PROGRESS OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN NEW YORK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 84, 5 December 1874, Page 14

PROGRESS OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN NEW YORK.

St. Ihthoht's Parochial School was dedicated on Sunday, August 16 The school is principally composed of Italian children, and is under the charge of the Franciscan Sisters, at whose head Btands Mother Superior Theresa, and hy six other Franciscan Sisters. The cost of the buildine so far has been 26,250d015., and the whole cost when fitted up will be 3000dols. more. There are now- thirty parochial schools in New York, in which nearly twenty-seven thousand girls and boys are taught. The parochial schools do not by any means include all the children of Catholics attending school in that city. The priest 3 are in duty hound, and do, discourage their children from attending other schools, but they permit them to go rather than that they should grow up without education. The scholars are attributed among the schools aa follOWi:—

xnese scnoois are placed m the most populous parts of the city and some of them have fine school edifices— those of St. Ann's, St.' Michael's, and St. Peter's (now building) being commodious and substantial. The Manhattan Academy, in West Thirty-second street, although not included in the list, is a free school, carried on in a large suitable building, having an average attendance of about three hundred. A school in connection with St. Anthony's Church is now building. In addition to the parochial schools which are free, there are twenty or thirty select schools which charge for tuition, some of which are connected with convents or other religions houses. By far the greater number of those enumerated above are taught by the Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Charity; The girls are always taught by women, and the boys, unless of very tender age, by mer. A few of tbe female teachers are of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Notre Dame, St. Francis, and Ursuline Nuns. The number of lay teachers employed is verjr small indeed, only one or two of the schools beb» taught exclusively by them. Tbe pupils of these schools would swell the total number between two and three thousand.—' Pilot.'

St. Patrick'! St. Peter's St. Mary's St. James's Transfiguration St- Nicholas's Most Holy Redeemer St. Bridget's St. Rose of Lima* St; Ann's Immaculate Conception St. Gabriel's Holj Innocents' St. Teresa's Oar La<Jy of Sorrows' St. Boniface's St. John Evangelist's St. JJaurence's St. Alphonsus's St. Joseph's St. Francis Xavier's St. Vincent de Paul's St. Columba's St. John Baptist's St. Francis of Assissi's St. Michael's Holy Cross Assumption Annunciation Male. 600 800 500 630 432 680 730 800 450 600 487 1653 900 •750 350 349 297 20 0 437 49S 80 300 100 135 720 lib' 320 Female. 700 700 600 650 572 782 740 900 350 1248 400 400 550 404 150 360 600 70 600 250 350 400 220 370 Total 13,978 12,373