Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-19

or as bright as he has won.
"Of the debt we owe the future.
Well did he his quota pay;
And his name shall wake AN echo
In the hearts OF men for aye
Fen to-day throughout this Southland
Chidrens voices sing his praise;
Gratitude with reverence blending
In the carols that they raise"
The next feature was quotations in
difference to Mr.. Peabody. recited by Mel
lie Spence. Florence Pepe. Nirgie Jack
son. Resale Pettus. Isabel Harris. Kate
Hundley, and Marsie Chappei.
Quotations from Mr.. Peabody were re-
cited by Oracle Hill. Mamie Morrisett.
Clara Crenshaw. Annie Phippen. and
Florence Willis. after which the pupils
sang the Southern Chidgcns Peabody
Song. composed by Miss Julia K. Hen
ning. one Of the High School teachers.
and which is as follows:
To-day we sing with glad acclaim
The honor Of noble name:
Our joyful need Of praise We bring.
10 swell the chorus that shall ring
From lip TO lip. from soul 10 soul,
Till through the Southland fair shall roll
\ voice. 10 wake the grateful fame
That kindles at Peabody's name.
And southern virtue pays the due
or gen'rous praises. freely won
BY noble actions nobly done.
lie came-a friend in time OF need
with open hand and rrincely deed;
His aim. to help. his joy. TO bless;
His motive. Christian tenderness.
And If. within the Southland dear.
The torch Of learning. flaming clear,
HIS hand has helped to place il there.
We were but clods. could we be dumb
When gratitude should speak-then come;
With willing hearts and tongues. proclaim
The honor OF Peabody's name.
REGULATIONS by Samuel Maupin % ex-
traCfs from Dr. Curry's address concern
ing the Peabody benefactions. and by
Hattie NcGehee from Summary OF the
Results Of the Peabody Trust came next
and the exercises closed with the singing
Of America"
Similar programmes were carried out
in the various district schools.
The days celebration closed with
maSs-meeting at Central school in the
afternoon the exercises taking place in
the handsome and spacious assembly
room. There were present tn principals
and nearly all the teachers OF the othe,
schools, a large number of lady patrons.
quite a crowd OF pupils, and several mem>
bers Of the School Board.
Hon. j. Taylor Ellyson. president OF the
School Board. presided. and in calling tn
meeting to order stated it's object. which
was he said. TO express in such manner
as seemed most fitting appreciation of the
work Mr. Peabody had done In the caus-
OF education and especially to express
gratitude for what he had done for that
cause in Virginia
PENNIES FOR \ STATUE.
Quotations referring 20 and from Mr..
Peabody were then recited by the sans
pupils who had carried out that part OF
the programme in the High School. after
which Colonel John n. Cary submitted
the following resolutions:
Whereas, the memory OF George Pea
body deserves 10 be honored in all the
world for the integrity and nobility of his
character. for his magnificent gifts for
the elevation and advancement Of humani-
". and In the South especially. for his
grand benefaction TO the cause OF edu-
cation; and
Whereas, IT is especially appropriate
that his memory should be honored b..
the children OF our southern country:
therefore,
Resolved, /. That we request our horor-
able Superintendent of Public Instruction
to communicate with his felow-superin-
tendents of the South and urge upon
them a cooperation in organizing some
plan for honoring the memory OF our
generous benefactor.
. That we suggest as appropriate for
this end (a) that each recurring ami
versary of Dir. Peabodys birthday be
celebrated in our schools by appropriate
exercises; (b) that penny collections be
made in all our schools at some appropri-
~
bronze statue TO him, which shall he
placed in Statue Hall in the Capitol at
Washington.
REV. MIR. HALLS VIEWS.
Before taking the vote Mr.. ElIyson in
tfoduced Rev .Jabez Hail as one who
had taken a graf interest in the cause
of education And the benefactions OF
Mr. Peabody. Mr.. Hall spoke earnestly
70 the resolutions. He said the time had
10 come when there would be me-
moral to Mr. Peabody 1t was most
happy that the movement had been
started here. The time and the occasion
had met. A memorial such as was pro-
posed would preserve the features of
George Peabody in enduring bronze. but
his memory was enshrined in the hearts
OF thousands on both sides of the water.
Mr.. Hall paid a glowing tribute to the
work that the philanthrOpist had done,
and concluded by referring to the treat
that was IN store for the audience In the
speech or DIR. Hoge, which was to follow.
ADDRESS OF DIR. HOGE.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted. and Mr.. EDyson, in a few. we'll
che sen words, introduced Rev. DR. Hoge.
lie made a most appropriate allusion to
DR.. Hoge's fifty years OF pastoral life
here. and said no one would be sur
pr.sed that he and Mr.. Fox had turned to
the Doctor as the man OF all others to
make the Grafton OF the occasion. DIR.
Hcge had accepted on condition that
they would be satisfied with a ten-minute
talk. They had told him that they would
be satisfied with a talk OF ten minutes
or OF any other length.
DIR. Hoge said he had not had time to
prepare an address or even arrange in his
mind what ne would say. But he should.
indeed feel sorry for any one accustomed
to public speaking who could not say
something in the presence OF an au-
dience ike the one before him DIR. Hoge
spoke OF his love for everything southern
and MISUNDERSTANDING that would adj
vance the welfare OF the South. and
then said that he thought Mr.. Peabody
had inaugurated q new era by showing
what wealth could do In the cause OF
practical charity and education. The
speaker was the last man In the world
10 say aught against our own people
The chairman and the audience knew
that, but he had been often mortified over
the thought that 30 few OF our own men
OF wealth had followed In the direction
OF MIR. Peabody.
MIR. PEABODY'S REWARD.
The speaker then refered 10 the re-
ward that WAS Mir. Peabody's In the con-
scIousness OF the good ne had done his
fellow men and the recognition OF his phil
an,hropy that good men everywhere ac-
corded him. DR.. Hoge said he had spent
more time in London than In any ofher
c,,v excent Richmond and Baltimore. ana
he wondered not that the heart OF Pea
body was touched at the condition OF
the poor in the great English metropo-
liz. He referred 90 the fact that Mr.