Evening journal., 1890-08-30
LAST EDITION
OPENING oE The SCHOOLS.
A Gain Of 500 Pupils shown in One Year
New teachers Appointed.

Gain Of 500 Pupils shown in One Year.
New teachers Appointed.
The public schools will open on Mon
day morning o receive the 5000 scholars
which this city contains. The scholars
will assemble in the twenty Eve city
school buildings at o o'clock, and the
rooms viii be called to order b. 176
teachers
OF these s 900 children, ten per cent or
800 are cooled, and have schools of their
own. No 49, known as the Howard
school, which is the colored high school,
will soon have cooking and sewing intro
duced as part of the regular curriculum.
There will be 900 new children in the
schools this term. To accommodate them
additions have been made to schools No
3 and IL each of which has gsined
seating capacity of 10S or 216 In all The
new school No, % in the Twelfth ward
will seat 400 pupils; thus will be &C
commodated all the new pupils.
At No l8 school only eight primary
grades have been taught, but beginning
with this term, the full course of ten pri-
mary grades and the first, second and
third grammar grades will be taught.
Several new teachers have been Sc
cured both in the colored and other
schools. Among them is Miss Ora Eoyce,
a graduate Of the Ann Harbor, Michigan,
High School Miss Boyce will be super
visor of drawing in the primary and
grammar schools.
George M. Warren, formerly professor
of free-hsnd and mechanical drawing in
the High School has accepted a DO ition
as.chief of a corps of civil engineers in
Virginia. His former position is still
vacant and some one must soon be APP
pointed to it.
The Manual Training department of
the High School has commanded great
deal Of attention and it will continue to
do SO. A new industry in what is called
the forge department will interest the
pupils very much. An instructor must
soon be engaged for this department. |
The teachers in the wood and metal |
shops will begin within the next week to |
initiate the boys into the use of the new |
machinery which the board has procured. |
The schools will be closed next We'd /
nesday to allow teachers and pupils to /
visit the Wilmington Fair. The boys of |
the High School, manual training de- /
partment, will be present at the fair and /
will illustrate the system of training |
All the other departments of the schools
will exhibit specimens of their work
under various conditions,
Cookery and sewing will be introduced /
into the Girls High School, and some.
time in the near future it may be posi-
bic to drop in at the High School and en-
Joy a sEvorY dinner prepared by the fair
hands of ones daughter or sister.
The increasein the number Of parochial
schools will cause slight decrease in
the number of scholars in the public |
schools and this will be especially notice
able in the case of the colored Catholic
school now being erected on French /
street between Tenth and Eleventh i
streets. Many parents send their chill
dren to these schools, not because they
learn more lessons. but because they are /
taught etiquette by the sisters in charge
OF them.
Most Of the school buildings have been
repaired and some rebuilt during the Il
summer months. Several have been
painted and papered and the schools /
generally are In better sanitary condi- |
ton than ever.
Several changes have been made in the |
teachers Of some of the schools This is /
notably the case in the colored schools /
where several teachers have been pro-
NOTED. Several teachers have resigned,
and others have been or will be appointed
to fill their places
The seating capacity of the schools is
entirely capable of accommodating all
the pupils, but in some parts of the city
the seatings have been irregularly dis
tributed. This is especially true in the
vicinity Of No 8 school. Here the pri-
mary scholars are in the excess, while in
the schools on the outskirts of the city
the primary classes are very seldom
flied. This Of course, cannot be helped,
as preparations must be mads for the
city's growth by having school houses
situated on what is now the city limits,
but which in few years will be quite
"in town
The high school scholars will probably
print paper this term. The idea has
been growing steadily for some time. and
before long some of the budding writer's
will have chance to show the Ere of /
their literary genius. The scholars will |
also probably form a school society and |
this, with the athletic club, will make it |
one of the strongest high schools in the |
country, besides elevating the characters
Of the scholars.