| Show CHOOL BOARD HONOR 71 N POET RILEY BUI Newest School Building Is Named After Distinguished Distin Distin- I Author of Poems t That a t Will Live Forever he Salt Lake City board of ot edua edu- edu a ion on has bag honored the memory of ot ott t the poet James Whitcomb Riley D b naming the newest school bu buIlding ding just completed after aft r him T TOfe structure which Is handsome ana iTa d has been erected at a cost of ot at Fourteenth South and Eighth w West st streets was dedicated dedicated Friday night The teachers parent-teachers I association of ot tho district and I friends were out in force and the building was filled to overflowing I The exercises were held In thelong thelong the thelong long hall hail that extends through the building The school hool has Miss Ella I Il l M. M Kelsey as principal with Mrs Sallie Sallio D. D White In charge of ot the school with Miss Frances and Miss Florence Jacobs assistants assist assist- ants apts j I IThe The exercises of Friday night were in charge of ot I. I E. E Willie of ot the board of ot education Other members of of the board who were present were W W. R. R Armstrong and A. A E 13 Eberhardt Superintendent George N. N Child was also present as also George King clerk cierI of ot the board Superintendent Child delivered delivered delivered de de- de- de livered an address ss in which lie congratulated the board of ot education education education tion for the building and complimented complimented complimented tile the teachers In charge of the school There was a violin duet by the Misses Hildegarde and Emma Schreiner with Miss Riva Brown at the piano which was splendidly given and which brought a response to the the encore There was a duet by Elihu and Valde Walde- mar Call CaB On the Way to Mandelay Mandelay Mandelay Mande- Mande lay splendidly sung as was tho solo by Miss tUss Holdsworth The TheRoSa TheRose I Rose RoSa of Miss read The Raggedy Ragged Man 1 and anu That Old Swe Sweetheart theart of Mine Mino rind and nd W. W R. R Armstrong gave some reminiscences remi rem of James Whitcomb Riley as he heard him lim long ago RILEY POEM PRESENTED An original manuscript of one of or Rileys Riley's poems The Beetle BeetIe was presented the school by Albert F F. Philips of ot The T Telegram legram the manuscript having come to hin when as one ne of ot the owners and editors of ot the Kokomo l hid Ind d. d Tribune Tribune Trib Trib- une he printed poems of Mr Riley Mr I Philips gave some somo reminiscences dences of Mr Riley and of of hi his connection with the Kokomo Tribune The gift was was aas accepted by Mr Eberhardt of the board of ot tion The address of Mr Philips as is also a facsimile of ot two J stanzas of ot The Beetle neetIe is here presented Forty five years ago In the Kokomo Ko Io Ko- Ko komo lomo Indiana Tribune a newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper of ot which I was one of the owners and editors there was printed print print- printed ed a forceful temperance lecture The Blue Ribbon organization was wasat wasat wasat at that time making vigorous a campaign against the liquor fic fie The lecture was in a poem and It not only attracted attention In Inthe the literary world but among all ail people and It placed the thern author among the famous authors and poets of the country The poem was Tom Johnsons Johnson's Quit It I re read d I TOM JOHNSONS JOHNSON'S QUIT QUITA A passel of ot us bo boys s 's last night night- And me rue amongst em em kind kind ogot I Tp talking left and right An up ribbon Blue hot And while we was as cou a-cou a tin JesHow Jes How flow many had gone into hit And signed the pledge plede some feller teller says says says- Tom Johnsons Johnson's quit We laughed of ot course course cause cause Tom you know Has spilled more whIsk whisky boy an an man And seed d more moie trouble high an anThan anlow an l low Than any chap but Tom could stand An so 50 say I Hes too nl nigh h dead For Tor to benefit The feller sighed agin and said said sald- 1 Tom Johnsons Johnson's quit I We all liked Tom and that was waa why why'Ve We Ve SOl 0 o simmered down agin An ast the feller feIler Ef EC he want trin to draw Us in in- in lIe He shuck his head tUck head tuck off his hat hat hat- Helt Kelt up his hand an opened lift hit An says says he he Ill I'll swear to that that that- Tom Ton Johnsons Johnson's quit Well we was and tickled d too Because we knew ef Tom Tom had had 1 V V signed want no man as wore the blueS lue lueA A As Au was as more honester inclined I An then an we w kindo Hz riz- riz is-a is facsimile of ot the poem poem presented se ted to the James I TIllS i Whitcomb Rile Rilet school ch o by A F. F Philips in whose I newspaper the Kokomo Ind d. d Tribune n the tile first poems of I Ithe the Hoosier poet poet were were- v re printed This manuscript of The i Beetle I was his IllS original copy sent to the Kokomo Tribune V E 8 E 71 E V F A-F V x p. p 74 1 i J V f n I. I Ai 1 Le J j j C cY- cY 1 7 J V Va J k I J O a rJ l t i r V S t. t rV r I J IJ V Jr 4 1 r I d Ot 04 V V 0 V lM tiL Mt V A wt 44 V JI S V 14 i V te m. m t.