Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-26
SCHOOL ron STREET WAITS.
Education for victims of Poverty and
NeRlect.

The latest phase OF the movement on the
part OF the Board of Education Of New
York city to abolish the street wsf. and TO
make provision whereby the little victims
OF poverty and neglect among the fONoN
children OF school age in the metropolis
shall secure the groundwork OF an educa-
ton az well as the others, is the opening
of the new parental school, situated in the
borough Of Queens on the road leading from
Flusing to Jamaica. says Harper's Weekly.
The farm OF the school comprises lO1
acres Of rolling land about a mile from
Flushing. and when all the cottages are
built and equipped there will be accom-
modauons for 800 boys, who will have the
same educational advantages as are ar
forded In any other Of the public schools
Of New York. Industrial education, also. IL
to be q special feature of the course at the
farm. and agriculture and horticulture will
be taught, as well as manual training and
the rudiments of certain trades.
The buildings occupy the highest ground
on the farm and are built In modified mis-
sion form of architecture and on the cot
the plan. The plans provide for group OF
fifteen buildings, power house, two resi-
dence cottages for the principal and his
assistants and eleven cottage farms for the
boys each to accommodate sixty. The loca-
tlon Of the administration building, on an
eminence about 800 feet back from the
public road, gives an opportunity for hand
some lawns driveways and walks. This
| building which is three stories in height,
provides offices for the superintendent or
| principal, and also eleven classrooms, as
well as an assembly hall 60x6O feet and dor
mitories and storerooms, besides a gym
nasium and manual training shops in the
I basement
Directly in the rear of the administra-
ton bilding is a spacious campus, or plaza,
about which the eleven cottages face. The
/ cottages only three Of which are now ready
for occupancy, are 121 feet long. two and
one-half stories in height, and divided in
the middle by fireproof wall running UP
to the roof, thus providing living apart
ments for thirty boys in each half of the
building Each half of a cottage will be
separate home. in which each group OF
| boys will be in charge of its own master
and matron. In the basement of each cot
| tage are play room, lavatory, drying
room and storage rooms for clothing. The
first floors OF the cottages are entered both
| from the Fairgrounds Of the boys and from
the campus. On this first floor are a liv-
ing room. dining room. a reception room
and the matron's ROOM On the second
floor of each cottage lie a dormitory for
thirty beds. near which are individual lock-
ers for the boys clothing and a toilet room
that may be reached without going into
the hallway. Near the boys quarters are
two rooms with bath for the master. over
looking the dormitory in the rear of which
is a freproof stairway inclosed in a brick
shaft.
The parental school is provided for the
same class of boys who are now sent to
the present truant schools-one in East
Twenty-first street, Manhattan. and the
other in Jamaica avenue, Brooklyn, which
together accommodate a little less than 20
pupils.
The cost to the city Of the site, build
ings and equipment OF the parental schoo
and farm is something over 100000.