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Show oo CHILDREN GATHER II GREAT PILE OF MAGAZINES There has been considerable friendly friend-ly rivalry this week among the public schools of the city in collecting magazines mag-azines and books for reference use In the public library, the pupils o! the Madison school contend that they Sis the winners and base their claim on the huge pile containing ?. 1S7 cnil,lnrH knnV. orwl r.nrln.1 1 I The superintendent of city schools j requested principals a few days ago to ask pupils of their buildings to bting to the schools such books. m;u-.izlms m;u-.izlms and other reading matters as could be ipafed from homes and which could be used for reference In the city library. The plan was for the children to take the reading mat ter which they collected to their respective re-spective schools where It would he sorted, periodicals of the same kind placed In piles and tied Into bundles, these bundles were to be collected, taken to the library and again sorted the best being bound and placed on the shelves of the library for general use. The eight hundred bundles of books and magazines at the Madison school make a pile some ten feet Square and four feet high: It will fill the largest van in the city; if these bundles bun-dles were placed one upon another they would be five times as high as the Eccles building; these books cost, when new. over $5000. As an illustration of how eager pupils pu-pils were that their room and school should win In the contest, one boy brought a law book from his father'-; private library, a girl brought a Morocco Mo-rocco bound volume of Whittier's poems, po-ems, a little girl brought a Methodist hymnal, and another little girl wanted to bring a Bible, saying. "We don', use it any more." These books were nenl hack to the homes from which they came. |