- t. 7 7 t V rt 4 JU Ch tt IL 4 t tr r t c-t f hZ O V V 5 S J k t. t t J I I The Th hull huH dern dern- g Bans gang ot ngor of us u's us at bit bit bit- An ned tho our hats and let er erV I i iTom V Tom J Johnsons Johnson's hn oll's quit lVA h heerd erd em m holler ho when the balls S bees bees- Was Vas round us An when the old flag on the walls wails Was Vas as oer o'er the emy's Ive I've heerd many a-many a wild hooray A As made my heart git up an git I But Lord Lord to to hear em shout that way way- v V Tom Torn Johnsons Johnson's I B But t when we e esaw saw saw the chap as fetched The rhe news want in the cheer But stood stood I solemn like an An n kindo w wiped a away a tear fo foa i iAn We someway O Y sorto stilled a again An listened listened-I I can hear him It it His voice a a with his chin chin chin- ln- ln Tom Johnsons Johnson's quit p pI J I a gUIn you jou ou no gamey game game- I y I was was was' An hour ago I This Thi operator operator what's what's his name name- The one as works at night you jou OU I IC C Know Went Vent out to flag that ten express A An 11 sees a man in front of hit up his hands and stagger stagger- ves yes Tom J Johnsons Johnson's quit AUTHOR A SIGN PAINTER The man who wrote this poem had been an sign painter His fanciful designs his grotesque lettering painted in all tho the vari varl- variegated I eg colors of the rainbow were I all In perfect harmony of coloring color color- ing This sign painter had enacted the role of a blind man man gifted with wonderful powers in the wielding t uC C f tho brush of ot an artist He had He-had had been an actor with a strolling band bando o of thespians Ho lIe was yas a mimic th-t th itt few could equal t none none excel He was of th the masses of the common common I people a born poet His pure English English English Eng Eng- lish compositIons in both verse and prose and his dialect poems have made happy millions of ot peo people le and none none- more than the children That man this poet this entertainer entertainer enter enter- tamer of or the world was James Whitcomb Riley for whom this school building has been named and whose stories you ou have read man many times whose stories have been r read ad adb b by r your our papa papa and mama likewise many times whose story of t the Ipe e Bears is just as entertaining for forthe forthe forthe the old at itt it Is for fol you jou The publication of or Tom JohnI Johnson's Johnsons Johnsons Johnson's John John- sons son's Quit was the beginning of ot I the connection of the famous Hoosier Hoos I. I ier ler poet with our paper which conI connection con eon was continued for several 5 year years ears I Before the publication of Tom Johnsons Johnson's Quit QuIP there was was discovered disco I II I on the fly leaf an old Bible in an humble home in Madison county II Indiana a gem in poetry which was declared by literary critics to have been written b by one ono of the gifted I poets of the world and which was said to have been penned by Edgar I Allen Poe After the critics had I passed judgment tho the consensus of opinion that it was a genuine Poe poem came the expose through the columns of the Tribune which showed that the author of the tho Poe poe poem was none other othel than Mr Riley and that he had written it simply to mystify the tho However How How- ever evel it placed Mr Riley in the front of the literary world This was It read I Angels Leonainie Angels named her And they took tool the Of or the laughing stars and framed belIn her bel herIn herIn In a a. smile of oC white And they made her hair of ot gloomy gloom Midnight and her eyes of ot bloomy Moonshine and they brought her herto herto herto to me ins meIn meIn In the solemn night In a solemn night of summer When my heart of ot gloom Blossomed up to greet the comer corner Like a rose in bloom All Alt forebodings that distressed me meI V I forgot as Joy caressed me me- me Lying Joy that caught and pressed me meIn meIn meIn I In the arms of doom Only the little lIsper In the Angel Anga tongue Yet I I. I listening heard her whisper whisper- Songs are only sung Here below that iney ma may grieve jou you you- Tales but told you jou ou to deceive ou j-ou you you- ou So must Leonainie leave jou you you- While her love is I Then arlien God smiled sullied and it was morning I Matchless