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CROWDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Large Gitiei Unable to Meat the Demand for
School Accommodations.
NOTABLE FEATURES OF THE OPENING
Nniuorlcnl Supremacy of Glrln In
ClilcaKo'fl IIlKk School * ill I-I'll 111
Tcncliern School tVorlc
Among IndlittiH.
Notwithstanding the efforts made and tbo
expenditure ot vast sums of money , many
of the largo cities are , unable to provide
adequate school facilities for tbo rising gen
eration. This Is particularly true of Chl-
cage , Now York and Philadelphia. It Is not
a new condition. It lias existed for several
yoaia back. But 'tbo number of children
excluded from school for lock of room Is not
nearly as largo as a year ago. In Now York
City eight now buildings materially relieved
the crush for school accommodation. The
new buildings provide for an addition of
45,000 children to the rolls , raising the total
to 400,000 , with a teaching force of 11,000
In the borough of Manhattan. Brooklyn's
131 schools opened with an attendance ot
163,000 , but the schools were not as crowded
as last year , mainly because the attendance
at tbo opening Is not as high as In mid
winter. By the February term six now
'buildings ' will bo ready to accommodate the
Increased attendance.
In Philadelphia the demand for Increased
school facilities Is vigorously voiced by the
newspapers. The Hoard of Education ap
pears unable to realize that growth In popu
lation requires proportionate growth In
school facilities. . There la no stinting of
moans for -the purpose. The trouble Is the
means are uaod In Iras needful ways. In con
sequence of the mossback pulley 7,000 chil
dren will be given only half time In school
this year.
I''cnturiN of ChlciiKo SrhoolN ,
Unfavorable weather cut down the open
Ing attendance In Chicago public schools to
100,000. A few da > ii Inter the attendance
Jumped to 220,000 , an Increase of about 10-
000 over 1898. The opening of three new
schools and tbo largely Increased facilities
of parochial schcola practically absorbed the
BUrpHis of children In Chicago. But there
Is no room left for tbo usual winter Increase ,
and should that come up to expectations
half-time will bo necessary In many schools.
To meet the needs of next year the cvhool
tooard demands an appropriation of $10,000-
000 for new buildings.
The expense per pupil In Chicago last year
waa as follows : Elementary schools , $22.35 ;
night schools , JS.u4i high ecboolx , $53.98 ;
normal schools , $116.76 , and schools for the
deaf , $96.74. Special studies cost per capita
as follows ; Music , 11 cents ; physical culture ,
56 cents ; drawing , $1.35 ; manual training ,
$3,73 ; household arts , $1.26.
Some features of the eohool opening In
Chicago are of general Interest. Teaching
Spanish , a particular fad of Superintendent
Andrews , waa Inaugurated In the high
schools. A large tncreaso In the number of
kindergarten schools evidences their growIng -
Ing popularity , Another striking feature is
the marked numerical supremacy of girls In
the high schools. There are eight high
schools and the enrollment bhows 5,090 , of
whom 1,493 were boys and 4,097 were girls
2,804 more girls than boys , or only four
boyo to every eleven girls. In the manual
training school there are C30 boys and no
girls. "This fact suggests , " comments the
Chicago Chronicle , "the question whether
the girls are not being educated away from
the boys , so to speak , to a eerloug extent.
The boys are taken from school at an earlier
ago than the girls , and , It la to to presumed ,
Bet to 'work : la occupations not requiring In
struction In the high school tranches. Is
It well that so many ot their elsters receive
so much more schooling ? Do- not the latter
acquire tastes and ambitions and Ideas of llfo
unfitting them for the relation of marriage
with the less cultivated young men ? "
lH-l'ulil Scliool Teacher * .
In the latest published report of the
superintendent of public Instruction ot
Pennsylvania are the following remarkable
statements :
With the maximum tax rate allowed by
law the schools In some districts could not
bo kept open during six months. In others
the salaries of teachers were altogether
Inadequate. For Instance , ono superintend
ent found that there \vero teachers In his
county teaching for $4 per year loss than
It cost the county on an average to keep
ono pauper. * * The county hero referred
forrod to Is not a solitary Instance. Taking
for comparison the figures furnished by
Cadwalader Blddlo , secretary of the State
Board of Charities , showing the average
ccst of keeping a pauper at the different
county homes In the state , and comparing
these figures with the salaries paid to
'
teachers In the school year 1896-1'897 , It Is
found that In moro than a dozen counties
there were teachers who received less per
year than the average coat of maintaining
a pauper. In a surprisingly large number
of counties there arc teachers who get only
a small sum In excess of what It would
bavo cost the county officials to keep the
same teachers In their alms houses. The
avorngo cost per Inmate throughout the state
Is $2,65 per week , or $138.32 per annum.
