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Show BUTTE CITY. j More Than Twelve Hundred Children in Parochial Schools. The secular press is forced to the admission ad-mission that besides doing splendid work in educating the children, the three Catholic schools of this city and Walkerville hate operated to very ma-! ma-! teriaily relieve the demand on the pub-j pub-j lie schools for room. There are more i than 1,200 children attending the pa-! pa-! roc hial schools in Greater Butte, and the public schools are crowded to over- flowing and several annexes are being I used to supply the demand made upon them. Under the conditions existing, were it not for the parochial schools the district would be seriously ham-perod, ham-perod, indeed. Thete are 700 children attending St. Patrick's parochial school, in which building there are twelve rooms, presided pre-sided over by as many teachers. In this school all the common branches are taught, including Latin, music and drawing. Much has been said in praise of the conduct of the school and the public is well acquainted with all the facts pertaining to its establishment, growth and general good it has accomplished. accom-plished. " It is one of the oldest parochial paro-chial schools in the . state. , St."JoRph's school is annexed to the Walkerville parish artd Is conducted by five teachers; including a music teacher. There are 320 pupils in attendance, and the grades to the eighth are taught j Music and drawing are special studies. During the past year the new school ! house was finished; and it is situated ' just east of St Lawrence church. It Is a large, well ventilated' and heated building with all the modern appliances and accommodations. Before it was built the children were taught in a small building In Main street in Walkerville. Walk-erville. The new school in Sacred Heart parish par-ish was started only a few months ago in a room in East Park stret. Now the school is in the first floor room of the new Sacred Heart church. Here, the facilities are ample and first class in every particular, this being the room planned especially for school work. There are 211 pupils attending, and they are taught the primary studies, the fourth grade being the most advanced ad-vanced at the present time. It is intended in-tended to teach the high grades later. The enrollment at the several public schools, together with that of the parochial pa-rochial schools, shows a total of children chil-dren attending school in this city, divided di-vided as follows: Public schools 6.6S6 St. Patrick's parochial 700 St. Joseph's parochial 320 Sacred Heart parochial 211 Total.... 7,917 The new organ at St. Patrick's church was heard Sunday evening by the public for the first time, and its sweet notes were blended in beautiful harmony and voluminous melody. There was a large audience; indeed, the church was nearly filled with as enthusiastic en-thusiastic a crowd of music lovers as ever congregated. There were eight numbers on the programme, and every one was highly classical and greatly appreciated. The organ was in perfect tune, and when the pipes spoke to Introduce In-troduce the initial number, Costa's "Triumphal March," the audience sat as one spellbound. Mrs. Rooney, the choir organist, rendered the first selection selec-tion in a masterly way. Next was a solo by Mrs. Ignatius Donnelly, with chorus by the full choir. She sang in excellent voice Gounod's "Gallia." E. Vernon Matlack, the organist or-ganist of St. John's, sat at the organ to play the grand offertorio de St. X2e-cilia, X2e-cilia, and the audience was greatly impressed im-pressed by his admirable manipulation of the keyboard and pedals. "The Christ Child," with obligato by Otto Obern, was charmingly sung by Mrs. Ida Belle Winchell. The deep rich bass of Fred Sully was heard to excellent advantage in his rendition ren-dition of Rossini's "Pro Peccatis," and Mrs. Fitz Butler sang a selection which added more laurels to her wreath woven by praises from a Butte audience. audi-ence. Again was the sweet voice of Mrs. Jack Thomas heard in "Inflammatus," by Rossini, in which the choir joined in chorus. The closing number was a selection, "Slumber Song," and variations vari-ations on an American air by Guil-mante Guil-mante and Flagler. The members of the choir are: So pranos, Mrs. Ignatius Donnelly, Mrs. Philip Tevelin, Mrs. Charles Pope, Miss Mary Keppler; altos. Miss Veroniau, Miss Anna Keppler, Miss Sophia Morgan; Mor-gan; tenors, E. McPherson, Will Hocking; Hock-ing; bass, Fred Sully, David Rogers: organist and directress, Mrs. Belle Bryant Rooney. The new organ was ordered several months ago, and for the past three weeks workmen have been busy in setting set-ting it in position. It is one of the largest organs in the state, double manual, with all the latest improvements. improve-ments. It is a valuable addition to the splendid interior ofthe church. ' The subscriptions for the Daly memorial me-morial fund have reached the total of $21,782.50. This splendid total will i undoubtedly be increased before the time is reached when, as originally planned by the committee, the subscriptions sub-scriptions will close. It is now certain cer-tain that with the funds that will ultimately make up this tribute to the memory of Mr. Daly, a memorial can be built that will be worthy of him and eminently creditable to all the donors. |