TAKING THE SCHOOL TO THE FACTORY

HOW ALIEN GIRLS ARE BEING CHANGED INTO INTELLIGENT AMERICAN WORKERS BY INSTRUCTION DURING WORKING HOURS

In from twenty to thirty-five weeks I. SUMMARY LEAD an illiterate immigrant girl can be 1.  Striking results transformed into an intelligent, efficient Striking statement American citizen, in this city, in two sentence to without interfering with the daily work avoid unwieldy sentence. by which she earns her living.  Only forty-five minutes a day in a factory schoolroom is required to accomplish such striking results.

This has just been demonstrated at 2.  Commencement the first commencement of the only Timeliness brought school conducted in a New York factory. out immediately after The classes have been held on striking statement one of the upper floors of the white goods factory of D. E. Sicher & Co., 49 West 21st Street, where the graduation Address has local exercises were held last Thursday interest evening.

Forty girls—­Italians, Poles, Russians, 3.  Graduates Hungarians, Austrians among Note concrete details the number—­received the first “certificates of literacy” ever issued by the Board of Education.  Twenty weeks Striking results ago many of these young women could emphasized by device not speak English; many of them had of contrast never been to school a day in their lives.  Every one present on Thursday Impression on audience night felt that this was indeed a commencement of remarkable for these girls. results

It is due to the instruction of Miss Teacher’s name has Florence Meyers, formerly a public local interest school teacher, that the girls can now speak English, write good letters, make out money-orders, cash checks, and send telegrams.  They have also been Additional concrete taught the principles of our government, details of striking the importance of personal hygiene, results and the processes by which cotton goods used in their work are manufactured.

The school was organized this year 4.  School at the suggestion of Dudley E. Sicher, head of the firm, in cooeperation with the Board of Education, and has been under the supervision of Miss Lizzie E. Principal and school Rector, Public School No. 4, Manhattan. have local interest.

What has been accomplished in this 5.  Example to other factory, which is the largest white firms goods muslin underwear plant in the Veiled suggestion to world, will doubtless serve as an example readers to be followed by other firms.