Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1930, Page 4

EQUIPMENT NEED FOUND IN SCHOOLS Seventh Division Lacks Mod- ern Heating, Plumbing and Other Facilities. This is the sizth of.a series of articles describing the physical aspects of Wash- ngton's pudlie schools. As in the pre- vious erticles, there is ho attempt he o portruy the school system's faults in an ezaggerated light. The two reporters who visite¢ each school building are merely presenting the conditions as (hey saw them. The seventh article dealing with another achool sustem_division ‘will eppear to- morrotw. Widé differences in buildings and equipment and in the size of classes are found in the seventh division of the local public schools, but the con- trasts within the area are not so sharp as in some of the other divisions of the system, yssom of the oldest school buildings in the city are in this division, which embraces all _the elementary white schools in the Southwest and Southeast, including Anacostia, Congress Heights, Randle Highlands and the rest of Southeast Washington lying east of the Anacostia River—23 bulldings in all Nowhere in this division is there & school building as up to date in all particulars as several of those just completed or nearing completion in other sections of the city. There is crowding of pupils, but less than elsewhere, and part-time classes are rare. Many oversize classes were found, but not as many as in some other parts of ity. ‘heAlfhéuth in most buildings of the division the total number of avail- able desks and chairs exceeds the total enrolilment of pupils, there are some- times classes in these same buildings that have not enough desks and chairs of the proper size to accommodate the pupils. In these cases furniture that is either too small or too large, or bent- wood chairs with various kinds of ta- bles, are used as makeshifts. Important Activities Impossible. ny of the buildings have little or l'lo“rlflo);n for important activities that are necessarily conducted outside of the regular class rooms, and in many instances pupils have to walk to other buildings for manual training and do- mestic art work—in one case more than e. * %e enrollment in some of the build- ings has been decreasing in recent years, notably in the Southwest. In other buildings it has been almost stationary, while in still others it has been slowly increasing. The latter condition obtains principally in the Southeast. There are approximately 70 classes, or nearly 40 per cent of the whole num- ber in the division, in which the num- ber of pup’ll.s exceeds 35, t‘ge‘dulnble or one teacher s ‘the - opinion of local w<hosl ofeials and cials and .d;:olz of these classes the enrollment exceeds 40 pupils, the practical maxi- mum fixed by Dr. Frank W. Baliou, superintendent of schools, within which the local school officials, under nt conditions, are striving to keep mt- of all classes. Seventh Division. Classes whbse enrollments exceeded B R, Bowen 3; Greenleat, I on, 3; Bowen, 2; , 15 b Dent, 3; Lenox, 4; Wallach, Buchanan, 7 than “dl e each: Dent, 1; Wallach, 1; Randle hlands, 2; 5 ‘ wxu;:hm. 2; Van Buren, 3; ess Heights, 3. O Eece" fgases do not include kinder- gartens, which are generally under di- rection of two teachers. Kindergarten work, too, is different from that of the regular graded schools. The kinder- gartens normally are larger and are half-day schools. ‘There are four part-time classes in this db above the kindergartens. Two are in ‘the Tyler School and two in chahan. ~1f there were suffi- clent room in the in which these classes are housed, they would, of course, be placed on full e, like all the other graded classes in the di- vision. ‘Three of the bull of wnmmz's‘: ion are not enough mm the children in thetz an . Five other classes are in annexes of antiquated type. - Only Two Assembly Halls. In the entire division there are only two assembly halls and they are both in the Southeast, in the Bryan School and the Ketcham School. No school building of this division in the South- west has an assembly hall Some of the needs of the building ay be summarized as follows: ‘Modern heating plants, modern plumb- ing, especially toilets; sufficient toilet facilities not only for pupils but for teachers; separate toilets for kinder- garten puplls; more wash basins and drinking fountains; more rooms for special activities for children: comfort- e rooms: for speech correction teach- ers, hearirig teachers, nurses’ headquar- ters and medical inspectors’ offices, roams for giving individual tests, rest rooms for sick and injured children and for sick teachers, comfortable rooms