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The Grand Centennial Celebration which occurred in Syracuse dur- ing the week beginning June 6, 1894, is mentioned on page 260 and thereafter, but more extended notice of it was reserved for this chapter. Though the date for the event had been named some time previously, the first action taken by the Historical Society looking to an organiza- tion was on May 16, when two committees, charged with the duty of making arrangements, were appointed as follows:
Centennial Committee-William Kirkpatrick, chairman; Samuel T. Betts, secre- tary; Theodore L. Poole, Carroll E. Smith, Edwin A. Powell, L. D. Sisco.
Citizens' Committee-Riley V. Miller, chairman ; Charles W. Snow, Austin C.
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Chase, J. W. Vale, Donald Dey, Salem Hyde, Daniel Rosenbloom, Louis Will, W. H. Warner, Edward Joy, David K. McCarthy, P. R. Quinlan, J. W. Smith, De Forest Settle, Benjamin Stevenson.
Sub-committees were appointed, nine in number, and assigned to special duties.
It was decided that the celebration should occur on the 6, 7, 8, and 9 days of June, that on the first day, in the forenoon, there should be a grand street parade, of a historic, industrial, and commemorative character. In the afternoon, a grand mass meeting at the armory, to be presided over by the president of the society, William Kirkpatrick. In the evening, an Old Settlers' camp-fire at the Armory, with short addresses. A Loan Exhibition to be opened in two connected stores of the Wieting block in the evening.
June 6, 9-Scenic representations of the more striking historical events, in a series of views and tableaux, at Wieting Opera House, three evenings and two afternoons, under the auspices of the ladies of the Historical Society. These were the general features of the celebra- tion, the detail of which was elaborate, satisfying, and appropriate.
The time intervening between the appointment of the managing committees and the celebration was busily occupied by a large number of people, under designated leaders, in completing arrangements, in- volving an amount of labor sufficient to appall a less enthusiastic and determined army of women and men. Meantime subscription books were generously filled to meet the expenses of the event, and through- out the city, and in the towns as well, the deepest interest was every- where exhibited. A vast amount of work devolved upon the commit- tees, and particularly upon Secretary Betts, who displayed his excellent executive abilities with the best results.
Daily announcements appeared in the newspapers of the progress which was being made and from far and near came responses to the committee from invitations desiring the presence of all sons and daugh- ters of Onondaga county.
On May 29, the marshal and his staff to conduct the grand parade were announced as follows:
Marshal-in-chief, Colonel Henry N. Burhans; assistant adjutant-general, Colonel John G. Butler; chief aide, J. Emmet Wells; marshals, Colonel M. B. Birdseye, chief of cavalry division; Major Thomas Merriam, chief of veterans; Colonel A. C. Chase, chief of industrials; E. W. Haven, chief of uniformed knights; Lt. Col. M. B. Fairchild, chief of Odd Fellows; Philip E. Gooley, H. E. Maslin, W. L. Smith, D. B. Cooper, John L. Kenyon, W. H. Warner, W. J. Gillette, Richard Dunn, D. W. Peck,
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M. J. McCarthy. Aides, George L. White, Dr. A. S. Edwards, T. T. Clough, James M. Colwell, Louis Mason, Burt Smith, Frank P. Denison, Major Louis F. Powell, Thomas Saile, W. Tabor, J. W. Black, Henry Duguid, O. D. Burhans, Andrew S. White, Allan Fobes, Sedgwick Tracy, Charles Umbrecht, Anthony Baumer, Hugh T. Morgan, Miles O'Sullivan, Thomas R. Jordan, William Nye, Harvey D. Burrill, Guerney S. Strong, C. Fred Ackerman, B. W. Moyer, E. J. Eddy, B. Revoir, J. H. McDowell, Daniel O'Brien, John P. Schlosser, Jacob Schilly, Charles Schoeneck, Nicholas Pollman, Julius Gilcher, Edward A. Hunt, B. F. Bauder, Dr. J. F. Kauf- man, Colonel W. R. Chamberlin, Charles R. Hubbell, William L. Barnum, J. Frank Durston, Gustavus Van Schaick.
The parade, as already stated elsewhere, was the largest and most interesting of any ever seen in the city. The day was opened by the firing of one hundred guns, and at sunset a Federal salute was fired. Never was a city more profusely or gaily decorated, and never was there a more general suspension of business and participation in a great event. There was bunting everywhere, and many brass bands and fifes and drums conspired with the general success of the day to carry the enthusiasm of the people to a high pitch. It was estimated that there were more than 50,000 people in the streets. An epitome of the scenes and events of the opening day was given editorially by the Jour- nal of the following day :
Onondaga's centennial was inaugurated yesterday with an enthusiasm even be- yond the anticipations of the enthusiastic projectors of the event. Even the skies were propitious, and the cool weather was conducive to the success of the parade.
