Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
.S941,67O SCHOOL
INCREASE CHIEFLY
FOR EQUIPMENT
$14,829,780 Is Total Tenta-
tive 1882 Estimates Ap-
proved by Board.
NEW BUILDING ITEM
$4,000 BELOW 1891
Sc, 566, 700 for Teachers and Libra
rians Is 1894, 700 More Than
Previously.

More than one-tf1ird of the S941 $40
increase in the school estimates for
1882 over the 1881 Appropriation bill as
1t was reported by the Senate commit
tee is accounted for by single item
OF 1898, 159 for furniture and equip
ment. This was shown in figures made
public today on the tentative and in
complete 1882 school estimates which
we're approved by the Board of Educa-
ton at its meeting late Wednesday.
OF the $14,829, 100 total approved by
the board. the furniture and equip
ment item compares with SIS, 1000 in
the 1891 bill This increase of S328. 159
is caused by the unusually large num-
Der of new buildings included in the
1881 bill, which automatically had to be
equipped.
Less for New Buildings.
The new building item in the 1892
estimates total $3,083, 900, which is
$4,000 less than the 1881 appropria-
ton bill. Land items, however, for
1882 total $19S,300 more than the $45S,-
200 for 1881. The land item sought
$656,500. One of the most interesting
reductions in 1882 estimates over the
1881 bill is the joint item for the main
tenance of tubercular pupils and the
operation of the school for crippled
children, for both of which only $l1 900
is requested. Last year these items
were separated. $1,000 being sought for
the tubercular and $16,400 for the Grip
pied children. The reduction actually
is $12,400.
The largest single item included in
the estimates is $6,566, 700 for teachers
librarians &c fy1ar -
$294,700 over the $6,272000 carried at
present in the 1881 bill. A sum of
$866,477 is requested in the estimates
for the care of buildings and grounds
as compared with $806,910 carried for
the same purpose in the pending bill.
$4,000 Supplies Cut.
A reduction of $4,000 results from
the request for $225,0O0 for text books
and supplies from the first grade of
elementary schools through fourth year
senior high school. The 1881 bill car
rled two items, one of $125,000 for the
elementary schools and another of S24O,-
600 for text books in the high
schools. The senior high schools share
OF the text book item for 1892 is for
replacement and maintenance only, and
is not itemized in the estimate figures
made public today
Another reduction of $4,000 is
credited to rehabilitation of the normal
schools which will have been COM
pleted with the $4,000 item carried in
the 1881 bill. The new items carried
in the 1882 estimates and not provided
for at all in the pending appropriation
bill include:
Maintenance of visual instruction,
$4,000; transportation of elementary
pupils, $4,000; equipment of Libraries.
NnYaf Nf 10 60 l1x. -
Junior High School. $4,000; equipment
of stages in Central and Dunbar High
Schools, $4,000; remodeling of Column
bia Junior High School. the Abbot Vo-
cational School, the old Business High
School and the Morse elementary
School, $124,479.
Continued expenses are provided for
in the 1892 estimates with an item of
S167,500. which is $32,500 lower than
the 100000 carried in the 1881 bill.
A total of 100000, made available
out of the unexpended balances, is re-
queSted in the estimates for improve
ment of school grounds.
The board seeks $4,000 for rent of
buildings and grounds for school pur-
poses, which is 100000 less than that
item for 1881. ;
More for Laboratories.
Science laboratories are credited with
S16,500 for 1882, which is $500 more
than in 1881.
1882 estimates for repairs and i'm
to buildings. This is an
increase of $4,000. A $4,000 increase
is asked for clerks through the inclusion
of an item of $183, $3.50. An 81, 500 increase
is shown in the salary item for officers,
the 1882 estimates carrying 1878, 000
A $1,000 increase is credited to the at
tendance department, with a $48, 800
item.
Night school salaries would be $4,000
more in 1882, through an item of $97,-
900. The night school continued ex-
penses will remain unchanged with
81, 500 carried
An item of $4,000 is sought In the
estimates for Americanization work
salaries, as compared with $4,000 In
1881. The board Is requesting Sl1,500
for blind children work, representing
an increase of $500. The manual
training fund is reduced by $4,000 in
fuel, gas and electricity item is esti-
mated at S315,285, representing an in
crease of $20,285 The community CEN
ter department is allowed $4,000 more
for 1882 than 1881, an item of $4,000
being included in the 1882 estimates.
An item or S3O,OuU is included In the
estimates for the Columbia Institution
Tor the Deaf, as compared with $29,5OO
now in the 1881 bill.
The items included in the 1882 esti-
mates which are identical with those
u the 1881 bill, include: Vacation
schools and Fairgrounds, $4,000; an
1uities. 100000; transportation of
ubercular and crippled children,
100000; kindergartens, $1,000: school
gardens, $4,000, and Fairgrounds,
$4,000.
These estimates lack the Health and
fire Department requirements, which
we're received from those municipal de-
,artments just before the estimates were
considered by the board. These will be
forwarded later.