Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-30
At THE SCHOOLS.
PATRIOTIC EXERCISES BY SCHOLARS
ON YESTERDAY.
Memorial Day Observed at Several of
the Public Schools-What the
Pupils Did.

Pupils Did.
Exercises appropriate to Memorial Day
were held yesterday morning at the Sacra-
mento Grammar School. A large number
of visitors were present, including several
Grand Army veterans. A feature of all
the exercises given by this school is the
manner in which the pupils of the several
classes are marched into the large assem-.
bly-room on the third floor. Keeping step
to the time of an excellent march PLAYED
on the school piano by Miss Blossom Will.
sey, the classes, commencing with the
lowest grade first, enter the large room in
single file, the girls preceding the boys,
and in about five minutes the whole school
of several hundred children is seated with.
out the slightest confusion.
The songs sung by the school were well
rendered.
The exercises were very interesting, and
as each number was concluded there was
generous applause. The. flag exercise and
march by Miss Piper's class was very pref.
tily executed upon the large platform, and
the recitation, THE Bravest Boy in Town, y
by Miss Katie Baumgardner was a gem, as
was also "The Soldiers Reprieve," by
Miss Laura benson.
Superintendent Hart delivered an eIo-
quent address and also a recitation. He
advised the scholars to all be Americans
and honor their flag, and asked them to
bring flowers to-day TO decorate the graves
of the dead soldiers. The following pro-
CRANE was excellently rendered:
Battle Hymn of the Republic" school;
Memorial Day." Joseph Zemansky; The
Soldiers Dream" Sadie Bowers: .Tenting
on the Old Camp Ground" school, "a
Second Review ofthe Grand Army" Walter
Gaige; Spring After the War;" Clara Sim
mons piano solo, Mabel Stevens; 1.-The
Soldiers Reprieve." Laura benson; 1.-THE
Baby Peacemaker," Gladys Hoitt; March
ing Through Georgia" school; Union and
Liberty" with flag exercise and march, by
Miss Piper's class; THE Bravest Boy in
Town. Katie Baumgardner; Medley of
National Airs Juanita Pommer; The
Union of the Blue and the Gray" John
Bauer; Decoration Day." Gertrude Water
house; Tramp, Tramp. Tramp school;
1.-THE Palm and the Vine, ;" Gertrude Curtis:
Hail, Columbia" Claude MCGOWAN; ad.
dress and recitation, Superintendent Hart;
Memorial Hymn" school.
SUFFER- GRAMMAR.
At the Suffer Grammar School the fol-
lowing programme was rendered: Song,
America" by the school; recitation.
"Blue and Gray" Nellie Hickey; recita-
ton, Peace Master Willie Mott; read
ing, Cover Them Over Maggie Fleming :;
instrumental duet, THE Banjo" Dora Fish
and Alma Dufour; recitation, Decoration
Day" Annie Noteworthy; "a Patriots
Death, Anne Conrad; 1.-The Dead Sol.
diers,' Annie Askwith "Tenting on the
Old Camp Ground" song by the school !;
Josie Kinnie, Blanche Lowell. Mamie
Courtney, Alice McAdams; recitation,
THE Drummer Boys Burial" Mamie
kimball instrumental solo. 1.-THE Union
March" Fannie Denton; recitation, "The
Soldiers Orphan" Lizzie Fountain recita-
ton, Decoration Day." John Blair song.
mount Vernon Bells. by the school !;
violin solo, Master Ed Elkus; recitation,
Pride of Battery B." Daisy Wasserman /;
song, Soldiers Memorial Day" by the
school; address by City Superintendent
Hart; instrumental trio, The Music Box"
Daisy Weisel, Dilly Eberhardt, Daisy Was
serman; song, "Washingtons Grave"
Lulu Cooper and Daisy Lockart.
CAPITAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Memorial Day exercises were held at the
Capital Grammar School yesterday in the
presence of goodly number of visitors.
The pupils acquitted themselves in man.
ner to elicit warm praise. The programme
was as follows: Song, by the school; "E
Pluribus Unum," Feisenhofer columbia
Among the Graves" Edna Cadwalader;
piano solo, Heather Bells" Bertha Ruhl;
"Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg" Henry
Appleton; Our Soldiers Graves Katie
keefe; song, Soldiers Memorial Day."
school, biographical sketch of Lincoln,
Clara Van Walbeck, Alice Prendergast,
Adel Henley, Anna Burke, Jessie Gibson,
Minnie Bannon, George King, Miller Up.
son, Alfred Joy. Fred Elasser and Willie
Marsh; They Gained Better Peace than
Ours Celia Wilson; song, 'Tenting on the
Old Camp Ground" school, General
Grant, George Gibson; Kentucky Belle"
Elva Hugbson; piano solo, THE Passing
Regiment" Edna johnson: "a Sacred
Band" Belle Johnson; vocal solo, "~~he
Volunteers Grave" Clara Wentworth;
Decoration Day." Sadie Breen; Cover
Them Over" Lavinia knight.
UNION PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Decoration Day was commemorate by
the pupils of Union Primary School, at
Seventh and G streets, by the following
programme: Song, America" school;
THE Dying Soldier" Pearl Niles; "Blue
and the Gray" Winifred Lewis; recita.
ton, Fred. Ankener; "Wanted-a Brother y
Hattie Nathan; song, Remember Well
and Bear in Mind" Maud Shook; Love
Lighters Labor Charlie Jones; The
Drummer Boy" Ethel Martin; Gently
Gently Lie at Rest" Anna Laughlin;
song "Columbia," school; When" Leila
Marion; Fred. and the Cherries" Dan
Sullivan; My Garden, Nellie Fisher; song,
Come, Let Us be Joyous" Daisy and
Roland Carmichael; Centennial Edna
Grant; Yankee Doodle" Albert Seavey;
Call Ny Brother Back" Della Cameron;
How Sleep the Brave" Jacob Steinman;
Never Out of Sight" Lena Slower; song
Merry, Merry Sunshine" Miss Johnson
and Miss Paine's classes; China song
George Fisher; Guilty, or Not Guilty.
Sadie Wagner; Put No Flowers on NV
Papa s Crave" Mabel Carmichael; Little
Robin Redbreast," Frank Williams
'Seven Times One" Eugenia Mouser
Little White Hearse," Zelma Taylor
Strawberries, Elmer Reaves; song. BILLY
Boy, Arthur and Estelle Jones; 20 Goody,
George Carroll; The Soldiers Dream,
Alice Jones; "Woodman, Spare Tha
Tree Mamie kinkead; "The Finishins
Touch" Ernest Loring; "a Stitch in Time,
Pearl Oldham; song. Annie Marks; 9TH,
False Alarm" Willie Klerve; Soldier,
Play" Lille Nathan; "The Bird" Heller
Wall; scatter the Floral Tributes" Ger
tie Hall; "Rosas Secret" Donna Hunt
"Can and Can't Mamie Small; How tn,
Old Gray Saved The Boys" Laura Gettys
My Dog Edna Mack; song, THE Blue
Bird Helen Marshall; when Thoma.
Pool Went TO School" Edith Gran,
Planting Himself to Grow Myra Smith
song, "Star Spangled Banner" school.
SACRAMENTO INSTITUTE.