universities which have since been estab¬ break from 1816 to 1844. and contain much t. w lished here. It Is this: that Is of value to thoee Interested In the 'The parent who sends his son to Wash¬ development of the schools of Capitol Hill. ington will find for him In his representa¬ "Edward D. Tlppett taught school from CENTENNIAL a 1816 succeeded Mc- SCHOOL tive to a and friend to 1S25. being by Hugh Congress guardian who, during a large part of the yexr. will Cormick. There is no name more thor¬ be his associate, will observe his progress oughly identified with the early history In his studies, superintend his morals and of public education in this section of the Invitations to Celebration perceive the real condition and character city in the quarter century following the of the seminary, and thus be able, from year 1825 than that of McCormick. Rev. BRENTANO'S time to time, to satisfy parental Inquiry Andrew T. McCormick was a member of and solicitude.' the school board during the moat of that Have Been Issued, th« First Board of Trustees. iierlod. and was elected president of HOLIDAY GIFTS OF lx>ard for nineteen successive years, hold¬ MERIT. "The first board of trustees consisted of ing the office from 1422 to 1841. To his Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Monroe, Gabriel fo-stering care more than to that of any- man of the DR. E. E. HALE TO SPEAK Thomas Joseph Brombey, other is due the survival Duvall, Tlngey, Eastern Free School during a period when John Tayloe, Hubert Brent, William Brent, the public school was known as a "free" Sets off Books That Samuel H. Smith, William Cranch, George or a "pauper" school. Among McCormick's Stationery EXHIBITION OF WORK OF PUPILS Blagden. John Dempsie and Nicholas King. associates, during his long incumbency, "They met in the Supreme Court room. may be found the names of John Davis IN ALL GRADES. and of Able. Daniel Rapine, Daniel Carroll. Department Make United States August, 1805, Qiffts. Capitol, George Wauerston, James Carbery, George We a articles this de¬ Splendid were called to order by Kobert Brent. Biagden, John Coyie, jr., William A. Small- show collection of givable in of the wood P. whose names are that we a Edu¬ Thomas Jefferson, then President and John Ingle, partment believe to be without peer any¬ A Few Suggestions. Brief Sketch of History of Local United States, though elected president of household words In the early history of where. Our facilities for Christ¬ the as before the Capitol. gathering Calendars, cational From Its the hoard and accepting office, mas edition.edited System stated, was prevented from ever discharg¬ Education and Cleanliness. Cards, Fine Pictures, Leather Novelties, Box Pa¬ Shakespeare's Works.Cambridge its duties others of Wm. Aldis 8vo., mo¬ ing by paramount jfcli- "On it Is stated that the pers, etc., are unsurpassed, and you may be sure that by Wright.9 vols., Inception. cation.' April 5, 1824, rocco. a set. "Although this first meeting of the board board solemnly resolved 'that every scholar everything we show you has merit. In spite of the big Regularly $60.00 Holiday was held in August It was probably not before he enters school each morning shall demand we've for such there is still a 00) Invitations are out signifying- that "the until late in December of the same year or have his head combed and his face washed enjoyed things, the year that the assortment of the CALEN¬ board of education requests the honor of in January of following and that it shall be the duty of the teacher complete highest-quality first schools were opened. These schools DARS and and the are Edgar Allen Poe, complete; 17 vols., your presence at the exercises In connec¬ were known as the Eastern School.some¬ to cause the said rule to be regularly en¬ CHRISTMAS CARDS, prices tion with the celebration of the 100th anni¬ times called the Eastern Free School.and forced.' reasonable. incase. Regularly $21. Holiday price... first of unusually versary of the establishment of the public the Western School. The principal "Having thus disposed of the question of a the former was Rev. William Bentiey, elect¬ twin was Quite large assortment of CALENDARS and of the District of Columbia, to be cleanliness, the virtue, godliness, Robert 12 « « schools ed December 13. ISO.", and, of the latter, next aimed at an order of 16 of Browning, complete; vols., &>>=i Church on by July CARDS has been very much reduced to assure their held at the First Congregational Mr. Richard White, who was chosen Decem¬ the same year, which resolved 'that the incase. Regularly $9. Holiday price Monday evening, December 18, 1905, at 8 ber 31. These pioneer teachers were president of the 'board be requested to at¬ complete clearance this week. o'clock." each to receive a salary of $500 per annum, tend the school every Sabbath morning were 'out of this sum to on announces that Secre¬ but required pay and lecture the pupils