The record-union., 1895-04-27
EXERCISES At The CITY SCHOOLS.
High Schools Pupils Pay Their Re-
speCts to Shakespeare,
The City Schools VIII be Closed for
Two Weeks-Picnic Season
for the Scholars.

The city schools were closed yesterday
for the usual spring vacation of two
weeks. In many Of the schools the event
was made the occasion for special exer-
cises.
Those at the High School, under the
direction of Principal Pond, related
20 Shakespeare and embraced many
amusing as well as excellent features.
The scene from Romeo and Juliet"
with Ernest BirdsaIl in the latter charac-
ter, was overwhelmingly funny. The full
programme was as follows:
Music, merry Wives" Misses Wilsey
and Williams; "Shakespeare's Boyhood,"
William Tryon; 1.-The Plays of Shake
speare" Miss Grau; "The Sonnets of
Shakespeare" Miss Bohmen; "Shake-
speare's Art" Miss Tracy; "Apparitions
in Macbeth" Simon Lubin; song, duet,
Misses Williams and Merkley; reading,
Merchant of Venice" Misses Spilman
and HOyJ; "a Modern Opinion of the
Trial Scene in The Merchant of Nenice,'"
Frank Driver; "Scene from The Mer-
chant Of Venice" Messrs. blanchard.
taris and Reith; 1.-The Stage in the Time
Of Shakespeare."' Waldo Julian; 'Mer-
maid Tavern and Ben Jonson," George
Clifford; ben Jonson's Tribute to Will
lam shakespeare" Laura Cronkit; song,
Romeo and Juliet" Messrs. BirdsalI
and Waring.
SACRAMENTO GRAMMAR.
At the Sacramento Grammar School
the following exercises were held:
Song, The Flowers of May" school;
piano solo, Eva Erlewine; defamation
''He Was There and So Was l." Chester
Bowman; song, "Whose Little Girl Are
You ?' May Omerod; piano solo, Fred
kaufman; recitation, ''Sir William Ma
pier and Little JOAN" May Letter; piano
duet, Edna COnnor and Albert EIkus;
song, Answer OF the Flowers" school;
defamation, "Our Boys" Sidney Root;
recitation, "Tom." Togo Takeyama;
song, The Happy Peasants" school.
UNION PRIMARY.
At the Union Primary School, Mrs.
NJ. E. Mumford. Principal, these exer-
Cises were held:
Song, "Golum bia. Ny Country" fifth
grade Words of Welcome" Edna
Not So Easy" John Burghardt; song,
''Six Ducks" Tony Borzonie; Address
10 Flag" Aionzo Colby; song. "Birdies'
Ball." second grade; The Golden Key"
Nellie Osgood; "a Rhyme Of Time"
Montague LorinGer; The Sea
sons" Elsie Barrett, Elsie Braun,
Frankie Barber, Genevieve Douglas;
song, 1.-THE Boy and Cuckoo"
SCHOOL, 1.-Two Magpies,'' Carl Phleger;
song, Elmer Sweeney; The Bridge
Keepers Story" Ruth KniseIey; May
Day." girls from Miss Wilcox's class;
The Seasons" Hattie Benin, Edward
Hope, frankie Barber, Willie Meister:
song, The Postmau," Albert Burghardt;
piano solo, Jessie Maxwell; Examine
uons," olive Nicholds; song, Mountain
Maids invitation" fifth grade; Seven
Little Fairies" Gladys Stanl, Fannie
Ross. Lizzie Van Guelder, Mary Beau
man, Gertle Hager, Anita Medley, Lulu
Irapper; "Our Flag" Bryte Peterson;
song, My Kitty" first grade; "Origin of
Our Flag" Lillian Trainor: song, Anita
Medley; piano duet, Miss Crowell and
Susie Hammock; The Shillings" Mil
dred Payne; "Patriotism" Jessie Max
well; wreath drill, fifth grade; "Good-
by" Iillie Howard; song, America"
school.
WASHINGTON PRIMARY.
At the Washington Primary, Thir-
teenth and streets, Mary L. Woods,
Principal, these exercises were held:
Song, America; recitation, "a Gem
tleman," James Rego; recitation, The
Stolen Custard," Wilkie Ogg; recitation,
"a Little Word in kindness Spoken,''
Eva Carroll; recitation. What Little
Things Did" Nesta Condor: recitation,
Little by Little,' Ruby Gilman; recita-
ton, Little Cotton Ball. Hazel Odell;
recitation, Little Van Gordon" LllIia
Rehel; recitation, The owl and the
Pussy Cat" Chauncey Cunningham,
Tillie Solomon; recitation, The We'll
come Speech" Hedwig Neidlein; recita-
ton, "a Sociable," Pearl Coleman; reci-
tation, Our Little Girl" Elsie Blodgett;
recitation, MY Kitten" Emma Miles;
recitation, Subtraction" Ethel Sim
mons; recitation, "The Nightingale's Mis-
take" Jennie Griffin; song, soft is the
Morning Dew" fourth and fifth grades;
recitation, The Babes in the Wood"
Harry Palmer; recitation, "a Spring
Secret" Hedwig Anderson; recitation,
THE Little Lads Answ err Eugene Van
Buren,; recitation, "a Slight Mistake
Paul Drescher; class recitation, Miss
Nirna Woods class; recitation; "Seven
Times one" Susie Fisher; recitation,
hail to the Spring" Katie Simmons;
recitation, Three Ships" Maggie Gro
gan; recitation, Matte" Agnes Feeley:
recitation, The Spider and the Fly,''
Flora Ogg; recitation, The Selfish
Baby" Agnes Hall; recitation, "What
Must We lake to School ?'' Ada Brough-
ton; recitation, Indignant Scholars"
Dorothy Mills, Eleanor Baldwin; recita-
tIon, The Child's Hymn" George
Schroth; recitation, Tulips" Selma
Lavenson; recitation, Books" Ernest
Littleheld.