Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-07
COMING SCHOOL YEAR
Term to Begin Monday, the
10Th Instant.
CONDITIONS REVIEWED
BOARD OF EDUCATION TO MEET
MONDAY NEXT.
Provisions for Issue of Cards of Admis-
sion-Two Per Cent Increase
in Enroliments.

in Enroliments.
The public school year of 19O4-1900 will
begin in the District of Columbia Monday,
September ~. Officials. teachers and pupils
are returning to the city from their vaca-
tons. ana all is in readiness for fail open
ing under the most favorable auspices.
Superintendent Stuart said this morning
to Star reporter
Judging from the newspaper reports of
the congestion in the public. schools of New
York and Philadelphia. Washington public
school conditions are highly favorable as
compared with the conditions in these
cities. | am especially gratified ut the dis
appearance" this fall of many of our
halliday schools. If Congress continues its
ubcrality the halliday school will soon be a
thing of the past The only serious con-
gestion will he in the Mckinley Manual
Training School. The graded schools are
in better shape than they ever were
CONDITIONS Summarized.
Following is Il brief summary of facts
concerning this years opening;
Cards of admission will be issued as is
customary by the principals of the various
schools. at the respective buildings Friday
and Saturday. September IL and Il, be-
tween aad 10 am. and and pm. APP
plication should be made to the nearest
school
The buildings have been put in good con-
dition. the improvements representing an
expenditure of about $JO.CIW distributed
among the various buildings.
The normal increase in enrolment is
about = per cent. 500 or 800 pupils. The
l.,pu i,apr. yaI for IN,
growing portions of the city. such as CO.
lumbia Heights, Bloomingdale. the north
east and in the suburban schools, such as
Takoma. Brightwood. Good Hope, Chevy
Chase and Reno.
Two new cignt-room schools will be oc-
cupicd the coming year. namely. the Gage
in Bloomngdale and the Ludlow at 9TH and
q streets northeast, each accommoda ting
about 1874 pupils.
A new manual training school known
the b b. French Manual Training School,
ut 9Th and streets southeast. will be
occupied for the first time. providing rooms
for cooking school, carpenter snop and
cutting and fitting school for girls.
New kindergartens will be established for
coIored children at Howard University and
al the Lnvejoy school, and for white chill
dren al Briehtwood Park and the Wallach
school southeast.
Mckinley School Crowded.
There will be serious congestion at the
Mckinley Manual Training School, owing
to the increase in the numbers of pupils.
no provision having been made for the eX
tension of the building. large number of
the pupils of the Mckinley will have to be
accommodated in rooms in the Central
High School, and as this school will itself
have a considerable increase, the problem
81 accommodating all who desire to attend
these SCHOOLS Will be a diticnit, one
The completing of the four eght-room
buildings and foug four-room buildings last
.Tr hull "a
Gage and the LudioW-this year. has greatly
reduced the number of halliday schools
above the second grade.
Probably thirty normal school graduates
Will receive appointments at the beginning
OF the term to fill positions in the new
schools and a number left vacant by resi.
nations and deaths. Examinations for
several important positions will be held in
the next few weeks. So much in demand
arr new teachers that Supt. Stuart be-
lieNes that by January the supply of white
hHmal graduates Will be EXHAUSTED and
examinations for outsiders will have to be
held. az
First Meeting of Board
The first meeting of the board of educa
ton for this fall will be held Monday next.
AT the following meeting. TO be held the
next Monday. the boards yearly estimates
will be made out, and important improve
ments will be asked for.
While the foregoing gives q fair idea Of
the present conditions in the local schools.
noting the most important points. there are
of course. numerous other changes made
necessary The two new schools, the Gage
AMI Ludlow, will not he ready for occu
patton until about a week after the open
ing of the Others. the delay being caused
by the inability to complete the furnishing
in time. The increase in the number of
schools has necessitated the creation If a
thirteenth division. colored. 1t will" re
under the apprenticeship of F. l.. Cordoze,
Colored formerly principal of the Stevens
school. With this division, there will be
nine white aud four colored divisions in the
District.
The additional school facilities will COM
prise in all five new eighth grades, two
new seventh grades three new sixth grades.
one new fifth grade. six new fourth grades.
one new third grade six second grades
and two new first grades. making twenty
six new schools in all.
Under the direction of Secretary Roder-
lex of the board of education extensive inn
prOvements in the furnishings of the build
ings have been made during the summer
months. Between three and four hundred
desks have been resurfaced. Old wooden
shutters nave been removed and replaced
by modern Soft-tinted shades. which are
cleaner and better for the eyes of the pu-
pills. All supplies for the year are practi-
C1lly in stock. and are being delivered IN
the various buildings now
Tie almost certain congestion in the Me-
h!hley Manual Training School will be
greatly deplored by the school officials At
a
and Rhode Island avenue was asked for n
was also requested that Sprovision be made
III the near future for an extension This
was not granted last year althoupb attap
non was again called to it. The popularity
OF TINS school, the youngest of the local
msH schools. was the cause last year of a
greatly overcrowded condition and II will
ne slightiN worse THIS near estimates being
pdSed on data gathered at the close of
school IN the spring. when the pupils were
asked TO express their preferences Every
eHort VIII be made to secure the extensior
OF TINS building from Congress this year
lhe cost Will be put al s1s5,Oeo
Seats for Only $50 Pupils.
he Mckinley at present has room in its
Stops for $40 pupils. but seating capocit,
for only 80. The pupils. a large number OF
whom Will be required TO occupy portion
OF the Central High School several square,
away. viii he at great disadvantage. The
superintendent of public schools deplore.
N" tact that the popularity of the McEtn
lev mas drawn many scholars to II who