New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-17
CAMP SCHOOLS.
Teaching italian Laborers to Read
English.

The Educational Committee % the Pennsyl-
vana House OF Representatives has before IT a
BILL introduced by Representative James NJ.
Esler. authorizing the establishment OF night
schools for immigrants in labor camps when
ever application is made upon the local school
authorities over the signatures OF at least twen-
~ persons" says Robert c. Hail. president Of
tho Pittsburg stock Exchange. in Charities and
the Commons" The measure has been put be
fore DR.. y c. Scharer. state Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, and has met with his APP
prevail. It would place Pennsylvania In the lead
Of American states IN meeting this widespread
educational need.
More than that. Il has the hearty support OF
representative citizens OF Pittsburg for we have
seen The thing demonstrated among the six
hundred worSrnen employed the great Ultra
'iou plant which the municipality OF PittsburG is
building at Aspinwall. six miles up the river
\ school was started experimentally in one OF
the camp shacks and for five weeks IN the
fall of 1905. through the cooperation OF Mr..
De Luca. the labor contractor.
so successful was II tint the construction
company put UP a special building for the school
that winter, and when work resumed full
force on the water supply project IN the spring
there was this educational innovation planted
alongside the dredges and steam hoists and the
rest Of the working equipment. The venture
due to the perseverance and farsightedness
of woman. Miss Sarah Wool Moore. of the
Society for Italian Immigrants, who came here
single-handed and who not only demonstrated
the practicability OF a camp school IN American
izing foreign workmen to carry convic-
ton among those of us who hare watched II.
but has given TO Americans an altogether new
idea OF the sort OF fellows these workmen are.
our country home is not far from the hltra-
ton plant but until last summer had not felt
it safe to allow my family 10 use 1t since the
establishment of the camp Since Miss Moore's
advent the feeling of suspicion and diStrust in
the neighoorhood has entirely vanished. We
feel the camp 10 be a faithful bOdyguard OF
men"
In the periodical Miss Moore tells about
her pupils IN the camp school.
Our experiment seemed to have justified
itself: the school was wanted as well as needed
that was a point proved by the five weeks
trial. and further proof followed later In the
form Of petition signed by 12S men begging
10 have the school resumed she says.
Aristotle Guerrero (WarTior) sprang into
prominence by series OF letters to the illus
trious lady teacher which closely followed the
close of school and expressed hts longings and
dashed hopes. Fatal destiny he says. lust as
had decided to ask Of YOU moral In
formations you went away. / cannot enlarge; !
an internal pain binders me from continuing. |
The fatigue of the schovel Expresses me and !
prevents my going on. Asking pardon for the
continual disturbing / salute YOU with esteem
Our pupils belong to the Roman Catholic |
faith and the school is supplied with the Roman |
Catholic Gospels Often very striking and de- |
English dress our pupils give II. Aristotle's !
version OF the lost sheep: And he proposes to /
them this parable. Who between YOU having !
one hundred sheep lost of these he don't /
leave the other ninety nine in the dessert and !
don't goes TO find the lost until he finds IL? |
Finds it, lays II upon his shoulder gailv and |
coming at home he calls his friends and neigh |
bors saying them: Rejoice with me. l have find 4
my lost lamb Lo tell you shall be Joy in /
heaven for a sinner repentet than not for nine
ty- nine justs who need not OF penitence'
Though not much OF student. thirst for /
learning consumes Sammy When he heard |
that school was 70 be reopened he was in Ale
gheny earning SIS a day. He shortly left that
he satisfied to 81 30. because. as he
frequently said, I don't come here for money I
come for school, One OF Sammy's Scripture
TRANSACTIONS. uncorrected The Sabeth Is made
for the and not the men for the sSabeth
therefore the son OF the man is boss also OF the
Sabeth.'
There picturesque characters In camp
who drift in and out OF school. For a while
we were regularly serenaded by a pfiffertere
from the AbruZZi, hugging mis- huge bagpipes
and waiing fifteen minutes, it seemed, without |
taking a breath. The first music he says our
Lord ever heard was the droning of the bag
pipes. and so they always playing at Christ
mas time. Once in a while woman with a |
little child in her arms by her side slips in
and tries to form the letters of her name but
there Is newer any success.
lone evening a tall strapping fellow with |
light hair. blue eyes and sunny smile came
strlding into the schoolhouse and announced
himself as Patrick Ortol He spoke pretty rood
though broken English but he could not write |
English and he went to work with q push ana