Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1926, Page 6

SCHOOL FUNDS BILL - | INTWO SECTIONS Dne Seeks $647,500 From [Taxes—Other Depletes D.C. & Accumulated Surplus. The school buflding end unds for the next fi year, ich is now under consideration by the District subcommittee of the House appropriations committes, is found in two separate funds. One of $647,500 comes out of the regular revenues from taxes, and the other, amounting to $2,025,000, depletes the “accumulated surplus” fund. The indtvidual items under the smaller fund, as they have been writ- ten into the bill on the recommenda- tlon of the Budget Bureau, are as fol- ows: For the completién of the Francis Junior High School, $325.000, with suthorization to make contracts for completion of the building at a cost hot to exceed $500,000. For preliminary study on plans and #pecifications for the new school building for the Business High School, $5.000. For Brightwood School. For purchase of a site on which to Tocate a new junior high school build- tng in Brightwood or vicinity, $100.000. ¥or purchase of a site on which to focate a new 16-room school building in the vicinity of Fourteenth and Ogden streets, $100.000 For purchase of a site on which to Yocate a new 16-room school bullding tn the vicinity of Sixteenth and Web- ster streets. $100.000. For purchase of land in the vicinity of the Morgan School for playground purposes, $17:500. 3 appropriations aggregat- 500 for new school buildings made and charged against the accumulated surplus of approximately £5,000,000 found to the credit of the District in the Federal Treasury. This vear the bill carries similar appropria- aling $2.025,000, to come out of the accumulated surplus, as fol- lows: Yor continuing construction of the building for the McKinley h School, $200,080 (limit A ,000; previously appro- $1,000,000). construction of an_eight-room addition, including 2 combined gym- nasium and assembly hall, to the Burroughs School, $243,000. For the construction of a third-story addition of four rooms to the Amidon school, $80,000. 24-Room Tor erection School Building. of a 24room building to replace the present Garnet-Patter son School in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junor High Seheol, $300,000, and the Commission- ers are I authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such huilding at st not to exceed $500.000 (previously appropriated for purchase of land, $55,000). For construction of a_four-room ad dition to the Smothers School, includ ng the necessary remodeling of the present building, $85.000. For nurchase of & site on which to Iocate a new eight-room school bufld- Ing in Potomac Heights or vicinity to replace thie one-room building on Con- duit road, $15.000. For purchuse of a site on which to lecate a new 16-room school building in the vicinity of Alaska avenue and Holly street. $75,000. For purchase of land in the vicinity of tho Wheatley School for playground purposes, $15,000. For erection of a junior high school tutlding on the site purchased in Georgetown in accordance with the pians of the Macfarland Junior High Sehool, §$200,000; and the Commission- ers are authorized to enter into con- tract or contracts for such building &1 7 cost not to exceed $500,000. For construction ‘f an addition to the Langley Junior High School, in- cluding an assembly hall and gym- nasiuni, $400,000. Por construction of an addition to the Hine Junior High School, $100,000. or purchase of land in the vicinity of the Dunbar High School, $160.000. For construction of a conibined gym- nasium and assembly hall at the Pet- h School, A1 pluns, Jor construction of 4 combined gym um and assembly hall at the West DINNER TO MISS DELL T0 DRAW 300 WOMEN “Flivver Campaign” to Open With Affair at Mayflower Sunday Night. rom all sec enting . tend the Ki in honor of Miss ssie Dell, Civil Service commissioner, v the National Woman's Party at the Mayflower Hotel next Sunday night. Thé dinner will open the Woman's Party’s “flivver campaign” urging the Appointment and election of qualified women for office. Mrs. Donald Hooker of Baltimore, sirman of the Woman's Party, will introduce as one of St s Mabel Vernon of Wilmington, Del.. a member of the nitional council, who will be one of the two “envoys” of the make the cross- pres the fi interest of ampaign for placing women in public office Miss Vernon will leave immediately after the dinner for Detroit to join ' iss Margaret Whittemore, vice presi- | dent of the Woman's Party, who will make the automobile speaking tour with Miss Vernon. Starting from De- troit M . the itinerary extends to’ San Francisco and back to Phila delphia, where the “envoys” plan to| arrive early in June. Their car will be decorated with the white-and-gold colors of the Woman's Party. | Other speakers at the dinner will in- clude Miss Minnie Neilson, S perintendent of scho kota, and Miss 2 O'eefe of | t . NATION SHOCKED AT ESTIMATES OF WHITE HOUSE ROOF REPAIRS $500,000 Sum Proves Startling, But Apprel Over Possible Results of Collapse of Roof Causes Far More Concern. