The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
MONTGOMERY SCHOOLS OPEN t,5OO Pupils Ready For
 Work. SOME CONGESTION NOTED Provisions for Overflow Attendance Will Be Made Soon. Duperintsndent Floyd Is Pleased with outIoek for Year--Changes
 That Are Announced in
 Teaching Stan.

Superintendent of Schools Floyd said yesterday that he is pleased with. the outlook for the Montgomery public schools for the year which opened yes terday.
 About 4.5o0 pupils applied for en- trance this year. The work of classi- hcation and instructing teachers for the coming year began Saturday. Yester- day was devoted to the work of as- signing pupils who were promoted last year. The regular work of the year will begin Wednesday and things will be moving as smoothly as in mid-ses- sion.
 During vacation repairs have been made on several school buildings New gutters were placed on the Girls High School building. the old sanitary fix lures were torn out of the Sayre Street school building and replaced by new ones. the roof of the Decatur Stree, school was repainted and other minor repairs made at other buildings.
 Superintendent Floyd has received a certificate of affiliation for the Girls High School from the University ol Chicago. This certificate entitled grad uates of the High School to enter Chi cago University without examination. The cerEfdcate was given as. a result of investigations made by Frank Jus tice Miller, of Chicago University. du- ring the summer. Last December Dr. Nathaniel Butler, President of the School of Education of Chicago Univer- slty, visited the High School and be- gan the negotiations looking towards placing the High School in affiiiation with Chicago. Other schools the Girls High School is in afiAation with are: Agnes Scott College. of Georgia; New : comb College, of Tulane University at New Orleans. and Randolph Macon Col lege, of Virginia.
 Ramor Corrected.
 In correction of rumors of tuition charges to be made this year, MT. Floyd said: ..No tuition will be charged this year except in cases where parents Of children seeking admission to the sch ools reside outside of Montgomery. and then only when the parents own less than $500 of taxable property in- side the city limits Where parents of non-resident children own more than $500 worth of taxable property situat- ed inside the limits of Montgomery no tuition will be charged. Resident chill dren will be charged no tuition.
 Nonresident children whose par ents do not own the required amount of taxable property in Montgomery will be required to pay $22.5o tuition for the scholastic year as has been the custom. trust that this will clear up any doubts that may have been entertained on this matter"
 MT. Floyd said further that all white children in Montgomery would be taken care of without the necessity of secur- ing additional buildings. Such children as have been turned away will be later assigned to other schools where room is available for them. A small over How of negro children will be cared for by securing of additional rooms outside of the regular buildings.
 Changes in the corps of teachers for the new year are as follows: MT. Lacy Jennings, of Dothan, to be instructor of Latin and history at the Boys High School. to succeed D. A. Clark. re- signed.
 Miss Elizabeth Parker, instructor in French at the Girls High School Miss Parker has been in France for the sum- mer and will report for duty late be- cause of changes in the sailing date of her steamer.
 Miss Emily Clark, of Montgomery, to teach in the third grade of the Capitol Hill School
 Miss Lena Rizer, of Dalton, Ga, to teach the sixth grade in the Cottage Hill School.
 Mss Adeline Moses to teach the first and second grades of the Highland Park School. and Miss Mary Des Praz to teach the third grade in the same school.
 Miss Mary Burke is transferred from her place as special assistant of last year to the fourth grade of the Sayre Street school.
 Miss Mamie Allen transferred from the Cottage Hin School to the third grade of the West End School.
 Miss Olive Macdonald, a former teacher in the schools who studied last year at Radcliffe College, returns this year to teach the fourth grade of the West End schools.
 Misses Alberta Pickett, Etheldra Will Hams and Alice Woods supernumera