The Washington times., 1901-10-09
PUBLIC SCHOOL ESTIMATES
Board of Education Preparing
Specifications.
New Buiiding Planned for Business
High School - Few Additional
Structures Asked-Approprint
for maintenance of the system.


new Business High School building is
now practically an assured fact In the
pudget OF estimates for the public school
system OF Washington for the next fiscal
year, approved by the Board of Education
last night, there will be an item of about
s3OOOW for the erection of a new building
FOR the accommodation of the Business
High School. The estimates viii be for
warded to the Commissioners at once and
there is little doubt that the item for the
much-needed new building will pass both
them and the District committees of both
House and Senate.
The aggregate, amount of the annual
estimate is about $1,S21. 900. The exact
figures are not yet available. The amount
is not quite so large as it was last year.
owing to the fact that provision is not
made for the erection of so many new
school buildingsJ The bulk of the appro-
priation TO be applied for will be used for
the Improvement OF the school system
as 1t now stands although a number OF
buildings are now necessary to relieve
the congestion in various quarters. The
next fiscal year viii be nothing ike the
building year" that the year expiring
June 30 has been.
One of the most important building op-
erations provided for in the estimates is
that of an addition to Manual Training
School No. l, at Seventh Street and Rhode
Island Avenue. The main building is new
| and is not yet completed.
The unusually large enrolment at the
opening of the school year in the Man
ual Training School, which now scarcely
| finds elbow room in the building OPP
! 70 hos darn
trated that the new building will. in the
immediate future, be inadequate. The ad-
dition is to cost about $4,000, and will fit
on to the present building nicely In fact,
the present structure was erected with
the idea that an addition would be made.
An Item credited in the budget to
normal schools makes it evident that
great improvements are to be made in
| that branch of the public school system.
The present quarters are Inadequate. and
| is is expected that the Henry School
| building will be necessarily utilized for
the Normal School The location is much
better than the present one and in order
to remodel it for the new purposes about
| $4,000 is required.
! The kindergarten branch of the school
system, it is expected. will be well treat
ed. The estimate of last year is nearly
doubled. The same state of affairs exists
| in the case of the vacation schools. An
appropriation of sf,00J was made last
summer for the maintenance OF vaca-
tion school, largely for the purpose of
experiment. The vacation schools will
| receive twice as much as that next year
The estimates for night schools are
text book system Is quite wei. established
schools 1f bp Ct Ri i. nd
that the present appropriation is made
quate. Consequently. the free text book
item is larger than usual. The erection of
new school buildings. in the vicinity of
the Franklin school indicate the inten-
! tioE of the Board to devote that building
more exclusively to the use of the Board
| of Education, and for the executive Of
| fees of the public school system
Thirty-three hundred school children
attending the sessions at the Peabody and
Force schools and the Stevens and Car
nett coiored schools were dismissed yes
teFuay upon order Of Supt A. T. Stuart
because those buildings were without
neat The contractors who are to put
/ new boilers in the buiIdings have not
yet done SO; The old boilers were taken
ous oos sotae tlnes ago The pupils in the
their teachers, and will be dismissed. if.
In the Judgment of the supervising rrin,
clpais or the divisions in which the
schools are located. the Temperature is
1 too low for comfort
The members OF the Board of Education
who attended the meeting last night were
/ anxious TO have 1t understood that they
We're In no way responsible for the re-
moval of the boilers In the schools which
Superintendent Stuart found 1t necessary
to close yesterday. The District Commits
I sioners, the members of the board state
made contracts for the placing of new
boilers IN several buildings without stfp-
ulatinS when the old ones should be
/ taken out Consequently a number OF
, boilers have been removed and no new
ones put in their places Just who is re-
spOnsible for the present condition of af-
fairs ii is hard to say. IL appears to
have been the result of mere lack of fore
sight than anything else.