Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-18
TEMPERANCE ORATORS.
An Interesting Contest for the Demo-
rest Gold Medal.

Under the auspices of Perseverance Lodge.
No. 2, Independent Order of Good Tenn
plars. five young women and a young man
last evening contested at Metzerott Hall
for the Demorest gold medal. The medal
Is one offered by Mr.. W. ]. Demorest of
New York to encourage the study of the
best temperance literature and the recit-
ing Of the same. The hall was well filled,
and in addition to the oratorical efforts
the audience enjoyed an excellent musical
program. Two gold medals were presented
last evening, Perseverance Lodge offering
the second one to the contestant second
in the estimation Of the judges. The con-
test was under the patronage Of Mrs. John
A. Logan, Mrs. Teller Mrs. Cullom, Mrs.
Dolph, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Pickler. Mrs.
Hepburn, District Commissioner Truesdell,
Prof. E. NJ. Gallaudet, Rev. S. III. Green.
Representative j. ID. Taylor. Commissioner
Lyman and others. and proved quite an
enjoyable success.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Frear presided. and Mr.. John
P. Lawrence played Chopin scherzo as the
opening number of the program. The first
contestant of the evening, Miss Alice Ruth
Gardner, then addressed the audience. her
subject being THE Good Time Is Coming.
She spoke of the great amount of money
annually spent for liquor, and said that the
time was coming when 1t would be spent
for the necessaries of life, when the now
depressed industries of the country would
be iplmeasurably benefited thereby
Miss Gardner was literally applauded,
and Mrs. Pauline Montegriffo-Main sang
''Oh, Milo Fernando" from Donizetts La
Favorita," in excellent style She was fol-
lowed by, Miss Josie Lee. the second con-
testant, who recited THE Reason Why" a
powerful arraignment of the evils Of the
liquor traffic. Miss Lee made an excellent
impression. and Mr.. VIM. ID. Mcfarland de-
lighted the audience with a tenor solo, 1.-THE
Creole Lovers Song"
Mr.. Carleton E. Smell. the only male con-
testant of the evening. then spoke on The
warded with a great bunch of roses. and
Miss Bertha Lucas next rendered two vio
lin solos, a romance by Svendsen and a
mazurka by Wienawski.
Miss Lucas gave way to Mrs. Nellie Will
son Shir-Clif. who sang the familiar bolero
from Verdfs ''Sicilian Vespers," responding
to an enthusiastic encore with DeKoven's
Japanese lullaby. A poem, Two Fires,
was the subject of the fourth contestant,
Miss Cara A. Penfed she also being re-
warded with bunch of roses. The next
selection on the program was the we'll
WILLIE" finely sung by Prof. Mariana Maiha
and his wife, The fifth contestant, Miss
Anna Salome Wingate. recited with good
effect Noble Christian Womanhood." and
then Prof. Maina sang an aria from Doni-
zettrs "Lucretia Borgia.'' - At-
The last contestant to appear was Mrs.
Sadie f. Poates, who recited with power
and effect the poem, THE Martyred Moth
impression, and loud applause. She was
followed by the vocalists of the evening.
who rendered the great quartet from Yer
dis "Rigoletto" in such fine style as to win
loudly demanded encore. Meantime the
judges. Miss Beulah Gilbert, Mr.. John
Tweedale and DIR. Frank Howe, had re-
tired for a consultation, and in few min
utes DIR. Howe. on behalf of them, an
nounced that TO Mrs. Poates the Judges had
awarded the Demorest medal while to Miss
Wingate they had given the lodge medal
DR.. Howe explained that the judges had
found that none of the six contestants had
been marked perfect and several of them
had fallen far below the highest marking
A marking of ten had been determined as
the highest in the five qualifications voice,
articulation, gesture, memory and general
enect, and no one contestant had received
marking of ten for any one of the four
Representative Picker Of South Dakota,
| in few words presented the medals to the
successful contestants. congratulating them
and the lodge upon the very enjoyable con-
test, and urging them to continue further
In the good work thus begun by them.