The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27
TWO SCHOOL SESSIONS A DAY.
WE'RE DECIDED UPON BY THE
SCHOOL HOUSE COMMITTEES.

Chatham school No. 1 viii Have the
NasSie building and Chatham No.
2 the Cathedral school Building
During Afternoons After schools
Reopen on Jan. 2-The Arrange
ment Was Regarded ns the Most
Economical and Practical-'Temp0-
rary Partitions VIII BE Built in
Two of the High school Rooms.
Insurance on some of the school
Property Is Regarded TOO Low.
-Four Of the grammar schools viii be af-
fected in the daily instruction Of their
classes by the recent fire that partly de-
stroyed the Chatham Academy. making it
necessary for the Board of Education TO
provide some other means for the aceom-
notation of Chatham School No. /. ana
Chatham School No. .. Those schools will
combine with the Massie and the Cathe-
dral Schools in the use OF the buildings Of
she latter two.
The children of Massie and Cathedral
Schools will assemble the Morning of Jan
2, when the public schools reopen. at 9
o'clock. They will remain at their duties
until ! o'clock, when they will be dis
missed for the day. This arrangement
viii prevail until permanent accommoda-
lions for the burned-out school children
can be prepared.
Between ! o'clock and 1:l5 the children
OF Chatham No. / will assemble at Massie
School and those of Chatham No. at the
Cathedral School. They will be admitted
10 the buildings and their days duties will
begin. They will continue in school until
5:15, when they will be dismissed to re-as-
mb'e the next day at the time named.
This plan was agreed upon at a meet
ing of the School House Committee of the
Board of Education yesterday afternoon al
the office of Superintendent Otis Ashmore.
The meeting was called TO order at
o'clock by Mr.. Lee Roy Myers chairman,
with Messrs. f. G. duBignon, j. r. f
Tattnan, B. a. Denmark and NJ "A
OByrne, present. 1t was not until two
hours later that the gentlemen had con-
Guided their discussion of the condition
that confronted them and It's solution.
The decision. in favor of double daily
sessions was no surprise. Both Supt
Ashmore and President George \. Mercer
of the Board OF Education expressed them
selves to the Morning News the day after
the fire as favoring this solution Of the
difficulty. as il offers the best and most
practicable one.
had been visited by members of the com
mittee 10 judge of their suitability for
school purposes Several considerations
entered into the decision against the use
of any of these buildings. 1t was seen
that the expense would be more than the
board could bear. both the rent and the
cost of fitting up the buildings with
school furniture coming in TO swell this.
The buildings in use for school purposes
offer greater cOnveniences and better ia
cilities for the education of the young
than others that might be picked up hap
hazard, and these several reasons in
duced the committee TO determine upon
the arrangement as set forth
Massie School has just the number of
grades that Chatham No ] has. while
the Cathedral School bears the same re-
lafion to Chatham No. ?. These reasons
account for the committees selection of
Massie and the Cathedral School as those
TO be combined with the Chatham schools
in the arrangement for the burued-out
children.
The committee also found 1t necessary to
make provision for the three classes of
the High School that had their rooms
damaged by the fire. The withdrawal of
the grammar schools to other buildings
left room vacant on the first floor of
the High School wing, and Mr. Ashmore
was authorized to have two other rooms
temporarily divided by partitions. Accom-
modatons for the burned-out classes will
thus be afforded.
The desks from those rooms of the acad-
envy that were damaged have all been
cleared out and are now on the Verandas
The committee decided to have them
taken to Henry Street School, where they
will be stored until such time as they
may again be needed.
Informally, the matter for Insurance on
school buildings came up for discussion
Nothing definite was decided upon but it
was the general opinion that there is an
insufficient amount of insurance carried
on some of the property of the board. Mr..
Ashmore pointed out instances of this.
and 1t is not improbable that there will be
additional insurance placed.