The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-18
DEAF AND DUMB.

OHAI AM DOMD'
fEResTlNo INSTITUTION
KENDALL GREEN.
- Of the College Buiiding-Ac-
she graduating Eserciscs--rhe
Xlwrittcn for the Times
NoToS. May l7.-lSpeciai.l-
wNcncement season has already
sIut3 but very few OF the out-cf'
nsv haper men attend these en-
vs, for the purpose of writing
rem. Last week, however.
ana . came TO attend the ami
80 = class.day exercises. at the
fmnes College, out at Kendall
dand people having said that this
xas becoming attractive, like the
- Home. Arlington, Georgetown
y, and st. Elizabeth across
astern branch. l took my
nd pencil aud went out there.
III Green is the former country
II the late Hon. Amos Kendall,
aster- General under President
anan. Ii comprises about hun
tacres, situated facing Boundary
at the head of Seventh, northeast.
.s<as in all about fifteen handsome
~iugs, one costing S125 900, and.
b. altogether. well worthy even OF
&hington Of the future. On the east
- Kendall Green is "Trinidad," the
3 w. w. Corcoran country seat.
I 3ch he gave to the Columbian
e diversity corporation, which, deciding
hid in the city, sold portion of it
500 900, and lately the rest has
d secured by the Melhodists, who
bose erecting a university on the
top. On the west is the old Patter-
place. A handsome redstone wall
before the green, and you enter a
Re gate way, past pretty little lodge.
4utiful swards OF green, closely aud
,ly clipped. fiat and rolling. are
erywhere before you. with flower
Is. and shrubbery that give forth
odor of tranklin-street front yards.
Ne Alks are asphalt and winding. On
II SIT as you enter the gateway Is a
dvof o half dozen handsome brick
"a liugs, the residences of the faculty
q he institution, which is no other
d the National Deaf Mute College,
lnly institution of its kind in the
Id. and, with the Naval Academy,
Point. and Carlisle Indian School
S,e of Uncle Sans own.
.nnd college building proper is of red
any orDamented with white stone.
-,syts handsome stone doorway is
Nerican coat of arms, and from
Mower of the centre building
ican flag floated, and the bell
AeDtered the enclosuie with
pdred others. The centre
-. IA rs gothic in design, brown
ESa yhite stone trimmings. IL
Trris31{6n a bluff, and in front there
beautiful stone terrace with hand
te terracotta vases ornamenting IL
and there and with wide granite
Is. To the right is the school or
mary department of four stories, OF
brick and porches.
ust before the center building stands
ne bronze statue, erected by the deaf
America in commemoratiOn of the
q hundredth anniversary of the birth
Rev. Tbos. Hopkins Gallaudet, the
uder of the Deafmute Institution
erica. The figure represents a~<ei-
Nv man teaching little eiri tne
: sbolic alphabet used by snese people.
FB lIil 0xpothoe, full Of all that ELECTS
OF the life. work of philan-
hropist. This was erected at q cost Of
sl2, 500. aud unveiled last June in the
,resence of hundreds of deafmuies
rom every state.
But let us go into the chapel-polie
voung men meet us at the door. we are
given a cosy seat in the large hall with
all ceiling and provided with pro-
gramme of the coming exercises. The
walls are blue ard buff woodwork runs
lrouud TO the height of eight or ten
let. The ornaments are portraits of
srsysnll, Gaiiaudet. and Clerc. the first
1rs of American deaf, busts of
a. Del Eppe, and Garfield, who
tpecial interest in this college and
cork, and whose marble memorial
wre the Gallaudet statue. a gift Of
f.ve)eaf. These things were hung with
thgreens. trimmed with smilax, and
eepOuds lay upon the brackets, and a
- Ak of white japonicas stood back of
~ rostrum, and potted plants were
ettily displayed at other points.
In the rear of the hall there is stage.
his was filled up with people. mostly
rose of the Green, a hundred or so in
humber. At 3 O'Clock this large hail
was full Of people. Young ladies', ii
would seem, predominaled. There
we're Senators and Representatives ana
people of note there, and several for
sign embassies. most noticeable the
Chinese and Japanese, in their native
costumes of silks of bright coloring.
When the time for the beginning of
he exercises came, the northwest door
opened and about twenty-five gentle
men entered and took seats upon the
PLATFORM. The speakers, faculty and
Ulcers these were.
There was no music. The president
u the Sssge, DIR. l.. NJ. Galiaudet.
'pene Nexercises by introducing a
'rominent clergyman of this city, who
INVOKED God s blessing upon the exer-
Uses and these people, etc. A gray
yhiskered gentleman standing beside
lim made motions with his arms and
viggled his fingers, interpreted to the
leaf the words of the speaker. This
rs Rev. Thomas Gallaude., ID. d.,
ector st. AIMS Protestant Episco pal
,hurch for Deafmutes in New York
lily.
Then came the essays of the gradu-
ties. They were on The Almighty
Dollar" the Origin of Rome, " The
find of the Slider Poverty and Its
semedy,' agriculture" and The
lace Problem" These young men,
angling from eighteen 10 twenty
hNs years, made the most curious
Who ever saw. They handed their
wo ibbon tied papers to profes-
~ ;ould in turn read them for the
W. those not being able 10 under
W/s~ne sign or gesture language.
~ Ddiag and signing were in con-
" 3couid be easily noticed, and the
(, Notions of the young men were
--o.tl,r ,,oat cradifahia IN THAR liz