The Standard Union from Brooklyn, New York • 15

i Till) DAILY STANDARD UMO-N: BROOKLYN. BUN DAY. LU 907. Rush Work on Million-Dollar Parental School Five of the Chain of Fifteen Buildings at Jamaica Expeded to Be Completed By Nov. 1 Future Home for Truant Schoolboys Represents all Experiment in Manual Training on a Mammoth Scale.

2 i f. 5ii 4 T- .11. 5 a 'Trf? r.r7mv?ryF' A' 5 A CHAIN WILDINGS, N.STITTT I Xil THE NB PAHKN'TAL AS I.n.,ic WHKN FINALLY i T.I TI 1ST, I a ith baseinc: with basement the inainteiuitii-o of the hr-Ip. F. tJh'in nhich a commencement has been Icry.

nn the cond floor a half stories high, deprived of the care and oversight NE by on th million-dollar 1 0 niilf Hi be by a nt monument, one hich will stand t.4 une rif the Kreatet triumphs of tiie this basement nlll be thn gymnasium anil workshop, hil' thi first floor be the auditorium or two sifirle rhaln of buildlngi whloh when comploted will constitute the new Parental School, are be the parents. The Institution at present utilized for this purpose, located on Jamaica avenue, nss been found to be wholly Inad the salarii.M of the employes, ii.l of lMacatii.it estimates that be t. quir -d at tho start. tho j.rojeetors Of n.rise aril a number of donni-ory, Iiumlry anil drying room. An-1 ortie a strikll v.

tiov 1 and nst feature of the I'arenu! School: Kvery Imililirtr in the tti.l be conne by a tweiv-foot Fiilm thrnurh ivlii. the pip ytciii of the, city of thit" In height. There III a 1 l''il'Hc school entertainment!) anil other uses con- Nvw York, ncrted with thn Institution. On the inc. upon vhich rap.d ft i- iiiir aril tiie wires for being made, stand? some to the south of the buildings will 1 I 1,0 u- lie thicks vm Mv aa important p.i:t i-i the ic of th- youth of Or.

Tie- lanMli-t'H dur-in' tre k- i Uru. i are uii the dii-iet ciori of SuperinterMerit Frank A. of the I at nv-nt ffr.uildii.ps. Board of F.duiation. Unr- CitiKh Of ll'l ns.

The Parental S. hool flcures larirely In tile eltjcational huiiuct this year. The openir-C of the s. hool and the proposed ir.ir.-ase jn the rancher ef at-teniiae. throughout the city require an increase 1 expense of aliout n.jiintenanre account the sum of J.J..V.2 will be required.

This is for tho material to work with and also for the necessary nlriililv referee, to nrwl cflt i ve ginning to rise abovo their foundations on Jamaica avenue midway between 'Flushing and Jamaica. Tha Board of Education Is rushlnff work on five of the utructurea particularly, and yesterday It was announced at the Manhattan headquarters of the Board that they would likely be finished before Nov. 1. The site of the buildings covers a stretch of farm land of over a hundred carried. The sjhway wii aNo -l f-rr the tranrnis on of th" hen ennke 1.

from the islc-hon. 1 hi tho pow er house, to tile v- ijiinihcr if novel features. From this 'food equate for the work In hand, and It It because of this that the new school hai been planned. In order to convey In a word the magnitude of the parental school undertaking. It may be said that when It is completed the Board of Education will have expended over a million dollars.

An administration building, three dormitories, and a power houso are the strticturea being pushed to completion. tiullillng nil the heat. lighting and pow-ilofat UM fui hati li. rar to the curriculum so ai as the a. nmnio latlons are provided.