and supreme Heavens Heaven's glory seemed adorning Earth with its esteem I Every heart but mine seemed gifted I With the voice of ot prayer andWIl and WIl Where lifted t m my Leonainie drifted From me like a dream I The original manuscript of Leon- Leon anle ante is now flOW in the hands of a wealthy wealthy wealthy weal weal- thy Cleveland 0 O citizen POEMS SUGGESTED V I ILet I Let me ask you Some ome time time- timeto time to read II Mr Rileys Riley's poem under the I caption of or T T. T C C. Philips written when my father crossed the Dark Darl i River and the one under the caption caption capi cap- cap i i tion of or Charles H II Philips my brother when he too joined the Great Majority and the Mother Sainted my sIster law when she joined the of heaven I They express the feeling of ot Mr toward tho Philips family i iV But nut now of the poe poet Riley as V he was away back In til the long wrote such charmIng charmIng charming charm- charm at at- when ho he Ing stories in song for fol children and also for grownups He lie was vas was wasa vasa a a. golden haired young man He lie sported a mustache in inclined in in- dined more to red than golden and of this he was very proud b but t finally he concluded that he would appear more dignified If it it was removed and off it went never to tr r a Dear Ho lb o would i write whenever the muse stirred him and he would I pick up a a a. scrap of or paper and begin and would then then- add other scraps His In the tho Summertime the manuscript of which I still h ha e was written on three scraps I of paper and It was beautiful copy almost perfect as copper copperplate copperplate plate I Mr Riley always wanted to be mysterious He Ho believed that if his poetry and pros prose were written under fictitious names the people I would think more of them than if under his own signature The I result Is that many of his best poems were written under the the nom de plume of John C. C Walker Valker and Lige Ligo Rockey BIRTHDAY POEM Mr Riley wrote but one poem on his birthday That was The Little Town of Tailholt Here are the first two verses of it I You Tou can boast about yer cities and their sUddy growth and size And brag about yer county seats scats I and business enterprise And rr and factories andall andall and and- all sich foolery foolery- But the little Town o 0 Is big enough nough for me me I You kin smile and turn yer nose up an joke and hev hey yer yel fun And laugh and holler Is better none I Ef the city suits you better wy hits hit's where you'd orter be be- be But the little Town o Tailholt's good enough for me 11 I had two of Mr Rileys Riley's poems I which were never published One I was The Best Little LitHe By ny God Man SIan in Town The Tho manuscript Is now now the property of of a citizen of Jefferson Jefferson Jef Jef- ferson City Mo Th The other A Bully Boy in Blue was printed in The in-The The h Telegram le m of this city sev- sev I U J D But nut there is no uso use to rem- rem So long as the world lives I the prose prose and poetry of James Whitcomb Riley Whitcomb-Riley Riley will live So long longas as little tots call on mama to I read the bear story so long as I there are are- Grandfather so long as there are Old Aunt Marys s 's so long as there arc mythical mythi mythi- I cal goblins so long will the verses I of ot the Hoosier poet be sought and read and the world will be better for them as it was better for fol niley because he lived II RECALLS HONOR And now members 1 of or tIle the school board Superintendent Child the patrons the teachers in and I the lie pupils of the James Whitcomb Riley school of Salt SaIt Lake in appreciation ap ap- ap- ap predation of the school and the I i honor you ou have conferred upon my old friend in nam naming ng your school I for him it gives me pleasure to present to you jou ou an an original manuscript manuscript manuscript manu manu- script of the poet Riley RHey in The Dusk Dusl Song The Song The Beetle The Tile poem was first printed in my paper the Kokomo Tribune on August 16 1870 1570 The Beetle tells the story of evenin evening most moat eau eau- You will read the tile manuscript manuscript manu manu- script which In its frame will be bo manu manu-I suspended on the wall of ot your classroom V And I know that when in the days to come ome you glance at th the I framed copy of the poem you ou will Will think of tho the man man who made so to I many people happy happ by his dialect dialectI I and anil other stories stones both in poetry and prose and also of the tile giver who presents you tho the copy and who is now alwa always s has been and always will be the friend and advocate of tho the public school system system tem tern of or America II |
