Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
INDIAN RIGHTS.

any other people, for he has seen them in
neat and homelike parlors, in civilized dress,
conversing with elegance and taste. The
boys play the game Of base ball and talk Eng
lish in manner suggestive of the East and
white men.
Mr.. WEIGH has been very active in this
work and with his associates has accom-
plished preat deal for the race, having Sc
cured an appropriation of $50, 600 to relieve
the Montana Indians from starvation and
very earnestly worked in other ways to re-
lieve them. The doings of the government
and its promises are familiar and were
shown in clear light by Mr.. Welsh. He
urged that the Indians have the protection of
the law, the refnements of education and the
permanent tenure of their lands. Assocla-
tions have been formed in about twenty
places in the United States and the work is
going steadily on. Membership in the soc1-
ETY. costs but two dollars and all invited
to join the branch in this city and help the
society as much as they are able.
THE MILITARY FESTIVAL
To Conclude with n Masquerade To-
Night-The McManus ZOuaves-The
Auction of Goods This Evening.
The military festival at the armory on
Meadow street will close with fancy dress
| and masquerade dancing this evening. The
| admission tickets are twenty-fv cents for
each person with no charge for dancing. A
| large amount of goods will be disposed of at
| auction tonight, as but few of the contribu-
| ted articles have been sold or removed.
| Many of these articles are beautiful and val
liable. Among them several boxes of
| cigars, bird cages lamps, vases, mirrors in
ornamental frames, very pretty wall baskets,
| photograph albums, tools, tin-ware, station
| cry, -four, hams, confectionery, etc.
The armery is very popular as an evening
resort. The many handsomely furnished
parlors, nearly all of which are open when
any entertainment is offered have made the
building specially attractive. The acquaint-
ances which have been formed there and the
courtesies which have been extended between
the military companies have created among
the members an attachment to the armory
| that is almost fascinating.
| A very large attendance was present Sat
| urday evening and the entrance to the ar
mory particularly busy place. The
| ticket seller and the ticket taker were as
| busy as possible selling and taking tickets
! and the box in which the tickets were de-
posted was literally full of the pasteboards
| at the close of the evening More than one
thousand four hundred paid admission
| tickets were received at the door during the
| evening.
| The large floor of the armory was well oc-
cupied with those who were dancing and sew
| eral small parties enjoyed themselves at the
pianos in the company parlors.
On the space which entirely surrounds the
| dancing floor were many that were prone
nading and enjoying the evening socially.
| The McManus zouaves, a company of small
lads under command of Captain Howard
| Embler, who is quite young lad, gave an
| exhibition drill which elected hearty applause
| at its close. The lads wore full zouave uni
| forms. After Captain Enblsr dismissed his
| youthful soldiers they were noticed in the
| ice cream room and other parts of the ar
mory.
Lieutenant Colonel LOOMS and Lieutenant
Howard continue to give the festival all the
attention that is necessary to success. The
| masquerade auction and close of the voting
| for the prizes and the guessing at the number
| of oranges on the big tree will constitute
series of attractions for this evening.
twenty Years In the Public schools.
| The following communication from Mr..
Ariel Parish, now of Denver, Colorado, for
| ruerly superintendent of schools in this city,
speaks volumes in behalf of the system of
| vocal instruction which has been established
| and maintained in the New Haven schools
during the last twenty years:
DENVER. Colorado, Jan. 1S95-In Septem-
! Der, 1885, on assuming the duties of superin-
| tendent of the public schools in the city of
New Haven, Conn, [ found Mr.. B. Jepson
| engaged as q special teacher of vocal music.
Instruction in this branch was introduced
| but few months previous simply as an ex-
pertinent and only few of the upper rooms.
| in the large schools were placed under his
charge for this purpose. At the outset no
| books were required for the pupils, but all
| lessons were written on the blackboard for
| daily practice. The success of the expert
| ment was such that gradually lower rooms
| were included, until vocal music became
| branch of instruction in all grades, from the
primary department to the High school
| The task of writing out lessons for the
| rapidly increasing classes became burden
some, and occupied too much of the time
| and strength of the teacher. Mr.. Jepson
| arranged his lessons in graded course, and
| had them printed in book form, which
| the Board of Education adopted as text
book for the schools of the city. A book
| growing daily under the cretical teaching
| and study of special teacher, whose whole
| time and thought were given to securing the
| best methods of presenting the subject,
! would naturally be practical and adopted to
| the capacity of the children. The book
| finally grew into thoroughly graded course
| of instruction, in three numbers, and has
| extensively adopted by school boards through
| the country.
The valuable results of twenty years of
| careful training of thy children through
| their school life are manifest. In Sabbath
| ScnOOlS, religious dSSomDIleS, on puDuc
occasions in which music constitutes part
of an entertainment, whether by chorus OF
individual performance, it is surprising to
observe with what ease and perfection vocal
music seems to be spontaneously produced.
Musical societies have grown up in New
Haven highly creditable to the city. Many
individuals have become superior vocalists,
with regulations as public singers, securing
to them valuable pecuniary compensation.
To the nlultitudes who have received must
cal training in the schools, without doubt
an element of enjoyment has been supplied
which has contributed not little to make
them happier through life, and perhaps bet
ter citizens than they otherwise would have
been. How many families, too, have found
the cheerfulness, amiability and
good will of the household increased
by the singing of the children |
during the winter evenings, or by the bird
like snatches of song, which, bubbling over,
are heard resounding through chamber and |
kitchen, even escaping as naturally from the |
lips of the singer as the voluble notes from |
may be regarded the exponent of harmony |
and happiness. It is the bard Avon, be- |
lieve, who says, tThe man who has not |
music in his soul is fit for murder, stratagem,
and spoils." It is gratifying to know that |
vocal music is thoroughly established as a
branch of study in the public schools of New |
Haven. Fruitless efforts have been made to
remove it from the curriculum of studies
Its opponents are chiefly persons who have
little appreciation of the value of music or
oppose it on the score of economy, and be-
wall the waste of money appropriated for it.
But the lovers of music are largely in the
majority and their numbers are daily increas-
ing. AS to the cost of it the argument
against its continuance dwindles to point
when we considers that the expense during
the past twenty years has averaged less than
a cent a week for each scholar enrolled in the
schools.
To those who object to the time devoted
to music, as if it were distracted from
other Studies it may be said that only fifteen
minutes daily are allowed in the scheme for
teaching it, that it is employed largely to
supplement physical exercise and is always
regarded by the pupils far more recrea-
ton than as task. If it were not required
study by the Board most teachers would vol
UNFAIRLY continue its use a stimulus and
essential aid In the promotion of their school
work.
A prominent characteristic of the instruc-
ton in the New Haven schools is, and has
been from tie beginning, that the principles