Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-02-03
FIRST EDITION.
CoIorea Education. In Delaware.

| NOf'a'A DtlhNaEes
| CONDITION or THE SCHOOLS OUTSIDE OF wILMING-
TON - TwESTY-EIGHT IN OPERATION UNDER A
UNIFORM hYsrEM-THE PRoanEss WHICH HAS
| BEEN MADE, &c.
There are in this State, outside of Whining
| ton, twenty light schools wherein between hoo
and 1900 colored children are taught the rudi-
mentary branches of an english education.
| From the State these schools do not receive Il
dollar for their support, and yet they are we'll
conducted under a most admirable discipline and
| uniform system such is not possessed by
the public schools wherein the white children
| are educated. All of them are undor the man
agement of colored teachers, some of whom are
| accomplished and well educated. In at least
two instances these teachers able to converse
| fuently in languages other than our own, and
one is a fine German scholar
For tho most part the colored schools are
| maintained with revenue which is raised
among the oolored people themselves, who are
| assisted in the work by the Delaware Assoca
| ton for the Moral Improvement and Education
| OF the Colored People. The Association gives to
| each school about Six dollars per month to help
| pay the teachers salaries and also extends as
slstance IN the erection of school houses. In
| this way it has expended in tho cause probably
$50 900. during the seven years of It's existence
Further help is extended in the purchase of
books, the Association purchasing at wholesale
prices and disposing to the schools at the cost
price. With this help, and tho money raised
among tho colored people tho most of the
schools i'll the State are kept open regularly.
At the present time, however, the schools at
New Castle, Newark and Christiana, where
there are good school houses, are closed. The
greater part of the salaries paid are raised by
the colored people themselves. Thus, for in
stance, at Dover they raise 800 per month, at
Seaford '525 at Odessa $26, at Summit Bridge
1924, at Mt. Pleasant $780, while in some places
the amount thus raised is only a little in excess
of the sum furnished by the Association. The
average throughout the State will be aboat $12
per month";
Perhaps the best way III which to write the
condition and progress of these schools Will be
to give some data from the January reports of
each as returned to the officers OF tho Associa-
tion in this city. Thus
AT Dover Louisa A. Newton teacher, there are
enrolled 30 pupils, eb of whom read and spell, 60
write, 30 are in arithmetic 10 in geography, III
grammar and in history.
The Summit Bridge school has rs pupils ELL
rolled with an average deily attendance of 10,
the house being crowded. or these 6S read and
spell, 50 wrte 50 study arithmetic, 90 geogra-
ply, Is grammar, history. This school is in
its 18th year. E. It. Clark ls teacher,
At Middletown Il. b. Krause's school has 10
pupils enrolled, 81 of whom attend daily, 68
read and spell, 70 write 60 are in arithmetic, AZ
III geography, IL in grammar and in history.
Through her own exertions Miss Krause has
built the school building probably the best in
the State, aud she is thoroughly devoted to her
work.
The Newport school is conducted by Sophia
Rice. who has 40 enrolled pupils with an average
attendance of SO. OF these 33 read and spell,
26 write, while in arithmetic there are 1S, in
geography o. and grammar 9.
At Odessa Mary Il. Fairweather is teacher,
with 4G scholars and an average attendance of
43, all of whom read and wrte 81 study arith-
metic, 16 geography, ~ grammar.
Clarissa Conover is teacher at the Smyrna
school and has an average attendance of 40 out
of 46 enrolled pupils She has 38 reading and
spelling, 20 writing, % in arithmetic, . in ge-
ography and i'll grammar.
AT Leas chapel, near Odessa, Maggie Will
liams s preceptross. She has 40 enrolled pupils
all Of whom attend regularly. In reading and
spelling arc 55, in writing 3d. in arithmetic 13, in
geography IL.
At Iinccln there is Il new school with 35 en-
rolled pupils, 80 of whom attend regularly. 25 are
in reading and spelling 25 in writing 0 in arith-
metic, in geography. Francis Douglass is
teacher.
In st. Jones Neck near Dover, Wm. 4. Holland
has school with 80 enrolled pupils and an av-
erage attendance of 45. 43 read and spell, 16
grammar. Nearly all these scholars are adults
Near Taylors Bridge, at Scotts Chapel, New
Castle county, Lucy Walker is teaching 22 pu-
pills who are regular in attendance, 10 being in
reading and spelling, 16 in writing, i'll arithme-
metic and i'll geography.
AT Kenton Anna Brown has school with 42
enrolled pupils and an average attendance of 49,
all of whom read and spell, 81 write, q study
arithmetic, Z geography, grammar and his
tory.
And so we might go on all the way through
the whole list, showing the proportion of pupils
who are pursuing tho different studies, which
will not vary much from hose given above.
But we find we are already lengthening our ar
tcle beyond our limits and will have to tabulate
the remainder showing enrolled pupils, average
attendance and teacher