The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-29
Over Fifty Thousand Pupils
Must Attend Them
At New York
NO BUILDING FOR Them
This Years Enrollnept Estimated at
Over 705,000 Pupils. An Increase Of
About $4,000 For the Past Year
Alineny Club Has Unpleasant
Time In JaiJ

Time In JAN.
New York, Sept. 25.-In smaller
cities the population of which increase
es but moderately, 1t Is comparatively
easy to provide adequate school facil-
tiles for the children OF the citizens
1t Is different, however, in a large city
like New York, with it's tremendous
increase Of population.
Here the task becomes we'll nigh
herculean and 1t is scarcely surprising
that the school authorities find them
selves unable to keep pace with the
city's dollhouse growth.
Last year the enrolment of school
children in New York's public schools
was 6S0,S6S and, owing to lack of
adequate Accommodations, 53,7S3 child
rem were compelled to be satisfied
with half-time.
This year the enrolment is esti-
mated at more than 100000 and it will
be necessary to put $1,000 or more
children on half-time. An increase Of
about $4,000 children in one year is
no small item, even for city OF the
size and population Of New York.
AS usual, the opening the schools Of
the lower East side was marked by
many amusing incidents and a great
deal of confusion. Under the rules
parents entering their children, had
to submit the children's birth certiti-
Gates and other papers, referring to
vaccination, etc. But some Of the East
side mothers appeared with doctors
bills or gas bills instead of the birth
certificates and few instances they
brought even marriage licenses and
peddler's licenses.
The principal of one of the schools
in the most thickly settled foreign
districts Of the lower East side was
not little astonished when she saw u
Turk bringing to school his little girl,
dressed in bathing suit of brightest
hue. The Turk wanted to have his
daughter enrolled, but the principal,
through an interpreter, informed him,
that If he wished to have the girl adj
mitted he would have to have her
went sadly away and did not return.
Life in municipal Jail is not what
1t is cracked up to he. There has
been the general, impression that the
! civil prisoners, especially those we'll
| provided with money lead a rather
Pleasant and cheerful life in the city's
ja!ls, but recent disclosures show
Morning journal, 80 cents a
month.
that the conditions surrounding these
prise. ers are by no means as pleas
ant as the public was led to believe.
The conditions in the civil section
of Raymond street Jail, where many
divorced men are imprisoned for fail
ing to pay alimony, are said to be par
ticularly bad, reminding one of the
gruesome accounts of medieval dun
geons. According to the statements
made by some OF the members of the
Alimony Club cO1nned in that Jail, the
place is overrun by rats and the mem
bers Of the club were compelled 10
take turns standing guard at night to
scare away the rodents.
The guests in the dining room of
fashionable hotel in Rrooklyn were
thrown into panic the other night
when young man fash!onably dress
ed woman, sitting alone at one of the
small tables, Suddenly became insane
She began to shrek, throwing the
whole room full of diners into confu-
sion.
Then she jumped up, upsetting the
table and causing havoc to the china
and glassware. Several walters rush
ed toward the woman, who continued
to scream and threatened to become
violent. but she eluded them and ran
into the lobby.
Assisted by several women the
manager succeeded in quieting the
woman and she was removed to the
Kings County hospital. The woman
had registered at the hotel under the
name of Ellen Messenger the night
before, but had no baggage. 1t is be-
lieved the name given by her is fic-
titious and her identity is still shroud-
ed in mystery
The other day a man was run over
and killed by a sightseeing automo-
bile. 1t was ascertained that his name
was Cohen and that he had lived with
his family at No. AZ Avenue d. A
telephone message was sent to the
nearest police station with the request
to send policeman to the address
mentioned to notify the family of the
death of the man.
The lieutenant who received the
message mistook Avenue r for Avenue
ID and sent an officer to the wrong
address. By strange coincidence n
family named Cohen lives in that
house and when the officer made his
announcement, there was consterna-
ton in the Cohen family.
Mrs. Cohen, accompanied by her
three children, started at once for the |
morgue to identity the body of her |
husband and one of her relatives no.
titled the Russian Benevolent Society, |
to which the supposed victim belongs. |
In short time the arrangements for |
the funeral were made and a plain !
coffin sent to the house.
On her way to the morgue Mrs. |
Cohen met her husband, alive and |
well, being on his way home, and !