New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
VACATION SCHOOL PACT
All Agree to Pay Same Prices Tor
Material They Use.
WORK NOW IN FULL SWING
Ten Thousand More Children
Enrolled-It's a Labor OF
Love for Teachers.

Hereafter, II any dealer in the supplies
used in vacation school work attempts 10
charge the Baptist City Mission Society
schools a cent more a pound for rafia than
he charges the Presbyterian Home Mission
Board schools or II he makes the Rev
Robert G. Boville's National Association or
Vacation Schools a secret offer Of lower
prices on hammock cord for the sake OF
getting their trade, he will be spotted at
cnce. for the four big vacation school or
PLANTATIONS formed a compact YESTERDAY
sealing II with luncheon at the care
boulevard, and the Baptist City MISSION
Society. the New York Federation OF
Churches the Presbyterian Home Mission
Board and the National Association Of Va
cation Schools, while keeping their own
separate organizations, are now federated
I'm all matters In which cooperation Will
work for their benefit
The luncheon yesterday was attended by
sixtv-two superintendent and teachers
from the four societies, and after eating
was over there was a conference. at which
DIR. Walter Laidlaw Blair Larney, George
w Schoreman and Mr.. Bovlle spoke. Mr..
Boville dwelt on the great need OF vacation
work and play schools for the little chill
dren Of the big cities.
Wants the Churches Opened.
"rhe time has gone by" he said, when
the churches can consider their carpets
more important than the children IN the
streets. The time has gone by when the
churches. exempt from taxation as they
are can remain shut UP, bare and empty
while thousands of little children In the
tenement districts swelter on the pave
uents play under the feet Of horses ana
the wheels OF trucks and get their teaching
around the doors of saloons II Is In tha
hot months that the great need OF these
Titles ones comes. Let us gather them INTO
our big, cool. roomy churches and prove
our Christianity by taking care OF them.
Mr.. Boville said later that more vacation
schools were being opened this year than
ever before. The system is extending as
far west as Seattle. where school IL
started this year and as far south as At
lanta. where group OF schools IL being
opened this summer for the first time, he
said.
The schools OF the national association do
not have their first session until Wednes-
day morning, but most OF the teachers we're
on hand yesterday to get their supplies
and the big room at St Marks Church In
the B0uwerie. where the association has It's
Headquarters, was lively scene. Wild
eyed Young college students from Yale and
Cornell and Columbia struggled valiantly
TO shut wriggling coils OF rafia into suit
cases that didn't want to take tfem In.
Girls from Barnard and Mount Holyoke
and Smith and Vassar compared notes
about the schools to which they were as
signed bundled up their own supplies and
found time to guy the Young men about
not being good packers.
All Having Good Time.
And, really, they seemed TO be having a
good time; they might have been bunch
OF young persons doing up their tennis
racouets and bathing suits for summer
at the seashOre.
why shouldn't we be happy" said one
bright-eyed Vassar girl. ITS heaps OF
fun teaching the children. A. first they're
as dumb as oysters. but once you get at
them they're extremely interesting
It is a good thing that the work is It's
own reward, for tho pay isn't much-S 30
week And II the teacher Is the least
bit tender hearted part at least OF that 81 %
is pretty sure to be spent on the children
"a bit for material for this child 10 make
doll dress out Of, some beads for that
child to string, and so on
The Fifth avenue bus, which last sum
mer took children up at a corner on Third
avenue and carried them TO the school In
the Church OF the Ascension, will again be
In evidence. and one or two other schools
will probably have buses.
One Of the new schools TO be opened this
summer is that in Trinity Place On
Wednesday at o'clock an automobile Will
start from this point and make tour Of
some of the schools. carrying Mr.. Boyille
Superintendent Edwards OF the New York
branch Of the National, and others on d
trip of inspection.
The National has twenty-eight schools In
New York-2G3 In the whole country. and
the teachers number SO2-SO2 energetic young
men and women who from o'clock until
II 80 every weekday morning, save Satur-
day, work as hard as ever they can TO
teach the children I'm their charge all kinds
Of things, from gymnastics TO how to
weave hammocks Some afternoons they
will take the children into the country. and
every Saturday they meet at St Marks
Church to confer.
The schools of the other organizations
opened yesterday morning. Ia all, the four
have ffty-two schools, and their pupils
would make an army; there are At least
ten thousand Of them.
MILK COLLECTOR HELD UP