Evening star., 1905-10-24
GALES IN THE LEAD
Stars Offer a Boon to the
Schools.
DECORATIVE CASTS
ART STUDIES NEEDED AS PUPILS
INSPIRATION.
Enthusiasm of Pupils and Teachers
Growing Hourly-Votes Come
in Rapidly.

Miss X T. Brown principal of the Gales
building, which was first in The Evening
Stars school decoration contest, said this
morning:
ION one occasion we made $40 for decora-
tive purposes at a noon candy sale, but We
can't do that now. The Stars offer to i'm
prove the appearance of the school rooms
Is a great boon to us. l hope we will sue
ceed Every school has its president and
vice president and secretary, and the work
Is thoroughly systematiZed. There will be
is thoroughly organized. There will be no
children are working with the greatest en-
thusiasm'
The Gales building has already small re-
pleas of reliefs busts and statues. There
are good prints engravings and nicely
tinted walls Particularly noticeable are
the Singing Boys of Monatello," the Fly
ing Mercury" the David and the
"Ariadne Deserted but the teachers all
say that much more is needed
Mr.. Ely's Views.
Mr.. S. M. Ely. supervising principal of
the ninth division. in which the Gales build
ing is situated. and at which he has his
office. said this morning in regard to The
Stars plan to give casts to the public
schools:
II have eight schools in my DIVISION
three of which come under the twelve-room
and over cldSS-the Gales, the Brookland
and the Emery. All of the other buildings
the Blake, Carbery, lexington, Hayes and
LanSdon-are buildings of eight rooms and
under. But the enthusiasm is great Why,
l am told that last Saturday morning by
$50 o'clock only four teachers had called
at The Star office and three of those were
from the ninth diviSon-MiSS X. 7. Brown,
n
who has just been appointed to the Brook
land building. There are about $50 school
buildings in the District, and there is every
where the greatest interest In school deco
ration. The school garden movement has
done much for the schools. and this dona-
tion of casts by The Star will greatly aid
the efforts of the teachers to make the
schools attractive to the pupils
Il am very glad to learn from the princ1-
pals of every one of my buildings that they
are entering the competition. From Lang
don. even, which is only d four-room build
Ing, class of buildings which hardly seems
provided for by the terms of the competl-
tion word has been received We are do
ing what we cam The contest is in some
respects the best thing that could happen
to the schools. l heartily indorse it, 1t
has the great value of being a friendly
competition with the personal element re-
moved. l shall encourage all my schools
to work for the enrichment of their build
ings. There was at first a question whether
a special grade or school would compete,
but 1t Is now understood that all schools in
a building are to work together for the
whole. I hope some one Of my buildings
may get prize.
Should Preserve Papers.
In yesterdays paper there appeared the
first of series of articles upon the SUBJ
jects of the casts which are to be presented
to the schools. Others will follow until
the list shall be exhausted 1t is the ad-
vice of the director that teachers will pre-
serve these papers on sculpture for future
reference.
In addition to decorating the schools
through the medium of a good newspaper
one of the other objects which the director
had in view was the impetus which could
be given to the study of the worlds great
masterpieces in sculpture. Bearing this in
mind. she will be pleased to know that the
teachers of the District will make their
pupils familiar with the casts to be given
by The Star. The subjects are so we'll
chosen that by making a study of them
the pupils will be laying the foundation of
a knowledge of classic art which Will be
of great use to them. and the source of
much pleasure In future years.
One of the many questions asked the di-
rector by the teachers is, How long will
the contest rum The length of time was
long since decided upon and will be an
nounced later. Meanwhile, from the man
ner In which the pupils of the Gales school
have entered into the work, it looks as If
they were determined to see their school
decorated. Evidently, also. they realize the
value of sending in their coupons early and
often, judging from the way in which their
two additional contributions of votes, fol-
lowed the first yesterday and today. Such
energy on the part of the present pupils
of the school cannot fail to arouse the
cooperation of its alumni
Two other schools the Force and the Ed
monds, gave notice of their intentions to
work by sending in their first votes For
the encouragement of all, IL may be said
that in an undertaking of this kind it is
the steady sending in, the setting value
upon every little help that counts in the
long run
Attention is called to the necessity of
sending In whole coupons, not parts of cou-
pons, and also to the need of filling each
coupon out carefully and plainly.