New-York tribune., 1901-07-09
BACK TO CLASSROOMS.
VACATION SCHOOLS OPENED YESTER-
DAY WITH THRONGS OF JUBI-
LIANT CHILDREN.

The sixteen vacation schools under the Board OF
Education began their summer work yesterday
, morning. Long before o'clock, the hour set for
. opening, hundreds OF boys and girls who left the
+ building little more than week ago with whoops
and hurrahs for vacation were back again. crowded
about the doors Of Public School No !, at Henry
and Oliver SITS. impatently awaiting its reopenng.
TITS just the same's play. was the reason that
many gave for coming. Others were there TO keep
out Of the SUM- and ''off the DOCKS More than
five hundred were in attendance, and this number,
II is believed Will be quadrupled at this school
during the week
The school divided into thirteen classes half of
which are boys and half girls. The grading is deter-
mined by size and age. intellectual merit. Ma
terial had not come in many of the sections and
the regular work was in consequence not begun.
The nurses class. the top floor, was, however.
in active operation and took its first lesson in roll
ing bandages and applying them TO finger, foot and
knee. Across the hall were the cooking and house
keeping classes in the large beautiful rooms fitted
for the purpose. Provisions wanting in the
former, but songs and quiet games occupied the
time.
The little housekeepers, on the contrary were
busy Their furniture on hand, and they
busted and swept and arranged chairs and tables
great zeal A small girl an unrnistalza bic Scandi-
navian, standing with her arms akmbo and head
gazed upon the result of her efforts. She there,
trait was an inheritance was tesihed by the gener-
quantity Of handmade lace decorating her tidy
glossy hair
A class of boys began their rafia baskets, and
the dolls dressmakers discussed with their teach
the various kinds of stitches required in plain
sewing. For a beginning the latter class Will dress
dolls Puritan naidens. babies. Swiss and Dutch
peasants, flower girls and Little Red Riding Hoods,
as each may choose. ard each doll will become the
property Of the who clothes it. Afterward more
latitude VIII be allowed. and each may choose her
style and become her own designer.
To acher the instructors are enthusiastic,
many Of them coming from various parts of the
country for the experience to be gained among the
youngsters Of the foreign population of a great
city. The children were uncommonly clean yester-
but no Imagination needed TO see traces OF the
last weeks heat in pallid cheeks and hollow eyes.
More Industrial classes will be introduced into the
vacation schools this year than before, two occu-
patons being furnished 70 each school. For the
bows they VIII comprise weaving. Venetian
.ronwork joinery and cabinet making, fret saving
chip carving and whiting; Cor girls, rafiia weaV
ing, dressma king, doll dressing, sewing, paper
flower making, millinery, embroidery knitting
crocheting. cooking housekeeping ana nursing
Cooking VIII be taught in twelve schools this sum-
rner an Increase Of nine over last year and ten
over the previous season. Mrs. Mary ". Wilson
and Miss Agnes Daley the supervisory teachers
for the summer of domestic science. -Four trained
ods and care of babies and young children, are an
innovation this year
In addition to the sixteen vacation schools FIVE
summer kindergartens, twenty-eight Fairgrounds
and eight evening play centres opened for the
season Yesterday in Maphattan and The Bronx. In
BROOKLYN twelve vacation schools and eighteen play
grounds began their summers work yesterday