The Washington herald., 1920-06-13
MOST VISITED
SCHOOLIN US.
Park View Organized on
Plan of New England
Village.

Grocery store. postoffice. theater,
community center, museum and
gathering place Of the neIghborhood
combined, the Park View school,
house at Newton and Otis streets.
northwest. is the most frequented
school building in the United States,
according to Bureau OF Education
officials.
Operated on a community basis
for the past year, the grocery store
saves housewives of Park View
neighborhood from Is to 90 per cent
in the cost of table supplies, they
estimate.
Neighbors Get Acquainted.
The postoffice furnishes a nightly
meeting place for neighborhood
cronies.
Plays are put on the boards every
week at the theater by dramatic
companies organized from local men
| and women.
The museum contains exact repro
ductions of skeletons of prehistoric
animals made by one of the world S
81 eatest experts on antediluVian
reptiles, who lives in the neighbor-
hood.
To fight the high cost of living
and to make city neighbors better
acquainted. Park View is organized
on the plan OF a New England viii
lage. Everyone who moves into the
neighborhood automatically is a
member of the neighborhood asso-
| citation. Officers are elected at town
oil
Miss Frances Farley, principal
| of Park View School. Is community
secretary and directs all the varied
activities centered at the school
house.
Modelled on Alaskan Plan.
Most important of the projects
yet attempted is the grocery store
This is modelled after those conduc-
ted in villa Ie schoolhouses In
| Alaska.
Supplies of eggs, butter, milk and
| fresh vegetables are brought in by
| farmers from country towns in
Maryland and Virginia and, in order
| to secure the best farm produce
| these men receive 10 per cent above
the Wholesale price.
Nearly all the grocery supplies of
| the neighborhood are purchased al
/ this store. The store is in charge OF
| Hiram Johnson-not the Presiden-
| tial aspirant-and Mrs. johnson. II
is kept open about five hours a day
Success of the grocery and pro-
vision branches has led the COM
munity to branch out into shoe and
clothing trade for the neighborhood
Scheme Copied Elsewhere.
I II I'll 4.
| building until a late hour every
night, is the only elementary school
| principal in the District of Columbls
who has been relieved from all
| teaching duty. This action was
taken by the school commissioners
because of her work in the associa-
ticn.
The Park View community was
organized by Edward ]. Ward. spe.
cialist in community organization of
the United States Department oi
Education. When he came to Wash
| ington from Wisconsin four years
ago he selected this neighborhood
| in which to build a model commun.
| ity, center, to be copied in other
towns and cities in the United
| States.
The latest addition to the school
activities is a community library. A
large collection of books has beer
donated by neighbors and these are
circulated from the postofice.
Save Money on Rent.
| The Park View Neighborhood As.
scciation was started three years
ago by John J. McGrath, assistant
director of the Treasury Depart.
ment cooperative store.
| Citizens of the Petworth neigh.
borhood, northwest, have started {