The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-26
GALA DAY IN THE SCHOOLS.
Crowds Of People Witness the Spring
Exhibitions.

Alright Boys and Girls and Admiring
Erisnds-The Exhibitions More In
+sresting Than Ever-The Board of
Education Visits All the Schools.
Yesterday was the annual exhibition
dav at the public schools. The schools
,,ore crowded with the parents of the
children and their friends, and the school
rooms presented a gala appearance. The
children were all in holiday dress and
seemed to enjoy the exercises as much as
their elders.
interesting programmes of exercises
,rero rendered at each school in the sepa-
rate class-rooms.
In the grammar schools the higher
trades combined and gave their exhibit
tions in the rooms of the principals.
A committee from the board of educa-
,ion was present at each school, The
rresident of the board, Col. Mercer, and
sunni. Baker made the rounds of the
schools during the morning, spending
S6ort while at each. Col. Mercer, with
bis usual readiness and versatility, made
short address at each school, praising the
children for the interest manifested by
them in their work, and encouraging them
n continued application in their studies.
lie urged the children to improve the OPP
nortunities offered them and to lay foun-
dations of character in their youth which
will fit them for future youthfulness.
HUNTER HALL CROWDED.
The largest crowds of course visited
Chatham Academy where the high school
and the two Chatham grammar schools
are located. Hunter hall was filed with
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relatives and friends. The high school
girls we're all attired in pretty spring
dresses and looked particularly sweet
mon the occasion. The principal, Mr.. II.
+ Train. was in charge of the exercises,
assisted by the high school teachers.
An interesting programme was ren-
dered as follows:
War Inevitable. Ed. Thomson; Hezekieh
BedOtt Miss Pauline Fulford; On the Picket
Line Leo HOtfman Miss Maloney on the
Chinese Question. Miss Clifford Dasher; Red
Jacket. Alfred Stern; Tom, Miss Annie New
ton; The Freckle-faced Girl, Miss lnga Iyer-
son; Wolsey to Cromwell, Charles Rossignol,
The Shoemakers Daughter Miss Rose Lag
arus; OthelloS Address to the Senate, VIII
liam starr; How Girls Fish, Miss Ellie Cook;
Cataline's Defiance. Joseph Elsinger; Phys
icsl Exercises Muscular Boys Introduction
and Exercises, Joseph Myers; Accompani-
ment, William Blum; Ellen and the Minstrel,
Miss Lillian SymOns; Becalmed, Miss AIDE
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Fannie Westerman; Taylor at Buena Vista,
Walter Higgins; A Culprlt, Miss Willie New
ton: Federal Union, James McIntire; Ad-
dress to a Mummy, Miss Minnie Decker: The
sunny south. John Train: Mumford's Pave
ment Miss Flossie Roche; Locheil and the
Seer Robert Thomson, Ralph Byrnes; Death
OF Paul Dombey, Miss Carrie McAllister.
Physical Observation-Disclosures pre-
sented 0y Miss Bessie Miller; exercises, con
Quoted by Miss julie Bates. accompaniment.
by Miss Mabel LawtOn; Launching of the
Ship, Hinton Booth; Bernhard and Alphonso
Miss Eva Cohen; Declaration of Irish Rights
John Daily; Feeding the Black F1llies, Miss
LeOuOra Amram: WOmanS Rights, Miss
Lillian Strickland; Eulogy on Hamilton,
Tyrrel Morgan; Socrates Shocks, Miss Mel
lie Abrahams Douglas and Marmion, Will
lam Blum; The Inventors Wife. Miss Villa
Rock, Barnaby Ridge. Miss Nellie COnnery;
The Night Before Waterloo, Lawrence Lee;
Jamie Butler and the Owl, Miss Rosie RoOs
HOratius at the Bridge, Miss Emmie Strob-
har. The Patter of the Single, John Bren-
nan. The Hunters song, Joseph Kill orin
HeXter, The Stamp Act, Charles Hohenstein
Scenes from the Talisman, dramatiZed by
Hinton Booth, Irby Buckner, Fred Debele;
Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, John Taggart;
Dick Swiveler and the Marchioness, Miss
julie Bates; Battle Of Naseby. Daniel Hops;
Maggie Tolhver's Girlhood Miss Tessie Ros.
enhelm scenes from the Haunohbaok, Miss
Maggie Williams, Miss Nellie Connery.
The physical exercises by both the boys
and the young ladies were very we'll gone
through with and proved aapleasing feat
ure Of the entertainment The recita-
tons by Ed Thomas, Miss Rose Lazeron,
Miss Fannie Westerman, Miss Hinton
Booth, Miss Eva Cohen, Tyrren Morgan,
William Blum, Miss Nellie Connery, Miss
Beulah HeXter, Charles Hohenstein, Fred
Dl0ell, Miss julie Bates and Daniel Hops
were particularly good