Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-19
FINAL EXERCISES
Hello TODAY BY
SUMMER SCHOOLS
Fine Exhibits in All Depart
ments Shown by Pupils in
Twenty=nine Institutions.

Closing exercises were held this
morning in all of the nine sum
mer schools throughout the city. The
thousands of children who have en-
joyed the work of the schools during
the hot Summer forenoons, when they
would otherwise nave been running the
streets. turned out in full force to say
good-by to their teachers and to re-
oeive the work they had completed.
The session of the summer school is
from $50 till 1870 O'Clock.
The majority of the children attend
ing the summer sessions do not aver
age over twelve years of age. Their
work consists largely of sewing and
manual training, with light work in
grammar and other branches of study.
In the Hawkins Street School, where
the majority of the 2S2 children who
regularly attended the sessions We're
regular pupils of the p%arochial schools
during the winter. much originality
was displayed by the pupils in their
work. Eighteen of the little girls who
attended the school wore this morning
dainty white lawn dresses, every stitch
in them the result of patient toll under
the care of the even more patient sew
ing teacher. Miss Anna l.. Baldwin
taught the children this branch of the
work.
The other teachers follow: Miss
Louise Westwood, principal; Miss Will
helmina Caldwell, kindergarten; Miss
Euthenia ". Waterman, first year;
Miss Martha b. Haines, second year.;
Miss Jessie d. Crawford, third year;
Miss Madeline e. Heath, fourth year;
Miss Mary A. Lawson, fifth year and
advanced.
Results at Fourteenth Avenue School.
The Fourteenth Avenue School. which
had for its principal Miss Sarah b..
Hartough, and who in the winter is the
vice-principal, finished a summer of
work with excellent results. The raf-
fla, BEN iron, picture and wood work
of the children we're placed on exhibit
ton in one of the rooms, and made a
very pretty showing. Some original
shapes and designs In baskets were
shown in the raffia exhibit, and the
bent iron work was declared by the in
specting teachers to be among he best
that has been produced in h city.
Among the articles made by the chill
dren in this branch were pen stands.
plate or postcard holders, CANDLE
sticks, lamp shades, ink wells, and in
Vulnerable other handy pieces.
The teachers who have been with the
school during the summer follow:
kindergarten, Miss Lillian Seitz and
Miss Rose Writ; first year and 2B,
Miss Alberta Hockenbary; "a and 3B,
Miss Helen P. Nolan; Alb and A. Miss
Edna C. BonnelI; 5B and A, Miss LII
ellie c.. Murray; advanced, Miss Clara
Levy; special, Z and 8 years, Miss Clara
l.. Dietz; special, sixth year, Joseph
Reiss; second class, ga and B, Miss
M. A. Comerford; sewing, Miss A. r.
Schaefer; cooking, Miss Edna Crump.
AT the Pubic Drawing School. in
Academy street, the class of binding
and designing has a splendid assort-
ment of the children's work on exhibit
ton. Miss Florence Mccartney has had
charge of this class during the term OF
six weeks. She has had on ar average
of forty-fve pupils a day from $3.50
O'Clock in the morning until l in the
afternoon. Among the many things
which the children have been taught
to make are portfolios, magazine covers,
writing cases, desk pads, shirt-waist
baskets and numerous other useful
articles. The children are also taught
to make their own designs on the out
sides of the articles. In this class the
ages of the boys average from II tof14
years.
In the tool leather work class of the