The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-29

the principal, was using all her tact within
the beleaguered building to keep her 400
FESTIVE and excitable Italian charges in
ignorance of the situation in the street.
1t was exercise day yesterday. All the
youngsters had come to school with clean
faces in honor of the event. Ciprano
Angel wore his first pair of susPenders
with an Italian flag on the left buckle and
classes were gathered in the auditorium
upstairs and to the back Immediately upon
the opening bell in the morning,
The school was in the midst of the second
verse Of Sweet Clo-o-o-ver Blossoms"
when the j%anitress appeared, wids-eyed,
at the door and beckoned to Miss Underhill .
She told the principal that a mob Of 1000
women was outside and that they had
knives and axes.
Il knew our janitress is a good romanoer,"
said Miss Vanderbilt after the excitement
hal passed, but / also knew that the build-
ing was being besieged by a mob, for was
taller h the pupils in their seats, and
from where | stood l could look out of the
windows to the tenements across the street
and see the he ads all looking down at the
school door. And when the ohilden were
not singing l could hear the sore ans family
$50 just kept the children at work,
they could not hear the noise that their
mothers were making outside. | think we
sang every song in the book: Then when
the children began to get red TO the roots
VI NiiCl hdi thIOuSi idSh Vi oiSdth. VIC
10 are 40 When we had lone that for ten
minutes l hal the children do oalisthenics
aid mark time at their desks. Anything to
make a noise"
At last the strain on Miss Underhill's
ingenuity snapped her invention and after
word had come from the janitress that the
police had cleared the street the pupils
were dismissed.
The sight of the little ones unframed and
with neck ribbons and collars unsuilied by
blood was all that was needed to break the
panic among the women. Those who were
aging furies at one moment were sensible
and contented4 the next. All the children
vera back at school in the afternoon as if
nothing had happened.
Dr., Darlington Of the Department OF
Health speaking Of the riots, said yesterday
Il am not and never was in favor Of per-
schools. The Department Of Health's
sanction and the attendance of officials
thereof at the operations at Public School
llo last Thursday. which started all
When | learned of it J reprimanded my sub =
ordinates severely.
1T has always been my idea that It was
the duty Of the Health Department pri-
marty to examine the children, notify the
parents of their condition and let them
either call in a family physician or, II not
abie to pay, 20 to a hospital. felt sure
that wholesale operations in the public
tShOol "Oul0 SUIT up tTOuDle.
During the last few months some hun
dred thousand children have been examined
for various infections, and it was found that
nearly 48 per cent. of them had something
the matter. Notes to this effect were sent
to the parents
Three persons arrested during the Yid-
dish parents tumult Of Wednesday were
taken yesterday to the Essex Market police
court. Mary McAleer, principal Of the
girls department OF school 1888, was
complainant against Louis Yutah, a wood
turner, aged As, of 1888 East Fourth street,
the parent OF two little girls in the school,
who forced his way into the building to
rescue his children.
Magistrate Breen said to him, "You should
have had more sense than to believe the
stories about children being killed." and
fined him S..
or Esther Blaustein, aged 10, Of so1 Riv-
lngton street, the principal said that though
the girl graduated a year ago and ought
TO have known better, she was caught in
flaming the crowd with a Yiddish speech
from the back Of a wagon, telling them
that she had seen children killed by the
teachers in school. The girl was fined 81.
Mrs. Cipora Flohr, aged Is, Of $50 Stanton
street was fined a like amount. She man
aged to. fight her way into the school four
successive times and kept coming even
after she had been shown her children cafe
and sound. Ne
Principal McAleer said that 1t was FORTY
minutes before the police reserves came
to the assistance of School 1888. The police
OF the precinct had all left for another
school nearby before School 1888 was heard
from, and the school had to wait for men
10 arrive from another precinct.