Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-12
THE PUBLIo ExHIBITIer.

Thousands Of People Visit the Ar.
mory-Yesterday the Opening Day
OF the Annual school Exhibit-A
I. Great Success - How Music II
Taught.
Yesterday the public were permitted
for the first time to 60 and inspect for
themselves the big array of things on
exhibition in the armory which represents
the progress made by the school children
in tho past year. That the exhibition is q
success goes without saying. It even sur
passes anything of the kind in the past.
The attendance yesterday at the three
sessions was large in spite of the extreme
heat. An estimate made by those best
likely to know placed the figure as high
IS s, 900 people for the day. Bnt to-day
is the time when the biggest crowd is ex-
pected. Among those present yesterday
were many teachers and others interested
in educational work. from other cities.
In this number was seen the familiar
face of Professor Louis Bail, who left this
city four yeers ago after period of
eighteen years'connection with the schools.
Congratulations and thanks from the
public are due to Superintendent Curtis of
schools, the principals with their winning
corps of assistants from the ranks of the
| teachers, Mr.. Hewitt, clerk of the board
/ Of education, and others for their untiring
| efforts in making the exhibition the grand
success it has proved to be. None but
alize the magnitude Of the labor which has
been necessary in accomplishing the re-
suit. It is an easy matter to come and
look on when thing has been completed,
| appreciate the fine effect, etc., without
| stopping to think of the many trials, hours
and days of planning and the great expense
| of the hardest kind Of mental labor as well
as physical, all Of which have been imper-
| alive in accomplishing the finished whole.
| The people who congregated in the arm
| ory Yesterday were every one of them
more than pleased with the results of their
or somebody else's children and the meth
| DDS shown of training them.
| One of the features to attract much at
l tention was the exhibition made at each of
| the sessions in music under Professor .Jep-
| sons direction. In the afternoon he had
what he called his second chorus, 400 chill
dren from the third and fourth grades,
who had never sung together before.
| Supt. Curtis was 90 pleased he said they
must appear again Saturday morning. He
also spoke in praise of the method by which
music is taught in the New Haven schools.
He said there was but one other city
| (Cleveland) in the country which can COM
pare with it.
The course the children were put through
yesterday is as follows: First they were
given time exereise-they had received
no special dri1l-which illustrated the
changes from one time to another.
Then come an exercise in which the pro-
/ lessor called off the scale by in numbers.
/ They were next given an exercise key
| they had not seen before and sung it in
all the others.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable re-
suits was that shown in their dictation
work. About forty were accommodated
at the long blackboard which extended
across the top Of the back tier of seats, and
the rest of the pupils each had pencil and
paper. They wrote short cadence in the
/ keys of G and F were given work illus
trating rests, slurs, eighth notes, etc., and
all intervals. Professor Jepson's method in
teaching them the letters in music is
by the means of different words which are
made up of those letters. He has discov-
cred about sixty of these words, and the
pupils are conversant with every one of
| them. Given a word, they Immediately
can write down on the staff the notes re-
presented by those letters. Their quick.
| ness and accuracy in everything is remark
able, and it is probable that yesterday
afternoon nearly every one believed they
had been specially trained for the occasion
instead of being taken just as they come
from their regular school room drill.
They were next given tn rec exercises to
sing at sight which was done exceedingly
well, particularly keeping good time. They
sung last of all three songs "Corn Pop
ping" "Dixey" and 1.-THE Red, White and
Blue" upon which they have been drilled.
At the evening session the choir, made
up of more than 400 boy voices, sang ma.
tional airs and won well earned applause.
Worthy of mention were the efforts in
solo parts of Masters Bunce, Hawkins
Porter, Cook, Hutchinson and Rowgowski.
These did extremely well in the duet in
the Lohengrin bridal march, to which pa
triotic words were set
Yesterday chart of minerals was sent
in to the exhibition, which were collected
under the supervision of Miss Coakley of
No. 10 Lowell school and also chart Of
the different kinds of wood illustrating the
study of geography.
day a good many husbands will owe thei1
gratitude to Miss Poison, for their wives
good cooking. On two long tables werf
spread in tempting array samples of the
work done by the young girls under this
efficient teachers work. Good judgment
is used in making the pupils confine them.
selves to plain foods and doing those well.
They are also taught the necessary why's
and wherefores. In the afternoon Miss
Poison had the following little girls, ages
running from ten to twelve, giving an ex
hibition of their culinary powers over the
gas stoves: Millie Carroll. Maggie Malta
Mamie Mooney, Katie V. Sullivan, Katie
Z. Sullivan, Annie T. Dore, Maggie Cash
l No%;
Cosgrove, Annie Healy, Katie Carney, all
from the Hamilton school, They did make
for one thing, some delicious soup, which
| was served to all who wished to sample it
The sewing classes under the charge Of
Miss Gladwin attracted much attention. Ir
the morning a number of little girls from
the Dwight school were given instructions
in back stitching, which is the first stitch
taught. In the afternoon the following
girls from the Eaton school were used t.
illustrate the teaching in running: Ross
burg, Carrie Harris, May Root, Frank,
Pierce, Eva Page, Emma Clark, Bella Ro
winski, Rosa Solb, Mamie Katz, Dais,
Stahl, Eta Adler and Emma We'll.
The following little tots from No.
Lowell school, under Miss Emery's super
vision, showed what they could do in pes
work: Arthur Healy, Louise Lascent, Joa1
Lindstrom, Hattie Smith, Kittie Brown
Jessie White, Hattie Kingslow, Annie Nc
Queeny and Lena Rabanus.
The occupation work by the little one
in the morning had continually larg
crowd about of Interesting n-lookers. TIT
little ones kept right on unconcerned ant
did not mind the publicity of the thing a
all. They kept right on the same a
though in the school room. One little DO,
who had been working away steadily for
time evidently, dropped his work in a tiret
way and remarked sleepily, II amt goins
to make any more mats; I'm sick of max
ing mate" The remark was followed b,
audible smiles from the spectators.
One of, the most complete exhibits il
that of the Language department.
This department contains $40 charts o.
written work, representing all grades O
pupils below the high school. The love o
pictures, stories and letter writing, fo
which many pupils Of thirty years ag'
were severely criticised if they expressed
| ~ IN &bo school roono 10 shovun In fhi