[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] gale of scholars in both is two hundred and seventy-four. The superintendent of the church-school is Mr. Christian F. Tietjen, and the superintendent of the chapel-school is Mr. (ieorge Stewart. The Human CATHOLIC. — The history of these churches, as well as that of their schools already given, is furnished by Mr. Thomas ( '. Cornell. The earliest religious services of the Roman Cath-olic Church in Yonkers were held among the Cath-olic laborers upon the Croton Aqueduct in 1830-39, by the Rev. James Cummiskey of St. Joseph's Church, New York, a church built by him about 1834. Father Cummiskey exercised his office among the laborers on the work from New York to Sing Sing, saying Mass in whatever private room or rude build-ing he could obtain. In Yonkers, during the build-ing of the arches over the Saw-Mill River, a laborers' settlement existed for several years among the trees on the bluff, near where Summit Street now crosses the aqueduct, and in this vicinity Father Cummiskey occupied a small building on Sundays 'as a chapel. It was the first Roman Catholic Chapel in Yonkers. Several Roman Catholic families remained after the completion of the aqueduct, but Father Cummiskey did not return after 1840, nor had he any successor till the beginning of work on the Hudson River