The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-02
SCHOOLS OPEN THEIR DOORS.
LARGE NUMBER OF PUPILS GATH
Erred For THE FIRST DAY.

Everything Passed on without
Hitch or TrOubIc-AII the Teachers
In Their PIaces-There Were 4,55I
Pupils Rece1ved-Many More Ex-
pected-SdH Room In the First
Grade-FaIIInG OF IN Attendance
at the High SchOOI-COmparIsOn OF
Opening Days For -Four Years.
The schools OF the city opened very sue
cessfully yesterday, and total of 4.751
pupils were admitted on the first day. The
work of the opening day had all been very
carefully planned by Supt. Ashmore, and
only a little classification devolved upon
the principals, who said that they had ex-
perienced less trouble incident to the open
ing of the schools than ever before.
The schools were all about filled, as the
seats Of many who were not in attendance
will be reserved for them for a day or SO.
There are vacancies in the first grade of
all except the Henry and the Anderson
street schools. This was rather a surprise,
as it has always been found heretofore
that it in this grade that there is the
most crowding.
Supt Ashmore thinks that it was the
knowledge of this fact that has kept back
many of the little ones, their parents
thinking that il would be no use to send
them as they would not be able 10 get
seats. were they to try. He believes that
Monday or Tuesday will see the grade as
well filled in all the schools as il has been
in the past.
Mr.. Ashmore says that one point upon
which he has determined this year is that
there shall be no crowding in any of the
grades. All viii be filed to their utmost
reasonable limits, but there will not be so
many put in the classes as to make their
conduct inconsistent with the achieve
ment of the best results. All the teachers
were in their places at the opening there
not being a single substitute in any of
the grades.
There are now more pupils in the white
schools than on the opening day of last
year. 1t is expected that there will be
quite number who will come in to claim
their seats. Friday was regarded by some
of them as such an unusual day for the
opening of the schools that they decided
they might just as we'll stay away until
Monday. 1t is highly important, however,
that these all be in their places on Mon
day for on Tuesday their seats, if I'M
claimed, will be given over to those new
pupils who have secured cards of admis-
sion, but have not been assigned places
on account of all being reserved for those
who were in the schools up to the time of
their close in June. These prospective pu-
pills, to the number of
about 100, have all had
their names entered upon a record kept
by the superintendent, and they will be
given the places of those who do not show
up on Monday in the regular order in
which they are entered on the record.
The number of admissions into the col
ored schools shows a decrease from any
of the past four years at the time of the
opening There were 1,729 colored chill
dren received. 1t is thought that there
will be may more to enter, as the colored
schools have always been insufficient for
the accommodation of all the children in
the city who have desired to avail them
selves of the school privileges. A COM
parison of the entrances to the schools
on the opening days for the past four
years viii be interesting: