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MORE SCHOOL ROOM FOR STABLE BOYS New York. March 15. — The directors of the Coney Island Jockey Club have instructed Superintendent Clark of tlie Sheepshead Bay track to prepare plans for an addition to the school house for stable boys on the Neck Road. Tlie classes are growing so rapidly that more room is a necessity. Two teachers are now employed and a third will come when there is more room. The Coney Island Jockey Club foots all the bills. The pupils are not even required V furnish their books. There is nutuiug compulifory about a I tendance. Such methods are not needed. The boys are eager to learn. The itopular impression iu regard to stable lads is that they are a set of little rutlians, lacking good manners and all of the little niceties that go to make up the well behaved little gentleman that the American boy of this age is siipjiosed to he. This, like many other ideas of the turf, is entirely wrong. The first re|x rt on deportment turned in to A. J. Joyner. whose lads are pupils of the sceool. should dispel the idea of ill-maniiered little rutlians. The BBpart is signed by Miss Relle Maguire, the teacher, and reads: "Tear lioys are a credit to your training, as they know how and when to behave, and I want to thank you lac your assistance iu the work." Other trainers have received similar reaarta, and so far as deportment goes the school will compare favorably with any located in the best residence see tious of New York City, while the eagerness of the youngslers to tajie full advantage of the wel come, but limited, opportunities afforded them for self improvement is so sincere as to be almost pathetic.
