The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-15
HONORING THE BIRTH OF
THE STARS AND STRIPES

and chorus. soloist. Miss Ever; THE
Red. White. and Blue" song by school:
music by Gales School Band-NIiss Nor
timer, Ernest Wise Walter Caddick, and
Viola Mead: pianist. Miss Brosnahan.
Taylor School.
The exercises appropriate to Flag
Day were successfully carried out in a
program carefully prepared under the
direction Of Miss Ellen c. Dyer. princi-
/ al of the school. The Flag Day address
was made by DR.. William Alexander
Jack. of the District of Columbia Socie-
ty of the s. A. r.
The first part of the speakers address
was devoted to the authorship OF the
melodies to which our national songs
and hymns are sung, stating it as a fact
that while the words are written by
American poets, the melodies adapted
10 them were in every instance COM
posed by foreign writer's
1T is not strange" he said, that
in the childhood of the Republic our
national lymns should be set to foreign
melodies. Musical composition is a pc
culiar art-depending largely upon en-
yironment, and our early forefathers
mad more pressing business on hand
than the putting together OF melodies
when our ship of state was in prepara-
ton for launching"
The second part Of the Doctors ad-
dress was devoted to the flag" He
traced its origin from a committee OF
Congress in 1875. its manufacture by
Mss Betsey Ross. down through the ma
tiOnal history from the battles of Bran
DIVINE and Georgetown to Manila Bay
and Santiago. He said that while in
1861 81 100000 people were divided as to
the supremacy of the flag today section
al strife was banished from the land
and a united people stood behond a flag
upon whose radiant folds the sun never
SETS
He concluded by reciting DR.. Holmes
hymn. Liberty and Union
Hayes School.
Song. America" recitation, pa
triotism." by Floy Kellam: song. my
Own United States" recitation, 1.-The
Color Guard" by Frances Ciafin; reci-
tation. James Whitcomb Riley's poem,
"Old Glory" by Mrs Clara L. True;
song, "Old Glory Flag Cune MY Mary
land;) recitation, The Fairest Flag
That Waves" by Barbara FrischholZ;
song, THE Red, White, and Blue" sa-
lutte TO the flag. by the school: patriotic
song, "A Vow" address by the speak
er; song. The Star-Spangled Banner
At the Pension Office.
Not to be outdone by the rising gen.
Grafton or the Woman's Relief Corps,
the patriotic clerks and other employees
of the Pension Office held flag exer-
cises in the main hall OF the big build
ing. Almost every one of the employees
took part in the celebration, and Com
missioner Ware also took an active in
terest in it, and called the services 10
order. Several addresses were made by
the orators in the Pension Office. and a
number OF patriotic selections were Civ
en- by the Office chorus.
The exercises were as follows:
Orchestra, selections, Richard Wagner.
director. Overture. Golden Gate"
Bach. orchestra; call TO order. Commits
sioner Ware; invocation, the Rev w
I. Pierson; song, Let the Stars and
Stripes Float Forever" Pension ONCE
chorus; flag drill. under direction Of
Miss Marguerite Scott; address. Edgar
Barnes; harp solo. (a) Mazurka Schuck-
er. (b), fantasia, national airs, arranged
b. Miss Cluss (by request). Miss Anita
Chss; recitation. Charles B. Hanford:
overture. "Hypatia." Lampe. orchestra;
song. March Onward" Geibel, Pension
Office chorus; march. Salute the Flag, -
VIII t. Pierson. orchestra; song.
America" first and last verse;, Choir
us. orchestra, and audience.
On the occasion OF the address by Mr..
Barnes, Louis Hamilton Bayly ran up
the celors on the model of the Consti-
tuition.
George w. Barnes. superintendent OF
the building. constructed the model now
on exhibition.