in which teachers and children may eat lunch, better office space for prtnclPA!r. more assembly halls and gymnasiums and better indoor play rooms and out- | door playgrounds. One Modern Building Needed. Tt is hoped by residents and teachers of the Southeast that at Teast one mod- ern school building, like the newest buildings in the Northwest, may be erected in their section. They point to the fact that while the enroliment has been falling off in the Southwest, it has been holding its own or increasing in the Southeast. It has been sug- ested that a big model school bullding ge erected in place of the old Cranch- Tyler group. Summary by Scheols. Outstanding features of each school building in this division, as observed by The Star reporters during the last three weeks, are as follow! Bradley. Bradley, Linwood place and D street southwest: Eight class rooms; seating capacity, 332; enroliment, 250; no part- time classes; lighting_satisfactory; old hot-air furnace, but heat fairly satis- factory; old-style toilets; playground small and surface in poor condition, with mud in wet weather and dust in dry weather; exterior surroundings un- Sintly, an old bullding, wkich was recommended for “early abandon- ment” 22 years ago. It is substantially built, with large rooms and good win- dow space, but it lacks a teachers’ room m: umber of pupils atten gn bo.etmwlu smaller in recent Fairbrother. ther, Tenth and E streets wuhm‘m: Eight class rooms, six used for classes, one for sewing :nd‘ keeping instruction; sea to the fact that the public and the chil- dren walk over it. Rosselle. Rossellc, Ninth and E streets south- west: Eight class rooms; seating cap: ity, 340; enroliment, 286; no part-timec classes; lighting satisfactory; heai sup- plied by old hot-air furnace and rooms sometimes cold in Winter; new heating plant applied for; small rooms iaat might be used for special activities not heated; old-style tollets; play space about one-third of what is needed, so that children have to play on closed street., Amidon. Amidon, Sixth and F streets south- west: Eight class rooms, one being used for a teachers’ room and office com- bined; seating capacity, 285; enroll- ment, 238; no part-time classes; light- ing satisfactory, except that artificial light is frequently needed in some of the rooms that do not get much day- light, one first-grade room requiring electric light all the time; old-style toilets; hot-air furnace, very old; base- ment cold; old stoves in the tollets; second floor sometimes too hot; soot and coal gas very bad, walls, ceiling and desks being often blackened: vir- tually no playground and children use about 100 feet of street closed to trafic at certain pe ; building badly in need of repairs; teachers’ equipment, chairs, desks, etc., in poor condition, although some new furniture is being supplied; exterior unsightly, no lawn space; plumbing generally old and in poor condition. Smallwood. Smallwood, I street between Third and Pour-and-a-half streets southwest: Eight class rooms, one of which is used for manual training, one for domestic heating t, d playground space sufficiently large, sur- face concreted; old-style tollets. is a very old building, but it is in fairly good condition. Bowen. h“&. :;mga and K &u':'e: south- . class rooms portion, five class rooms in new portion, one room for & wood shop and one for domestic art; two of the 13 class rooms are vacant: seating capacity, 414; en-|in rollment, 284;. no part-time classes; lighting satisfactory; new steam heat- ing plant, satisfactory; toilets old style, e S 2 Sy ygrount a , but sur- face in poor condition. Greenleaf. Greenleaf, Four-and-a-half street be- tween M and N streets southwest: it class rooms, one vacait; seating ipacity, 260; enrollment, 303; no part- Steam heating plast, sedstecions; b style tollets; playground too :zl Brent. Brent. Third and D streets south- or other activities outside of r class rooms, boys and girls must go to another building in all ds of weather for such work, ligh satisf Pl rge enough, resurfacing and draining, also fence inst. tres- und in wet weather is so muddy 80 much standing water that it is unfit for use. The terrace in front of PLAN BANK and We were treated to help us. and very soon we our.small obligatio receive from individu from our services. , 239; enroliment, 178; 1. %fm: lighting satisfactory: hot-air heating plant, fairly satis- 3 om-;“ty‘u tollets; ot ‘This | bullding 18 unsightly, lawns needing tention, , | classes, oné for business practice, one; eeds | beauty-, or “Deeper and Deeper” “Deeper and deeper into debt and no apparent way out—all our salary