These, win include carpentry. plumbing, masonry and the like. Jn pushing the completion of ties bulMines it has been found somewhat difficult t- secure Just the nurt ber of mechanics at tho time when th' were u.ost needed, so that the providing of well equipped mechanics seems to offer the utmost encouragement to those ho are urging the parental school idea. same floor with the auditorium will the executive offices of the parental school and also four class rooms. When It Is understood that the parental school will re- clvii truants from th.i entire city, that an additional appropriation has recently been secured to pay for more attendance offh-frs.

and that tho city Is rapidly growing In rill Its boroughs, especially in Brooklyn and Queens. It will not be thought that the Hoard of Education has al dining halls and will also furnish j.as.--aire tonnl from liuil l.nrrs in -r used in the entire plant will -supplied. In the basement will be the acres, and Is admirably located on holler, engine and pump room and coal iMormy weather. vaults. the first floor will he tU fuperintnd-nt Maxw v.hn lives kitchen where all the food will be prj- In Flushing, nearby, has taken the ti parrtl for the entire school.

Here nNoiinnt Interest in the Parental will be the bakery, storerooms and scul-! and each detail of the enterprise has plateau which commands an excellent i planned too extensively in tho estab but the entire plan calls for fifteen buildings in nil. Money has very recently been provided for three more dormitories and the additional houses will be furnished as rapidly as the money can bo secured. The buildings are constructed of brick, stone and I llshmcnt of this home. Then again It Is stucco, with Spanish tile roof. This style is extremely attractive, giving view of the Rurroundliif? country.

Of an Imposing- style of Spanish Mission architecture and having a frontage of 1.G00 feet on the principal macadam highway In that section, tha future Iiome of New York's unruly schoolchildren will doubtless be when completed one of the show places of the (rrcater city. The Institution, which will bo called a parental school, rather than Truants' Home, so that no odium may be nttach-ed to It, represents an experiment in manual training on a very large scale. The purpose of fhe Board of Education Say Blackwell's Island Bridge Will Be Completed Within a Year the expectation of the projectors of the undertaking that when all the departments are fully under way there will be a steady return to the city on account of the farm produce and the industrial output of the workers. The three dormitories now being completed are on a line running In a northerly direction from the administration building, or toward Flushing. They are also in Spanish mission and their dimensions are 45x135, two and a half the buildings more the appearance of homes than an Institution, and when the entire plan has been worked out the spot will be a paradise In Itself and a place that any young person might enjoy llvins in.

ricfflnning nt the Fouth end of the According to Engineers of the Bridge Department Work Will Be Finished By July 1, 1908 More Than 70 Per Cent, of Job Now Accomplished. In establishing the school is to train children who are disinclined to attend school, or for some reason have been stories high. They will represent when tract, toward Jamaica, the first structure is the administration building. Its dimensions aro 67x67 feet, and two and spite of the fact that work has. until June 21, and work began exactly a month later a month later.

fbeen This end is also being I 4 ses -iL 1 been halted several times recently on the Blackwell's Island Bridge, due, it Is rumored, to halted several times recent- ly on the Blackwell's Island rushed. The fact that the bridge which recently collapsed in the St. Lawrence River. Canada, was of cantilever de- rUjred' he fact that tho Kr fcnrcity of steel and to politics, engl- completed the very best features of buildings used for a similar purpose In various parts of the country. Each dormitory will accommodate eighty boys.

The very commodious basement of the dormitory will be used for changing their outdoor clothing for tHat worn Indoors, and there will be a lavatory and a large playroom. The first floor of the dormitory building will be used as a dining room, pantry and reception room. The sleeping quarters will be on the upper floors, as will also the lockers for the boys' clothing and also the head master's quarters. The attic of neors of the Bridge Department who and the same type as the Black-have tho work In hand Insist that the "'Tnt? Jt delay" have been due to trivial causes, circles. While the officials invi-iticat- Old Negro Mammies Go To This Night School Grandmothers Learning Their A.

B. in a Public Evening School in Manhattan With Their Grandchildren Oldest Pupil is 74 Years of Age and "Students "of 50 and 60 Years Are Not the dormitories will be used for ser vants' quarters, boys' clothing and house linen. Every building in the group will be fire-proof and the Interior fittings com. Unusual in the Primary Grades Effect of a Trade School in a Negro District. plete In every detail, the idea being to keep up the home feeling and have constantly before the boys that which will attract rather than repel.

