Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-22
COLORED SCHOOL. EXHIBIT
Specimens of Handicraft Placed on View
This Afternoon.
The Work Receives the Commenda-
Progress Made by Pupils.

Inc exhibition OF work accomplished In
the department of physics Of the colored
High School, on NJ street near New Jersey
avenue northwest, was begun yesterday
under the control Of the teacher of physics,
H. M. Brown, who. by the way, was the
first colored man who sold The Evening
Star in the District Of Columbia, April H.
| 1865. the day Richmond FELL"
The exhibit was visited yesterday after
noon. between and o'clock, before the
public was admitted. by number of prom
inent people. who were especially invited
among them being Commissioner Black
Chief of Police Moore Mr.. John H Booker
who was at one time a trustee of the COL
ored schools; Maj. Harres. Mr. Barnard
DR.. Shedd, Mr.. Cornish and Mrs Stowell
| present trustees; Superintendents Powell
and Cook, Miss Myers principal of the
white Normal School, and her assistant
Miss Wise, and all the teachers in physics
or the white schools.
Commissioner Was Interested.
Commissioner Black deeply inter-
ested in the exhibition, and highly COM
mended the manner Of teaching physics in
the schools.
The exhibit abounds in instruments made
by the pupils to illustrate the subjects
taught, among which are found telephones
microphone, water pumps and stills An
electric engine has been constructed, which
operates over thirty-foot track, pulling
a trailer. This electric railroad illustrates
both the overhead and underground sys-
tens, the automatic change from the one
to the other evidencing a great deal of in
genuity and careful study.
The dynamo constructed by the grad
uating class is a work of great merit, being
of the shunt-wound type. The field mag
nets are wound upon wrought-iron cores
and reflect credit upon the mechanical
ability of the pupils
The practical use of an electric motor
made by pupils of former class is Illus
trated by the running of a sewing ma
chine.
An thermometer, a rain gauge and a wind
vane. modelled after those in use by the
United States weather bureau. have also
been constructed by the pupils An Undue
ton coil, made by the graduating class for
experimental purposes, is also very ex-
cellent piece of work, intended for use in
the x rays experiments.
photography has been given considerable
attention. and the originals and copies
taken exhibit commendable progress. One
OF the principal objects in teaching pho
Biography was to enable the pupils to make
Photographic lantern Slides used in pre-
senting stereopticon views for illustrative
purposes -
PhOto-EnEraving a Feature.
Photo-engraving has also received atten-
ton, and for the limited time devoted to
this branch commendable progress was
shown.
The practical and useful art of electro
tipping and silver-plating received a great
deal of attention, a number of specimens
being on view.
An electrical switch board has been con-
structed by the pupils to teach and Illus
trate how electrical currents can be
changed A number Of galvanometers were
also. constructed with coils exposed.
AS rule, all Of the work of construc-
ton is upon the plane of full exposure of
the parts, the usual covers which hide the
machinery employed in commercial life be-
ing omitted, to enable the teacher to ex-
plain and the pupils to see and understand
the principles and practical workings of the
mechanical structure.
The course Of physics embraces a term of
three years, commencing with the second
year in the High School. 1t is an elective
study. but apparently favorite one, as
about nine-tenths of the parents choose
it for their children, and the small corps of
teachers, heavily taxed, necessitates the
Instruction of two classes at the same time
In one room.
Physics Popular
The department of physics 10 popular be-
cause 1t partakes SO largely of mechanical
end practical industrial work The knowl-
edge thus gained by pupils, in being re-
quired to make many of the Instruments
they use, is of much more practical value
than would be derived If all the necessary
apparatus were furnished and teaching pur-
sued only by theory. The necessities, there
fore, of this department for proper instru-
ments have served a sood purpose: although
1t has cost the teachers great deal from
their private purses.
In the evening a stereopticon exhibition
YVES in operation in the lecture hall of the
building, when views made by the pupils
were shown.
An arrangement for gauging. the fall of
rain, among the exhibits, Is tied with a
piece Of crepe. AlonZo Saunders. the Young
MAN who made it, died last Saturday. He
was considered one Of the brightest schol-
ars of the class.
Two hundred and fifty pupils comprise the
class in physics this year. 1t is the largest
number in the history of the school,
The Graduates.
The graduates are Misses Helen Bell
Louise Cornell. Lula Davis. Louise Evans.
Hattie Hamer, Isabelle Hawkins. Mamie
Billman. Marcellena Hunter. H3ttie,sJohn-
son. Josephine Matthews. Fan5ie Moore
Florence Payne. Fannie Walkerind Messrs
Lawrence Bradley, Daniel BROOKS. Jamaa
Lucas. Harry Shorter and Clarence Worm
ley.
The exhibition was opened today Mt
o'clock, with a large number of specta tors
present. The doors are to be closed at &
o'clock and reopened at this evening.
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