The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-10
SCHOOL REPORT HAS
 COME FROM PRESS Is Comprehensive Review of
 School System WILL BE CIRCULATED Believed That Volumes Judiciously Scattered Will Prove Big Adver
 tisement for city-some
 Needs of Schools

1 The annual report of the Birmingham public schools for the year ending June | 30, 1910 came from the press yesterday, and is the most comprehensive review | of Birmingham's educational system it's accomplishments and prospects, that has l ever been circulated.
 l The book has 115 pages and is attrac- 1 lively illustrated with pictures of all the | big schools in the district, and interior views of the vocational school, gym | nasium classes at work. the forge shop, | the moulding room, the manual arts work, cooking classes and the score of | other diversified methods of teaching em- l ployed in the city schools. l A few of these reports judiciously scat- | tered over the country. it is believed. would probably appeal to the settler as | no other advertisement the town could produce.
 1 It contains the reports of President
 John L. Parker. Superintendent J. H. Phillips, the financial report, the pro- gramme of the commencement exercises and the names Of the graduates, together with all the information necessary to
 thorough understanding of the public school system,
 These reports have been previously pub Ished in The Age-Herad, but re- view of the recommendations in Presi- dent Parkers report will be interesting. | None of them has yet been met, but the
 board is preparing to do things in the
 near future.
 | ,4H. <, Needs of Schools | T submit the following recommenda- tions asa brief outline of the material l and temporal needs of the public schools
 of the city:
 | T. The provision of more high school 1 facilities. The Birmingham High school l is now too crowded. The board is now compelled to lease adjoining residences.
 indorse the recommendation of the super
 intendent that two more high schools | shall be provided, one the Southside
 of the city and the other between Wood
 lawn and East Lake. The Ensley High
 school must be completed and equipped l in order to accommodate the pupils of the
 western section of the city. "2. I recommend that provision shall be
 made for the complete renovation of the
 now inadequate and unsubstantial school
 buildings for white children in the ter | rtory recently annexed. "S. I recommend that new school build l ings be erected, first, at or near Thom- l as furnace, for the large white popula-
 tion now in that territory without proper
 school accommodations; second, that q
 new school be erected in the vicinity of 1 Fifteenth street and Fifteenth avenue,
 south, and an add ion to the Robinson
 school at East Lake.
 l A. recommend the immediate pur- chase of additions to the present small sites of the following white schools: The
 Bush, Minor, Ensley High school, Wylam. Fairview, Hemphill, Avondale, J. B. Cum
 ningham and Pratt.
 "5. I recommend that new school sites 1 for white schools be secured at once as l follows: High school on Southside. high 1 school between Woodlawn and East Lake. | elementary schools near Thomas furnace l and near Fifteenth street and Fifteenth | avenue, south
 l "6. I recommend that sites used for the | present Lane. Slater and Cameron schools l be sold and that new sites be purchased | farther from the business center of tho
 city. nearer the mass of the negro popu- lation. I further recommend that suit | able brick structures be erected instead | of frame buildings for these schools "7. I recommend further that sites be
 secured and suitable buildings of a per manent character be erected for the negro population of the following districts: East l Birmingham and Kingston, Woodlawn, North Birmingham and Ensley. "The foregoing Is but a brief and inl- perfect summary of the most pressing
 needs of the schools. and commend these
 suggestions to the intelligence of our | city. In the last census, taken in July,
 the city had population of 39.436 edu- cable youth; nearly one-half of this num- | Der were negroes. In view of the fact l that this mass of negro youth is now without adequate facilities for education, and from the standpoint of health and l sanitation is a menace to the welfare of | the city, it is incumbent upon us to pro- 1 vide for them buildings that are at least
 sanitary, and to give them that kind | of education which will make them eff. l fective promoters of the health and wel- 1 fare of the entire city"
 1 l Eight seamen Imprisoned l Charleston, S. C., February 9.-Eight I seamen, mostly young Danes, from the