The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-08
BOYS HAVE SHOP
 FOR WOODWORKING
And Are Supplied With Benches and Tools and
 Taught Their Use.

Letter from Pupil of Leeds
 School Describes Some of
 the Operations of Goal
 Mining - Hopes "Union
 Jack" Will Float in Peace
 Besides '' Stars and
 Stripes.
 In the letter printed to-day from one of the boys of the Cockburn High School of Leeds the writer tells in de- tail of the studies he pursues and makes mention of the woodworking shop where the boys are taught the use of tools and are furnished the facilities for obtaining the knowledge He also tells a little about the coal mining operations which are carried on near the city and speaks of the manu- factures and experts.
 Cockburn H. School,
 Hunslet Leeds.
 9th Nov. 1908. Dear Friends:
 
 at the above school In my class there are 66 boys. and in the whole school there are 900 scholars. There are two department. the Science, and the Elementary, or Preparatory depart ment. The school is very large build ing. containing eighty rooms, of which 63 are classrooms. All the rooms and passages are lit up by electricity. In every room are two openings in the walls. one of which has wire net over it, and a piece of red tape is fastened to it. When this is Tapping, air is coming into the room, and the wasted air or air which has been breathed is forced out. through the other hole. by the fresh air coming in. In the roof are a few small turrets, out of which the bad air is driven. and waited away by the wind. We have we'll equipped gymnasium. fn which are dumballs, barbells. clubs, a bridge ladder trapeze, travelling rings. ropes, and rope lad ders, knotted rope. etc. We have woodwork shop, in which are a num- Der of benches. to accommodate four for each boy. The cupboards are full of tools and each boy who uses them is responsible for their safety. The models made require care and ratiencn ir construction. There is a large and excellent staff of teachers who do thci~ best to broaden our minds and make us intelligent, We learn French and some Latin Prefixes which help us to make out the meanings of some bor- rowed words in our language. We have many lessons and they are very inter esting and we nave maps and charts which help to make the lessons all the more interesting. Taking all together our schooldays are by no means dry. At the end of the terms evary scholar o&~o, sxo .I~s |. I,o learned of, and a report is made on the result, and sent to our parents. Nearly every night in Winter some work is set for us to do at home. by the next morning. The teachers take great pains to see that we have good, wholeS ome literature, to read after school hours and every Friday afternoon a special lesson for reading Library books is held. The Town or rather City of Leeds is very interesting. The City Hall has two great Hons in front of the main entrance. and few good statues. Tho chief. and most beautiful is of Queen Victoria. which is in the middle of tn group. On the right hand corner of tn building is a Police Station as ther is to nearly every Town and City Hall Inside is a large hall and at the far end of it. is magnificent. big organ All the Lord Mayors apartments, and other rooms, are built round the Hall There is also a large, bronze monument of the Black Prince in the City Square Round about Leeds are a number O coal mines. and it is very interesting to watch the men at work at the Di+- head, and the two cages come daehing to the shafthead. at an astonish ns speed When the trucks come up, they are pulled from the cage onto some line. When all the trucks are out o the cage, they are taken on lines to the tops of some iron slides which are Fix gratings. Then the trucks are emptied onto the slides. and the coal sli les down and the dust drops through tn holes. Some of this coal is exported and some is used to drive the spindles and looms at che mills and some is used to snelt iron. at the steel and iron works. Leeds also exports leather nails and rivets, paper. etc Our flap is the "Union Jack and I hope it will always float peacefully alongside your Stars and Stripes.''
 I remain, your sincerely,
 JOS. ALE. LENCH.
 P. S.--At Leeds we have a park call ed Roundhay Park but it is very small compared with Yellowstone Park. It