New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-06
GIRL PUPILS ENTERTAIN
Mir Their Gayety acith Plea for Neso
Technical High School.

No city official ever had such an ovation as
Patrick E. MCGOWAN. the new President OF the
Board Of Aldermen got at the Girls Technlca
High School. No. "a East 12th-st-. yesterday
afternoon When Mr.. MCGOWAN was member
OF the Board OF Education he was firm friend
of this school. and the girls wished to con-
rratulate him on his accession to new honors-
So they danced for him and sang for him, per
formed a little play for his entertainment and
presented him with their pictures, having first
taken the precaution to ask him if he would
accept tangible expression Of their gratitude
and esteem.
sWeI of course" said Mr.. MCGOWAN, las a
member of the Board Of Education couldn't
accept anything, but President of the Board
of Aldermen don't know that there would Dc
any improperly in it,
Then the girls asked for his hat to collect the
pictures and having secured them, the chair
man. Miss Eleanor Mcpherson, asked him If he
would like to have them bound. Mr.. MCGOWAN
thought that would be very nice. so Miss Nc
Pherson passed the hat over the top Of screen
labelled "Bookbnding Department and sounds
of frantic activity-furious pounding, cries OF
Give me the gluer' Hand the scissors!'
etc-immediately began to issue therefrom. In
about two minutes album Of photographs
and the empty hat were passed back over the
TOD Of tbs screen, and both were presented to
the guest Of honor. The pictures that the book
contained were then thrown a screen by the
principal, William McAndrew. and showed the
pupils Of the school engaged in their various
activities
In accepting the gift Mr.. MCGOWAN told the
girls that It was shame that they should have
been housed so long in ramshackle buildings.
and assured them that he would use all his In
fuence TO get them q new building.
The girls had previously done all they could
20 impress their necessities on the mind OF the
new city official Their play represented g.
school, and this was the form that the lessons
took:
e-w-b-u-i-I-d-f-n-g," was the answer.
what punishment does the law provide for a.
school commissioner who fails to perform his
a horrible punishment solitary confinement
in the lunchroom in the basement of the Girls
Where is the Girls Technical High School
located?''
Uptown, downtown and in the hearts Of its
friends"
Describe the landing Of Henry Hudson In
= when Henry Hudson cast anchor in New
York Harbor he asked Peter Van Brewster to
Climb the mast and tell him what he saw.
Peter said. I see a large building in the middle
OF the island with Indian maidens going in and
out That is the Girls Technical High School,
said Henry. The Chinese refer to it in their
most ancient writings. They ought to have q
The pupils of the school we're the Misses Err
restine Grossman Augusta Wiener, Annie IN
gerleider, Anna Dietze. Carrie Flatow, Elizabeth
Levy Fannie Edelman and Sadie Cohen
At the conclusion Of the ceremonies In the
assembly room the company adjourned to the
gymnasium, which had been fitted up as a Jap
anese tea by the graduating class, VINO
also. dispensed the refreshments, being gowned
q la japanese for the OCCASION Here the Presi-
dent OF the Board Of Aldermen had tea and wit
messed dance supposed TO be suggestive OF MS
future duties. 1t was performed by naskers,
each wearing two faces and dressed so exactly
siike TO back and front views that except by
a fnFf heir
tell which way nature intended them TO face.
Among those present were Mrs. MCGOWAN,
Controller Herman Metz. Edgar Q. Sinner, DIR.
John Dwyer, Edward W. Stitt William Hark-
ness. NJ S. Stern and ]. II. fisherman