New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-09
WAITING LIST OF 5000.
children CrO1cd INTO Vacation
SchOoLs-CLass Supplies Scarce.

The vacation schools of greater New York opened
yesterday morning with full attendance and some
thing spare. For the thtrty-one schools there
WIGS registration OF 1857. and there is a waiting
list SOL names long. Manhattan has $50 children
entered and 4l waiting; Brooklyn has sl6S entered
end 7Ss waiting. These figures have nothing 10 do
with the afternoon Fairgrounds for mothers and
babies. or the roof garden Fairgrounds, where
there viii be brass bands and dancing and games
every weekday evening for eight weeks. These
are really schools, only fewer books In
Them than IN the winter schools
The one held IN Public School iSs the building
that covers the block bounded by Houston East
3D., Manhattan and Lewis streets, is the largest
When the doors were opened yesterday at o'clock
asOo children petitoned 10 be let in. All kinds of
costumes were 20 be seen in that crowd There
little girls IN nice clean calico, little Girls
In griny eannel left over from last winter; there
boys with sleek hair and neat blouses. and
sousled boys swallowed up In their fathers CASTOR
EroUsers, and boys in what appeared be selected
portions Of old swimming suits. But the wearers
had single aim TO get into Public School 1sS
Their desire for education, after being educated all
winter. would have seemed puzzling had not the
PLANTATION been right there IN the streets. What
child would not prefer the big, airy rooms OF the
echoolhouse. even with some tasks TO do to those
hot crowded streets?
ieest half the children had neglected the cere-
ynony OF registering. consequently only s2I were
admitted There were scarcely supplies for those.
however, II well could get IN.
Supplies arripe6 from time to time during the
morning. and boys perveded the corridors carrying
lumber. tools. sheet iron. flower potts. getting
a
Serious little Jewish maiden led the Tribune
porter through the different departments. When
the reporter ventured the remark that It was a
''big school, she said, gravely. Yes it is very
large" The children IN that school are taught to
speak properly; also. they have high expectations
Tor the future
Yes. I'm learning to be carpenter now" ad-
united small boy in OF the shopwork classes
as he laid down his chisel to pin broken 'gallus"
But when I'm grown Up big I'm going be a
money lender. and have big place"
In the cooking class thir1y-odd little girls in
circle drinking the lemonade they had Just
made During the summer they will be taught to
make bread, biscuits plain buildings and other
practical things which they can reproduce in their
homes Incidentally. the teacher gives the girls
talks on the Importance OF keeping clean. In an
adjoining room the housekeeping class
We teach the girls how to At up a room and
the teacher, and q nurse comes in end shows
them how 70 make bed and wash baby and
nanoage q hurt. and so forth. But we can't do
anything to-day because our supplies haven't come.
We've nothing but chalk and a blackboard"
In the crocheting classes they were better Off
They had yarn and needles. and were hard at
work making table mats. Each child takes her
Get of I'VE mats home when il is done hut the
Board Of Education gives the materials In the
beginners sewing class they feather-sttchine
cases 20 hold their work and in the advanced class
they were making garments which really looked
like garments. too. The Venetian ironwork class
was having the time Of its life cutting sheet iron
into narrow strips 10 make lamps Of One of the
woodwork classes was rather badly off. No tools
hao arrived for them, and they had only one pen
Gil, and when forty-four boys undertake 70 draw
cesigns with one pencil some confusion ia bound
70 ensue. In the second woodwork class they were
getting On better, in spite OF some small differences
over the inadequate number Of chisels.
In the nature study room the supplies were rep
resented by empty flower pots and a bunch Of
flowers, and the teacher downstairs amusing
q kindergarten class while she waited for seeds
and earth and other matters rather necessary in
nature study. But all the children were busy and
happy somewhere or other IN the great building
e~ay from the influences OF the streets. and that
was the main thing.
we don't try 20 keep strict order IN the sum
sner school," said Mrs. Match. the principal. IF
The children can get better light sitting on the
cesks we let them sit on the desks Do any of
Them stick TO IL long enough 10 learn something
nsefulY On yes, Indeed! Many OF them stay all
summer. Others drop out after few days and
xheir places are filed from the waiting iist'
There IS more less book study in this vacation
school and there four special classes for chill
ren who FILLED TO pass their examinations IN June
end who desire to make up" during tho sumuer.