Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-22
CHANDLER SAYS SCHOOL
MACHINERY INADEQUATE
Increase OF 2,4O7 In Attendance in
Single Year Has Brought
Complications.
TURN COLORED CHILDREN AWAY
Must Enlarge Facilities at Once TO
Take Care OF Colored Population.
recommends New Junior High
School for Whites.

With an increase of 2.4O7 i'm the
school enrolment in "a single YEAR.
the city's educational machinery has
fallen far short OF what is demanded
of it, and. according to Superintendent
j. a. c. Chandler, is to-day confronted
with the most serious situation in
years.
The fact is" said d.. Chandler. adj
dressing the Council Finance Commit
tee. last night. that We expected an
increase of just half this number we
ind now that the Increase has been
twice what we expected IL to be, and
ii has iioored us.
This is with reference to white
population alone In the colored field
we are confronted with n NOR, serious
state OF affairs still. We are already
conducting thirty-siX half-timc classes
and In several sections Of the city we
are obliged fatty to deny colored chill
dren entrance. simply because we
haven't any place TO put them
THE addition to Baker school re-
iieved the situation little. but an
addition to our colorcd school facili-
ties is now Imperative"
URGES NEW CENTRAL
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
In order to relieve the congestion as
to the white school population. Or
Chandler urged the Finance Committc e
TO take steps looking to the erection
OF new Junior high school in the CEN
trail section of the city. Any site in
the general section between Seventh.
Twelfth. Leigh and Broad Streets he
suggested, would lie suitable
For the relief of the situation with
respect 10 the colored people. DR..
Chandler presented more concrete
plan. He recommended the acquisition
of lot fronting siNty-two feet on
Leigh street Immediately adjoining the
Armstrong High School. This lot he
said can he acquired now for $4,000.
II has on IL n small church building.
which could be utilized for the present.
for school purposes. If the property
is acquired. he said. he would recon-
mend at an early date its improve
ment with an addition to the Arm
strong School.
WANT MORE SCIENTIFIC
SCHOOL FINANCES
Several members of the committc G
profcssed serious concern for the gen
cral school situation In Richmond. suE-
EcstinS that the School Board direct its
efforts towards working out q plan
which will adjust the financial end in
Il better and more scientific manner
than it is dealt with now. The COM
mittee took DIR. Chambers rccommcn-
dationS under advisement.
DR.. j. Allison Hodges headed n com
mittee from the Richmond Academy of
Medicine and Surgery. which asked the
Finance Committee to provide funds
for the erection of signs marking off
hospital zones within which unneces-
sary noise Is prohibited by ordinance.
The cost of providing the signs, the
committee was told. would not exceed
$50 for each hospital, or about $500
for the whole city.
President Adams. of the Board of
Aldermen, urged upon the committee
the approval of the Fairfield race.
course purchase which has already
been recommended by the COMMITTEE
on Public buildings. Properties and
Utilities. The project was strongly in
dorsed also by Councilman George w.
Rogers and Il. i. Pitcher. and DIR. w.
H. Parker.