The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-19
FINE SCHOOL REPORT
Superintendent Bia1rs
tisticaI Report shows fiaihiS IN
SnIepdid Condition OF Winning
toms Public Schools.

SpIendid Condition OF "iihiihs- 4
tons Public schools.
Gentlemen:
The following is a brief statistical re-
mort of the different schools under your
are for the year 19O2-1903. together
with some other facts which may be of
interest and value.
The enrolment is as follows:
Union, boys 443. girls AGO, total @03. to
tai 1912 S39. gain CT, average daily
attendance 612.
Hemenway. boys SSS. girls 29S. total
7S6. total 1902 769, gain Il, average
daily attendance $50.
High School. boys SO, girls III, total
40, total 1902 191. gain y, average
daily attendance 156.
Williston, boys 269, girls 35I. total go,
total 1902 $50, gain 80, average daily
attendance 404.
Peabody, boys pa. girls 356. total 6l0.
total 1902 594, gain 10. avera@= dally
attendance 442.
Total, boys lab. girls $50, total 500
total 1902 1889, gain 106, average daily
attendance 2,259.
The total enrolment Of white chill
dren is 1859, an increase OF "Oo over
tina of 1900.
n LOIdl LALLlJ' VI
is 1926, showing a very slight increase
from year to year.
The number of pupils taking drawing
under the direction OF q speclal super
visor is as follows:
Union
Hemenyay
High SchOel.
The exhibits in the different schools
at the end of the year of water-color,
pen and ink and pencil drawings; were
most creditable.
The number of pupils taking cooking
and domestic science was as follows:
Union
High
Total
CThis department was instituted TINS
year at the Union school and is largely
due TO the generosity and efforts OF the
ladies of the Home Science Department
of SOrOsis. who aided the COMMITTEES OF
District No. , in establishing it. The
pupils nave embraced the work with
enthusiasm and have given practlcai
evidence of their progress. One nun
dred and twenty pupils can be proVld-
ed for in the cooking department.
The number of girls taking sewing,
dress making, etc, was:
HemenWay -
WllliStOn
Peabody
1OtdI -
Although this department has been
in operation but two years its practl-
cability and utility have been Demon
strated beyond question.
The exhibits of work from this de-
partment. held in the different build
ings. consisted of finished garments,
such as waists. dress skirts. aprons
bonnie bed quilts and articles of ap-
parel and household use, together with
examples of various stitches with the
needle and sewing machine.
BUILDINGS. ETC.
At the close of school last year, the
Union Annex building was disposed OF,
and during the vacation a ten room adj
ditiOn was made to the large Union
building, together with a two room
house in the rear of the lot for the &C
C~OmmOdatiOn of classes in cooking and
domestic science.
An addition of two new rooms was
made at the Hemenway school and the
library room enlarged to meet the
growing needs of the department.
a room for free hand and mechani-
cal drawing was built at the Union
school and partially equipped and fur
niShed.
The physical laboratory at the High
School was equipped with tables suita-
BILE for experimental and practical
work on the part of the students.
Some physical apparatus was added
including a Toepler HOltz Electric ma
chine, donated by Miss Amy NJ
Bradley.
1t is a matter of much pride that We
have here the best equipped physical
laboratory of any school in the state.
Dur boys, especially. have taken great
100000 - H. = 10 ODD
many OF them acquire Il documentary
1Owledge of this important science,
: Itch will serve them we'll in after
liz.
--ght new portraits were added to
the High School and $3.50 worth of pic
lures, bought with the proceeds from
the art exhibit which was held last
year. were placed in the different
buildings.
Many valuable specimens of mineral,
plant and animal life have been added
to the museums in the Union, Hemen-
way and High School.
Among the notable events of the
year was an address in the opera
house, before the patrons and pupils OF
the schools, by DIR. George T. Winston;
the occasion being the presentation of
flags to the Union and Hemenway
schools by the Junior Order Of United
American Mechanics.
On the following day the flags were
raised with appropriate ceremony.
a tablet. presented to the city by the
trustees of the estate of Mrs. N
a was placed beside the entrance to
the High SchOOl and bears the follow
ing inscription:
Built bV
Mary Hemenway. of Boston. who es-
tabliShed herein L school for the white
people of this community. in the year
1871. and maintained the same at her
nu-n 6vnpnSA for twenty oars under
the devoted administration of Amy NJ.
Bradley.
Given to the city Of Wilmington in
the year 1901. in the name OF Mary
HemenWay."
May 21st. by invitation. DR.. J. NJ
Wells delivered an address before the
Alumni Association of the High School.
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