Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-05-22
DRAWING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Annual Exhibition.
AWARDS OF MEDALS, ETC.


AWARDS OF MEDALS, ETC.
Yesterday afternoon the annual exhibitions
OF drawing and penmansbip Of the pupils of the
public schools Of the District were Opened-that
OF the white schools In the Franklin Building,
and that Of the cOlored schools in the Sumner
Building. From O'Clock to O'Clock. q. m.
the exhibition rooms In both buildings were
crowded. This morning, too, there were large
numbers Of visitors.
SOME EBw FEATURES
were observed this year and attracted much at
tent1on-the work OF the Industrial home school
In the shape OF map drawing, specimens of sew
ing by girls and shoe work by boys Showing
how, commencing with drawing they may ac-
curately cut the various pieces to be made into
shoes, darning, making OF tree boxes, &c. This
portion of the work is what Mr.. j. NJ. Wilson,
formerly of the public school board, has been
interested In for years. He Zealously advocated
+. the establishment of some such school when he
was on the public school board. In the Schedule
making, tailoring, pottery work. printing. car
wing, model making, cooking, laundry work.
housekeeping gardening modelling and turning
The White Schools.
Id regard to the exhibition at the Franklin
building 1t may be said that the drawings this
year are In every sense the best that have been
on exhibition. The scholars are evidently ap
pIecla1fng Tits branch of pnblic instruction
The drawings OF the various grades were brought
together. The teachers, by reason of their special
Efforts to improve themselves and their expert
ence, are doing better work In this valuable
study. The opinion of those who are familiar
with what is done in other cities place Washing
ton along side OF Boston and Cincinnati IN pOi1t
OF excellence 10 drawing After an inspection
OF the exhibits the assemblage was called to
order In the male grammar room by DIR. Sam
son, chairman of the sub-cOmmitte on drawing,
who opened
In few appropriate remarks after which the
classes were directed to proceed with the com
pet,tive drawing, the first class being engaged
with dlctation exercises, while the other was
occupied In drawing fIOm objects on the black.
board Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie was then i'm.
tro0uced and delivered an interesting address
On the subject of art.
AWARDS OF MEDALS.
Tne committee TO examine the drawings Mai
W. y. Tw1ufng, Paul SchulZe, esq.,. Lieut. r. L.
Hoxie and Hon. John EitZ) made a report and
Ine medals were bestowed upon the fortunate
YORK, as follows First claSS-E. L. Major gold
medal for the best original design; w. A. RoSen-
oaum, honorable mention; Herman Birney, gold
mccall Tor best draw ing on the blackboard: John
Pool, honorable mention; w. L. Speiden. gold
medal for best draw ing book, and Titus like.
honorable mention. Second clasS-W s. Don,
slosOn. course OF lessons in model aud cast
drawing for best object drawing; f. A HurlC.
DauS, honorable mention; John Nj. Stockett.
course OF lessons in mechanical drawing for
pest geometrlcal drawing; W. G. Stevenson,
honorable mention A. Klakring. s.parallel OF
historical ornament for best design. and w. A
Lowell, honorable mention
DR.. Samson rendered thanks to Mr.. Bal
antyne for bis indefattgable efforts In behalf Of
the schools, having each year for a number of
years offered special drawing prize and re-
marked that his was good example to follow.
IN Inc exercises being over the company dispersed
themselves throughout the several rooms and
devoted the rest OF the evening to the examina
ton OF the exhibits.
The County Schools.
ire exhibit OF the county schools was quite a
feature, and showed marked Improvement over
their exhibit OF previous years. Among the
visitors We're: Commissioners Twining, Con-
gresham Van Arnum, superintendent Wilson,
trustees Quits, LOvejoy, Samson, and Farley
Cen HitZ, Col. BOudinot, eX-TrusteeS Smith.
Wilson. and Hart, Mrs. Fuller, drawing teacher
and assistant Miss Wilson. Miss Smith OF the
Normal School, who by the way had a grand
exhibit.
The COlOred Schools.
The exhibit made at the Sumner school build
Ing by the pupils of the colored SCHOOLS of
Washington and Georgetown, far exceeded all
their previous efforts. In the Industrial
branches class OF about 80 Showed some beau
THU and delicate vases made of paper, artist
cally ornamented and bronzed. The works OF
art by the pupils deserving OF special mention
are numerous. Notably among them were
large, fine crayons: Wounded Scout" by ia
Hand; Mail Day" and '.Plcket Guard py
Freddie Freeman. The perspective, geomet-
rlcal and free-hand specimens were very fine
Inc geomeuical drawings are from models
made by the pupils, each model being hung
beside the specimen work. The drawings OF
statues was a feature OF the exhibit which
HeIlts the nigh encom1ums passed by the Wis.
itors. The blackbOardS contain a number of
Well-executed pieces In black and white crayon
prominent among which is a large vase by LO-
reno Jackson. The room specially set aside
fol- specimens of original and copied music re.
ceiveS attention, visitors being loud Ia their
praise OF the accuracy and neatneSs of the
work. The cOpybOOkS and states on eXh billion
show marked Improvement, especially the
iormer--a degree or neatneSs prevailing which
IS highly cOmmendable. The other branch OF
industrial drawing, aside from model making
as taught by Mr.. Hunster is equal to the pre-
Vlous best efforts OF the pupils in design and
superior 10 point OF execution. Among the vi
ltors were eX-Super1ntendent Rich ards, e..
Trustee Henry johnson, Gen. Merino Lieut.
ricketts,, Senator Bruce and Superintendent
ook, the latter gentleman being busily en-
gagged during the day showing visitors the work
OF The pupils.