Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 40

an NOVEMBER 1928. e AT It CCTON ‘ RS 8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, of the actual need of the fences can be made. ‘The board was about to vote on the report with Dr. Ballou's exceptions when Dr. Johnson announced he would vote in the negative as a protest against the short time allowed the board mem- bers for consideration of the project. Mr. Gilligan contended, however, that sufficient time had been given the needed improvements or Congress would not have appropriated the money for them. Rev. Bennett then moved that the report be laid on the table until tha next meeting and the motion was won by a narrow majority. Sy (elementary) School, Western High School, and the Janney (elementary) School. Of these, however, a fill of the area east of the Burroughs School at a cost of $28,560 is recommended for excep- tion by Dr. Ballou. The cost of the needed material for the fill would be .n the nelghborhood of $13,000, Dr. Ballou pointed out, and he suggested that earth from building operations of the future would provide this material without cost. Dr. Ballou believes that the excepted items should include also wire fence: at the Brightwood, Truesdell, New B Bruce, Burroughs, Bancroft and M« (elementary) Schools and at the Arm- | strong High School until a further studv | India has ~ pure-drug campaign. BIG SUPPLY OF PHONES. BOSTON (#).—New England has more telephones than old mglmd:[ more, in fact, than Great Britain and | the Irish Free State combined. A survey by the bureau of com-| mercial and industrial affairs of the, Boston Chamber of Commerce showed | that these six northeastern American | States had more telephones than any | foreign nation in the world except Ger- | nicipal architect’s office to the school officials Monday and copies were then sent to the individual members of the board. They received them yesterday and most of them felt that that was not sufficient time in which to study the improvements at 18 buildings. ‘The 18 buildings included in the re- port are the Woodridge, Hine Junior High School, Brightwood (elementary) School, Truesdell (elementary) School, Armstrong High School, Lovejoy (ele- mentary) School, Thomson (elemen- tary) School, Stuart Junior High Schoo!, New Bell (elementary) School, Randall Junior High School, Whittier (elemen- tary) School, Bruce _(elementary) School, Burroughs (elementary) Schoo!, (elementary) School, Mott purchase of other land and the erec- ! ~uperintendent, said that a building can tion of a brand-new elementary school | be s5ld only through act of Congress building. {and he deciared he would “look into”" * May Lose Estimate. the matter of sales. Dr. Johnson advised the board that Report on Grounds. since the building would not be vacated | Because some of its members felt they by Business “for at least three years,” | should not be called upon to vote on ;he nl“rded for 2“1s :nddumnu classrooms an expenditure of $100,000 without more for colo: pup! that section of the than two days’ time city could not be met by the dedication | {po wisdom {,, th lnu whlt;h u: soudy, of the building to elementary school | i An dceiits Mie purposes. fact that the $100,000 was appropriated In the course of the discussion, Mrs. | by Congress for the specifically named Doyle said that unless the board mem- | 5chools, the board failed to approve a bers can agree on the use which they | list Of improvements to the grounds of will make of the old business structure | 18 school buildings. A.report on the | “we might lose the appropriation for Yarious items of improvements at the | the new school” which is contained in ; buildings was transmitted by the mu- s e | a supplementary estimate in the 1930 | Indications of a protracted and per- | budget for the District, e B He T % | Rev. 3 omen haps bitter argument which, it is feared, | patore had advanced his reasons for will jeopardize the item for the new | not wanting the building turned over to Business High School in the District’s ;:ol;g&d e:m‘lrnw{:{ hpupi(ls..!declar;id: “g¢. = R s better to lose it than to jeopardize the | 1930 budget at the coming sesslon of | i, "or Jittle children by putting them | . ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION 7th St. & La. Ave. N.W. 61st Issue of Stock Now Open for Subscription Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments James F. Shea Secretary AGREENENT FALS ONBUSIESS Hi Argument Over Use of Old Building May Imperil New Structure Item. many | With 1546,678 telephones in lht’s?j Statcs at the end of 1927, they had an | increase of more than 36'2 per cent since 1921. Bancroft === B—Seventh = ts. NN\W.—The Congress, were evidenced in the Board | of Education’s initial discussion yester- | day of the use to which the present Business High School structure, at Ninth street and Rhode Island avenue, will be put when that institution is moved to its new_quarters. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, chairman of the school board’s committee on buildings, grounds and equipment, sug- gested in the course of her presentation of that committee’s regular report that the board members consider until next meeting the question of the use which will be made of the present Business building following its abandonment at the completion of the proposed Roose- velt High School, as the new “Business High School” has been named. Almost instantly some members of the board voiced strong opinion on what it should not be used for rather than what it should be used for. Mrs. Doyle suggested that three courses were open to the board: (1) The structure could be transferred to divisions 10-13—which embrace the colored schools—for use as an elemen- | tary school; (2) that the Cardozo-Bell High School, for colored pupils, be trans- terred from its present location in the old M Street High School Building, near First street, to the abandoned building, and (3) that the Americaniza- tion School, now in the Webster Build- ing, at Tenth and H streets, and the Abbot Vocational School, now housed | at Fifth street and New York avenue, | be transferred to the old Business | Building. Need Colored Classrooms. | Tt was suggested that since there is | & need at present in the vicinity of the | Business High School for 21 additional classrooms for colored pupils, the struc- ture should be turned over to ele- mentary services for those pupils. Dr. J. Hayden Johnson declared, how- ever, that “there are other considera- tions” than mere need for morc class- rooms. He cited the Business struc- ture's utter lack of playing yard, more serious if the building is to house little children, he said, than if it is to be used by older boys and girls. Rev. F. I. A. Bennett opposed the building as an elementary school because it is located on Rhode Island avenue, “a boule- vard,” which would be a menace to children, while its rear faces on R street, which he described as a “fire street” because, of the presence within a short distance of a fire engine house. Mrs. Mary A. McNeill agreed with the objections of Dr. Johnson and Rev. Bennett, voicing her own opposition. ‘These three members of the board expressed their favor for the transfer of the Americanization and the voca- tional schools to the structure, if any of the three courses suggested by Mrs. Doyle must be followed. Henry L. Gilligan sought to press the elementary school idea, however, by suggesting that property be bought in the neighborhood for playground pur- poses, and Rev. Bennett retorted that the purchase of property in that neigh- borhood for a playground would rep- | resent a bigger expenditure than the ELECTRICAL HEADQUARTERS 14th & C Sts. N.W. Pre-Thanksgiving in that building.” i As (he discussion tended to_grow | ]| more heated, Dr. Charles F. 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