Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-25
NIGHT SCHOOL PLANS
Courses in Many Subjects t.
Begin October 3.
APPROPRIATION is LIMITED
instruction Will Be Given Three
Evenings in the Week.
WIDE FIELD TO BE COVERED
Nine Buildings Will Be Thrown
Open for Colored Students.
Best Teachers Selected.
WIDE FIELD TO BE COVERED

With the limited appropriation Of ST.
800. the night schools of the District
of Columbia will open Monday evening,
October 3, offering practical instruction
| In a score of subjects to every boy or
girl, man or woman, who cannot take
| advantage of the public day schools The
appropriation at hand is only $500 more
than last year, when the schools soueez-
ed through night course with volunteer
teachers. The school officials wanted
$4,000 for the night classes With the
money they have been given, however,
they intend to run sixty nights. if DOS
sible, and also will run the two manual
training night high schools to the limit
OF the small appropriation.
In order that no time for instruction
may be lost 1t has been arranged to
open tne buildings In which night classes
are TO be held October 1, from to
pm ricketts, of admission will be given
TO those applying at that time
white night schools will be open Mon
Gay, Wednesday and Friday evenings at
100 O'Clock. The colored night schools
VIII open at O'Clock the same evenings.
instructions in business courses, stenog-
raphy and bookkeeping. typewriting.
etc. will be given at Business High
School. Mckinley Manual Training
school will have courses in wood work.
ing, iron working, machine shop practice.
ara wing, sewing and cooking Ordinary
graded school subjects for white pupils
VIII be given in the Franklin, 18th and X
streets; Gales, LIST and G streets north
west; Wallach, eth street and PennsyI-
van1a avenue southeast, and Jefferson.
9TH and d streets southwest Cooking
classes at night. for white pupils, will be
conducted at ID H street northwest. GAG
Johnson annex, School street northwest.
Nlne buildings will be open for colored
students who cannot attend day classes.
The teachers have been selected from the
very best In the entire force
Courses in Colored Schools.
SHOP work. machine work, plain sewing,
cooking. millinery. steam engineering,
electrical engineering, cabinet making,
management and care of automobiles are
some of the night courses at Armstrong
Manual Training School on street be-
tween list and Sd streets
The Randall School. LIST and I streets
southwest, will have a course in graded
school subjects from the first to the
eighth grade, and in addition will have
instructions In cooking. sewing, MILL
merry, cabinet working and carpentry. The
Stevens School. Dist street between X
and L streets. will have the same courses
The Garnet School will have graded
school subjects and sewing, dressmaking
and millinery.
Business courses for colored students
will be conducted in the old Mott School
9Th and Trumbull streets northwest. near
Howard University. The features of the
course will be typewriting. business Eng.
lish. commercial arithmetic and stenoc-
raphy. Graded subjects will be taught in
the Phillips School. N street between 9th
and 2Sth street northwest: Lovejoy School
18th and D streets northeast; Birney
and Garfield School. at Garfield, D. c.