The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
ARE ALL READY TO OPEN.
SCHOOLS OF THE CITY AND COUH-
TY WILL SOON BE THRONGED.

CoIOred Children VIII Not BE Able
TO Get In-Every Provision Possible
TO Be Made for BOth-AdmissiOn
cards to Be Given Out This week.
Supt. AshmOre. Has Things to
Nicety-His Work VIII BE smooth.
week from tomorrow the city ana
county schools will be reopened for the fan
term Supt. Otis Ashmore has been busy
for the last few days making the final
arrangements for the opening, and they
are now so complete that the schools
might open tomorrow, instead of the
Monday following, and he would be ready
to accommodate the children, or as many
as he could get into the buildings. The
only obstacle would be found in the fact
that all the teachers are not yet back
from their summer vacations Most OF
them are here, however and the others
will be coming in during this week.
Principal H. f. Train of the High SchooI
has returned from Virginia, where he
spent some weeks very pleasantly. Mr.
M. A O'Brien. principal of the Cathe-
dral School, is back from the mountains
of North Carolina, and so is Miss M. j.
Walker principal of Chatham No. l, who
also went to the. highlands for rest and
recreation.
Four of the Savannah teachers took a
summer course this year at the Chicago
University. They are Mr.. j. S. Sims, Mr.
p F. Brown. Mr.. M. M. Parks and Miss
Leila Hin.
supt Ashmore says there will probably
not be sufficient accommodation in the
sire to get in. He will furnish all the
seats possible, and will turn away no
more than he can possibly help doing
With the colored children matters will
be different. There will be many of them
who win not be able to get in. This is
the case every year. There is not enough
room for them, and many have to stay
at home.
Cards of admission will be given out by
Supt Ashmore at his office on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday He states pos
lively that there will be none given out
Saturday. as that morning at 10 O'Clock
there will be a meeting of the country
teachers, who win be in the city to re-
ceve their supplies and instructions. The
superintendent will be busy with them just
about all day and will not be able to de-
vote any of his time to the distribution
of cards to those who might have gotten
them during the three days he had set
apart for this work.
list of schools has been so arranged
as to indicate to the superintendent at a
glance just what vacancies there are in
every grade. He has the blanks before
him. and he will find no trouble in being
able to tell al a moment notice wheth-
a child can be accommodated in the
school to which he may desire to CO. Be
tween and 1 o'clock Superintendent Ash
more will attend to the work of giving
out admission cards. Those children who
were in the schools at the close of the
last term, whether or not they may have
been promoted, will not need cards, as
places have been reserved for them in
their grades. 1t Is for the new pupils
and those who were not in the schools at
their close that the cards are necessary.
The principal of each school is to be
furnished with a carefully prepared tab
ulated statement that Will show exactly
how his school will stand In separate
columns are shown for each grade the
number of seats, the number promoted
from the grade below the number left over
from last year, the number on whom cards
may be given and the number that may
be expected on Oct. g. This information
will prove of great value to the principals,
and the working of the entire school sys-
tenn at the opening will be greatly facii-
tated.
There win be no great increase in the
number of pupils over that enrolled last
year Mr.. Ashmore thinks there will be
more, but no more than can be ascribed
to the natural increase. Additional facili-
ties have been provided in anticipation of
the greater number, and there will not be
many of the white children who can not
ma places. The schools will be crowded;
there is no doubt of that but the children
viii not be packed together a the expense
OF comfort and hygiene. On account of the
expected crowding, none but bona fide res
idents of the city viii be admitted. Par
will - l.
rule. No child living outside the city or
county can get the benefit of the city or
county schools.
When children apply for cards they must
be able to show evidence of having been
Vaccinated. This is something that will be
insisted upon. prospective pupil must be
able to bare vaccination mark or to show
physicians certificate of vaccination.
Under the operation of the new system
of promoting teachers, there will be a
number who win go up step. Owing to
the absence of one of the teachers, these
promotions cannot now be announced. 1t is
not known whether she desires promotion.
By the system recently adopted, promo
IONS are made in the system as a whole
seniority in grades being recognized
"A plan that has been worked for a year
or two may probably have to be used
again. This is 10 transfer children from
one school district to another. 1t is some
uhles found that grade is crowded in
one school while in another there is plen-
~ OF room in the same grade. In such
instances it is an easy matter to adjust
the trouble by sending some of the child
rem from the overcrowded grade to the
one at the other school that has seats
TO spare. In making these transfers
ana having children go to a school not
within their own district, Mr.. Ashmore
VIII SO manage things as TO let the neces-
slty for a further walk fall upon the
oder Of tba
Idea of having young children walk any
further through the streets than is abso-
lutely necessary.
w nile the white children are receiving
their cards of admission from the office of
the superintendent, the colored children
wa be looked after by the principals of
the schools to which they will go. AS
many colored children win be gotten in
as consistent with the best results.
The general condition of the county
schools will be bettered this term by the
completion of three new buildings These
If ,1N Al.