The sun, which for twenty-four days had disdamned to shine, brightened the occa- sion with its effulgent rays. The day was in every respect all that could have been asked for. The parade which inaugurated the festival of the week, was altogether the most imposing and interesting ever seen in our streets, and it earned the approval and admiration of one and all. The city poured its people out to see it, and all classes united in making a holiday of perhaps the most interesting occasion in our city's history.
The character of the monster procession was symbolical of the growth and prog- ress of the city and county for an hundred years. Many events typified were his- torical. They were therefore in the highest degree valuable as an education to the youth of the day. For comparison was made in the passing show of the methods and customs of the farmer and the artisan of ye olden times with the skillful achieve- ments of modern science and invention, which combined to make the laborious ac- complishments of our forefathers a wonder almost passing belief. Indeed, the ob- ject-lessons presented in the parade yesterday were in the highest degree instructive as well as interesting.
The literary exercises in the Armory in the afternoon and the camp-fire in the even- ing closed a day big with events in the history of Syracuse and Onondaga county. They were appropriate supplements to the outward demonstrations of the day. The speakers recounted eloquently in prose and poetry the notable events in our county's
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history, and graphically portrayed the heroic and self-sacrificing deeds of our sturdy ancestors.
The celebration was a glorious success in every particular, and it will still further enhance the fame of Syracuse, the city, and Onondaga, the county.
The Historical Tableaux, exhibited at the Weiting Opera House, created the greatest enthusiasm and were seen each time by an audi- ence equal to the capacity of the auditorium. They were prepared under the general direction of Mrs. Charles E. Fitch, who was assisted by Henry J. Ormsbee as stage manager. But a large number of women entered into the active work of preparation. The tableaux were ar- ranged with exceeding nicety and precision, with conscientious endeavor to make them complete and perfect; indeed, so well were the arrange- ments made that the exhibition almost assumed a professional standard. A local writer aptly described the impressions which it made upon those in the audience :
There is something higher and beyond mere stage effect in this entertainment. While we mark the excellent rendition of the lines and the perfect posing in the tab- leaux, while we observe the studied effect of the calcium light and admire the scen- ery painted specially for this occasion, there are other considerations that engage our thoughts. One does not have to let his imagination play very far to transport himself back to days long gone by, and sitting there in a modern opera house see pass before him living pictures of the past. Old and young alike are deeply interested. You feel like Rip Van Winkle did when he went back to his old town. Yon have some familiarity with the scenes and faces about you, yet there is something strangely out of place. You better appreciate Indian nature, you understand the efforts of the Black Robes in teaching the converted Indians, you see a wonderfully realistic party in 1820, you become an abolitionist on the spot, you work at the handles of the old hand fire engine, you laugh at the old school, you cry when the soldiers leave for the front and you cheer when Johnny comes marching home again. Above all it should be remembered that the characters are delineated as far as possi- ble, by lineal descendants of those represented. This fact alone lends a wonderful interest to the performance.
The first tableau represented the legend of Hiawatha. Part I showed Onondaga Lake near Green Point at the time of the formation of the Iroquois league. The chiefs and sachems were assmbled around the council fire, when Hiawatha arrived in his white canoe. He was greeted by the chief of the Onondagas. Part II depicted Hiawatha's farewell to the assembled chiefs. He entered the canoe amid the lam- entations of the warriors, and was translated to the skies, ascending in his white canoe before the eyes of the audience. Realizing it was his final departure he gave the death cry. Mrs. A. Judd Northrup and Miss Frances P. Gifford were the directors of this tableau, and the par- ticipants were :
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Thomas Vickers, Hiawatha; Daniel La Forte (chief of Six Nations), Chief of the Onondagas; Andrew HI. Green, jr. (Ato-ta-rho), Head Sachem of the Onondagas; Harold Westcott, Chief of the Senecas; B. M. Sperry, Chief of the Cayugas; Wm. Sumner Teall, Chief of the Mohawks; Andrew J. Pendergast, Chief of the Oneidas ; F. K. Smith, Fred W. Pierson, Horace Pierson, T. F. Schneider, Harold Stone, Harry Benedict, Herman Bartells, Henry Denison, Will Esterbrook, Sands Kenyon, John Kenyon McDowell, Joseph Hubbard, Howard Clark, Charles Hyde, Robert J. Sloan, jr., Albert P. Fowler, W. G. Booth, Thomas Woods, Walter W. Magee, George H. May, John C. Hunt, Frank Hall, Allan C. Fobes, Thomas Carson, Mrs. Wm. Shankland Andrews, Mrs. George A. Roff, Mrs. A. M. Smart, Mrs. Charles Preston, Miss Ethel Lockwood, Miss Florence D. Vann, Miss Lucy Truesdell Ballard, Miss Charlotte Stone, Miss Cornelia Comstock Lake, Miss Alice M. Clark, Miss Catherine Moore, Miss Marie R. Saul.
