Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-04
STARS GOOD FRIENDS
LETTERS FROM CHILDREN WHO
HAVE SEEN THE CASTS.

Greetings and best wishes have been sent
to The Star for its interest in school room
| decoration from the little third-grade pu-
pills of the Arthur building. The interesting
! memorial takes the form of neatly bound
volume containing something more than
thirty letters.
The Arthur building. located on Arthur
Place between the Capitol and the Balti-
more and Ohio station. is in the charge OF
Miss H. P. johnson, teacher OF the eighth
grade. The third grade, made up of pu-
pills of about eight or nine years of age,
is taught by Miss Fife F. Bundick. In
spite of the fact that the Arthur Is not
in the competition for collection of casts,
the interest of the pupils. as shown by
their letters, is as great as those who ex-
pect to profit directly. The building, an
eight-room school, is well decorated and
the art spirit of many Of the children is
said to respond eagerly to any beauty that
Is presented to them
Among the little authors were Maud
Herfurth. Elsie Puccie, Fannie Lacovaro
Ray Grady, Katherine Reinhardt, Durham
Rodgers, John Boyd Edna Lawson, Anne
liza Rotundo, Earl Taylor, Margaret Deck
man, Dorothy Austin. Harvey Johnston,
Frank Gragano, Earl Griffith, Marian Rob-
inson, Mary Fuschini, Esther Ruderman,
Sarah Diehl, Vince Monaco, George Tay-
lor, Clarence Cochran, Herbert Kun jean
showitz, Genarno Veta, Vince Lalicata,
Christine dip and George Ciomef.
Elsie Puccie, who signs herself Your
little Italian friend, says in her letter:
II will tell you about the statues l saw
last Wednesday. l went with my teacher
up to The Star office. We saw the boys
selling The Evening Star too. We have
statue of Minerva In our school, but 1T Is
not as big as the one saw at The Star
office / am little italian girl, and have
only lived in this country three years
am proud to know came from the country
where some of the oldest and best statues
were found. l thank you very much for
getting these statues FOR our schools.
Minerva Taller Than the Teacher.
Fannie Lacovaro, in "A style of good pen
nanship which characterizes all the pupils,
says;
Il will tell you how many votes we have
brought to school, We have sent In eight
hundred and eighteen from our school.
went to The Star office and saw some
beautiful statues one of which was taller
than my teacher, whose name is Miss Bin
dick. We all went to them Thursday,
and / am little Italian girl whose mother
and father came from Italy
Ray Grady is perfectly clear in his mind
as to what school building should profit by
concentration.
II am going to thank The Star office peo-
pie for getting up this contest he states.
I'VE went up to The Star office to see the
statues. L went to see the statues which
were casts from the statues made years
ago. l saw some of those which the Small
wood will get if it wins, We have the Mi
nerva statue. but it is not big as the
one at The Star office. The statues which
the schools are going to get come from
the other side of ocean,"
One little girl who signs herself Alkaline"
says:
Il will write you a few lines. When /
went with my teacher l saw statues some
thing like the ones that we have in our
school building. / am a little Italian girl
but l was born in Washington. We saw
some statues like the pictures of some
statues my teacher pasted on the card
board My teacher is very good to us in
school. ! thank you because you are so
kind to us. We are helping to get the
collection for the Smallwood School l
thank you for getting up the contest
One more letter typical of the whole set
is from Maud Herfurth:
Il am a little girl only eight years old
and just learning to write letters.
and / thought / would write you a few
lines. l love to go to school and / love
my teacher very much. She is very good
to US all. She took us all to see beautiful
statues which we are voting for last week
l think they are beautiful. We very
anxious to see which will be the lucky
school. l will close with best wishes"