Schools, public-- Allen Street building, 354, 357. Appropriation for new schools, 44, 346. Barrel and hog punishments, 341-342. Board of Education, work of, 365-366. Bronx primary school, 1895, condition of, 348. Building, perfection of Snyder schools, 353. Census, 349. Charges and facts, 342-345. Clubs, classroom opened for, 372-374. Compulsory education law, non-enforcement, 231. Control, abolition of ward trustee, etc., 347, 348. Cooking classes, 367-368. Excursion schemes, 362. Experimenting, 403-410. Eyes inspection, 358-359. Fourth Ward, examination of girls, 355-357. Hester Street, _see that title_. Immigrants, school as means of enrolment, 211, 212. Kindergartens, benefit of, 365-367. Lack of schools, 43, 186. Medical inspection fight, 357. Mental befogment results, 230. Nature lessons, 361-364. Neighborhood purposes, 387, 398-410. Number and naming of schools, 374, 375. Playgrounds-- Advisory committee report, 290-291. Roof playgrounds, _see that title_. Political meetings in, suggested, 407-408. Public Education Association, reform work, 371, 372, 378. Punishments in Madame Bruin's school, 341-342. Recreative purposes, 361. Reform fight, 44-45, 283, 345-371. Scarlet fever epidemic traced to public school, 358. Seats, "dead-line," 408-409. Shower-baths, 283. Social movement, use of the public school, 398-410. Sunday opening proposed, 399-403. Teachers' attitude to reform, 369-371. "Three H's" and "Three R's," 368, 387. Tombs, school for boys awaiting trial, 378, 379. Tompkins Square lodging house evening classes, 226. Truant school, 241, 242, 349, 350. Woman's work in reform, 371, 377, 379. Schwab, Mr., summer excursions for boys, 405-406. Settlement, _see_ University Settlement. Seven Dials reformation, "druv into decency," 113-114. Seward Park-- Crowds at play, 302-304. Delay in promised park, 295. Gymnastics, 302-303. Work started on, 296. Sheds, tenants in, 98. Shower-baths for public schools, 283. Silver campaign, Irish laborer story, 217. Slaughter houses, rear tenements condemned as, 37, 105, 116. Slovak immigration, 202.