The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-25
VACATION SCHOOL CLIMAX.
CHURCH FEDERATION SHOWS
WHAT 700 CHILDREN KNOW.

Hammocks and Embroidery. Dresses and
Carvings Displayed At Commencement
First Aid" Dramatically illustrated
Goliath OF Gath In Cardboard.
From Cherry Hill. Little Italy and Heil's
Kitchen, out Of the tenement cahons
where half million Of them live, 100 children
crowded into Oivet Memorial Church,
Second street near Second avenue, yester-
day afternoon, to show what they had
learned at the summer vacation schools
Of tho Federation Of Churches and Chris
tian Organizations.
Dark faced little Rocco rubbed elbows
with snubnosed Michael and Sarah Silver
stein marched arm and arm with haxen
haired Katrina. Some Of them were thin
and hungry looking and some Of them
were ragged, but the thinnest and the
raggedest pressed forward happily to SHOW
teacher" wonderful baskets they had woven
or neat fancy work they had done at home
when they hadn't to mind the baby or
'help ladder"
Mostly. they we're neat as pins In starched
Bingham or Knockers and their faces fairly
shone from soapy sorubbing.
@You wouldn't think, now said one OF
the teachers, that some Of those tots haven't
any mother to do things for them and come
from districts where cleanliness Is next to
foolishness."
Since the public schools closed for the
summer the children have been spending
two hours day at the twelve federation
schools, learning Bible stories and music
one hour and sewing and doing other use
full work In the second. The twelve schools
are at Epiphany Chapel at $50 Stanton street;
Dewitt Memorial Church, $50 Rivington
street: Seventh Street Methodist Church.
Seventh street, near Second avenue; st.
Marks Lutheran Church, 1928 Sixth street;
Second avenue branch Y. M. G. A., l42
Second avenue; Peoples Home Church.
645- East Eleventh street; Judson Memorial
Church. So Washington Square South;
Phelps Settlement, Sl4 East Thirty-hfth
street; Church OF the Messiah, Ninety fifth
street and Third avenue; Evangelistic
tent, 18th stretet and First avenue; Christ
Chapel, 22s West Thirty fifth street; Bethany
Chapel, Tenth avenue near Thirty fifth
street; Brooklyn Congregational tent.
Saratoga avenue and Macon street, and
Union Avenue Chapel, 90 Union avenue,
Brooklyn.
Some OF the people who are doing things
for these children are Harvey E. Fisk, Miss
Helen Miller Gould. Charles Cuthbert
Hall, Edwin P. Farnham, John seely Ward,
Atterbury. They planned to protect as
many children as possible from the miseries
OF hot streets and unwholesome homes,
and 4,13O we're registered at the schools
this summer. The Rev. Robert g. Boville
originated the, plan and Is director OF the
college men and women.
1t was commencement day yesterday.
By . O'Clock in the afternoon the church
was packed with very hot but very proud
little people. They brought with them
baskets and carved pieces by the boys,
pretty embroidery and neat dresses by the
girls.
whore rolling Italian, cultural fiddish
put ita best foot forward. The fro-Cathe
dral School has the best singers and q chorus
from 1t gave -The Four Leafed Clover
Now said the director, 'you. will see
something, that will surprise you,
placed themselves in two, files, facing each
other. In one file the children held rolls
OF soft bandages, scissors and adhesive
plaster. Quick at q signal, the children
In the other file feigned injury. One had a
scalp wound, another q cut arm another
the director and the first file went to work.
swiftly and surely. Their fingers fairly
flew. In twinkle the scalp wounds were
dressed and bandaged, the sprained -kle
was soothed and wrapped, the cut arm was
treated and all the other hurts we're fixed by
exciting, and the DeWitts got applause that
tickled them through and through.
Then the italian boys and girls from
Harlem's Little Italy had their turn. In the
big Gospel tent at 1l2th street and First
Goliath and little David by heart: Henry
Ing siIt amor as Goliath. The armor was
made 0. psstebosrd, but 1t looked the rec!
thing. Then Michelangelo Contelli. whose
King Of the Jews, brandishing q sling.
While the school chanted the words Of the
Bible story, sticking to the text, Goliath
assailed David with aterrible sword Of wood.
At the proper moment when tho feelings
OF the churchful Of children we're wrought
the sling and Goliath dropped heavily:
Loud rang the cheers and the clapping Of
small hands lasted fully Ave minutes. An
encore was demanded. but Goliath refused.
Time was pressing and he wanted to get the
Their eyes were closed and they pretended
to be half drowned. That was the signal
for the Seventh Street Methodist school
to get busy. The children were around
the mooncious ones in q fash, rubbing
wrists, starting artificial BREATH ng and
showing all the tricks Of resuscitation.
And they could do the real thing, too,
said the director. ~
There We're more songs then. Tho Con-
gregational Tent School children from
brooklyn sang my Hearts I'd the High
lands with q real cold porridge accent,
and tho other schools had turn at song
reciting.
When II was all over the children marched
out of the church in double file and passed
summer school good-byes.
BROOKLYN GUARDSMAN browns
Wayne ID. Beattie Loses He Life While
Swimming at New City.