The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-19
THE SIMPSON DRY-D0Jk
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR
ITS OPENING TO-DAY.

W ASHlNtION. ~. ". NtpltnDtI 10
A large party of Waihingtonians will
attend the formal opening OF the Simp-
son dry dock at Portsmouth. Va. to-
morrow. Parties from Baltimore,
Washington, New York and PhIla-
delphia wilI.take the Bay Line steamer
''Vireiniar chartered for the purpose
at Canton. Nd. at o'clock this even
/ ing and will arrive at Portsmouth to-
morrow morning. After the dry dock
has been formally opened a banquet
will be served at the Portsmouth navy
ward and the party will leave that point
for Baltimore on the Virginia at $50
=. VI.
Among the Washington party who
are expected to be present in charge of
All. Simpson will be Rear Admiral
.Jouett. Commodore Melville. Engineer
in Chief of the Navy; Commodore
White. Chief Of the Yards aud Docks
Bureau: Commodore Dewey. Chief Of
the Equipment Bureau, Captain Howl
son. President of the Steel Board: Hon.
John R. Thomas, OF Illinois; Colonel
William B. Reamey. Judge Advocate
General of the Navy: Chief Clerk Hogg.
of the Navy Department: Supervising
Inspector General Dumont. Of the
Steamboat Inspection Service, Captains
Mead and Cook: Naval Constructors
HynchbOrn and Bush: Surgeon Ruth:
First Comptroller Matthews; Majors
Lowry aud Nicholson. Of the Marine
Corrs. and Commodore Weaver: Major
John McArson, Philadelphia Ledger;
L. A. Richardson, Of the Baltimore sun;
Colonel +. ID. Mussey of the Cincinnati
Commercial gazette p. ;. Heath, In
dianapolis Journal: w. l.. Crounse,
New York Vorld; d. 5. Perry. New
York sun: p. V. De Graw. the United
Press: James r Young. Philadelphia
Erening star: Charles Towle. Boston
| TrdreHer: Louis Garther, Baltimore
american: K. NJ. Laiuer. Charleston
Nclrs and & urier: Thomas Is. KIRBY.
New York Journal Of Commerce. b. r.
Mckee. the Associated Press; o 'Brien
Moore. St. Louis Republic; X. 5. Fearn.
Brooklyn Eugle; c. NJ. Pepper, Chicago
Tribune: Fred. Perry Powers, Wash
lipgton Democrat: w. G.. SsckendOrif.
New York Tribune; o. .. Stealy. Louis
VILE Courier Journal; Geo. +. Walker,
Cleveland Le0der; Walter Weilman
Chicago HeiGld: A. b. Wight. Chicago
Inter ocean: and representatives OF the
Washington star. Capitol, Post, Press
and Sunday papers.
THE DOCK A COMPLETE SUCCESS.
The dock was inspected and tested by
the naval commission yesterday. ih'
commission. consisting of Captain
Bruce. Naval Collector Steele and Civi
Engineer naxsOm. of the Washington
, navy-yard report that the dock con
tainipc twenty-four feet OF water wa
pumped dry in sixty-hve minutes. 10
vessel being in it,. The drainage pump'
delivered .C60 gallons per minute. o.
thee and one-half times the capaciil
required by the contract.
ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OIL
EDUCATION.
The annual report of y. L. Il. Daw
e son. Commission Of Education. has beer
submitted to the Secretary Of the La
' terror. 1t shows that during the yer
f79 .9Gi documents were distributed
The library has been enlarged By thi
. reduisitiOn OF > 500 volumes and 1000
pamphlets, making the total numoe
z in the library % 800 volumes and 5000
PAMPHLETS. The museum connected wit
j. the bureau includes 90 0OOarticles. Fror
= an ANALYSIS Of the statistics Of publ
schools for the decade. 1876 u I
= 1856 50. 1t appears. says the report
o that the growth Of the system ou'
Il stripped during that period the gro"t
: of populatiOn. the excess of the increas
Il Of enrolment over increase IN popt
- lation Six to fourteen yeaIs ago beln
one sixth per cent.
SOUTHERN SCHOOLS.
This Gain is attributed to the progrei
:. Of the public schools IN the two Soutl
ern sections. and more especially IN th
South central division. There the II
I. crease of enrolment. says the rspof
-shOws an excess over the increase Z
], populatIon probably never before pa
alleled in a country so long settled.
Since 1870 II the increase OF enrol
ID mont i'm the public schools of the Soui
sr has been 63 per cent. In regard to Il
y, value Of statistics exhibiting the COZ
n dition of State schools systems, the
Of port says their usefulness Is great
Id impaired by want OF unliOrr
n ity in the work Of the dliie
to ent States. These sentiments,
in favor of free schools supported
c public funds" gays the c0mmlssione
re lis becoming each year more unlver-a
s- lv prevalent. The public school sy
TENS of the Southern States have bee
n, undergoing an unprecedented develo
of ment under laws adopted ia each ca
ne to local circumstances. and are no
en- practically all established on perm
II nent basis. COlored children are a
portioned on equal share Of the Scho
funds lexcept 10 the case Of Delaware
and their schools are kept open as lo
and under as well paid teachers as the
10 Of the white children.
49, WHITE TAXES FOR NEGRO SCHOOLS
ce The funds for the support Of the
,et schools are furnished mainly by I
ce white inhabitants. and after maxi
due allowance for all the sums II
H. have been furnished for the educati
adj of the negroes through private SQUIRE
es. OF beneyolence.. and through taS
IT. raised by themselves. 1t may still be ;,
nd that the children OF those once held
ii. seryitude in the South are being educal
hv the sous Of their former master;
he The conditions affecting puollc edu'
ton in the South, the report says. ma
r. il necessary 10 maintain two seper'
he school systems. Their population
es- made up of two distinct races and C
in ors. In this section the statistics oh
nd. that Gi per cent. OF The white popu
tion of school age are enrolled. vi
lG. but % per cent Of the colo
population Of school age are euroll'
la the District Of Columbia alone d.
-, the colored enrolment, as compar
lph with the population. exceed that OF
,ax white enrolment of school ags.
red A considerable portion OF the rep
ac- is devoted TO education IN Alaska,
|. in the commissioners recommends that
dly the schools in operation be broul
more closely under government C
troll.
TANNERS sUCCsssORsHir.
'pe- A dispatch from Deer Park quotil
)m- friend of the President, as say ing
an Major William Warner may yet acc