The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-29
IN THE SCHOOLS
Decoration Day Celebrated
With Floral Gifts, Re-
citation and Song.
GRAND ARMY MEN PRESENT
Van Houten Post Sends Re-
presentatives to Eleven
Schools The Pro-
gramme.

| Flowers, flowers, flowers. The children
| going to school this morning were zone
| continuous walking flower garden They
had been asked to contribute to the dec
Grafton of the soldiers graves, and they
responded beautifully. Not one public
school was without its array. School No.
| II received about four hundred plants,
| School No. probably as many, while
! School No. IL did its full share. These
Will be collected by the G. A. r. men
| tonight or tomorrow morning.
| Aside from this, appropriate exercises
We're held in all the schools. and the
| Grand Army men were dispatched all
i over the city, in ones, twos and threes,
/ to every school. Van Houten Post cov-
! cred the greater part of the Heights dis
trict sending ex-Commander Frank o.
Cole and Comrade A. Thompson to School
No. II; Comrades J. Hughes and C. H
Kelley to School No. 13; Comrades G. H,
/ Benson, ]. H. We've and p H. ONeiI to
School No. ID: DR.. J. E. West and Com
rade E. G. Phelps to School No. Is; ex-
Commander w. S. Tully and Comrade
r. Douglass to School No. Is; Comrades
D. E. Riggin and D. P. Bloomer to
School No. II; W. L. Rake and w. II.
"A.
P. Peterson to School No. 10; Commander
w. ID. Mason, w. H. Armstrong aud F.
Booman to School No 20; ex-Commander
Marcus Higginbotham, T. w. Fletcher
and Charles Smith to School No. 21; S.
y. Adams, H. Brook and C. I. Lewis to
School No. %.
SCHOOL NO. 1.
Public School No. l had an interesting
programme of recitation, speeches and
cong. in which Edward Schwartz, Harry
Mccormack, Annie Branigan, Rudolph
Peterson, Tessie R. Raptic, Jennie Val
leau. Willie Gunnel Susie Henson, Flor
ence Mckenzie, Willie Hoffman, May
Valleau, Harry Wood. Lena Schwartz,
Fred Hummel, Philip Fenstein, Samuel
Caprio and Anna Treese participated, the
school interspersing from time to time
with patriotic songs.
SCHOOL NO. g.
School Mo. 9 entertained a number of
friends and visitors with the following
ramme:-Presentation of flag, John A.
Walker; speech of acceptance, Principal
U. H. Brensinger; National Hymn"
school; Origin of Memorial Day. VIM.
Schultz: recitation, Our Dead Heroes,
Stella Step; recitation, 1.-THE blue and
the Gray Eulalie Points; recitation,
James Cannon; Columbia, the Gem of
the Ocean," school; recitation, Nina Van
dergrift; Cover Them With Beautiful
Flowers school; recitation, ''The New
Arlington, Anna Hill; Botts's Calls
thenic Drill, young ladies; calisthenic
drill, members of Cadet Corps; '.Tenting
Tonight on the Old Camp Ground, =,
school; retreat, Cadet Corps.
SCHOOL NO. II.
School No. II opened It's exercises with
the Battle Hymn of the Republic by
the school. followed by secitations: Dec
Grafton Day" Jennie Brown; Where Are
They?. George Lahey; Black, Blue ard
Albert McGrath; .Emblems OF Decora-
tior. Day" Mahlon Comos. Freeman God
frey, and CLARENCE Jackson; What Can
Will, Alice Crookston and Lillian Triller;
Gems of Thought George Steuern:s-
gle, Charles Hill, Allan o'Neil and How
Pauline Beck and Mustered OUT An
son Coleman.
Mr.. Charles R. Wala. Of zabriskie Post
songs furnished by the school throughout
the programme showed enthusiasm
SCHOOL. NO. u.
Each class in School No. IL contributed
to tie programme. The first class was
say on the s'Origin OF the Day" by
+ FRANCES SpenR6Ildn III q f6cliaIlOn, '-Our
Republic" The second class was repre-
sented by Grace Ackcrman, Ethel Cooper,
! Isabelle Thorn. Viola. Manning, Mamie
| Dickinson, Laura Gungling and Flora
| Gibson. The third class, by Martha Ed
| win: the fourth class, by Earl Merrill
| William Mccoy, Joe Sales, Fred Troller
| Ed Patrick, George Plain. and Willis
| Crothers the fifth class, by Charlotte
| Haywood; the sixth, by Grace Hoaglards !
| The seventh, by Marion Wilson and Flor
1 ence Slack, the eighth by Janet Preston;
| the ninth by Hattie Freeman; the tenth,
4 by Lille Beck and Alice Young, and the
| eleventh by Edward Beck and Mabel
| Saul
President Mulvaney of the Poard of Ed
ucation, addressed the children and pa
| triotic selection were furnished by the
| school. Instrumental music was fur
! nished by George Steele, George Fowler,
| Edith Barber Charlotte Haywood sang
| "a Wandering Child" very sweetly.
! HIGH SCHOOL.
| The Jersey City High School collected
| a sum of money with which 1t made a
| fine floral showing, besides holding the
usual exercises of Grafton, recitation,
! song and instrumental music. The pro-
! gramme was in charge of the Fourth
| Grade and proved most interesting. Prin-
cipal Hopkins gave the address of the
afternoon.
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