Then came the Jesuit mission scene. The date, 1653. The scene represented Father Le Moyne and missionaries teaching the converted Indians. To them he explained the value and usefulness of salt water. and dispelled their belief in the poisoned spring. A feature was the chapel music, and the Ave Maria by Miss Maria S. Barry. Mrs. L. V. L. Lynch was director of this tableau, and the participants were:
Father Le Moyne, John G. Lynch; Garacontre, Alexander H. Cowie; Gahatio, Miss Spalding; Maria, the Saint of the Onondagas (with Ave Maria), Mrs. Maria S. Barry; Nokomis, Mrs. Roff; Outawa, Miss Leontine Molyneux; Indian maidens, Miss Comstock, Mrs. Smart, Miss Palmer, Miss Stone, Miss Durston, Miss Lake, Miss Sedgwick, Miss Grant, Miss Babcock, Miss Stone, Miss Vann, Miss MeGuffle, Miss Poole; Jesuits, Richard Calthrop, O. Wells Clary, Walter Wright, George Ticknor, sang the priests' part of the "Dixit Dominus;" the St. John's cathedral choir sang the response to the " Dixit Dominus" and the "Angelus"-Miss McQuade, soprano, Mrs. Barry, contralto, Mr. Foley, Mr. Renaud, Mr. Sullivan, tenors; Mr. La Friniere, Mr. Gilroy, bassos; other Jesuits, E. F. McNulty, John H. McCrahon, Sarsfield Slat- tery, Henry MeCarthy, John B. Foley, Charles Mullen ; Indians, Frank Hall, Andrew J. Pendergast, W. S. Teall, Andrew Green, Harold Stone, Charles Hyde, Sands S. Kenyon, Kenyon McDowell, George H. Denison, Robert J. Sloan, jr., Frederick T. Pierson,jr., Howard H. Pierson, Francis Preston.
Next was the "Song to the Brave Old Oak " by the AEolian Quar- tette, under the direction of Prof. Ernst Held, and consisting of G. Albert Knapp, leader, Fred Wilcox, Franklyn Wallace and Charles E. Bailey.
"Salt Boiling in Early Times " was the subject of the second tableau. The time was 1788, and the scene was to illustrate primitive experi- ments in the manufacture of salt. Comfort Tyler and Asa Danforth were present with Indian friends, evidently elated over the success of making salt by boiling water in an old-fashioned kettle. The directors of this tableau were:
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Mrs. C. Tyler Longstreet and Miss Virginia L. Jones, and the participants were: Elizur Clark, John Seymour Clark, Miss Ormsbee, Mrs. Celia Tyler Chamberlain, Miss E. Tyler Chamberlain, Miss Charlotte Stone, Charles Longstreet Skinner, Mrs. Sarah Longstreet Tolman, Miss Hattie Poole, William S. Teall, Miss Florence D. Vann, Kenyon McDowell, Stanley G. Smith.
In the intermission Mrs. John R. Clancy sang "The Star Spangled Banner" with chorus by Franklyn Wallace, Joseph Bayette, G. Albert Knapp, E. N. Westcott, Clarence Dillenbeck and X. W. Vandevoort.
