Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
ADAMS BUILDING
TO RECEIVE PUPILS
MONDAY MORNING
Opening of New Structure
Will Relieve Congestion
in Various Sections.
PAUL JUNIOR SCHOOL
READY BY FEBRUARY !
Morgan School Will Become Col.
ored Elementary Unit With
Transfers Tomorrow.

The new Adams School at Columbia
road and Nineteenth street will be
opened officially at o'clock tomorrow
morning, when its first classes are
called to order.
The opening of the school will mark
the beginning of the long anticipated
mld-year relief of school congestion in
various sections of the city which cur
rent construction is scheduled to bring
The Paul Junior High School will be
opened February /, while the Langdon
School will receive its initial compile
ment of pupils within 10 days, although
its official opening is set for February l.
Until the beginning of the second
semester, February 8, the new Adams
School will enroll only the seventh and
eighth grade pupils of the Force School
at Seventeenth street and Massachu
sets avenue, and the full enrolment of
the Morgan School at California and v
streets. On February a general reor-
ganization of the several schools affect
ed by the opening of Adams will take
place. The old Adams School at Seven
tenth and r streets, which was recon-
mended for abandonment years ago
will be taken out of service as a class
room building.
Transfer Of Pupils.
The pupils now attending the old
Adams will be transferred to the Force
School next semester. At the same
time the Morgan School will become a
colored elementary school and the
transfer of its present pupils tomor-
row will enable the District repair
shop to make renovation. Although
the construction probably will not be
completed In time for the reopening of
the Morgan School for colored pupils,
its facilities will be virtually doubled
by new eight-room addition and as
sembly hall
The new Adams School Building
contains rs major rooms, an assembly
hall and space for a cafeteria. It was
designed by Albert L. Harris, munich
pal architect, with varying levels. so
that while its basement" is a full
story above the street level on the
front, its playground is two stories
higher, upon the top Of steep hill at
its rear. School officials praised Mr.
Harris solution Of the problems which
the hillside site presented, and they
regard the building, which, they say
might easily have been an awkward
appearing school perched atop the hill,
as one of the systems handsomest
structures.
Plan Junior Unit.
Plans are being made now to in
corporate in the new Adams School
next September Junior high school
unit" which would include the seventh
and eighth grades of the Force, James
F. Oyster, Cook and Morgan Schools.
Such consolidation of the two highest
elementary school grades would lend
admirable relief to a larger territory
than otherwise might have been
served and at the same time would af-
ford junior high school advantages to
between 200 and 300 children sooner
than they might have expected them
In order to facilitate the opening of
the Adams School tomorrow morning
the pupils who will comprise the
buildings initial roll we're permitted to
visit the structure last Thursday. No
classes were held then, however as the
children were simply there to familiar
lie themselves with the plan of the
building, so they will have no dificulty
in reporting to the proper rooms in
the morning
The new Langdon School, which now
is virtually completed, will receive the
enrolment of the old Langdon, nearby.
at Twentieth and Franklin streets
northeast, as soon as classroom furni-
northeast, as soon as class room furni-
pected 10 be completed within the next
10 days and it will signal the passing
OF one of Washingtons worst "fire
traps" The old Langdon School Is of
frame construction, and has been con-
demned bitterly as a menace for sew
eral years. The new school, ultimate
plans for which make it a much larger
school plant than It's predecessor, will
receive its first outside" children with
the beginning of the new semester
These Outside" children will come
from the general Langdon- Woodbridge
Dahlgren Terrace communities now
served with congestion by other school
buildings, and their transfer to the new
school will bring obvious relief to that
section of Northeast Washington.
Paul School Opening.
The Paul Junior High School will
open February 3, with an initial en-
rollment Of 400 pupils. Located at Con-
cord avenue and Eighth streets. this
school will provide considerable relief
for congestion at the Brightwood Junior
High School annex, at Thirteenth and
Nicholson streets: the Takoma (ele-
mentary school. at Piney Branch road
and Dahl1a streets: the Keene (ele-
mentary School, at Blair and Riggs
roads, and the Mcfarland Junior High
School, at Iowa avenue and Webster
street. When it is opened the Paul
Junior High School will house 200 pupils
less than its capacity, thus allowing for
future class organization and school
population increase in its neighborhood.