being paid out and still debts. “It was then we, my husband and I, decided to go down to the MORRIS fact, we: felt that the bank really wanted We secured an application, filled it out and returned it to the bank many months to pay it back. We paid all one place-to pay instead of many. The above letter is typical of the many we MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street N, W. B THEVEVEN"ING;STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, again. Upper: Playground at Randle Highlands School—mostly a series of clay banks and gullies, entirely unfit for use in wet weather and largely useless times. Attempts have been made at gradi pleted, by the construction of a retaining but the job has never been at all com- and the earth has washed away Lower: Anclent type iron stove In second grade class room in Van Buren annex, in Anacostia. All rooms in this old brick building are heated in this man- ner and the janitor has to carry fuel and ashes in coal scutties up and down at Dent. . i Dent, Second street and. th Caro- lina avenue . southeast: jht class rooms, -sea ; enroll- ment, 203; no classes, no rooms for manual arts, etc, and boys and Ttrh must go to another building 1 kln? of weather, storeroom needed, lighting satisfactory, steam heat satisfactory, old-style toilets, no teachers’ toilet, playground small, con- creted, but meets the need; building faces Garfield Park. Van Ness. 'Van Ness, Fourth and M streets south- | east: Eight class rooms, one of which is | seating capacity, 252; enroll- o ime classes, light- K tem heats build; unevenly, T0O] often v.;flg: kl:mt bl ckenfunlh, fi:il- ings and desks; coal often very bad; antiquated tollets, "l'elchers' tollet Lenox, Fifth and G streets southeast: Eight rooms, four used for regular for sewing, one for cooking and one for' instruction; seating ca- pacity, 168; enroliment, 156; not suffi- clent room for boys' vocational work and they have to go to French School for this: lighting satisfactory, hes satisfactory, inside play space satisfac- tory, outside playground meager, partly inquirve about a loan. very courteously; in had our money and ns and then had but » als who have benefited Wiashington, D. G, muddy ‘in wet weather; toilets; exterior unsightly, mod: paint and lawn needs men Wallach, Wallach, Seventh street and Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast: Oldest school | building in the city, but well built and | condition generally good; 14 class rooms, seating capacity, 580; enrollment, 509; no part-time classes, lighting satisfac- tory, hot-water heating plant satis- factory, old-style toilets, inside play , outside playground size rooms adeq; 1 DAY MORE 18 Pieces COMPLETE antiquated building improve- fal l{v satisfactory, window screens need- ed for north windows to protect them from balls used in play by of Hine h School on adjoining lot, dren in class rooms are in danger of being struck by balls coming through windows. Tyler. Tyler, Eleventh street between G and I streets southeast—Eight class rooms; seating capacity, 320; enroliment, 301; two part-time classes, a pre-primer with 31 pupils; all available space in building occupied; teachers’ room very small; small, unsaticfactory space for dental clinic; hall narrow; lighting sat- isfactory; steam heat, but plant does not heat entire building satisfactorily; old-style toilets; playground inadequate and poorly equipped; floors of bullding old and splintered; exterior dingy and unsightly! no place for girls manual arts. Cranch, Cranch, Twelfth and G streets south- east—Eight class rooms, also small office and small teachers’ room; seating ca- pacity, 300; enrollment, 280; no part- time classes; lighting satisfactory, cept that basement gets very little da: light; steam heat, satisfactory; ol style toilets; one basement room used ment room for boys’ manual training work, including boys from other schools; hall and stairs very narrow, no outside playground, except very small brick- paved yard used by the younger chil- dren; purchase of adjacent lot for play- ground needed. There appears to be a need for a modern typ: of elementary | school building to replace the Cranch- | Tyler group. Neither building now has an assembly hall or adequate hall space for assemblies. Rooms for various spe- cial activities, necessary under modern system of education, are lacking, Buchanan, Buchanan, B street between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets south- east—Sixteen class rooms; an addition now under construction will provide four more class rooms and an assembly hall, which will also be used as a gym- nasium; two