The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-03

BUTTE News.
GIVEN THEIR DIPLOMAS
Fifty-Five Graduates of the Butte
High School.
AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM
Exercises Rendered at the Opera House
With Great Eclat-An Address
by President Mueller of the
Board.
AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM

Fifty-dve young men and women re-
4ceived diplomas yesterday, credentials
from the Butte High school, emitting
them to seats in the grand amphitheater
of the federation of learned men and
women. They are the product of Butte's
boasted public free schools, splendid
specimens of Montana manhood and
womanhood.
Never before in it's history has the
Grand opera house looked prettier than
it did yesterday afternoon-its interior
; a marked contrast to the exterior. The
interior was bouquet of magnificent
beauty, the exterior a dismal, sombre
garb of rain, mud and chilly atmos-
phere The house was packed, jammed.
and hundreds We're necessarily excluded
for lack of even standing or breathing
room. Many pushed through the box
entrances and found standing room be-
hind the scenes, in the wings and up in
the flies.
Tremendous and prolonged was the
tunlultuous demonstration of the vast
throng when the curtain went up and
revealed the graduates sitting on the
stage, at their feet huge banks of flow
ers, in baskets, in wreaths, entWined in
vines, stacked in urns, each token en-
circled by bit of ribbon to which was
fastened a mysterious little package
which contained a jewel, book or some
other precious gift from loving, proud
parent, sister or brother. 1t was love
ly stage setting, the young ladies We're
gowned in fabrics of immaculate white
ness and the young men looked natty in
well-ftting suits of black.
Principal Mckay of the High school
sat on the extreme right, while City Su-
-perintendent of Schools Hendricks sat
J on the left of the stage, and near him
were the members of the board of edu-
cation. The several school teachers oc-
cupied seats in the parquet. Principal
Mckay announced the numbers of the
programme, the first to make her bow
to the audience being Miss Emelen
Trewin, who delivered an address on
Practical Chemistry" which has al
ready been published. This was fol-
lowed by her salutatory and greeting,
which, in brief, was as follows:
THE Honorable Board of Education
Mr.. superintendent, Schoolmates and
Friends-The class of '99 extends to you
a most cordial welcome to its closing
exercises. 1t has not been without
trials that we have reached this posi-
ton, but the past four years have been
very happy years, and to-day we are
proud that fortune has crowned our
efforts with success, for
When the shore is won at last.
Who will count the pillows past?
THE future shines brightly before Us
and it is with hopeful hearts that we so
forth to meet 1T, and as we leave the
school so dear to us we are ready to
take up the more serious burdens of
life. We are grateful to all who have
aided us to gain our education, for
without your help we could have ac-
complished nothing.
LAS a class we will be Joined to-
gether only a few hours more, but as
we take our different paths into the
world the ties of friendship that have
been formed by us while at school can
never be broken To-day is the bright
est and the happiest day of our High
school course, for the end crowns the
work Thus the class of '99 bids you
welcome"
Benjamin Hanson spoke on Terri
torial Expansion and John Lynch on
Imperialism. Both of the young ora
tors discussed the questions in a very
able manner and the large audience
applauded the sentiments accordingly
as the views of the listeners on these
important subjects We're expressed
Briefly the substance of the addresses
follows:
Territorial Eek pansion-BenjaminH Hanson
1.-THE tide of empire is ever west
ward" This, expresses one of the old
est axions in history. From the begin
ming of the world, immigration has
flowed toward the setting sun. And
yet, in full knowledge of this great
truth, some seem to hesitate to go OF
with the tide of progress and civiliza
fion.
Within the last few months the
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