The sun., 1910-06-05
CARRIED FREE TO SCHOOL
ONE PHASE OF NEW YORK'S
CARE FOR ITS CHILDREN.
spenaS $4,000 n 1-a- for CauRrs and
staEe lanes ono Lsne for the Chtl-
drcn m a iIEhthogse Loaf ma tIut for
GFtpples and DcAf and IIllnd Pupiis.

There are oy"- 3.1Oo pupils In the public
schools of Grcltsr New York whp don =
have % worry sboai getting 30 srhool
when Il r.!ins or UnDNs pr IN Snv ether
kind oi rad wOlshe for ths, matter.
Every morning In tho school " r the
city ssnos a stage ~ surn9 kind 81 con
veyanoe to their door and CARES them
Ia school and homo again when school
Is over IEsi year tho city sIent nearly
sSS.Oo for carrying childr~l n school, or
about SIS pupil. aud II considers the
mcney VOL spsnt tor.
livery scho1l morning a stage nlpughs
through the santa of Rockawav Eve
miles % tho tip thrt stands aWny cut
in the Oceln where the REhihouas -
located and picks up the children u
the hfesavors living there. Thor. ara
only siz - thc-n, - - sire. but thcre
wouh bc no Fci.rl for them II the CITY
didn't d. lt
god many ohildrer in school per-
haps might envy th~se SIX children ~
thcy Wese 70 sce them riding in stvle
TO school, hut it's tough Journey some
times f3- the st-ge. that trip over the
long. windsNe1t stretch - sy.ndy waste.
IWicc a day the stag" mlsou Il no matter
what tho wo,thc- md a merry bttIe
rartv il 70 inside It's the mrSt expengive
stage rCu;o the city nls 20 maintain and
Il does tt for the.s xix children b..osuse
4 can't send a school away out there 20
them
Down in Richmond they have save-.I
stages n -rying children 20 Schnol bIt
most of the stage routes an In Oue..ns
One might supp1ss that - the citV vrnyss
the ext enss would diminish. biIt tbat
- not the case. SiX years ago IL cost the
city only half - murh - it dos nov
lhe increased expeuse ~ due b the fact
that children grow faster than the schsols
and new communities have way of
sprnging up as " bv ina &c in the out
lying parts ~ tho big CITY.
Speculative building ont in o,,a.,s
IN the iast few years hes led to any num-
, Der ~ thc~" communities Good sized
little towns have grown up in a few months
with children who are entitled 20 asluoa-
ton a. tho citys expense. Tor ID doesn't
matter where you live ~ long a. Won -
IN New York and the city can 4 max vo,i
move near q school " takas sometimes
two or three year. 10 bring = school 20
tho children in these places. and in
that time the city must bring them 10 one
of iis schools Hence the increase in the
expense
u isn't only the children In the ~.
mote districts Nho ride 60 school evsrv
day at the expense ~ the city Right
in poTsiloYs Manhattan there arc several
hundred children VINO ride daily N school
az the c'ty's -TenRe. s0me ~ them in
handsome stages. with ~ much glass and
s'lch a shine % them as 10 bs almost
like Cinderella's coach
These children are deaf and hind and
crippled The crippied children are "a len
in city carriages 70 Public school n In
Rast Twenty-third street. maintained
for crippled children especially. The
blind children are taken 20 several rubic
schools scatterad about the city, and so
with the deaf children
SOme n the hind and deaf children
arr taken 20 school on the street cars by
other perNons. hut n they are the
children ~ the DOoF the city pays the car
fare iuEt the same and also pays the car
fare of the persons who hFing them