. The borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913; its marvelous development and historical surroundings. . CHAPTER VIII EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS How the Future of the Child is Anticipated and the Schools Turn out the Men and Women of Tomorrow—Churches—How the Spiritual and Moral Welfare is looked After—Hospitals—Benevolent and Charitable Institu- tions—Cemeteries. N educational facilities The Bronx possesses all that can be desired. No civic institutions have been more zealously looked after by the municipality than the public schools. True, some of the lower grades have been necessarily put on part time
. The borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913; its marvelous development and historical surroundings. . CHAPTER VIII EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS How the Future of the Child is Anticipated and the Schools Turn out the Men and Women of Tomorrow—Churches—How the Spiritual and Moral Welfare is looked After—Hospitals—Benevolent and Charitable Institu- tions—Cemeteries. N educational facilities The Bronx possesses all that can be desired. No civic institutions have been more zealously looked after by the municipality than the public schools. True, some of the lower grades have been necessarily put on part time be- cause of the enormous increase in population in the last two years; but many new schools are now in course of erection and the work is being pushed with all vigor so that in due time there will be a seat for every child in The Bronx. Search among the old records has failed to reveal just where and when the first school in the Borough was established. It was in a quaint little story-and-a-half schoolhouse once standing just east of the old Boston Post Road, now Third Avenue, and One Hundred Fifty-sixth Street that the gentry of the neighborhood, including the various branches of the Morris family, learned the rudiments of reading, writing, and ciphering. Bolton in his "His- tory of the County of Westchester" says that the first schoolhouse in Eastchester was erected in 1683, but it hardly seems possible that the burghers' children with their thirst for knowledge were so long without a school. In Westchester the English school was established and main- tained by the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The first schoolmaster of whom we have any rec- ord is Edward Fitzgerald who served in 1709. He seems to have taught in the school only provisionally, for in that year the Rev. John Bartow wrote to the Society recommending the appointment of Daniel Clark, the son of a clergyman, as schoolmaster. Mr. Clark served from 1710 to 1
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