Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1921, Page 10

10 SCHOOLROOMS VITAL NEED IN CROWDED TENTH DIVISION ' Congestion Greatest at Bruce and Garrison . Buildings, Where Portables Are in Use. \’ Many Classes Above Standarcl Numl)er. Ten additional classrooms are vitally needed to remedy present overcrowded 2 conditions in the tenth public school di- £ vision, school authorities pointed out to- 3/day in emphasizing the necéssity of Con- | % gress approving the original $5,000,000 . building program, which is designed to | i Zonly provide adequate accommodations for children now enrolled in the schools. 5 Five of them are wanted to accommodate Zclasses now in one-room portables, drented and other undesirable quarters, four to reduce oversize classes and one to eliminate 2 part-time class. ) There are fourteen school buildings in | the tenth division, which lies in the ‘northwest section, and is bounded iit general by the District boundary on the north, by the westerly boundary of Sol- diers’ Home on the east, by the Potomac river and B street on the south and by the Potomac and the District boundary. on the west. They are the Briggs, E street between 22d and Virginia ave- n street between Geor- the Chain gia and Sherman avenues: Bridge, on the Chain Bridgi tween 49th and ( Road, Military_road bet ! 14th ‘streets; Montgome: between Eve and K stree street between 27th and Reno, Howard street and Fessenden place: Stevens, 21st between K and L. streets; Sumner. 17th and M Streets: Henry Wilson, 17th street between Euclid street and Kalorama road, and Worm- ley, Prospect avenue between 33d and 34th streets. Centers of Congestion. The centers of congestion in this division are at the Bruce and Garrison schools. In order to accommodate all the children enrolled in these buildings portables have been pressed into use. Two of these flimsy one-room struc- tures are at the Bruce School and one at the Garrison. There Is a total of 104 classrooms n the schools of the tenth division. The POSTMASTER TAKES STEP TO RELIEVE MAIL DELAY Another Stamp Window and Mail Box Put Into Use at Branch Offices. Complaints have been made to the ‘Washington city post office concern- ing the lack of facilities at some of the branch stations in various parts of the city. The common criticism s that one is unable to purchase a stamp because of the too few stamp windows, es- pecially when the window is monopo- lized by some one with a number of parcels to mail. ‘While the clerk is weighing the par- cels, making out slips and otherwise attending to these patroms, it is de- clared, those who merely want a two- cent stamp are forced to wait for miputes at a time. is often happens, the complainants, during the early morning hours, when persons on their way to work desire to mail letters. One station Postmaster Chance re- eently visited personally and found out for himself the conditions com- plained of. He at onge ordered that another stamp windew be thrown open and properly manned. according to ‘Complaints have been made that even | after one secures a stamp it is not jble to mail the letter in the sta- || on, owing to the blockade of per- sons in front of the parcel post win- dow. This trouble seems inherent in some of the branch station quarters, which are long and narrow. Thus, when the stamp window is near the front of the station the line at the stamp window blocks the mailing slot. At one office the postmaster rem- edied this by installing a supple- mental mailing receptacle in the front “collected” ¢hrollment for the entire district is the three portables to e congestion in this division, v-eight oversize classes have been created. Ten of these large classes [ more than fifty pupils, while an enroliment rang- one and fifty. The y ication has established a class of forty pupils as the standard. Therefore, statistics compiled by school officials show that there is an excess of 151 pupils over the standard in this on. ~To accommodate these ex- cess pupils it is estimated by school authorities that it would take at least four additional classes if they were all in one school. Scattered. as they are in several schools, it is pointed out, it probably would take more classes. Twelve New Rooms Proposed. 7#1e original $5.000.000 building pro- gram drafted by the school board provides for the conmstruction of twelve additional rooms to remedy the overcrowding in the tenth divi- sion. Four of them. it is proposed. to dd to the Military Road School, and t rooms to the Sevens School. An ropriation of $445,000 is asked to these additions. less than $2,000,000 emergency p m _now before Congress carries no proviions for the relief of the ongestion in the tenth division. Con- sequently, school officials are hope- ful that Congress will approve the larger project in order that the con- ditions In’ this district can be rem- 1y Enuff Men THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, The Hecht Co STUDENTS HERE ON Toun.| 175 of Pennsylvania Normal Grad- uating Class Visit City. One hundred and seventy-five stu- dents of the graduating class of the First District State Normal Sohool of West Chester, Pa, began a three- | day sightseeing tour of Washington and nearby historical points yesterday. The party, which is in charge &€ Dr. Andrew Thomas, principal of the in- stitution, arrived here yesterday on al train. This is the achool twenty-third annual visit to the Na- tional Capital, two trips having been missed during the world war. The students visited the Capitol this morning, and this afternoon went to | the Zoo and Arlington cemetery. To- morrow they are scheduled to’ visit the government - buildings and the monastery in Brookland. The pro- grom for tomorrow includes a sail down the Potomac, with a Stop at Mount Vernon. Class officers are Floyd T. Hart. Needmore, Pa., president; Henry Hipple, Bromali, Pa., vice president; Miss Gladys M. Kokier, Yoe. Pa., seo- retary, and Miss Zella A. Wentz, Atglen, Pa., treasurer. —_— The national anthem of Uruguay has seventy versea EADERS of THE WASH. INGTON STAR visiting use or e WASHINGTON 'ASHINGTON STAR Office and Reading Room at 16 Regent street, London 8. W., within a stone’s throw of Piccadlily Circus, date papers are able for reference, where ar. rangements can be for the reception and forwarding of mali, advice obtained on_ ail Matters of travel, and where American visitors In London may be traced through the Reg- Istration Department conducted by our Lenden Office. = S N T EEE | AVE asked us the meaning to warrant a definition of it now. 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