The WHITE-HAIRED negro mammy and her husband, botli past three score and ten, learning their "A C's" in a public compulsory feature of the Institution will be carefully concealed and earnest efforts made to awaken a manly sentiment in the boys and spur them on to do their best. A great deal of the work will out of doors, wheije the boys wlllnudoubtedly develop rapidly. cusslon by educators. manufacturers and representatives of organized labor at its annual meeting In Chicago recently. These representatives of the National Society found the school crowded with earnest negro men and women from 16 years of age up to the white-haired septuagenarians.

Many of njght Industrial school, Is one of the oddities of Now York's free educational i rfivatpm At bla Rama Bfhrtnl. Jo Rfl. Tin West Forty-first street. In the heart They will alsa-be taught to become ex them were expert mechanics who had pert farmers as well as mechanics. come, attracted by the trade Idea, to i NrVf fM I i V- -i I EAST FROU TOWER OF BLACK- I' fk I WELL'S ISLASD BRIDGE.

'''tHirSv-" i is called officially, when finished will I' tfOpfu extend from Jane street. Long Island If 'r4i Otv across Hiackwells Island to a Many boys go wrong In a great city like New York because they have Deal neglected and surrounded mainly by of a negro district, 2,600 other negroes are pupils and many of these also are -grandparents or fathers and mothers, transplanted from the cotton fields of the far South. The oldest student is a I man of 74 years, who Is In the primer class, but pupils of 60 and 60 years are not -unusual In the first primary grade, which. In the day schools. Is for chll-dren of six.

bad Influences. At this school they will be In one of the most picturesque spots ff-AV XJ. point between K.fty-ninth and Sixtieth I 5 The general man for the bridge learn to and write, or Interpret written specifications, as most of them had been In the habit of working by rule of thumb or oral instructions, and were helpless in the face of a blue print or written contract. The majority, however, were younger students, many of them elevator boys or bell hops In hotels, or household servants, who to be found In the vicinity of City Hall and In a tract so large that It can never become crowded. It will always be In the country.

It goes with Two septuagenarians, whosei first out saying, therefore, that the environ childhood was In the fields, won the wished to learn a trade because of ment of this Institution will be the the very limited chance for a negro to means of producing useful and worthy 1 1 Tk QfAtS was suhmirted to the Secretary of War I 3 1 i. oa P. 2, b'A The cost was estimated 1 Sr-TV- 8 at SU.64S..VW, of which $9,400,000 was for Mi 1 i IUX" the structure itself, JJ.39S.550 for real JSM yjTi estate required in Manhattan and Fl RrTsSJf Bl for land in Long Island City, ff iA- lS'ivW'; v7 ilvWiNS. The onilnnnce authorizing construc- imf-r'- i V. I tlon was approved bv the Mayor on 'A.

REMARKABLE PHOTVrpjii illf i' XjfliEN LAST WEEK, SHOWIXC3 ZZJfcg't' ji I HOW THE BRIDGE IS BEING I a AT' VTT OON8TKVCTED. fi'l I i A get a place, above laborer or scrub woman. In an ordinary business houso. citizens from material that the careless are wont to regard as well nigh hopeless. When the entire group of Questions asked of the pupils indl prizes for regularity of attendance last iyear.

T.hese old people had tottered to school every night and had never been 'tardy, even during the blizzard. This eagerness for education has been developed at this school. It seems, chiefly through the Industrial classes. For while common branches are tnuirht to those who wish thorn the fifteen buildings are finished the hill cated to the society's representatives that the main reason for attending the school, was an economic one. They work for their own households.

A were after higher wages, or else do mestic training which would save win be i i -v i-r 'T i i that the big structure grandmother proudly told of the help she now was In making baby clothes. For the most ambition was to get away from service or the washtub opened to traffic within a year. According to contract the big structure should be finished fcy Jan. 1. 1908, but owing to labor troubles and the scarcity or the "day's work," and Into some (treat feature of this night school has been the trade school Introduced by Its principal.

Dr. William I Bulkley. himself a member of the race he Is lielp-ing. Dr. Bulkley found that in his district were many Illiterate adults who were not attracted by ordinary evening echools.

