The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-01
THE REFORM SCHOOL.
Christmas Entertainment Given by Ghe
Garfield Geld Water Battalion.


Christmasti9e was observed at the State Re-
form School, Cape Elizabeth, last evening by
the regular Christmas entertainment of the
Garfield Cold Water Battalion, which was
attended by a large number of the friends of
the school, coming principally from Portland
and the vicinity OF the institution. Super
intendent and Mrs. Harrington, together with
Assistant Superintendent and Mrs. Went
worth, and other members of the faculty, re-
ceived the visitors until O'Clock, among
whom were noticed from Portland Mr.. Albion
Little and Hon. Marx P. Emery of the board
of trustees. George S. Hunt. Deputy Collector
Moulton, City Solicitor w. FL. Looney, Re-
corder Dyer, Rev. f. NJ. Houghton, H. w.
Shaylor, Dr. G. e. Webster, D. +. Whitney,
Lorenzo It. Chase, Thomas p. Beals, Richard
Abbott, G. L. Kimball, and many ladies of
Portland; also L. B. bennett of Dsering,
Joseph A. Pickett of Cape Elizabeth, and
Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens of Stroudwater.
After being shown about the building, the
guests were dined in the superintendent's par
lors, and at o'clock the exercises commenced
in the chapel. The walls of the room were
decorated with evergreen, and Christmas trees
heavily laden with presents for the boys were
placed at either end of the stage. Above the
curtain was printed in evergreen ga Merry
Christmas" The programme was as given
below:
Song. g.... Marching Along
Battalion,
Opening Address Battalion.
Song Binding in the SheaYes
+ Battalion,
Majors Address-John c. Burnett.
Song Again the Christ tmas Time is Here
Fifteen boys on stage, bearing lettered banners.
William Shumberry.
Recitation. 49,. Twas the Night before Christmas
James E. McGlade.
Quartette. Christmas Morn
Wallace L. Corson, Irvine A. Darragh, Walter
H. Douglass, John C. Burnett.
Recitation. ........ ........ " here Do You Live?
William H. Gray.
Solo. Wandering Far from Home
Wallace l.. Corson.
Song....................... Merry Christmas
Christmas Drama: "The Two Christmas Dinners %
(Thirteen Characters
Act I-Scepe l. Back Yard in Boston.
Scene 2. Haymarket Square. Boston.
Scene 8. Office at Reform School.
Scene A. Hall at Reform School,
Song-Merry Christmas Bells. Battalion.
Act lI.-Scene: Mayors Office, City Hall, Boston.
ouartette. ............ ................. Sailing
Wallace L. Corson, Irvine A. Darragb Robert
Galley, John @. Burnett.
Major John G. Burnett, the master Of cere-
monies, then invited Hon. Albion Little,
President of the Board of Trustees, to address
the pupils. Mr. Little referred to the old days
of the school, when the arrangements of the
building were far different than at present,
and when teachers came ont from Portland to
assist in the work of the Sabbath school, and
when each boy occupied cell and was locked
up at night. ~ remember" said he, in the
course Of his remarks, 'of going down where
the dormitory is now and saw the little boys
come and get out at the Christmas entertain
ment. 1t made my heart ache to think that
the State, which had attempted to do some
thing to provide for them and make the boys
batter, that they may grow up to be good men.
that the boys had SO little that was home life
and SO little around them that was calculated
to make them better" He wanted to let them
know that they had friends on the outside of
the institution, and spoke of the effort made
by them to secure for the boys greater privi-
leges and opportunities for improvement. He
wished them Merry Chrstmas.
Opportunity was taken to wish the boys
Merry Christmas and to urge them on to be
good men By Councilman Joseph A. King,
Joseph S. Fickett, Deputy Collector Moulton,
Rsv. +. M. Houghton, and Mrs. George s..
Hunt of Portland.
The closing exercises OF the battalion were /:
Never Begin
Battalion,
"Happy New Year to ALL"
"Good Night
ment rendered their parts in a manner most
craditable to themselves and to the tsachers in
charge of the institution, and everybody who
attended the exercises pronounced the occasion
a memorable one in the history of the school.