The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-05
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Bic TENTS
HoWSan Francisco Cares
For Her Disaster
Children.

Dan rTNANS1SCO, April 20--A man
and boy astride the same horse raced
through Golden Gate Park early Mon
day. The eight-year-old blew Justify
upon a trumpet. The bugler was
Emile Kerlein of the Hancock School.
and at the behest of Albert NJ. Arm
strong, recently appointed principal of
the summer vacation school, was sum-
moning the pupils residing in Golden
Gate Park to the initial session. Five
hundred and eighty three children an
swered the call and at o'clock had
gathered about the teachers, ready to
be assigned to the various places of
teaching.
The militia, at the request of the
School Board, had supplied nearly a
score of tents TO accommodate the little
refugees. These are scattered over the
park, and it was no small task to get
the various grades classified and To-
Gated. On the Recreation Grounds, the
children's Fairgrounds, in the baseball
tents are located, and nowhere in the
country can be found nearly 600 chill
dren more comfortably housed or more
interested in their studies If the sub
sequent days efforts are as successful
as the initial effort, the summer school
in the tent city is sure to establish a
record.
After the calamity and the month of
dust and dirt and privation, one might
expect to find lot of children in rags
and tatters, grimy and unkempt. This
was not the case at the park schools,
however. Every child looked as if he
or she had come out of a bandbox.
They We're neat and clean The life in
the open air has given them all COM
plexion that any person might envy.
and when assembled in their classes
they looked happy.
TEACHERS TO CAMP.
Seventeen tents have been allotted for
the classrooms, and all the grades are
being looked after. A score of teachers
are on duty. The majority of them
are going 90 take to camp life in order
to make better friends of their pupils
The vacation school will last for three
months. As the park population in
creases, as it will by the concentration
system of the militia, it is expected that
there will be at least 1900 children in
attendance. Each tent is built to ac-
commodate twenty pupils and is equip
ped with desks and blackboards. There
are numerous books on hand.
Reading and arithmetic will be paid
particular attention to while the classes
are indoors. There will be many ex
cursions through the park, So that the
pupils can be taught from nature. His
tory will be illustrated by the monu-
ments, zoology by visits to the animal
pens, botany by the wealth of wild
flowers and so on down the list of
studies. Cooking will be taught by
specialists and the children will pre-
pare their own lunches.
Principal Armstrong is asking the
Park Commission for Stow lake for his
swimming classes. If this is granted
every boy and girl in the school will
go bathing twice a week. He insists
that all the boys shall have their hair
cut closely.
A SMART BOY.
There is one especially smart youth
in the vacation school and Principal
Armstrong predicts for him a most sue
cessful commercial career. His name
is Sammy Cohen. Prior to the fire he
attended the Starr King School. Arm
strong rides a quiet saddle horse in his
trips of inspection about the park All
the boys of the school desire to hold
the horse for him while he pays a visit.
Sammy got the privilege early yester-
day.
When the principal got away Sammy
hurried over to the main driveway with
the animal in tow. For half an hour
he did a landoffice business in selling
rides to the main gate and back to
youngsters with nickels to spend for
the luxury. Had not the principal
needed the horse to get around with,
Sammy would have made couple of