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Probably the entire Nation has been shocked at the suggestion that it would cost $500,000 to put & new roof on the 'White House. President Coolidge him- self was 8o shocked that he prefers the hasard of having the roof fall about his illustrious ears rather than ask Congress to spend 8o huge a sum. Still, there is speculation as to what might happen if the roof should tumble in some night during a State reception. when all the members of the cabinet and the Vice President and all the members of the diplomatic corps were present. The thought sends a shiver down the back of official Washington. Real estate men and bullders of the Capital have been startled ajso at the estimated cost of recovering the Ex- ecutive Manslon. The area of the roof 18 not large and it has been sald that probably the whole White House did not cost half a million dollars in the beginning. The truth is no one seems to know just what the White House cost at the beginning or what it has cost to keep it in condition. The total sum probably would be huge, however, for only last year something like $50.- 000 was voted for minor repairs and apparently it served only as a drop in the bucket. Tt is known, however, that back in 1797 when the White House was well under way the United States Government had only $300,000 avail- able for all its departmental and ex- ecutive buildings. Of this sum $200,- 000 had been borrowed from the neighboring and friendly State of Maryland. ‘Washington Urged Distance. A little delving into history shows again there is nothing new under the |un. ‘When the Government wus thinking about an extensive building program it was suggested that the departmental building, as well as the White House, be clustered about the Clpitol £0 as to be convenient to Con gresas. At that time Pennsylvania avenue was a quagmire and a journey from the Capitol to the present loca- tion of the White House was a real undertaking instead of an incident. _But George Washington, wise in his day and generation, objected strenuously to the scheme. He sald: “The case of access to the Govern- ment departments for members of Congress (and Senators) would result In_interruptions and delays in the public business.” One hears the same complaint in Washington today, despite the fact that Washington had his way and the buildings were located at what was thought to be great distances, Modern transportation methods have annihilated distance, however, and the “interruptions and delays” go on. First Occupled In 1800. The White House as it exists today is @ growth of more than 100 years. It was first occupied in 1800, but at that time was a boxlike affuir with neither north nor south portico. The front door, facing Pennsylvania ave- nue, was approached by narrow wood- en_steps. After the visit of the Britlsh to ‘Washington in 1814 it was necessary to rebuild the burned mansion. There is a legend that the President’s home first was called ¢ghe White House after this incident, when ft was necessary to paint the walls left standing in order to obliterate the smoke stains. But the mansion had been named the White House before this occurrence. The rebuilding was not completed until 1829. The north portico was added in 1833, all of this work being after the plans of James Hoban, the original architect and builder. In 1900 it was proposed to add two beautiful pillared and domed wings to the White House at a cost of $1.000.- 000. Later this idea was modified when Roosevelt became President and had the less pretentious executive of- fices built. The White House roof is mot an ordinary house covering. In the first place, it is constructed of copper. Some one described it as a sort of with its railed walks, run- and stafrs. It even has RCO Hot Water Radiator Heat’ No huddling of the family in one or two rooms to k if the house is ARCOLA heated. No need for three or four clumsy blankets on the beds either. Instead 72 d at far less than cost of stove heat, because Ideal ARCOLA dis- unit from coal, free from “temperament.’ lod, h-hb,vot-ahkl« small homes (farm or city), tributes every heat And the fire is entirely is the reason. Unrival stores, offices, etc. New low prices 10 esting catalog sent free. AMERICAN RADIATOR GomPANY OPTOMETRY Ii we could look ahead and see what’s in store for us, we would be more careful in the manner or use we give our eyes. Optometry, the scientific solution for correcting nearly every eye trouble, and drugs. It 1s a science a lttle screenéd-in house where the servants often sleep in Summer. There is _elaborate _protection against lightning, several thousand feet of stiff metal rope being stretched about the roof and over the chim- neys to prevent any possible stray bolt from wreaking damage. The roof has two collapsible steel flag- staffs in addition to. the one always standing. It also has some anclent fire escape devices built of endless chains and lopking more like cannon than anything else in the world. Older Washingtonians remember an incident of the Roosevelt days at the White House. The President was havigg some sort of affair in the state dining room when he and his guests were startled by a roar and a racket above. It deyeloped that the Roosevelt boys and some of their friends were roller skating on the copper roof. Maybe that jarred the roof out of plumb. WOMAN’S FACE IS CUT IN AUTO COLLISION Wife of Capt. Parsons, U. S. A, Injured by Broken Glass—Other Traffic Accidents. Mrs. Parsons, wife of Capt. Marvel Parsons, U . A., Green Valley, Va., s cut about the face by broken glass vesterday when her husband’s car collided with the automobile of Mrs. Sylvan King, 3810 Miljtary road, in front of 1317 Connecticut avenue. First aid was given by Dr. Daniel L. Borden. Elisha McClure, 50 years old, 1245 Sixth street southwest, was hurt while on Highway Bridge v, when the wheeis.of a motor trick driven by George L. Clark, Alexand Va., passed over his legs. McClure was treated at Emergency Hospital. Richard Green, colored, 11 years old, 1619 First street, was knocked down by the automobile of Alfred Kir- by, 61 Quincy street, while playing in an alley In the rear of Kirby's home, yesterday afternoon. The injured boy was treated at Freedmen's Hospital, where his condition is reported as un determined. Three-year-old Charles R. Hatton, 3346 Prospect avenue, playing in the street near his home early last night, was knocked down by a motor truck belongink to Harry Siegel, 1242 Ninth street, and slightly injured. He was treated at Georgetown University Hos: pital While crossing in front of 2007 Four- teenth street yesterday afternoon, Abel Saks, 45 years old, 4 Fifteenth street, struck by utomobile and slightly hurt Amanda Eaglan, colored, 40 years old, 1633 Third street, in alighting from a taxicab at Georgia avenue and Hobart street last night fell and frac tured her leg. She was given surgical aid at Freedmen's Hospital. Wet condition of the roadway at Bighteenth and T sireets resulted in a skidding accldent in which the hose wagon of 21 engine company and the automobile of Ha ver, 135 Flor- ida avenue, collided. Only slight dam age resulted. The hose wagon was returning from a fire on the premises of Geraldine Burroughs, 1742 Oregon avenue, where an overhe: stove had caused a small bl dr an A Chicago woman advertises the newspapers that she is willing, for a small sum, to select a suitable by. —_— C. NORWOOD For Polished Floors New Floors Installed Years' Practical Experience 1428 B Street S.E. 0ld Floors Mude New Phone Lincoin 2031 rees in ALL rooms coke, oil or gas. ARCOLA automatic control to.pay. Write Dept. S for inter- lthml Channing Washington, without the use of drops based on refractory light, LAUD WASHINGTON wcnemion| S VAN AND MASON Fraternity Members in New Temple at Alexandria Ex- tol His Virtues. QGathered for the first time in the shrine of the temple that will rear its crest far above Shooters Hill, in Alexandria, 160 masters and dele- gates from Masonic lodges from a score of States yesterday heard the human virtues of George Washing- ton upheld and his weaknesses con- doned. The meeting in the temple room of the George Washington Me- morial Temple, under construction in Alexandria, was the first held in the imposing structure being raised on top of the high hill which was once part of the Washington farm. It was part of the first day's session of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association, The two-day convention will close today with meetings in the old Alexandria lodgeroom. George Washington was held up as a real human, virile man, with some human weaknesses and many virtues, by Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, president of Howard University. “I think it ill becomes any man,” Dr. Durkee said, “to go up and down the land prating of the weaknesses of Washington. The first President was a real human, virile man. I want to lift up my volce against any man pointing out his weaknesses rather than his virtues.” Lowden Lauds Masonry. Frank O. Lowden, former Governor of lilinois, sald the Masonic order is the bulwark of the Nation and the best defense of American institutions. }e said he was informed there are now 3,200,000 