New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-13
COACHING CLASSES
Ne7c Feature This Summer an Larg-
est VacatiOn School.

Vacation School IT. the largest vacation school
In greater New York. has complaint to make
of the Mayor. the Board of Estimate and APP
portonment the Board OF Education. Miss Re
becca Farmland. the principal. the school
gets everything IT asks for without any trouble.
Neither can IL complain of any lack of interest
the part of the population. The children
in throngs from the congested parts around
Market and Monroe streets. where the school
stands-almost a thousand of them every Gay.
And though attendance is voluntary. of all the
275 boys and girls in the study cIasses-coa ching
classes they are called-not one has failed TO ne
on hand promptly o'clock since the session
began. 1t is the same in the cooking class the
chair Gaming and dressmaking and carpentry
classes-all over the school. in fact.
The coaching classes. new idea OF DR.. Max
well are to help out children who. because Of
weakness in some particular study, failed 10 be
promoted In the spring. A child comes to Miss
Farmland with a paper stating that he did not
pass the spring examination I'm arithmetic, say or
in geography Miss PslmIand puts him with
group of other children who are backward in the
same line. and forthwith he is coached to go
with his class in the fall. These coaching classes
include some ambitious pupils who want to skip
a grade in the regular course; and still more
who are anxious 10 get their working papers. To
get working papers. children must be fourteen
years old, must have a certain knowledge Of
geography arithmetic. etc, and have spent
l9o days in the grade where they have fractions
which is the eighth. The thirty days of the
uon school session count just much toward
that time
why are YOU anxious 10 gct your working
papers,? visitor yesterday asked a group OF sturdy
Tiddish girls from out the provinces Of Russia.
whom the principal had summoned from the coach
ing classes Want 20 buy pretty clothes for your
selves
No said one with =corn. We would NOT WORT,
for pretty clothes"
For what. them
My father. he is sick r1aybes one two. DAYS n
week" said the girl When he works all the time
he gets only s. a week He works ~ shoemaker.
have five brothers and sisters. 7 am the oldest.
So I must work"
II IN the chair canini: class down in the base
mem, that future monoroiists are found. The
money making mcrobe has got possession % every
pupil there. The people round about send in their
chairs TO be caned. and. under the young teacher.
Miss Mary siegel. whose father has caned chairs
for thirty years. the children have grown pro
hCient that they get from Is 70 80 cents chair.
one lad announced with pride that he had earned
g 20 since the session began
But though they want u earn money they were
perfectly willing the school chairs. for
which they are not paid" said Miss SiegeL
They've caned about fifty for the school and
seemed glad 20 do II. I'm proud OF that. II shows
a good spirit"
in first aid to the injured DR.. Gertrude Van De
Mark from the Board OF Health gives this. There
Is almost always a temporarily lame halt blind
child for a subiecr. A small girl with
splinter In Ter heel kept the classes going for
days. and j boy who developed boil his cheek
proved a perfect bonanza Besides teaching the
children what 10 do for injuries. DIT. Van De Mark
talks 70 the cooking thrty-hve minutes every
day about proteids and kindred subjects