New-York tribune., 1896-11-27
NEEDS or An INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
THREATENED WITH LOSS OF LIGHT AND
ArR-MONEY WANTED TO Buy LOT.

IA
AR-MoNEY WANTED TO Buy LOT.
The managers of the Children's Aid Society are
in sore trouble with the Mott Street Industrial
cohooi The school IS threatened next with virtual
extinction through the cutting on Of its light ana
air by a tenement about to be erected next
door The plans have been filed and unless som"
way Of relief IL found the school will be left to
d.rLr.ss and despair before the new year Is FAR
advanced
The schoohouse IL between Houston and Prince
,s onnosite also St Patrick's Cathedral il
was the gift ot wealthy patron OF me society
who Is now dead. OF its work the report oil 'he
managers read at the recent annual meeting. s"Ee'
VI. are in the midst OF floating population o'
III" noor.st class OF Italians who come to IA ~
ali their squalor and wreichedness lh,n T,mr-
To keep the older In school ". nave 20 h',pMM
IN, baby come. too Tor thr i,.y III ,t her
is working trying to cke ont scaniy cAlSi"mG" dn
Many OF our boys are Obliged 10 '9nNn G s"p"o e"s 80
,be, arc The only wagc-.srner. while Others come
,le. ,.. 'a' 80 90 md work for their parents. w"
listen and strive 10 help. never 'urlI"s "'' "'"'
without a word OF sympathy II no h'''
Adjoining the school building l. row OF I'VE
old duapila,~d tencments. with an e'"a' ""'"'''
- houses on the back u the lot Between ih''"
f., = wild. yard upon which the windows o' '"'
c,ooi omen All the iigh' and air that com" 4"
the classrooms come from this oi"n space ~
I've, rear tencmcnis were among III" hrs' 10 ~
seized for condemnation by the fi"aih b"''" al
the instance OF the Good Government ciHps ''S'
snring Their wr.iched state rendered them IN
,h. Judgment Of the sanitary experts. unf' 10 i've
in The tenants were forced TO leave ana me
,,,tt.r went 10 the courts upon the protest oi "a"
landlord
II was hoped a. the time that some one won.d De-
found 20 purchase the size OF the OLD hu'iins-' "h'
make O., II a playground for the chilArcn Cd; The In
lustral school They have never had other play
ground than the street OF ihe dark and narrow zap
be,ween ihc school-huildng and the lin--"aI 'n"'
ling II off from the tsremenfs. This gap aver ages
three Zee; in width. jus, enough 10 let t"o chlif"n
mass and iher. ar. 100 Or more on IN" schoo.-ion.
The plight Of the litile ones Was d"scr.'G patheu-
callv last summer by one Of them. VINO sad;
The monitor ne chascs out. and the COP. ho
chases us in There amt no place AT di4 FOR a boy
10 go"
The hopes Of the managers were not real zeh
There was no one buy tho coveted pit. even had
the owner been willing then 10 sell. Now ne mas
given up the fight against the Health Department
The whole plot font ana rear houses Included. mas
been sold 10 firm OF speculative builders. and The
old houses are 20 be down. Those were at leas'
low. much lower than the school-buildng FianS
have filed by the new owners. Well Mayer. Tor
a huge six-story tenement. 10 extend back seventy
flve feet; pas, the school, and above iis top story.
An a!rshaft TWO and half feet wide Is oil The OPEN
ing that IL to be left between Its north wall and the
school windows for lgh, and air 70 struggle through
The c.assrooms will be dark In consequence that
the gas must be kept always burning.
The school managers are In despair. The build
ers are within their right ami cannot be prevented
from carrying their design The only alterna-
tive is TO purchase from them one OF the five
twen,y-fo lots. This would AT once save the
school and give the children the much-needed play
ground II is needed there perhaps more than al
any other spot in the city just There il no
breathing space within possible reach Of the little
ones The Mulberry Bend Park IL seven long
blocks away and both Of the new small parks on
the East Side Will he. so far az any good 10 result
from them 10 these children Is concerned. as
If they were beyond the But 10000 IL good
deal Of money. and The managers have not got It,
They are making every effort 10 raise the money.
upon which the III, OF the school depends. but 80
far without success.
The school has like all OF It's kind. rs pathetic
little romanccs. II from It's shelter that little
Giuscppi the newsboy went forth TO meet win
his terrible death in the chute down at the Post
office the night General Sherman died fire
broke out in the basement. ana Giuscppi VINO hau
made his bed in the chute on some old maiipass'
was burned TO death. lie rad not sold his papers.
and was afraid to go his home in the Crosby-st.
alley knowing that his father would beat MN
Shortly before that he had brought little in3tn- moth
erless girl to school Win him who bs1 ne m dSu' S''
"I6Is cirl is very poor" he said presenting her
90 ,hn ,e,cher and ever after while he lived. he
~ os " b.r Knight Scarcely less wre,ched than she
I'm her rags he took her to ana from sohooi, anu
hrompht her pennies from the sale of his papers.
even though they cost him many thrashins Al
r. the Mott Stree, school orIsinaed @ the snaod sere
n's I Syor the country II was the idea OF Colonel
George T. Balch. an educator and patriot "h9
snv Tho need of instiling into these children or
forc,rn birth some idea OF the Government under
which they are live. and. through II. love OF
'orn,ry md Of home lie found the vehicle IN
tHc aig. Every morning sees Il carried TO the
Principals desk by the best pupil OF me DAY Pc, Pc
t,,n and al. The little ones. rising at the stroke
Of the bell. salute IT with the words: We turn TO
o,,r nar az the sunfower turns 10 the sun We
% o;u. orr heads and our hearts TO our country.
One country one language, one nag. :. .,,, -.
Any one who has heard them say Il Will not
domh; that i, is their flag and that. II ever the
need of defending II comes. they will not be found
skulkng In the rear