The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-04
ANTHONY MEDAL
PRIZE READINGS.
Exercises Well Attended and the
Competition for the Prizes
Was Very Keen.

The annual competitive readings for
the Anthony medals were held In the
Is grammar schools OF the city yesterday
afternoon. the exercises in all the schools
being well attended.
DOYLE AVENUE school.
Az the DOYLE avenue school the read
.ngs were held In three rooms. In room
the contestants were Eddie Maguire.
Willie Newman. Robert Dunbar Wal
ter Sundlan, Joseph Krohnson. Louis
Marcus. Raymond Dobson, D1die Brown,
Martin schuler. Edna Brown. May Ke-
hoe. Alice Horabin, Lena Cunningham.
Annie Perry. Ruth Eagan. Nellie Nc
Caffrey. Agda Fryxel. Fannie Diggs.
Ethel Matthews. Pauline Pasternook-
The winners were May Kehoe OF the
girls and Robert Dunbar OF the boys.
The Judges in this room were Thomas
w. Bicknell, J. Jerome Hahn. and Mrs.
Charles Siseon.
In room the contestants were:
Chester Clayton. Mary McCarron. Mabel
T. D'ostiyie, Alice McRobbie. William j.
Reddington. Elizabeth Smith, Wflliam l..
Bagley. Edith Il. Emerson, Charles M.
Morrin, Flora NJ. Taylor, Max Soinowitz'
Helena X Curtin. Elizabeth f. Morgan.
The medal in this room went TO Hele-
ma X. Curtin. and to William J. Redding-
ton was presented a volume OF Long
fellows poems. The judges were Wash
ington r. Prescott and Mrs. G. +. Hard
ing.
In room 4 the following read for the
medal: Eva S. Anderson, Florence Con-
lon. Mary Elovitz, Gertrude G. Engquist.
Clara /. Parmenter Grace r. II. Warbur-
ton, Julius J. Binging. Harold A. Mil
lard Joseph Olcreff Albert Ruger.
Gertrude G. Enquist was awarded the
medal and Joseph Olcreff took the vol
ume of Longfellow The judges were
William j. Pyne. John E. Canning and
Edith, Wilcox.
POINT STREET SCHOOL.
The winners OF the Anthony medals
at the Point street grammar school were
Lawrence Branch and Lillian Hulatt out
OF y contestants. The judges were
Daniel A. Cotton. Elizabeth sheehan. and
Peter NJ. O'Reilly.
VINEYARD STREET SCHOOL.
The contest at the Vineyard Street
school was sight reading and the contest
ants were as follows: Burt w. Beckwtth,
Clarence H Brown, George +. Keene.
Leslie III. Martin, Remington Merrill.
Phillip M Stubbs, Gertrude Biber, Selma
F.. Evans, Hazel b. Gowdy. Edna C..
joyce, Bertha s. Kammerer, Edythe X.
Kerr, Florence NJ. Lickland, Bessie T.
Paine, Bertha NJ. Pettis.
The judges were DR.. Charles NJ. Poor
of Cranston High school, Clifton Whore
land OF East Providence High school and
DIR George w. Kent
The winners OF the medals as decided
by the judges were Leslie H Martin and
Bessie T.. Paine.
ROOSEVELT SCHOOL.
The judges at the Roosevelt school were
Messrs. Walter H. Tabor, Clifford Whip
pie and Mrs. Louis l.. Angel. The prizes
were awarded to Alton M. Fenner. Will
liam j. Potter. Mabel A. Shawcross and
Agnes c. NJ. Farley.
MEssER STREET SCHOOL
Twenty-three boys and girls participat-
Street Grammar school. The judges were
Rev. H. Talmadge Root Y. +. Huddy.
Esq and Dr. J. f. Mowry. The medals
were awarded TO NJ. Bertha Appleton,
Etta NJ Tucker. Estelle A Andres and
. Leopold J. -Gervais.
BRIDGHAM STREET
The contestants at the Brigham street
school were: Edith r. Gears. Florence A.
Molter, Mabel K. Ward. Jennie NJ. Robert
son. Clifford A. Kingsley, Olive Gale.
FLOYD Cole. Henry Herbener Raymond
Mcdonald Edward Devine, Frank Miller,
Mabel Purnell. Grace Clark. Ruth VIII
liams, Vera Kruger Alice Walch, Ger
trude Bradley, Jessie Rose and Helen
Smith.
The contest was reading from William
A. Mowry's First Steps in History" and
Clifford A. Kingsley. Frank Miller and
Alice walch were the winners
The judges were William A. Morgan and
Frederick A. Jones and Mrs. Charles K.
Tilley presented the medals TO the win
ners.
BROAD STREET GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
At the Broad street school the Judges
who awarded the prizes were former Gov.
Elisha Dyer. Miss Leah Burt and Mrs.
Gertrude Rugg Field.
Thirteen pupils from the second room
competed for the medals They were:
Edward Murphy. Irene West. Howard
Gerlach. Joseph Grimes Dora Fourth.
Theodore Farnsworth Annie Phelan Ra-
chel Nisbet. May Nichols. Tracy Winter
ich. Joseph Kilkenny. Mildred Mortimer
and Ethel Fowler. The first prize was
awarded 10 May Nichols. and the second
was given 20 Tracy winterich Ethel
Fowler's reading was 80 noticeabiy good
that. while she dld not win one OF ths
medals, the judges recognized her work
by giving her honorable mention.
-MANToN SCHOOL.
The prize readings AZ the Nanton ave
nue. school were well contested by halr 4
dozen pupils The medal was won b,
Edward Horrfgon. but the award was no
made until after the judges had calle,
upon the winner and two others. Doroth,
Holden and Luella Grimley, 90 repea
their trials.
The six contestants were Edward Hor
rigan, william Ambach. Herbert Thrift
LuelIa Grimley, Jennie Coughlin and Do
rothy Holden.
The Judges were Peter G. Cannon. J.
Woodbury. German and John r. Harlow.
PEACE STREET SCHOOL.
At the Peace Street school the reading.