Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance Bellefonte, Pa., June 16, 1893. P. GRAY MEEK, EpiTor A —————————————— The Fence Law Vetoed. Gov. Pattison, in deference to decis- ions of the Supreme Court, has vetoed the special bill passed at the late ses- sion of the Legislature, giving to the people of Centre, Clearfield and Camer- on counties, the benefit of a fence law. ‘We have not seen the veto message, but understand from the newspaper re- ports that it cites different decisions of the Supreme Court, declaring such legislation unconstitutional. This ac- tion of the Governor we know, will be a great disappointment to a large ma- jority of the people in the counties named, but the fact the Supreme Court has already decided this class of legis- lation to be in opposition to the man- dates of the constitution, that instru- ment itself, and the Supreme Court is 0 determining, must take the responsibil- ity of defeating the wish of the people in matters of this kind. Two years ago, when the question of a convention to revise the. constitution was being agitated, the Warcaman gave it as its opinion that it was only through a revision of that instrument, giving to the different counties of the State a right to ask and obtain local legislation that a fence law, or other local acts, benefitting local communi: ties could be obtained. The people along with corporations, and attorneys, thought the present constitution good enough, and so voted, and one of the results is now made apparent to them, If we can get a copy of the veto we shall give it in full next week, in order that our readers may know that in de- termining against their wishes and in- terests, in this matter, the Governor has followed no sentiment of his own, but, on the contrary, has acted against his desires to accommodate them in defer- ence to the action of the highest court in the State asit interprets the demands of the constitution. I ——————— No Fence Law, As matters now stand farmers and otuer real-estate owners must adjust the matter of fencing among them- selves. Oa this subject, there is abso, lutely no law that is operative or that can be enforced within the State. A few counties that had local fence acts, prior to the adoption of the present con- stitution, can still enjoy their benefits, but for the great majority of the coun- ties there is no legislation whatever requiring the erection or maintenance of fences of any kind or anywhere. For this condition of affairs the people have to thank the Republican Legislation that passed, and Gov. Bra- VER who signed, the bill repealing the fence law of the State, and the present constitution and a Republican Supreme Court that interprets 1t as prohibiting any local legislation on this subject. ——The news of the appointment of Senator Harry Arvin Harr, as dis. trict attorney for the western district of the State, which reached us on Wed- nesday morning, was a gratification to his many friends hereabouts, The long delay in making the appointment together with the many rumors tbat Mr. McCaxpLEss, who had been named to temporarily fill the position, was to be continued permanently, caused many to believe that the dirty personal warfare that had been waged against him, had succeeded in securing his de- feat. In this appointment President CLEVELAND has doue a wise thing. He has named a gentleman eminently qualified for the position, a Democrat entirely worthy and deserving it, and, at the same time, has rebuked the few who hoped by personal detraction to accomplish ends not otherwise attain- able. Senator HALL has our congratu- lations, and the Democracy of Western Pennsylvania may feel proud that they have secured ‘an official ‘so well fitted for the important position to which he has been appointed, and one so worthy this recognition. ——At their State convention in Harrisburg, last week, the Prohibition- ists placed in nomination the following ticket : for Supreme Judge, H, T. Axes of Williamsport and State Treasurer, J. 8. Kent, of Delaware county. There were about 325 delegates present. The proceedings were harmonious and the present chairman of the State Con- vention, Patton, was continued for the ensaing year. A —— The calamity howlers now are the fellows, who, a few months ago, denounced so vehemently the men and papers who ‘predicted financial disae- ters as the result of Republican rule. How quick some situations change, | I —————— —Its the silver lining to the Snancial cloud that now covers the country, that gives promise of better times in the near future. 