Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1896-06-04
COMMEN CEMENT DAY.
Exercises at the Opera House
Last Evening.
GOOD ENTERTAINMENT.
A Crowded House Attends the Com
mencement Exercises Of
the High School.

on The first annual commandments
ut the Union High School, held st I'll
in Phoenix opera house last evening, W
:. certainly success 10 every particu:a
Advertised to begin as s p. H.,
y number of unavoidable delays kept 81
he curtain from rolling up until $50. r.
served seat tickets had been issued fC
every chair on the floor and balloon.
and none were admitted without tick
cts, SO there was not the oustomar
- rush when the doors were opened end
IS crush OF preepiripg humanity waitiu
Is an hour or more for the exercises to be
gin, but the ticket holders arrived il
good time for the exercises.
The stage w6s neatly decorated will
flowers, evefgreens and hags, while
a above was the High School motto OF the
D year: I'D Astra per AsperG" --liberaliy
translated, ITO the Stars Through Diff
cultiss."
At the extreme left was seated Sup
erintendeat OreageF, OF the city schools
who had charge OF the exercises. Next
were Messrs Messenger aud Gillette, of
5he High School Board of Trustees, Rev.
Mckinney, General Sampson, and the
two graduates.
The openiDa was aoug by toe follow
ing named mem bers of the High School:
Misses Wilcox, HeiImap, Lsiia and Loiea
Murphy, Wiuifred and ZellR Dysart;
| Msssrs. Quinan, Bower, Mcbride; MISS
Flora Cohn, sccompanist. The song
was rendered in sne nsnney and
much appreciated.
Rev. Preston Mckinney, Of the Pres
by terrain church, gave tha Invocation,
being followed by piano SOLO by Mrs
lone Allen.
'Whst Electrical Science is doing for
the World" was the subject OF the ora
ton of John E. Merriam. He spoke of
the great effeot upon com merce, both
domestic and foreign, of the invention
OF electric cables scd Telegraph, and |
the use of electricity ss a motive power,
quoting statistics to STOW the growth. |
Niagara, harneseed, furnishes power for |
all New York etats. Phoenix might |
harness the water falls in the vicinity |
aud generate the power sufficient Tor |
ali of this valley Electricity saves vest
quantities Of fuel. and as a means OF
national defense in electric turpedoee,
search lights, submarine boats, etc., hes
placed the United States beyond dan
ger.
In medicine and surgery, telephones,
ers1 |
ing, ETC., eto., electricity is fast making
this world place of pleasure and eaee
for her Inhabitants.
A piano trio by Gladys Hoadley, Alice
Redswell and Mary Baker, little Misses
Of five OF six years, provoked an encore,
which was responded to by them.
Miss Isoline Coombs had chosen for
her Grafton the subject 81, the Heir of 1
al the Ages" We are the heir of all
5he ages by the preservation of she
knowledge sad schievmeuts OF sll the
great minds and masters who have gone
before us in literature, sculpture, paint
ug, science, philosophy and the resear
,hes made in all lines. We are now on {
The threshold of the new century. Be- G
lind US is superstition, error and bigot- q
the open door is a glorious (
prospects to which let US press forward t
With courage end strong convictions. g
We are heirs of all the ages and need r
out to claim the Inheritance. L
Supt. CresgeF, after a Few we'll a
chosen words to the graduates, called a
lpon President Messenger, of the C
3oard of Trustees, who presented the J.
diplomas to them in the name of the q
chool, congratulsting them upon the q
york they had done. g
A vocal solo by Mrs. Turney followed. /
nd Gen A. j. Sampson was then in y
roduced and made the address to the O
lass
He said to the graduates, both of the G
High school and those of the Grammar y
chools who occupied front seats at his ?
eft, that their diplomas meant more to K
hem than than the crown of the czaF, f
s the crown was but incidental to b
while the diplomas +
nean a developed mind and an ad- g
sncement that shall endure when v
fowns shall have passed away. 4
Thus f8E the teachers have come ?
nth you. Now let the thought in K
pire you that alone you must battle, t
nd ths greater the labor and contest b
be greater the pleasure in winning. "
he preparation made is of inestimable Fl
alue-but you don't know il eli yet. a
q fact you have got but the "A. B. O." n
knowledge and should never cease to
budy, as TO keep pace with our age We 81
lust ever learn. Beware of idleness, o
ae chief cause of disease both of body 81
nd mind. n
Don's think you must all enter some
rofession. Many who stand at the y
ottom in a profession would hold g b
rst rank in the Commercial world. A
save she world better for your having a
we'd in it. g,
Miss Lsils and Loise Murphy render v
/ pleasing piano duet sitter which n
10 twenty five graduates from the II
rammsr department. lined across in o.
ont OF the stage and received their D
iplomas. The class is composed of the CT
'llowicg. who were in the eighth grade
uriug the present year: