Evening star., 1899-06-13
PROF. TERRELL HoNoRED
Special Guest at Banquet Given by His
Formers Pupils.
John G. Jordon, Participant In Battle
of Manila, Amon9s the Speak.
ers The TOasts.

A testimonial banquetain honor Of Pro-
fessor Robert H. Terrell principal of the
High School, ninth, tenth and eleventh
divisions, was given last svening in the
Defmo-koonce banquet hail. No. 1906 M
street northwest, by some of his former
pupils.
The menu comprised every delicacy of the
season, and the menu card was triumph
OF thu engravers art. The feature of the
design represented plate of Ice cream
surrounded with Strawberries. The tables
were arranged in the form of a T, and
were handsomely decorated with palms and
flowers, as was also the hall in which the
banquet was given
The following were the special guests of
the occasion: Professor Terrell. Judson w.
Lyons, register of thu treasury; John P.
Green. United States stamp agent; T. H.
wright, George H. Richardson and Rev.
sterling N. Brown Of the board of school
trustees; u. E. Cooper of the Colored Amer
w. Calvin Chase of the Bee; F. I. Cardozo,
ST., principal of the Briggs School, and
Professor Murray of Florida.
Inc committee in charge Of the banquet
was composed OF w. l.. Pollard, A. o. Staf-
ford and w. Stanton Wormley. The SUBJ
scribers were w. L. Pollard. A. o. Stafford,
w. stanton Wormley,F. L. Cardozo, ,jr., F. D.
smith +. u. Brooks, A. c. Newman, L. G.
A.
Brooks, j: 8. George, W. L. Tignor, ]. T.
Beason. w. e. Fletcher, c. I. West, j. Ed
ward Young, c. H. McKenney, Ralph Stew
Tho,ns ar, y, M Fraction. D 1. Renfro. j. B.
can .: ~. Lacey, w. H. H. Terrsll, ]. w.
- Smith, W. Thomas, H. Grant Irving, c.
Inomas, Richard Younger, Howard Jack
son and L. H. Freeman
Letters of regret at inability to attend
were read from George F. T. Cook, Mr..
montgomery, former principal of the Col
ored High School. and F. l.. Cardozo, jr.
MT. w. l.. Pollard acted as POSTMASTER.
Toaxts and Responses.
The toasts and responses were: "a High
School Graduate as a High School Teach
er, by D. B. Thompson; "A High School
Graduate at Headquarters J. W. f. Smith;
Ihe High School in Medicine Dr.
Z. L. West; 'The High School in Official
Life c. A. Brooks; "a High School Gradu-
school Boy With Dewey at Manila" John
{. jordan; "A High School Graduate in
Science" q. H. Thomas; "a High School
BOY Behind the Seal" s. E. Lacy; Our
Guests A. 0. Stafford, and THE Guests"
Prof. r. H. Terrell.
In speaking to the toast assigned him
Mr. Jordan, who was captain of gun on the
Olympia during the battle of May l. 1898
at Manila. gave thrilling account of the
movements of Admiral Dewey's fleet from
the time it left Hong Kong up to the cap
ture of Manila. He said, among other
things, that the story that the men were
ordered to cease fighting in order to eat
breakfast was myth. and that the real
object for the temporary stoppage of hostil-
tiles was to enable the admiral to get re-
pert from the commanding officer of each
vessel regarding his stock of ammunition
on hand.
Prof. Terreil's Remarks.
The principal address of the evening was
made by Prof. Terrell, who said in part:
This occasion has, a deeper significance
than appears on it's surface. In saying this
1 eliminate all idea of self. l look beyond
whatever may be personal to me in this
gathering and l see the great common school
system honored and appreciated. l see the
younger generation of the men of my race,
who are some day to be its leaders, paying
a proper Difference to education, and l rec
ognize the fact thatrI am but the instru-
ment selected by you as the medium of your
expression Of the interest you have in this
the greatest and most important element,
in our march onward and upward.
Il am product Of the public schools of
Washington. | was pupil in them when
they We're In their crudest condition. l am
familiar with them now when they are
rated among the best in the country 1t is
hard for you, my young friends, to appre-
ciate the contrast between the WASHINGTON
Of 1870, when our High School was estab-
lished, and the Washington of today 1t is
still harder to get true conception of the
great difference between the schools of
that time and those that you now enjoy In
1870 Washington was no such city of beau
ty and magnifcence as it Is today Alex
ander Shepherd had not finished his great
work OF Transforming It's streets from mud
dy paths in winter and dusty roads in sum-
mer to the splendid thoroughfares you now
behold.
Baron Haussman, as chief agent of
Louis Napoleon, made Paris the most daz-
zling metropolis of the continent of Europe.
alexander Shepherd wrought so great a
change in Washington that, although it is
not a Paris, it is the most delightful and
most desirable of all cities on our side of
the sea as a place of residence 1t was
said OF one OF the Roman emperors that he
found Rome brick and left it marble. And
SO we may say Of the national canital that
Shepherd found it a miserable mockerv but
today its splendid public edifces, it's tenn
pes pes OF learning, hs beautiful drives, with
Library crowning the whole make If a niana
altogether lovely. " p-"Se
A Companion Made.
Ihlrty years ago the colored schools
IN this community were taught partly bv
white and partly by colored women. he
cause 1t was not possible to find women
enough or our own race to meet the de-
mands or the service. But today our chill
dren are trained by the most capabIe mon
and women identified with their n,,ni,s in
oIood, IN hopes and in aspirations. When
m
brother alumni, are part was estahIisbeS
It's first sessions were held In the base
ment of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian
Church. under the guidance and super
vision OF one teacher, who was white. to-
day 1t has for its home an imposing build
ing, admirably equipped in every particu-
lar for the work of education In place of
the one teacher of 1870 there are now
twenty-eight teachers, all colored One
year later the school found its habitat in
the basement of the old Stevens building,
on 21st street, and its principal was Miss
Mary Jane Patterson, the first colored wo-
man to take degree of bachelor of arts
at Oberin College. When Sumner building
was completed in 1872 our High School
was domiciled here and was honored and
dignified for the first time in it's history
with room higher up than the basement
1t was at this times that 1 was sent over
from the grammars grade at Stevens to
take my place among the boys and girls
of this school. Although 1t was a school
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