The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-19
HAPPY GRADUATES.
Commencement Exercises of
the High School at
the Academy.
DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE LOOKS ON
Young Ladies Capture First
and Second Honors and
Lead on the Merit Roll.
The Retiring Glass Gives a Bril-
liant Reception at Has
brouck Hall.

Happy, indeed, beat the hearts of the
1873 young people who last night were
graduated from the High School. The
exercises took place at the Academy OF
Music, and they were pleasant and en-
joyable. Long before eight o'clock the
graduates and their friends began to ar.
rive, and within half an hour York,
Gregory and Warren streets would have
been blocked had not Chief Murphy sent
a dozen policemen to the Academy to
preserve order. The police regulations
were excellent, and the coaches created
no confusion.
Persons were not permitted to block
up the Sidewalk in front of the theatre,
and those who desired to enter or pass
received no hindrance.
A quarter Of an hour after the ad-
vertised hour. the curtain rose and pre-
scented the finest living picture ever seer
in the Academy. On the stage and seat
ed We're the graduates. The seats were
arranged in eight tiers that reached in
a semi-circle across and extended te
the back of the stage. Each tier was
sufficiently elevated above the one in
front of it to enable its occupants to
see and be seen. The girls, all with
LAG tACtpliOu VI tWO, were dlttEGu Al
white. and these two wore pink of q
delicate shade, making the wearers APP
pear like two beautiful pinks in the
centre of a bouquet of white roses. The
boys were placed at the extreme left
of he stage. and the greater number OF
them were in the conventional evening
dress. In front of them. and near the
footlights were the members of the Board
of Education, excepting DR.. Ulamor AL
len, President of the Board. and the
High School Committee. DR.. Allen a
been prevented from being present, and
the High School Committee, consisting
OF Chairman Elijah S. CowIes, William
H.. Beach and Edward Hoos, sat at
he right of the stage. With them were
City Superintendent Snyder and Princi-
pal Thompson. A place had been re-
served for A b. Poland. State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, but for
some unexplained reason he was alb
sent. Arranged in luxurious confusion
along the front of the stage were dozens
of huge baskets of flowers, beautiful
and fragrant.
A DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE.
While the orchestra was playing an
overture, three thousand eyes viewed the
charming scene, and their possessors
made 40 attempt to conceal their de-
light and admiration, for in that audi
ence were fathers. mothers, sisters,
brothers, uncles. aunts, cousins and
dear friends. In the lower box to the
left were Mayor and Mrs. P. F. Wanser
and Private Secretary and Mrs. John
Nevin. In the box over them were Com
miss-oners Hooker, Patterson, Harding
and President Brown of the Street n
Water Board, and George T. Bouton,
the clerk. Opposite Mayor Wanser's box
and all alone, sat John NJ. Jones, Presi-
dent of the Board of Finance and ex-
President of the Board of Education.
The box had been set apart for the Board
of Finance, but Mr.. Jones was the only
member present.
Ex-Judge John A. Blair and his law
partner. Otto Grouse. had chairs m the
audience and the occupants of some of
she other seats ~were:-Police Commits
sioners West. Feeney and Abernethy.
Fire Commissioners Brennan, Mills and
Cone, the principals of many of the
grammar schools, ex-Mayor Henry Trap
hagen William A. Lewis, City Collector
Simeon H. Smith. Tax Commissioners
James Love and James C. Clarke, Di-
rector William Heller of the Board of
Freeholders, Judge McGrath. Judge
Puster and Deputy County Clerk Grit
ten.
When the orchestra had finished the
overture. Principal Thompson introduced
the Rev. DR.. Charles Herr, who made an
invocation and Their after some more
music Superintendent Snyder presented
tho soJocc In dnino this NJ VI -
a brief address in which he spoke of
the Importance of the High School.
He said that it aimed to give pupils an
education and a moral training to fit
them for their combat with the world.
From a practical standpoint he said
the High School was of great value to
the city, for beside providing education,
It supplies those who are in the future
to instruct the young of the city. If
the graduates desired to teach in other
cities they would be paid more for their
services than they could obtain here.
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
The official programme of the exercises
was as follows
Part /. Salutatary, Lucy Erdwurm;
Character, Florence Carrick, salutator-
ian rank; A Factor in Success, Annie
LotSSdOtt NdlColItOAl IdiiA, OIlOIQS,
1.-THE Reapers." L. Clapisson; Opportun-
ity. Nellie Robertshaw; Queen and
Tyrant, Leone Jackson; Education of
Women. Jessie Bush; Something Better,
Gertrude Rochester; Waltz, Ma Belle
Adoree,, Roy.
Part II. Chorus. s'Rose Waltz" M.
Peuschel: What We Admire. Sadie Bres-
lin; Society, Margaret Sheridan; Public
Opinion. Ethel scobie; Newspapers. Mary
Murray: Chorus. Might" Franz Abt;
The Making of a Man, Frederick w.
Wersebe; Valedictory Address, Elsie
Whyte; Intermezzo. Dreams OF Fairy
Land Tracy; Address to the Graduates,
Elijah s. CoWles, ESQ.
This programme was not followed al
though 1t was official, for Miss f~iorence
Carrfek, Miss Jessie Bush. Miss Mar
garet Sheridan and Miss Mary Murray.
for some personal reasons, declined to
deliver their essays. All of the graduates
who did read essays produced commend
able ones, and they were well received,
particularly that Of Miss Leone Jack
Son. The salutatory by Miss Lucy Erd-
wErm and the svaiedictory by Miss Elsie
Whyte was excellent, and said we'll all
that could be said on these slhiects:
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