JOURNAL 
or 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou. XVIIL July, 1917 No. 211 
STEEL FLAG POLES PRESENTED BY MR. EDWARD D. 
ADAMS 
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e Garden has recently been favored by the gift of three 
Pa flag poles by Mr. Edward D. 
of Managers, two placed in front of the museum building and 
Managers, and for the city a Hon. Douglas Mathewson, Presi- 
dent of the Borough of The 
Several hundred school ae Hoi Public School No. 56, in 
charge of Mr. Robert S. Stantial, den sem ioe in the 
exerises, together with three troops of Boy Sco and their 
band of Mr. D’Antonio, an aa ae 
The ce: sarees commenced at quarter past three o'clock, at the 
followed by raising the city flag on the eastern pole and the read- 
ing b Hugo Paltsits of ae John Erskine’s 
poem “The City Flag”; school children then danced upon the 
front lawn, including a rainbow dance | a sword dance, which 
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were very attractive. 
At four o'clock, a procession was formed for a march to the 
mansion, by way of the hem he forest, the boulder bridge and 
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