The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-14

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preciated as 1t should DO.
wHRGLlNG's PRIDE.
The proyerbial modesty Of newspaper
and newspaper mon precludes an extend
ed and lsudatory notice Of tho newspA
pers Of Wheeling, but OF her public
schools too much cannot be said In praise
they are one OF Wheeling's prides, ant
properly 80, for they are the best in The
State. Indeed there are few In the coun
try, considered az q whole, and with ey
erything-buildings, Teachers furniture
apparatus, course Of study, grade attained
BY graduates, system, order and tho other
details that 90 10 make good school
that excel the public schools Of the indie.
pendent School District OF the City o.
Wheeling, In educational assemblaget
her schools have often been referred TO af
models and her instructors have always
been listened to in these meetings with
marked attention and Difference.
It is not proposed in tho chapter tc
speak Of the organization OF the schools OIL
this city into an independent school dis
triCt, but rather to treat OF them as they
arc found to-day; as the investor, the capl'
tGlist, the speCuIator who shall come here
to invest his money In new or old estab
lished industries will find themi rs the
workingman who comes to this desirable
geld OF labor, which with the introduce
ton OF natural gas becomes more desirable
than ever will find them for tho benefit
and advancement Of his children.
The schools arc under the direction, gu
81, o,,I nanIEn1 nj a nnuFI If E1O,
cation, composed OF twenty.one members,
thres from each Of the seven sub.districts,
Washington, Madison, Clay, Union, Cen
ter, Webster and Richie, that compose
this independent district. These members
are elected, one oyory two years, to serve
for Six years. They have q Clerk and a
City Superintendent. The teachers are
appointed by the commissioners in whose
district they teach aud confirmed by the
Board, but are controlled aud under the
direction Of the Superintendent, The
present Superintendent Is Prof. W. Ii.
Anderson, who succeeded Hon. John n.
Birch, now U. S. Consul to Nagasaki, ia.
pan. Both are gentlemen OF marked exec
utIve ability andit 10 largely owing to their
labors that the schools have reached the
high eminenCe they now rest on. Mr.. II.
Fl. Pendleton Ia Clerk and Mr.. o. II. COL
lier President Of the Board.
SCHOOL BUiLDISGs.
In the district there are seven largo
school buildings and two annexes for the
accommodation Of white pupils and one
elegant building for colored children. The
coming year will SEQ erected In Richie
district another school building, tho in.
terror arrangement OF which will not DO
excelled by that OF any school building In
the country; II will DO q model In the way
OF heat and ventilation.
The total value OF all the school prop.
erty Of the district Is about $4,000. The
value OF all the buildings Is somewhere in
the neighborhood OF STA 900; Of furniture,
$40, 90; OF apparatus, 81, 400. The aver.
age value Of the houses Is about 81, 900.
During the past year the average cost Of
education per pupil based on the enroll.
ment, was q little over $40 80; based on
the enumeration 1t was q triile over 50,
the enumeration showing l0,00G school
youth in the city.
Each OF the seven schools, and the color.
ed school, 10 a grammar school in Itself,
with the primary divisions attached.
There are 0l rooms in the buildings and
the services OF l05 teachers are required.
A principal presides over each Of the sub.
district schools; to each Ia attached q
grammar room aud assistant grammar
teacher, and the balance OF the rooms are
divided into four divisions, A, u, O and
D, with grades running from 2 under the
division A rooms 10 Z under the D divi.
slons. III addition to these teachers there
arc four German teachers, who have
charge OF the study OF German In all the
schools. The aggregate OF salaries that
will DO paid for teaching alone during the
coming year will DO $4,000. The levy for
this year is estimated TO realize ST., 900 for
school fund, S02, 900 for building fund
and 5000 for the Public Library fund,
which az detailed elsewhere Is under the
control OF the Board Of Education.
The school buildings Of the diBtrict with
two or three exceptions are handsome
buildings viewed from an architectural
standpoint. A notable example is Centre
district school, located In the Fifth ward,
an illustration OF which Is published In
this issue. All OF tho buildings are
modern and conveniently arranged inside.
The furniture Is OF tho most approved
pattern from scientific and hygienlC point.
The rooms, Btairways, halls and exits are
80 arranged that In case OF fire every build
iDg could be emptied inside OF two min.
utes. Tho yards are spacious and afford
good play grounds. Connected with each
building arc quarters for the janitorB. The
heating aud ventiIRting apparatus In the
new school house 10 be erected In Richie
district will itself coat nearly $500. In
all the buildings the heating apparatus
has been 30 perfected and the ventilation
80 arranged that the evils 10 health 30
often found In crowded school rooms are
so far done away with as mott to DO por.
eeptible.
PRACTICAL WORK.
The course Of study prescribed by the
Board Ia q well selected ono and em.
braces all those branches most useful TO
those who In after years are 10 DO com.
PEELED 10 earn their bread by the sweat Of
their brows, A student Of the Public
Schools OF Wheeling when graduated and
In possession Of the Boards diploma Ia en-.
titled 10 a teachers certificate for any
room except the grammar rooms.
II iB 10 be said 10 the credit Of the people
Of Wheeling that they take a great inter.
eel In their schools, as evlnCed by their
llberAllty 10 furnishing all the money
needed Tor buildlngS, furniture and al.
pliances, and by the many visits that par.
snta pay to the bright, cheerful rooms In
The sCrtpulously clean buildings where
their children are instructed BY O Get OF
nAkianL. nofnnethnl. Accumulated tAanh.