18 Terrible Disaster in Washington. Ford's old Theater Falls and Carries With it to Death 21 Goverment Clerks, While Fifty or More Others are Seriously Injured. On Friday of last week another tragedy—less national in character, but involving the loss of many more lives and much more human suffering, has stained the walls of the old Ford theater, Washington, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth in April, 1865. The hour of the disaster was very shortly after the departments had settled down for busi- ness. The workmen whose operations under the building where the immed- iate cause of the catastrophe, had been tinkering upon it for two hours or more. Half an hour earlier and few lives would have been lost. The first floor collapsed through weakness caused by excavating a cellar, and its fall carried down the other three floors and with them hundreds of clerks. There were 475 persons, mostly government clerks, employed in the building, and nearly all of these were at work when ‘the building fell. An excavation for an electric light plant was being made in the cellar of the structure—a three story affair—and according (0 the best information ob- tainable the workmen had dug beneath the foundation supports in the front of the building, weakening them to such an extent the walls gave way before they could be jacked. This explana- tion of the cause for the accident is the only one advanced, but it seems some- what strange in view of the tact that the top floor gave way first. Men who were in the building say the crash came without warning. Those on the top floor were suddenly precip- itated to the floor below, and the weight of falling timbers and furniture carried the second and first floors with it. Fortunately only the forward half of the floors gave way. The outer edges of the floors and the rear part of the structure remained intact. The walls did not fall. ; Within an hour the news was known all over Washington, and hundreds of anxious relatives and friends swarmed to the vicinity of the old theater. Women appealed anxiously to every bystander for information about some particular person, while men came with tears in their eyes and imploring- ly besought the policemen to let them through the lines that they might ob- tain some kuowledge of their friends and relatiyes. A general fire alarm was given in a few minutes after the crash, and then all the ambulances in the city were summoned. As quickly as possible the police and firemen formed a rescue brigade, and ready hands assisted them to take out the killed and wounded. In less than an hour about twenty-five people had been taken and every few minutes thereafter some still form would be borne on a stretcher from the building. Police and army ambulan- ces, cabs, carriages and vehicles of every description were pressed into service for taking away the dead and injured. All the hospitals in the city were utilized in caring for the injured, and scores of physicians volunteered their assistance. When the first rumbling warning of the approaching collapse came the cleriss on the third floor, to the number of eighty or a hundred, rushed to the windows and jumped for: the roof of a small building adjoining on the north- west side, Many of them escaped in this way, George M. Arnold, a colored clerk appointed from Virginia, was seen at a toird story window, He was warned not to jump, but despite the protesta- ticns of numbers of people he climbed cut and, lowering himself from the sill, let go. He fell upon a covering at a lower door and slid off into the cobble stoned alley, striking on his head, instantly killing him.” His head was smashed to a jelly, and the cobbles for a distance of several yards were bespat- tered with blood. There were many very many narrow escapes from death. A number of clerks whose desks rested directly upon the line where the floors broke away, saved themselves, while the desks at which they sat were precipitated down the awful chasm. Other who were walking across the room heard an ominous sound and stopped just at the very threshold of death. When the crash came those who survived heard a mighty scream of anguish from their comrades as they sank out of sight, and then grooping in the darkness they found their way to safety, trembling in every joint with the pallor of the dead in their faces. No women were employed in the building, but in a few minutes after the crash came, the wives, and daughters of the