The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-22
open AIR SCHOOL
PLAN APPROVED
Will Open Roof OF New Madl-
son Building in
February.
BENEFITS BACKWARD PUPILS
Eskimo Suits Will Be Provid-
ed, With Diet OF Eggs and
Milk.

Plans presented by DR.. Lawrence 1.
Price for operation OF an opeh-As
school for children below normal IL
physical vitality were approved by the
City School Board last night. and the
first class of the kind will be opened
shortly on the roof Of the new Aad!-
son stree, School Building. The mat
ter was proposed in the School Board
last spring by Dr.. Moses d. Hoge. then
a member Of the board. but no final
action was taken With the aid OF
his new colleague. Dr.. Charles r. ROD
ms. DR.. Price secured approval last
night o. a resolution setting apart $l'-
ecD for an experimental class 1t was
explained by DR. Price that pupils in
the open air school are 10 De those
who by heredity, environment or other
wise are O. tubercular predisposition.
bu, 10 active cases Of consumption Will
b. admitted. as the school IS in no
sense a hospital II is 70 be merely
healthy place for the teaching OF those
children whom because 0! their con-
di,ion II would be unw!s@ 70 keep in
a clos. school room for long hours
daily.
Will Provide Eskimo Suits.
The Richmond Education Association
has taken much interes. in the plan,
and for the initial school will supply
the extra clothing necessary 70 keep
, pupils ard teacher IN comfort IN the
open air IN all weather. Specially de-
signed Eskimo" suits Will be pur-
chased. and the Education Association
Will also supply milk and eggs for the
diet considered most desirable Cor such
children
Cherries II. Robinson. architect OF che
nsu Madison School Building. has Of
ferec. without charge. 10 prepare the
. plans for arrangement % the roof for
opeR-air school purposes. with the nee
.ssary shelter after the most approved
type and the first class Of the open
ar schoo. viii open a: tn" beginning
81 the naI!-ression on February IL
next
Dr. Price has secured Information
from New York. Chicago. Philadelphia
Rrs'on. Cleveland and Baltimore. wh~re
such schools are now In operation. the
las, three cite. having ordered that II
preparing plans for al new sch9o
hGIlGiaZt hereafter tn. roof shall! ~
a~rausst Cor oT,.H-air classes
U~Ips BasA ward Pupils.
II" Information from tn. ci.!n'
w."r" tines" s~hCO.s have been cyer
at'G shows -hs' even where there :,
no pred Isp"s.-iOr 20 disease reTarka b.,
rrsu is hav" teen obtained with chill
. drcr Who hav. IA clOsc school room
remained ~, OF three sess!on. IN IN
sam" class. t"inE apparently unabl. .
keep ~ Wit tne ~Dgrs. or stand .y
amins;ions such rhiidren have RAPID
~ picked Up 81 -" open air. boil
physically and mentally
tn. action o: the School BosrS Isr
! night directs the srnIuedia-" pr.pars
| ton q. the first model rr.DoI. AT.
, 3 which other classes may n. opened .
other portions 90 tic .'-y ,Dr oyer- =!
b pupils Pupils for the 80 oy.n-a!
class VIII b. drawn from al III
SCHOOLS. being by NJ mean. IIml,e. q
'hs section attending Madison srhoo
I Admission viii D. only on c.r,!fca,
81 Dr y. T. Enn~t the school uhysi
clan. who will from ''rns 20 tim,
max" examination n, mSnS-S 4
ply sicsl.y mt pupils Twenty pupil
VIII COMPOSE the frs, class. which vi
be IN the hands % a special teach
selected for TIE pgrpos. 40 a.. D.
pills NAV com. from several srsSs,
individual instruction will be gfy,,
ard the usual rules as 20 a prsscribe
cogrs. VIII hs 20 sc-ne extent rsIa,.,
] Additional teachers VIII bs a6fed =
! conditions require and az tho op.,a,.o
q 81" initial classes seem 60 Igsti'y