Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
THIRD DIVISION
I CONTRASTS TYPES
New and Old Schools Are
Included in 10 Build
ing Units.
Continued From First Page.)

equipped, are nOb Sle structural an
tiquities which the Keene building rep
resents.
But class room conditions which
marked the first division repeat them
selves in this third division territory
embracing the communities lying be-
tween Rock Greek Park and Connecti-
cut avenue on the west and, generally,
Vermont and Sherman avenues and
Soldiers Home on the east, with the
White House marking the soutnerly
point. OF the 202 classes in these
schools, Ill of them attend school on
a part-time schedule and of them are
quartered in the one-room frame port
ableS.
The congestion in this group of build
1ngS will receive relief from two quar-
tiers within week, school administra-
tors believe. The opening of the new
Adams School is expected to relieve the
Force and the Cooke Schools, which in
turn will provide some relief to the
buildings further north. Then the new
Paul Junior High School, which is
scheduled to open next Monday Is ex-
pected to relieve schools in the Pet
worth and Brightwood sections Within
two months the new Powell School will
be ready to turn over to the school peo-
pie. and that will provide additional
class facilities to congested areas in its
vicinity.
Meanwhile, the conditions as they
actually are and as they have existed
for some time, are those which are de-
scribed in the following building-b by
building statement of the reporter who
visited each school:
Old John Quincy Adams School.
Old John Quincy Adams School, r.
street at Seventeenth.-Two stories,
eight rooms; total enrolment, 263; to-
tai sittings, 265. This building is about
to be abandoned as classroom school,
having been recommended for with
drawal from service as early as 1908.
When the reporter visited it during the
survey, however, it contained four over
size claSses-two CAB of Al and SO
and two Sab Of a and 81. There
was one vacant class room and two
small rooms over the stairway landings,
one used as an office, the other as a
teachers rest room. The boys play
room Is small and dark, while the girls
is equipped as a cafeteria. The toilet
rooms and their equipment are old
fashioned basement affairs, marked by
dampneSS and bad lighting; the heat
ing plant is old, although the building
was sufficiently warm when the reporter
saw 1t. The playground is large and
well equipped.
New John Quincy Adams School.
New John Quincy Adams School,
Nineteenth street at Vernon street.-A
handsome, new structure containing
what appears to be every modern ia
cility and innovation for the accommo-
datton for elementary education. There
are Is rooms, an auditorium and o cafe
terra, together with an excellently fenced
and drained playground. Twenty of
the rooms are for classes, while the re-
naming chambers will be used for
oil 1N1E@ to-
domestic art and domestic science. The
corridors are provided with beautiful
tile walnScoting and sanitary floors.
Every class room Is furnished with new
movable furniture and novel cloak clos
cts, concealed behind pivoting sectional
blackboards. This school will not be
officially opened until next week with
the beginning of the new semester.
AT present IL classes are quartered
IN 1t, pending the reorganization affect
ing Force, Morgan and old Adams
Schools. Six classes are Force children,
transferred to permit painting of that
school. OF these, two TABS are over
size, one with 80 and the other with
40 pupils. Other Force classes here are
another TAB of %, two CABS Of "a
and 81. Five Morgan School classes
there are 1AB-A2 Of 40, 2B-3AB of 80,
a 5B-6A OF 80, an SAB of "A and a
two-section kindergarten Of IS to 5
year ana I'd 0-yedT-OlQ
pupils. The new Adams Schools first
student body will be organized next
week, as the pupils there now are car
ried on the school records Of their own
buildings.
Force School. Massachusetts, avenue
near Seventeenth street.-Three stories.
There are at present seven class in
this building, five of which are over
sized-two 4A-B's of 43 and As respec-
lively: 3A-B of 80, 2B Of 81 and
1B of 80. Other classes there are a
Bah of 81 and IA of 30. When the
current reorganization is completed,
this building will have 10 regular class
es. The toilet rooms are located in q
separate wing on the rear are better
aired than the baSement-type toilets
but are equipped with the same old
fashioned facilities. The vapor heat Is
excellent and artificial lighting, a ne
cessity by virtue of adjoining buildings
IN close proximity to classroom win
dows, Is adequate A small cafeteria
occupies one play room and bad-weath-
er receSSeS are held indoors. The pIay-
ground Is a tiny patch OF land at the
rear, wholly inadequate for anything
ike the 400 pupils this school probably
viii accommodate within the next few
months. Although recommended for
abandonment in 1908, the Force build
ing appears in as good condition as
any OF the older schools which are do
ang duty without that stigma.
Morgan.
Morgan School, California and v
streets.-This school, its student body
having been transferred in a unit to
the new Adams School, is being reno
waited and Is receiving a class room and
auditorium addition preparatory to be-
ing turned over to the colored divisions
IL VIII be described in the article deal
ing with the tenth division.
Henry d. Cooke.
Henry d. Cooke School, Seventeenth
and Euclid streets.-Twenty rooms. total
enrolment, S11; total sittings. $40
Sixteen oversize classes-two SAB's of
Al and 43, two TABS Of SO and SO. two
CABS OF Al and SO, two 5AB's of Al
and "A, two ABS of 46 each, two
3ABs OF a. and 40, two 2AB's of AZ
and 40, a lab of AZ The two 4AB
rooms, each provided with AZ sittings.
are badly congested. One is fitted with
regulation school furniture transferred
by the principal from less crowded
rooms, and the other uses tiny tables
and soap box" chairs which the pupils
handmade in the course Of class prof.
ects These latter makeshifts are used
only When there Is full attendance,
Tor when members of the class
are absent their places in regular seats
are taken by these on walters row.
at the back of the room. The ABB
rooms, each of which has one more
pupil than regular seats, are provided
with brentwood chairs and tables. AM
pie basement rooms are provided for
manual training and domestic classes.
Toilets are old-fashioned, but, because
the principal demands a daily hnSiuC