The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-06
Inspires Many Boys and Girls Seek College Educa-
tion-6,50O Working for Silver MedalEFree
Club Proves Big Asset to the City

AiSO Nidp' L no puTpOSo VI tIll0 Ctub
Is to study trees, protect growing trees
and to plant trees in sections where
they are most needed. The members
range in age from the kindergarten TO
High School pupils. Directly and in
directly the children OF the club have
been responsible for the planting OF
more than 5000 trees in Brooklyn.
'Tho club has planted eight blocks
OF trees in Brooklyn. This means trees
on each side of the street, and have
spent more than $4,000 in this way.
school teachers have become inter
ested in the Tree Club and have
started branches OF it in their districts.
through the reports brought in by a
pupil who was a member of the club.
A mother came to me one day and
said Miss Gallup, where am to got
trees TO plant in front Of the house.
must plant them or have no peace on
earth. Ever. since. Marion has been
a member Of the Tree Club she has
been insisting on trees. So I must get
them 20
THE result was that the trees were
planted in the front of one house.
This interested another householder
and soon campaign was begun, and
before winter set in the entire block
was planted with new, young trees. O..
THE membership fee for the Tree,
Club is 10 cents. This gives the child
tree warden badge and entities him
to the privilege OF asking policemen
when seeing damage done TO trees to
stop it; also to request the drivers OF
delivery wagons not to use trees as
posts for their horses.
Every member of the Tree Club
works TO increase its funds. The
funds are obtained by the sale
OF paper and tinfoil There are
children OF the club who collect all
OF the newspapers in their block and
each week bring many pounds to the
museum. In the spring a canvas Is
made OF neighborhoods. the children
going from house TO house with a
wheelbarrow collecting papers and old
magazines.
Last month there were planted in
the museum grounds eight red oaks
by the members OF the Tree Club
These are a memorial to the late
Theodore Roosevelt, and the children
| also have had placed on a boulder a
bronze tablet to his memory. Year by
year the Tree Club is growing, and
year by year new trees are being
planted in the streets OF Brooklyn.
The Woman's Auxiliary.
we also have a woman's auxiliary
OF which Mrs. I. Sherwood Comm II
president. on the board are such rem
resentatiye women OF Brooklyns pub
lie spirited and educational work as
Mrs. A. Augustus Healy, Mrs. Herman
Stutzer, Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs.
Frederick l.. Jenkins, Mrs. Edwin
Moore Cragin and Mrs William II.
Ziegler. These women are working
for the betterment OF the museum and
their slogan is, Brooklyn had the first
| Children's museum in the world.
Brooklyn should have the best chill
dren's museum in the world
These women are working to i'm
prove the museum in every possible
way and have succeeded in raising
money for additional exhibits. One OF
their main objects is TO raise $40, 900.
of which quarter has been obtained
to establish the Franklin w. Hooper
! memorial. This is a travelling exhibit
that will take into every school room
comprehensive collections OF speci-
mems for the children to study.
zone OF these days we hope to have
on this site Il building for the Chill
dren's Museum that will house ex-
tensive exhibits and provide greater
facilities for study. No matter how
large the building might be, no matter
how fine, II will always DO the house
OF the children. and they will always
be at liberty TO use 1t freely and a
their own.
Brooklyn had the first museum OF
this kind, but other cities and coun-
tries are following. taking this as a
model. In the United States, Boston
and Cleveland now have such mu-
seums. There is one in Cardifr, Wales.
and plans are under way for tho es-
Establishment OF such places in Aus
tralia and New Zealand. There is no
doubt every city in the United States
u1trrrr1ef~ VIII 1oosr EIrCii~a prdt1- mr.
VIII bring the country TO the city
child and teach 1t the joys OF know
ing that other birds. in addition TO the
sparrow exist"