Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1930, Page 4

A-4 ww SPECIAL SCHOOLS - HELD MAKESHIFTS Health “School Modern, but ! Found to Be Overcrowded With 91 Pupils. This is the tenth and concluding of a geries of articles describing the physical aswects of Washington's pudlic elementary schools. As in the previous articles, there 1s mo attempt here to portray the school system’s faults in an ezaggerated light. The *wo reporters who visited each school dullding are merely presenting the conditions as they saw them. With the exception of the Health School for white tuberculous pupils, ‘Washington's special schools are largely makeshift experiments in the purposes they ars meant o serve. The Health School is thoroughly mod- e and would be ample in accommo- dations if its roll was anywhere near that for which the building was erected. It was operated well and efficiently when there was a daily attendance of between 36 and 48, but now, with 91 boys and girls enrolled in it, the school and its personnel is having a real strug- gle to provide for its charges. The Toner Health School for colored is wholly inadequate and, although meant only as a “temporary” expedient, the institution already has been oper- ating more than a ‘year under its present conditions and’ indications are | that it will continue as it is today for at least two years more. And during that time little children menaced by tuberculosis, who should be receiving schooling under the very best condi- tions, are attending an old elementary school building with damp basement rooms, poorly aired class rooms and a wet, damp walled-in play yard. Similarly, the white and colored schools for crippled children are more or less makeshifts, housed as they are in_old elementary school buildings. Efforts little short of heroic, however, are being made to provide the little cripples with adequate schooling ac- commodations and treatment. The pupils of both the health and the crip- pled children’s schools are transported to and from their homes by busses at Dirtrict expense. Other schools in this group include the Webster Americanization School, the Morse School Yor special pupils and several small rented properties quarter- ing manual arts centers and other special classes. The bullding-| uilding description of these schools follows: School for Unhealthy. Health ‘School (for white puplils), Thirteenth and Allison streets.—A mod- ern one-story building, designed espe- cially for the schooling of tubercular children. Its facilities are excellent, but, like its present personnel, they are taxed beyond capacity by existing cn- rollment of 91. There are two bea: tifully lighted and aired “rest rooms” where the pupils lie abed for an hour and a half of their school day. With only 75 beds, however, old Army cots and invalid chairs generally have beén _gwught into use to accommodate the excessive enrollment. In the girls’ rest room 8 baby’s iron crib bed, donated by the sister of one of the teachers, is used along with the other makeshifts. ‘There are two regular class rooms; these differ from traditional class rooms by virtue of three exposures which per- mit abundance of sunlight and fresh air at all times. as they are on the south side of the building. One of these, taught by the principal, quarters 6A, 6B, 7TA, 7B, 8A and 8B grades; the other houses a class ranging from kindergarten through the 3A grade. A small Toom on the north side of the ed originally as a sew- ing room, ich would be used only a brief portion of the day, has been forced into use as a third class room, accommodating the 3B through the 5B grades. Lacks Large Windows. This room lacks the large special windows which this school’s regular class rooms have, and is equipped with only a small blackboard at one end of the room and a portable blackboard in- tended for out-of-doors use; this is serious handicap because these lower- de pupils ordinarily have an exten- board-work program. Because of _its location on the northwest corner of the building, this room gets only a trivial bit of sunlight a half hour be- fore school is adjourned. A correspond- ing room on the northeast corner of the building provides fairly adequate means for the manual arts, carpentering, loom ‘work and sewing. ‘The school’s kitchen and lunch room suffer most from the increased attend- ance. A woman dietician and her woman helper—the same personnel staff given this department when the school’s roll was 36 to 48—are burdened with the task now of preparing two meals » Gav for the 91 children, with the result that the dietician is con- fined solely