Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-31
SCHOOLS HEAD
ENDORSES THE
SEATTLE TRIP
HERALD'S CONTEST WINS DR.,
MO0RE'S PRAISE
GIBSON GIRL CREATOR ENTHUsEs
OVER PANORAMA
Paoific-Yukon Exposition Pronounced
the Most Beautiful Ever Held
and Progress So Far
Remarkable

The Herald's plan to send twelve
teachers to Seattle as it's guests has
the cordial good will of DR.. E. c.
Moore, superintendent of schools of
Los Angeles and known throughout the
Pacific coast country and beyond as
an educator.
In warm words the well known school
official has Endorsed the plan of giving
the teachers a vacation trip, the plan
appealing to him as it does to them
for it's pleasurable and instructive
features as well as it's recreational adj
vantages.
DR.. Moore's letter is printed here
with:
Los Angeles City Schools, Office of the
superintendent, Dec. %, 1908.
''Mr. T. e. Gibbon, The Herald, Los
Angeles:
my Dear Mr.. Gibbon-I am, as you
would naturally expect, very greatly
interested in the plan Of The Herald
to provide a vacation trip for some of
the teachers of this city and of this
part of the state. I have noted with
no little interest what you have said
of them and of their work during the
last few days.
There can be no doubt that what
you are planning for them will be
pleasurable and instructive; moreover,
lit is richly deserved, for no class of
public servants tolls more conscien-
tiously and successfully in the inter-
est Of the state than they do, and few
have so many of life's burdens or so
scanty a portion of it's joys.
1.-THE Herald will bring a large OPP
portunity to the door of folks who will
make the best possible use of it.
"Our thanks are due to you and your
splendid newspaper for the interest
you have taken in the children and in
those who promote their welfare so
heroically. Very sincerely yours,
''E. c. MOORE, Superintendent"
Gibson Girl Creator Enthuses
Recently the creator of the Gibson
girl visited the Seattle exposition
grounds. His views may be interest
ing:
at will unquestionahly be the most
beautiful exposition ever held in the
world, and the remarkable progress
you have made so far ahead of the
opening date amazes me-" said Charles
Dana Gibson after trip over the
grounds where the west is building
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition.
Mr.. Gibson stood at the head of the
Cascade court, the central decorative
feature of the grounds Straight in
front of him, but eighty miles away,
Mount Rainier, the highest mountain
peak in the United States, reared its
head until its snow-covered crest was
lost in the white fieecy clouds that how
cred around it. To his left the Cas-
cades made rugged outline against
the sky, and to his right the Olympics
rose to majestic height from the shores
of the Pacific ocean. Away off to the
northwest the Selkirks carried a sea
of snow-capped peaks to the distant
horizon.
In the immediate foreground, through
stately pine trees that have so far
withstood the march of progress, Lake
Washington glitters. 1t was Decem-
Der morning but Mr.. Gibson and Nor
man r. Hapgood, editor of Golfers
Weekly, who was with him, Wore in
their buttonholes roses they had just
plucked.
II have made no particular hobby Of
expositions," continued Mr.. Gibson,
"but 1 have been to all those held in
recent years, and from what you have
already here, combined with the lavish
manner in which nature has done her
share for you, I think I am safe in
saying that this will be the most at
trartive one ever held. I had no inten-
ton when I left New York of coming
to this country again for some years,
but / will be back here next June 20
see your fair wouldn't miss the COM
pleted picture for anything"
Mr.. Hapgood was equally enthusiast
tic and he and Mr.. Gibson will return
to Seattle next summer to see the eX-
position and will also make the trip
10 Alaska