Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-26
DISCUSSION OF SCHOOL SITE.
Residents Of Arlington District, Alex.
andria County. Unable to Decide,

andr1a County, Unable to Decide.
Arlington school district citizens met last
night a. Alexandria county court house,
Fort Myer Heights, to consider the location
Of school for the heights on top of the
first hill overlooking Georgetown. The meet
ing was called by Superintendent James E.
Clements to get the sense of the patrons Of
the school as to the best site for 1t.
Mr. Clements, as chairman. opened the
proceedings at s o'clock by reading u letter
from the Arlington district board stating
that it had accepted a lot on the south side
of the golf grounds above Rosslyn. the first
vacant space on the hilltop to the right Of
AZ, 500 feet of ground at cents per foot and
submitted the matter to the county super
intendent for his approval OF the location:
After reading the law under which he
Commonwealth Attorney Mackey as to- the
limitations under which he should exercise
this power, Mr.. Clements called for express
sions Of opinion upon the proposed site.
Mr.. William McShea of Fort Myer Heights
in response asked what objections were
made and In reply Mr.. Clements cited the
protest Of Messrs Davis, Phillips, Corbett
and others, offered to the district board. as
previously printed in The Star. This pro-
test, it was stated, was based on the fact
that bids for site had not been called for
and the claim that the price. nearly $500,
an acre was excessive. Mr.. Mcshea re-
piled to this that 1t had been known for
two years that the Arlington school board
had been looking for lot for a school for
Fort Myer Heights and that the price, SO
far from being excessive, was below what
he would have expected. 1t was only half,
he said, what the Colonial Heights syndi-
cate is asking for lots.
GUS offers Of sites In answer to one small
advertisement and the prices were more
favorable than that OF the site under con-
sideration, and after some further discus
Sfn IN hV r he hod
these offers read. They were as follows:
From R. Dulaney, lot in Newly subdivision,
on hill north Of court house, 5000 feet. for
50, 800; lot near Military road under the hill
at Rossyn, any number of feet at 8 cents;
Charlotte L. Drane three one-acre sites at
corners of wooded tract between the court
house and Clarendon, at $500. $1,sO0 and
81 800; Taggart, Thrift Co.. one acre on
county road near Rosslyn. 81 400. and an
other acre, same vicinity, $500: Saunders &
Co.. one acre a mile west of Rosslyn, near
Old Dominion electric road $1,000.
Mr.. r. c. L. Moncure then asked per-
mission to offer a site on the hill near the
court house overlooking the golf grounds
and the city. He said he had previously
Offered the lot to the Arlington school board.
but for some reason 1t was not considered
at the meeting when the proposed site was
selected. He made the offer on behalf of
E. G. Mushback. The lot contained nearly
an acre and half and the price asked was
81 600 Mr.. Moncure spoke at some length
in favor of the location and price Of his
offer. He was followed by Rev. A. w.
Graves of the Fort Myer Heights Baptist
Church and others urging the great need of
a school for the children in the community
and also for those in Rosslyn. who are now
without school privileges, and suggesting
that refusal to approve the lot selected
by the district board would greatly delay
the construction.
Mr.. Clements replied that a temporary
school building could be procured and he
meant to see that the heights had school
L. he had to get mandamus to force the
district board to do its duty.
After speeches by A. Davis and r. H.
Phillips in favor of rejecting the proposed
site, q motion was passed that it was the
sense of the meeting that the offers of sites
received, including that proposed, be re-
ferred back to the district board with re-
quest that it take the matter up Immediate
ly and make a selection.
Mr.. Clements said he would disapprove
the proposed site and turn over the offers
to the district board for further consdera-
ton.