to the tasks of a cook, with- out time for the more scientific duties which should be hers. Because there is only one double boiler large enough in which to prepare a sufficient amount of food for the full attendance, it is Recessary to prepare one food at a time, Tesulting in delays while the receptacle is cleansed between uses. Old Range Condemned, The range is an old one, condemned for further use at the Western High School, the reporter for The Star learned. Kitchen contains an electric refrigerator. The milk ration of each pupil was cut in half vesterday when, it was re- ported to Pranklin Building officials. money for this item was insufficlent to | provide the full quota. | The lunch room is equipped with sanitary tables and backless stools. thus reducing comfort of the tubercular pupls. Two paved out-of-door courts are provided for open-air classes. These are located between the two one-room class-room wings and are admirajle. ‘The toilet rooms are mngm;:l i ge sign and appointments and have, be-| Tihes “the “weual toflet facilitles, both shower and tub baths. The showers, however, lack curtains and the girls’ have been provided with ordinary bed |= sheets; the boys' room lacks this. The bases:ent contains only the heating plant, storage space, vacuum cleaning machinery and janitorial of- fice. Scrupulous cleanliness marks ‘the building from basement through cor- ridor and every room. The dust men- ace of cleaning has been eliminated by the vacuum system. Grounds sur- rounding building also show evidencc of excellent care. School for Colored. Toner Health School (for. colored children), Twenty-fourth and F streets. —This school is wholly unsuited to th purpose it is charged with serving, that of providing schooling for colored tu- bercular children, and it is being used only until the proposed new health school is erected on an extensive tract of land in Northeast Washington. The new plant will be built on the same plans as the health school for white pupils. The Toner Building ended the first semester last Friday with 101 pupils on its rolls. ‘The school’s rest Tooms are makeshift from virtually every point of view; they are in ordi- nary class rooms and are badly con- gesied. Equipped with only 60 beds for the 101 children the school accommo- dated, yesterday found two of the four little Tooms being used on & doublc shift, with two tubercular children tak- ing turns using the same bed. In an effort to eliminate a§ many of the ob- | Sectionable features of this plan as ps- sible, each pupil has his own sheets and his own blankets, which are stored in ‘@ tightly packed and badly ventilated cloak room when they are not actually on_the beds. Thsre are three class rooms, each THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1930. streets. This building is old and dingy i LEARNING AMERICAN COOKING Cooking class for foreign women of the Americanization School, conducted in a dark and narrow cloak room of the Webster School Building, Tenth and H nside and out. It lacks space and pleas- ant surroundings for various necessary activities in connection with teaching adults and children how fo become good citizens of the United States. —Star Staff Photo. equipped with two kinds of furniture (old-style seats which originally as- signed contrasting with the newer type, several pleces of which have been put in to accommodate the increased en- Tollment). Regulation Class Rooms. These rooms are regulation class older school building they lack the special windows which would admit abundant air, and at least two of them are so located on- the east side of the building that they are shadowed during part of the day by an apartment house which has been erected within 40 fcet or so of the school. These accommo- date classes as follows: Third and fourth grade in one, kindergarten through second grade in another and fifth through the equivalent of second- year high school in the third, One teacher is provided for each of these classes. The kitchen and lunch room are not separated, but are houscd in a single former class room. A picture of ihis room is best imagined by one who has not seen it as the reporter for The Star did, with the knowledge that the rocm was designed to accommodate not more than 42 healthy pupils and that it now has a gas-fired cooking range, a dish- washer, dish sterilizer and preparation tables and dining tables for 101 chil- dren. There is no refrigerator in lhl:»] school and, like the health school at Thirteenth and Allison streets, the sar.e personnel which manned this depart- | ment when the rolls were scarcely