The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-29
OVER ONE THOUSAND
CARDS OF ADMISSION WERE IS
SUED TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
EVIDENCES OF CRoWDING
IN SOME GRADES BUT THIS WILL
BE SPEEDILY REMEDIED.

VaccinRted-32S Cards Issued to
COIOred PupiIs-SOme Trouble at
West Broad Street COIored School.
Teachers Will BE on Hand to Issue
Cards To-day, but None VIII BE
Given Ont dnesday-TO-mOrro
VIII BE Devoted to Meetings with
The Teachers.
More than a thousand cards of ad-
mission to the public schools of Sa-
vannah were issued by the teachers
yesterday, the exact number being
1,047 OF this number 719 were to the
white children, as follows: Anderson,
| So; Henry, SO; Barnard, So; Thirty
eighth, 80; Massie, TO- Cathedral, IS;
| Chatham No. /, 81; Chatham No. 2, III;
| St. Patrick's 81.
| Supt. Ashmore was unable to tell
how this number compared with that
of last year. as he has not yet had
sufficient time to compare the reports.
The number is large, however, and the
teachers who had assembled at Chat
ham Academy to assist in issuing the
cards were kept busy from the open
ing hour until o'clock. AT that hour
one or two children hurried up to the
building, but were told they could not
| secure cards until to-day
Everything moved along with perfect
smoothness, and the system that had
been put into effect by Supt. Ashmore
made the work possible without delay
or confusion. The pupils entered by
the Bull street doors, and passed on
| through along the lower hall. leaving
| by the Drayton street exit.
300 Were Vaccinated.
AS each pupil entered he was met by
Health Officer Dr.. Drummer and exam
ined for evidence of vaccination. In
case there was not sufficient evidence
the children were taken into a small
room that had been fitted up for
| physicians Office and the work of vac
| cination was accomplished quickly and
| surely. DIR. Drummer had four physi-
| clans assisting him, and they were kept
busy for the four hours the office was
| open. Between $50 and 300 of the en-
tire number to whom cards were issued
! were Vacclnated, and when the time for
! closing came the floor was literally COW
cred with vaccination points.
There was no trouble whatever ex-
perienced in vaccinating the children,
| there being but a few who offered any
objections. Those who did object were
| told to go home and be vaccinated by
| their family physician, if they did not
choose to have 1t done at the school,
and then come back for their cards of
| admission. No children were given
! cards who had not been Vaccinated or
| who would not allow the physicians
| present to vaccinate them. Little trou-
| Bile was experienced with those who
| hesitated, as, after being told to have
| their family physician do it if they were
| not satisfied with the physicians at the
| academy, all acquiesced.
| Upon leaving the phyiscians' office
! the pupi.A-passed on down the hall to
| the desk at which the principal of the
| school in the district in which they
! lived, with an assistant, was seated
! and cards were given them They then
| passed on through and left the build
| ing on Drayton street. The system
| worked out most admirably and
| though there were children constantly
| passing along the halls, the work was
| carried on speedily, thoroughly and
without the slightest friction or crowd
ing among the children.
Trouble Mt West Broad.
Cards of admission to the colored
schools of West Broad Street and
Maple Street We're issued by the teach
! ers in those schools. The total num-
Der of cards issued to colored chi. dren
of both schools was 1928. OF this num-
Der 1874 were to the newly finished col
ored school on West Maple street
The colored children were also COM
PEELED to show satisfactory evidence of
vaccination before admission cards
were issued. Those who could show
/ that they had been vaccinated were
| given their cards at once and others
| II I'D nj he hull
ings City Health officer, DR.. Drummer,
had sent some of the colored physicians
to the schools and they were kept busy
from opening to closing time.
There was some trouble at the West
Broad Street colored school, The pu-
pills began crowding and jostling
with one another in their
efforts to secure their cards
and get away from the building
Several friendly tussles ensued among
the children. These grew in proper
ton and before they could be stopped
several windows in the school had been
broken and other slight damage done.
There was one patrolman at the
school but he could not watch the
large number of children crowding
about. An application has been made
to the chief of police for two patrolmen
to-day at the East Broad street
schools, in order that the children may
be controlled.
VIII Be Some CrOwdinE.
Supt Ashmore said there will be
some Erowding in several of the
schools. In the First and Third
grades of Chatham Schol No. l and
Chatham No. there will be some
crowding, but the superintendent be-
lieves that this can all be relieved with
week or two. About seventy
white children were placed on the
waiting list, but these. it is believed,
can all be accommodated after the
schools have become settled and the
superintendent has an opportunity Of
distributing the pupils among the less
| crowded schools.
Cards will be given out again to-day
between 9 and 1 o'clock and it is
expected that the number to whom
cards will be issued will be large The
force of school principals, DIR. Brun-
ner and his four assistants will be at
Chatham Academy and the work will
be carried on as yesterday. All pU-
pills needing cards of admission should
apply at the academy this morning, as
no cards viii be issued on Wednesday.
Cards will be issued to the colored
children of the East Broad and the
Duffy Street colored schools at these
schools this morning. Colored physi-
clans will be on hand to yaccinate the
children who cannot produce satisfac-
tory evidence of previous vaccination
Tomorrow will be devoted to the
| meetings of the teachers with Supt