Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-15
SCHOOL DEDICATED
EXERCISES HELD THIS AFTER
NOON.
Commissioner West Presided and Mr..
Mcfarland Made an Address
The Program.

The new Gage School building, named in
| honor of the late Mr.. N. P. Gage. who was
| closely identified with the local schools for
| many years, was dedicated this afternoon
with ceremonies in which Commissioners
| Macfarland and West Superintendent
| Stewart of the public schools, Supervising
| Principal Freeman and other prominent
| citizens took part. The exercises began
at O'Clock, Mr.. West presiding.
| Rev. DIR. Samuel H. Newman, pastor of
the First Congregational Church, delivered
the invocation. after which the members
of several of the grades in the school sang
! America" under the direction of Mr.. H. p
Hoover.
Commissioner Mcfarland was then intro
duced. He. like all those who followed,
| made the life and character of the late
| Mr. Gage his theme. He said it was a
| very perfect, gentle knight" that his audi
| ence had gathered to honor-not a man of
war. nor a man of many affairs.
1t was not for any traits of this kind
| that he was being honored, said the Com
| missioners, but for higher kind of sue
cess the success of teaching right and
well the children of the District that came
| under his jurisdiction.
This man." continued the speaker,
| "yirile in mind and body trained directly
| or Indirectly a whole generation, not only
| in efficiency, which is good, but in honor
| hgh-mindedness and the love of learning
which is better. He himself set the ex-
ample of preferrng the things of the spirit
| rather than the things of the flesh, and
without doubt, as in every case, example
was even more effective than teaching
| And, verify, he has his reward. in the love
and obedience of these troops of friends
who were his pupils, and in the abiding
and unmixed respect of all the friends of
our public schools. He being dead yet
speaketh with inspiration to us, tempted
as we are to worship the great god sue
cess in most material form and to admire
as successful only those who fight their
way through the weak and over the help
less with sturdy selfishness, without pity
and without scruple. He speaks of that
simple life which he lived before Wagner
| wrote his book and which is as old as
the teaching of Jesus Christ, whose fol-
lower he was, a life of courage, content
ment, compassion, with the broad outlook
of spiritual vision
President Emig's Address.
When a song had been sung by the
Bloomingdale quartet, the next address of
the afternoon was delivered by Mr.. Clay
ton E. Emig, president of the North Wash
ington Citizens Association. The people
of north Washington, said Mr.. Emig, highly
appreciated the honor of taking part in
the exercises and thanked the Commits
sioners and the members of the board sof
education for the invitation to do SO. AS
a community the people were thankful, he
declared, for the handsome, modern school
building that had been put up for their
children's use.
I'm naming the building the Gage School,"
said Mr.. Emig, proceeding, you honor US,
because some of our most active members
of the Citizens Association have not only
been pupils and friends of Mr.. Gage, but
taught under his personal supervision. We
deem 1t but just and proper that We dedi-
cate now to his memory this place of learn
ing. 1t is fitting memorial to his ability
and faithfulness.'
Lead Kindly Light was then given by
the school children, after which Miss S. E.
White, principal of the Morse School, deiv-
cred a brief address, at the conclusion of
which she presented to the school por-
trait of Mr.. Gage as gift from the teach
ers of the second division.
Mr.. Hoover then sang the solo, 1.-THE Lord
My Shepherd Isl
Mr. Edward H. Thomas next spoke brief
ly and presented to the school bronze tab
let from the former pupils of Mr.. Gage when
the latter was principal of the Seaton school
in the old days, before he became a super
vising principal Mr.. Thomas, who is the
assistant corporation counsel of the Dis
trict, was a former pupil of the honored
teacher.
Miss Elizabeth A. Stuart sang and the
Stately Ships Go On"
The next address was delivered by Mr.. A
T. Stewart, superintendent of schools. 1t
was a glowing eulogy of Mr.. Gage, with
whom he was personally associated for a
number of years.
| A short address was made by Mr.. j. T.
Freeman, supervising principal of the sec
| ond division. Mr.. Freeman also presented
| the keys of the building to Mrs. NJ. E. c.
| Walker, the principal
| The exercises came to a close with the
singing of abide With Me" by the school