Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-23
WEE FOLK INTERESTED
STARS Art CONTEST SUBJECT OF
ESSAYS.

| Continuing her visits to the public schools
/ Miss Gertrude l.. Brinkhaus today went to
! the Jefferson and was presented to the
1 teachers and pupils by Supervising Prin-
| cipal Fairbrother. Interest in The Stars
i voting contest she found to be very great
i In the southwestern section Of the city.
1 While at the Jefferson Miss Brinlehaus
! witnessed fire drill, by means Of which
| the entire building was cleared or teachers
| and pupils in less than five minutes. This
momentary excitement did not. however,
| prevent the youngsters and the older pupils
| from displaying much enthusiasm when It
came to consideration Of the gathering
| Of votes for the prize collections of statu-
| a-Y
| Mr. Fairbrother next took Miss Brink
| haus to the Amidon School and. will intro
| duce her in turn to the other buildings In
| the fourth division over which he presdes.
| These include. besides those already men
| toned, the Arthur, Bowen, Bradley, Green
| leaf. Mccormick, Potomac and Smallwood
| schools.
Children's Theme.
| During her tour of the third division yes
| terday the director of the contest discov
| cred that some of the younger pupils had
! been writing compositions upon the subject
| in which she is interested. AS is customary
| In the local public schools, the children
are often given instructions to write COM
| positions in letter form so that they may
| be taught the methods of proper CORE
spondence.
| The Stars movement for finer decora ton
| of the schools being a vital one many of
| the youthful writers were given this theme
| The results were exhibited to Miss Brink
| haus. who was not SOW to compliment Inc
| authors on their command of English.
Ono little man, addressing a friend,
| wrote as follows:
Knowing what an interest you take in
| the Maury School, / will tell you about
| The Evening Star contest. A coupon Is put
| In the paper every night. The contest is
| among all the schools which care to take
part, and the nine schools having the larg-
| est number of votes will each receive a
| beautiful set of statues imported from Ger
many
| I'VE have over five thousand votes and
! rank about eighth in the list. The children
| have taken a great deal of interest and
| are working very hard. / have four people
| saving votes for me. The Business High
School ranks first. The statues are of an
| cient Greeks and Romans"
| A Great Contest.
Another letter upon the same subject
| reads as follows:
1.-The Star Building. on 18th street and
| Pennsylvania avenue northwest, is giving
a great contest for the school-room decora-
| ton. 1t contains many beautiful statues
made in Germany The pupils are anxious
| to see who gets them and all are working
| hard.
THE other day when was near The Star
office 1 heard nothing but Mister, give me
! the vote
| This was cried by the paper boys as the
| men and women bought the papers.
! THE Hilton School is first, with total
| of over 10000 votes, while our school, the
| Maury, is eighth, with a total of 5000
| votes. Soon the statues will be on exhibit
| ton at The Star Office. and if you will come
| over shall be very glad to have YOU
| A little girl writes in part:
y write to tell you about the great offer
| The Evening Star is giving to the schools
! In this city for school-room decora TONS In
each evening paper it places vote, and
this vote has to be made out by the differ
ent scholars, by writing on 1t their names
and the names of their school Every week
they are collected throughout the schools
and sent to The Star Office, where they are
counted and placed on file. On Sunday
the paper has Ave votes, and by the side Of
these votes Is placed the standing of the
schools In the contest. AS soon as the con-
test closes will let you know the results,