Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-27
MAKING A STUDY OF BUSINESS.
The New Branch OF the High School
The Teachers and the Plans

In the Thomson building on 18th street.
whore the Washington High School got It's start
is located the new branch of that institution
the Business High School. The necessity Of
relieving the overcrowded High School build
ing and the practicability OF separating the
business school from the main body suggested
the establishment Of the former in building
by itself. The applications for admission, AZ
stated IN The STAR, some what exceeded the ex-
pectations OF the school authorities and the
three hundred pupils tax the accommodations
OF the Thomson building to the utmost Al
ready it is proposed to use the lecture hall in
the Franklin building, little over a square
away, TO accommodate portion of the pupils
At present relief is found by resorting to the
halliday system, the pupils in the second year,
who took the first year OF the course at the
High School last year. attending in The MORN
ing and the new pupils just entering upon their
hrst year attending in the afternoon.
Mr.: {. A. Davis, the principal OF the school
ana instructor In bookkeeping. has associated
with him i've teachers-Mr. Alfred A. Wheat,
teacher OF commercial law and bookkeeping;
Mrs BALDWIN, shorthand and typewritiug; Miss
| Golden, arithmetic and peumanship; Miss God
| frey, bookkeeping aud English, and Miss Sum-
| merscales, English. The complete course is
two years. but the studies are SO planned that
| each year Is complete in itself. and pupil who
can attend only one year can acquire a
yiceable knowledge of business forms and
housekeeping. English, business arithmetic,
| bookkeeping, penmanship and shorthand are
| prescribed or compulsory studies for the first
| year OF the course. 1t is the aim to teach En-
Slish composition and grammar in practical
way, adapting the instruction to the daily needs
OF man or woman of business. Under the
| head Of penmanshlp pupils will be instructed
| IL drawing mp business forms OF all kinds. in
| writing checks which cannot be raised and in
the mahy other usee to which the pen is APP
piled In business. Typewri,ing, mechanical
drawing and German are put down as elective
| studies. An unexpected embarrassment has
| been caused by the fact that nearly all Of
! tie pupils have elected to learn type writing.
As the outfit provided consists of only six type
| writing machines /, is quite impossible to pro-
vide instruction for ali at present. Until better
provision in made the number to be instructed
| IN typewrlting will have to be limited TO about
| thirty. Both single and double entry book
keeping will be taught Mr.. Davis. the princi-
pal, considers that a practical knowledge OF
| the single well the double entry system is
repaired to fit young man woman for bust
| ness life, expert in double entry only
wouid find his knowledge as much Of an en-
| barrassment as help to him in q commercial
| establishment where the single entry system was
| followed. Business practice will be taught in
the second year. 1t is intended to provide the
school with bank counters and other parapher-
MALTA for conducting business Pupils will
| have accounts in bank, draw checks anu drafts,
get notes discounted and go through all tho
| forms Of business and keep their books with as
much care as though they were handling real
| money and paying for real commodities. just
about one-half of the pupils are girls. One
| hundred and fifty maidens of a practical turn
of mind are bent on learning how to draw up
| balance sheets, to click typewriter and per-
form other useful functions In the counting
room.