Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-24
D. c. SCHOOL PARTY
REACHES BUFFALO
Welcomed by City Heads.
Pointers Gained From In
spection in Rochester.
BY JAMES f. CHINN.
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.


BUFFALO, n. Y, March 24-Trailed
by corps of newspaper reporters
and photographers, Washington's s
committee of school-planners con-
tinued its diligent quest in Buffalo
today for new wrinkles in modern
schoolhouse construction. Buffalo
apparently considered the visit Of the
Capitals school planners an unusual
honor. The newspapers heralded their
coming in bold-face headlines; more
than they did for the New York State
Plumbers Union, which convened
here today in annual convention.
The plumbers brought their own
bands, but the City Of Buffalo would
have furnished the music for the
Washington trio if they had but
asked it.
Receive Real Welcome.
Supt. Ernest c. HartwelI and a num-
ber of other Buffalo school officials
formed the reception committee that
greeted Supt Frank w. Ballou, Mu-
nicipal Architect Albert l.. Harris and
Ernest Greenwood, vice president of
the Board of Education, as they start
! cd the tour of inspection. 1t was the
most suspicious welcome that the
vey.
The inspection trip in Buffalo, per-
sonally conducted by DR. Hartwell
| took the committee to two of the
newest schools. One was the Bennett
Senior High School, now nearing COM
pletion; the other an elementary
building of recent construction.
Survey in Rochester.
The survey in Rochester yesterday
was more profitable than the COM
mittee had anticipated. AS Rochester
has set the pace for the country in
| junior high school developments, pr.
| Ballou and MIR. Harris were firmly
convinced that they are proceeding in
/ the right direction in the constr
| tion of Washingtons new schools of
| this type. The trip also furnished
them with number of new ideas
which undoubtedly will find place
in the plans of the Districts new
schools to be erected under the great
81 900. 900 five-year building program
The junior high schools of Roches-
/ ter are standardized and are strik-
ingly similar in design to the Mac
farland and Langley junior high
schools in Washington.
Lower Schools Neglected.
In the enthusiastic development OF
| the junior high schools, Rochester,
unconsciously perhaps, has neglected
the elementary schools, for the COM
mittee observed nothing in them su-
| perior to the Districts schools of this
| type. Some of the buildings resem-
| BILE the antiquated structures which
| Washington will abandon under the
! five-year program.
Rochester's junior high schools
| however, contain several distinctive
features which cannot be found in the
| Districts latest schools of their type
such as large natatoriums, dental hy-
giene laboratories and one-way stair
cases, 50 arranged that pupils can de.
! scend on one side of the building and
ascend on the other, thereby expedit.
| ing the movement of the student BODY
at recess and dismissal periods and
reducing the potential panic hazard
| in an emergency.
| Although rot indorsing the swim
ming pool idea Of the new junioi
high schools to be erected in Wash
| ington, DIR. Ballou agreed that tn,
Capitals schools should make som,
provision for aiding pupils who wan
| to learn to swim. He believes tina
outdoor pools would be the solution
of this problem and that swimming
should be treated as a seasonabl,
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