The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-01
DREAD OPENS.
Reception Attended by
Many Friends Of School.

Dread Institute threw wide open it's
doors to the public yesterday. Two
thousand people of Worcester accepted
the invitation of President Perky and
attended the opening reception. The
old structure on Castle hill was ran
sacked from top to bottom by a curious
tnrong of visitors, $50 inspected every
uetall OF the new remodelings and went
away well satisfied that previous re-
ports OF the changes had not been
overdrawn
The reception was held in two in
stalments, from three to five in the af-
ternoon, and from eight to ten in the
evening. After entering the main port
al, guests were met by ushers, who
escorted them through the various
rooms. They were first taken to the
south tower and shown the practice
kitchens and lecture rooms. They then
assembled to the second floor and filed
to the office and parlors, where Mr.. and
Mrs. Perky and Mr.. and Mrs. Higsbee
We're awaiting to receive the guests.
After shaking hands with the hosts,
the visitors went down the corridors to
the handsomely furnished private APP
artments of Principal Higsbee, in the
north tower. Every bedroom along the
halls was lighted and open for in
spection. On the third floor they in
spected the girls gymnasium, Presid-
ent Perky's apartments and the re-
naming sleeping rooms.
The strong wind and the cold made
the roof garden not the most pleasant
place imaginable yesterday, but the
great majority of visitors were deter
mined to see everything there was to
be seen, and stood for a few minutes
shivering on the elevated platform ad-
miring the magnificent view of Wor-
cester and trying to imagine how de-
lightful the SPOT must be in summer
After making the complete rounds of
tn D-ilu.Ite,, the company descended to
the ground floor and partook of coffee
and light refreshments in the assembly
room. Misses MacNamara and Pome-
raine rendered few musical selections
on piano and guitar. On leaving, each
guest was presented with a handsome
souvenir catalogue of the school.
The ushers who escorted the guests
around We're H. c. Leary, J. Fl. Turn
er, l.. r. Parson, B. l.. Herrick, L. L.
MacNamara, F. Howe. B. j. Davis, H
Gage, A. c. Skinner. H. F. Morse. e.
Simmons, S. Saur, Stacey Ford and H
Stevens.
Dread Institute, the successor to the
New Era cooking school, and whose
new home on Castle hill was infinitely
described in Mondays Spy, will begin
its first term Feb. 8. Its regular courses
of instruction will comprise cookery
chemistry of food, marketing, house
economics, sanitation. physical culture
and elocution. In addition lectures will
be given on physiology, physics, chem
istry, bacteriologyy emergencies, history
of foods and the feeding of infants and
children.
A new departure will be the kinder
garten department, where mothers may
send their children over four to re-
ceive practical instruction in the use of
food. Two hours day will be devoted
to the little ones between the hours of
nine and eleven. There will also be
class in kitchen garden work for older
children.
The new equipment of the Dread in
stitute promises to make it the leading
institution of its kind in the country. A
large number have already applied for
admittance when the term begins, and
there is little doubt that in a week from
today the educational opening of the
school will prove as successful as its
social opening was yesterday.