Masons in the United States and added this this Nation can never go wrong with such a group of men actuated by the motives and teachings of the order banded togeth- er for the common good of the United Stutes. Mr. Lowden said he fmpressed with the magnitude of the memorial undertaking. o picture can do justice to the dream of the men who have brought this magnif- icent structure into being. It will stand through the ages as a memorial to Washington, the man and Mason.” Mr. Lowden said that after the war, as Governor of 1llinois, he and others in authority in the Western States were concerned over the -progress of bolshevist teachings emanating from Chicago, where a Soviet headquarters had been established. “I doubted the good we were dolng to negative these teachings,” he said, “‘until one night I addressed a group of 5,000 Masons in Springfield. Thelr reception con- vinced me that my words had not been in vain.” A history of the area on which the memorial stands and the assoclations of colonfal times which cluster around Mount Vernon, Belvoir, Abingdon and the other places on the Potomac near Alexandria, was given by Charles H. Callahan, past d master of Masons in Virginia Washington Memory Sacred. Addressing a4 meeting here last night in the Alexandria lodgeroom, Representative Allan T. Treadway of Massachusetts said that “only a short time ago derogatory remarks were made about Washington by a man evi dently imbued with his own imper- tance. ; “Although this attack was almost was very much S| beneath the dignity of notice,” Mr. more sacred to our citizens.” Representative Treadway paid trib- ute to the sincerity of purpose of mem- bers of Congress. “We very seldom meet & man there whose opinions do not respect, and in all likelihood they represent the viewpoints of the majority of his constituents. If an opposite type of man appears to the one I have mentioned, there is mno group of men on earth who will take his measure quicker than the House of Representatives.” Mr. Treadway told the meeting that Virginia should go to Congress with an officlal agreement to provide free of expense to the Federal Government the right of way and any land dam- ages for construction of the proposed memorial highway connecting Wash- ington and Mount Vernon. He said the bill introduced b Representative R. Walton Moore calling for an appro- Prlftton of $750,000 1s too modest. Earller in the afternoon the group of visiting Masons was taken through the vast structure stll under construc- tion and its details explained by Col. Louls A. Watrous, president of the memorial assoclation; Harvey W. Cor- bett, architect of the memorial, and tSa-c!!mnno Osgood, consulting archi- Mr. Osgood explained that before a stone was raised on the structure a mat of concrete covering 40,000 square feet was placed in the foundation at a cost of $285,000. This was done, he said, to neutralize the flowing quality of the clay which forms Shooters Hill. The memorial, he said, should ‘stand through the centuries as an enduring monument to George Washington, ‘and even in its ruins in the far dis. tant future will stand as does the Parthenon, In Greece, a memorial to him who inspired ft. Carpenter Found Dead. Cyrus N. Marquess, 62 years old, was found dead in a basement room at his home, 610 Morton place north- east, by his son, Arthur C. Marquess, about 9 o'clock this morning. Mar quess, a carpenter, was a widower. He had been treated for kidney trou- ble, and the cause of death will be de- termined by an autopsy. R e S TRETEA AR B MAY BE OBT. N. W. Burchell 817 Fourteenth &t N.W. C. C. Fuwsett 1357 Wisconsin Avenue J. H. Magruder Connecticut Ave. and K St. RARTRRI T R R R 423 K Strect N.W. [ ¥ h, 5 r. 4 BURNISHINE D. C. BOARD OF TRADE FOR DEATH PENALTY Also Opposes Bill Giving Official Status to Woman’s Police Bureau. The Washington Board of Trade in a letter to Chairman Zihlman of the House District committee reports its opposition to the passage of legisla- tion to give the existing women's po- lice bureau an officlal status, its op- position to the bill abolishing capital punishment in the , and dis- cusses the question of the use of fire- arms on the streets of Washington by officers of the law. Regarding the women’s police bu- reau bill the report is unanimous that “the bill should not be made into a law, and that the women's bureau should be under the direct supervision and control of the major and super- intendent of police.” The _public_order committee of the I NEED Household Effects of Every Description IMMEDIATELY TFOR CASH Phone—Franklin 5394 P Q Sure Relief from / Constipation Dr. Boice’s Prescription Tablets Take one tonight and note ‘the magic effect of rood appetite snd digestion. 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