The next scene was a painting to represent Thomas Mccarthy's store in 1805, and the new palatial store of D. McCarthy & Co., in contrast. Following this was an old-fashioned singing school conducted by Prof. F. A. Lyman. The costumes were old-fashioned with a collection of giggling and gum-chewing girls and bashful young men. They sang " Polly Put the Kettle On," and took a pinch of snuff during recess. The school was made up of members of the Good Will chorus, as follows:
Mrs. A. B. Merrihew Mrs. Fred A. Lyman, Miss Mayme Robbins, Miss Gertrude Herr, Neanda Springstine, Misses Martha E. Wheeler, Maud Gray Bogardus, Grace Grannis, Adella L. Baker, Edna Dodd, Elizabeth A. Gray, Mrs. Kinney, Mrs. Charles G. Hanchett, Misses Elizabeth C. Markell, Nina Burpee, Cora Burpee, Grace Burpee, Alberta E. Perry, Carrie M. Smith, May Chadwick, Jennie Dunham, Mrs. E. H. Tarnow, Jay C. Morrison, Joseph Cook, Frank A. Chadwick, Harry Slocum, A. B. Merrihew, W. Scott Merrihew, Archibald H. Thompson, Nelson J. Kemp, John L. Bauer, John K. Dean.
Then came a quilting party. The guests were supposed to be as- sembled at the residence of Lewis H. Redfield at Onondaga Hollow in the year 1820. The furniture was in keeping with the date, and so were the costumes. The quilt was to be sold for the benefit of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. J. L. Bagg and Mrs. Delia Colvin Hatch were the principals. Mrs Hatch related in the manner of the time some of the reasons why her numerous brothers and sisters could not be present. Mrs. Bagg as Aunt Treadwell prophesied the future of the city. Others were silent but thoughtful. Hon. William Kirk- patrick appeared as Dr. Kirkpatrick. The post rider delivered the Weekly Register, the news of the day was read, and the scene closed with old-fashioned music and dancing. The saddle bags for traveling on horseback, used by the post rider in this scene, were used by Dr. Kirk- patrick before the days of stages, when he mounted his horse and rode to Washington to take his seat as a member of congress during the last years of President Jefferson's administration. The directors of this number were Mrs. James L. Bagg and Miss Ina Bagg Merrill. The participants were :
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Mrs. James R. Lawrence by Miss Virginia Lawrence Jones, Miss Dorwin by Miss Mary Dorwin, Mrs. Cornelius Tyler Longstreet by Mrs. Sarah Longstreet Tolman, Mrs. Comfort Tyler by Mrs. Celia Tyler Chamberlain, Mrs. Victory Birdseye by Mrs. Ellen Wheaton Morgan, Miss Rachel Combs by Mrs. Carrie Ormsbee Patterson, Mrs. Betsey Raynor by Mrs. Mary V. Raynor Garrett, Mrs. Jonas Earll, jr., by Mrs. Carrie Smith Meeker, Mrs. West by Mrs. John Guy Barker, Mrs. Sylvia Kingsley by Miss Marian Kingsley Brown, Miss Sedgwick by Miss Lizzie Sedgwick, Miss Noxon by Miss Cornelia Comstock Green, Mrs. Redfield by Mrs. Ina Bagg Merrill, "Lavoisy" by Miss Jessie Hood, Mrs. Benjamin Colvin by Mrs. Delia Colvin Hatch, Rev. Caleb Alexander by Morris A. Smart, Dr. Kirkpatrick by William Kirkpatrick, Joshua Forman by Dr. Samuel Boyce Craton, Post Rider by Grove Beebe, Miss Patty Danforth by Miss Cornelia A. Baker, Miss Amanda Phillips by Mrs. Lucia Outwater, Mrs. Isabelle Pickard by Mrs. Caroline Coombs Ormsbee, Mrs. Timothy Jerome by Mrs. Emma Jerome Jackson, Mrs. Anna Maria Midler by Mrs. Melissa Sutherland Denison, Mrs. B. Davis Noxon by Mrs. Anna Eliza Ives, Mrs. James Hutchinson by Miss Harriet S. Leach, Mrs. Joel Dickinson by Miss Rosa Dickinson, Mrs. Jasper Hopper by Mrs. Charlotte Beebe Hahn, Miss Ruthy Morse by Miss Sophia Clark, Mrs. John Ellis by Mrs. Caroline Ellis Hargin, Aunt Treadwell by Mrs. Mary Red- field Bagg, Miss Truesdell by Miss Lucy Ballard, Mrs. Grove L. Lawrence by Miss Elizabeth Le Baron Fitch, Miss Wheaton by Miss Flora Marsh Dawson, Miss Eunice Strong by Miss Kate Pauline Knapp, Mrs. John Pattison by Miss Charlotte Pattison, Lewis H. Redfield by George H. Clark, Isaac Jerome (Pompey) by William G. Lap- ham, Mr. Seymour by Andrew H. Green, jr.
