EARLY YOUNGSTOWN SCHOOLS.

THE ACADEMY.

STATE LAWS.

STATE THOROUGHLY ORGANIZED.

THE FIRST MEETING.

THE FRONT STREET SCHOOL.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL, YOUNGSTOWN;
CITY HALL AND JAIL, YOUNGSTOWN;
WEST FEDERAL STREET, YOUNGSTOWN, LOOKING WEST;
ST. COLUMBA'S SCHOOL AND URSULINE CONVENT, YOUNGSTOWN]

RAYEN SCHOOL.

FREE KINDERGARTENS.

LUCRETIA K. BALDWIN MEMORIAL KINDERGARTEN.

BATHS.

     Near the children's entrance is a tile-lined bathroom.  The kindergarten children are bathed in the morning and after 4 o'clock p. m. it is open to school children.  Over thirteen hundred baths were given during the last school year and over four hundred during the summer vacation.
     The second floor has a large lecture room, an overflow kindergarten room, a trustees' room, a room for the cooking class, and others.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

     The trustees used part of hte endowment fund to equip the cooking room.  The classes are limited to twelve, so each has her own set of utensils and is given individual attention.  A different class meets each afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock p. m.  Beside the individual equipment, there is a gas range for other forms of cooking, a sink, ample cupboards and supplies.

MANUAL TRAINING.

     The manual training department is in the large, light basement.  Mr. John A. Logan, Jr., fitted this out with twelve benches and all necessary tools.  Two years ago classes were organized by a teacher from Pratt Institute.  They met from 4 to 6 p.m. , and accomplished good work.  At present the work is among younger children, but will eventually lead up to he bench work again.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

     A large sewing school is held here every Saturday during the winter under the direction of Miss Louisa M. Edwards.
     The lecture room was used by a Boys' Club, which met one winter with an attendance of between seventy and eighty.  It was held six evenings a week.  During the first summer vacation the building was used by the Council of Jewish Women for classes and clubs organized among the poorer Hebrew children.

VISITING NURSE.

     One room in the building is used by the Visiting Nurse Association, who have their headquarters here.  The building is used every evening by the Boys' Club under the management of the Boys' Club Association.  They have evening classes in manual training, also various kinds of games.  The basement is finely equipped with apparatus for a gymnasium.  Shower baths will soon be put in one room by the Club Association for the use of the older boys.

PLAYGROUNDS.

     The opening of the playground was deferred until the past summer.  There were over a hundred children admitted each day and about sixty present all the time.

FINANCIAL.

     More funds were needed to carry on the enlarged work and the Board of Education placed four of the teachers and two janitors on the pay roll.  A little later a fund was made available through the township trustees, who decided that what is known as the Shehy Fund could be used for the kindergarten, as that alone stands for the education of the poor.  Such was the purpose of Mr. Daniel Shehy when he made his will more than a quarter of a century ago.

YOUNGSTOWN TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS.

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