Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-27
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
GRAND RECEPTION LAST EVEN.
ING AT THE CAPITOL.
The Educators Welcomed by State
and City Oficials-A Fine
Musical Programme.

Professor Albert Cook, President of tn
Association, called to order and Miss Mar
E. Morrison of San Francisco took he
place at the Secretary's desk.
The following committees were ap
pointed:
On Nominations. B. McChesney. O
Oakland; f. T. Pierce. of Pasadena; A. ]
Tiffany, Nevada; d. C. Clark, Santa Cruz
Chas II. Murphy. Tulare; DR.. w B. How
ard, Stanislaus; Miss Harriet Mccormack
Sacramento; Miss Myra Parks, Lassen; F
Z. Kennedy, San Francisco.
On Place of Meeting-Ira G. Hoitt, State
Superintendent; A L. Mann, San Fran
cisco; Job Wood, Jr., Monterey; WV. Sea
man, Los Angeles; P. NJ Fisher, Oakland
On Observation-Disclosures Babcock, Sar
Francisco; E. G. Atkinson, Sacramento; G.
c. Edwards, Berkeley; Jos. O'Connor, San
Francisco; Mrs. A. L. Mann, San Francisco
The Convention then adjourned to P. NJ
THE RECEPTION.
The Association reassembled at P. NJ. in
the Assembly Chamber The rain was
pouring down hard, but over three hun
dred were present, including the members
of the County Superintendent Convention.
and several State, county and city officials,
Professor ]. H. Pond called the meet.
ing to order, and the following programme
| was rendered
| quartet-Messrs. Cohn, Milliken, Hansbrow
1 and Campbell.
Invocation, by Rev. W. G. Merrill.
| Welcome of the State-Address by Gov
ernor R. W. Waterman. The Governor
said:
| Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of Glorious
URdiuided California: 1t becomes my duty and
pleasure to welcome you to the Inequalities of
this city. We hope you will visit our Art Gal
lery and Old Ladies' Home, the gift of that
| noble patriotic lady, Mrs. E. B. Croker and our
machine shops, showing the enterprise of our
about 2, 800 men and boys; DER State Capitol and
grounds; our State Library, containing about
$4,000 volumes and costing the State about $780,
| OCO; our State Printing Office and Book Bindery,
which is said to be one OF the best in the United
states; our City Library, on street, containing
many thousand volumes, and many other
places OF od intsfigest ,a all of which
You meet to exchange views and ideas ofteach-
ing, and many of you will offer improvements
in your modes of teaching. 1t would seem that
| the science of teaching is now almost perfect
| yet there will be many Improvements made and
adopted every passing year.
AS Governor of the State, am proud of our
| teachers, and know voice the sentiments of
| the whole people. l am proud that you have
adopted my idea of reformatory or reform
school. l would have you talk to the boys
Have them stop their cigarette smoking. I'm
press them with the fact that they are to be our
future citizens and statesmen.
Representatives. by Ira More, Princi-
pal State Normal School, Los Angeles.
Professor More spoke for twenty minutes.
thanking the Governor for the words of
welcome. He said the public schools of
California were progressive-were keeping
up with the times. His address was elo-
quent, and full of trite and suggestive re-
marks.
Music-Contralto solo by Miss Esther
Needham. The young lady has a wonder
| full voice, highly cultivated, and her rendi-
ton OF the music was most excellent.
Welcome OF the city-Address by Mayor
Eugene Gregory. The Mayor said:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: take
much pleasure in extending you cordial well
| come TO the hospitality of our city, and assure
you that our people are proud to greet such
sive science that which deals directly with the
| training, cultivation and improvement of the
mind In opening the pathway of knowledge, of
progress, of culture and refinement-those ele-
ments so necessary in the creation of intelli-
gent, law-abiding citizens of free and enlight-
ened country.
The schoolmaster is in truth the great civil
izer of the age upon him devolves the grave
responsibility of molding the youthful mind to
proper conception of the allegiance which is
due to Supreme Being; the realization of the
blessings and opportunities which are so boun-
teously offered; OF the significance of the estab-
lishment of social order; the proper cultivation
OF the taste, the imagination, the senses or the
faculties which derive pleasure and profit in the
requirement of knowledge and of love for
God, for country, and fellow man. As a
tender plant in the hands OF florist, SO is
child in the care and guidance of his teacher
for each is reared and cultivated with the aim
of securing ultimate product, the result of which
can be estimated only by the measure of care
and attention that have been exercised How
imnOrtant therefore wi n
are by nature fitted to become teachers of the
youthful mind should, before exercising the
functions of that noble privilege, become thor
oughly imbued with the deep sense of response
bility which rests upon their shoulders in as
Stunning the delicate and noble task of fortifying
humanity with the means necessary to cope
in thebattle of life.
May the deliberations Of this meeting. thus
convened at time of rejoicing. when the rich
and the poor, the powerful and the weak, alike
participate in the pleasant "reminiscences of the
world holiday, be characterized by the most
harmonious and satisfactory conclusions that
your visit to our fair city be one of pleasure and
profit to the end that when you depart from our
midst you will each bear voluntary testimony to
the good will and hospitality for which our
people are justly noted.
Response-Address.b by Ira G.. Holt, Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction. He
said it was not many years ago when the
public school teacher was looked upon
with little consideration, but to day the
great cities of the nation vie with each
other to get the national gatherings of these
character builders. To-day is the second
time the Governor has extended the right
hand of fellowship and words of welcome
| to an assemblage like this, of intelligent,
earnest, thoughtful men and women. They
| meet to do battle against ignorance, to
make the world of the future better than
/ the world of to-day. To train carefully the
child of to-day, the citizen of the future.
| The future shall be better than the present.
| On behalf of the teachers he returned
thanks to the Governor and Mayor for
their cordial words of welcome.
Music-vocal solo, 30 Loving Heart" A.
Sanborn.
Welcome by the City Board of Educa-
ton: address by Elwood Bruner. He made
an eloquent and forcibIe address that was
listened to with much attention and fre-
quently interrupted with applause. He
said Sacramento expended over Sl00, 900 a
year on her public schools, or more than
| So for every man, woman and child in the
CITY, As good an education can be obtained
| in the Sacramento schools as can be Oh
tanned anywhere in the State, sufficient TO
fit the graduate to enter any walk of life.
He paid high compliment to the County
| Superintendent Convention.
Response by Madison Babcock, Deputy
1 Il
Professor Babcock said he felt like Sacra-
mentan himself. He secured the holding
of the Convention in Sacramento, and in
order to do so had made many promises
So far all the promises up to date had been
| redeemed. One teacher from Los Angeles
| had found fault with the weather. Now
the TACT is, that drop of water that falls
outside of the county of town lots is all
wrong. II the rain was ripening oranges
| in Los Angeles like it is in Sacramento it
would be all right. Again, another teacher
| from that boom county finds fault with the
river. Why, what's the matter with the
Sacramento? 1t is broad, deep, and rum
ming smoothly into the ocenn. What Los
Angeles wants is river. They are crying for
river l heard they had one with big
sounding name, and when l was down
there | went out to look for it. l wanted
to GO fishing or selling. l found q bridge
over dry canal and l was told that was
the Los Angeles river. They don't like
our river because they have none. They
are not used to such things. The sunshine
promised is here, it only remains for you
to find it. 1t is in the hearts of this con-
tented people, and in their happy homes.
II was no surprise to me to hear the words
of welcome here tonight, for l know this
people, and l return thanks for their gen.
erous whole-souled and hospitable welcome.