New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-09
SKIRTS NO BAR TO THEM
Washington Irving Girls March
Like Soldiers to New Home.
CHEER CORNERSTONE. TOO
Original Red. Haired Mascot De b.
lighted at Token of Victory
in Long Fight.

MODERN Girls can march like soldiers and
chcer IKE college boys. The pupils Of the
washington irving High School proved
po'h statements yesterday. when thirty-nve
hundred Of them. with five hundred or 20
from other high schools and colleges
marched and CONFERENCE.-THE around the
stately frame OF the building at Irving
Pace and nth street which will be ready
TOT them to move into. it is promised. by
April, lsl2 Nine years ago the girls and
their friends began the fight for a new
building. Yesterday the cornerstone was
laid. and the Washington Irving 'rah,
'rah. 'rah"' that the girls let loose as the
big stone sank into place was something
that not even the Society for the rreven-
ton OF Unnecessary Noises could have be-
grudged
The suffrage parade OF May was what
suggested this parade TO William Mean
drew, principal OF the Washington Irving
High School, who thinks that his thirty
FIVE hundred girls ought 10 vote when they
grow up. Like the suffrage parade, ii had
many picturesque features which made 1t
a pretty sight 10 the guests in the review
ing stand by the new building and to
the crowds that lined the streets and gazed
from every window in the neighborhood.
The Youngest girls in the school marched
with waving green boughs in their hands.
Three maidens. voted 10 be the prettiest
in the schoo-Miss Augusta Josephs, Miss
Eleanor Viemeister and Miss Louise Schroe-
der-bore the dedication Banner. color
squad" led bv Miss Ada Becker president
Of the Students Association. carried the
school colors I'm long foating strips Of paper,
which they gave to the breeze as they
passed the stone.
MANY OF the visiting schools politely
brought their banners. and goodly lot or
visiting schools there were. Barnard Col
! lege sent four delegates, 80 did Teachers
| College. Normal College. Pratt Institute
the Hebrew Technical School, Erasmus
| Hall High School. Wadleigh High School
| tho BROOKLYN Training School and dozen
| others The Barnard girls marched IN
caps and gowns. but all the rest. including
the one hundred girl msrshals were dressed
| In white with bare heads.
Three bands played time for the eight
/ thousand young feet as they tramped IN
and out and up and down the streets AROUND
the new building. but their music WASH
| circumstance, in tho ears OF the girls ana
the teachers. 10 that made by the 'diN-
sion Of joyful noise" Some Of the girls
| in this division had COW bells and some
! had dinner bells. but whatever they rad
they iingled II with all the muscle OF
Washington Irving High School girl.
The marching over. the four THOUSAND
massed around me suspended stone nv
stone was laid BY Frank r. Wilsey, chair
man Of the committee on buildings o. me
Board Of Education who preceded the cere
r1orv with speech
THE woman % to-day is the woman VINO
works." he laid I'm this building girls
w,ll learn 10 work We dedicate n TO the
tens of thousands or our city's daughters
There will oe no absurd ar'stocracy ~
learning here. II viii he open 70 all. N"
property ~ the people the product OF
whose toll II is
The real LAYERS Of the stone were TWO
husky wo-kmen. but Mr.. Wilsey had
trowel. and so did the other members 81
the building committee. Patrick F. Nc
GoWan Frank ". Meyer, Dr. Louis
Haupe Augustus G. Miller James f. Suli-
van. Rupert 3. Thomas. George G. Miller
and Thomas VI DELANEY. Mr.. MCGOWAN
VINO ia the special patron saint ~ me
school. had two trovels. ore 81 them being
silver NJ Wilsev's was silver, too. All
the rest were steel. but they were borne
very zrandlv through the parade by ten
girl rroVel bearers
The box which with due ceremony was
placed under the cornerstone had in II lists
Of the teachers IN the Washington Irving
High school a Bible. 4 United States en-
sign copies Of the daily newspapers. re-
ports ~ the Board NJ Education relating
70 the school. and an ivy leaf from the vins
fha. Sir Walter Scott sent from Abbotsford