The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-13
HAVING 4 HAPPY TINE
DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION
OF TIL; DEAF MIX BUSINESS
AND PLEASURE
3S.Ik
HAVE SOME ME- d EACH DAILY


Split on theiRenort--The Minority
as Amended, Met with Approval
Election Takes Place Later
Some Paperg Rgad-An Outing in
the Afternoon.
MT. Alex Fox, who, on account of an
exceedingly bright after-dinner speech,
| made at the banquet Tuesday evening,
mas earned for Mn1Aelf the soubriquet Of
the Chauncey RpsN of the convention"
apparently finge edsthe sentiments of all
the delegates when he's said at the ban
quet that the present convention was the
Jolllest he had ever attended, and he has
attended nine. There Is not the slightest
DOUBT but What the delegates Of this
ninth annual convention Of The deaf as
ISOLATION are enjoying themselves thor
oughly. Theirs bright, animated faces,
snow that, their nimbie fingers spell it,
ana their whole appearance proves it
conclusively. Like all other conventions
OF course, a certain amount of business
mas TO be transacted, but like all other
conventions, too, the social features pre-
dominatei the members are out to entov
themselves
yesterday the business preceded the
pressure The delegates assembled in the
mouse OF representatives, state capitol
oullolng' promptly. at 9 o'clock, and pro-
ceeded to work after an invocation by
Rev. Phillip Hasenstab, of Chicago. 3
deaf mute
Rev r. j. Hasenstab, Rev. ]. H Cloud.
george 1. Dougherty, E. H. Hodgson
ana kew j. NJ. Koehler comprise the
committee appointed at a meeting of the
convention at Philadelphia last year for
the purpose Of suggesting some changes
IN the constitution, which made its re-
port and was accepted. Allgthe changes
! suggested were of minor Importance.
| The committee on nominations sent In
majority and rHtnoFity report, and the
! two provoked a good deal Of discussion
| The former recommended fine ,foIlovcino,
| nominations:
| sofa. -. - "a
For First Vice fP5Tesident-G. W. vedity
Second Vice President-Phillip L. AK
ling, South DaR0ea. II 5
| Third Vice President-Miss Theresa
| Schoenenber, Pennsylvania
F0urth Vice Decentralization d'Es-
! trellt. CalifOrniaIG =
Secretary-A; L. Pach New York.
In the minority. report the name of O.
! II. Regensburg Was substituted for secre-
tary The majority report was entirely
| unsatisfactory to. many Of the delegates.
! who thought that no member should be
| elected to ofticei unless he attended the
| conventions Of the society A motion
| was made that the name of A r. Spears
be substituted for j. L. Smith for the
| once OF president, and after some discus
sion the minority report thus amended
| was accepted. The actual election of the
| officers will take place later -,
Inc first address of the morning was
| delivered by Olaf Hanson, of FarfbauIt
| Mr. Hanson and his bride, formerly Miss
| Agatha Tfegel a teacher at FaribauIt,
are spending their, honeymoon in st: Paul,
IN attendance. 'upQna the convention MIR,
Hanson, in spitesof the fact thatrhe is
dear and dumb, is an architect of much
! ABILITY. His subject was 'How the Ma
tional Association Can Be Made More
| Useful Mr.: Hanson touched upon the
two methods that Fave been followed IN
educating the deaf one by speech teach-
| ing alone, and the other, by sign and
| niger language, and announced that in
| his opinion a combination of the two
methods was most effectual Said the
| speaker: -<-.4- @srs -:
| The sign language has been blamed.
| justly or unjustly. for the failure of
Iueny GEAR 10 master the English IAN
guage.. No doubt its excessive use hind
ers some pupils in acquiring English. We
notice a growing tendency to suppress
the sign language in some schools Su.
perintendents are hardly to blame If on
finding themselves. unable to restrict 1t to
its proper place, they go to the extreme
of prescribing it entirely.
1t is not necessary to tell you it would
be most unfortunate if a considerable
Of oh
ample of a few and prescribe signs. Not
only would 1t, as pointed out in the able
paper by Prof Draper, produce dialects
at different schools. but it would tend to
the degeneracy and possibly the ultimate
destruction Of our beautiful sign Ian
guage. The REMEDY lies with the deaf
teachers at the schools AS a rule thew
are more interested1ip the deaf children
than the hearing teachers If they take
hold, believe they can solve the prob.
lem. If they don t, either the sign Ian.
guage must have'fuI sway or it must ba
suppressed. The deaf teachers should in
every way encourage the use of finger
spelling for conversation in the school
room, and discourage word signs except
for lectures, chapel service, etc"
The report Of the. executive committee.
which carries on the work Of the associa-
ton between conventions showed that
+ full reports of last years convention in
Philadelphia had been printed and copies
sent to each member and also to each
public and school, library in the country.
The members of the committee are: Rev.
J. H. Cloud, of st. Louis, No, chairman:
George I. Dougherty, Chicago Mrs. o.
Harrison, Faribault, Mimi; R. M Ziegler.
Mt. Airy. Pa; Rev. I. NJ. Koehler. mem
Der ex officio, Philadelphia; ]. s. Vail.
Indianapolis; George. W. Vedity, Colorado
Springs, Col; Theodore D. EstreIla.
Berkeley, Cal; Alex Fox, New York
city; Rev. A. w Mann, Gambler, Ohio:
w. H Rothbert,. Omaha Neb George S
Porter, Trenton, n. J.
James N. Tate, superintendent of the
school for the deaf at Faribault, spoke
on the exceptional facilities this country
offers for the education. of the deaf He
spoke enthusiastically of the work that
is being done at Gallandit college in
the deaf in this country He said 1t was
fact worthy of note that many Euro
pean colleges for the deaf were being
patterned after it..
The following resolution was presented
by Rev. A. w. Mann and unanimously
adopted:
Resulted: That the fraternal greetings
and good wishes of the convention be
sent the British Deaf Mute congress,
meeting in Liverpool in the latter part
of this month; and that the president of
this convention, fhe' Rev. J. NJ Koehler,
be authorized to Send the same"
Mr.. Mann also read a telegram Of
greeting from the business men of Mil
waukee to the cdpvention