The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-12
high SCHOOL GIRLS win OUT
WASHINGTON IRVING WIZ
HAVE IRIS NEW RI'ILDING.
~ Least the Beard % kstlmate Iias
IleSsled To Thought waves FrOw the
n Auburn Haired Ones and Only the
Aldermen and the Mayer HaNe 60 Act.


n AulDuEn Haired Ones and Only the
Aldermen and the Mayer HANe 90 Act
The twenty-three psychic dynamOs.
each auburn tinted aud keyed up to
tremendous resistance. which had been
revolving and revolving up at Washing
ton Irving High on East Twelfthn etrest
for weeks past al drench ing with potent
ohms 81 mental suggestion the collective
consciousnessas Of the Board OF Educa-
ton and the Board Of Estimate. nearly
blew zap at one minute past n O'Clock
yesterday morning. That was when
word came over the telephone that th.,
Board Of Estimate had approved a bond
issue of tSOOOOO for a new ischoOlhoOse
for the J.OIO girls Of Washington Irving
High.
Al that very minute the twenty-three
psychic dyamos were sitting in their
class rooms. eyes shut and every red hair
standing on end with the force OF tele-
pathic kinematics that rushed out and
down TO the room where the Board Of
Estimate was in session. knowing that
the hoard would that morning take up
the recommendation OF the Board OF
Education for completing that schoolhouss
which had begun seven years ago and
nAd been progressed no further than a
hole in the ground. Chief Dynamo Minnie
Green had assembled the twenty-five
other live wires OF thought transmission
and had turned on the switch for q final
propulsion Of influence upon the Mayor.
John Purroy Mitchell and the other I'M
insulated members Of the city's finance
board.
Lillian. who ~ not red headed and
whose last name doesn't figure anyway.
was the once girl Of the day: that 10,
LILLIAN was the pIpI VINO was taking her
turn at sitting in tho principals once
and sharing his responsibilities. To her
came the rich burnt lumber tones Of
school Commissioner PatT ick =. Nc
CiOwan over the wire.
Tell the girls with the red hair and
every other girl that the Board Of Esti-
mate has just authorized the bonds Tor
tho new building said COMMISSIONS
McC;owan. He got no fur her for Lillian
had dropped tie receiver and was on up
the stairs She stopped ~ the first door
she came to and yanksd IL open.
The boards just passed the new
school
Lillian didn't stop Ia JOIN In the war
dance which occurred right then and
there She ran an from room to room.
triumphant messenger, hair hyinG
and ewes all lit up. and discipline col
lapasd in her wake la every classroom
teachers blink 81 while girls stood On
their desk and waved alg~brss and PEN
wipsrE They swept out into the halls
and there zIrged hack and forth singing
that pugnaciotS SChosl song Ot theers
~ hi,h has ~ that there - no echSol hut
Washington Irving High and Mr Andres
H. Ito prophet
In In. afternoon there was q jUbila-
ton IN th. assembly room ~ the rickesy
I'D building az "a 2 which has housed
a part vt Washington lrvinge scholars
for all the time that the hole IN the ground
A. Seventeenth street and Irving pIare
has remained Just hole and not school,
house A. many ~ could Jam themselves
into the room did - The twenty three
radhead@d ones who had woven spells
and cA-t 'he compelling eye At the two
controlling boards we're rushed 20 placs's
~ honor "a front ant there they sai
rmthnE
FIrs, " wa- decided to send tel-gIsms
10 sveVv member 81 the Board 81 Esti-
mate That was done right away and 20
the Mayor and all th" others came this
fnlaon,a o'ith,Irst a2ss thanks TO Won for
your help from the Washington Irving
girls
Put that Vas not enough. soHe ~
1hsu rushed ~ ~ IN" drawing room and
began Ia turn ou' some nifty ,llumi-
mated cards WITH explosive sentiments
81 lov all ,ntsrtw ned wtth rod CtivhcIe~
On thaTr 80 10 -snt through the mails
- = few favored editors around town
Afssr tpuwN=tonsT MCtiovan had
cprna INTO tho assembly ro-n and Rad 70
Ceivs-i r'rr" tNsn ore daught~r'v "uhra~e
from tha enthusiastic gtrls he told them
an,r.t nov th.' Bnard q Estimate has
acted uVgn the urpre,' fpr completing
rho long standing not" IN the ground.
and 10 sad that only two more steps now
Law h"' w"~n present pr spe'ts and sure
siiro.Sz rhr Board " aldermen would
hav. =" pass 'hs R,ard ~ Estimates
apporti~nm"uf -a'd he. and then ~"
Mayot would have ~ give he final assent
The. Iornrui--,nfier Thought that tho Alder
men were -afe and no was sure ~ the
Mayor approval. sine" the Mayor had
voted ave IN The UT"pn~,tl''n m III" Beard
- Estimate meeting ~ ths moving
Nc'iuWan oyiued however. thar the
twsutv three though1 dynamuS had lsrtt"r
not stop raV,tlVIug until bids were lot
and building actually legun
\ r'iegTam came from Commissioner
Frank " il-sy II th.. buildInR committee
- tho Pusrd ~ tducatton. Tell the
giri- I'm A. glad a. hey are. was the
I ptnnl--innsr- message. and he wa
voted "a p"rf~'f I'D dear. just like No
Gowan
80 IN. iuhlIatIop ended and the twenty
thre., T,-ychic dynainos took M again their
u ork II revolving ant revolving against
the possibility 81 some sin occurring
l"fpre that Old hpl'' un Irving place ~
covered by a Tin" new ,choolhouss
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