The San Francisco call., 1896-05-31
BY PATRIOTIC PUPILS.
Memorial Day Observed Friday in All
the Public Schools.

Memorial Day Observed Friday in All
the Public Schools.
1t was a gala day on Friday with the
thousand teachers and the forty thousand
pupils of the public schools of San Fran
cisco. The afternoon was devoted to the
celebration of Memorial day, which falls
this year upon Saturday, school holiday.
In circular addressed week or so ago
to principals Superintendent of Schools
Babcock said: ''To my mind there is no
day that should come nearer to the patri-
tic heart of the Nation than should
Memorial day, and l hope you and your
teachers will make it an occasion to i'm
press upon the pupils the important les
sons that the day suggests"
Conformably to this timely advice, the
flags upon all of the schooihouses-prim-
ary, grammar and high-were displayed
at half mast.
The classrooms were banked deeply with
flowers and evergreens, contributed by the
patriotic children, for use to-day in deco
rating the graves of the gallant soldiers.
In all of the schools there were appro-
pirate songs, Iecitations, etc. A company
OF boys-a hundred strong-from the Lin
coin Grammar School, will participate in
the parade to be held to-day at the Pre-
sidio. Principal Elisha Brooks of the
Girls High School belongs TO the George
the Republic and his students burned with
the sacred fires of patriotism. W. w.
Stone, also Grand Army OF the Republic
man, is principal of the South San Fran
cisco Primary School. Following is the
programme of songs, recitations, essays
and addresses:
Song, 'Cover them over with flowers"
school; "Bugle Call OF Gettysburg" Z. Eggers;
'Memorys Bands of Earth" Donnie Todd !;
"Many Flags of Many Lands L. Fitchen
Il11I-
Flags" Eugene Peguillan; "Sherman's March
to the Sea- school; "Abraham Lincoln, -
George Rasmussen; Departed Braves Agnes
Hennessey; Soldiers Reprive,' Josie Rahl-
man; 1.-The Blue ana the Gray, Lucy Hansen
"Battle Hymn of the Republic, school !;
"Bivouac of the Dead" NJ. Roche; ''The I'm
Soldiers" May Molema: Memorial Day"
Herman Ranlman; "Stars and Stripes Eu-
gene Bruer; america" school
Following is the programme of exercises
rendered at the John SWEET Grammar
School, of which Albert Lyser is principal !:
Song, "Star-Spangled Banner' "origin of
Memorial Day. Dora Savage; Decoration
Day." Herman Kronenberg: "Our Dead" Will
liam Norton; song, "Mount Vernon Bells" !;
BLESSED Are They That Mourn" Sadie Men,
delsohen; "The Blue and the Gray" Amy
Garoutte; some impromptu verses Hat
tie Moulton; you Have Put No Flow
ers on My Fathers Grave" Lydia
Valencia; Gods Acre Gus Lenore
"Our Country" Roy Clarke; song, 'The Red,
White and Blue; sThe Spirit of '76.p Ger
trude Mordecai; '"How Sleep the Brave?" Bell
Murphy; "Seedtime and Harvest" Gertrude
Nutson; song, ''The Old Kentucky Home" !;
individual Purity the Hope of the State"
Joseph Golden eThe Death of Lincoln Celia
Morris; abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad-
dress" Herbert Fowler; "Soldier. RestP' Celia
Celler; song, "iood-night' song, America"
At the Edison School, of which Miss
Chalmers is principal, all the classes par
ticipated in patriotic observances. There
were recitations, songs and dialogues.
Miss Chalmers stated that the ceremony
of saluting the flag is observed in all the
classes nearly every day and tAat the
young patriots are exceedingly Is 'ous in
this matter.