The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-11
Sixty Thousand Pupils
Hear Gettysburg
Address Read.
BANQUETS TONIGHT
AND TOMORROW NIGHT Nigh!
Observance of Martyred Presi-
dents Birthday Will Close
Public Offices.
OFFICIAL CELEBRATION
WILL BE MEMORABLE
To Take Place in First Presby-
terian Church-programs in
City's Educational Institutions.

Sixty thousand sciooI children hon
ered the memory of Abraham Lincoln
today with patriotic exercises in the
cify's public and parochiaI schools. The
masterpiece of the martyred President.
h's famous address at Gettysburg. was
rad 10 all. and in almost every sehoeI
the national anthem and .srhe star
Spnngied BanDer'' were sung by the
pupils.
The mammoth centennial celebration
in the schools was but a part of the
program of the celebration of Lincoln
Day. Scores of clubs. social organiza-
tions, churches and lodges united in do
ing honor to the dead statesman. and
many others have prepared programs
for tonight and tomorrow. The State
will officially celebrate the day by the
closing of all the public offices; the city
will follow with a similar action, and
an official celebration will be. held to-
morrow afternoon and night In the
First Presbyterian Church.. in which
Mayor Haussling. city officials. clergy
men and wei-k known speakers and ed7s-
Gators will participate
A feature Of the city celebration will
be the firing of salutes by Battery A.
of East Orange. as follows Sunrise.
6:55 a. M. at Branch Brook Park. near
the High School; noon, at Military
Park; sundown, 534 D. M, at Lincoln
Park. 1t was requested by the city
clerk today that residents in the neigh
borhood of the firing open their win
dows for the moment so as to avoid
possible breakage from the con-
cussion
Dozens OF banquets and meetings have
been planned for tonight and tomorrow
night. from which win go UP a united
eulogy of Lincoln. The life of Lincoln,
from the cradle to the grave, viii be
scrutinized by the inhabitants of north
ern New Jersey as it never was before.
His endeavors, his hopes, his methods,
his success in preserving a united ma
tion, his warm love for his people aud
his untimely end viii be the subjects OF
hundreds of -prandiai speeches and
addresses. Orators who have CLOSELY
studied his life and men in every walk
will vie in paying the highest tributes
to the dead statesman and ernancipator.
AT the Newark High School the ex-
ereises began with the reading of the
Governors proclamation by Principal
Wayland Z. Stearns. Then there was
the presentation of a bronze tablet con-
tanning the Gettysburg address of Lin
coin by Marcus L. Ward Post. G. A. A.
After further recitations by pupils and
songs by the Glee Club an address was
given by the Rev. Charles l.. Mead.
pastor Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church. The program ended with :
America"
Normal and Training school.
At the Normal and Training School
the program was: Patriotic chorus,
junior A students: President Roose-
velt's Tribute TO Lincoln" Mary Miller.
"A Suitable National Memorial Lois
Eddowes; "The Lincoln Farm Associa-
tion and What 1t Has Done TO Honor
the Memory of Lincoln, Julia r. Dunn.
Abraham Lincoln as Man and Leader"
Edith G. Wade; Recital of Quotation
from the Second Inaugural Address"
school assembly: America" school as
sembly.
In the training department an inter-
esting program was arranged. consist
ing of recitations. readings. dialogues
and songs with Lincoln as the central
thought. Principal Willis gave a talk
to the children on "The Boyhood and
decorated with pictures illustrative OF
Lincoin's life.
Morton street School.
At the Morton Street Public School
the program was; Song. MY Country
'Tis of Thee school; recitation. why
Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud
Ruth Klein; reading. "Linceln's Speech
at Springfield. ILL.,. June. 1S5S,n Annie
Osder: reading. "Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address" Eddie Saslow; song "Star
Spangled Banner Miss Edith A. Nc
Crca; reading. 5Words of Lincoln
children from Miss Duffy class; read
ing. proclamation of Emancipation.
Willie Gehl: reading. Flag and Lin
coln.' Freda Harris; pisao solo, pa
triotic airs. Laura Kilgus; pocm Lin
coin" Martha Mann poem. Abraham
Lincoln Able Rand, Sollie Ginsberg.
Willie Schenkel: principles that Made
Lincoln Great" ten children from Miss
Leary's class: presentation and adj
dresses. members of the G. A. r,
The program at the North Seventh
Street School in the grammar depart
ment was: Salute to the flag, by thu
school: "A Talk Principal T. 7. Col