Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
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ely and truly sad about the return of
school are the mothers.
'Oh, John says one mother. isn't
Willie getting to be big boy. Just
think. he's in the sixth grade already.
Why. in a year hell have to put o. long
trousers" And then probably the moth
er's eyes grow soft, for she is thinking
of the days, not so long gone by. when
she used to dangle Willie on her knee.
Because Of the cutlery against over
crowding last year President Oyster and
Vice President Cox Of the board of edu-
cation and Supt. of Schools Stuart re-
Gently made an exhaustive inquiry into
school conditions and into the POSSIBLE
tiles Of comfortably locating all the pu-
pills who might come in this year.
During the summer the school board
spent the quite comfortable sum of $1IJ,-
GOO. and mas thereby provided four
room addition to the Gage School. sim
liar one to the Brightwood Park School,
an addition to the Woodwork School
and an annex to the PetWorth School
In addition to this expenditure on new
buildings or additions the sum of so, 900
has been used in the Improvement of
plumbing, placing fire escapes, fireproof-
ing and other matters of pressing mo-
ment.
Three new schools, which may be occu-
pied some time this year, are now being
built. They are the Mott School, on VI
street southwest between Sd and 4th
streets: the Henry T. Cooke School, OH
18th and B streets. The Van Ness School,
for colored pupils. is ready for use.
The portable buildings. ordered some
time ago, have already arrived and are
new being put in position. They will be
placed at the Ross School. Harvard street
between nth and 18th streets at the Nor
gan School, 18th street and California
avenue, Chevy Chase: at the Jefferson
School, 10th street and Virginia avenue
southwest: at the Benning School. Ivy
City; at the Garrison School, 18th street
between r and S streets; at the Garnet
School, 10th and U streets, and at the
Lovejoy School. 18th and d streets north
east. Five more portable schools have
been ordered and will be in the city with
in a few weeks
When the District Commissioners for
mally accepted the addition to the Nc
Kinley Manual Training School they
found one of the finest buildings and one
of the best equipped schools Of the kind
in the whole country. The cost of this
new addition was 10000 and the work
was completed in nine months.
Vaccinating the Children.
While the order Of the health depart
ment, through the Commissioners. that
every pupil in the public schools should
show a vaccination mark that hau took
was feared and regarded as possible
source of trouble 1t is not likely that
there will be any great fuss raised over
1t, and it is highly improbable that 1t Will
tend to keep down attendance. unless 1t IS
the daily attendance of those who are
vacciuated after school really begins to-
morrow.
The total enrolment, as far as the stat
istician of the board. Mr.. Smith. was able
to give 1t last week. showed that there
are 53364 pupils in all the District
schools-graded. normal. high. manual
training, etc. OF this number $3.50 are
white pupils and II 3S4 are eolored. These
figures show an increase over last year of
about $500, - per cent increase.
The enrolment for the schools other
than graded runs as follows: White,
Normal No /. 1856 this year. 13l last year.
increase 5; high schools, 1862 this year.
training schools. 72S this year. 61o last
year, Increase 116: colored, Normal No.
2. 1O6 this year, 90 last year, increase IL:
NJ Street High School. 678 this year, 6s7
last year, increase So Armstrong: 444
this year. 41S last year. increase %. Total
enrolment for these schools. 5.Go2 this
year, 4.605 last year, and increase. 1908
over 1907. 447.
Divided into white and colored the sta
tistics run thus: White pupils, Normal
crease g. Central High School. 1922 this
year. 1.10S last year. increase II: Eastern
High School, 3sS this year. $50 last year.
increase So; Franklin High School. 561
TINS year, 4Ss last year, increase 63: Bust
ness High School, sol this year. S23 last
year. increase IS. The total for the high
schools and Normal No. / is 2962 this
year, 2.164 last year. increase 19S. At
the Mckinley Manual Training School
there are this year 72s white pupils, last
JIG. The grand total for white pupils
IN the higher schools is 1896 this year.
3,3O1 last year, increase $40.
For colored pupils in the higher schools