The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-21
BOARD EXPECTS THE MONEY.
BELIEVED GRAND JURY WILL
GRANT APPROPRIATION ASKED.

hoard of Education VIII Need SOL
600 for Usual and Extraordinary
observation-disclosures of Budget
Committee of Grand Jury and FL
nance Committee of the Board
seemed satisfactory Restored
Academy and Eighth Street school
VIII he in Great Demand by Jan.
1. when 1t Is Hoped They VIII he
Rendy for Occupancy-Next Fall
Will See a Congestion of the
school system.
The Board of Education will not go be-
fore the grand jury to urge an appropria-
ION for the successful operation of the
schools next year. Ii is believed it will
mot be necessary. The budget of expendi-s
ture will probably be made up this week
by the grand jury, and it is expected that
the full amount asked for by the board
viii be granted.
AT q joint meeting of the Budget Com
xnittee of the grand jury, and of the
FINANCE Committee of the Board of Edu-
cation, both committees arrived at sat-
isfactory understanding. The members
of the board, who were present, explained
why they needed as much as S91, 900, and
the explanation seemed fair to the grand
jurors.
If the board gets the money for which
It has asked it will receive more than
it has ever received from a grand jury.
Col George A, Mercer, president of the
board, said yesterday that $4,000 is need
he Of ba hull
ing on Eighth street and $1,000 for the
payment of a years rental to the board of
trustees of Chatham Academy on THAI
building when it has been restored. Thus,
$4,000 is asked for that cannot be con-
sidered as ordinary expense.
II is estimated that about $50 900 will
he expended by the board of trustees of
the academy for its restoration. Until
the cost of the building has been refund
ed, the Board of Education will make an
annual payment Of So, 900 as rental. After
the amount invested has been paid in to
the trustees, the Board of Education will
he relieved from the necessity of paying
further rental for the use of the academy.
Some objection to this arrangement has
been limited at, but Col. Mercer avs it Is
the best one that offers and is perfectly
fair and equitable Room for Chatham
Schools Nos. l and is absolutely neces-
sary, Col Mercer declared, and the c9un-
ty must either find It's way clear to making
the payments to the trustees as demanded
by the proposed arrangement or expend
$4,000 in the erection of two grammar
schools for the accommodation Of the pu-
pills of those named.
Plans for the restoration of the Academy
are still in the hands of the Building Com
mittee. of which Capt. H. c. Cunningham
is chairman. The committee is carefully
GfI nj re nf nj a
eleven plans, and a recommendation will
he made to the Board of Trustees when
the body is called together.
Il Is hoped the academy may be COM
pleted by Jan. l, but of that grave doubts
are entertained. Preliminary steps will re-
quire some weeks longer, and it will be
some time before actual work can begin.
1t would be very desirable to have the
building in readiness by fall for the chill
dren of the two schools that were driven
from it by the fire, but that is regarded as
impossible.
The Eighth Street School, it is thought,
will be completed by Jan. /. If IL is not
quite finished by that date, it will yet be
ready for occupancy. considerable
strain upon the school system will be re-
lieved by the opening of the school, and
accommodations for, most of the children
who will be on the waiting list Will then
doubtless be provided.
Superintendent Ashmore of the public
schools declares that there will be
greater congestion next fall than he has
known The fall term will start with at
least $50 children on the waiting list They
will be unable to find places until the
opening of the Eighth Street School.
In addition TO this difficulty will be that
of the arrangement that is at present fol-
lowed for the accommodation of the chill
dren of Chatham Schools Nos. l and 2.
The children of these schools, respective
Jy, are now taught in the afternoons al
the Massie and Cathedral Schools, both
of which are smaller than the REQUIRE
ments demand, thereby offering added
difficulty to the entrance of all the chill
d en- who may desire admission. The plan
OF afternoon schools, too, though the best
that offered after the partial destruction
OF the academy, is not altogether salts
foctory to the parents of the children who
s'end them.
Mr.. Ashmore accounts for the children
Who will be on the waiting list in the fall
by the natural increase in the enrolment
from year to year, and by the number
OF children who, this year, have been
unable to find places in the schools. The
records for the past twenty years have
shown an annual increase of $50 children
enrolled. On the waiting list now are
W. names, SO that next fell it may be
iolrly expected that there will be a wait
ing list of at least $50 a number that, IN
itself. would furnish grammar school