The morning times., 1896-05-13
FITTED FOR LIES WORK
Spencarian Business College Grad
yates a Big Glass.
Young Men and Women Given the
Diplomas Which Represent
Months of work and Energy.

The thirtieth annual commencement ex-
ercises OF the Spenceriau Business College
were held yesterday afternoon in the
Lafayette Square Opera House. The ex-
ercises were witnessed by an audience
which filled every seat from the footlights
TO the topmost gallery.
The class of SO is one of the many very
large ones graduated from the college. 1t
numbered seventy-five members, more
than half Of whom were young ladies.
The appe rance OF the class on the stage
was the signal for applause which lasted
until they were all seated and the Rev.
Frank Sewan, pastor of the New Church,
rose TO ask a blessing. The young lady
graduates were dressed in Greek gowns,
and their hair was worn in classic style.
The front OF the stage was Illegally coy
cred with bank OF roses 10 large and
beautiful bouquets, the offerings Of the
friends and relatives of the graduates.
Besides the graduates on the stage were
Mrs. Sara A Spencer principal of the col
lege; Mr.. b. II. Warner, j. Allen Davis,
principal Of the Business High School of
this city; Mr.. Ballantine, and Mr.. j. Ar
mond Wilson.
The following was the program of ex-
ercises:
Salutatory representing night classes,
Otho Warner Hammond, Ohio; salutatory,
Annie Hinkley Walker, England; trepre-
writing1; Aria, caro- Nome" Rigoletto,
Verdi, by Miss Alice Judson of the Hin
| richs Opera Company; ladies valedictory,
Bertha NJ. Stain, South Carolina; gentle
mems valedictory, Charles T. Nicholson
Mar ryIand; ballad, selected, Miss Judson;
remarks by Mr. Allan Davis, principal OF
the business high school; presentation Of
the Glass of 90, Mrs. Sara A. Spencer;
What My Lover said, Homer Greene.
This last number was study IN express
| sion by fifty OF the young lady and gentle
men graduates, who gave expression in
action TO the story as it was told by Miss
Mary Ethel Taylor.
The diplomas were awarded by the Rev.
Dr. Sewall, after which brief speeches of
Commendatlon were made by Messrs War
ner Ballantine and Wilson.
The exercises were enlivened by excel
| lent music by Weber's orchestra.
The folio wing are the names OF the
graduates.
Day class, ladies-Clara Mae Blake.
Michigan; Pearl Gertrude Harrison, Mary
land: Helen Beatrice Mccarthy, District OF
| Columbia; Florence |. Mcdonald, Canada;
| Jane Henderson Anilar District of Column
| bia; Minnie Louise NauCk, District Of Co.
| lunbia; Annie H. Walker, salutatorian, Eng
| Esteile Pauline Riley, District OF Columbia;
| Mary Hampton Riley, District of Columbia;
| Margaret c. Schaier, District Of Column
J bia; Amy Davis Yerkes, District ofColumbia;
| Bertha May Stain, yalediCtOrian, South
| Carolina; May Ethel Taylor, reader, Me-
! braska; Charlotte L. Vaux, District OF
| Columbia.
Dav observation-disclosures Clark An
/ drews Ohio; Robert Thrift Ballard, Vir-
! gina; william Edwin Boswell, Maryland;
Wash. Beall Bowie, Maryland; Samuel
| Rozier Cats, ViTgi MIA; William Myron
| Cowell, District of Columbia; William
| Brown Dodge, ir., Virginia; Clarence Ed
/ gar Frey, District of Columbia; Charles s.
| Lambdin, Virginia; Corrado Hammond
LAMA, Sicily; Edgar Suter McCeney, Mary
! land; j. willard McChesney, District OF
| Columbia; Edward T. McNerhany, District
of Columbia; Henry c. Millen. New York;
| Charles Vincent Moran, New York; Charles
| Thomas Nicholson (val), Maryland; 4 r
thur Leroy Niles, Kansas; Louis F. C.
| 0ckersha usen. District of Columbia; r.
| Odell Pope, Illinois; Samuel Linn Simpson,
| Virginia; Frank John Sobotka, ustria:
| Howard dAlvinTownshend, Maryland; Charles
| II. Weaver. Maryland: Clarence Julian White,
Georgia; Thomas Williamson, jr., Virginia;
| Samuel Joseph Wilson. Maryland and A r
thur Elon woodward, District OF Columbia
| Night ClaSs-Jeaune White Bruce, Mime
| sofa: Minnie Edna Fisher, Pennsylvania;
| Olive {. Pullman, District of Columbia
William II. Bartlett, District of Colum bia
| Reginald +. Brooks, District of Columbia;
| GabrleI +. GOuiOn, louisiana; William
Clinton Harrison, Alabama; Otho Warner
| Hammond, sal, Ohio; John W. Hodgson
District of Columbia; James B. Mack euzie
District OF Columbia: George Anthony
Trapp, District of Columbia; Eugene W
willard, Michigan; Fred c. q. Wurdeman
| Germany.
Shorthand and typewriting, . ladies'
Eleanor Houghton Baker, Connecticut
Jeanne White Bruce, Minnesota: Bertha
IyrNI,,
c. Buhler. District of Columbia; Mary NJ
Hamilton District OF Columbia; Emily Mon
tague Morgan, Pennsylvania; Lydia Felicis
Perkins, Florida: Inez Hammond Powell
| Virginia. Elizabeth Walker District oil
Columbia; Annie Hnkley Walker, England
Gentlemen-Reginald +. Brooks, Distric
of Columbia; james A1phonsus Burke, Dis
triCt of Columbia: Edward Thornton Bui
rell District Of Columbia: Charles Jewel
Crosby, Massachusetts; William B. CroweI
Ohio; John Edward Monk, New York: Harr,
Williams MOrgin, District of Columbia
Howard Fenton Phillips, District of Colun
bia; George Frithiof Shilling, District O
Columbia; Harry Thomas Waters, Maryland
Agricultural dra wing-Sophia Cotting
ham Robinson, District of Columbia.
Marriage Licenses.
Licenses to marry have been issued q
follows:
William H SpilIng and Rosa L. SclIU
mann, both OF Richmond. Va.
William H Lee and Martha A. Cook.
4 rthur Hinrichs of ST IOuiS and Ola nd