* It Is Eelf-ovldcnt that teachers who
receive for tbo annual term a sum below
or even slightly In excess of this amount
can mnko very Httlo preparation for their
work. "
Commenting on this showing the Phila
delphia Record says ; "In order to throw
light upon this painful subject we should
see how wo stand In comparison with other
states In the matter of average salaries paid
to teachers of the public schools. The re
port of the superintendent of public Instruc
tion of Pennsylvania for the year ended
Juno 6 , 1898 , shows that there were dur
ing the year 28,080 teachers In all ( male
and female ) , and that the total salaries
amounted to $10,332,759.07. The average
salary , therefore , was about equal to $1 per
diem for the whole year , The report of the
commissioner of education In Washington
shows that In Massachusetts In 1890 there
were 12,275 public school teachers , and the
total salaries amounted to $0,990,039 , or an
average of $5C9.SO per annum , or $1.50 a
day for the whole year. In New Jersey
there were 5,620 teachers * , who received $3-
057,860 an average of $561.00 per annum ,
In the . For Connecticut
or $1.B4 rash day year.
necticut approximate figures are given as
follows : Three thousand nlno hundred nnd
sixty-two teachers ; salaries , $1,748,475
making an average of $441.30 enlary for each
Instructor , or $1.20 per diem for the entire
year. "
Hrliool Work Aninnir Indiana.
The annual convention of the Indian
School Scrvlca Institute , recently held at
Los Angeles , Cal. , marked n , new epoch In
.lie Indian service and from It will date a
radical departure from former custom In
the holding of yearly gatherings of these
who are concentrating their lives and am
bitions to the upbuilding of the Indian race.
Thcso Indian Institutes , reports the Wash
ington Post , are tbo outgrowth of the on-
eigy and executive ability of Miss Estclle
Heel , the first woman to hold the office ot
national superintendent ot Indian schools.
> ln discharging the duties of her office by In
specting the Indian schools In Kansas ,
Oklahoma , Arizona , New Mexico , California ,
Wyoming , Washington and Oregon , Miss
Reel becumo acquainted with the needs of
the Indian and as a consequence endeavored
to bring about a broadening of the minds
that directed the educational branch of the
Indian service. Having tula In nilnd , Miss
Reel recommended that an Institute for In
dian teachers bo held , where , emulating the
practice of the teachers of colleges and nor
mal public schools , these government teach
ers could meet , become personally ac
quainted , exchange Ideas and offer sugges
tions beneficial to their vocation. The con
vention In 1898 was hold at Colorado
Springs and demonstrated the wisdom of
holding these Institutes.
To further old the teachers In the Indian
service Miss Reel suggested to the depart
ment tlhat the institute lor 1899 be held at
Log Angeles at the time of the meeting of
the National Educational association. The
central Idea that governed this Impulse waa
embodied In Miss Reel's language : "Wo believe -
liovo that every teacher can learn , and I
think that when the teachers who come
from every BoeUo-n of the United States meet
In session dtwill bo possible for the teachers
employed in the Indian service to bo able
to study method , by hearing eminent scholars
discuss pedagogic questions. The influence is
for the hotter , and our teachers will be
made stronger and become imbued with , a
higher conception of their calling. Hence ,
the Indian Teachers' Institute will this year
become , during the dally session ot the Na
tional Educational association , a part ot
that national body for instruction , advance
ment and ) improvement. "
The Institute tJhifl year was the most suc
cessful over hold , both in point of numbers
and in the enthusiasm of the meetings. The
Pcrris Cal. , Indian band , eighteen strong ,
furnished music for the convention nnd nlio
gave concerts at the different places In nnd
about the city. The girl's Mandolin and Gui
tar club , composed of fifteen girls from the
same school , played/ selections and recited
during the Institute and at different en
tertainments during their stay In Los An-
golea. They also played and recited nightly
at the exhibit rooms of the Institute , West
minster hotel. The work of botlh the band
and itho girls' club was highly complimented.