half | what they are now still prepare the | meals for the children. TImprovise Wash Rooms. Two small combination toilet and wash rooms have been installed on the stairway landings between flocrs for the pupils, but old-type toilet facilities were used.. The regular toilet rooms in the basement are bad in equipment, location and design even for healthy pupils. The rooms are badly lighted, have virtually no ventilation and lack adequate heat. The equipment In them, of course, is old. The old sweep- ing brush method of cleaning is used, with™ the usual unavoidable dust rais- ing. A carpenter shop which is used | one hour a weck is located in a base- ment room. Despite the general un- suitableness of the building and the lack of special cleaning equipmen. which is provided the janitor, this school is extremely clean. The heating plant is thoroughly adequate. Used to Instruct Adulfs. ‘The old Webster School building, Tenth and H streets, is devoted princi- pally to the instruction of adults in the English language and the principles of the American Government in prepara- tion for their maturalization as Ameri- can citizens. In connection with this work there are classes for children and youths, many of whom cannot speak English when they are admitted, and who are being prepared to enter the regular graded or high schools of the city. There is also an underage kinder- garten and a regular kindergarten, chiefly for children of foreign parents who are attending the adult school. ‘The building is old and dingy. For the number of adults and children who receive instruction there and the va- riety of the activities, it is lacking in adequate rooms. For approximately 50 children the only “playground” is a narrow, damp, brick-paved space, like the bottom of a well, surrounded on all four sides by high brick walls that shut out the sun completely. When this re- porter was there, at high noon on a | clear day, not a ray of sunshine reached the damp brick pavement. There was only a little splotch of reflected sun- light on the south wall 10 feet above | the ground. There are 13 class rooms in the Web- ster. Two are used for the kinder- gartens, which had a total enrollment of 30 children, under two teachers, on the day the reporter called. He was informed that this enrollment usually runs between 40 and 45 pupils. There is also a coaching class, with an enrollment of 25 boys and girls ranging in age from 8 to 16 years, who | are learning the English language and otherwise being prepared to take their | piaces in the regular graded schools of | the city. Another class, whose enroliment va- ries from 15 to 30 boys and girls rang- ing in age from about 14 to 17, is be- | Leaky Roofs! i “Elastigum” Asbestos ‘Toof coating forms a waterproof | elastic surface over your old rcof. Stops leaks, prevents rust. Can be applied in any weather. A good heavy coat of Elastigum gives the same protection as & new roof. Black, $1.25 per gallon Rutland Red, $2.00 | . per gallon BUTLER-FLYNN P-A-I-N-T-S 607-609 C St. Wholesale and Retail MEtro. 0151 | rooms of the kind found in any of the | [to wash their hands. {to a toilet in the cellar. | rooms are | ing taught advanced English. These young people will later enter the city high schools. There are 11 daytime classes, meet- ing at different periods, for adults in the Americanization School, the total enrollment being 351. These men and women are studying to become Amer- |ican citizens. They attend the school for half a day five days in the week until the course i completed. 528 Enrolled in Night Classes. ‘There are an additional 528 men and women enrolled in the night American- ization classes, meeting at different hours. They are divided into 13 classes that receive instruction three times a week and 9 classes that receive instruc- tion two nights a week. ; It is seldom that all of the puplls, especially in the adult classes, are pres- ent at the same time. The total seat- ing capacity of the bullding is approxi- mately 500 and there is no crowding except occasionally at night when the attendance is unusually large. The building is well lighted with electricity, which is needed almost con- tinuously in some of the rooms where the natural light is poor. The heating system is fairly satisfactory. The toi- lets are old-fashioned and are con- stantly in need of repair. There is only one wash basin for the women and one for the men. The kindergarten youngsters are compelled to use the same tollets as the adults. Not only is the outside play space entirely inadequate and unsatisfactory, but the only space inside the