Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-22
PRAISED WASHINGTON
Other Exercises in the Local
Public Schools
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
LIFE OF PATRIOT TOLD IN reel
TATIoNs AND SONG.
Those Who Presided and Those Who
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
the Flag.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

ern High School, where there was music
and song DR.. Farden, the presiding Of
ficer, was introduced by Miss E. c. West
colt, the principal, and made appropriate
remarks. There were songs by Miss Fran
ces Van Dyne and Mr.. Harry Bates. Mr..
w. A. Andrews made an address.
At the M Street High School addresses
were made by Rabbi Stern and DR.. w. 8.
Montgomery, and Rotations and songs by
members Of the school The exercises were
closed with vocal rendition of True
Freedom
At the Mckinley Manual Training School
there was musical and literary program
participated in by all the scholars. Mr.. l..
M. King made an address on the life Of
George Washington. and the choral society
of the school sang a number Of selections
In the graded schools patriotic songs and
Rotations were the order of the afternoon.
Abbott School-The pupils sang In chorus
America" after which followed reci-
tation. "Bryant's Constitution, by C1ar-
ence Eiseman. The chorus sang Hail, Co
lumbia'' and 1.-THE Stars and Stripes For
ever" Addresses were then made by J.
Miller Kenyon and Robert 8. Person, when
again the pupils in chorus sang THE Bat
tie Hymn of the Republic"
Gage School first sang Columbia. the
Gem of the Ocean," after which came the
salute to the flag, then recitation, THE
tJ-ScCOH0 VI ny
Alden. An address was delivered by Miss
Emma M. GiIlett, after which followed a
song, Flag Of the Free" by the fifth
grade; recitation. Like Washington" by
by Charles Edwards; song. THE Star
Spangled Banner" by the school; Quota
lions about Washington" by the seventh
grade pupils: Flag Song. by Missouri ST.
James Fernald; song. The Vow" by the
seventh grade; trio, Faust Fantasie," by
the Rooster trio, composed of Raphael
Rooster. piano; Karl Rooster, violin. and
of Freedom" by Clair Manning: plano
trio, 1.-The Coming of Spring. by Margaret
Copper. Eleanor Day and Professor Koes-
ter, and finally, America" by the school:
and Chas. F. Nesbit made an address. The
remainder Of the program included songs.
Rotations and addresses Those partici-
pating Included: DR.. d. S. Foster. the sixth
seventh and eighth grade pupils. and the
entire school The closing song was THE
Star Spangled Banner"
Morse school-Mr. Albert NJ Read pre-
sided. and the exercises began with a
chorus. Following were songs and recf-
tations, those helping in the patri-
otto work being Frank Morgan. Lille Gill
christ, Kenneth Hyatt, Herbert Dickinson,
Ralph Love. Sidney Shuman. Jettie Caring
ton Marvina Kilby, Louisa Haffelhnger,
William Payne, Harriet Ferris, Edna Kill
liam. Eda Lyons Henry Streb, James Davis.
Elizabeth Humphrey. Vernon Gray. James
Weaver, Barton Eivers, Mary Linebach.
Saunders. Leah Lucas, Grace Winner, Adra
Smoot, Bertha Hagermann, Helen Taylor,
Louise Fenwick, Grace Schreiner and Caro-
lyn Smoot.
Phelps School, second division-The pre-
siding officer was Mr.. Samuel w. Curriden
and the speaker DR.. D. Percy Kicking. The
others assisting in the program of music
and oratory: Pauline Haislip, Margaret
Bowers, Edna Buckler, George Quinter
Julia Rodier Kathryn Smalley, Ruth Buck
Ter, Laura Duxbury, Minnie Beale, DR.. D.
Percy Hickling
Polk School-Thomas P. Morgan, pre-
siding; Maj. Richard Sylvester, orator.
Those assisting, were: Nettie Montgomery,
Gwendolyn Donohue, Rudolph Toussaint.
Stewart Wiley and Leonard Butt.
Seaton School-The presiding officer was
Mr. Y p Woodward, and the program in
cluded music and Rotations by Annie
Cooper, the sixth grade pupils. Edwin
Leavitt. eighth grade pupils and Mr.. w. c.
Clephane.
Twining. School-vocal and instrumental
music and Rotations were rendered by the
schools Loretta Harmon seventh grade pu-
pills, fourth-grade pupils. Ethel Jones. Lottie
Bowen, and address by Mr.. e. S. Parker,
Eleanor Rupert, Ernest Klnge, Charles
Richardson, Douglas Murphy. Rudolph
Boehs and Harold Nachman.
Some of the Others
Webster School-The presiding officer was
Judge E. C. Foster, and the speaker Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey. Those assisting in
the music and other features were Miss
Goldberg, Frederick Eberly, Clark Main,
Walter Costello, George Iseman. Norman
Stenz, Alexander Rosenblat, William Jones
and Miss Freshman.
At the Banker School DR.. II. 8. Smith
presided and George Fountain, Gustave
Oyer, Alphonso Brown, Melvin Loftin,
Matthew Mundy, Ralph Taylor, William
Johnson, Charles Cromwell, Edward Rob-
inson, Roberta Scott, Willetha Chismun,
Fannie s. Davis, and L. M. Hershaw par
ticipated.
Cook School-Mr. r. W. Tompkins pre-
sided and Miss J. Wormley. s. Wormley,
| Misses Clarke and Male, and R. A. Hughes
participated.
Douglass School-Major c. Fleetwood pre-
sided and Naomi Topper, Marie Hurd
Irna Howard. Eugene Toliver. Florence
Younge and Clyde Scott participated.
Ivy City School-Mr. L. Roulhac presided
and Andrew Colston. Maggie Kelley. Mary
Snowden, Mary Carter. Ethel Smith, Lewis
ASIDE. Cosnu Melbourne, George Roulhac.
Alberta Snowden, H. Speller. E. Turley,
LYDIA Turley, Enoch Gray and Blanche
Bowley participated.
Dominick Harrison, ANGELA Braxton. Alma
Thomas and Robert Brooks participated.
Logan Schools. w. Watson presided,
and Ruth Smallwood. David Lane, Olive
Lewis, Lillian Powell and Viola Brooks
participated.
Loveioy School,. W. Mays presided and
Charles Coates. Emanuel Johnson, Mark
Hanna Curtis. Bertha Shanks. jeanette
| Nickens, Earlene Warren. Bessie Hardy.
Walter Jackson, Elsie Crawford, Russell
Morris. Gladys Jones, Joseph Fox, Melvin
Colbert and Lilly Wells participated.
Payne School-Mr. Paul Bray presided,
and H. E. Wilson, M. A. Brawner. Edward
Joyce, Maurice Washington, Charles Eide
| lin, Marian Key Hawkins, Gillette Wash
| ington, Alice Graham. Naomi Woollen,
Deannie Brown, Mary Ward. Caroline
Thornton. Miss e. E. McGinnis, Edward
Dade, John Brown, M. L. Jordan and Rev.
]. e. Moreland.
Simmons School-Mr. w. Menard presided.
and Carrie Bird Jessie Butler, Rosa Short
| err, Mr., Louis Gregory, Mary Birch, Maud
Henry and Hannibal Hartsock.
st. Patrick's Academy.
The pupils Of st. Patrick's Academy cell
ebrated the anniversary of the birth of
George Washington in the new Carroll Hall
yesterday afternoon. There were $50 chill
dren present, who listened with the strict
est attention to the Grafton delivered by
Rev. DR.. Stafford. whose subject was
| washington. the Greatest American" He
said the clergy teaches religion and bids its
pupils initiate the lives Of the saints: SO