The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-07
SECOND WEEK OF THE SCHOOLS,
The Attendance of White Children
Way Ahead of Last Year.

Way Ahead of Last Year.
The second week of the school term be-
gan with a rush, and many additional
pupils have been received in the several
schools. Nearly all the grades are crowd
ed to their utmost capacities. A large
number of cards for admission have been
granted this week and a few children
were temporarily turned away until ar
rangements can be made for their accom-
mediation.
The total number of children in the
schools will be determined by this weeks
reports when they are submitted to the
superintendent but it is now thought
that it exceeds that of last year. The
white attendance outnumbers last years
by far, but the restrictions in admissions
TO the colored schools this term, on ac-
count of Supt. Ashmore's desire to see
them only comfortably crowded, have
brought their attendance almost as far
below as the white schools is above the
registration of last year.
In order to provide for a portion of the
large number of coored children desir-
GUS of entering school, another grade has
been added to the Anderson street school.
Transfers both of teachers, notice of
which appeared in yesterdays Morning
News have been made About 100 pupils
have been transferred from the greatly
overcrowded Henry to the Anderson and
Barnard street schools. The transfer of
these pupils has not been fully under
stood by many, those who live in the
immediate neighborhood of the Henry
street school were transferred. This, at
first sight, would seem strange, but be-
ing a delicate matter, and one in which a
mistake would subject him to much criti-
cism, Supt Ashmore carefully considered
the method in which the changes should
be made and finally adopted that which
will appeal to every fair-minded person
as the most just and happy one that could
have been selected.
In the first place, il was absolutely nee
essary, the superintendent considered, for
the changes to be made and then came
the consideration of how he should make
them. Henry street is almost equidis-
tant from the Anderson and Barnard
street schools, and the pupils transferred
from the first had to be distributed in the
grades of the less crowded second tier.
1t would not have been just to those Nv
ing at the farthest limits of Henry street
school district to have made them go ~
the Barnard and Anderson schools, as
they would then have had to walk much
greater distance than children who live in
the schools immediate vicinity. Consc-
quently, ii was decided that it would be
farer to send those children whose walks
to the schools to which the transfers We're
ildut WOuld uOI ne 50 Instant, ana the
children living near the Henry street
school were transferred.
The reasons for this action of Supt Ash
more could not be understood by some
parents whose children were transferred
from the school just at their doors to more
distant ones, but after he explained the
matter, they were satisfied that it was
the proper solution of the difficulty
1t is very probable, however, that these
transferred children viii be shortly given
an opportunity to return to Henry street
school, for the board of education holds a
meeting next Monday, and it is likely that
provisions will then be made for the es-
Establishment of another first and second
grade in that school. This will enable
them to be accommodated, for it was
from the lower grades that they We're sent
to the other schools. The rooms on the
topmost floor of the building will be fitted
for the use of the two grades. This will
be gratifying news to those whose Chill
dren were transferred, as they would
prefer to have them attend the nearest
school to their homes.
Several changes have been made in the
internal adjustment of the Chatham
schools, but no transfers to or from
them
MIR. II. f. Train, principal of the higl,
school, who was injured few days ago
by a fall from a ladder, has taken his
place, but the illness of Mr.. Cannon
teacher of English. still precludes his at
tendance.
All repairs that were urgent in charac-
ter have been completed and the schools
are again comfortable and complete.