of said school In our ART DEPARTMENT we're a Nathaniel Hawthorne.romances. T4 The board further for the rent of a school house, for the fuel their moral and and that showing at the centennial religious duties, 12 in case. Hoi- tary Taft will be present consumed, for all other expenses incidental it be the duty of the teacher to cause very large collection of unusually pretty and novel Pic¬ vols., mo., Regularly $10.50. meeting at Congregational Church to rep¬ to a school and for such assistant teachers the children to assemble for that purpose tures, and the are low. The 40 resent the general government, but will as m;iy be necessary." It is not surprising, every Sunday morning before l> o'clock; prices interestingly Doug¬ therefore, that Mr. Bentiey promptly de- and that in case of absence or sickness lass Hand-colored Pictures that we are show¬ and that Dr. Ed¬ Library . make no formal address, the president shall be authorized to assign Shakespeare Gollance edition. 10 vols., i2mo., ward Everett Hale, wtio was associated other trustee.' ing have attracted widespread attention. the said duty to any morocco, in handsome case. Regularly d? « -=9 y o with Mr. George J. Abbot sixty years ago "A report made by the teacher to the Priced at .00 / in his efforts to improve the public school board in 1826, complaining of the truancy $27.00. Holiday price U oa>>0 and absence of makes it evident system, will speak on the development of pupils, Leather Goods and Novelties of various sorts are him that the teachers' vexations were much the the local public schools as observed by same as now. He says that 'Jeremiah and to be seen at their best here: Our line of Pocketbooks, Shakespeare.Brandes edition. 40 vols., since that period. James P. are so much in the habit of in of the centennial exhibition of Purses and Wallets is an exclusive one. Some very 32 mo.; bound limpleather; 40c. vol. Per ft Inspection playing truant as to be incorrigible.' An¬ | the work of the schools, to be held in the other complaint is that 'Mr. M. detains his beautiful productions at from $5.00 to $13.00 ^ Q New Business High School, McKinley Man¬ son at home for the purpose, the teacher ual Training School, M Street High School .believes, of driving a cart. Juliana F. does Box Papers and Papeteries, in various choice Hnd Armstrong Manual Training School. in Shakespeare.Brandes edition. 40 vols., of not attend more than three or four days styles, shown at from to December 20 and 21. between the hours a month. She has a swelling on the knee.' $11.00 $7.50 10 H.m and 10 p.m., is also desired by the "Among the supplies ordered to be Pads and Diaries in from 1 board, which has ordered a Engagement range price Per ,2°C'. J.".''. $ §.C0 practically bought at the meeting March 7. 1X27, were sei.C'0^b."d:.g"!. week of celebration, In which all the pupils '100 quills for the pupils,' and 'one pine $11.00 to $5.00. of the schools are to participate. table for the use of the board." fine Handsome Desk Thackeray.14 vols.; morocco; Directory of Exhibits. Beard Superintends Wedding. Sets, in fine-leathers and brass gold edges; morocco case. Regularly §? fh The directory of exhibits at the Business "The most unique record of all 13 this: and bronze; very reasonably priced. qP<*>«o ilton Smith. Chief Justice Chase, S. H. Hill trict of Columbia (colored), African Civ¬ ter bo.'it^ and of the throwing »vert>o:inl u.V and B. H. Lawrence." ilization Society (colored). the bodies. It Is also true that how the many bodies Other old buildings showing' Public have been found floating in the riv r .1 schools were housed in the early days were School Period. bay about the 14'h STOftY sections where oystermen corner of G and "This era 811 OLD the Jefferson stables, of the TELL work. public school served for the streets, which was used after having colored race marks the passage from pri¬ as presidential stables as a school build¬ Struck With Iron. the old vate and philanthropic effort to the public ing until the seventies, and engine William Lewis, the Washington <. iloi 1 on lilth street, which for years had a municipal support and control of schools. house of man who returned here last week and wis school on the second floor. The era when Personal and sacrifice and philanthropic yieli'.s Cruelty Brutality sent to the stables, engine houses, stores Sunday to systematic and regular governmental aid. Casualty Hospital for treatment, school rooms were used did not close until The ready and had been struck with an iron bar and his the civil war. adequate response to the Potomac after needs of the educational cause throughout Oystermen. skull was fractured. Suffering as he n.ts. the years of free schools gives the District he was obliged to walk a long distaneo SCHOOLS. of Columbia ground for congratulation and a HISTORY OF COLORED In in order to reach steamboat landing Then pride. the beginning of this period the was problem to be solved ho went to Baltimore and discharged _ Data Assist¬ by the District of Co¬ VICTIMS COME HERE from the City Hospital there, after a piece Interesting Compiled by lumbia was peculiarly difficult. Into it had of his skull had been removed. It is his come thousands of ex-slaves, in squads and ant Superintendent Montgomery. and intention not to abandon his complaint battalion?, although the unstinted ex¬ unless to do so the authorities. "George Bell, Nicholas Franklin, Moses ertions of the "relief societies,' 'The Red LOCAL POLICE HAVE OFTEN RE¬ forced by unlettered, from the house Cross' of had What the federal authorities and the r ite Liverpool, just education, done much, they of are now is what have forever linked their merely touched the edge of the vast Maryland doing Just of bondage, task. LIEVED SUFFERERS. was advised by Sanitary Officer Frank a names with the District of Columbia as the Happily the District authorities here were not left to gTapple alone with the number of years ago. He saw the res Its and founders of the first evil. A the the dredgers i pioneer builders generous general government gave needed of illtreatment of school house and school for the colored succor. Meted Out to worst form and was In a position to know Long-Delayed Justice ut a. » race," says Assistant Superintendent Mont¬ "Congress in May, 18112, passed the first just what was necessary t of the schools. "Associated law for the establishment of schools for pri¬ Inhuman and the treatment. Many a cold morning he sat gomery public instruction of Captains in his office at police headquarters and lis¬ with these three is a long list of men and mary colored children in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, 10 Mates. tened to the tales told by men whose feet women, a few white, but mostly colored, per cent of taxes collected from persons of and hands were frost-bitten or whose h:i:ids who through superior intellectual endow¬ color being designated for this purpose. showed cuts that had been caused by oyster ment and training became teachers of free This was but a drop in the ocean. This en¬ shells, while they were engaged in the work In cases the vic¬ a of actment, following so soon on the District The stories of and cruel treat¬ of culling. many colored children covering period quite privation tims were unable to walk from the steam¬ emancipation, which occurred in tlie month ment that have been told men half a century. of April, 1862, showed that the government recently by boat wharf or railroad depot and had to "An historical sketch of educational efforts had considered the necessity of education from the oyster beds have caused no sur¬ be taken to headquarters in a patrol wairon I1 U/V/OA/ © among the colored race in the District of for the manumitted people. The pitifulness prise In local police circles. Long before or other vehicle. They have appeared with . Columbia may be naturally and convenient¬ of the provision did not, however, permit Maj. Sylvester became chief of police the both hands and feet bandaged and heads - ^/YG//V£~ ly divided into three periods: The first, cov¬ the starting of a single school, and for two in such a horrible condition that department's officials were called upon to surprise O //OVS£ ering the time from 1S07 to 18i>2, may be years the act was nugatory. More ad¬ was expressed that they had not dropped called the pioneer period, or period of the equate means were provided through the deal with cases affecting victims of oyster dead long before they reached this pay school; the second, embracing the act passed June, 1864, but a hostile inter¬ dredgers. For a number of years during Boatmen at the oyster wharf have sh An epoch from 18».2 to 1807-68, may very ap¬ pretation by the municipul authorities de¬ the time that Sanitary Officer Frank had more than ordinary interest in the arrest be known as the philanthropic the use of the funds for en¬ propriately layed schools. An charge of the service and and prosecution of the men who have period, or the period when the north was appeal was made to Congress to cure mat¬ hospital transpor¬ in on the dredge b< 's. to¬ tation of scores gaged 'brutality United States, having contributed $200 pouring out its blood and money to pre¬ ters, and it did so. From 18G4 the cause paupers of victims of the One of them told a Star reporter that ha the was serve the the tho ward endowment of the schools, Union; third, including progressed comparatively smoothly, al¬ dredgers appealed to him for assistance, was to see the government take a named as one of the and on Au¬ from 1867-68 to the time, may of glad trustees, years present though insufficiency money compelled and he usually helped them in some man¬ hand in the matter. gust 14, 1S05, In a cordi tl letter, accepted very fitly be denominated the public school delay in enough schools to meet opening ner. Those who were his election to the presidency of the new period. the pressing demands. In truth, only one in need of treatment No Reason for Rough Treatment. was in fro-m were sent to the different board. His letter follows: Pioneer Period. operation 1S04 to I860. hospitals and "There is no more reason why men >n MONTICELLO, August 14. 