Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-15

preparation of plans and specifications
| for said high schools, and for such other
personal services and expenses In con-
nection Herewith as may be necessary.
Stricken Out in Senate.
authorizing a new Central High School
to cost $4,000 and making an appro-
priation of $4,000 toward the building.
was stricken out
THE amendment concerning the bal
| ances Of appropriations for sites was re-
tanned, and the following proviso was
added to II by the conferees:
=" Provided, that the plans for the
new Central High School shall provide
accommodations for not less than $500
pupils
This is the first point in the records of
the appropriations committee of Con-
gress in which there is any reference to
Central High School of capacity of
200 pupils. This evidence of the inten-
ton OF Congress to provide a Central
High School much larger in capacity and
much more costly in price than recon-
mended in the estimates of the board of
education and the District Commission
ers was the basis upon which. in the
District appropriation act for the fiscal
year 1914. there was provided authorize
ton for a building to cost 81 200. 900 and
an appropriation of 100000 toward such
a building.
There does not appear in any of the
records of the appropriations committee
any statement showing why the esti-
mates of the board of education and the
District Commissioners were increased.
The seventh inquiry of the resolution
was as follows: In the opinion of the
present board of Commissioners are the
present high school facilities inadequate.
and In what respects
In the judgment of the board of COM
missioners of the District of Columbia
the present high school facilities of
Washington are inadequate chiefly be-
cause OF their location. The Central High
School, the Western High School, the
Business High School. the Mckinley
Manual Training School. the Armstrong
Manual Training School (for colored stu
dents) and the NJ Street High School (for
colored students) are all in the north
west section of the city Only one high
school, the Eastern High School, is in
the eastern or southwestern section of
the city, A new high school in the east
ern section of the city is needed. A new
the judgment of the Commissioners, a
Central High School TO accommodate
2,5OO pupils is not needed at present
Future demands might justify a new
Central High School to accommodate
$500 pupils, but they are not as pressing
as the immediate demands Of the east
ern section.
GAAoA4CA 0CAOO1S 4ICxCIICUs
1.-THE eighth inquiry of the resolution
was as follows: is a large centralized
high school preferable to smaller and
widely distributed high schools?
I'm the opinion of the Board of Com
missioners. smaller and more widely dis
tributed high schools are preferable to
large centralized high school, provided
they are not too small for economic ad-
fcf fi<r, III
huenced the Commissioners to arrive at
this conclusion was the element Of trans
portation, which the children of high
school age would have to pay If forced
TO travel from their own to another Sec
ton of the city, in which the large CEN
tralized school might be located.
THE ninth inquiry Of the resolution
was as follows: If the information Is
readily available, give a complete in
ventory of school property in the four
sections of the city. showing the number
of public. manual training, high and nor
NAL schools, their valuation and the COM
bined area of ground occupied for school
purposes in each section of the city.
Vt is impossible to give a complete in
ventory of school property in the four
sections of the city. The approximate
cost OF the buildings, however, Is known
and given herewith:
There are ninety-nine public. manual
training, high and normal schools In the
city of Washington, whose valuation, To-
cation and area of ground occupied for
school purposes in each section of the
city Is as follows: Northwest. fffty-five
schools: cost s.. los. 1856: area of ground
occupied for school purposes, 1,1O4, 1876
square feet.
Southwest, fourteen schools; cost
1895. 1876; area OF ground occupied for
school purposes. 2766 225 square feet
Southeast, fifteen schools: cost, $544,-
O19; area of ground occupied for school
purposes, Z9S,919 square feet
Northeast, fifteen schools: cost, $751;
912; area of ground occupied for school
purposes, 267.411 square feet"