The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-21
LAST OF HOLIDAYS
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IS BUT TEN
DAYS AWAY.
EVERYTHING IN READINESS.
SCHOOLS IN SHAPE TO RECEIVE
TEACHERS AND PUPILS.

Interiors of All of Them Repaired,
Where Needed, and Exteriors of
Some Given Attention - Physical
Condition of the Buildings Never
Bctter-Teachers Hurrying Back to
Town-Cards of Admission to Be
Issued Saturday and Monday. Sept.
27 and 29-Pupi1s in Schools Last
Yenr Won't Need Cards, But Must
Report in Proper Districts.
The public schools of Savannah and
Chatham county will begin the fall
term on Oct. l, Wednesday, of next
week Already the school spirit is in
the air and youthful anxiety to take
up school duties again, possibly some
what tempered and repressed by the
thought of fast-waning vacation joys,
is again in evidence.
The schools during the vacation sea-
son have been made ready for the re-
ception of pupils and the resumption
of scholastic duties. All of them rave
been placed in thoroughly good shape
as to their interiors and on several of
them, notably the Cathedral school,
extensive repairs to the exteriors have
been made. When the pupils return to
the buildings they will find them ready
for effective work.
The teachers, too, are hurrying back
to town, some from vacations pleas
antly spent by mountain and seashore
and others from schools of advanced
learning, where they have been labor
ing to fit themselves better for the
discharge of their duties. From noun
tain and seashore, too, come the chill
dren who have spent vacations away
from the city, so that in the course
of a week the entire school popula-
ton of the city, with it's leaders and
directors, will be here.
Cards of Admission.
Cards of admission to the schools of
the city will be issued on Saturday,
Sept. q, and Monday, Sept. 29. For
the white schools of the city the cards
will be issued at Chatham Academy
on these days, between the hours of
8 o'clock in the morning and l o'clock
in the afternoon. Cards of admission
to the East Broad and West Broad
street, colored, schools will be issued,
at the respective school buildings, on
saturday, anu LOT the DuIly ana An
derson street colored schools, at these
school buildings, on Monday only.
Supt. Ashmore announces that those
pupils, who were in the schools at the
close of the last term. whether pro-
NOTED or not, will not require cards of
admission. Places have been reserved
for them in the schools of the districts
in which they live. However, those
who last year attended school out of
their districts must report on the day
school opens to the school of the dis
trict in which they live. Their names
have been transferred and places for
them, in their proper schools, reserved.
The attendance this year will be
larger than ever before in the history
of the schools. and the best efforts of
the school authorities will be exerted
to handle the pupils in the best posi-
BILE way.
Everything points to a most pros
porous and successful year." said Mr.
Ashmore, last night. 1.-The schools
were never in better physical condition
to receive pupils and the morale of the
teaching force is high. I look forward
to school session of pronounced ex-
cellence in instruction and attain
ment."