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THE JUNIOR EAGLE, BROOKLYN-NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1912. 3 HRNOICRflTr fM HRNOr Bars' "THE BOr CRWrsMBK" HOW TO MAKE A SAIL WAGON THESE SCHOOLS ARE TO FOLLOW. The full page about Public School No. in today's Junior Eagle, is written and edited by five of its pupils, appointed by the principal, and is one of an interesting series of articles on the public schools, written by the school students, and appearing in the Junior Eagle on Sundays and Thursdays. Each time a different school is described by its own editors, who have full charge of the page, and tells much that is of general interest to boys and girls, no matter what school they attend.

These schools, with their young editors, are to have charge of this School Pag of the Junior Eagle during the rest of the school term, as follows: Thursday, Alay 23, Public School No. 153 Editors not announced. Sunday, May 26, P. S. No.

167 Helen Schacker, Agnes Mc-Gowan, Violet Simon, Deborah Benjamin, Celia Koppsl-man, Edward Kronenberg, Isidore Youngentaub, Arthur Wetterholm, James Opie, Andrew Bostwick, Jacob (iar-blick, Walter Fulcher. Thursday, May 30, Public School No. 103 Editors: Kenneth Ludwig, Aline MacMahon and Margaret Brightman. Sunday, June 2, P. S.

No. 102 Editors: Nana Lake and James Maxwell. Thursday, June 13, Model School. Sunday, June 16, No. 43 Eugene Rosentrauch, editor-in chief.

Sunday, June 23, P. S. No. 1SS. HEN the Ice has broken up and Jfjf while the lakes, ponds and streams are sluggish and un-CagSa fit for either boating or ice the loops over the spool on the tiller post, and tie Its -ends to a couple of screw-eyes screwed into the wooden axle.

Drive a nail through one Bide of the loop, as In Figure 6, and into the spool, to keep the rope from slipping. If the plank of the wagon-bed is as wide as the Iron axle, it will be necessary to saw away a strip on each Bide edge, as shown in Figure 1, so the wheels can turn. This will not permit of making sharp turns, of course, but if you want to you can mount the wheels on a deep axel that will permit the wheels to turn under the wagon-bed. Figure 7 shows the bench support for the mast. Make this about 2 inches high and 8 inches wide, and after nailing It to the wagon-bed plank, cut and nail the board to its front edge for a brace.

A rug pole makes an excellent mast for a sail wagon, but lacking this, cut a pole about 3 Inches in diameter and feet long. Bore a hole through the yachting, there remains the homemade land yacht for the boy whose iobbjf is sailing, to tide over the time until he can make use of his sailing canoe or sailboat. And for the boy who doesn't have an opportunity to sail a boat, the land yacht is a fair substitute and will afford him and his companions unlimited amount of fun, coasting along the streets In thickly populated sections of the borough, where the street traffic Is light. A sail wagon can be quickly made, as its construction differs but slightly from that of a simple coasting wagon. The sail wagon illustrated in figure 1 is steered from the rear.

Just as the rudder of a boat is controlled. This makes it necessary to turn the wagon around rear end to, so the solidly fastened pair of PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 127 iiwh Ac -TbSt IiIL-Cas i rx wagon-bed '-F FlG.3- Details Wagon- but this June they will probably play with Public School No. 101. as several gumes have been played with that school in the past.

The girls of No. 127 devote most of their time to basketball aud ara trying to make a record at it. VPS AND DOWNS ON THE. BALL FIELD. We opened our season for baseball very unfavorably this year, as some of our best players had.

failed to secure the requisite three Bs on their report card. After losing the first game to Public School No. 118, we straightened up and beat Public School No. liil) by a score of (i to 4. Then Public School No.

I'M failed to turn up at. tbe lime tney were due and the game was forfeited to us 0 to 0. Last year we had a crack team with a crack pitcher by tbe name of (Jiiauncy St. Claire, who iB now pitching on tile Commercial High School team. Three of our best players, who were short on their Bs at the end of lust month, are now working like beavers to make good ou their April card, and when they enter tho fray, which, we trust, will be soon, just watch tho fur fly! Yes, and the ball fly, too! OUR CLUBS.

Our school belongs to the James M. dsall League. This Is named utter our district superintendent. We have a school team consisting of the pick of the whole school, and also a number of class teams. A collector is appointed in each class to collect the dues, amounting to 5 cents a month, from each member.

The money collected is turned over to the treasurer, Mr. Webb, our teacher of composition and reading, who takes charge of it, and pays the expenses of car faro for the players and supplies money to the muu-ngcr to buy tho baseballs and other necessary articles. Continued From Page 1. various musical instruments are played, making it Interesting for those who attend. GRACE NEWMAN, SB Grade.