A quartette consisting of Mrs. J. R. Clancy, Mrs. G. W. Loop, Franklyn Wallace and E. N. Westcott sang "Oft in the Stilly Night." The La Fayette scene followed. In the background was seen the old Mansion House. In front of the hotel were assembled a large number of people in costumes of the time. Soon La Fayette entered on horse- back, preceded by school girls dressed in white. He was greeted by Joshua Forman (Dr. S. Boyce Craton), who in a speech of welcome ex- pressed the appreciation of the people of Onondaga county for the noble efforts of the marquis in behalf of liberty. Dr. Craton is a grandnephew of Joshua Forman, who was president of the village at the time of La Fayette's visit. La Fayette (O. Ware Clary) responded. Mrs. C. Tyler Longstreet presented the great Frenchman with a flower just as she did in reality when a little girl. The directors of the La Fayette tableau were Mrs. George N. Crouse and Mrs. Adele H. Durston, and the participants were :
O. Ware Clary (Dr. Lyman Clary), La Fayette; Miss Annie H. Agan (Stevens), Mrs. Mary G. Babcock (Mrs. A. Kasson), Robert McN. Banker (Barkers), Lucian Barnes (Barnes), Mead Van Z. Belden, (Beldens), James M. Belden (Beldens), Miss Edith Belden (Woolsons), Lawrence Beebe (Jasper Hopper), Miss Beebe (Beebes), Mrs. Louise M. Benson, (Manns and Cookes), Christopher C. Bradley, jr. (Bradleys), Mrs. Adele H. Durston (Howletts), James W. Eager (Eager), William H.
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Eager (Wilson), Miss Earll, Skaneateles (Earll), Lawrence B. Fitch (Grove Law- rence), Mrs. Mary R. Garrett (Raynors), Robert Gere (Geres), Miss Frances P. Gifford (Mrs. H. Gifford), Mrs. Sarah Clary Gott (Gott), Mrs. Annah T. Halcomb (Tealls), Mrs. W. T. Hamilton (Lawrence), Dr. Juliet Hanchett (Hanchetts), Miss Grace G. Hawley (Geres), Mrs. Lizzie E. Hawley (Ellis and Peck), Lee C. Hayden (Haydens), Alfred A. Howlett, Alfred Ames Howlett, A. Ames Howlett, (three gen- erations of Howletts), Mrs. Anne Cheney Ilyde (Cheneys), Austin K Hoyt (Hoyts), Mrs. Fanny Noxon Hudson (Cadwells), Mrs. Emma J. Jackson, Mrs. S. G. Lapham, Mrs. Walter Snowden-Smith, Master Walter Snowden-Smith, jr. (four generations of Jeromes), Miss Virginia L. Jones (McLaren), Mrs. Emily Northrup Bruce (Judds), Mrs. L. D. Burton (Bradleys) Allen Pierce Butler (Butlers), Miss Lucie E. Butler (Marsh), Nehemiah M. Childs (Childs), Mrs. Louise M. Clary (Wells), Miss Alice Sabin Clark (Clark), Miss Mary Colvin (Colvin), Nathan R. Colton (Randall), Miss Elizabeth Comstock (Noxon), Mrs. Florence M. Crouse (Marlette), Mrs. Mary L. L. Crouse (Leach), Mrs. Elizabeth Jones (Bradleys of Camillus), William Kirkpatrick (Dr. Kirkpatrick), Miss Louise Kennedy (Kennedys), Mrs. Kate C. Knickerbocker (Lakin), Miss Florence Keene (Keenes), Mrs. Helen M. Keene (Stantons), Miss Kellogg, Skaneateles (Kelloggs), Samuel B. Larned (Johnsons and Larneds), Levi La- throp (Lathrops), Herbert W. Lamb (Spragues), Mrs. C. Tyler Longstreet (Redfields), John G. Lynch (James Lynch), Mrs. Flora Yates Mason (Wheelers), James Manning, (Mannings), Mrs. Frances W. Marlette (Wrights), Miss Helen Meldram (Willards), Myron W. Merriman, jr., (Merrimans), Miss Sallie Van K. Noxon (Van Cleek and Noxon), Miss Ursula F. Northrup (Elliotts), Frank J. Ormsbee (Ormsbees), Mrs. Emma C. Pierce (Marshes), Mrs. Hattie W. Pierce (Woodard and Poole), George N. Crouse, jr., (Dr. Rial Wright), Florence B. Crouse (Quackenbush), Dr. Samuel B. Craton (Judge Forman), Frederick Dice Davis (Davis), Miss Flora Dawson (Wheatons), Franklin P. Denison (Dr. H. D. Denison), Mrs. Melissa Denison (Sutherland), George H. Denison (Hurst), Miss Ella H. Denison (Hursts), Miss Florence S. Denison (Delamater), Mrs. Mary S. Dey (Sweets), Marshall H. Durston (Durstons), Mrs. Cor- delia H. Raynor (Hall), Miss May Richmond (Richmond), Schuyler Richmond, (Richmond), Edward I. Rice (Rices and Eatons), Mrs. Fanny James Saul (Mrs. Amos P. Granger), Mrs. M. Olivia