building available for play is in two damp base- ment rooms. The interior walls of the buildings are blackened by soot and long use and need refinishing. Al- though this is one of the oldest and dirtiest bulldings in the city and re- peated requests have been made for the improvement of the interior, it has been allowed to remain in this condition with little improvement for many years, The floors are splintered and worn. The teachers’ toilets have no ventilation ex- cept into the teachers’ lunch and rest room. There is no assembly hall in the building. There are no wash basins on the same floor with the kindergarten rooms. The janitor must carry water from the base- ment for the children’s paint dishes and Every drop of waste water must be carried downstairs again, Suggestions have been made for mov- ing this Americanization School to an- other building. The teaching person- nel believe that the present location, in the downtown section, is ideal for this sort of work, as it is central for most of the adults as well as the young pupils. Another solution of the problem that been suggested is to remodel the present old building. In a rented building at the corner of East Capitol and Eighth streets there is a center for special schools with five class rooms, a carpenter shop, & kitchen and a dining room. One room has 18 boys and girls who are doing kinder- garten and first grade work. In an- other room 12 pupils are doing first and second grade work, and in a third 15 are doing second and third grade work. There is a separate room for 13 overage boys and a room for 14 over- age girls. The heating and lighting in this building is fairly satisfactory. The toilets are old-feshioned. It is an old dweliing house, that has not been re- modeled for school purposes. The girls use tollets in the bath rooms, and the boys go to an unheated toilet on the back porch or down steep dark stairs All of the small and much crowded. The interior of the building is dingy. But, notwithstanding the condition of the building. the teaching personnel regard it as the best place in the eastern part of the cily for a special school of this sort. The teachers much prefer this arrangement to' special classes in regular graded school bulldings. They would like, of course, to have a modern building in this section especially de- signed and equipped for this work. Rented Property Inadequate. Another rented property is at 1201 K street northeast. This consists of a corner building, with a long, narrow store room on the first floor and & five-room apartment on the second floor. The lower floor is divided into two sections merely by a row of locke: There's a warm wool imported faultlessly tailored and a cabinet that do not reach to the ceiling. On one side is a special cless of 14 girls, while the other side is used for sewing classes for girls from_the | Webb, Plerce, Wheatley and Blow | Schools. About 130 girls receive sewing | instruction here in a week. The space, | for the purpose to which it is put, is inadequate on the first floor. There is much crowding. Confusion results from the fact that sound carries readily from one end of the room to the other be- tween the two classes, The apartment on the second floor is used to instruct girls from nearby graded schools in household arts. The conditions an actual apartment house home are reproduced, and in this respect the teaching personnel regard the situation as helpful. With the pupils separated in small rooms, how- ever, it is cult to carry on the class work in accordance with modern methods. The Morse School, R street between Fourth and Fifth streets, containing eight class rooms, is devoted to special | work. Its total enrollment is 87 and its total sittings 100. The pupils are divided as follows: Primary class for boys and girls, 17; a class for over-age | boys, 20; & class for over-age girls, 12; | an ungraded class for younger boys, 16; |ungraded class for older boys, 12; speech class for boys and girls, 10. Two of the class rooms are used for sewing and cooking instruction for girls in nearby buildings and those in the Morse. The lighting and heat in this | building are satisfactory and there is | no crowding. The toilets are old style. | There is & manual training shop for |boys in the basement and one play |room, in which the children eat their | lunches. ‘There is a fairly satisfactory | outside playground. There is no prin- | cipal's office and the teachers’ room is | small. The furniture in the class rooms is generally old @nd dilapidated, except in two rooms. There is not ground | enough to permit outside