Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-01

taught for the entire session 1865; num-
| Der promoted 974, or thirty-six more
than last session. The first graduates
the first fruits of these scbools-were this
session six girls and one boy. OF the
graduates two were made full teachers
and two substitute teachers. This session
and for next an arrangement was
adopted by the board by which pupils of
the seventh, eighth and higher grades
were concentrated into two build
ings OF four rooms, thus relieving the
district or ward school buildings of these
grades and giving more room for the
lower crowded grades. Session 1873
opened September 5, forty regular teach
ers, a writing master and two substitutes.
There was an average attendance of the
first week of 1850, or gain over last
session for this date of fifty pupils The
highest daily attendance for this session
was reached the first week in October,
1921; giving each regular teacher over
forty pupils. First of January the board
secured the services of DIR. Luther
Whiting Mason, for fifteen years super
visor of music in the Boston schools and
late director of school music in the EN-
pire of Japan, to teach our teachers.
The entire registry for this session of
different pupils was 2271, daily actual at
tendance 1873, or 10 over last session
There were taught for an entire session
1904, while only five graduated, all young
women. There were promoted to higher
grades 100, or l26 more than previous
session, thus showing decided advance
ment, better organization and better
teaching. The expense of this session
while aggregating more than last, shows
also a decrease comparatively per pupil
int 10
of vocal music should be considered sub
stantial gain, decided progress thus plac-
ing the schools abreast with the foremost
systems of the country. Calesthenics
and drawing have been taught from the
beginning. Manual instruction says
the superintendent in his last report,
''wiil come in due time
BUILDINGS, LOTS AND FURNITURE.
1923, building No. g., with four
rooms, was erected at a cost Got, building
and furniture) of S4I55.
1884, building No. /, eight rooms,
$3.50.
AT the same time, building No. 2;
eight rooms, duplicate of No. /, $3.50.
1854, building No. 6, (for the
cOlored, y originally four rooms, but en-
larged to six, lS84-5, total cost, $3.50.
No. 5, two rooms erected the same ses-
sion, $3.50.
Also the building known as the boys
high school. two rooms (ground rent
donated at a cost of $500.
1SS4-5, building No. 4, with four rooms
at a cost of $500.
Building No. Z, with four rooms, cost,
$500
There has been added from time to
time, for globes, gongs, clocks, charts,
md of,
Or the school property of the city of
Fort Worth represented a year ago
$50 ,675.
There have been additions to these
buildings and school libraries and other
appliances, have been added as needed,
and means have been found to secure
them. Session 1878. The city council
greatly improved the school grounds,
having enclosed all the buildings with
neat, substantial picket fences, adding at
the same time to buildings Nos / and
II porches, and stairways for the easy
exit of pupils from the upper rooms in
case of fire.
In the absence of
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING,
the property formerly occupied by the
First Baptist church was purchased,
(mainly for the site) and fitted up for the
Girl s High School. While this building
is totally inadequate for the demands,
still it is good aud comfortable building
for the number it viii accommodate.
Session 1852 opened September IL
with forty-two regular teachers and a
writing master. The superintendent s
statement of the condition OF these
schools (close of 1889 for four
teen weeks shows that the aver
age daily attendance for this period
has been l -, or over forty-one pupils to
the teacher. That as compared with the
same period (before Christmas last year,
that while there was falling off, this
year from the highest number, of 70 pu-
pills that last year the falling off was
100. That hardness last year was per
cent, this year only l per cent.
Thus the system has been enlarged
The teachers have been increased each
year, till from seventeen in the beginning
there are now forty-three. From daily
attendance of Gas the first week, there is
now daily attendance of 1888 for four
teen consecutive weeks.
These schools owe their success to the
three separate influences, all, however,
working to the same end, the greatest
city council, the board of trustees APP
pointed by the council, the
corps of teachers and super
intendent selected by the board.
From the beginning no distinction
has been made in regard 10 the sex or
color of the teachers. Lady teachers for
the same work receive the same price as
the gentlemen; the coiored teachers for
the same grade of work receive the same
pay as the teachers for the white schools.
The schools, while separate for white
and colored, could not be pointed out by
a stranger.
The New England Journal of Educa-
ton, in a recent editorial, has this to say
about our schools:
Fort Worth is highly honored in the
character of her pnblic school system,
which affords to the celored teacher and
pupil the saInes rights and privileges
that devolye upon the whites. In School |