victims began to arrive. Within a very few moments a hundred or more men stripped for hot work jumped into the building and began throwing out the wreckage in front and under the floors which remained standing on the rear. Such a scene has never before been’ seen in this region, and no catastrophe in the city’s century of existence ever promised so much of all that is horri- ble, as the one which has stopped all business in this part of the city ; and which now crowds every thoroughfare in the neighborhood of the old theatre. Oue of the most exciting accounts of | the disaster is givea by. Mr. J.T. Exnicois, who was on the second floor and stood at the very edge of the horri- ble crater that so suddenly’ opened in the center of the building. He heard a noise, he said, as if some- thing heavy had fallen on the floor above. He glanced up and was almost petri- fied to see the entire floor coming down, slow and wavering at first and then more swift in its progress, bearing to | death its load of humanity. The floor started {rom the wall and was at a nangle as it. went down, When he first saw it the angle was not sharp enough to disturb the desks, and the startled occupants in some cases sat on their chairs, not knowing what had happened, As the floor came on its awful pro- ! gress he saw it bend and waver, and! then it crashed down on the occupants on the floor beneath. He called to the clerks about him" to run to the rear, and many were saved by their promptness. THE DEAD. At first the endeavors to rescue were somewhat ‘inefficient, but, in a little while system prevailed and the work went ahead with the utmost rapidity. Weary rescuers gave place eyery few minutes to fresh and willing successors who worked with terrific energy in their endeavor to save the buried ones, but it was not until the morning of the day following the disaster that the work of clearing away the debris was completed, and the full list of casualties known. The list of the dead is as follows : Alien, George Q., Pennsylvania, 52 years, un- married. Arnold, George M., Virginia, 55 years, leaves a widow. Banes, Samuel, Pennsylvania, leaves a widow and family. Bussius, John, Washington, 54 years leaves a widow and family. Chapin, J. E., Columbia, Richland county, S. C., leaves widow and family. Daley, Jeremiah, 24 years, Howard, Centre county, Pa., unmarried. Fagan, Joseph R., 37 years, a native of Penn- sylvania, leaves widow and family. Gage, J. B. 38 years, Petoskey, Emmet county Mich. leaves widow and child. Gerault, A. N., Annapolis, Md., appointed from New Jersey, leaves widow and family. Jones, J. Boyd, Evansville, Rock county, Wis., 48 years, leaves a widow and three child- ren. Jordan, David C., Putnam county, Mo., leaves a widow and child. j Loftus, Frederick B., 57 years, New York, leaves widow and family. Meder, Otto F. W.,38 years, Buffalo, N. Y., leaves a widow. McFall, J. H., 35 years, Wisconsin, leaves a widow and child, Mulley, Michael T., 45 years, New Orleans, a. 55 years, Miller, Howard S., Guernsey county, O. _ Miller, Benjamin F., 51 years, Utica, N. Y., unmarried Nelson, Burrows, 37 years, West Virginia, leaves widow and five children. Schrieber, William, College Park, Prince George county, Md. Shall, Emanuel G., 38 years, North Topeka, Kas. leaves a widow and child. Williams, Frank M., 28 years, East Middleton, Dane county, Wis., unmarried. ‘THE INJURED. The injured as far as can be ascer- tained are as follows : A. L. Ames, Iowa, skull fractured, broken and fractured, injured internally. A. C. Black, Indiana; fractured cheek bone and arm. F. F. €alvert, Maryland, right leg fractured. 8S. J. Dewey, New York; Louis Dusapy ; George W. Davis, Missouri, scalp wounds. H. B. Esterling Kansas, seriously injured. Washington Fry, head badly cut. W. S. Gustin, Ohio, left arm broken. Dr. James H. Howard, Maryland, colored, scalp wound, internal injuries. C. F. Hathaway, Ohio; J. Hammer, Tennessee, injured in eye. George Handy, Colorado, slight cut on head. Thomas Hynes, Missouri, skull fractured. J. G. Johns, leg badly cut. W. Kugler, New Jersey, scalp wound. Clifton Lowe, Iowa, scalp wound. Ms L. Ledger, head cut and injured intern- ally. leg William W. Lecture, District Columbia ; Propk Metcalf, Massachusetts, dislocation ot hip. G. M. McLaughlin, Tennessee. J. P. McCornack, Wisconsin, M. McLachlen, leg broken. J. A. Miller, both legs broken. R. M. Patrick, New York, cuts about head and face. Police Officer Pody, injured after the acci- dent. G. T. Pruitt, Texas, scalp