.
lnOmaS +. morgan, son OF the late SoHi-
missioner in whose honor the building was
named. In the audience were DR.. Richard
kingsman of the board of education; Prof.
c. S. Clark, supervising principal, and the
following members of the late Thomas +.
Morgsn's family-Mrs. Richard c. Parker,
Mrs. Samuel w. Stinemetz, Miss Caroline
Morgan, Mrs. Phineas B. Leach and Mr..
Andrew p. Morgan.
The flowers, palms and tropical plants
used IN the decorations were furnished to
the school by Mrs. Gardiner G. Hubbard
Mr.. Macfarland's Address.
The Program opened with the singing OF
America" by the school, after which Mr..
Gordon briefly congratulated the pupils and
the residents of the Heights on the fine new
building Commissioner Macfarland was
then introduced. He spoke of the value
of the building to the community, and in
closing told of the life and character of
Major Morgan, whose name the building
bore.
Mr. Macfarand said, in part
This is an suspicious morning for Wash
ington Heights. For In opening this beautl-
full building for the uses of public school
we are adding to the wealth of this section
In incalculable terms and for all the future.
Our public school system stands high in
our affection, as it does in the admiration
of the country, and we justly believe that
the opening of new school building Is the
opening of a great opportunity 1t is an
opportunity for the thousands of boys and
girls who will come within these walls In
all the time to come; and it is an opportunl-
ty for the teachers who will be privileged
to prepare them for citizens. Not all
scholars, not even all the teachers, will ap-
preciate this. The mechanical way of do
ing things here, as elsewhere. brings its
own punishment in dizziness of vision and
lack of perception. Like goes to like. as
schoolboys from their books: but like from
like, toward school with heavy looks wrote
Shakespeare, and while the vast improve
ment in schools since his time has wrought
great Improvement In scholars, 1t Is still
true that many scholars and some teachers
work in schools strictly from a sense of
duty. Let us hope that all who shall labor
here may do so with pleasure, as we'll as
with profit.
This building will preserve for posterity
the name of Thomas Phillips Morgan, Com
missioner of the District of Columbia from
December, 1879, until March, 1888, whose
home was in this section of the city of
Washington. This honor Commissioner
Morgan well deserved, for he a faith
full, efficient and honorable public servant,
and took special interest in the public
schools. He served in the councils of the
old city of Washington, and he served the
public in other positions before he was
called to the highest Office in the District
government by President Hayes. 1t Is so
recently, within half a dozen years, that
Commissioner Morgan passed away, that
his attractive face, his pleasant manner
and his kindly words are still fresh In the
minds of many of u.s. We who remember
him personally take a peculiar pleasure in
this opportunity to show respect to his
memory. May the achievements of his
career and the character which 1t devel-
oped, and, above all, the principles of high
religion which he protested, be an inSpira-
ton to all those who shall be members of
the Morgan School,