The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-28
BIG INCREASE IN PUPILS.
LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS
FOR ADMISSION CARDS.

in the Public schools This Year.
More Than 300 New Ones Expected.
Schools Free From Many Disad-
vantagcs-Demand For Admission
Cards at the Academy.
The issuing Of cards Of admission to the
new pupils of The schools was the order
Of business at the Office of the supsrin-
tendent yesterday, and from 9 until
o'clock there was a steady flow Of appli-
cants for them. 1t is estimated that cards
were supplied to about 800 children. 1t
is thought that about the same number
will be given out to-day and tomorrow,
which will be the last day for Their dis
tribution, there will probably be a small
er number.
The cards were all given out after the
applicants had conclusively shown that
they have been vaceinated. Nearly all of
them were able to show the necessary
marks. In view of the fact that their
admission into the schools is dependent
upon this operation having been under
gone, there is now considerable energy
displayed by the prospective pupils in the
Wy u 1NohAa5 UP pHJSASltlt4S " nave
them inject the vaccine into Their veins.
One of the doctors stated that there had
been several children brought to him
during the dav.
1t is expected that there viii be about
600 or 700 pupils TO enter the white schools
and about 300 to enter the colored schools,
who were not on the rolls at the close of
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the cards are being given out, it not be-
ing necessary for those, whether they
were promoted or not who were in the
schools at the close of the term in June,
to have admission cards. The seats held
by these pupils will be reserved for them
There is likely to be an attendance of
about $500 pupils in all the schools of the
city and county. Last year the number
was S,419. The increase is largely from
the natural increase of the population.
There are many instances, however, in
which the entrance of the new pupils re-
suits from their having recently moved
to Savannah from other places.
While there will be more pupils than
there were last year 1t DOES not follow that
there will not be room enough for their
accommodation. Some of the upper
grades are about filed up and it may be
found necessary to change the additional
pupils who try to get into those grades
from their own districts to some others in
which the same grades are not crowded.
This change may be only temporary as
later in the term it often happens that
vacancies occur. In contemplation OF
these vacancies the names Of the children
who are transferred will be kept and as
rapidly as possible they will be restored
to their proper schools. In the lower
grades there is plenty Of room in all Of
the schools Recognizing the fact that it
would naturally be in these grades that
the greatest increase would be found the
school authorities so arranged matters as
TO have no overcrowding.
The schools this year are free from
many of the disadvantages under which
they labored last year at the opening of
the term. There were then four new prin-
cipals and all of them were unfamiliar
with the work of these schools. Now there
Is only one new principal, Prof. ]. S.
Sims, and he is experienced in the con-
duct of the schools, having been elected
to the position as principal of Chatham
school, No. l. after two years work as a
teacher in the High school. There was
also the necessity of changing the dis
trict lines last year on account of the
opening Of the Anderson street school, and
this not unavoidably caused some confu-
sion. The lines are now all arranged and
well understood.
Another matter that will not now occa-
sion any inconvenience was then the
crowded condition of the Henry street
school. 1t was found necessary to estab-
l.sh additional classes in some of the
grades. These classes, being now al
ready established, viii be open for the ac-
commodation of the large number of pu-
pills in that neighborhood.
Prof. H. F. Train, principal of the High
School, was busi.y engaged during the day
in receiving the IS tuition fee for the first
quarter of the high school term. He viii
also he at the school to-day and to-mor-
row to receive the fees, which must be
paid in advance.
Mr.. M. NJ. Parks who was elected to
succeed Mr., Douglas, as the teacher of
natural science in the High school,, ar
rived in the city last night. He has been
spending the summer at the Chicago Uni
versity, where he took a special course in
science. DR.. w. f. Galloway, principal
of Chatham school No g. and his bride
have arrived from Baltimore where he
has been spending his vacation.
Prof. j. s. Sims has also returned from
his home a Weliston.
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