Excerpt from Vacation Schools
One hot July morning I visited a school house down in New York"s east side. The streets were so full of people, pushcarts and wagons that it was difficult to make one"s way. The iron fire-escapes, jutting out from the tenements, were hung with trailing sheets and soggy pillows. Here and there a woman lolled in a window, to catch a moment"s respite from the suffocation of her apartment.
Passing through a small yard I entered a stone building and found myself in a long, cool corridor where presently I was met by a woman in fresh summer attire. On my expressing a desire to look through the building, she smiled and led the way. We had not gone far before the buzz of many voices and the sounds of hammering and sawing were heard. Entering a class-room we came upon a group of boys working at benches with hammer, chisel and fret-saw. They were so busy over the brackets, key-racks and wisp-broom holders they were making that many of them did not even look up. The instructor was entirely engrossed with the difficulty a pupil was having with a joint and it was easy to see that matters of discipline gave him no trouble. In the next room boys were caning chairs, most of which had been brought from home. The bottoms they were putting in were as even and tight as new ones. In another room boys and girls, scattered about in little groups, were sitting on benches and desk-tops weaving baskets.
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