The Washington times., 1907-10-13

0Ge- land adjoining Peabody School, at
1900; lots adjoining Phillips School,
at SIC 500; Land adjoining Morgan
Sc hool. at 81, 600: building for Brook
land. at 5000; land ADJOINING Fillmore
School. at $1,000; land for modern
school TO replace the old Potomac
School, at $4,000, and a site for new
school in ninth division, at 5000
Five hundred and thirty-ave thousand
dollars is available FOR the current year
for buildings and grounds, distributed
as follows: For completion Of an eight
room building IN eighth division, fzo.ooo;
for completion OF an eiglt-roon build"
Ing IN fourth division. $4,000. for pure
chase Of a part of lot in the Howard
University subdivision. adjoining tn
Mott School on the west. and the cree"
ton Of a sixteen-roon school building
Sic. 900; for the purchase OF a site Tor
and erection OF a sixteen-roon building
west Of Fourteenth street and north OF
Florida avenue. $50, oc0; for twelve
room building and site, eighth d.
vision, $4,000; for the purchase OF
site for AMI the erection OF q SIX
room addition to the Langdon scnool
at Langdon. Columbia district, SzoOoO'
for a four-room addition to the Petworth
School building. $500: for four-roon
addition to the Gage School, 5000; Tor
purchase OF site for and erection OF
/ four-room addition to the Emery School
building. $1,000
Estimates Made Public
After the estimates had been looked
| over BY Commissioner Mcfarland, they
we're made rTbiic-
Discussing the estimates. the Commls-
| sioner said:
II observe. in looking over the esu-
mates under 4 recommendation Of a
| g 600 salary for a school architect
under the direction OF the Board OF
Education for the planning. construct
/ Ing. and maintaining OF school property
/ in the District Of Columbia, the follow
Ing note:
AS in other large cities. the need
| OF an ofrlcer who shall give his Whole
attention TO such work is strongly felt.
/ The money appropriated by Congress
1 for school structures, instead OF being
| Immediately used. is frequently unused
| for months. or. IN some cases, years,
while the schools are deprived OF the
benefit thereof. The press Of work III
The building Inspectors office is the
/ reason given for such delay This item
! will relieve that officer and add 10 the
| efficiency OF the schools.
VIII Consider Demands
The Commissioners will. of course,
4 Give respectfuI consideration 10 every
| recommendation Of the Board OF Educa-
| ton But II this recommendation should
be adopted. Il would net be because OF
] the statements in the note. 1t would
seem that II was not prepared by ths
| Board Of Education No money appro-
priated for school structures has been
unused for years. except in the one case
II the Brookland colOred school, where
the question OF location is still unset
tied. without fault of the Commissioners
or any one else IN the District building
The press Of work in the Building In
spector's office is not the reason given
for the delay in other cases, whatever
it may have been. The chief reason
for whatever delay has occurred, and it
has been very much exaggerated. is
the difficulty of getting suitable sites,
involving the question Of selection, IT,
ties. and prices, and then Of getting
plans to Mt ehe sites. and bids on those
plans. within the appropriations.
The method of appropriation, which
the Commissioners viii ask Cong ress to
cnanEe so InaI me money may De dFdli-
axle a year sooner than has hitherto
been the case, will obviate some OF the
| delay.
Il make this statement the more read
lily because the immediate handling OF
this matter is not in my office. but in
! that OF the Engineer Commissioner, who
I am sure has done everything that was
IA his power, as did his predecessors, to
expedite the construction Of school build
ings. and with the best results that tbs
| appropriations would permit"