The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-11
ADJUNCT NEEDED
FOR FIRST GRADE
IN ANDERSON STREET SCHOOL
BOARD OF EDUCATION TAKES PRE-
LIMINARY ACTION.

superintendent Ashmore Instructed
10 Secure Suitable Location Near
the Present school, AZ Possible,
and Report Back TO the Board-As
soon ms Quarters Can he Secured
Adjunct TO First Grade win BE
Opened-Greatest Congestion NJ
the Anderson street SchooI-New
school for Southern section Re
ported on-other business before
Board.
1t is probable that within a COM
paratively few weeks an adjunct to
the Anderson Street School will be
established by the Board of Educa-
ton. The preliminary steps in this
direction were taken last night at the
regular October meeting of the board.
Those present at the meeting of the
board were Vice President j. r. Saus-
sy. Mr.. Henry Blum. Mayor Herman
Myers, Col. j. II. Estin Mr.. M. A.
O'Byrne and DR.. T. j. Charlton. The
first business before the board was
the reading of the report of Mr.. Otis
Ashmore. superintendent of the schools,
In which especial stress was laid upon
the conditions existing at the Ander-
son Street School.
The report called attention to the
fact that. inasmuch as the school ac-
commodations this year were practi-
cally the same as those of last, that
there is an increase in attendance over
last year of about seventy-five. A
congestion naturally resulted and this
is most apparent in the first grade at
the Anderson Street School. Here
there are at least twenty pupils on the
waiting list.
This feature of the report called forth
considerable discussion on the part OF
the board. The need of remedying this
congestion was apparent. The first
grades in the other schools are prac
tically filed and the use of the trans
fer system will not help in the solving
of the problem.
For Adjunct TO school.
The only method which presented it.
self to the board was that of securing
quarters in some room near the pres
ent Anderson Street School and es-
tablshing a new first grade there.
This suggestion met with general APP
prevail and when put in the form OF
a motion was unanimously carried.
The entire matter was then placed
in the hands of Supt. Ashmore and he
was directed by the board to secure
suitable quarters. il possible, and re-
port back to the board at It's Novem-
Der meeting. Steps In the direction
of securing quarters will be taken at
once and as soon as they can be Sc
cured and teacher arranged for, the
new adjunct to the Anderson Street
school will be started.
Just how long 1t will take to arrange
the details cannot be said at this time.
The section of the city in which the
quarters are needed is well settled
and there are few buildings suitable
for school room purposes which can be
secured. Mr.. Ashmore is confident,
however. that provision can be made
in someway and desires to assure the
parents of children now on the watt
ing list that their little ones will be
accommodated as soon as possible.
other Business Before Board.
Mr.. M. A. O'Byrne, chairman of the
Committee on School Houses, reported
that he had been looking over terri
tory In the southern section of the
city suitable for the establishing of a
new school and that he had several de-
sirable localities in view.
This new school will not be estab-
lished before several years, but the
board desires to secure property at
this time in order to be ready for
emergencies. 1t is desired to locate the
new school in the neighborhood OF
Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth
streets on the east side of the city.
The present Thirty-eighth Street
School, in the western part of the city,
will be inadequate to accommodate all
pupils of the extreme southern section
of the city after the east side be-
comes more thickly settled.
The salary of Miss Florence Ohm
stead, the newly elected teacher to the
High School faculty, was definitely fix-
ed at $1,000 per year. This is the same
salary as received by other High School
teachers of the same grade.
No further business appearing, adj
journment was taken.
The complete report of supt. Ash
more, covering the opening Of the
schools, Is given elsewhere In the
Morning News.