work. such | as gardening, which is considered bene- | ficial for pupils of these special schools. In_three rented store rooms, 737 to 741 Eleventh street northeast, colored girls from the Lovejoy and Payne schools are taught household arts. Dur- ing the week 260 girls receive instruc- tion here. The rooms are small and narrow, being only about 13 feet wide and three times as long. There is much crowding. One class of 26 at the Love- joy School has received no instruction because the space is not large enough to accommodate so many pupils. There is no place to hang coats and hats and they are piled on tables or chairs. Day- light is almost absent and electric lights are used continuously. Equipment Insufficient. Magruder School for Cripples (col- orer), Seventeenth and M streets—This institution, quartered in four regulation class rooms on first floor of old-type elementary school building: total enroll- | ment today, 31; enrollment Friday, when last semester ended, 35. One class room for academic instruction presided over by one teacher, who instructs kinder- garten through junior high school chil- dren: has variety of furniture, most of which is constructed especially for crip- ples. Difficulty experienced, however, in accommodating children of varying ages, as only a few pleces of each size are installed. Full enrollment accom- modated by use of additional class room furniture of the kind provided normal children, rendering discomfort to crip- ples. Class room has only an old wooden closet which is inadequate to store children's work and supplies used by them. Only two or three text books for each grade have been delivered, chil- dren relying chiefly on lecture system for their learning. Only two of the eight windows in this room can be low- ered at top, and these so placed as to create menacing drafts to pupils; other windows tightly stuck. Temperature in this room 69 degrees at 10 o'clock today. This school has & physiotherapist room set up in a second classroom. Equipment at present includes a baking lamp and a manipulating table. Ultra violet ray machine and hydrotherapy equipment, supposed to be among this school's facilities, still undelivered. ‘Third class room fitted as a combina- tion kitchen, dining room and project work room. One woman in charge cooks a luncheon for the whole school, serves it, assists in teaching projects, and in late afternoon teaches housekeeping to group of normal puplls from adjoining Sumner Building. Chairs used by cripples at meal time are ordinary bent- wood type of adult size. The fourth class room is fitted as a rest room. There are only five beds, despite fact there are 15 first-grade children whose rogram calls for afternoon nap. Prob- lem “met” by using two or three wheel chairs and by permitting children to remain in class, thus omitting nap en- tirely. ‘There now is adequate linen for beds providing no emergency arises: school was supplied with ‘“makings” which the household arts teacher was expected to sew into sheets; enough have been made to meet present de- mands. The school quarters generally need painting and basic cleansing. Two small toilet rooms were installed in the corners of two of the rooms on the same floor for the cripples’ use; these are modern and thoroughly adequate. WEALTHIEST YOUTH, 17, EXPIRES IN BALTIMORE Alan Lefcourt Given Property by Skyscraper Builder to Learn Business. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, February 4-—Seven- teen-year-old Alan E. Lefcourt, prob- ably the world’s richest property owner of his age, died at the Baltimore Hos- pital yesterday of anemia. He was the son of A. E. Lefcourt, New York bullder and real estate operator. He had been under treatment at the hospital for the last month. Five years ago his father, who has built more than 25 skyscrapers in New York, gave him a deed to 16,000 square feet of property at Madison avenue and Thirty-fourth street. Lefcourt, in explaining his reason for turning the property over to his son, said he desired to turn the boy's atten- tion to real estate and to train him in handling large real estate projects. When the elder Lefcourt was 12 years old he was a newsboy and later pro- prietor of a shoe shining stand. He later entered the garment business, where he acquired money to flnance his early real estate operations. WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE SALE 25 Imported English FLANNEL ROBES $'| 6.85 story in these all- flannel robes so in beautiful striped designs of the richest color | combinations. valve at $16.85. In your size—small, medium or large. An exceptional