Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-03

actual wiring installation by the young
electricians. Star Staff Photos
opened windows to provide a semblance
! of ventilation. When reporter visited
| this class it was engaged in building
metal shop furniture for other schools
Of the system.
Same Crowded Conditions.
Same crowded conditions prevailed
/ in this shop. The drafting room ap-
peared better equipped than the shops,
since class room lends itself better to
rows of drawing tables than to me-
chanical equipment which has been
placed in the other rooms; drawing
tables of the cabinet type, however,
were old and worn.
This school uses a class room equip
ped with fourth-grade pupils seats and
desks as an assembly hall'-and its
students range up to Is years of age!
This room was occupied by class when
reporter saw it and the large boys were
badly cramped in the chairs made for
1O-year-olds. The other three class
rooms, in which the students are sup
posed to receive the academic train
! ing, which comprises one-half of their
course, were provided with more or less
old and WORKOUT school room furniture.
The hot-air heating plant is entirely
inadequate; every room and shop visited
! by the reporter, with the possible excep-
ton of the sheet metal shop (Which
had gas-burning tool heaters operating)
was cool, and the corridors, which lack
! heat provision, were cold. The base
ment is a damp, dark "hole"; toilet
room Is particularly dark and feeble
electric lights burn continuously; the
atmosphere was foul; the only windows
in the place let out upon a narrow air.
| way 10 feet below the sidewalk and 1t,
| incidentally, was used as a store space
| for pipes and such material used in
the plumbing shop. Situated upon
! small triangular block, this building
! lacks virtually every pretense of a
| recreation field.
Pools Of Water on Floor.
Automobile shop at ITO o street-A
! small, unheated shop, which was Ill
! smelling, wet and cold the day the
! reporter saw 1t. Pools of water, upon
which fioated oil drippings, stood upon
the irregular concrete floor that day;
roof was leaking single unit of
/ toilet equipment is located in a tiny
| glass booth in center of the shop;
lacked ventilation. Auto shop teachers
desk" where he keeps pupils records
Is makeshift affair, in a tiny veSti-
bule just inside the door to the shop.
| Electrical shop-HouSed in former
class room of the Polk School; equip
ment includes full-sized house sec
/ tons upon which students practice
wiring, and series of benches at which
| they do smaller work; room presents a
| tumble in which boys constantly get in
~ NnvsSe nh
| on the small floor space. Teachers
desk, in which he keeps records and
| texts for theory instruction, placed in
midst of this mass of equipment and
| students. There is waiting list OF
| 10 students desiring to take this work,
prevented by inadequate space.
| Columbia Junior High Building shops
Woodworking shop, made by remov-
| ing section of partition between two
adjoining class rooms, adequate. Con-
| tainS various cutting and milling ma
chimes within fairly ample floor space.
Light, from windows down full side OF
shop ample. Print shop, similar to
wood shop, will be adequately housed
when work of converting class rooms
which was under way when reporter
called, is completed. class room in
/ this building is used as a lunch room
by the Abbot School boys. Plans now
are under way to transfer the electrical
shop to this building; more appropriate
rooms were being fitted when The Star
reporter visited this building.
Dennison School for Girls.
Dennison Vocational School, S street
and Fourteenth street-This institution
provides training in trades and CORE
lated academic work for approximately
100 white girls. All of the trades be-
iV1O Land fhnr1caJuac mall
to the class room quarters which this
building provides Personal hygiene
course (scalp, facial and nail treat
ment such as beauty parlors" provide)
however, seems disordered through the
necessity of placing washstands, etc.
against wall where blackboards former
ly were, and of having tables used fol
manicuring nearer the windows. Thi;
shop" is more makeshift in character
than most Of the others Sewing classe:
ut in former class room. Cafeteria class
however, is not readily adaptable tt
class room, as there is lack of Ventila.
ton which would appear to be seriou.
in the warmer weather of Spring anC
Fall; the refrigerator is placed in wha
5 formerly was a cloak room and thu
main Kitchen" itself should be large
to accommodate the four gas ranges
gas fired bakers, electrically powered
1
now are in it. This class prepare
schools daily luncheon.
Home-making and junior nursing 4
fairly well accommodated in forme
class room. This class makes dali,
three gallons of soup for the whit
: crippled children school pupils in tn,
: Weightman Building. Sewing, penman
ship and tipping classes, in some o
: which are taught also various kinds O
novelty making, such as table favors
are fairly well provided for in the elias
rooms they occupy. There Is no visibl
evidence Of congestion in this building
One class room is used as an auditorium
and recreation room, where girls hav
: a monograph and piano. A forme
play room in the basement, the re
porter was advised, is to be fitted up +
{ receive laundry equipment in the in
stitution of a course in laundering
ether play room Is used as a gym