Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-05
LACK SCHOOL ROOM
Park View Citizens Petition for
Larger Building.
SCHOOL CENSUS FIGURES
Total of 686 Children Above School
Age Reported.
GROWTH OF THE SUBURB NOTED
Association Asks for Three Daily De-
liveries of Mail-Public Health
Precautions.
SCHOOL CENSUS FIGURES
GROWTH OF THE SUBURB NOTED

| Ihe results of census of school chill
dren taken in Park View by the execu-
tive committee of the organization were
! reported to the members of the Park
View Citizens Association last night by
Charlton NJ. Clark, chairman of the
committee on education and public build
ings. The census was taken for the pur-
pose of proving to the board of education
and the District Commissioners the great
| need of sixteen-room school building
| in the neighborhood.
| There are 1,O17 children i'm Park View,
according to the census returns. OF this
number $50 are under five years Of age
and CSC over that age
The census also shows that there are
more than 200 additional children living
beyond the limits of Park View. but
within easy access to the Park View
school site. Figures We're also quoted Of
the growth of Park View, showing that
from fifty houses in 1907 the number of
residences has increased. to $50 There
are about 13O houses recently completed
in Park View, and when these are oc-
cupied. Mr.. Clark said, the total number
of school children in Park View will be
over 500, the number necessary for a
SlXteen-rOOm school building. For this
reason, he declared, his committee had
| asked for an appropriation for the con-
struction Of the building.
Such a building, he claimed would re-
lleve the congestion in the contiguous
school buildings in Columbia Heights,
also at the Petworth School. and would
care for the future growth in the Spring
road neighborhood. The opening of the
two portable schoOlhouses at Park View
has already relieved to some extent the
crowded condition at Petworth.
Buildings as Civic Centers.
In concluding his report, Mr.. Clarke
urged that the associations delegate
to the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tons make an effort to get that or
ganization to favor the wider use of
school buildings for educational, civic
and social purposes.
A letter from City Postmaster n. A.
Merritt in answer to one from the as
ISOLATION requesting that there be three
deliveries of mail in Park View daily
was read to the association. Mr.. Mer-
rift explained that Park View was
strictly residential neighborhood and
that he believed two deliveries a day
are sufficient Members of the associa-
ton are anxious to get three deliveries,
and. accordingly, DIR. Arthur B. Crane,
chairman of the public utilities COM
mittee, was instructed to make another
c. II. Williams called the attention
of the association to the existence of
a pool of water on lot west of Geor gia
avenue which he declared was a menace
to public health. The location of this
pool, he said, is out Of the limits of
the Park View Association. but lever
theless he urged that something be
done to improve conditions on the lot.
The matter will be brought to the at
tention of the clean city committee
through the associations representative.
John G.. McGrath, president of the asso-
citation, is the representative on the clean
city committee. Last night George H.
Russell was elected alternate on the COM
mittee.
To Beautify Portable Schools.
The association appropriated IS for as
sisting in the Identification of the two
portable schools on Warder street. The
request for the appropriation was made
by the ladies' auxiliary of the associa-
the ladies' auxiliary last night. They
are Mrs. Florence Kidwell, Miss Grace
Macintosh, Miss Mary Lund, Mrs. J. H.
Collier. Mrs. ]. A. Evans, Mrs. f. H.
Gottwalls, Mrs. S. F. Wood and Mrs F.
Granoly.
The names of twenty-five applicants for
membership in the citizens association
We're presented last night. They will be
voted on at the next meeting Of the as
ISOLATION.
President McGrath called attention to
a lot of weeds and rubbish on a lot on
Kenyon street and asked that members
Of the association assist in its removal.