The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-13
VACATION SCHOOLS OPEN.
AND PUPILs FLOCK TO THEM IN
EAGER DROTES.

This Aversion 20 Holidays Is Mere Apparent
than Real, for I'm Addition to Learning Use
raI Things Mt tho Schools the TounEsters
Also Have tho Nest Kind OF Fun There.
Tho vacation schools opened yesterday morn
ing with q whoop. or, rather, thousands OF
whoops from oil dimensions OF threats. There
arc ten of the schools this year. Last year there
were only six. The increase shows that there
arc lots of boys and girls between the ages of
and IS years in Now York who do not want any
vacation from school. The explanation Is that
tho children have moro fun In tho schools than
they do at home or on the streets. Tho oogocs
of vacation schools 10 not to keep roomiui aiter
roomful OF children sitting up IN stii, sient
rows waiting for the recoss bell to ring-not q
bit of 1t. 1t Ia to keep children for whom iuie-
ness means mischief and bad ASSOCIATIONS ana
disc ase away from those things for two or three
hours each day, amusing them, and incidental
ly giving Thorn chances to learn things that DO
not come TO them in the regular schools.
Down In Norfolk street, half q square from
Grand, Is the biggest of the schools. When
Emil Newman, the principal, dismissed school
at half past IL o'clock yesterday morning, he
had given out over q thousand tickets OF ad-
mission to tho school. That Is a somewhat
greater number of pupils than can be comfort
ably placed in tho first two floors of
School 25, which have been turned over to Mr..
Newman Tor the VacaCon scnools. no VA
ask for one moro floor.
AT half past 8 o'clock there was a crowd Of
boys and girls in front Of tho school doors.
School was not to open until 0 o'clock. but as
the street, grow hotter and the crowd grew
bigger and there We're one or two proposiuon5
to star, u fight. Mr.. Newman told the janit3r
to let tho crowd in at q quarter OF . o'clock;
They came in swarms that almost frightened
the fourteen teachers who were ready to irr re,
school last summer. They made o rush for the
teachers they knew. One of these was Mr.;
Chrystio streets last year. lie was mobbed;
4, wi Lzns,nndif ",fd,, S99un ns oS on tho aod oq N < sSri ri
sei ers sques StsGOs !sTh GS g sen,r for sHS Mr.; Morris"
you, Abe. sit down." shouted Mr.. Morris.
Abe sat down M !; bs, the che cheers had had started tart d.
be squelched before the teacher could make him
self hoard. All. :, ,u.,
nice, quiet talk with You boys. think know
most OF you: How many of you played ball on
climbed UP after them. Every one Of them
they yelled. Those who had never seen the
teacher before yelled just as loud as those who
had. One Of the reasons, why Mr.. Morris is so
cumulation or conservation Of money is apt to
In tho main room below Miss Cornelius sat
at the piano and played songs .s, that EVERYBODY
S Sasw' Y snih' fo 1n l9ds, eHsTs o as sane sang : :as we'll and ID
as loud as his musical and physical develop
ment permitted. OF course, yesterday was
opening day, and the principal thing to be done
was to keep everybody busy while the classih-
cation was going on. To-day, Mr.. Newman
said. tho teaching will begin and things will
quiet down. School will begin at 8 o'clock and
end at noon. Half an hour will be spent in
singing every day, and half an hour in organ
lied recreation in the yard. In the rest OF tho
time there will be instruction, Kindergarten
work, sewing. drawing. designing, clay model
ling. commercial bookkeeping, and parliamen-
tary law. Discipline is to be maintained by q
sclt-governinR system. ,
The nine other schools arc Grammar School
81, 4lS West Twenty-eighth street: Gramma
School 81, 206 East Forty-second street: Gram.
mar School 90, Avenue A and Eighty first
street.; Grammar School 3, 4ss Hudson street
Grammar School J., 80 XandewatSr street
streets; Grammar School 40, 225 East Twenty.
third street; Primary School Dc. First avenue
and Ninth street, and Primary School Al, 462
West Fifty-eighth street. They will remain
open for six weeks. Any one who thinks that
the vacation school is a useful institution may
consider himself reminded that, although they
are quite free to the pupils, 1t costs money to
run them. This money Is contributed by per.
sons who think that the schools are worth
while. They send II to the New York Associa,
ton for Improving the Condition of the Poor, at
the United Charities building. 1oj East Twenty
first street.