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Evening classes are held three evenings per week. hoping to organize classes for women which may be held in the afternoon, and possibly some classes for men in the industrial plants between four and six in the afternoon. We hope for more co-operation from the industries.

Large announcements of the opening of the evening schools for season of 1919-20 appeared in the Lockport newspapers. The text of the announcement of citizenship classes appears below:

"PUBLIC EVENING SCHOOLS

"AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP CLASSES

"will be held at West Avenue and Clinton Street schools, Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, beginning October 15.

"These are for attendance of men and women who wish to be able to speak, read and write the English language readily and to learn about the rights, privileges and duties of American citizens.

"Full preparation will be given to get final citizenship papers. Those who thus prepare and are certified by us do not have to take examination by the naturalization judge. All who attended last year and all others who wish to come this year are invited to come.

"Afternoon classes will be held for women if they wish. "EMMETT BELKNAP,

Except in the citizenship classes, an entrance deposit of $2 will be required as evidence of serious intention to attend regularly and continuously to the end of the school term or until uch attendance, for good reason, becomes impossible. The deposit fee will be returned at close of term to all who have attended at least three-fourths of the evening sessions. It will be returned at any time after the first six weeks, to any who, for satisfactory reason, stated to the director, find themselves unable to further attend.

Letter from Emmet Belknap, Superintendent of Schools, October 23, 1919:

"Please report that our projected evening school, including the vocational school, has started well with accessions still coming in; that we hope to get a larger interest and

attendance in the classes for foreign-born men and women than heretofore. Our foreign population is largely made up of men and women of mature age. The number of young men is small.

The children of foreign-born parents in this city have for some years regularly attended public and church schools and are being universally educated. We are hoping to have also some assistance from people especially interested in this work from the city of Buffalo."

21. Malone

Data furnished by Superintendent of Schools.

The population of Malone is 7,690, the foreign part of which is the French Canadian.

The paper mill is the chief industry employing foreigners, but they have no classes.

We plan to open a night school, and we will pay the teachers $2 per hour.

22. Mount Vernon

Data furnished by W. H. Holmes, Superintendent of Schools. The population of Mount Vernon is about 40,000, and the foreign population is as follows:

The foreigners are employed chiefly by the shirtwaist factories, silversmiths, optical company, motor companies, etc. None of these industries conduct classes.

We have from 75 to 100 foreigners in our night schools, which are open four evenings each week for at least 20 weeks. The attendance is about 70 per cent. and the average age is 25 or 26. We require teachers of foreigners to be at least normal school graduates or its equivalent. We pay from $3 to $5 an evening of two hours. Evening school teachers succeed each year in getting many foreigners to take out first papers.

Letter from C. O. Thompson, Principal, Evening Commercial School, November 19, 1919:

"We conduct an evening school at the present time in which English to foreigners is taught. There are four classes in session four evenings a week from 7:30 to 9:30 for about six months during the year, beginning in October and closing about the first of April. At present there is an attendance in these classes of between 60 and 80 with an enrollment of 94. During the year we enroll about 200. In addition to the four classes in which English is taught to foreigners, there are a number of foreigners who speak some English, attending other classes. Some are registered for machine shop, some for automobile repairing and some for drafting. Where they do not speak the language well enough to get along particularly well in the industrial arts classes, they are assigned to classes where English is taught for two evenings a week, and on two evenings a week, they receive instruction in the shops.

"We make an effort to reach just as many of the nonEnglish speaking residences of this city as we can, and influence them to attend evening school, and those who attend are encouraged to take out their citizenship papers.

"In the elementary department we offer courses in English and civics, read some history and current events, and in the advanced classes we give a little time to arithmetic. Citizenship and Americanization are our main topics for general discussion and we recruit each year many who take out their first and some their second papers."

23. New Rochelle

Data furnished by Albert Leonard, Superintendent of Schools, November 17, 1919:

The education and Americanization of adult foreigners in the City of New Rochelle.

The population of New Rochelle is 40,000.

The foreign population is 9,000. This is divided approxi

mately among the following nationalities:

Austrian

Canadian

French

British

154

260

100

786

As New Rochelle is a surburban city within easy reach of New York City, it is virtually the home of commuters. There are few industries of any importance in New Rochelle outside of the industries needed to supply the daily life of the community. The Knickerbocker Press and Jones Speedometer are the chief industries.

The building trades of New Rochelle recruit employees from the foreign element of the population. The usual occupations in a city of this size are in the hands of the foreigners.

None of the industries in this city find it necessary to conduct classes for teaching English, American history, or civil government to their foreign-born employees.

All the public school facilities of the city are open to foreignborn adults. In addition to the regular classes in the public schools, there are evening school classes open to all the adults of the city.

The following adult students of different nationalities attend our evening schools: