Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-26
MORE RO0M|NS SCHOOL
1900 Additional Pupils Can Be
Accommodated This Year.
NEW PORTABLE BUILDINGS
Congestion in Crowded Sections Will
Be Relieved.
OLD CHAIRS AND BOOKS GONE
Alterations Made to Assembly Hall
at Central Hill School for
Fire Protection.

When the public schools open. Septem-
Der 81. there will be accommodations for
over 1.5o0 more pupils than last year.
Additional facilities are provided by the
purchase of thirteen new portable school
| buildings. the building of additions to the
Langdon, Emery and Gage grade schools
and the Mckinley Manual Training
School. and the construction of a new
| building in Southeast Washington, to be
known as the Van Ness School.
The new portable school buildings, for
which a contract has been let by the Dis
trict officials to firm in St. Johns
| Mich, will furnish accommodations for
placed adjoining schools where the over
crowdfng Is greatest. they will relieve the
congestion at crucial points
Location of Portable Schools.
These portable buildings will be located
| School; one, Benning: two, Chevy Chase
one. Morgan; two. Ross; one. Jefferson;
one, Ivy City; two, Garnet: one Garri-
son. one, Cardozo
Plans are being made for the purchase
of another. to be located at the Monroe
School. Each of the portable buildings
will accommodate from forty to forty
eight pupils.
The new Van Ness School, built to re-
place the old Mccormick building, will
give fireproof quarters for scholars who
have been compelled to use the anti
quated structure. AS the number of
pupils to be given quarters in the new
building is larger than there is pro-
vision for, arrangements may be made
to use part OF the old Mccormick
temporarily. AS it has been condemned
by Fire Chief Belt. the school authori-
feel they could only use rooms on the
first floor. if any at all:
The additions to the Langdon, Emory
and Gage schools will materially re-
lfeve specific cro--1ed conditions which
have existed in tie past few years.
Within the next few months it is ex-
pected other new school buildings will
be ready for use. Much progress is be-
ing made. it is reported on the new
building on Washington Heights. 1t
will be finished in February. Other new
the Lucretia Mott Colored School near
Howard University and a new white
graded school near Lincoln Park.
Old Books and Chairs Gone.
The large addition, costing $125,OOO, to
the Technical High School building will
relieve congestion which has existed
there for several years. but even the add
ditional room will not give proper quar-
tiers for all the students who want to en-
ter the school next month.
So great is the number of discarded
textbooks in the public schools now that
school authorities refer to them by the
ton. Recently about twenty-six tons OF
these antiquated, dirty or WORKOUT text
books were exchanged. with small
| bonus, for few tons of good new books.
These books sell for about 81 per ton.
The chairs that have been, in use in
the assembly room of the Central High
School for the past twenty-six years
were disposed Of recently and their
places will be filled with new chairs with
steel frames. The old chairs were among
the herlooms of the school system. When
one of the present members of the board
of education was attending public school
these chairs had much varnish worn off
them.
In order to lessen danger to life in event
of a fire, alterations have been made In
the assembly hall of the Central High
School The stage has been moved Sc
that the exits have been doubled.