M. Sage, of New York city (Slocum), Miss Sarah Root (Roots), Mrs. Anna M. Sherlock (Malcolms), Miss Sarah T. Schwarz (Tefft), Mrs. Charlotte L. B. Scott (Bacons), Charles H. Sedgwick (Sedgwicks), Mrs. E. M. Seymour, Miss Margaret Seymour (ancestors entertained La Fayette), Stanley G. Smith (Smiths), Mrs. Mary B. Smith (Smith and Bigelows), Mrs. William A. Sweet (Sweet), Charles C. Truesdell (Truesdells), Mrs. Lucia Phillips Outwater, Miss Emily J. Out- water, Frederick D. White and Andrew Dixon White, 2d, four generations (Dan- forths), Arthur C. Wales (Wales), John Wilkinson (Wilkinson), Miss Jeanette M. Williams (Malcolms), Miss Anna Hudson (Hudson).
Following the La Fayette scene Prof. Lyman held a singing school, primary class, in costume. They sang the "A-B.C" song with good effect. Then the curtain went up on the school scene in Fayetteville in the year 1845. The school was in charge of Miss Eliza Cole, the same teacher who was in charge that year, when Grover Cleveland was one of her scholars. The scholars taking part were so far as they
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could be found descendants of early settlers of Fayetteville and vicinity. First came roll call and then a class in geography. "Stephen Grover Cleveland, what is the largest island in the Pacific?" asked the teacher. " Hawaii," responded Grover promptly, and then he read the follow- ing composition on "Time." "Time is divided into seconds, mintites, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and centuries. If we expect to become great and good men, and be respected and estecmed by our friends, we must improve our time when we are young. George Wash- ington improved his time when he was a boy, and he was not sorry when he was at the head of a large army fighting for his country. A great many of our great men were poor, and had but small means of obtaining an education, but by improving their time when they were young and in school, they obtained their high standing. Jackson was a poor boy, but he was placed in school, and by improving his time, he found himself President of the United States, guiding and directing a powerful nation. If we wish to become great and useful in the world, we must improve our time in school." The composition was actually written by Grover Cleveland when a boy. Miss Cole preserved a num- ber of the youthful efforts of her scholars and recently found this one among them. Ann Augusta Kent gave a recitation, and school closed with the singing of "Come, Come Away." This number was under the direction of Mrs. Frances W. Marlette, and the participants were :
Miss Eliza Cole, in charge. Scholars-Stephen Grover Cleveland represented by Milton H. Northrup, jr., Sarah Amelia Watson by Flossie Ryan, Cornelia Louise Watson by Cora Williams, Margaret Louise Cleveland by Charlotte Smith, Ann Araminta Bishop by Maria Mulvihill, Rosamond Dudley Farnham by Florence Barnes, Maria Hamlin by Alice Ormsbee, Ann Augusta Kent by Mary Gallup, Sarah Maria Reiley by Grace Jones, Mary Louise Tremaine by Blossom Ormsbee, Jane Pratt by Flossie Coan, Mary Pratt by Florence Whedon, George Washington Loomis by Mortimer Williams Raynor, Thomas Jefferson Bishop by G. Fred Hurd, Addison Cole, jr., by Frank Ormsbee, Henry H. Kent by David Candee Knickerbocker, Rich- ard Cecil Cleveland by Herbert Pierson, Charles H. Reiley by Rodman Smith Reed, George Franklin Tibbets by Harry Burhans.
The Jerry Rescue scene came next. Time, 1853. Jerry, a slave from Mississippi, was captured in Syracuse by slave hunters, and brought into court, but was rescued by the underground railroad au- thorities. The scene was arranged by Osgood V. Tracy, and the par- ticipants were Jerry, Mr. James Gray; United States Commissioner, C. A. Weaver; United States District Attorney, Lawrence T. Jones; attorney for prisoner, C. Sedgwick Tracy; spectators in court room,
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