The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-16
Hasbrouck Graduates Pre-
dict Many Things For
Jersey Oity's Future.
az
THE FEMININE MAYOR
Would Make Jersey City the
Hub of the Universe.
Says Miss Reid.

| 11SDrOuCk -lfSlilulS, idSt
its graduating exercises. The hall was
! crowded even before eight O'Clock, Wheli
the graduates and Glee Club marched,
in taking their places IN the platform
beneath a canopy of evergreen festoon-
irg wound into s499' in green and white,
| the class colors above the centre of the
stage. and bank of palms. ferns and
flowers formed a warming to essayisss
and speakers tha they were approaching
| the extinguished footlights.
These flowers made a most appropriate
| footstool for the daintily costumed Glee
| club of over one hundred trained voices,
| which rendered the most excellent music,
the medley arranged from the operas
by Mr.. Victor Raier. calling forth un-
| bounded applause, flowers and an en-
| core.
There were sixteen graduates and SIX
| teen ESSAYS. and after the overture
lComique' by Wernig's orchestra, prayer
| by the Rev. Warren l.. Hoagland ana
Principal Charles Calvin Stimets' deslr-
ed effect upon eminin headgear by the
| single sentence. 1.-THE sweet girl graduates
would like to be seen as well as heard,
Miss Ethel Calvert Phillips. second honor,
| gave the salutatory address, consisting.
of the usual hearty welcome, which she
followed with an essay on Essays" she
traced the origin of essays from the time
| of Queen Elizabeth to that of today
| and America. saying Americans have the
reuutation of being original and of an in
ventiye turn of mind, but they are moth
ing If not initiative Then after men
tioning Emerson and Lowell as among
the first essayists, said, fBut even these
| sink into insigniflcance beside the at
present most interesting school essay. Es-
| saws are a trial to all, friends, relatives
| and public, to say nothing of the scribe
| herself, so perhaps the audience may
| criticize more leniently that trial OF
trials. the graduates essay"
After this preparatory warning, the
| Glee Club sang Light and Youth" and
Miss Helen Alpers, the next essay1st,
smoke on 1.-The Street Arab" After speak
| ing of the annoyance and amusement
| caused pedestrians by the street Arab, the
e~ssayist continued, "In street life the
| how must be always on the alert. or his
| confedefates will get ahead of him. CIV
| ing this as an excuse for some of the ur-
| chin's little deceits." He is character
| istically American in his sense of humor,
! as shown in his use of slang, and
CHIMNEY Faddeh' is not the only Bow
/ cry boy whose language must be inter
preted. These urchins are business-like
and keen. and we must look upon them
with respect because the characteristics
of America are centred in the street
Arab
Mr.. Charles S. Holbrook was next. He
gave an Grafton on New England and Its
| Influence" Z'Of all the powers and In
| spirations,'' said he, sthat have Influenced
our native land there are none greater
than New England" Then after dwelling
upon New Ehgland's influence. political,
literary and religious, he said: THESE
New England churches and little red
school houses have moulded our whole
nation. May the nation ever giorify the
States of New England and may she
never forget that to these States she owes
her BIRTH"
"Birds as Symbols by Miss Alonzella
| McIntire brought out the factlthat a bird
might stand as symbolic for almost any
phase of life from political to religious.
"PoHtics,' said Miss McIntire, has its
bird law. Rome was said to a been
saved by the quacking of geese, but many
a battle has been lost by political geese
auacking." After speaking Of birds as
symbols in social life, as the peacock, and
in religion and religious art, as the dove.
the speaker continued. This wealth of
symbolism seems as natural to us as it
is graceful. 1t has enriched our language
and art"
Miss Maude Cooper, after the Glee Club
had sung Music of the Birds giving
the trill chorus most marvellously, spoke
on "The Art of Advertising" saying adj
vertising, which has been called the lubri-
eating oil which makes the wheels of
trade go round, Is only about two hun
bred years old. Today everybody adver-
tises, even the pulpit, and in every walk
of life we are surrounded by some form
of advertising Enthusiastically Ameri-
cam,
Mr.. Aaron T. Gould held forth on THE
Nicaragua Canal giving any number
of statistical reasons why it is a neces-
sity and predicting its completion in the
near future. His Grafton was excellent
and his delivery good.
eSpinsters'' was the subject chosen by
Miss Florence E. Reid. 1t was full of
wit and kept the audience in constant
laughter, especially after dwelling on the
virtues of the old maids successor, the
bachelor girl, she said hat heights
may she not aspire! Think of Jersey
City with a spinster mayor! Think how
she would decorate the public parks and
buildings with art! Boston would lose
her prestige and Jersey City become the
hub of the universe. With this point
gained why should not the first woman
president come from Jersey City? Hay
ing been faithful in few things she has
been made ruler over many and rising
generations shall call her blessed!'
Mr.. Baier's medley. No. XIV, was here
sung, and during the applause which fol-
lowed, the mpos was presented with
flowers and a steamer rug bearing the
inscription Bon Voyage" in a~nticipa-
ton Of his European trip, and responded
to the encore.
Miss Name L. Reynolds spoke on "The
Ideal in Architecture, tracing its origin
from the Greeks and describing how the
Christian art became separated from
Pagan influences.
Mr.. Arnold S. Furst, IN speaking on
sGreater Jersey CITY, said:-'One of
the problems which the people of Hud-
son County will soon have before them
is consolidation. No more will there be
boundaries by law where they do not
exist by nature and then went on to
give a number of reasons why 1t would
be cheaper and conditionally better were