Evening star., 1924-04-22

pointed out, ARE required for new
rooms, to relieve congestion when
rooms become overcrowded, for teach
ing special subjects, for conducting
schools for which teachers are re.
quested have not been contracted for
and the outlook for their completion
before the school year beginning in
the fall Of 1925 would seem rather re-
mote. This accounts for the COM
mittee's reduction in the number of
additional teachers recommended in
the budget.
ut has been necessary to provide for
twenty-nine additional building attend
ants for new schools or additions to
existing schools that will be in readiness
to receive pupils during the next fiscal
year. For this purpose an additional ap-
preparation of $29.2S0 is recommended.
For furniture and equipment for new
school buildings and additions to exist
ing buildings the committee is propos-
ing s1S2,351. White this sum is $104.649
less than the budget estimate. ii is $153,-
lbs more than appropriated for the cur
rent fiscal year. One hundred and sixty
thousand dollars of the amount request
ed is for furnishing the addition to the
Armstrong Manual Training School
alone. This impressed the committee as
being entirely too much and while halN-
ing the amount. which the committee has
done, may be too drastic, the committee
feels that this school can be adequately
equipped for Il much smaller sum than
estimated. The balance of the reduction
is on account Of schools which the COM
mittee does not believe will he ready for
furnishing during the succeeding fiscal
year.
SSSO,OOO For Construction.
"On account OF new construction an
appropriation of sSS0,000 is proposed, all
but $4,000 of which is for continuing
work already authorized. The budget
estimates include s202,50O for the pur-
chase of land for school purposes. none
of which the committee is recommend
ing They Also include 100000 for a
new junior high school in the general
vicinity of 7th and q streets northeast.
which the committee is not recomm end
ing.
I'm the deficiency appropriation act,
approved June IL, 1921. an approprla-
tion of $4,000 was made for the
erection OF a building. for the care OF
tubercular pupils 1t was the plan OF
the District authorities to erect this
school on the site now partly occu-
pied by the Tubercular Hospital, at
l4th and Upshur streets northwest.
Through action brought by the citi-
ZenS' association of that section the
Commissioners We're permanently en-
joined from proceeding with the con-
struction on the site in question both
by the lower court and the supreme
Court of the United states, because
of the fact that the law authorizing
the school did not prescribe where it
should be built. The consequence has
been that tubercular pupils continue
to remain improperly cared for. There
is 4 recommendation in the budget
that the school be proceeded with on
the site upon which it was originally
intended by the Commissioners il
should be built, and the committee is
recommending that this be done. The
extent of the tract, the lay of the
land and the fact that a portion of
it is now devoted to the care of tu-
bercular patients, all incline the com
mittee to the belief that it is the
proper place for the tubercular school.
RELIEF FUND REDUCED.