Evening star., 1898-09-10
CONTEST OVER SCHOOL SITE
Residents Of Northeast Section Appeal to the
Commissioners.
Contention as to Whether Building
Shall Be Located East or West
OF 18th Street.

There is quite a lively discussion on
among the residents Of the northeast sec
ton of the city as to the location Of the
new public school building to be erected
there by the District Commissioners. The
contention is whether the school shall be
east or west of 18th street. Today the Com
missioners received the following protest
signed by fifty-eight householders:
''The undersigned residents of Rosedale
recommend that the location of the new
public school to be located in the northeast
section be placed at the corner of Rosedale
and 18th streets northeast.
There are upwards of 500 school children
living east of 18th street. many of whom
reside far out as 22d street, and during
the inclement weather of the winter are
compelled to go to the Pierce school, and
necessarily suffer great hardships and miss
much of the time by having to travel such
a distance in bad weather.
I'VE therefore protest against locating
said school on 10Th street or any neghbor
hood so near to the Pierce school as to af-
ford no relief to the above objections. And
we recommend the site at 18th and Rose
dale streets as being the most centrally To-
Gated and one which will save our children
many squares walk in the winter weather"
Mr.. Holmes Views.
In the same connection the Commission
ers have received the following letter from
A4i. &AIcA. w I1ollueS VI [oli beHlilIS TOdu
northeast:
"In reference to the school site to be Sc
lected in the northeast section as the IA
ther of seven children who go to the public
schools L wish to enter my protest against
locating the school as far west 18th
street We have in our neighborhood Goth
street and Benning road about 800 4UO
school children, who are compelled to go to
the Pierce school, and some who have to go
to the school at 10Th and G. streets north
east. This distance in winter weather is
too far for small children, and L think if
you only knew the fardships inflicted upon
our little ones your honorable board would
give Us some relief and place the school
nearer to us than 18th street, which is only
two squares from the Pierce school.
Il am letter carrier, and have been SO
employed for the past seventeen years. For
the last ten years I have been living i'll a
house l built at Benning road and 10th
street. and it is my duty as such carrier to
travel every day from 14th street to the
Eastern branch and from Benning road to
north a street. During my daily trips l
me into contact with people of that sec
ton, and L know as a fact that there has
been as little sickness west of 10th street
as any other section of the city. There are
many children living out in my neiGhbor-
mood VINO have to travel mile or more to
school, whereas II the new school was
placed at 18th and Rosedale streets we
would be nearer and children saved
much distance in bad weather. The people
living in the neghborhood of the big sewer
do not complain Of sickness, and l know of
some who have raised a family near the
sewer who say they have always had good
health. People living at 18th and ROsedale
streets would never know there was a
sewer in that section"