The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-17

an Institution as Clark can have In
community it will suffice to quote a
few statistics from the report of the SUI
perintepdent Of Worcester public schools
for 1901 It should be remembered In this
connection that Worcester has popula-
ton Of about 10000. There are 20 day
schools, Is suburban schools, and q
night schools which cost s2,702,351
In these figures are included three high
schools which cost 1854, 16O.
The number of pupils enrolled was 49,
us of whom 30S9 attended the high
schools. Number of female teachers, 554;
number Of male teachers, los; total salary
paid to these, $f02, SIG or an average Of
s640 per annum: total expenses Of all
the schools for the year, s553, 1883.
It would be interesting to show the vast
difference between these figures and those
Of 1890. but lack Of space forbids. Suffice
1t to say that while the population has
increased only 40 per cent. in the last
ten years. the enrolment In the high
schools increased $50 per cent. and the
expenses in a corresponding ratio.
I thoroughly believe it is not too much
to say that this great progress is due
IN large measure to the work and In
spiration Of Clark University. While In
Worcester, visited the high schools sew
eral times and confess that never went
away without feeling envious and teal-
Gus, for each of these schools will COM.
pare very 1aVOrGDly Win our pest South
ern colleges. Indeed they are nothing
less than free public colleges.
In Worcester and what is true Of Wor-
cester is true in equal Or even greater
degree Of other New England cities, both
large and small, one can go from the
kindergarten through the university
without having to walk q half mile and
without the cost of one cent. Books,
stationary tools and other necessities
are furnished the pupils free They are
given free transportation to school in
vinter.
How often have I wished that similar
opportunities might be given Southern
children. How often has my. imagination
pictured glorious victories for Southern
children over their Northern friends, If
they could only compete with them un-
der similar conditions. I fully appreciate
the fact that considering the very many
and great disadvantages under which
the South has been laborinS she has made
tinral as we'll as other fields. Let no one
get the impression that this article was
written to disparage Southern schools.
far from 1t. My only hope is that it
will inspire and in some measure help to
instill in the hearts of our people an even
greater yearning than exists at present
for better educational Facilities. Consid-
ering their means our philanthropic men
compare favorably with those Of other
sections of the country. but the South
is sorely in need Of still greater sacri-
fees on the part of her sons and they
ought not to rest content until they see
the day dawn when it will be no longer
necessary for the best young men and
women to go North or West for their
education. JOSIAH MOSES.
All Of this admirable system went to
wreck gradually with the decline of the
empire. The barbarian invaders cut off
the water supply when they besieged
Rome, and it was never restored.
RapiOnc which in dav were fortified
by constant water supply, in ours are
arid plains.
AS to the water SUPPLY of ancient
Rome, engineers have generally followed
the estimate Of a French engineer. At
the most perfect period Of the system
he estimated that it was four hundred
million gallons daily.
The iconoclast American has turned up
in the person of a Mr.. Herschel. who de-
clares that in the time of Frontinus,
the supply could not have been more
than sixty million gallons daily; that is
about sixty gallons per head. This
seems small when we consider the inn
mense use of water in baths-pubic and
private. To mention only two of the
former: the baths of Diocletian con-
tanned 100000 square yards, and those OF
Caracalla were a mile in circumference.
and had accommodations for sixteen hun.
bred bathers One of the most impress
sive sigths in the Eternal City Is the
ruins Of these baths. The studio OF the
Richmond artist Ezekiel is built in one
of the vaulted chambers OF the Baths
OF Diocletian.
Rome after the destruction Of its means
of outside water supply fell back upon
the yellow Tiber." Strange to say, in
the Dark Ages, through the Middle Ages
and up to comparatively modern times.
the citizens of Rome became convinced
of the wholeson1eness of their river
water.
We all know the citizens of Richmond,
like those Of Rome, are disposed to claim
perfect healthfulness for their sacred
stream. appearances to the contrary, not
withstanding; for in the quality of vel
lowness" it surpasses the Tiber. But it
is not known that any citizen of ours
ever carried on his travels a supply OF
water from the noble James. This was
frequently one wi those Of the Roman
river. Cardinal Giulio de Medici, who
went from Rome to France to marry
his niece. Catherine, to Henry H., took a
sufficient quantity to last him for his
whole absence.
Our faith in the salubfety of the
waters of our river seems shaken in these
degenerate days, in view of adoption of
that scarcely settled) settling basin.
w. l.. S.