Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-09-22
ARMY Of
SCHOOL CHILDREN
IN THE WORLD
Nearly Million Pupils Crowd
New York's Public Schools
Larger Than Population Of
Many Big Cities,


TSP scisl Correspondence TO Morning Journal
New York, Sept. 16.-With the
| opening Of the public schools here
this week, New York is seeing the
| greatest mastering OF school children
which any city of the world has ever
known, for taking into account the
delayed registrations, ii is now appar-
ent that no less than 10000 young
sters will be receiving free instruc-
ton as soon rs the prcliminaries coin
cident to handling such a great num-
Der with Inadequate facilities can be
Strengthened out. Last years average
attendance during a year of heavy
emigration was 100000, and the turn
in the tide this year which has brought
q greatly increased number of for
eigners to the city is expected to
swell the figure by nearly 100, 600. II
such proves to be the case there will
be only two cities in the country out
side of New York whose population
viii exceed the local army of school
children, these two being Chicago and
Philadelphia. Unfortunately Father
Knickerbocker is either unable or un-
willing to- build new school houses
fast enough TO meet with the needs
of his juvenile population. As a re-
suit. the part time system still con-
tinues to exist. This is the system by
which some pupils attend school in
the morning only and others in the
afternoon only 10 the detriment or
each. AS might be expected, the
opening ol the school year has given
rise 70 @ll sorts OF queer SITUATIONS
and has brought to light one freakish
regulation which SENS to be new. Ac-
ccrding to this ruling the mere fact
that a boy or girl is alive is not slf-
recent evidence to prove that ne OF
she h&s been born, and for the last
week the health department mas oeen
sW@lhpeu by Woui"-De scholars from
Wh"Ih II documentary eVi-
uehce or inns loct' FIRST of all a birth
ccTlllieale IS required, but as many OF
tAe youngsters we're born abroad his
is OFTEN hot forthcoming. Failing
mat the next thing demanded is a
pasSport ana u II too is lacking the
ask Tor a certificate of
Dapllsln Nobody has yet been found
VINO coulu explain how the lack of all
thfee OF these documents might be
overcome n luckily for the young
steis who h9ve to prove hat they
nave been born, no such case has yet
arisen.
=
I'Ncn "a ltolnc was not butt in O
Ud}' New YORK could be rebuilt in a
year. rms is the astonishing state
lnent Of g local engineer who asserts
that were the second city in the
world wiped Off the map it could be
reproduced so Tar as its buildings are
concerned, within "a twelve month,
provided there were no shortage OF
labor ana material Never before has
building construction so closely app
preached the work of the genii who
produced castles over night and the
lacts cited TO back this remarkable
opinion are such as TO leave little
room to doubt it az least in theory.
TO put up the highest sky-scraper
within a year IS now easily possible.
Indeed this would be nowhere near a
record There is a downtown cor
ner today on which there is not even
bears q sign announcing that thirty
one story building viii be ready for
occupancy there in eight months.
This, however. is in the future, while
the engineers statement is backed by
tWo record-breaking achievements
which have recently taken place. The
tlrst was the demolishing Of the fif-
teen-story Hanover Bank building in
thlrty-ilve days, so that az the end Of
mat tifne not a sign OF 10 remained.
the second, the new i~ifteen-story
ti"sei hs,lor IN square I'D