The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-26
The RUSH OF PUPILS
CARDS OF ADMISSION TO SCHOOLS
WILL BE ISSUED TODAY.
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS.
HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE CON.
vENIENCE OF THE PUBLIC.

| TO His own Sshool-Every Pupil
Applying for Admission Must Have
Been Successfully yaccinated-Rep-
resentntives of the Health Officer
VIII he i'm Attendance-The Rules
Governing the Admission of Pu-
pils-Every Child to Have n Place
in the Schools.
| Elaborate preparations have been
made by Supt. Ashmore to receive and
care for the crowds of children and
! their parents who will throng the low
er floor of the Chatham Academy this
morning, in search of cards of admis-
sion to the public schools of the city.
The cards of admission will be issued
| to-day, tomorrow and Saturday. The
doors of Chatham Academy will be
thrown open this morning at 9 O'Clock,
and from that hour until l the cards
will be issued.
The entrances will be on Bull street
and Oglethorpe avenue, and the exit
on Drayton streets. The cards will be
issued in the lower hall of the new
portion of Chatham Academy which
is large and commodious and offers
much better facilities than the limited
quarters the superintendent office
have afforded in the past.
Ranged in the hall are desks for the
principal of each school, where he will
| sit, with two assistants. On the pill
lar by which the desk stands is
placard, giving the name of the school.
| The cards for each school will be is
sued directly by it's principal
| The rules of the school board require
that pupil shall attend the school in
the district in which he or she lives,
unless there is no room in that school.
| This will throw some pupils from the
| school they have been attending to an
other, as the district lines have been
! changed since the close of the last ses-
sion. In cases where the pupil has not
moved since the schools last closed, it
| will not be necessary for him to OBJ
| tain a transfer card, as the principals
| of schools have been furnished with
lists of the pupils thus transferred, and
| il will only be necessary for the pupil
| to report on Tuesday, when the schools
open, at the school of the district in
which he lives.
In case, however, the pupil has moved
since June and lives in another dis
| trict, it will be necessary for him to
obtain a transfer card from the super
intendent's office.
Those pupils who were in the schools
at the close Of the last session, wheth-
| er promoted or not, need not obtain
| cards of admission. Places have been
| reserved for them.
Superintendent Ashmore has arrang-
| ed for an examination of each appli-
can't for admission to the schools, and
the examining officer must be satisfied
that the applicant has been success
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the health officer of the city will be in
attendance to discharge this duty
| A room near the entrances, to the
| left of that on Bull street, and to the
right of that on Oglethorpe avenue,
has been reserved for the use of the
examining physician, and through this
each prospective pupil must pass. If
the applicant has not been vaccinated.
the physician will vaccinate the child,
| or, If the pupil prefers, he may go to
his family physician and have the vac
| cination performed.
superintendent Ashmore stated yes
terday that he fully expected that
there would be ample room in the
schools for every white child of school
age in the city. 1t may be necessary,
however, to establish a waiting list for
few days, until the Superintendent
can place those whose names appear
|
The public must understand that
the conditions are very complex" he
SAID and bear with us for few days.
Inc new district lines, the fact that
| last year the children were crowded
ir to fewer buildings than were needed
for their accommodation and a number
OF other considerations have made il
| rather hard for us to solve the prob
iemS IN advance. think we have done
full
may arise which were absolutely I'M
| foreseen. AS 1 say, the children and
their parents must bear with us for
DAY or two and not feel, because a
| pupil is placed upon the waiting LIST
that he is deprived altogether. or even
Tor any length of time, of his place in
the schools"
Book lists have been furnished ali
the stores in the city, so that it will
not De necessary for the children to
wait until Tuesday to purchase their
books. AS soon as the pupil learns
the grade to which he is assigned. he
VIII be in position to buy his books
at once. This will not only save
day for the schools, but will also pre-
vent annoyance to the book stores and
to the pupils themselves. The plan
was followed with success last year.
Inc principals and teachers of the
OSASOAo nave Deen returning
from their vacations during the mast
few days, and almost without excen-
ton the entire teaching force is now
in the city. --0"
Mr.. H. F. Train, principal of the
High School, comes from Buffalo and
Saratoga: Mr. NJ. M. Parks. instructor
In science. from an extensive trin
through the North and abroad. Mr. r
s. Lucas, instructor in science from
Society Hill, S. c.; Miss M. t. Hsr-
ris, assistant, from Brevard. N G
where she spent her vacation: Mr.. q
b. Wood, assistant, from upper Caor'
gia. The remaining members of the
High School faculty, with the excen-
ton of Mr. G. j. Orr, recent addi-
ton to the force. who will arrive or
Monday, have been for some time IN
the city. III
OF the principals of the grammar
schools, Mr.. N. B. F. Close, of the An
derson Street School. has returned
from Waynesboro; Mr.. T. F. Brown Of
the. Thirty Eighth Street School from
Birmingham; Mr.. J. S. Sims, of chat
ham No !, from a trip to Buffalo and
the Pan-American and Saratoga. mr.
William F. Galloway, of Chatham No
2, from Baltimore; Miss ]. A. MustiD
of the Henry Street School. from New,
York city, and Mr.. J. E. Way from hts
farm in Liberty county