In 1905 he opened a night trade which would pay better than un money for their families. A young negro woman In the cooking class said: "I am getting J16 a month as a nursa to If I learn plain cooking and how to use left overs I can get 125 or more as a cook." An old Georgia mammy In the same class said: "Yob. see, suh, I does Southern cookln' and down South we skilled labor, and enable them to live at home. Among the boys and girls of of steel tne jou uu held up, and engineers of the Bridge Department do not promise the opening 16 years there was a fairly general school In which there was systematic answer, that they had left regular school early, because It did not teach them specific trades at which they could make a living and that they were of tho structure to irainc m-iura juo 1 1908. The city administration anticipates no further trouble either In securing material or from strikes of the 'toreethan 70 per cent, of the entire 1ot 1 already completed, and about an Lutl amount of work Is still to be on both the Manhattan and Quetn.

pan- The middle of XUack-well't Island span is completed with glad of a chance to learn at night, carpentry or dressmaking or other trades training for negro men In carpentry, electrical Installation, care of team boilers, architectural and tnechaunical drawing. For women there was In-et ruction In cooking, housekeeping, dressmaking, millinery, flower making and embroidery. There were also classes for commercial subjects. By the uses lots of algs and lard an" butter an" milk, 'cause they's cheap. And down there I has a -wood stove.

Up here In tha Norf them things Is scarce an' I cysnt run the gas stove all the time. So I wants foh to learn flat house cookln like the white folkses which would take them out of the vast supply of unskilled labor. Dr. Bulkley said that since the school tUIA v-t- I i i 5rV air I -f-w- .1 1 1 itiV ui' THii IWAlHVAf UF THK NEW IIRILUJE A IT LOOK 3 TO-PAT. had opened there had been demand alsoj in Tact, as mi n.e,-.

work li concerned, practically the last riv-t has been placed. raving the promenade and roadways will soon and It was announced last week tha-i the contract for this work would il in a fe- das-a. The awarding of does up hear. Big, brawny men In the drawing and carpentry classes said that they were hod carriers and day laborers and their only chance to get over $1.30 a day was to learn a trade. Others were learning to run.

steam so as to get Janitors' positions In buildings when nd of the first year every seat was taken, and the second year It was necessary to move the schoot to a much 'larger building. Some of the pupils, It I was found, spent three hours each night ion trains In order to reach this trade school. An odd development was that 'negro men entered the classes in eook-Jng so that they could beoor.e chefs In clubs, or stewards on yachts. The school was visited recently by for courses la bricklaying, house painting and automoblllng. The request for the latter course had coma chiefly from negro valeta and coachman, who could become chauffeurs for their employers If they could get the necessary training- He has found that the Interest parents take as pupils of the evening trade classes has led to better attendance en the part of their children at the regular day school.

But the record th contract for the laying of the car- imcltl IS eipeciw "Work Is also progressing rapidly on they were at present elevator boys or cleaners with no other future. th two approaenes. tna biihihi'i inr ing that catastrophe have not yet con-, naturally thorough tests are made of the plana -ere by the Wsr the Uueena "-v -u. -i In the dressmaking and millinery of this rear, ana worn oegan rvo. e.

uw-ntlr work was hrtd up on this ap- InveKtirators from the National Sot-lely classes, the women told of dresses or eluded what caused the collapse, ngi- a-n girner ana twam oriore is 1 Bodge apartment I la position. Uutliorixed pr-x-erding. there is no reason to aorry for the I The photographs shown herewith were on Mirch St. of tr.e asms year, and on safety of the newest Bast Ktver brklge. taken last Thursday and show the June 7, the rati! met for const rnt-.

FXperts are employed to see that only brtdse In Its present of develop- tu of the six ti.as.tnry aa let the best ouallty of steel Is used, and metiu East lilver Brldg No- 4. a it lo 15an Parkvr -r for the Promotion of Industrial Edu- hats they had sold, or of better wages cation, which. Is collecting dots about as aemstres they had earned. prcwrh owing to the late delivery of JnaLtvrlal, 'he men have resumed work. The contract was not) for the Manhattan approach I for faithfulness Is held by the two old grandparents who seem lo take a pride In upholding the reputation of plantation day a ail phases of trade education to Othrt told of saving In doliy needle-J.