Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
13 Portable Buildings win
Be Moved During Sum-
mer Recess.
MODERN EQUIPMENT
WILL BE INSTALLED
Maj. Wilmarth Says Job Is to Be
Finished Before Reopening
in Fall.

Thirteen of the IS portable schools
in the city are being moved to new
locations as a part of the most pre-.
tentious Summer repair and replace
ment program ever attempted by the
school system, it was announced last
night by Acting Supt. of Schools Ray.
mond 0. Wilmarth.
The program calls for the replace
ment of wornout furnaces in 10
schools, painting of 81 schools, cleo.
trification of II schools and installa-
ton Of modern lavatories in I
schools. 1t also anticipates the in.
stall,-tion of the new costly steel cur
tains OF Central and Dunbar High
Schools, as we'll as the equipping Of
all classrooms with stereopticon out
let's to facilitate visual instruction
work.
Practically all Of this work, 1t Is an
nounced by Maj. IVilmarth, who Is
business manager of the school sys-
tenn and in direct supervision, will be
completed by the time the schools
open, September 10.
Other Work to Be Finished.
The opening of the new school year
also will see the completion of the
new eight-room Woodbridge School, at
Central and Carlton avenues north
east: the new addition to the Hine
Junior High School, at Seventh and
avenue southeast: the
new addition to the Bruce School,
Sherman avenue and Kenyon street,
and the new addition to the Bur.
roughs School, Eighteenth and Mon
roe streets northeast.
The Is changes in the location OF
as many portable schools follow:
Two portables from the Garnet
School to the Garrison School.
Two portables from the Blair School
to the Congress Heights School.
One portable from the Bruce to the
Cleveland School.
One portable from the Peabody to
the Orr School.
One portable from the Burroughs to
the Fillmore School.
One portable from the Burroughs to
the Brookland School.
One portable from the Allison street
site to the Fillmore School. q
Two portables from the Allison
street site to Wesley Heights.
Two portables from the Woodbridge
to the Cleveland School.
Razing Patterson School.
Five of the portables, two at the
Garrison and three at the Cleveland
School, will be used in connection with
four portables now at the Garrison
School to accommodate the pupils who
have been attending the Patterson
School. which is being RACED to make
way for the Garnet Junior High
School.
The relocation of the Is portables
at a cost of $4,000 is concrete evi.
dence Of the fact that the Washington
school system still is materially con-
gested.
$50 long as the system finds need
for the IS portable schools purchased
during the period 1914-191s, we must
admit conditions are congested," Maj.
Wilmarth declares.
It is conceded by school officials that
the school system will not be able to
condemn it's portable schools until
after the five-year school building pro-
gram has been completed.
Work was started yesterday on the
tearing down of one Of the Peabody
School portables, which is being re.
located, while at the same time the
workmen from the District repair
shop started to re-erect portable at
the congress heights ScnoOl.
Many Moved Frequently.
It takes on an average Of two weeks
to relocate a portable school, it Is said.
Most of the portable schools have
been moved a number of times, but
only three during the past Is years
have become so deteriorated as to
have to be condemned.
Heating plants are being replaced
this Summer in the following schools:
Bruce, Hine Junior High, Randall
Junior High, Fillmore, Lenox, Logan.
Phillips, Polk, Slater. Smallwood, Tay.
Tor. Van Buren, and Wilson Normal
School.
the Curtis. Addison, Garfield and Stan.
ton Schools, resulting in the abolish.
ment Of out-of-door toilets.
This Summer is witnessing the com.
plete identification Of all schools in
the system needing this work. Two
schools, however, while wired, will not
have current, due to the exorbitant
cost of taking current to them. They
are the Van Ness and the Syphax
Schools.
The final electrical replacement list
which Is now being worked on fol.
lows: Wilson Normal, Business, Cen.
Lfal, DUNBAR ana Mckinley High
Schools, Columia and Shaw Junior
High Schools and Park View School.
New electric fixtures are being put in
he Truesdell. Adams, Force and Har.
'ison Schools.
Schools to Be Painted.
The schools to be taken care Of In
he Summer painting program follow:
Miner and Wilson Normal Schools, JET.
erson Junior High, Addison, Curtis,
Jackson, Dennison, Hubbard, Pet.
worth, Takoma. Henry, Burroughs,
tales, Park View, Bell, Blair ,Kenil.
worth, Ludlow, Taylor, Brent, Dent,
Amidon, Moss. Briggs, Cleve.
and, Stevens. Langston, Slater, Crum.
nell, Deanwood. Payne, Syphax and
rwining.
While the chances are bright for the
Of the steel curtain at the
Dunbar High School before the open.
ng Of school, it Is said that 1t II prob.
bile the curtain will not be installed
It the Central High School until later
because OF difficulty in obtaining q bid
N the required specifications. T.