The manual training work consisted ot
leather work , blackstnlthlng , tinning , car
pentry , tailoring , etc. , such articles ns har
ness , bridles , whips , children's shoes , chains ,
horeo shoes nails , hammora , doors , window
cashes , tin dishes , wooden dishes , dresses ,
aprons nnd boys' suits being exihlbltcd , also
a email stationary engine. Bach department
of the manual training -was well represented ,
the work attracting a great deal of attention
and receiving much favorable comment.
I.diii'iitlonal ftotcH.
The largest school In San Juan , Porto
Ulco , occupies only one room.
Harvard has 391 instructors ; Yale , 245 ;
Pennsylvania , 'M ; .Michigan , 167 , and
Chicago , 175.
A score of ( Indents from Cuba and nearly
half aa many from Porto Rico are at Notre
Dame. Indiana.
In future Russia will punish disorderly
students by requiring them to servo In the
army from one to three years ,
Princeton's new freshman class contains
259 members , a alight decrease , due to
liiwrher HJholurtfMp requirements.
It coats a girl $100 to KO to Vussnr. $404 to
go to Smith , 420 for a year at We.lcsley , and
$750 to spend a year at KadcIIffe.
The college graduates of the country
make a pretty good part of the population
and Harvard taken the lead with a. total of
22,2) ) > 7 graduates. Yale has sent out into the
world IS , 460 men , and Columbia 15,9il.
Princeton has graduated 7,500 students ;
Dartmouth , 8,501 ; Hrown , 4WO ; liowdoln ,
.4,1119 ; Am-ierst. 4,000 and Washington unl-
I verslty , 3,436.
Ann Arlior. Mich , has the larsci t coeducational -
' educational institution In the world wlth'.n
4t.s borders. Oberlln coHege was the first to
, adopt co-education In the west , but now
' the University of Michigan Icud4 the way
with 671 young women out of a total of 3-
111 atudents enrolled , Another feature of
i Ann Arbor la the fact that , with only 1Z.COO
Inhabitants , it supports forty grocery stores ,
, or one to every 300 people.
' Dr. W. O. Starr , the new prenldent of
Hnndol | < n-Macon college. Is a native of
Virginia and Is 5S ytara old. Ho Is a
Knuluuto of Randolph-Macon college nnd
has been ranked as one of the motet brilliant
Methodist ministers In the south. 'He wnJ
for live years president of the Wesleyan
Feinalo college. Murfreesboro. N. ( . ' . . anil
for the lust four yearo has bc-en pastor of
i the Uroad Street Methodls-t Episcopal
| church of FUclunoncL
BANISHING THE GIDDY WALTZ
t
The Good Old Danca Discarded in This
Utiliarian : Age.
SIMPLER TWO-STEP IN POPULAR FAVOR
MiiNtcrH licmnnn the 1'iiHNliiKT
ot the flrnccful AVhlrl
Oil tllC CHUMP Of ItH
Downfall.
To the carpet knights whoso dancing days
came to an end a generation or more ago ,
relates the New York Sun , the announce
ment of the dancing masters at their con
vention last week that the waltz la no longer
popular must have como both as a surprise
and shock. All the statistics , however , seem
to justify the declaration of the masters
and to indicate that the good old waltz that
became popular a hundred yoara ago , and
was danced in Germany no ono knows how
many years before that , is giving way to the
quicker two-stop. The dance that our
grandfathers and grandmothers learned only
after patient practice has been succeeded by
the two-step that a boy or girl can learn in
two minutes of sidewalk dancing to the
music of a hurdy-gurdy.
It Is not with any pleasure that the dancing
masters make their scmi-ofllclal announce
ment of the change , for to them the transi
tion mean's loss of business. Of all the round' '
dances the waltz Is the most dllllcult to
learn , and that fact alone has always made !
it profitable for the teachers. Nowadays' '
when knowledge of the two-step In all that
Is required to enable a person to go through
fully half of the list of dances at any
function there isn't apt to bo such a de
mand for professional instruction. So the
masters protest nnd It will bo no fault of
theirs If the decline of the waltz Is anything
more'than temporary.
Dealers In sheet music have the same story
to tell. They declare that the demand for
waltz musto has been steadily decreasing for
several years and that tbo sales of music
written In two-fourths , four-fourths and six-
eighths time suitable for the two-step have
Increased In proportion.
