Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-01
|MEN SET TO WORK
| CLEANING STREETS
Debris From Storm Is Rapidly
Disappearing and Traffic
Is Not Interrupted.
NEARLY EVERY SCHOOL
SHOWS SOME DAMAGE
Windows Shattered in Most Cases,
While Some Buildings Suffer
From Floods.

! fTOM flOOOS.
| Officials of the street cleaning depart
| mcnt. the department of parks and park
ings and other District departments
| whose attaches are compelled to work
| overtime when such cata strophes as the
storm of last Wednesday strike the city.
reported today that full gangs were at
work all over the city and that the clean
| ing up is progressing rapidly.
Much Of the litter of trees and limbs,
| as we'll as bricks. mortar. tin roofs signs
and other evidences Of the storms vio-
| lence, has already been removed, and
practically all streets of the city are open
| for uninterrupted traffic today. 1t was
stated. however, that at least week Will
! be required to remove all the debris and
restore the streets and pavements OF the
city to the cleanly and well kept condi-
ton that is a notable characteristic OF
| Washington.
| Truman Lanham, superintendent Of
/ parks and parkings, said today that his
i estimate of 10000 damaged or uprooted
i trees in the District of Columbia was
/ conservative, and that fully that number,
4 il not more, were damaged to greater
1 or less extent or wholly uprOOted.
| Hundreds of Roofs Damaged.
| The full extent OF the havoc wrought
| to buildings is only just becoming known.
/ The total number of roofs torn off or SO
badly damaged that they will have to be
| replaced will run far into the hundreds.
i One tin roofing company in the down.
/ town section stated this morning that,
4 following season Of extreme dizziness in
| their business, they received more than
/ forty hurry-up orders for new roofs or
repairs before noon yesterday. Other
concerns report the same sort of rush,
! and Washington will be busy place for
| tin roofers, as well as men who know
! how to lay other kinds Of roofs, for some
| TIME
| Dealers in glass and GLACIERS supplies
| also reported today that the volume of
| business coming into their establishments
1 yesterday was far in excess of any single
day they ever experienced. Hundreds of
| thousands of panes of glass, plate glass
| windows, skylights and other glasswork
in and about houses and buildings all
| over the city were smashed and it will
| be some days before all the damage can
| be repaired In the meanwhile many
| of the foremost business houses of the
city are wearing huge signboard-like af-
fairs in their fronts where the heavy
plate glass windows were blown in by
| the terrific wind. giving the city much
| the appearance of a metropolis that has
recently suffered from bombardment
| Supt. Lanham today stated that the
| trees along the streets and in the
| trict of Columbia will show the eff
| fects of the storm for a year. The
limbs and foliage of the trees in many
parts of the city. he stated, were so
| badly beaten and shattered that the
leaves will wither and drop off and
| will not be replaced this season by new
| foliage.
School Buildings Suffer.
Practically every school building in
| the District Of Columbia suffered from
the storm, windows being blown in,
roofs damaged and cellars or base
| ments flooded by the storm water. 1t
| was stated today that not a single -one
/, of the more than 200 school buildings
escaped unchanged. Some suffered only
| minor damages. such as the loss of a
few panes Of glass or trif1ing damage
| to the roof, but others had every pane
| Of glass in the windows Of the exposed
| sides of the buildings shattered. Re-
| ports received up to today show that
ESQ panes of glass were smashed at
Central High School, while a part Of
| the building was flooded; that forty
panes of glass were smashed at the
James Ormond Wilson Normal School
| and four feet of water flooded the
| basement
| At Petworth School the glass was
broken and the building partly flooded;
Morse School. glass broken and flooded;
| Twining School, many windows on north
side broken; Henry Wilson School, six
| teen glasses broken, fence down and
i twelve curtains destroyed; West School,
i eight panes broken, two sashes broken;
| Flagstaff broken: Edmonds School, ten
panes broken. skylight injured; Grant
School, twenty-five panes broken, two
curtains destroyed; Woodbun School.
forty-five panes broken. twelve curtains
destroyed Wallach School, part of roof
taken off; Gales School. seventy-five panes
| broken, quantity of slate gone; Phelps
School. 40 panes broken; Berret School,
seven panes broken. tin on gutter lifted;
Miner School (rentedD, 10 panes broken,
new glass now being put in; Ambush
School, eighty-five panes broken. roof and
down spout injured; Amidon School, sew
| enty-six panes broken; Mckinley Manual
| Training School, ten skylights broken.
twelve panes broken; Lovejoy School, two
panes broken; Jefferson School. roof off.
northeast corner, several panes OF glass
out; Business High School. seventy-four
panes broken; Polk School. 22o panes
broken: Phillips School, seven panes
broken; two leaks in room 8; Webster
School, many window panes broken and
top Of chimney blown down; Seaton
School. about thirty panes broken and
chimney blown down; Brightwood School.
skylight trap loosened; Cardozo School.
twelve panes broken; Bell School. door
broken down and six feet of water in
basement; Garnet School, forty panes
broken. two sashes demolished; Patter-
son School, seventy-five panes broken and
plastering down in room and hall;
Cleveland School, twenty-five panes
broken; Blake School. thirty panes
broken; Briggs School. large hole in roof,
ten panes of glass broken, hinges on trap
door are broken and basement flooded.
Franklin School, 191 panes Of glass
broken, building partly flooded; Sy-
phax School, ventilator. trap and top
of skylight blown from building, AZ
window panes broken. ceilings and
plaster damaged by water; Harrison
School, 81 window panes broken, slate
on two front towers badly damaged,
trapdoor on roof injured, five down.
spouts blown away; Smallwood School
al panes broken, three shades destroy
ed: Greenleaf. 104 panes broken. fence
blown down: Henry. 118 panes broken.
4S curtains destroyed, building slightly
flooded: Banneker, IS panes broken
Bradley. A. panes broken. bell tower
damaged. downspout blown away. and
Monroe $50 panes broken. so window
shades destroyed and 100 feet OF fence
blown down.
Funeral Procession Interrupted.
4 belated story OF the storm was told
today Of the disorganization of funeral
OF a baby held at Mount Rainier. The
funeral was that of the infant daughte,
| of Mr. and Mrs John W. Miller of 34th