New-York tribune., 1903-01-25
SCHO0LB0Y NEWSPAPER.
WORK OF CLASS IN NO. 10.
Cost Of Publication Detrayed by Id
uerfiseDleRfs-.SeRt to Parents.

One oF the most interesting Of the amateur
publications in this great publishing centre is
The Commercial Quarterly, published four
times year by the boys Of Professor Nicnol-
sons class in Public School No. 10, which is
large brick building at West One-hundred-and-
seventeenth-st. and st. Nicholas-ave- The paper
s issued free Of charge TO three thousand par
ents in the Harlem district bounded by One-hun-
Gred-and-twelfth and Observation-Disclosures
tieth SITS. Eighth and Lenox aves. They are
eager TO testify that The Quarterly is full of
interest.
L Is no small matter for class Of fifty boys
e fourteen years to undertake such project
IS is involved in issuing The Quarterly That
:Ho classes each year since 1885 have succeed
i m the successful publication is a tribute to
'heir energy. Not only have they paid all costs
- publication out Of the advertisements which
they solicit from the merchants of the district,
Il there has been a profit of So to $50 on each
sue
As a result Of funds secured in this way, Pro
lessor Nicholsons room is better equipped and
decorated than any other grammar schoolroom in
he city. There is a library OF more than three
handred volumes including expensive works Ike
The Century Dictionary" an encyclopedia and
1ther works Of reference. There is a fiction de-
Fartment from which the boys of the class are
pernitted TO draw books for home reading. For
tse during their leisure time in school there are
lies Of standard magazines Plaster figures and
an oil painting or two for room decoration have
recently been added.
The proceeds Of the last number OF The quar-
7ry' were $50 and the question Of expenditure
as brought before the class The boys VIII
i"oE be promoted 10 the first class in the High
Hohool yet there was not a dissenting voice
hen il was proposed to buy some new deco
ration for the room which they are about TO
IsaFe. The patriotism of the American school
10y is shown in their final verdict. They or
oered three large engravings Washington
erossing the Delaware" "old Ironsides and
PORTRAIT OF Abraham Lincoln These have been
framed in brown oak and hung in the room.
previous issue OF the paper resulted in the
purchase Ct typewriter, which is Kept in a
'ofnsr Of the room and is open to the use OF
Facn pupil. All of the boys have learned to
me on the machine, and several have become
experts
ne boys write all OF the reading matter in
- paper. well as solicit the advertising.
Alen pays for its publication. In order that
ery oog may have chance, the articles are
iie1 and 10 the point Each article is signed
Ao IS The pride Of the writer. In a recent num-
one boy had paragraph on writing Eng
x" N which he said IN part:
- De able to write good English is an accom-
re,.lnent not easily attained. The most i'm
l AM taiag in writing is 10 have something
: . sno then 10 express II in as simple, clear
sliglDle manner as possible.
another issue the boys told OF the various
IS tney had visited. Here is an essay on
efforts:
the ny arrival in Pittsburg / went directly 20
Aef House and remained there for three