Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
SCHOOL AND OTHER
SITES INSPECTED
Funk and District Officials
Visit Land Proposed for
+ New Buildings.

Representative Frank H. Funk of
Illinois. chairman of the subcommittee
In charge of District appropriations.
In company with District and school
officials. made a lengthy tour of all
sections of the city and into Mary
land and Virginia today 20 inspect
school sites. playground sites and 9th
e. points where new District build
ings are proposed. including the new
Police Court building. A similar tour
will he made by the group tomorrow.
The school Fairgrounds, and other
sites visited today were:
Adjoining the Bryan School on b
street between Thirteenth and Four
teenth, southeast, where it is propos
ed to erect a siX-room addition. S125.-
BOO; at the Wheatley School, where it
is proposed to erect combination
gymnasium and assembly hall at
cost of SIS 900: at the Peabody School
where il is planned to purchase land
for a playground: site adjoining the
'rummel School where ii is proposed
to erect siX-room addition at a cost
of 500 900: a site at TWentY-Second
and Franklin streets northeast. where
il is proposed to erect a 16-room build
ing to replace the Langdon School. at
a cost of s275.000 the Woodbridge
School. which is now in course of con
struction: the Langley Junior Hlgh
School and the site for the Mckinley
Technical High School adjoining; the
site for the proposed white bathlng
pool near the Emory School and that
vicinity.
Drill Tower Planned.
The investigators also inspected No.
fire engine house on North Caro-
lima avenue southeast, between sixth
and Seventh streets. where 1t is pro-
nosed to erect a drill tower for the
District Fire Department at a cost
of $4,000.
The program for tomorrow in
cludes:
Inspection of the site for the pro-
posed addition to the Margaret Muir
ray Washington Vocational School.
for which an appropriation of $4,000
rs asked; the site on which the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School is being
constructed and a site near Ninth
and Euclid streets. where ii is pro
posed to erect a new health school
for colored pupils: a site adjoining the
Barnard School, where 1t is planned
to erect an eightsroom addition at
cost of SITS 900; site adjoining the
Morgan School, where it is proposed
to erect an eight-room addition; site
on California street west of Nine
teenth. where it is proposed to erect
q 24-room school building at cost of
$500, 900.
BirdhOuse Site Visited.
The site for the proposed birdhouse
for the Zoo also was inspected. as
was the site proposed for a new school
on Grant road at Thirty sixth street;
site for the proposed four-room build
ing for the Potomac Heights School;
a site for the Gordon Junior High
SCHOOL, No. precinct police station,
and the site proposed for the, Worm.
lev School playground and site at
Twenty fifth and n streets, proposed
for the colored bathing pool; site
near Fourteenth and d streets south
west, where 1t is proposed to erect an
addition to the electrical department
storehouse at a cost of $4,000, and a
site at Fourth and f streets, where
II is proposed to erect a new Police
Court Building.
After completing their investigation
In the city today the investigators
wer to Cherry Hill. Va, to inspect
the site proposed for the garbage re
duction plant and the building under
construction at the District Training
School, near Laurel, Md.