Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-04
CELEBRATION BY DEAF MUTEs.

Plans for the Seventy.fifth Anniver.
sary of the American Asylum.
Systematic instruction for the deaf had
its beginning, as far as this country is con-
cerned, in Hartford seventy five years ago
at the American Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb The first principal was the Rev.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, and he was
assisted by Laurent Clerc, who came from
France for that purpose.
Something of what has been accom-
plished since then in the way of deaf mute
instruction will be shown in the meeting
here in the latter part of August of men
and women from all over the country who
have been trained in the American asylum,
and of eminent instructors of the deaf and
dumb. The seventy-fifth anniversary of
the institution will be celebrated by a re-
union of the alumni, in connection with
the eighteenth biennial convention of the
New England Gallaudet association. The
plans for the meeting of the association
and the anniversary celebration and reunion
are about concluded, and the occasion will
be of much interest. The Courant an
nounces tbs program as follows:
Religious exercises on Sunday, August
%, will open the celebration. At 1O:45 a.
m. Principal Job Williams of the asylum
will ofciate in the asylum chapel. In the
afternoon the Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, son
of the founder of the institution, will hold
q service in some church, the hour and
place to be announced hereafter. A union
conference meeting will take place in the
asylum chapel at 7:30 p. m.
On Monday morning and afternoon SEES
aions of the New England Gallaudet as.
ISOLATION will be held at 10 a. m: and 2 P
m. In the evening W. Z. Chase of Winsted
chairman nf tina rniffoo af
ments, will open debate on "Woman'a
Suffrage" The rest of that evening and
Tuesday evening will be devoted to reminis
cences. story telling and social gatherings
in different rooms Of the asylum as well al
on the lawn, which will be suitably lighted
Most of Tuesday will be given to the bust
ness of the association.
The anniversary exercises will be held
Wednesday in Foot Guard hall Mr.. Chase
will make an Introductory address, which
will be followed by Introductory remarks
by Edwin w. Frisbie, president of the
association. An address of welcome will
be made by the Hon. F. B. Cooley, presi
dent of the board of directors of the Amer
lean asylum. John Burton Hotchkiss, M
| A., an alumnus and assistant professor Of
history and English literature in the Ma
tional Deaf Mute college, Washington, D
G., will deliver an Grafton. A poem writ
ten by Mrs. George e. Fisher, nee Angi,
Fuller, of Omaha, Neb., will be recited BY
a young lady. This will be followed BY
addresses by distinguished alumni ant
guests. The Rev. Thomas Gallaudet vii
deliver tho benediction.
In the evening there will be banque
and grand levee. The levee will be helt
In Foot Guard hall and the banquet in tn
basement. At the levee the hop, tn,
social amusements and the various game
and plays for prizes will be under tn
direction of William 81. Green of Wor
cester, Mass, and his assistants. ANON
those expected to be present are: The Rev
DR.. Thomas Gallaudet of New York an,
President Edward NJ. Gallaudet of tn
National Deaf Mute college at Washington
sons Of the founder Of the American asy
lum; the Rev. DR.. Clero of Pittsburg, Pa.
and Mrs. Beers of this city, children O
Laurent Clerc and many others.
The arrangements for the celebration ar
in the hands of this committee: w. X
Chase, Winsted, chairman; John E. Crane
Hartford, a teacher in the American asy
lum, vice chairman; Herman Erbs, Water
bury, clerk, and Henry M. Fairman, Hart
ford, treasurer. TIE officers of the ASST
citation are: Edwin w. Frisbie: Everett
Mass, PRESIDENT F. w. Bigelow, Chelsel
Mass, vice president; George G. Sawye
Somerville, Mass secretary; Levi A. Le
ter, Providence, r. l., treasurer. Mayo
, Hyde is expected to deliver an address
welcome at the opening of the business se
| sion of the association"