The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-03
THE JEPS0N TESTIMONIAL.
BRIEF HIsTORT OF WORK DONE HERE BY PROFESSOR JEPSON.

Schools as a Regular Study List of Pc titioners -Sale of Seats for TO-night's Con
 cert Very Large.
 In connection with the Jepson testi
 moniaI concert this evening-a little ref
 erence to the work done by Prof, Jep
 son, and also to the history of music 1T
 the public schools, would be in place.
 New Haven was the first city in this | state, and one of the first in the coun, try, to adopt music as regular study
 in it's public schools This subject had been talked over to a considerable extent
 for several years before any action was taken In 1864 petition was pre-
 sented to and accepted by the New Ha-
 ven board of education. Prof. Benja- min Jepson was named as vocal instruc- tor. The petition was signed by 16s citizens of this city. The list of peti- tioners, more than one half of whom have since died, is remarkable for the number of names in it which have be- come prominent. It shows that citizens of every profession and calling, the city officials and the president and faculty of Yale were unanimously in favor of pulp lie instruction in music.
 The task of educating the New Ha- ven public in music has been 8 difficult one. But MT. Jepson went at it 0Ji1n1lxr ana YpSp a ,ac1t1t nf his thirty years work, nearly every pub lie school graduate can read music, and very large. percentage can sing by note and sight. And all this was done without noticeably infringing on the school time. Its effect has been to stim- ulate work in the other branches, it being a pleasant recreation rather than a study, and New Haven's example has been important in its effects upon stin1- ulating similar study in the schools of other cities.
 Prof. Jepson began in 1865 with 1,200 pupils. To-day he superyises the in- struction of 14,000. Yet his work now, though ten-fold grehter, is not as diff ficult as then. The reason is obvious. INGdIly Etll lliC lGeiGiGiS dlG SIdNheIlUS of New Haven schools, and all under stand the unsurpassed method of mu- sical instruction which Prof. Jepson em- ploys,
 The list of original petitioners men, toned above is interesting to many, containing as it does so many well known or we'll remembered names of prominent people. More than one half of those on the list are dead. Those that remain hold honored places in the minds of the people of the city.
 The following is the list of peti- tioners
 Morris Tyler, H, M Welch, E, K. Foster, Alfred Blackman, c, R. Inger- soil, II. B. Harrison, M. C. Elliott, S. D. Pardee. R, Chapman, George II. Wat rous, S. w. S. Dutton, N. B. Ives,James Brewster, Edwin Marble, Francis Way land, jr.. S. D. Phelps, N, D. Sperry, Cyrus Northrop, Edwin Harwood, w. w. Boardman, George r. Smith, Lu- cius Peck, George r. Gardner, Charles Nlcol Thomas 1T. Burch, D. R. Wright c. A. Lindsley, Philip Pond. Jno. W. Aldll9llElNiJ h7oiillABk NIOI NllllOlL A. Osborn, F. c. Scranton, George Olm- stead, William Fitch, E. S. Rowland, Edward l.. Drown, Charles D. Glover, c. D. Judson, w. D. Judson, Charles r. Hotchkiss, John B. Darlington, c. T. Grilley, II. W. Benedict, W. T. Eustis, ir, Edward D. Atwater, Everard Ben jamin, William Skinner, John G. North, ot T. Do L. P. Smith, c. R. Russell, William o. Armstrong, Philando Arm George A. Chapman, George r. l Peterson, T, A. Futile, Henry c. Lewis, J. B. Baldwin, John E. Bossett, Edward F. Judd, W, W. White, Paul Roessler, Samuel Moves, F. T. Jarman, Samuel A. Bassett, J. J. Atwater, J. H. Mande- vile, o. B. Leavenworth, Evarts Cut Ter, sylvanus Butler, William F. Damn, Marcus Merriman, Benjamin w. Stone, | John H. Klock, J. M. Augur, Benjamin l s. Pardee, J. W. Hine, D. E. Burritt J. | J. Osborn, Daniel Merrills, Jacob Gould | John Woodruff, P. H. Frsbie, James G. English, B. F. Mansfield, B. Fl Douglass, | w. A. Ensign, Edward Bromley, J. | Halsted Carroll, B Shoninger, R. Blair, I. Fl. Thomas, w. Webb, w. IT. Stanley, | S E. Merwin, jr., Henry Kellogg, F. M. Lovejoy, Thomas H. Pease, Alfred | Walker, Edward Downes, S. A. Thomas, .. A. Park, Thomas C.. Osborn, w. D. 3ryan, William c. Peck, E. Weston, Toel s. Smith, H. P, Hoadley, Henry Lampson, Edward Lampson, T. R. Arthur D. Osborne, IT. A. iray, D, W. Buckingham, R. S. Bost- wick, Samuel L. Smith, Peck Sperry, Charles J, Allen, R. c. Warner, c. B. Dudley, R. R. French, Gustave ]. Stoe- kel. T. D. Woolsey, George P. Fisher, Joah Porter, c. w. Chapman, Thomas \. Thacher, Jean w. Freund, Frank D. float, Silas Galpin, D. S. Cooper, J. G. S. Rice, O. F. Case, :. E. English, James Rowland, w. locker, o. F. Winchester, John Lyons, '. J. Betts, Fred w Sizer, w. B. John on, H. s. Dawson, L. Hotchkiss George iardner, J. K. Bundy, Leonard Bacon, '. R. Bliss, John c. Hollister, H. Smith, :. b. Searles, D. T. Foote, Mark Bailey, I. C. Kingsley, w. D. Anderson, J. aathgeber, H, H. Bunnell, George N. 1oses Luman Cowles, P. S. Galpin,