New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27
The Educational Alliance
Hopes to Fit Students to
Earn So a Week.
EAST SIDE CLASS
TO OPEN JULY 6
Simple Study to Benefit 100
Who Have Just Finished in
Grammar Grades.

simple. practical course in yoca-
tionaI study. which will enable girls
lust out of the grammar grades OF the
rublic schools to begin work at sal
arv of 81 TO So a week, instead OF 80
or 81, is planned for the East side TINS
summer. The Educational Alliance, at
East Broadway and Jefferson ST. Is
fostering the scheme, the first real at
tempt at vocational instruction LOT
GIRLS made in the city, with the ala OF
the Board of Education. -
Glasses will begin July . and VIII
continue for period Of SIX weeks
One hundred girls will get the beneht
Of the tuition. Henry Fleischman, ad-
ninistrator of the Educational AM
ance. will have charge OF the scno0l'
He has been active in preparing the
plans for the institution, when WIN
be opened with view to increasing
the girls commercial value to employ
"The girls we are particularly anx-
lone 10 have enroll" Mr.. Fleischman
said Yesterday, "are those Just out OF
grammar school and who will go to
work in the fall or who are already
looking around for work. They may
know a little of arithmetic, botany and
other subjects they have studied IN
school, but when they go into the rae
e ries they will have to learn speeial-
lied work. which will take two or three
wears. at an exceedingly low salary.
Probably the best most OF them
could do now, with their school educa-
ton. is pack cigarettes, take the pits
cut Of cherries or some such simple
tasks. Our summer course IN voca-
tional training is designed to mt them
for work of higher grade, and they
will enter factories and clothes shops
as experienced help. We have been as
sured of positions for practically all
who take the course which Will pay
from 81 to So a week" a.,
When the idea was first suggested
women associated with the Education
al Alliance went about among the man,
ufacturers, Mr.. Fleischman said, and
| learned from them what they required
/ Of girls. As a result of the investl-
I CATION a course in needlework, lnciud-
! ing instruction in making shlrtwaistS
| from the uncut cloth to the nnlshed
/ garment: skirts, underwear and other
articles of dress manufactured extern
sively on the East Side, will be lnstl'
tuted. The course will also include IN
struction in millinery, from making the
wire frames LOT mats " THINNING Wv
completed headgear.
at is we'll known that many girls,
for the first months of their employ
ment, must accept small wages be-
cause of their inexperience," Mr..
Fleischman said. ave hope to give
our girls, in six weeks of instruction,
an experience and ability equivalent
to many months of actual employment
in a factory.
"The books for enrolment will be
open on the 1st and I'd of July, be-
tween the hours of 9 and II in the
forenoon and / and in the afternoon.
We will be able to take care of 100, and
should more apply we may be able to
squeeze in a few more"
According to Mr.. Fleischman, preju-
dice will largely disappear If the sum-
mer course, which is largely an ex-
pertinent, proves its worth and con-
vinces the parents that their daugh-
tcrs' earning capacity will be doubled
or tripled after a six months course
OF study.
The teachers will be paid by the
Board of Education, and the Educa-
tional Alliance will give the use Of it's
building and facilities. Mrs. Morris
Loeb will supply all material needed
in the study.
"If our experiment proves success
full" said Mr.. Fleischman, at will be
only a forerunner for what we hope
to do in the line of vocational guild
ance for girls"