The age-herald., 1900-09-18
SCHOOLS OPENED
 WITH THOUSANDS Of Pupils, Crowding All School
 Buildings. LARGE INCREASES NOTED Three Thousand Five Hundred and Sew enty-five Enrolled on the First Day, With Prospects That Build
 ings Will be Crowded
LARGE INCREASES NOTED

Three thousand five hundred and seventy five pupils were classified in the public schools of Birmingham yesterday, the open ing day of the scholastic year. Of these, 2,4OO were white children and 1,175 coored.
 In the High School the pupils classified numbered 275, and crowded will that
 school be that 1t is likely Superintendent Phillips will have to give up his office room
 to pupils.
 The enrolment in the Powell school was 61O, Henley school 7O5, Paul Hayne school S1O
 The total of all the colored schools was 1175.
 That is an extraordinary showing for all the schools on the first day. At the end of the first week last year the total enrolment in the white schools was 2,35S and of the colored schools 1,1S0 'The prospects just now are that all the schools will be greatly crowded" Superin- | tendent Phillips said yesterday afternoon. 1 The day was an excessively busy one for Dr. Phillips and for all the members of his | large corps of teachers. Prom S:30 o'clock 1 in the morning till late in the afternoon the
 work was very exacting.
 At the opening of the High School Prin- l cipal Cunningham conducted a brief praise
 service, after which Dr. Phillips spoke cor dial words of welcome to the old students and the new.
 President Samuel Ullman of the School Board was present, and he eloquently ad- monished the students to be diligent in the search for knowledge. Upon similar lines Principal Cunningham spoke forcefully to those coming under his charge.
 Superintendent Moore of the Ensley schools was present and made some re- marks to the students Dr. Phillips made announcements as to studies, and then the students sang the song, '"rhe Day in It's Spendor." Suburban Schools The Woodlawn public school opened yes terday morning with the largest attend ance in it's history, and the inlica tions are that the enrolment during the year will run much higher than ever before. There was no special programme ar ranged for the opening day and the work of grading the pupils was begun by Super intendent Clayton and his assistants with l out any prelimanry exercises Superintendent Clayton enrolled 266 pupils yesterday in the white school, or twenty two more than on the first day of school last year, when the number enrolled was
 2A The total enrolment last year was 350, and Superintendent Clayton states that he expects the total enrolmen for his year to exceed 400. In the High School thirty pupils were enrolled
 Woodlawn has one of the best public school buildings in the State. It was erected several years ago at cost of about $15,000, and it has heretofore been adequate to accommodate all pupils who applied for admission, but it is probable
 that there will be more applications this ~ year than can be accommodated. Prof. Clayton states that the rooms were con-
 siderably crowded yesterday, and that with
 the additional applca tions to come in the
 capacity of the building will be heavily
 taxed.
 For the first time in the history of the Woodlawn public school the session this year will be for nine months, the availa- ble funds for the school being considera- ply increa sed this year. The school opened two weeks earlier this year than hereto
 fore and yill run two weeks later next
 summer
 In the colored school about 100 pupils were
 enrolled, a considerable increase over last
 year.
 The public school of Avondale was opened
 without special ceremony.
 The University High school at Sixteenth
 street and Eleventh avenue was opened yesterday; as were Miss Wards school and
 Miss Thompsons school, the South
 Highlands.