Raleigh Haberdasher 1310 F Street HOW THE COMMUNITY CHEST HELPS One of a Series of Articles on the Practical Results of Co-operative Charity. BY MISS MARY E. BARNEY, Executive semszmut_hu Christ Child Christ Child Society, a pioneer lnT(glefld welfare work in the District, tries in its work to meet all the needs of the underprivileged child. Gather- ing them together in settlements for all sorts of recreational activities, con- ducting a boys’ club, a free dental clin- fe, dispensing thousands of toys at Christmas time, furnishing layettes 1 destitute mothers and taking hundreds of delicate children to its fresh-air farm in Summer for healthful, happy outings., Thfs Year, through the generosity of the Community Chest, the farm has remained open all Winter for convales- cent and undernourished children, The necessity for such a place has long been felt by the social workers of the Dis- trict. Children dismissed from the hospitals are always in need of special care which they cannot obtain in their own poverty-stricken_homes. Nourish- ing food is lacking. In many cases the mothers are employed and the weak- ened child suffers from ignorant han- dling, indigestible meals and neglect, “The Happy House,” as the children call it, has already proved its need, It is full to overflowing and a number of children are on the waiting list, One appreciative little patient begged the graduate nurse in charge not to tell the doctor how many pounds he had gained, “Because I'm afrald T'll have to go home.” Such_expressions chorused by its contented little inmates are its best recommendation. We trust that every member of the Christ Child Soclety will give gener- ously to the Chest this year, for this PRESIDENT TO TALK TO CHEST WORKERS AS CRISIS APPEARS (Continued From First Page) adverse weather conditions, and other reasons, may be worked out following tomorrow’s meeting at the White House. Group soliciting in the various Govern- ment departments was denled this year, and the only way for campaign solicitors to reach the 80,000 odd employes of the Government was to seek them out at their homes. Reports Made Today. Reports rendered at today’s meeting wege as follows: Special ~ Gifts Committee, $7,10 Group Solicitation Unit, $4,177.5! Metropolitan Unit, $56,968.61. Included in the total for the Metro- politan Unit was $4,600 reported from region 5, which embraces the colored population of Washington, William Knowles Cooper, former gen- eral secretary of the Y. M. C. A., guest speaker today, warned that Washington is under the ‘observation of the whole country, as to its loyalty to the Com- munity Chest. While not doubting the loyalty of the city, Mr. Cooper declared the Capital would be placed in a hu- miliating situation without its Commu- nity Chest this year. Announcement was made that tomor- row's report meeting would be held at 12:30 o'clock at the Willard Hotel, the previous meetings of the general cam- gllgn having taken place at the May- lower, Confident of Objective. Merritt O. Chance, chairman of the Metropolitan Unit, which represents the “‘door-to-door” solicitors, was confident, however, that the unit would reach its objective without fail. The same belief was expressed on behalf of the Group Solicitation Unit by Frank R. Jelleff. This group reported $6,393.80 for the day, according te the awit count, brine- ing its total to $17,615.15. That is only 6.7 per cent of its quota. Between now and Thursday Mr. Jellefl’s group must raise nearly $242,000 to accomplish its part in the campaign, ‘The total of special gifts to the budget 1is reported as 1,082, which means that these persons have con- tributed $799,357 in gifts of $500 or MISS MARY E. BARNEY. well directed, city-wide drive has lifted the burden of money making from the organizations that share in its benefl- cence and every one of them should ac- knowledge its appreciation of the Chest's falrness and generosity in its allotment of funds. more to make up 91.9 per cent of the quota expected from this source. Chair- man Newbold Noyes pointed out that h: committee had literally “skimmed the cream” from its prospect list and cannot expect very large reports for the remaining days of the campaign. ‘With practically all the heavy artil- lery withdrawn, the other two groups realized today that the “clean-up” job depends on the results of their obtain- ing increased gifts and not only in actual percentage but also in numbers. With only two more report days, they must obtain approximately $250,000 each day, including today. Chairman Poole declared that the workers are displaying a fine