. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. he Patrick Henry, in recognition of thecivic virtues of Patrick Henry, soldier and States-man ; the David G. Earragut, in memory of Ad-miral Earragut, and the Rose E. Wright Eanningschool, in memory of Mrs. Eannings connectionwith the public schools of Saint Louis from 1844to 1903. This is the only school in the city namedfor a woman. The Yeatman High School, on Garrison Ave-nue, between Palm Avenue and Natural BridgeRoad, named for James E. Yeatman, a prominentbanker and philanthropist of Saint Louis, and theMcKinley High School, on Missouri
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. he Patrick Henry, in recognition of thecivic virtues of Patrick Henry, soldier and States-man ; the David G. Earragut, in memory of Ad-miral Earragut, and the Rose E. Wright Eanningschool, in memory of Mrs. Eannings connectionwith the public schools of Saint Louis from 1844to 1903. This is the only school in the city namedfor a woman. The Yeatman High School, on Garrison Ave-nue, between Palm Avenue and Natural BridgeRoad, named for James E. Yeatman, a prominentbanker and philanthropist of Saint Louis, and theMcKinley High School, on Missouri and RussellAvenues to Ann Avenue, named for William Mc-Kinley—President of the United States, each hasmural decorations, twenty-eight feet in length andseven feet high, by E. L. Stoddard. In the Yeat-man School, the scenes are taken from the life ofMr. Yeatman. The central scene shows him onthe Mississippi bringing in the wounded soldiers,commemorative of his services rendered to thesick and wounded soldiers of the Union army, as 83 SAINT LOUIS. SAINT LOUIS 83 President of the Western sanitary commission1861-65. In the main corridor of the building is atablet, with inscription in bronze and gold, un-veiled in 1906, also commemorative of his work inthis commission. Another panel shows him at hisdesk in the Provident Association, depicting thecharitable side of his life, and another shows himin the street meeting small school children. Mr. Yeatman took the first step in securingfree schools for negroes in Missouri, and to hislabors the Missouri school for the blind; theMemorial Home; the Womans Christian Homeand many other benevolent institutions are largelydue. The funds for the memorial decorations in theMcKinley High School were raised by friends ofthe school. In the main corridor is a bronze bustof McKinley, also the work of Miss Clara these two High schools have been pre-sented with copies of the portrait of FrederichSchiller, the German poet and dramatis
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