BANNER PRESENTATION. - The Rincon Grammar School was the recipient of
a handsome flag, and also a beautiful silken banner, on the morning of the Fourth,
both of them presents from the friends of the school. Miss Ida Doyle, one of
the school girls, made the presentation speech and delivered the flag, and Mr.
S. Holliday received it on the part of the school. Miss Emma Corliss, a pupil,
made the presentation address on behalf of the donors of the banner, and Master
John Welsh, also a pupil of the Rincon School, received it an delivered the
response. On the banner was a beautifully painted American flag in the foreground,
with a view of the National Capital in the distance; in a circle above appeared
the motto: "Our Country's Hope." This banner was carried by the girls
in the great procession, and it was much admired, and this calls to mind the
fact that one of the happiest features of that procession was the cars filled
with Rincon School girls, flooded with snowy cataracts of gauze and muslin,
and all that sort of thing. They outshone all the evergreens and flowers and
flags with which the long column was adorned, and it would have been all the
prettier if other female schools had been drafted into the ranks. We have spoken
elsewhere of the fine appearance the Rincon boys made on the Fourth, and their
soldierly and well ordered conduct; it is only fair to say that in all the arrangements
connected with fitting out this expedition and conducting it to a satisfactory
issue, the Principal, Mr. Pelton, was ably assisted by Masters John Warren and
John Welch, of his school.
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