New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-02

Special raining Courses Now Open
loW Women Who Want toHelp War

| Tor working Girls. Columbia University, de-
nartment OF extension teaching Given by
the National League of Women Workers
under the auspices of the Council of Ma
tional Defence. One month course Septenn-
Der IL to October IL.
Library Work
e. AN entrance course to prepare candidates
ior admission to service in the BroolSlyn
Public Library. Six months course. begin
ming September g.
commercial courses in the following
SUBJECTS begin at any time:
:, bookkeeping, steno9raphy and typewriting.
linotype operating, filing, office training. ac
counting. office machine operating banking
and finance and languages.
In the public high schools CONNER
c'ai courses of three and four years
VII begin September 8. High schools
offering these courses are:
Buy Ridge High School, Fourth Avenue
ana Slxty-seyenth Street. Brooklyn.
o brya mt. High School. Wilbur Avenue.
BashwicS High School, Irving Avenue
Brooklyn.
Curtis High School, Hamilton Avenue and
st. Marks Place, New Brighton, S. l. An
mex, Public School 20. Broadway, Port Rich
Eastern District High School. Marcy Ave-
nue., Brooklyn.
st. Lawrence and Beach Avenues. The
Bronx. Anncxes, Public School 46. 196th
Street and Briggs Avenue; Borough Hall
a pI9;S. ohnville Avenue and Magenta Street;
Pubhc School 16, Carpenter Avenue, near
S40tii Street, Wakefield; Public School &c.
Castle Hill and Blackjack Avenues, Union
ports Public School 8. Mosholu Parkway and
Briggs Avenue. The Bronx.
:, Far Rockaway High School, State Street,
Far Rockaway.
Flu shing High School. Broadway and
Whit4stone Avenue. Flushing
Cir Is High School, Nostrand Avenue and
Halsey Street. Brooklyn.
Jamaica High School. Hilsdale Avenue,
Jamaica
julie Richman High School, 60 West
Thirteenth Street Annexes. Public School
". Amsterdam Avenue and Seventy-seventh
street Street I Public School 8. 225 West Eighty
Eighty,eighth Street; Public School 4s, 124
West Twentyeighth Street; Public School
M o ITO East ; sey SaS snt Street
Boston Road. The Bronx. Annexes, Public
School So. Broadway and Academy Street
Public School 81. Mott Avenue and 144th
Street.
The Newtown High. School, Chicago Ave-
nue. and Grove Street. Elmhurst. Annex.
Public School 80. Brtton Avenue, Elmhurst
Richmond Hill High School, stoothoH
s Ayenne R Gb,r.% Hill Annex Pnhc
Wadleigh High School. Hath Street. near
Seventh Avenue. Annex, Public School 179.
iOlst Street. east of Amsterdam Avenue.
Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving
Place.
A student in the Bushwick High
School, Irving Avenue, Brooklyn; the
Newtown High School, Chicago Avenue,
Elmhurst, or the Washington Irving
High School, 40 Irving Place, may ar
range to take q cooperative course in
which she spend one week in school and
the next week in employment in bust
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paid. She alternates in this way
through out the school term and is en-
ployed during the whole time in the
summer.
At the Washington Irving High
School, 40 Irving Place. an industrial
art course will begin September g.
A student at the Washington Irving
High School may arrange to take a
cooperative course in which she spends
regularly employed in industry, doing
, work for which she is paid. She alter
mates in this way throughout the year,
or is employed for the whole time dur
ing the summer.
The industries in which such students
are employed are machine shops, chemi-
cal plants, power plants; they also are
employed in drafting, printing, teleg-
raphy and business.
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School, 40 Irving Place, there will also
open September 8 library training
course. as follows:
Subjects First two years. general high
school work third and fourth years, library
practice. English. history, foreign language
bookbinding, music. physical training. type
writing
Admission requirements: Graduation from
grammar school. Credit Diploma: No
fees. Four years. beginning September or
February.
At the Manhattan Trade School. Lex
power sewing machine operating is
taught, beginning September 8. There
are three courses:
The first, day course of one or two
years, includes:
Subjects: Machine operating. business
arithmetic. English, design. textiles, civics
industrial problems. physical training. Ad
and graduation from elementary school, or
age fifteen years and completion of 6B grade
Of elementary school.
The second, an evening course Of
sixty nights:
Subjects: Machine operating garment
making. Admission requirements Open to
those employed at any occupation during the
day.
The third, a short course for adults
preparing for war industries:
Gas masks, cannon bags, uniforms. flags
and other government work.
Length of course depends on in
dividual progress.
Following is list of some of the
corporations employed in essential war
industries maintaining school shops for
the training Ct women workers.:
American Telephone Company. E. w.
Bliss Company, Brooklyn; Ford Instru-
ment Company, National City Bank.
Postal Telegraph Company. Western
Union Telegraph Company and Wright
Martin Aircraft Corporation, Long
Island City.