The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-08

The public schools opened yesterday
morning, after the summer vacation,
with a largely increased attendance.
Superintendent Howell, who spent the
day In visiting as many Of the schools
as he could reach estimates that the
increase In attendance will figure up
between 800 and 1000
In only one school was there any
overcrowding found. This was at No.
So. which was filled to overflowing last
year and which, on account of the rapid
growth Of the territory 1t supplies, is
so overcrowded this year that an annex
VIII have to be established.
Two new buildings were used yes
terday for the first time, No. 10 in the
Nineteenth ward. and No. 49, in the
Third ward. New No. in the WASH
ington avenue flats portion OF the
Eighth ward, which 1t was expected
would be opened yesterday, will not be
ready for occupancy until October /,
owing to a delay experienced in get
ting the building started. The pupils
of that district will be accommodated
as they were last year, some in the
third story of No. IL building, in the
Eighteenth ward, and the others in
rented rooms in the Scott building.
CAPACITY DOUBLED.
No. 26 building in the First ward
which Is having its capacity doubled
by the addition Of a four-room wing, Is
also incomplete. For a month or so the
overflow pupils will have to put up
with quarters in a rented annex, as
they did last year. No. Is, in the Twen-
tieth ward, new building in course
of erection, was also expected to be
ready for occupancy at the opening of
this term, but will not be in readiness
for month or two. 1t is intended with
this building to relieve the congested
condition of adjoining schools. Old No.
q, in the Second ward, is being utilized
to accommodate the pupils of No. 2S,
which is undergoing renovation.
There have been many changes in the
teaching corps since last year. At the
High school Prof. w. E. Schimpff, for
merly principal of No. 25, in Provi-
dence, succeeds Prof. F. d. Littell as
professor of mathematics, Prof. Littell
having resigned to return to his for
mer post in the Naval observatory in
Washington. Prof. Henry Kemmer-
ling, who was principal at No. 13. in
Bellevue, succeeds Prof. Schimpff at
No. 25, and Prof. David owens, a grad
uate of the High school and Blooms
burg State Normal school, takes Prof.
kemmerling's place.
AT HIGH SCHOOL.
Prof. NJ. H. Jordan, formerly princi-
pal at No. Q. and last year assistant
| superintendent Of the Dunmore schools,
goes into the High school as assistant
Go H. -
department. Miss Nettie A. Nye, for
merly of No. 25, is added to the High
school faculty as assistant in the Eng
| lish department Miss Frances Con-
nor, who was, last year. assistant to the
principal at No. 27, yesterday began
duty as assistant in English and his
tory at the High school. Miss Morse,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, was also, yesterday,
installed as drawing teacher
The vacancy at No. 25, occasioned by
the transfer of Miss Nye, was filled by
Miss Ross, a new appointee. At No. 27
Miss Grace Hicks was promoted to the
| position of assistant to the principal,
vacated by Miss Connor's transfer, and
Miss Cora Griffin, a new teacher, sue
| ceeds Miss Hicks.
Miss Cora Farnham succeeds to the
| position In No. Il vacated by the resig-
nation of Miss Ida Cahoon, and Miss
| May Ackerley, a new appointee, goes
into the intermediate c department to
succeed Miss Farnham. Miss Edna
| Fowler, newly appointed, takes the
| place made vacant by the resignation
Of Miss Helen Hurlbutt in the Primary
B department of No. 2S. Miss Bessie
Duval is another new appointee to No
2S, taking the position which was for
merly filled by substitutes. Miss Lila
Frable, new teacher, is added to the
corps at No. 10. Miss Durkin, of No
8, also goes to No. 10, where a Gram
mar A department has been estab-
| lished.
OTHER CHANGES.
| Miss Name Thomas, formerly a SUBJ
stitute, is given a permanent position
in the Primary B department of No. 25
Miss Nellie Benjamin, formerly at No
25, resumed duty as teacher in the In
termedate c grade at No. 26. Miss
Hannah NJ. Williams. of No. 25, Is
transferred from Primary B to Primary
c grade.
All the schools got down to work yes.