18<>5. others were furnished transportation to the boats should be handled so "Investigation reveals the fact that the Special Trustees Appointed. Baltimore or their homes. dredge S A *M'ruble Journey southwardly from Many of them and of their earning," ? Is 1 « prevented my sooner acknowledging let¬ beginning of education for the colored race "By act of 'Congress in 1862 the control were sent to Baltimore for the reason that roughly deprived the men on ters in yourst-lf, from Mr. Gardiner and from here was as early as that for the white, of colored schools was placed Into the most of them shipped from that port and he said, "than there is why Mr. S I! Smith, announcing that I had been were taken under false pretenses or were the smaller craft should be e*i t- elected. by the City Council, a trustee for the the former opening a school in 1807 and hands of a special board called the 'board oyster ^ "shanghaied." A part of a report of the ed to work for I't ! S aonls t he established at Washington, the latter in 1805. Written records reason¬ of trustees of colored schools for Washing¬ officer made nothing." tsd j the Ti lieci, to iMetlde ut their Board. sanitary to the chief of police to his of the n n- of ably complete show the attempts made by ton and Georgetown.' Thus it is seen that as far back as 1S>7 contained a reference According explanation I with dot sensibility, 6mm proofs ner which i3 t re confidence front the City Council and from the the whites, but tradition only tells the In the very beginning the management and to the question which Indicates the general In the game worked, ask the favor of to ;S no difference between the way it is Board Trustees*, and you story for the others. initiatory work of public education was character of the cases that came to the at¬ is tender th- rn my Just acknowledgments. tention of the authorities. done twenty years ago and what t i? that the 'No clearer of the efforts under the care of the colored a for >» S!:. > b.vSng knowledge promotes conception placed race. "The most distressing cases," said the on now. It Is difficult thing happiness f nun, I shall ever be disused to con¬ among free negroes to an education To get 'a square deal,' however, it was nec¬ dredgers to get good able-bodied men to tribute endeavors towards Its extension: autf, gain for to sanitary officer in this report, "were those my can be got than by bringing together some essary Congress enact the law of go with them, said the boatman, and they In the inst ti e under consideration will willingly July 23, 1S66. the language of which was of thirty oyster dredgers from the lower sometimes have to resort to meth- duties to me. so far as of the various schools founded and main¬ Potomac. told tales of terrible ex¬ shady is.^ l roposed clear and explicit as to schools for the col¬ They Even after some men have been made n- others f i a .'.mt unt obligation will permit my at¬ tained the of Dis¬ This periences and suffering, and their condi¬ tention to them. during early history the ored. iflimediately placed at the dis¬ toxicated and taken down the bay th y trict. posal of the trustees funds to the tion spoke more plainly than words of the if v I pray y mi to accept my friendly salutations, and The Bell School, Mrs. Billings' adequate ordeals which would be willing to work on the boat- MSsuiances <->t' great and esteem. Inauguration of a system of public schools through they had passed." were like decent t 1 my respect School, Smother's School, Prout Free School, the two cities. they given anything ^it- Tilt bM AS J EPF KitSON. Union Seminary (founded by Mr. Cook), a for Many Casss Treated. ment and were paid for their labor. Tiie Robert Brent, Esq., Chairman, Ac. free Cost in s "John W. Patterson, then a member of will them Catholic school, Louise Park of The of one of the victims of captains, however, overcharge Plans for Schools. School, Wesleyan Seminary (under Knoch the House Representatives from New appearance for oilskins and clothing and then assault Original maintained for Hampshire, prepared the section which the dredgers at police headquarters a few them when make a demand for Ambush, thirty-three years rendered the law effective as they The plans of this pioneer school board till August, 1865), a for colored to the colored days ago recalled to the officer the salary. It is astonishing, he said, that so sominary schools. His name is honored and per¬ sanitary we:e extraordinary In their scope, the or¬ girls (established in Georgetown by the in the many such persons who called upon him many men stand the ta-utal treatment given Catholics), Miners' Seminary, petuated