The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-27
EYERYBODY'S TIME
PROUD AND HArpY.

rhe Iinpfeced0nted Success ] esterday OF ths
Commencement Exercises Of tho Pub.
iis school. = An Event with Many
Novel aud Attractive fsa.arss.
The deep and vide spread interest I'M
dc public schools was never better illus
rated than yesterday. The annual COM
msncement Of the. grammar schools took
place al the Capitol rink. The rink proved
to lbe all that could be desired for such q
;nptpose-commodiouS, accessible, airy and
convenient for ingress aud eeress, Seats
were PLACED in the body Of the rink for
about {, 800 people, but by utilizing every.
ayailsble space not less than $500 people
vera accommodated, with q fair degree Of
comfort The large stage was carpeted
and beautifully adorned with growing
plants. The seats Of the class were in a
iaFre ssmi.airele. Long before the doors
opened crowds Of psople, mainly ladies,
were Warrington admission, and II did not
take long TO oil the seats when the doors
were thrown open.
The Opera House orchestra had accept
ed an engagement 70 furnish music on
this occasion. II was discovered yester.
day that It had also agreed TO play at a
one.bofse Ohio college, and that the main
body Of the orchestra had gone there,
leaving an inferior body OF musicians 70
furnish inferior music here. This was a
aolrce ofregret.
The graduates yesterday were q fol-
lows, the highest In each fscheet, who re-
ceiyed the Peabody medals, in italics:
Washington School-William Stanley,
MaryE. Stifel and Amelia D. llftcher.
'Clay sohdo.- Addie G. Brown, L0ttis
Guthihn and Madge {. J Johnson.
Union School, Minnie B. Acker and Mat
lie Y. Shields.
Webster sehool-Jennie Allen, Jennie
sleGowan, Emma D Lancaster and Annie
II. 6mitk.
Madison school-Iennie a. GILES, 1.osa
O. Collier, May O. KRAFT, Mollie +. Muir
dock, Ii'iliiGDl r. S'etenSon and Clara ID.
RitGh;s scbool-Harry v. Ar5le, Lizzie
]. Bickerton, ErVen 4. bowman, Gora
Bowman, Charles G.. Crago, Laura w,
Ford, Annie Honecker, Emma Klein,
Etimdrd F. Rtrner, Robert Z. leighton,
Virginia f. Kurner, Emma w. Stein.
bicEer and Mollie o. Wolyfngton.
Colored schoolSAlnle 8. Gardener
Henry Noniis and Theophilgs Thompson,
John r. Turner, whose death was re,
Gently noted, was also to have appeared
among the colored graduates. His diploma
Vac given to his. bereayed parents, q
whom II viii s,yays be apreciops, though
sad reminder.
a BRILLIANT AssSADLAoS.
From the commodious stage atthe end
OF the rink the scene presented while the
large audience waited for the class tq
march in was strikingly suggestive Of an
immepae flower garden with myriads o.
butterflies hayetihg and Huttering oyel
the many colored Blossoms. The fiutter'
ing OF brilliant fans of every hue, the
plnmes ltlAng With The breeze from the
faus, and the shifting and rising Of the au,
iience in sections as the people moved
closer In attempts to accommodate Others
in the already crowded benches, made
such striking picture as was never be-
fore witnessed ii Wheeling. When few
minutes before 9 o'clock the class filed In
from tho dressing room and took their
places upon the stage the entire assembly
rose with one impulse and stood until the
graduates were steated:
The class gaa divided into sections by
districts, each district being designated by
neat green palettes suspended overhead
the name OF a district school on each In
gold Letters. In the rear oil the class stood
One prize banner awarded by the Board Of
Education 70 the district shcse graduates
showed the highest average Id the llnal
cxamiuatiors-taken this time by Clay
school, for the third timefn the four years
II has been thus awarded. tis ahsnd.
some red satin banner, on q brass standard
friDged with gold and lettered In gold and
hlEs. z,
The districts were seated In their order
Washington at the audiences LETT and the
oo!oyed school at the right. The young
ladies were oil dressed without ostentst ign
in snowy white or very light straw tinted
thin goods very suitable to such weather.
The only ornamentatio was fleecy lace, q
broad ribbon at the waist and abonquet oi
roses, or In a few cases lilies, at the cor
sage or neck. The boys oil wore black or
dark, and neat boutonniers, The lack oil
any attempt at snowy style was pleasing
and commendable.
TnGPEnPoRMANcE OPENED.
The Opera House orchestra played q