lacerated. P. K. Pennington, Alabama. Charles Robison, Colorado, about head and back. J. A. Stewart, cut about head. F. F. Sims, C. Shadbolt, Missouri, colored, dangerously injured. F. B. 8mith, Tennessee. R. A. Smith, Connecticut, compound fracture of the skull. F. F. Sime, Illinois, cut{about the head. William Smith P. U. Somers, Ohio, rib broken and head bad- ly cut. John H. Thomas, Missouri arm broken. F. W. Test, 1llinois, contusion of scalp. C. R. Weller, scalp wound and contusion of back. N. T. Worley, Tennessee, back and legs in- jared. slight injuries A. White Georgia, cut on head and leg. A. B. Young, Pennsylvania, head cutand in- jured internally. J. Charles Moore, District of Columbia, ribs . broken. B. F. O'Driscoll, New York, scalp wound, leg injured and injured internally. The superintendent in charge of the Emergency hospital says none of the men at the hospital will die. MOST OF THE VICTIMS POOR MEN. Inquiry confirms the statement that none of the victims were men of pro- perty. Most of them lived on ‘their salaries, which furnished means of livelthood, but left little for a day like this. Most of them were married, and some had large famlies, who are now left. it not entirely dependent upon friends and relatives, at least lacking in funds for immediate relief, The body of George Q. Allen, of Pennsylvania, was taken to Philadel- phia, where his relatives reside for interment. After the last sad rites had been performed over the remains of Emanuel Gates Shull, also of Pennsyl- vania, the casket was taken to Gettys. burg for interment. The remains of J. Boyd Jones were sent to his home in Evansville, Wisconsin, where a wid- ow and three children await their arri- val. The body of Captain Michael T. ‘Mulledy is now on its way to New Orleans, that of Samuel P. Banes was taken to Bristol, Penn., that of Jere miah Daley to Romola, Penna. ; that of H.S. Miller to Cumburland, Ohio. Nearly all of these men were members of various military or civic organiza tions, and their comrades in each case attended their fuderals and escorted their remains to the railroad station. J. B. Gage was a Grand Army man, and Kit Carson post gave him a mili: tary funeral and buried him among his comrades at Arlington. George M. Arnold was one of the best known colored men the government employed here. The funeral services were held aver the remains of Fredrick B. Loftus at his home in the presence of his wife and six children and many friends. The Masonic fraternity conducted RCC SO RT VT services over Captain B. F. Miller and the remaine were started for Utica, N. Y., where the interment will take place. Oito F. W. Maeder was interr- ed at Arlington after services by a German Lutheran minister. TO FIX THE RESPONSIBILITY. Colonel Ainsworth, who as chief ot the record and pension bureau, has been the target of vigorous criticism, asked to-day for a court of inquiry to deter mine the cause of the calamity and, if possible, fix the responsibility. His request greatly simplified matter, for a military court has powers recognized by law, and would give legal effect to’ findings, while a civilian board of war department officials could only make recommendations that would have no force of law. Secretary Lamont arrived from Chi- cago and after consultation with Assis- tant Secretary Grant and Colonel Ains- worth, promptly ordered an inquiry in these terms : “War Department, WasaiNetox, June 10 1893.—Upon the request of Colonel F. C. Ains- worth, chief of the record and pension office, a court of inquiry is hereby appointed to meet in this city, at eleven'a m., on the 12th day of June, 1893, or as soon thereafter as practicable, to investigate the management of his office in so far as it may have had any connection with or bearing upon the disaster of June 9, at old Ford's theatre building, on Tenth street, this city. The court will also fally investigate all of the facts in the case, and will express an opinion as to who is responsible.” The court will be composed of Brig- adier General Casey, ‘Quartermaster General Batchelder, Major George B. Davis. Generals Casey and Batchel- der and Surgeon General Sternberg were algo appointed a committee. with Colonel Ainsworth, to select new quar- ters for the bureau. Coroner Patterson and Deputy Coro- Schaffer are also preparing to make a RRC ry impersonality and speak of them as men. Let the employer consider his employee not as askilled laborer, but as soul and let the employee remove from his mind