Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-15
PRIDE IN CIVIC BEAUTY
COLORED PEOPLE ENTER UPON
SUMMER CAMPAIGN.
Prizes to Boys and Girls for the
Prettiest and Best
Kept Yards.

The coiored people of the District have
become aroused and interested in the mat
ter of civic pride and beauty. The How
ard Park Association. composed of col
ored men and women who live in the
vicinity of Howard University. have taken
the initiative, having arranged for a COM
petition among the boys and girls of the
section, known as the Tyler garden prize
competition. Ralph W. Tyler. auditor for
the Navy Department. in the interest Of
civic beauty, has donated sum to be "a
vided into several prizes for the colored
boys and girls producing the prettiest
and neatest kept yards.
Rules of the Competition.
The rules laid down by Howard Park
Association to govern the contest are ~
follows:
only boys and girls under eighteen
years of age, living within the territory
of the Howard Park Citizens Association.
may enter this competition. Said territory
is included within the following boundary
lines: On the north, Park road: on the
east, I'd street northwest; on the south.
Rhode Island and Florida avenues, and
on the west. 9th street and Sherman ave-
nue..
mo competitor may hire assistance of
any sort in his gardening, although all
members of a family may take part in
the work.
Each garden must be part of the
property upon which the competitor re-
sides, but the place may be either owned
or rented.
Each garden must cover the entire plot
of ground within it's separate Enclosure
In the rating of gardens three merits
will be counted as of leading value: First.
the general up-keep of walks, beds. turf.
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on which the garden is laid out and.
third. the harmony of its features as to
form and colors.
1.-The prizes are: Capital prize. $40; Sec
ond prize. So, and five third prizes OF 81
each.
"A speial prize of 50 and a second spe-
cial prize of ST. will be awarded respec-
lively for the first best and second best
individual specimens of garden products
of either flowers, fruits or vegetables.
THE award of prizes shall be on some
date in October to be designated by the
three judges who will he selected by the
committee and appointed and announced
by June l.
Three Points Considered.
I'm marking the whole lot is considered
the garden 1t is marked on three points:
First, as to the order and neatness OF
the yard. Second. the layout or ground
plan of the place, and thlrd, the mar
mony of it's arrangements both as to color
and blooms, size and form of trees, shrubs
and plants.
Keep your lawn thoroughly weeded.
Now the grass as often as the mower will
cut it. In laying out your paintings. as
a rule, avoid straight lines and sharp
angles Plant all the flowers you wish.
but plant shrubs at their back to give
YOU more pleasant and lasting effects
while the ANIMALS are out of season as
we'll as when they are I'm bloom. Have
a nine-month instead of a three-mOnth
garden.
Those desiring to enter this COMPETE
ton are requested to make application to
the, chairman or members of this COM
mittee on or before MAY ]. when the
privilege will be accorded, and entirely
without cost.
1T is hoped that the competition will
be general as the whole purpose OF the
project is to beautify the gardens and
yards of the section covered by the How
ard Park Citizens Association"
The committee in charge consists OF
Mrs. r. A Pelham. chairman: Mrs. III.
c. Baker, Mrs. NJ. B. Wood. Thomas j..
Johnson. II. 7. Swami. j. III. Harrison
and ]. c. Wright.