Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31

front door and makeShift walk of stone
slabs to side door; no manual arts room
for boys who must walk about Q miles
to another building in all kinds Of
weather, unless they can bum" ride.
Orr.
Orr, Twenty-second and Prout streets
southeast-Four class rooms in perma-
nent building and two in single-room
wooden portable buildings; seating ca
pacity in permanent building, I'll, in
portables, 81, making total of 253; total
enrolment, 226: no part-time classes;
permanent building satisfactorily light
ed; heat from hot-air furnace made
quate, much SCOT and coal gas, and
halls cold; old-type toilets, heated with
old iron stove; play rooms too small,
outside playground large enough, but
poorly surfaced with holes and mud in
wet weather; no teachers room: out
side appearance very unsightly, grounds
needing fences, terracing, resodding,
landscaping, etc: steep steps to base
ment are dangerous for small children.
The two portables are in fair condition
as portables go, but floors are cold and
damp and iron stoves in corners of
structures heat them very unevenly.
Pupils in portables must go to. main
building for toilets and drinking water.
Ketcham.
Ketcham, Fifteenth and u streets
southeast.-Eight class rooms in per-
manent building and one in a portable
wooden building, also an assembly hall;
total seating capacity, AT, enrolment,
1865, with 80 pupils and 80 seats in Dor
table structure; no part-time classes:
lighting satisfactory, except in porta-
BILE; in permanent building heat is in
adequate and uneven from old-type
hot-air furnace; gas stove furnishes
only heat in principals office; SCOT and
coal gas abundant; plumbing very I'M
satisfactory, toilets old style. When The
Star reporter called, on January 10, he
found 3 inches Of water on the floor of
boys toilet, due TO- a stoppage in the
discharge pipe; plumbing frequently
needs repair. Two inside play rooms
fairly satisfactory, outside playground
large enough, but surface poor, with
gllllieS, mud in wet weather; portable
had no electric light and practically
useless on dark days. 1t Is heated I'M
evenly by stove in corner of room; there
are no toilet facilities except in base
room for teachers. A fine old box hedge
around the playground is being de-
stroyed for want of an adequate fence.
Van Buren,.
Van Buren,, w street between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets south
east-Eight class rooms; seating ca
pacity, 1886; enrolment, 311; no part
time classes; lighting satisfactory;
steam heat satisfactory; toilets old type
and unsatisfactory, no teachers toilet;
three rooms in basement disable for
play rooms, but not of modern type:
outside playground large enough, but
condition very poor, with holes mud in
wet weather and no fence.
Van Buren, Annex.
Van Buren, Annex, v street between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
southeast: Six class rooms, three being
used for regular classes and three for
manual training. There are "a seats
provided for a total enrolment Of ga
pupils in regular classes, but all chill
dren are supplied with seats by borrow
ing from the main building of the Van
Buren, School; no part-time classes;
lighting satisfactory; heating very I'M
satisfactory only heat is provided by
old-fashioned iron stoves set up in the
class rooms beside the children, the
janitor carrying coal and ashes in a
coal Scuttle to every room on three
floors: it is difficult to keep all the
stoves going sufficiently to heat the
rooms: children and teachers must 60
through unheated. covered passage to