the idea that his employer is not merely a money-maker, but a man invested with a soul unto his own and we shall blot out forever this conflict between labor and capital. Look up for your ideas but look around for your opportunities. There is as much difference between visions and being visionary as between femi- nine and effeminate.” ! In closing Dr. Hulburd addressed the their present hours were hours of vision and the hours to come will be those of opportunity. “Under the guidance of the college you have improved the fac- ulties with which God has endowed you. Each faculty henceforth will be a box of tools for you to employ. I beseech you reverently to ase your influence and Your knowledge for the establishment of common brotherhood. Let us all be brothers.” MONDAY A FULL DAY. Early Monday morning the College began to assume its gay holiday attire. Students appeared in duck trousers and gay coats with damoselles, whose bright gowns only enhanced the natural charms of their individuality. The morning was spent in visiting the Departments and sequestered haunts, which could teil many interesting tales were they given a voice to speak. Many arrivals were thorough investigation. A jury of practical business men was selected to- day with special care and will begin investigating Monday. Commencement at the Pennsylvania State College. Another Epoch Marked in the History of the In- stitution. Thousands of Visitors and Splen- did Entertainment Combined to Make it One Long to be Remembered. Another epoch in the history of the Pennsylvania State College has been marked off. Another class of young men has been sent out into the world to fight their way to the top or live the mediocre life which seems preferable to so many whose talents might shine were the ambition there to develop them.” Sunday June 11th was the first day of the twenty-seventh annnal commence- ment of this distinctively State Institu- tion, and that it was one of the most | beautiful Sabbaths one could conceive s2ems to be verification of the familiar saying “Nature favors the Pennsylvania State College.” Too true it seems and the universal exclamations of delighted surprise of strangers, on their first visit to the place, and the heightened pleas- ure of the regular commencement visi- tors as they note the growing beauty pro- claim it a garden spot indeed. On the great broad campus nature has lavished her verdancy. The trees, trimmed sward, sinuous paths and long shady avenues all combine to inspire a feeling of restfulness and luxury. The old story of the well equipped buildings which dot the campus here and there, of the excellent work done at the Experiment station and of the thor- oughness of the technical departments of the College is an oft told one. Suffice it to say that no backward steps are be- ing taken and everything is done now-a- days with that intuitive conception which places the future of our great in- stitution in the front rank of American universities. .Baccalaureate Sunday is known as the beginning of the end in one sense and as the ending of the beginning in another. The former because it is the first formal exercise of commencement week, the latter because it is the crowning with laurels those who have finished their collegiate education and are ready to try the resources of the world. In the morning ateleven o’clock, the baccalaureate sermon was preached in the chapel by Rev. Merritt Hulburd, D. D., pastor of the Spring-Garden M. E. Church, of Philadelphia. His text, taken from Acts XVI chapter, 8th and 9th verses. gave the learned divine a broad scope for flight of thought and was at once interesting and appropriate. His theme was the common brother- hood of mankind. After a few intro- ductory remarks upon the scene and time mentioned in the text he drew a picture of the effect of association and environment upon the development of the youthful mind. How the old man is moved at times to tears when he re- turns to the scene of his youth and the soldier mind. is filled with patriotism when he views again the battle field. A man of broadest culture, loftiest cour- age and grandest philanthropy is in- complete unless his soul is strung to its utmost tension with a love to God and love to humanity growing out of his love to God. There is more in the soul than in the scene. Paul, above all others, saw things in their right direction and appli- cation. “Philantrophy without the sight of God is nothing ; it isa brotherhood with- out a bond. True