Patterson School, In which them and never return to resent it. Most ganic act under which they w< re selected Myrtilla are the he had of the work * Mary School, Benjamin M. Mc¬ annually gathered hundreds of the chil¬ during years charge of them are so glad to get away from the Indicating not only a most liberal concep¬ Wormley'a dren of the race for whom he has rendered of them with treatment Coy's School, Dr. John H. Fleet's School, such and providing hospital boats alive that they willingly get away tion f what popular education should be. Charles H. MlSdleton's Alexander signal far-reaching service. and man who came from the of the water and never School, "Prior to the full force of this last act of transportation. The vicinity but also profound faith in the future of Hay's School, Alexander Cornish's School, In here recently, however, was in much better complain. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher's Eliza Anne Congress 1860-67 there were five schools, the boatman continued, "the men the national capital. This act recited, School, seven teachers and condition were a "But," Cook's School, Anne E. Washington's .^Ith 450 children. As physical than large major¬ who have been doing this thing for years twnong other things: deviously stated, the first public school of those who called the " School and others. ity during years are thoroughly frightened now, and some "That the provisions of the act under "Thus in section of and was opened March 1, 1864, in Bbenezer after them. of the what every Washington Church, on Capitol hill. The erection of when the sanitary officer looked dredgers may be able to get which the board exercLses its power, con¬ Georgetown schools were started, springing first He was not in the best condition, however, Is coming to them." be taught reading, writing, grammar, arith¬ Ing was In Mr. George J. Abbot's hand¬ up and shedding the light of learn¬ the public school house for colored templates the establishment of an Institu¬ metic 'and such branches of the mathemat¬ on the bao k of a it rapidly children occurred In 1805 at 2d and C and hospital treatment was greatly needed. writing photograph of ing into every nook and comer, inspiring streets of charitable tion In which every species of knowledge ics as may qualify them for the profession that Mr. Abbot, for whom the Abbot build¬ and uplifting. The multiplication of places southeast, where today stands the Lincoln It was through the kindness After a Long Walt. to the liberal of they are qualified to follow.' and jiay was named, had In when it School. people at police headquarters that he was essential education youth pupils ing made, 1S73, ot education kept pace with the growing to Baltimore. From the London Express. be were to be Instructed besides in geography was about to be torn down to make room an evidence of the "Within the limits of the two cities In the provided transportation may eventually acquired. and the population, indisputable fall of 1807 were "I will send you to a hospital where you A romantic which for " Latin, charges being $r> per quarter. fer the houses which now Its of 9,205 children between the wedding, many rear» 'That such an Institution embrace three occupy place thorough appreciation of the value the colored man was Th« children in that day went to school on on the southwest corner of 17th and I knowledge. ages of six and seventeen, of whom only can get treatment," had been delayed, owing to a woman'* for the as well as on other less than were told the of the board of " g^iat departments.schools teaching Saturdays week days streets: "The war was In 1801. Scarcely a year 2.623, one-third, In school. by representative promise, took at near Thlrsk^ rtWlments of necessary to the and the school hours were than at was The territory embraced within the charities, "but I can't 6end you to Balti¬ place Sowerby knowledge longer "This building one of the oldest m had elapsed when the exigencies of the corpora¬ In the North of Yorkshire the other common purposes of life, a college In which present, being eight hours In summer and Washington. It wax ax first called 'The conflict gave the colored man a status and tions was separated Into five dlstriots at more." Riding the higher branches may be taught and a six in winter. Western Academy.' The oldest inhabitants sent the colored people In large numbers the outset of public Instruction, and in "I'm sick," the applicant admitted to day. For nearly a quarter of a century the university In which the highest and most a of Informed me in the as 'contrabands of these were eight school houses. In these some charitably lnolined people afterward, and house¬ "In 18<>3 committee was Instructed to Washington year to the federal capital to to bride had acted as confidante splendid attainments may be acquired. to the President of the United 1837, when I moved Into it and It war." buildings were found flfty-four school ¦"but I want get back Baltimore and con¬ " apply States occupied keeper to a maiden lady who possessed 'The benefits of schools be'ng, In great for leave to vacant for as a school for fourteen years, and after¬ "The efforts to educate this human flotsam rooms, with slightly over three thousand see that my case Is attended to by the the occupy ground commissioner. did me siderable means. Many year* ago nieisure, local, they will probably derive the erection of a school house not to ex¬ ward as a residence for flv» years long'Sr, led to the inauguration of the educational sittings." shipping- They wrong and was wooed their from the D'strlct; that they themselves had attended school be fitly down on the bay and I want to see that I housekeeper met a gardener principal support ceed fifty feet in length and twenty feet movement which may characterized to by him with success. But the housekeeper those of a college s.nd more e«pec!al!y of a In width. Two school houses were built in it in their early days. It was owned as the period, because the get what Is oomlng me. They shipped with her by Mr. the first or one of philanthropic Tip to Song "Writers, me down there to cook and then treated had promised her mistress to stay university being likeiy to be coextensive the next year, one of which was for the Munro, the first northern heart, religious and secular, re¬ until she and so the love became with the United States and countr es In postmasters of Mr. William¬ to the new and demands. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. me like a do*. The only way I could get died, story occupancy of the Eastern School. In 1800 Washington. sponded strange one of patient waiting. Three or four weeks their vicinity, they may eventually claim there were enrolled son. a brother-in-law of Oen. McComb. The principal relief associations which The Insurance investigation in Now York away from the dredge boat was to steal the beneficence twenty-seven pupils taught school in it for from It about 8 o'clock In the ago the mlatress died in her ninetieth year, of liberal and public-spirited From this time to 1816 the Eastern School many years. While helped during this period are: Amerioan should suggest a new line of titles to our morning, to her faithful her men throughout the whole extent of the seemed to Rufus Choate was studying law in the of¬ Missionary Association, Bangor Freedmen's walk twenty miles and then find a friend leaving housekeeper experience a struggle for exist¬ fice of William Wirt popular son* writer*. There would not bo me here on a house, plate and furniture, as well as £1.000 Union, and Justly the hope of national as¬ ence. In an for funds blade by the ho eked out hla lim¬ Relief Association, Baptist Home Mission, the matter with the who sent train." sistance.' appeal ited means by teaching In this school as Free Baptist Mission, Freedmen's Relief much "The Man Up A more recent oase was that of the col¬ In money. Many messages of congratulation board In 1815 It Is stated that Mr. Wallls. an assistant. River," "The Little Yearly Roll" or "The reached the bride and groom from friends "It Is Interesting to note that In a cir¬ who vuoceeded Mr. as After the death of Mr. Wil¬ Association of the District ot Columbia, ored man, William Lewis, who oame here Elliott teacher, had liamson the which was a In¬ Rantankerous Friend." Baltimore after who knew the story of their courtship. cular letter issued by the board for the taught one year with only one quarter's school, private Old School Presbyterian, Pennsylvania from hla return to that purpose of soliciting funds for the estab¬ In 1816 the council stitution, was for some rears kept in a Freedmen's Relief Association, Philadelphia city from Muddy creek, where he worked salary. city esta/bllshed small frame on the Friends* an worse lishment of the projected collere an argu¬ two boards, one of of one-story building next Mission, National Freedmen's Re¬ Scatter It. on oyster boat. His condition was Load. ment la us«d which, sonsl»tlng street (H street). Is 1837 I moved from lief Association. New England Freedmen's Chan that of most of the oystermen who Heavy for Its establishment In Wasb- seven members, was to have exclusive the wooden From the IUm't Harm. from the Ingron which xeerns to have the of the building Into the brick build- Aid, New England's Freedmen's Relief are not killed before they get off the boats. Ram's Bern. esoapad charge Eastern School. The raln- Ins h«re delineated. my Reformed The can I* that of who come have notice of the distinguished faculties of tfca tttSf, of this board are recorded without a Among predeces¬ Society, Presbyterians' Society, only Joy yeu keep you Many those have here The nearer we get to heaven the heavlei sors who taugbt la this school ware Ham- Freedmen's Relief Association of the Dis- told stories of murders committed *. er»- this world's goods heoonae a «
School Centennial
