Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

Yesterday the night school teachers received
their warrants for their salaries for the term
of night school just completed. The amount
of the pay roll is s., 4S6 25. 1t is well-known
fact that the night schools are not as efficient
as they ought to be. and next year there is a
probability that some plan will be brought for
ward to have all the local boards act con-
certedly, so as to have the night
schools more profitable. Occasionally some
wild youngster comes to enroll the first
night ana gives fictitious name. The following
night on his arrival he will enroll again giving
his own name. The teacher is not able to recog-
nIze all the strange faces at once and she does
not know how she is being treated This class
of pupils will only attend few nights, but it
brings the enrolment very high, and the per-
centage will not be one-third. Prof. j. K. Bape,
of the st. Clair. a principal of much solid ex-
perience, will endeavor next year to have this
plan carried out at the night schools in the
Twenty-seventh ward: mo pupil shall attend
who has not written permit from the school
board stating that he attends for the purpose
of tuition and also signed by the parent or
guardian of the applicant who are also willing
to be held responsible TO: any damage that the
pupil may do to the furniture or building. In
good time will not have the liberty to enroll at
all.
Mr.. E. Ketchum, of Providence. R. T., writes
to Superintendent Luckey asking if there is
not system of false fire alarm in use in the
Pittsburg schools by which chiliren are trained
TO leave the building rapidly. There have been
a number of destructive fires in Providence of
late and one occurring in a large school, fortu-
nately on Saturday. There has been much talk
in consequence of the need of having a fire
alarm connected with each school building
All the school buildings in Pittsburg are pro-
vided with fire escapes. The State law calls
for this. but previous to the adoption of the
law the schools had a fire alarm drill, which
was considered in many cases superior to the
present way of getting out of the building by
the and of fire escapes. At some buildings this
drill is a feature at reception days" yet
Architect Bailey will have com pleted by Tues
day the design of the new building which is to
be erected for the Allen School, Thirty.first
ward. 1t is modelled after the plan of the Will
kinsburg Public School. Efforts will be made
TO have 20 school-rooms in the building ready
for school purposes by September l. The build
ing is to be so constructed that mansard roof
can be added, so that in time the Allen School
building will contain 80 rooms This ward has
built up very rapidly of late, and the need Of a
very large building is most necessary. The
board met last evening to elect a teacher. The
circular asking the assent of the ward people
to increase the assessment i mill will not be
issued till next week.
A Division Institute, to which the principals
Il D
invited, will be given at 9 o'clock next Satur-
day morning at the Miller street building. A
class drill will be given by Miss 4. H. Funden-
berg, of the Osceola School, Twentieth ward
There will be no pupils in the class who entered
school prior to September. 1890. The pro-
gramme will be varied. and consist of the fol.
lowing features; @ I, Music, motion song, Our
nastics, reading, written language, motion song
physiology, number, observation and imagina.
tion.
Miss Ida Mcclure was elected last TUESDAY,
to fill the vacancy in the Moorhead School
caused by the marriage of Miss Dietrich.
Prof. Rinehart's Saturday normal class In
music for the teachers is starting with excel.
lent prospects. The next drill will not take
place till the 3lst inst on account of the insti.
tute called for next Saturday.
A class of 70 pupils will graduate from the
Public Cooking School Saturday. January 81,
tabulated the number and kinds of dishes with
which they will feast their friends on the great
occasion.
Miss Mamie Pollock, of the PEBBLES Schools
was the head promoter of the gay euchre party
which surprised her sister Maud, also teacher
in the O'Hara School, on the occasion of her
birthday last Friday evening. Miss Maud was
the fortunate winner of the first prize
Every year the State Department at Harris
burg sends 400 or 500'large and rather un.
wieldy register books to the Office of the Gen.
trail Board of Education, for which they have
no use, as most of the Pittsburg school boards
supply the teachers with the neat and small
form of books for the enrolling of pupils.
There are now 200 or 800 of these register books
on the, officers hands at the Central Board
and they will soon get their yearly
supply. They are too large to be
used conveniently, and are for country dis
tricts; and, though they are burden, the fun
loving trio of officers of the Central Board
have good time in trying to palm the books
of on the principals and the teachers. One
lady principal sent last week for four of the
books and four boys to carry them. Eighteen
were sent her. If she had sent six boys she
would have been sent 40 books they told her
afterward. When a request comes for one
book the answer is: They always go in
pairs"
The closing exercises of the Washington
night school Friday evening were very enjoy
able. There was music by the Misses MacIn-
tosh, Lindsay and Fauble, readings by the
Misses Myra Johns and Martha Irwin, and reci-
tations by Miss Nina Milligau. Messrs. George
Seebick and John Fox addressed the pupils.
The entertainment was under the direction of
Mr.. John Fox. the Central Board representa-
tive of the Seventeenth ward