THE EVENING SCHOOLS. The enrollment in the Evening Schools the past winter shows a decrease of thirty-three from that of the previous winter. Of those aged twenty-four years and upwards, I find that 213 out of the 428 were enrolled in the colored Evening Schools. A special school for adults was opened in the Bates School building as an experiment. It had been held that many illiterate adults who would receive great benefit from the Evening Schools, were kept away from unwillingness to submit to the mortification of exhibiting their ignorance in the presence of boys of twelve or thirteen years. The entire enrollment of this school was eighty-three, of whom Of the pupils attending the O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute or High Evening School: Upon comparison of the table of occupations of the pupils of the Evening Schools enrolled the past winter,'with those enrolled the year before, it is found that there is an increase in the number of bakers, barkeepers, brush makers, cabinet makers, candy makers, cash boys, clerks, druggists, errand boys, factory boys, finishers, foundry men, glass workers, grocers, iron workers, jewelers, machinists, mechanics, moulders, news carriers, photographers, porters, saddlers, tailors, tobacconists and waiters. There is no change in these statistics that needs comment. |