The age-herald., 1901-09-24
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 WILL OPEN TODAY First Day of the Term of
 19O1-02 BIG ATTENDANCE ASSU RED Estimated That 5000 Pupils VIII Be Accomodated-sup Phillips Has Machinery, In
 Working Order.

The public schools of Birmingham will open for the term of 1901-2 this morning and a large attendance Is assured. The census taken last July showed that there were in the city Il 009 souls of school age to 21. This was an increase of 1466 over the enumeration of 1899, and 1t is an in- teresting fact that while the whites in- creased 1421 the increase of negroes was only forty-hve.
 Last year 52so pupils attended the schools-3OSS white and 2142 negroes. It is estimated that 5000 will attend this year. but nothing like that number will be on hand today. It will be two or three weeks before the schools are full
 The difference between 5000. the number of children that will probably be enrolled, and Il, ,009 of school are, Is accounted for, first, by the small number over IT years of age attending school. Children" between Is and 21 are, as rule, at work. Those between the ages named who went to school last year numbered only forty-two Many of the high school pupils graduate by the time they are II. The next fact is that about one thousand children attend private schools And lastly, quite large number-especially negroes-never go to school at all.
 Machinery in Shape.
 Superintendent Phillips reports that his school machinery is in excellent working condition. The teachers were busy yes terday enrolling new pupils.
 The only drawback to school conditions here is the lack of desk room. The school houses are considerably crowded, but the situation will be relieved later in the fall, when the three new buildings are to be finished. The Samuel Ullman school house in Twelfth street, near the Rich mond Place station, will be ready for oc- cupancy in two or three weeks, and the Lakeview building and the Martin build ing, between Jonesville and Fountain Heights, will be completed about the middle of November.
 These are the teachers of the public schools
 High School.
 Principal, J. B. Cunningham; teachers, Miss B. A. Allen, Miss H. R. Thornton, MT. s. Adams, Miss Floribel Brown, Miss L. C.. Spalding, MT. G. Calman, J. P. Montgomery. Special: Miss Leta Kitts, music teacher; MT. Clark Woodward, drawing teacher.
 Powell School.
 Principal, Miss M. A. Cahalan; teach ers Misses Loula Bradford, Lucy Dennis, Emma Wellman, Kate Dabney, Clara Spencer, Alice Roberts, Estelle Heaslett, Clarine Buell., Alice Shepard. Nash John ston, Cora E. Palmer. Mamie D. Davis, Nellie Castleman, Eugenia Weatherly FL nora Beggs, Edith Green.
 Henley School.
 Principal c. A. Brown; teachers Misses Helen s. Hudson, Annie Brad ford, Bertha Schoen, Claride Berry, Ber- tie Carlton. Jamie Moore, Jessie Ruter, Stella Spiva, Lu Abbey Chambless, Jessie Roberts Madeline Smith, Anna Greene Richard Snead, Rochelle Williams. Alice Stafford, Maud Davis, Alma Feagin. T. c. Young, Elberta Taylor. Saphronia Dyer.
 Paul Hayne School.
 Principal c. B. Glenn; teachers, Misses Bertha Koenig, Ellen H. Jack son, Ida Taylor, Nellie c. Anderson, May Ward, Lizzie Bradford. Emma Ives Mary Sholl, Magnolia Lee, Mary Martin, Addie Norton, Lou E. Eastburn. Annie Pearson.
  tenberry, Ella Taylor, Wilda Morrison, Lottie Green. Rose G. Lewis. Helen John ston, Mary Henley, Mrs. M. N. Dabney, Mrs. Theresa Evans.
 Negro School.
 High School-A. H. Parker, principal; J. R. Coffey.
 Slater school-W. J. Echols, principal; Rachel Lester, Rosa Diffay, Willie Smith, Oliva Harris, Mary Sigman, Minnie John- son, Fannie White, Etta Deace, Orlean Kennedy, Florence E. Kempt.
 Lane School-G. S. Lewis, principal; Isabel V. Brooks. Annie E. Payne, Liz- zie K. Glover, Mary L. Crawford. Alice D. Jenkins, Lillian B. Harris, Lucy J. Hunt CT, Sadie c. Lee.
 Cameron School-W. c. Davis. prin- cipal; Anna Simmons, Eva L. Hendricks, Brunetta c. Hill.
 Thomas School-J. O. Aston, principal; Nancy Lowe Annie l.. Walker.