There are almost s many theories ad
vanced to explain the decline of .tho waltz
as there are myths and legends relative to
the origin ot dancing. All axe agreed , how
ever , tfhot the ease and quickness with which
the iwo-fiptcp may bo learned Is the principal
reason for Its jurreent popularity. Some
oWMImons who were in their ballroom prime
ton years ago declare that tbo recent death
of Strauss lias had something to do with tbo
case , Hut the young folks laugh at this and
say that Strauta wan a , back number In
this city long before ho died , that bis music
was seldom played at dances , especially at
fashionable ones , and that if there Is anyone
now who eSicmld bo called the "waltz King"
H Is Waldtcufc-1. Another explanation Is that
the waltz has auffereJ the fate of the bicycle ,
only by a slower process , it 'become ' too
popular , end when prizes "were given for the
be-st "lady and gent waltzers" at Row cry
festivities it hurt that particular dance In
other parts of the town.
AuthorlllfH DUiiKrcc.
! Hut this talk about the decline of the waltz
rule applies to the largo cities and to certain
parts of thorn. There are BOJUO Fifth avenue
authorities Who do not agree with the aver
age dancing master that the waltz Is going
out. They admit , however , that the two-
step Is Just an popular as the waltz oven In
their own limited circles. The dancing man-
1 ager for Sherry's said that It was a case off
half and ihalf. "I am sure , ' " he continued ,
! "that I have found plenty of waltzing t all
1 the summer placet ) this reason. Ot course the
city season ( hasn't opened ; yet and wo can't
tell what -will happen when it docs. "
Another authority declared that ono can't
toll anything about city dancing from what
is scon out of town. "Why. I was In New
port a few years ago , " said this dancing
master , "and saw New York society people
dancing polkas in the Casino. They wouldn't
have tlhought of such a thing at 1iome. "
The dancing out of town Is altogether dif
ferent anyway , and the further out ono goes
the moro ho will learn about the dances that
used to bo popular Jn this city but now are
forgotten. A young man from a New Hamp
shire village went to a dancing master in
this city recently.
"I want to learn tlho Portland Fancy , " said
the applicant.
"What ? " asked the dancing master. "Say
that again. It brings up a lot of memories.
Why , you must bo forty years elder than you
look. I'm nearly 60 and haven't heard of a
Portland Fancy since I was a boy. "
"Why , they have boon dancing It for the
last three winters up In my place , " replied
the man from New Hampshire. "They think
it's great and don't even dance the Tempest
now. "
Orliclii of DIIIICUM.
The dancing master looked dreamy and
reminiscent again. "The Tempest , " lie said ,
half to himself. "I remember now. Everyone
ono in the room dances In the Eamo set and
they are drawn up in two long lines. "
"Yes , Just HKo a big Virginia Reel , " Inter
rupted the young man.
"And after the line-up the rest of the Tem
pest is sort of a stampede. Something like a
foot ball game , only Instead ot rushing at
each other the two lines race up and down
the hall. So you got through with that only
three years ago up In your place , and then
took up the Portland Fancy tor something
new ? "
"Yes , but wo like It and wo'vo danced the
Virginia Reel for years and years. That's
the only real and original American dance. "
"No , it isn't , " said the dancing master.
"Thoro Isn't any real American dance , ex
cept perhaps the scalp dance and the sun
dance of the North American Indians , and
they'll never be popular either on Fifth avenue -
nuo or on the Bowery. . The Virginia Reel
was arranged 200 years ago In England and
the lasc name It was known by over there
was the 'Sir Roger do Cnverly , ' nnd wo re
named It the reel over here. All of our
dances came from Europe Just as they are
now , or else they are modifications ot the
foreign article. The waltz , for Instance , Is
of Slavic origin and worked its way through
Germany , Franco nnd England to us. Lord
Byron once wrote a denunciation of it. The
polka was invented in 1831 by a girl In Bo
hemia. The redowa came from the same
country nnd the mazourka had Its origin in
Poland , where the Russian soldiers took it
up nnd then carried It homo. And so on
through the entire list ot dances , old and
new , oquaro and round , all can bo traced
back to a foreign country. "
scouucn OK THU sic AS.
Xcw ln ! li'Nlil | ( AlahaiUH Coiniuircil
\iiUi UN Famous .NaiucNaUr.
Something llko thirty-four years ago , relates -
latos Collier's Weekly , a war ship , with a
record , went down among the blind fishes
In the deep sea off the French port of Cher
bourg , after n savogo fratricidal duel.
