Watkins Glen High School - Senecan Oracle Yearbook (Watkins Glen, NY)

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THE ORACLE. 7 ANNOUNCEMENT. X ATKINS.—This thriving village is situated at the VV head of Seneca lake and at the foot of the renowned Watkins Glen. Here also are large Salt Works. For healthful location and beautiful scenery it is not to be surpassed. People who have traveled far and wide and gazed on nature’s magnificent works of art, declare that in no place has nature been more lavish with its gifts than in Watkins and its vicinity. Watkins may be reached by the Northern Central, Lehigh and New York Central Railways and between May ist and November ist by the Seneca Lake Steamers. The Elmira and Seneca Lake Electric Railroad will be in operation by May ist and will afford a swift and easy manner of traversing the distance between Elmira and Watkins. The village is provided with an excellent system of waterworks which conducts water of great purity and coolness, from Seneca lake, to the villagers. It also has a perfect sewer system, gas and electric light plants, electric street railway, three weekly papers, five churches. Watkins High School.—It is the purpose of every High School to offer the best educational advantages to the rising generation, that its young men and women may be induced to enter upon a career which will qualify them to fill capably and well the position destined them in life as United States citizens. The public school of Watkins became a Regents’ school in 1863, under the name of Watkins Academic and Union School. The first principal was J. L. Mack, succeeded by A. C. Pike, Edward Abbey and lastly by S. S. Johnson, who has ably filled the position for the last twenty-five years. Under his direction the first graduating class was organized in 1883. This consisted of only one member, Miss Mary M. Freer In 1897 the name of the school was changed to that of Watkins High School. Both as an Academy and as a High School the Watkins High School has stood and does now stand among the foremost of the State of New York. In 1898 the High School building burned, but the students are occupying for the second year a beautiful new building. (See ist p.) It is built of pressed buff brick and is two stories and a half high. In the tower is located a