Evening star., 1925-03-13
SCHOOL PLANNERS
VISIT BALTIMORE
Ballou, Harris and Green
wood Gathering Data for
Local Program.
BY a STAFF Correspondent.

By STAFF Correspondent.
BALTIMORE, Md, March IA
Washington's committee of school
planners-Supt. of Schools Frank W.
Ballou, Municipal Architect Albert L.
Harris and Ernest Greenwood, vice
president of the Board Of Education
began diligent quest in Baltimore
today for the latest creations in pub
lie school architecture a prelude to
the gigantic sl9,G00.000 building pro
gram, designed to lift the District in
the next five years out Of it's school
shortage
The visit to Baltimore is but the
hrst lap in an extended tour Of in
spection which will take the trio
into the principal cities east of the
Mississippi having date school
plants. Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo.
Cleveland. Cincinnati, Rochester and
Philadelphia are included in its itin-
erary.
On "SchOoI Shopping Tour.
The committee is virtually on a
school shopping expedition-shop-
ping for the ideals in schoolhouse
construction for the sole benefit Of
the $1,000 children who have long
been cramped in archaic, overcrowd-
ed ano insanitary buildings. Every
phase of construction, interior ar
rangement, educational advantages
Of one type Of building over another
and safety will be studied carefully
with a view TO embodying in wash
ington's new schools the ideas which
will make for educational efficiency
and at the same time guard the pu-
pills health.
Three Of the buildings produced in
Baltimore's new school program were
n hy-
mittee, structures which Supt. Henry
5. West singled out as the best he
had to offer in modern schoolhouse
construction. They were the com
bined senior and junior high school in
Forest Park; an elementary school
known as No. SO, also in the Forest
Park territory, and the Clifton Park
Junior High School
Interest in Junior School.
The committee was especially in
terested in the junior high school, as
the five-year building project pro-
vides for the continued expansion Of
Washington's junior high school
system, now regarded among the best
in the country. Eight more junior
high schools are called for in the
building program, in addition to the
replacement of the Jefferson and the
enlargement Of the Macfarland, Lang
ley, Randall and Hine.
The committee left Washington this
morning at Sis o'clock and was met
at the Union Station here by mem
ber of Supt Vests staff, who accom-
panied them on the inspection tour.
The trio have planned to leave Balti-
more this evening for Philadelphia.
where tomorrow they will resume
their investigation.
Edwin c. Broome, superintendent
of the Philadelphia public schools.
has planned TO personally conduct the
committee on it's tour of the schools
under his jurisdiction. Philadelphia
newest schools in Germantown.
Frankford. as well as several in the
city proper, are among those to be
Demonstration School, the Roosevelt
Junior High School and the John
Story jerks Elementary School.
The initial tour of inspection will
end in Philadelphia and the commit
tee will return to Washington Sat
urday night The investigation will
be resumed the latter part of next
week with a trip TO Cleveland.
According to present plans, the
trips will be made over the week end,
all three members of the committee
feeling that the pressure of official
business in Washington will not per
nit them to be away for more than
three days at a time.