rooms on the basement floor, which is level with the ground, are used for sewing and cooking in- struction; total seating capacity, 700; enroliment, :650; two part-time classes, both first grades, one with 26 and one with 31 pupils; also two kindergartens, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, of 51 and 49 pupils each, use the same room; lighting satisfactory; steam heating plant, satisfactory; old- style toilets; wash basins too few for such a large number of children; play rooms satisfactory; outside playground too small for all children to use at one time, but satisfactory with staggered recess; playground surface in poor con- dition, muddy in wet weather, needs ading, resurfacing and protection by lence from trespassers; teachers' desks and chairs old; no athletic equipment; landscape gardening needed to improve exterior appearance, Bryan. Bryan, B street between Thirteenth and = Fourteenth streets southeast— Eighteen class rooms, also three office rooms, one teachers’ room, one carpen- ter shop and an auditorium; seating capacity, 67: nrolilment, 656; no part- time classes; lighting satisfactory; steam heat, satisfactory; part old-time toilets; one inside play room for girls, none for boys; outside playground sat- isfactory. With the exception of the part old-style toilets, this building is in very good condition. It has been furnished with new desks and chairs throughout for both puplls and teachers. It lacks a room for manual arts for girls, who must go for this instruction to another building. Randle Highlands. Randle Highlands, Thirtieth and R streets southeast.—Eight class rooms, seven being used for regular classes and one for domestic science instruction; seating capacity, 365; enrollment, 247; no part-time classes; lighting satisfac- tory; old hot-air furnace, not uti-lfg- ; rooms on lower floor cold in é- vere weather, sometimes too cold for use; soot covers walls, ceilings and desks, often coal gas permeates atmos- phere; old-style tollets; inside play space normal, outside playground large enuugh. but mostly gullies and ditches, muddy in wet weather, badly in need of resurfacing, partly covered with un- dergrowth: building surrounded by mud on four sides, with no paved walk to CHAS SCHWARTZ & SON [0ger ctoses 42nd Annual “After-Inventory” CLEARANCESALE Closesl Saturday 6 P.M. Just 1 day more of our Annual “House- Cleaning Event” so do not delay in making your selection. A store filled with extra values. ALL CASH IS NOT NEEDED. pay weekly or monthly. 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Orr, Twenty-second and Prout streets southeast.—Four class rooms in perma- nent building and two in single-room wooden portable vul:m;lm; mu{"i‘x uln— pacity in permanent ding, , in portables, 82, making total of 253; total enroliment, 226; no part-time classes; permanent building satisfactorily light- ed; heat from hot-air furnace inade- quate, much soot and coal gas, and halls cold; old-type tollets, heated with old iron stove; play rooms too small, outside playground large enough, but poorly surfaced, with holes and mud in wet weather; no teachers’ room; out- side appearance very unsightly, grounds needing fences, terracing, resodding, landscaping, etc.: steep steps to base- ment are dangerous for 11 children. The two portables are in fair condition as portables go, but floors are cold and damp and irbn stoves in corners of structures heat them very unevenly. Pupils in portables must go to. main building for tollets and drinking water. Ketcham. Ketcham, Fifteenth and U streets southeast.—Eight class rooms in per- manent building and one in a portable wooden building, also an assembly hall; total seating capacity, 427, enrollment, 365, with 30 puplls and 30 seats in por- table structure; no part-time classes: lighting satisfactory, except in porta. ble; in permanent building heat is in- adequate and uneven from old-t, hot-air furnace; gas stove furnishes only heat in principal’s office; soot and coal gas abundant; plumbing very un- satisfactory, tollets old style. When The Star reporter called, on January 10, he found 3 inches of water on the floor of boys’ tollet, due to a stoppage in the discharge pipe; plumbing frequently needs repair. Two inside play rooms fairly satisfactory, outside playground large enough, but surface poor, with gullies, mud in wet weather; portable had no electric light and practically useless on dark days. It is heated un- evenly by stove in corner of room; there are no toilet facilities except in base- ment of building. There is no rest room for teachers. A fine old box hedge around the playground is being