spirit. “They have tramped through the snow and slush and have braved all sorts of weather to make collections,” he said, “but the increased gifts have not been forthcoming and the unincreased gifts, together with some decreases, are prov- ing & bit distouraging to the members of our army. 75 Organizations In Chest. “Washingtonians must realize that in opening the door to a solicitor for the Community Chest they are opening the door to friends and neighbors who come in a friendly spirit, and at the same time they are opening the door to thou- sands of helpless, sick and disabled and needy who are standing beside the solicitor asking support for the organi- zations that take care of them. “Washington must realize that there are 75 organizations In the Chest in- stead of the 57 of last year,” Mr. Poole said, “and must produce corresponding increases in their gifts as well as new gifts to meet the situation. Otherwise it will seem that Washington does not want_relief from the 75 appeals that would follow were it not for the Com- munity Chest. “If the Chest cannot raise the neces- sary funds it will be impossible to take additional organizations into the Chest. I feel, however, that Washingtonians will rise to the emergency and will not permit the Chest campaign to fail.” Simon Lyon, chairman of region 1 of the Metropolitan Unit, called upon his division chairmen, who reported as fol- lows: Arthur Adelman, division 1, $2,- 467.20; Lee D. Latimer, division 2, $3,- 568.50; Graham E. Powell, division 3, Dion S. Birney, divisions 4-5, G. B. Craighill, division 6, $3,- H. L. Rust, ir., chairman of region 2, reported through his division chairmen as follows: F. A. Birgfeld, division 7, UNUSUAL even for our Semi-Annual Sale A Special Group of $45 & $50 Kuppenheimer SUITS also a special group of OVERCOATS $40 and $45 Values Moos $24.75 CIROSNERS 1325 F STREET $6,120.12; Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, reporting for division 8, of which she is co-chairman with James B, Evans and ‘W. C. Hanson, $8,649; Leon Ulman, di- visions 9-25, $2,062.20; J. Leo Kolb, di- visions 10-24, $777.79: John W. Hardell, division 11, $3,231; Chauncey J. Parker i:-., reporting for division 12, of which e is co-chairman with Coleman Jen- nings, $5,519.20. Other Regional Reports. Radford Moses, chairman of region 3, reported through his division chairmen as follows: S. H. Kauffmann, division 13, $3,797.25; J. Frank Kelly, division 14, $1,762.75; Robert S. Stunz, division 15A, $4,725.60; W. N. Schoonmaker, di- vision 15B, $615.75; W. N. Freeman, di- vision 16, $2,914.75; Dwight N. Burn- ham, division 17, $526; F. E. Rogers, divisions 18-19, $1,589.77. In the absence of James E. Colli- flower, chairman of region 4, Dr. Perci- val Hall officiated and called upon the division chairmen, who reported as fol- lows: M. M. McLean, division 20-21, $1,094.50; Dr. Percival Hall, divisions 22-23, $2,005. Harry N. Stull, division, 26, $1,468.25; Mrs. Allan Davis, division 27, $1,432; G. M. Yeatman, division 28, $878.75; Frank E. James, division 29, $188.50. Yesterday's $75.091.46 was obtained from 5009 contributors, making a total of 15,671 contributors to the Chest todate. Numerous instances of personal sac- rifices on the part of humble givers to the Chest fund were reported by work- ers, Mrs. Sophle Windeck of 1426 M street, who supports three fatherless children, insisted on giving $10 to the Chest, specifying that it should go to the support of other fatherless children. Six-year-old Audrey Marie Fitzgerald of 1548 Columbia road told a worker that her father is ill in bed and that her mother was out, but that she want- ed to contribute to the Community Chest and gave a quarter of her own money. Explains to Laundryman. Another worker finally succeeded in explaining to a Chinese laundryman the meaning of poor people and he gave her a dime. When she presented him with & Community Chest button he was so pleased that he opened the cash drawer and said, “I give you quarter,” and handed it over, taking back, however, the dime. At that, how- ever, it represented an increase in his gift of no smalt proportion. Irvin Carpenter, jr., a 6-year-old boy, had saved his pennies to buy a pop gun, . He had 50 pennies in the bank, and when he heard of the Community Chest campaign he gave 35 of them g 3 .wornr for “some little poor chil- en. Three other small children gave of thelr own money. John Vandergrift, 7 years old, gave 75 cents he had earned selling magazines; Bernice D, Kav- anaugh, 4 years old, gave 25 cents, her two-week allowance, which was sub- tracted from a doll house fund, and Charles Wood, 10 years old, gave 50 cents of his allowance. Gifts of $100 and More. Gifts of $100 and more reported yes- terday were as follows: $1,000, John H. Storer; $650, L. McCormick-Goodhart; $500, Frank R. Jelleff, Miss Gertrude L. Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Levis C. Hamilton, W. A. H. Church; $450, 8. 8. Kresge Co.; $400, Columbia - graphical Union, No. 101; Dr. J. B. Gregg Custis; $300, Mrs. John Blake Kendall, Miss Nanna Heath Peters, L. P. Seibold, Inc.; Julia Darling Strong, Elwood Street, Mrs. George B. Welch; $250, Junior Owens, Clarence B. Des Jardins, Thomas Woodlock, Mrs. Em- mons S. Smith, Abner H. Ferguson, Mr. and_Mrs. Milton Nathan, Mrs. Agnes |O. S. Parsons, Walter 8. Ufford, Frank P. Morse, Mr. and Mrs. H. Van V. Fay, | H. Mrs. Walter C. Mendenhall, Berberichs; $240, Miss Theda Buck; $225, Wash: Starting ington Hebrew - Congregation; $200, J, @ McCrory Co., Maddux Hotel, Inc.; G. Howland Shaw, Continental Hotel Mrs. Mary C. Schafer, Henderson Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Furnes Gen. and Mrs. M. M. Patrick, H. A. Sellhausen, Charles E. Bell, M and Mrs. Edmund Platt, Sldney F. An. drews, S. 8. Kresge Co., Prescott Gat- ley, Richard E. Pairo, Mrs, Albert F. A. King, Mrs, B. R. Green, Charles E. Marsh, Dr. Charles C. Marbury; $180, Edward P. Hubbell; $160, James Pennebaker; $151, Mrs, Samuel T. Ansell. $150, Miss Ruth McGowan, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W, Radcliffe, Alexander Blair Thaw, Cooley Bros, Mr. and Mrs, Murray T. Donoho, Mrs. J. Lawrence Laughlin, commissariat of the Holy Land, Mr. and Mrs. Owen B. French, C. F. Dodd, Mrs. David S. Carll, Z. D. Gilman, Morris Gewirz, Milton R. Ne; Mr, and Mrs, Clarence M. Charest, R. F. Stewart, Walter Donaldson, Miss Betty A. Marsh, Juliet M. Johnson, Ralph W. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam S. Hodges, Right Rev. P. C. Gavan; $130, Rear Admiral S. A. Staunton; $125, A. Schumacher, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Willard; $120, Stouffers Buffet. Sandwiches, William J. Kerby, Leven- thal & Oxenburg, Frederic B. Pyle, Mr. and Mrs, Charles R. Mann; $110, Mi Louisa B. Harris, Mr, and Mrs, Charles P. Smith, $100, Miss F. E. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Vest, Angus Crawford, Frank W. Clarke, Theodore N. Knap- pen, Mr. and Mrs, John Willlam Cooper, Arthur N, Allen, Edgar C. Fisher, K. C. Johnston, Eugene C. Gott, David Sil- verman, Maurice Baskin & Co., Miss Ruth T. Hendershott, Mrs. Mary H. Semmes, Rev. and Mrs. John Van Schaick, Mrs. F. R. Eaton, Dr. Frank Leech, Arthur P. See, L. Grace Rhodes, Mrs. Alice D. Thompson, Earle W. Wal- lick, Col. and Mrs. C. S. Hamilton, Dr, Guy W. Leadbetter, Charles T. Penn, Mr. and Mrs. C. Powell Minnigerode, Miss Louise F. King, Mrs. Miriam E. Small, George M. Emmerich, Mr. and Mrs. Lester G. Wilson, Peter Q. Nyce, Robert P. Smith, Miss Ethel Douglas Merritt, Dr. and Mrs. Carden F. War- ner, Mrs, Ida V. Warren, John 8. Bar- bour, Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Montfort, Mr. and Mrs, Isaac B. Nordlinger, Mr. and Mrs. Simon B. Golibart, Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Prindle, Frederick G. Hunt, C. W. Dudley, Dr. E. F, Sap- pington, D. C. Walser, W. M. Kiplinger, Miss Virginia Hollerith, Miss Nan T. Hollerith, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stafford, Julius Brunschwig, H. E. Howe, H. V. Haydon, Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, Rear Admiral W. L. Rodgers, Mrs. James A. Watson, A, G. Bishop, Flor- ence K. Mixter, Mrs. Edward Graves, Charles Hansel, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Salomon, Mr. and Mrs, Charles F. Wilson. George R. Hamlin, Mrs. Maud S. Emory, Dr. Joseph A. Hill, Gilbert P. Ritter, George S. Wilson, Pioneer Laun- drv Corporation, Miss Eleanor Preston, Mrs. Emelie Cresson Newbold, Eise man’s, H. R, Kerslake, Gerald D. Gros- ner, Mrs. C. Stoddard Mitchell, Anony- mous, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel, Mrs, William F. Hall, Charles G. Ab- bott, Mrs. Samuel H. Kauffmann, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Le Roy, Dr. Vernon S. Kellogg, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Putnam, Thomas H. Creighton, jr.; Mrs. E. J. Cantwell, Willlam B. Chilton, Surg. Gen. and Mrs. Hugh Cumming, Miss Katherine Brawley, David Solo- mon, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Forster, R. F. Garrity, W. C. Hanson, Mrs. Dan- iel Forbes, Denise Barkalow, Mrs. J. M. Helm, Mrs. Laura V. 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