patriotism, scholar- ship, and brotherly relation all have their natural spring in our relation to God. I would break up in your mind the idea of classes and masses into their "component parts —individual men, rob these two undemccratic names of their the well ! noted and by two o’clock, the time set | for the Third Annual Inter-Class Field | Sports, Beaver Field was fairly alive | with students alumni friends and rela- (tives. The meeting was & success in | every respect and reflects much credit | on the directors of Athletics at the Col- lege. Fourteen well contested events were watched with interest and when | Mr. Connelly broke his own record and | the State Inter-Collegiate record in the i broad jump by 4 an inch the spectators | fairly went wild. His distance was 20 [ ft. 4} inches. The events were as fol lows : i 100 Yards Dash.—Won by J. B. White; Belt | second ; Rutherford third. Tims 10 4-5 | seconds, i 220 Yards Dash.—~Won by J. B. White; Belt | second; Rutherford third. Time 251-5 ! seconds. College record broken by 2-5 | of a second. > i 440 Yards Dash.—~Won by J. B. White ; Thomp- son second; Ed. Harris third. Time 58 3-5 seconds 14 Mile Kun.—~Won by Dunsmore ; Rutherford second ; Snyder third. Time 2 min. 21 3-0 seconds. Mile Run.—Won by Dunsmore: Rutherford second. Time 5 min. 49 4-5 see. 120 Yards Hurdle.~Won by Connelly ; Harder second; Kuhn third. Time 20 4-5 sect 220 Yards Hurdle—~Won by G. B. White; Thompson second ; Harder third. Time 30 3-5 sec. Two Mile Bicyele—Won by McFarland ; Cum- mings second ; Shaeffer third, Time © min. 2 see. Beating the College Record by 13 sec. dnd the State Inter Collegiate by 314 sec. 16 lb. Haminer.—After breaking three hammer sticks the event was postponed, 16 Ib. Shot.—Won by Fisher; Dixon second Distance 32 ft. 7 in. Running High Jump.—Won by Connelly ; Harder second. Heighth 5 ft. 4 37 in. Running BroadJump.--Won by Uonnelly ; Cummings second; Kuhn third. Dis- tance 20 ft. 4 14 inches. Pole Vault.—Tie between Caughey and Thornp- son. Heighth 9 ft. 2 inches. On a toss Thompson got the medal that was offered. Mile Walk.—Won by H. F. Price; Hemphill second ; Dunkle third. Time 9 min. 6 2-5 seconds. This race was very slow» but the finish proved extremely exciting “for second and third places. Daring the sports the College band discoursed some delightful music. The day was perfect for athletics and the contest was interesting throughout. The points secured by the classes were as fol- lows: Classiof 2ague.. L.l Lueih ind 3 Class’ of 94... a 23 Class of 105... rte iervsva stirs donsanisnss i“ 21 Class of Mg... 2. oooh aatiilabn 5014 Giving the ’92 Class Cup to the Class of 96 The Junior Oratorical Contest, per- haps the most interesting entertainment of the week, took place in the chapel in the evening. The seating capacity of the pretty little hull was taxed to its ut- most when the last strains of Stopper and Fisk’s overture died away and President Geo. W. Atherton, L.L. D., arose to announce the first speaker who was Mr. Walter Blair Waite, of Water Street, Pa., subject ‘Intellectual Culture and Physical labor.” He was followed in order by Boyd Anspach Musser, of State College, “Our country, our Home and Our Duty ;” Roger Bowman, of Phila- delpbia, “The Practical Utility of ‘Thought ;”” Walter Alexander Silliman, Pottsville, “Our duty as Educated men ; Lawis Wilson Mattern, Warrior’s Mark, ““The Age of Realities’ and Arthur G. Guyer, Altoona, “Shall America be Foreignized or Foreigners American- ized 77 It would be impossible to individual- ize, so well were all the subjects handled and so carefully delivered. The Judges decision was made 1n favor of the last speaker. But Rev. Jas. Heaney, pastor of the State College Presbyterian church, in announcing the decision stated that only a difference of 1 per cent. was found between Mr. Guyer, Mr. Musser ‘and Mr. Mattern. . TUESDAY. Tuesday known as Alumni and in point of interest the “big” ‘day of the week, fulfilled all that its name implies. graduating class personally and said that | I SA ES A RS SSA Late sleepers were awakeued from their slumbers at 9:45 by the booming of the cannon. The artillery squad, made up of the Freshmen, were firing the Go arn- or’s salute of seventeen guns. It seemed & little early to call the Freshmen to begin the day’s programme for they had been indulging in some green business all the night before, but they looked verdant as the stripes they had painted everywhere and encouraged by the thought thut the Sophs’ could