The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-15
NEW FIRST GRADE
IS ESTABLISHED
ANDERSON STREET SCHOOL.
.cuooI, ROOM ON SECOND FLOOR
OF PRESENT BUILDING.

c-ode Has ~ Pupils and Is in
cnarre of Miss Ethel WiIsOn-New
white school Has Been Estab-
,,-bed on Wilmington Island.
uard VIII Ask County for Adj
ditionaI $4,000 for New barnard
street school.
Tnat an additional first grade had
bsen established in the Anderson
c+reat School and that a free white
..booI had been established on Will
,-,ington Island, were the features of
Tho report Of Supt. Otis Ashmore last
night. regarding the work that had
baen done in the schools during the
last month.
AS has been stated in previous re-
norts submitted this year, the heav-
lest congestion in the schools was in
the First Grade at the Anderson Street
school. The transfer system was not
adaouate to solve the problem and it
was clear that a new grade would have
to be established.
A small room on the second floor of
the present DullOlLlS w Go AOhAld W ON
available for the purpose of accommo-
dating the pupils on the waiting list.
This room was fitted up properly, as
authorized by the resolution of the
BOARD of Education passed at the Oc-
tobel meeting, and the seats given to
the pupils on the waiting list. There
are twenty-five children in the new
grade and the entire waiting list in
This section of the city has now been
accommodated.
Miss Ethel Wilson has been appoint
cd the teacher for the new grade and
she assumed her duties on Oct. II last.
Since that time school work has been
conducted in this grade just as in the
older grades of the schools. Miss Will
son was formerly the assistant first
grade teacher in the Thirty-eighth
Street School. The vacancy there caus-
ed by her being moved to the new
grade at Anderson street has been fill
ed by the appointment of Miss Theresa
Getz.
Wilmington Island School.
Mr.. Ashmore reported that he had
solved the problem of a white school
for the children of Wilmington Island
and all arrangements for its opening
have been completed. The school be-
gan on November 1. Miss Pritchard
has been selected as teacher and she
will have between fifteen and twenty
pupils The sessions of the school will
be held at the residence of Capt. Au-
gustus Oemler.
The report of the superintendent also
showed that all of the schools are pro-
crossing smoothly and much Roadway
is being made. The school houses at
Pooer, Bloomingdale, Spring Hill,
Thunderbolt and Isle Of Hope are being
repainted. Certain work of a similar
nature is being done to one of the
rooms in Chatham Academy.
Wants $35, 900 Additional.
The committee on school houses re-
ported to the board the matter of ac-
cepting titles to the property result
ing from the purchase of realty from
the Quantock estate. On motion the
titles were accepted.
Mr. M. A. O'Byrne then called at
tention to the need of the new Bar
ard Street School. He moved that the
County Commissioners be. asked to
make an additional appropriation of
$4,000 for the purpose of building the
new schoolhouse, and to pay the un-
paid balance on the real estate bought
as site for the new building. Part of
the money will also be used for the
purchase of site for the new school
house in the southern portion of the
city. The matter will be taken up by
the Finance Committee.
The Finance Committee was also in
structed to confer with the County
commissioners regarding the status of
the school appropriation. There has
oeen some difference of opinion as to
just what period of time the ap-
preparation applied, due to an IN
certainty as to whether the year of the
county Commissioners corresponded
ton. -
AFTER the transaction of several other
matters Of routine business, adjourn
I Hleht was taken, the board having
oeen IN session for about an hour and