The evening world., 1893-10-21
COlOREO SCHOOLS MUST co.
The Only Two Left Are to Be Con-
solidated with Ward Schools
Oniy Seventeen Colored College
Graduates in the Last 20 Years.

A few years ago there were ten public
schools for colored children in New York.
Now there are only two. In a few weeks
there will he none.
II $40 Board Of Education had known
what to do with the sixteen faithful and
conscientious teachers. who have been so
loyal to their trust and so jealous IN
advancing the interests of their people.
their schools would have been abolished
long ago. These women, who are all
college graduates, deserve the considera-
ton they have received. Their position.
however, Is most uncomfortable. For
two or three years there has been
official talk of consolidating Schools Sc
and 81 for the exclusive use OF colored
children. Now it has been decided to
wipe out the race line in public instruc-
ton and foster the tendency of the col
ored people to ahve their children edu-
Gated with the whites.
Preparations are being made In
School 81, at 225 West Forty-hrst street.
to accommodate the colored children uf
School 30, in Forty-second street. The
other colored school, at l2s West Seven
teerth street, will be consolidated with
q ~neighboring ward school within three
weeks, and when the Winter term be
gins race distinction in public education
will have been abolished.
This step has been precipitated by the
reluctance of the colored people to patro-
nize separate schools. There Is scarcely
q classroom in the public schools that
does not include colored pupils. 1t has
been with difficulty that the attendance
at Schools so and 81 has been maintained
even at the di~scouragingly low average.
Children who belong in the district pre-
fer to go any distance. often bearing the
expense OF car fare, rather than study
with those of their own race.
The teachers are inclined to regard this
as treachery on the part OF their own
people. One very intelligent woman calls
our people," she says. cant forgive
us for succeeding. They dom mind our
getting, an education, provided We return
to the level of our source and take posi-
tons as ladies' maids, housekeepers
dressmakers. or even manicure opera.
tors. We might become foreign mission
aries or even the wives of starving
preachers, but In professional lines they
have no admiration and but little tolera-
III they would help us to the extent
VI StIulnS tntlT Cnlllfpn 10 DE taught
by us we could help them, and our
schools might become n factor in the
public system. But they. won't do it.
The children like us. We treat them
receive from white teachers, not be-
cause they deserve 1t, but because they
are our people.
I've are far more patient md in
70 get them through the grade work for
tneir own as well as our glory: but 1t
isn't any use. The rank jealousy Of
joint success"
Just what provision win be made for
the colored teachers when their schools
are consolidate and the children mixed
doesn't know. There is no thought OF
appointing. them to even primary posi-
tons in the schools where the popula-
ton Is largely foreign. Supt. Jasper
The whites wouldn't have 1t. al
though the woman might be more
womanly, more efficient and better quail
than a white teacher"
One OF the teachers In School 81 is n
MISS Howard. She passed "A brilliant
distinguished her In educational circles.
She WAS chosen by the Commissioners
q the Columbian Exposition to represent
tne eo,ored women OF America and APP
pointed to the Board Of .ady Managers.
Speaking Of her work Supt. Jasper
paid her the high compliment OF calling
her "a fine woman"
In the schools of New York. She keep,
= model school. | second her to no
teacher In the ward schools-male or
female. Aside from being, strong in
tellectually she Is accomplished and YER
satile. She Is a fine woman
Another admirable teacher is Miss
Eato, head assistant of School 50. Dur
Ing the last ten years ten of her pupils
were graduated. Her greatest difficulty
all through her career has been tn get
the children. She has enticlng methods
maj MAKE study a pleasure, but In spite
OF her efforts she can't keep up the at
work. ~
Last year the class was too small for
s srsm,nation, and this term there is no
,,S School 81 is quite ready for demol!l.
: d,sgrace to the community. The
dence. In ~remodell.ag it the Commit.
tee on Building made the smallest pos.
S Sio,e outlay. No partitions were taken
oiHGes Tor the TWO principals, and the
addition of double seats and a few fee
OF blackboard were thought sufficient tC
convert the dining-room, kitcnen. par
iors and sleeping rooms into class
rooms. Even the marbl mantels wer.
permitted to remain for the poor llttl,
foIRs to bump their heads against.
nv primary department the Chi,
oren are very much Crowde., the at
tendance now being la5. against 20 II
the grammar division. There il no sys
tenn OF ventilation, not even six-inCl
boards to raise the windows, and the AT
mosphere; now thar the little stoves ar
kept fed-hot, is a subject for the Healtl
Board to consider.
for 2ome unknown reason the moo
children are compelled to use the iro,
stairway and go out Of school by IN
pack door, the halls and stalrcas sea h.,
Ing reserved for company" "
The relations existing between IN
pupils and teachers are mos, pIeasan,
win Inc exception OF u shrew or two
vested with a littl. authori Y. the wome
gre Klnd 10 tenderness, and the fun
soying poys and girls are as serious an
iaithful as their irresponsible nature
will permit. Individual teachers e. ON
OF their way and levy upon their ow,
slender resources to induce their mimi
70 come to srhool. With the assi!tanT
or friends. proper clothin" is proviir
IN every case where poverty is In, -,
cuse offered for irregularity. 20
school 81 has an attendance of aho,
l5o. Here as at School 50, the Driin,,
grades are uncomfortabl crowded. nm
the accommodatlons are even wors,
ic the building resembles an old war,
mouse. II IL squeezed In betwecn MAJ
ulacturing establishments, the rooms a,
- dim as lofts, and everything is oil,
unattractive and in~convenient.
Here, too. the Importance OF vent,l,
tion Is lost sight OF. There is no mr.,
tense TO d wardrobe. Upon the wal
are a lew pegs, on which. by means :,
long pole. the little wraps and cal
are hung Ni