Every Bchoolboy kuo\\s the story ot the
I light between the confederate cruiser Ala-
' bnmii and the United States steamer Kcar-
fcarge. And now , after half a lifetime , the
ship's name that made merchant sklppeni
carry two nets of papers lu the ' 60s has been
resurrected , for Captain Raphael Semmcs'
"Scourge of the Seas" has como to llfo
again In one of the finest battleships of the
new American navy. If It Is ever put
"Did you find it expensive at the seashore ? "
"Awfully ! Even the tide was high. "
forth for the undoing of an enemy may she
pllo up a record as formidable as 'that of
her namesake.
The United States battleship Alabama has
had Its flrat ocean trlail nnd has demon
strated Its ability to exceed Its contract re
quirements. Consequently It returned to
the yard of Its builders , the Cramp Ship and
Engine Building company ot Philadelphia ,
with a broom at Us foretop. Designed to
steam sixteen knots an hour , the battleship
plowed over the measured trial course off the
Delaware capes at an easily maintained
pace of 10.33 knots for the full run ot
twenty-two nnd one-hnlf knots ,
The trial of the Alabama developed three
points in Its favor : First , great friietnl ,
second , perfect tractablllty and obedience to
Its helm ; third , splendid stability , us > suri 11 ;
a perfect gun platform In n. heavy nca. The
latter qualification is perhaps the most Im
portant of all. Fault could bo found with
but ono feature the ventilation of Us stoke
hold. This can bo easily remedied and will
bo cro It goes on Its olficlal trip. * *
Now came the spectacular part ot the trial.
With the double Intention of storing steam
for the final ru.sh back and of testing Ilia
eteorlng gear , the Alabama ran In an Im
mense circle around the lightship. Gradu
ally Pilot Long sent Its helm over harder
and harder , until the Hanged rudder stood
almost at right anglr < i to the ship's kcol , and
then ns It heeled , v'-h ' the tip of Its port
bridge far down I 'hosuter , itua
scon that it could l Lomplccc clitln In
about three nnd one-halt times its own
length , less than 400 yards.
Finally , out of this ring of foam , the Ala
bama was hoadcd down wind toward the
! lglitslitp , duo on the course ' /or what piovcd
to bo her record-breaking run. A couple of
crazy rain squalls strolled aimlessly ov > r
the vasto of water and viciously pelted the
unarmed battleship , Tha screws were * still
turning at 114 revolutions when the light
ship was left for the last tlmu and the
battleship begun to show her licoh. And
now came the unique /experience / of carryIng -
Ing wet forward deck.i whllu running dead
11 lee'ward. The wet and grimy congress
men nnd , the phlegmatic Russians ( dreaming
of their own thlps building , looking Into
the mist , waited to ralsit the lightship ,
which would mark the finlhh of the run.
They did net have to ttraln their eyca
long , It bobbed into view In nb
twenty minutes , and in prt-clbely thlrty-
nlno minutes and twenty-seven seconds
after the start the finish line was crossed.
This showed a speed of 17.20 knots per
hour or an average out nnd In ot 1C 33
knots.
'Mr. Town , iho big chief 'engineer ' , having
cheered up the tired 'but complacent engine-
men with the assurance that "they i\er < >
all right , " gazed with hugis content and
meditatively at the distinguished group of
naval officers and clvlo dlgnatarlea that
decorated the deck , and a murmur came
eoftly from nobody In particular :
We've got the men ;
We're getitln' the eWps
The broom went alo.'t to the foretop , and
the Alabama ran through the breakwater
and fctoamed up the bay , whereupon all
floating things therein that carrlul a uhlutlo
straightway went mad and postponed re
covery until their big slstor reached liur
moorings.
This Is what the Alabama will be when
completed : A turret steel battleship , with
epeclflcatlonu and equipment as follows
11,525 tons displacement , 3C8 feet long ,
Bovuuty-two feet three Inches beam , twentj-
flvo foot elx Inches draught , two propel
lers , 10,000 Indicated horse power , coat ,
$2,722,695 ; to to armed with four 13-
Inch and fourteen 0-Inch and many smaller
caliber guns. She will carry a crtw
of 489 men. So It Is apparent she will be
able to ghu a good account of herself.
"Best on the markut for coughs and colds
and all bronchial troubles ; for croup it has
no equal , " writes Henry It. Whltford , South
Canaan , Conn. , ot Ono Minute COUKU