THE DEPARTMENTAL SYSTEM. The departmental system has been In Public School No. 127 only since the beginning of this term. This system is well liked by all the pupils, and so far has been very successful. This is the story verse; Department work Is truly fine We always atari il prompt at nine And work real hard the livelong day.

Without a chance to rest or play. "rls true we sing and inarch and dance. Wilt exercise our strength advance. But this is work, I'd have you know, Tbe teacher's warning: "Not thus; but Along the halls the lines proceed To seek the knowledge children need. To different teachers each class ga Tripping lightly oil tiptoes.

Never speaking, nor e'er laughing, lst a teauher should be pausing. l'or If caught in act of talking They will have to do some walking-Down to the ufneo they must K'j; Alas, their spirits very low. So the days go on and on Till at length our course Is won. When on graduation day. With many a serious thought we Bay, We re thankful that the strife Is o'er, That hard-worked brains are wracked no more.

Of this we're sure at this great time. Department work Is truly line. G1CACK UAQGER, 8BM. CIRLS' ATHLETICS. Although the beys have the largest share in the athletics, the girls have various activities of their own.

Under the leadership of Miss Murphy, teams have been formed and games played. In 1910 we entered the Athletic League, allowing any of the girls from 5A to 8B to join the club. The eighth year teams are practicing and so are tho class teams, the firsts and seconds. The girls wear middy blouses and bloomers, with blue and white ribbons, blue and white being the school colors. The basketball teams have only practiced among themselves, center of the bench and another through the wagon-bed plank to receive the bottom of the mast.

The lower hole should be a trifle forward of the upper bole to give a slight rake to the mast. Brace the mast with rope shrouds fastened to its top and to screw-eyes at each end of the mast bench. A catboat rig is shown upon the sail wagon illustrated, but another form of sail may be substituted if you wish. The boom for the cat-boat rig should be about 8 feet long, and the gaff, or top pole, about 5 feet long. Curtain poles will Berve excellently for these if you can procure them.

The mast end of each should have a loop of strap-iron fastened to it with screws and wire, as in Figure to fit over the mast. Unbleached mi-slin is good material for the sail. Make this 5 feet along the luff, or edge along the mast, 9 feet long on the leach, or outor edge, and the respective lengths of the gaff and boom along the head and foot. Curtain pole rings or loops of heavy wire will make satisfactory rings, a clothes-line pulley will do for a block for the mast top, and a light-weight rope should be used for sheets and halyards. Cleats on which to fasten these ropes may be made, as shown in Figure 9.

(Copyright, 1912, by A. Neely Hall.) Next Week An Outdoor Gymnasium, wheels will be at the bow and the pivotal pair of wheels at the stern. Get a piece of plank, 2 inches thick, 10 or 12 inches wide, and about 8 feet long, for the wagon bed, and two pairs of wagon, velocipede and baby carriage wheels for the wheels. Figure 2 shows a plan view of the under sido of the wagonbed, with the wheels in place. The wheels at the bow have a spread of four feet, to give the wagon sufficient stability, which will make it necessary to procure a long axle for these wheels.

If you have the axle that belongs to the wheels, buy a four-foot length of gas pipe and take it and the axle to a blacksmith or machinist. Have him cut the iron axle into halves, slip one-half into each end of the piece of gas pipe as shown in figure 4, and rivet or bolt them in place. Cutting the axle and drilling and riveting the halves to the gas pipe will cost no more than 25 cents. With staples fasten the gas pipe axle to a 2 by 4 axle (A, figure 2), and screw or nail this wooden axle to the wagonbed at the extreme bow end. The stern wheels require a 2 by 4 axle (B, figures 2 and 3), and a crosspiece, of the same size (figure 3).

Nail cross-piece, to the wagonbed 12 inches from its stern end. Then bore a five-eighths inch hole through the center of the length of axle, and another through the center of crosspiece, and the wagonbed, and bolt the axle to the wagonbed with a flve-eighths inch bolt. Fasten the iron axle to the wooden axle with staples. The details for the tiller stick, tiller posts, and connections are shown in Figure 5. Whittle one end of the tiller stick (D) round for a handle, and bore a hole through it near the other end for the post (E), which may be a piece of broom handle.

Make the three wooden disks which form the spool (F) out of hard wood, fasten them together, and Bcrew to the lower end of post, E. Nail a crosspiece to the top of the stern end of the wagon-bed, as shown in Figure 1, and then bore a hole throngh this and the wagon-bed large enough to stick the tiller post through. Slip the post far enough into the hole so 3pool will be on a level with the wheel axle, and drive an iron pin through a bole tn the post to keep It from dropping further, as shown. Fasten the tiller stick to the top of the post with another pin. Get some strong raanila rope for tiller lines, loop It as shown in Figure 6, slip THE HAPPY OYSTER The oyster out there in the bay Lives his good life in a simple way.

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