New-York tribune., 1899-07-18
VACATION FAIRGROUNDS.
OPENED WITH A GREAT hip. HIP. HuR-
RAHr' FROM THE CHILDREN.
APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION FAR oUTNuMBEH
THE MoDArIoNs-rNFLUENcE

APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION FAR oUTNuMBER
THE MoDAr1oNs-rNFLUENcE
OF EXCURSIONS
Nav, amt goin' TO no vacation school slons
IS I've got work g week.
We'll. be- n you bet yer life you'n oe sofry
They don't do a thing but draw pictures paint
posies n blmeby they's goin TO be scursion
TO beat the band" and with visions OF pieasures
present and excursions 10 come the bast oiue
waits Of humanity hocked about the ooors anu
overran the streets wherever vacation schooi or
vacation playground had opened It's hospitaoie
doors.
In School No a. at No. los Broome-st.. there Is
combination" the school element holding the fort
until u O'Clock, with Miss Mae Wech as principal
another set OF teachers and director having
right OF way from 80 for the next four hours
This being Miss Wech's second summer as princi-
pal her work was we'll organized and under way
at an early hour she having learned that 1t Is well
to have material on hand at the opening Her iorce
OF assistants includes three men.
In No L at the corner OF Henry and Oh'er 'es,
the enrolment had already gone beyond the ooV
limit. and waiting list OF applications numbered
three hundred. Logan D. Howell. the principal Is
q teacher In the mixed High School In the Borough
OF The Bronx and he has seventeen assistants IN
cuding a clerk Among these are MI AVA -
Collson from the Manual Training Department al
Yonkers; Mrs Elizabeth s Knapp, who has charse
Of the manual work in this school, and Grace ~
Ives. NJ. D.. who is to teach nursing care OF tne
sick. cooking for invalids etc. Others are the
Misses Agnes VI. Scott. Elizabeth T. Ganaoou''
Kate j. Brown. Emily Backmann Jenny " Bununx
Sadie and Clara Cohen, Edyth J. Turner. Anna T.
Cunnis, Irma S. Book and Emma Z. C. Rea, To-
gether with Mesdames Mary w. Wilson Hiiah
Reeder and Emma H. Nye. nearly all Of whom are
experienced teachers.
Miss Hamman, principal OF No. 2 at No ll6
Henry-st.. too busy TO do more than say that
her enrolment had not reached the limit as yet
The principal at No. 147. East Broadway ana
Gouverneur-st.. Miss Lucy Pearce, from the Four
teenth Street School. has sixteen assistants IN
cludng clerk, nearly all Of whom are new TO the
work, only five being experienced teachers' me
work here had already begun 10 hum ana teach-
ers and children seemed alike pleased and busy.
At No. l54 BrOome-st the enrolment mao reached
fourteen hundred. more than double the limit
Louis NJ. Block, director OF the vacation pay
ground at Public School No 10. Broome-st was
directing boys their games. frolic with teeter
ladders, jumping stands, dummy horse, etc ne
ment but they had little provision made Tor games;
Altogether the work is more definitely pianneo
and less tentative than last year, ana as II Is
mainly Of an INDUSTRIAL character, with an excur-
sion for each school the close Of the term IL IS
strange that, although the attendance Is purely
voluntary the applicat tons far outnumber the ac-
commodatons provided
fest from year TO year. and IL is thought that IN
time the appropriation can be brought up 10 the
desirable amount for this phase OF educational
work