Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-19
| NO CROWDED SCHOOLS
Congestion Will Be Relieved
by Various Devices.
SEVERAL new BUILDINGS
Portable Structures Will Provide
More Elbow Room.
PUPILS START STUDY MONDAY
Teachers Gather for Conference With
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to Vac
cination Made by Parents.
PUPILS START STUDY MONDAY

|
ington's unwilling children. of all ages,
from the little chap just entering kinder
garten to the sapient young man who
graduates next June. will take their
places at school desks Monday morning
promptly as the last bell rings at 8
| o'clock.
Supt. Stuart says there is always an
increase in the enrolment of between 2
and per cent. about 500 more school
children each year. What the figures Of
the 1sOS-1909 season will be cannot be
foretold accurately. Probably by Wednes-
day the figures will be known.
Today the teachers are holding meet
| ings throughout the entire school system
This morning the supervising principals
met their teachers and gave thorough in
structions as to opening the schools and
announced the changes that have been
| made. Some teachers who just recently
returned to the city had not yet heard of
the transfers and other changes.
| The high school teachers met at 2
O'Clock this afternoon and listened to q
comprehensive talk from their principals.
Congestion Is Relieved.
This year will not see much congestion.
| Judging from information given by Supt.
| Stuart, the rapid increase in the popula-
| ton of certain sections is being met by
a sufficient number of school buildings
| Just as fast as human energy win permit.
| The rapid increase is now in the nortn-
west, out along 14th street extended.
School buildings are under way to meet
| the growing school population.
| splendid sixteen-room school building
on Columbia road will relieve the con-
gestiOn in that section when the doors
| are thrown open to pupils. This school
has plain and simple lines, but there is
| nothing about 1t which Is not artistic. The
| broad and low building with it's wide
| eaved roof is a pleasure to the eye and
entirely different from the old prison-like
school buildings of an earlier day.
There are several portable school build
ings which are going to play an impor-
tant part this fall, in relieving the crowd
| ed conditions in certain schools At the
Ross, Morgan and the Chevy Chase
schools the conditions are rather bad &C
cording to Mr.. Stuart. Portable schools
| will be rushed to those points and erected
right alongside the main building, thus
providing one more room.
These portable houses are wonders.
They can be taken to pieces easily and
transported to any other point in the
city at short notice They are we'll heated
That they are portable does not mean
| that they are flimsy, unsafe or insani-
| tary.
| Vaccination Question Up.
The vaccination question is worrying a
| lot of the citizens Of this town The
| offices of the schools in the Franklin
School building are full of communica-
tons from parents and others protesting
against the regulation that pupils must
| be vaccinated.
Many evidently are of opinion that COM
pulsory vaccination is a ruling of the
board OF education, when in reality it is
law of Congress The schools have no
option but to insist that pupils shall be
| vaccinated.
| The cards that the children will present
to their teachers Monday have VAGINA
| ton certificates on the back Of them. That
| applies of course to old pupils. as the sup
position is that they have been vaccinat-
ed. Incoming pupils must be vaccinated
or show that they have been and that the
virus took"
One or two letters on Mr.. stuart's desk
show that the senders of them were
| r airing up on their hind legs over the
thought of compulsory vaccination. The
ground taken is that the injection of
vaccine virus is cause Of scrofulous
disease.
Supt. Stuart has little to say on the
subject. as he is bound by the law. He
did remark that medical men seemed to
be unit regarding the efficacy Of vac
| cnation and that cases where il had
caused trouble were rare.
Portable Schools Arrive.
A number OF the portable schoolhouses
purchased by the school board arrived in
this city yesterday and will be erected by
the Engineer Commissioners corps
The buildings will be put up at Ross
School, Harvard street between 18th and
18th streets; Morgan. 18th street and Cal
| ifornia avenue. Chevy Chase; Jefferson.
9th street and Virginia avenue south
west: Benning, Ivy City. Garrison, 18th
street between r and streets; Garnet.
10th and u streets. and Lovejoy, 18th
and D streets northeast
The engineer department of the District
| has ordered five more portable schools.
! They are expected to be delivered in a
week or so. The board of education has
not designated where they are to be To-
| Gated
Accepted From Contractors.
Following an official inspection by Capt.
William Kelly. acting engineer commits
sioner Of the District, and the acting
building inspector of the District, the
Commissioners yesterday formally ac-
cepted the recently completed addition to
the Mckinley Manual Training School
from the contractors. the Fuller Construc-
ton Company.
/ This addition Is handsome in design and
| thorough in construction and conceded to
be one of the finest types Of it's kind in
the country. The plans were drawn by
Norris Peters, and the actual construc-
ton cost 800 900 Work on the building
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