Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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construction company where they stored the terra cotta pipe:
was where we played at. And in those days 24th Street
didn't go through to Sissan Street . . . There was a big
hole there big stream went down through there and the only
way you could get across was go dawn to 23rd Street they had
a bridge across, over where the American Ice Company is now.
And I was going to night schoal, but like all the rest of the
boys, war was on, money was good and I never went back to
night school.
Harvey: OK, was that boarding school far children of people
who worked in the m ill only?
Lewis: No, that was a public school: that was run by the city.
Woodberry School was crowded, and of course they put
these grades down there because they couldn't enlarge over
there.
Now across from Waodberry School west where the church
is there was in the building there that they called the un-
graded school. And boys and girls were bad that's where
they sent them to; from 56 or white school, or . . . 55, not
56 was the old White School, they sent over there. Any of the
unruly children, that's where they sent them to the ungraded
classes they called it over at Woodberry,
And when we took up manual training at 55 we all had to.
go over to the Woadberry to get our instruction; that's
where the manual training teacher was to learn you carpentry,
building and different things the average boy was needing
when you got older and had to do around his home. Of