not take down their colors which they had paint- ed on the dome, made a very creditable showing. At ten o’clock the annual meeting of the trustees was held and they only got through with the business on hand in time to make for the Alumni dinner at a pace clearly showing that their labors had made them hungry at least. The dinner was served at noon in the armory, It was a reptition of the ones of late years, consequently a decided suc- cs. After dinner talks were made by Gov. Beaver, Charles Emory Smith, ed- itor the Philadelphia Press, Representa- tive John T. McCormick. of this county, John S. Weller '89, of Bedford, and others. Caterer Achenbach re- ceived many congratulations on the ex- cellence of the menu. . While the trustees meeting was in session an interesting ball game was be- ing played on Beaver field between the old ball players among the Alumni and the College team. It was both amusing and exciting to see the old boys giving the supposed invincible collegisns point- ers about the game. For years this game has been played with the invaria- ble disastrous result for the Alumni, but Tuesday the tables were turned and they won by the score of 5 to 2. At three o'clock the delegates and Alumoi met in the chapel to elect trust- ees. The meeting resulting in the re- tention of all the old ones. At the same hour the cadet corps made their Ap- pearance on the campus, headed by their marshal band, and delighted the great crowd of visitors with their well execu- ted military evolutions. It was the first drill under the new tactics which many of them had seen, the result being that a number of movements, such as the new ‘‘turn’’ instead of the “wheel” elic- ited much comment. The drill was the last out-of-door exercise and everybody retired to wait for the Alumni address, which Hon. Charles Emory Smith ; late minister plenipotentiary to Russia, de- livered in the chapel in the evening His subject “Are we worse than our Fathers ?” afforded abundant opportuni- ty for the display of his intimate know- ledge of our country’s political history. For fifty-six minutes he held the large audience with his flow of language and encouraging ideas of our condition. The reception by the faculty in the armory from 9 to 11 p. m. concluded the day’s entertainments. GRADUATION DAY. Fathers, wothers, sweethearts and friends packed in the pretty chapel Wednesday morning to witness the last act in the drama which the Class of 93 has been playing for the last four years. Oa the platform were seated, the board of Trustees, the faculty and Charles De- Garmo, L. L. D., President of Swarth- more College who was to make the Com- mencament address. When the orches- tra began playing the graduating class, in cap and gown, appeared and was heartily applauded as it made its way up the aisle to the platform. The exercises began at once. Rev. Dr. Robert Hamill invoked the divine blessing on the assemblage and the first orator was introduced. Mr. Charles Ross Hay, “the Blot on our Scutcheon;” Hays Waite Mattern, “The Fall of De- Lesseps ;”” John Murphy Small, “The Wave Movement in Civilization; Fred Falconer Weld, ‘The Leaves Fall but the Immortal Trunk Remains,” and the Valedictory oration by Roy Briscoe Mattern. This ended the class pariiei- pation in the exercises and Dr. De Garmo was introduced. His discourse on “The Higher Education of To-day,” was a learned and entertaining one. Degrees and prizes were then conferred as follows : The degree of B. S. was conferred on all members of the class in regular courses and was taken by all of the members, but one upon whom. it will be conferred later when he has finished some back work. Mr. Kyle was given a special certificate in the Civil En. gineering course and Mr. Lytle a cer- tificate in Mechanic Arts, Charles M. Green ’91 baving completed the pre- scribed past graduate work received the degree of E. KH. The English prize for the best student in JHoglish in the second preparatory year was awarded to James John Con- nelly; of Towanda Pa. i The McAllister prize to the student who shall excell in examinations pre- | paratory to admission to College was awarded to Charles E. Beugler, Keuka i College, N. Y. | The Junior oratorical prize to the student who excels in composition and | delivery of an English oration was | awarded, to Arthur G, Guyer, of Altoona. The Orvis prizes, to the members of the Sophomore classexcelling in mathe- matics, were taken in order by George
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