de- stroyed for want of an adequate fence. Van Buren. Van Buren, W street between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets south- east—Eight class rooms; pacity, 336; enrollment, 31 time classes; lighting steam heat satisfactory; toilets old t; and unsatisfactory, no teachers’ tollet; three rooms in basement usable for play rooms, but not of modern ty&e‘: outside playground large enough, t condition very poor, with holes, mud in wet weather and no fence. Van Buren Annex. Van Buren Annex, V siteet between ‘Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets southeast: Six class rooms, three being used for regular classes and three for manual training. There are 84 seats provided for a total enrollment of 94’ puplls in regular classes, but ail chil- dren are supplied with seats by borrow- ing from the main building of the Van Buren School; no part-time classcs; lighting satisfactory; heating very un- satisfactory; only heat is provided by old-fashioned iron stoves set up in the class rooms beside the children, the janitor carrying coal and ashes in a coal scuttle to every room on three floors; it is difficult to keep all the stoves going sufficiently to heat the rooms; children and teachers must go through unheated, covered passage to TIN ROOFS | PORCHES BUILT " B AR R SATURDAY Open an account and $8.95 Price Includes Waffle Iron, Toaster and Griddle hree useful 95¢ The Pair e Set.. . 8335 1085 2.65 any and other 85¢ each. main and school. Stanton. Stanton, Alabama avenue and Naylor road southeast: Four class rooms: seat- ing capacity, 168; enrollment, 103; no rt-time classes; lighting satisfactory; at unsatisfactory from hot-air fur- nace; soot and coal gas abundant; only tollets are in wooden, unheated out- house some distance from school, which have no sewerage connection, no run- ning water and not even connection with a.septic tank, being of old-fash- foned cotntry type and very insanitary; ;aurpl :&;cma in - I:’nenlt are available lor space; outside playground la: enough, but has holes and mud in vrv'eet weather, being in need of resurfacing and grading; boys of sixth and seventh grades must walk about 1 mile to van Buren School and the girls to Randle Highlands School for manual (rain‘ng and domestic art work. Congress Heights, Congress Heights, Nichols and Ala- bama avenues southeast: Twelve rooms in permanent building, two in single- room wooden portable buildings and W0 In & wooden annex; total seating capacity of all buildings, 637; enroll- ment, 600; no part-time classes; light- ing satisfactory in main building: steam heat satisfactory; only inside play space furnished by two dark, damp basement rooms; outside playground large, bui needs grading and fence; toilets old daylight poor; heated poorly stoves and poorly ventilated. mum or modern ;llylrmmd badly for 180 children who live a mile of more m lmd must bring their lune needed. ‘The enrollment is- increasiriy and very crowded conditions expectec soon, URGED FOR WAR HONOR. Jersey Veteran Is Four Feet Ten High and Weighs 104. Nicholas Casale of Newark, N. J. 4 feet 10 inches in height and 104 pounds in weight, was nominated yes- terday for designation by Congress as '.Ahet“s,.vqgnnt fighting soldier in the A resolution introduced by sentative Hartley, Republican, New Jersey, proposed that Congreds so honor Casale in recognition for “con- spicuous bravery in Boisemmot, oo —_— Two deaf mutes were married by signs recently at Haly Trinity Church, Bristol England, the words of the sery- ice being translated for the couple and the clergyman. FEBRUARY CLEARANCE Fancy Negligee SHIRTS Formerly With Collar to Match........$3.00 With Collars Attached. .$3 and $3.50 With 2 Collars to Match. .....$3.50 With 2 Collars to Match. .....$5.00 Separate Collars to Match. .. .$6.00 Fancy Silk ... Polo Shirts $8.00 and $10.00 White Broadcloth Shirt $1.95—-$2.85—$3.95 Pigskin Gloves, Now $2.95 Brocaded Silk Lounging Robes Formerly $15.00.... $25.00 & $35.00.... $50.00 Now ... 81078 ... $13.50 ....517.50 $24.50 $29.50 $75.00 & $100.00...........$39.50 Flannel and Woolen Robes Now Y Less R e Woolen Half Hose Were Now $1.50 ........$128 $2.00, $2.50 & $3.00 ....$1.45 Fancy Silk Mufflers Were Now $5, 86, 7.... 9345 $8.50 & $10.00 .....$5.35 NECKWEAR Formerly $3.50, $4.00 & $5.00.........$2.45 Sweaters V3 Off PAJAMAS Formerly $3.50 & $4.00... $5.00 & $6.00.... $7.50 & $8.50..... $10.00 (Silk) . Now ..$1.95 ..$2.65 ..$5.38 ..$4.95 Entire Stock of Fruhauf and Stein-Bloch Hand-Tailored SUITS Formerly $50 to $65 $37.50 Formerly $70 to $85 $57.50 Sidn%kgf}ygg 14th & G Streets N. W. ' EUGENE C. GOTT, PRESIDENT'