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Show A HOUSETOP CONEY ISLAND Realistic Miniature of the Real Thing on Root' in Tenement Region in New York City. New York. Rev. "nob" Davis of the Brick Presbyterian church of this city assisted by a dozen college men and several college girls, have started start-ed a miniature Coney Island in the midst of "Hell's Kitchen" in Manhattan. Man-hattan. Tliis oasis is situated on the roof of Christ Church Memorial building and covers, with the neighboring roofs about half an acre. Swings, shoot the chutes, rocking and swinging horses, sand, teeters are all there on a small scale, in fact, all Coney Island except the sea. "When summer comes," Mr. Davis said, "settlement workers usually The Shoot the Chute. close their settlements and leave for Europe or Bar Harbor or their country coun-try places, and this throws the poor people on their own resources when amusements are at a premium. Our idea is no high flying cue. We want to make friends with these people peo-ple and help to amuse them. We will preach no new religion. The children are not the only ones looked after, however. There is a billiard bil-liard room for the men, as well as shower baths, a fully equipped gymnasium gym-nasium under the direction of an expert. ex-pert. Every week a smoker will be given as well as a dance, concert and a party with cake and ice cream. The place is self-supporting. The industrial indus-trial teachers will train the girls in sewing raffia work, chair caning, millinery mil-linery and hammock making. The boys will learn carpentry and chair caning. Polk dances, singing, march-ine march-ine and fancv drill will he taue-hr. the children between seven and fourteen years. All the children will be taught the rules of first aid' to the injured. At night the roof will be surrounded by Chinese lanterns and electric lights. At one end there is a covered auditorium audito-rium for the older people. |
