Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-13
So of Present Number Are
Doomed for Junk Pile in
Nine Months.
KING URGES GREATER
SCHOOL APPROPRIATION
So, 900, 900 for Construction Is De-
clared Necessary by Sem
ator From Utah.


schools now in use throughout the Dis
trict will be eliminated within the next
nine months, it was revealed today BY
Jere J. Crane, business manager Of the
school system. His statement followed q
study Of new school construction now
under way.
Thirty of the portableS are being used
for the last time this term, and will not
be used with the opening OF schools next
September, while the remaining %, Mr.
Crane declared, will be taken out OF
service by February, 1882.
The removal of portable schools from
their present locations means that they
will be junked. Mr.. Cranes announce
ment was made following the statement
of Senator William H. King, Democrat,
of Utah, that $3,000,0 900 should be APP
propriated for new schools in the next
District bill. Senator King spent yes
terday afternoon comforting with DR.
Frank w. Ballou. superintendent, and
Stephen e. Kramer, first assistant SUI
perintendent, during which he said he
was DESTROYS of seeing the elimination
of portable school buildings and part
time classes.
Appropriation S2,72O.O00.
The total for new buildings and
grounds in the current appropriation is
S2,720, 900, so that in favoring three
million dollar appropriation, Senator
King advocates an increase of $3.50, 900
for the school building program. Fol-
lowing his review of school needs during
the past several days, which concluded
in his conference with the school off,
ct rs yesterday, Senator King expressed
the opinion that there IS a particular
need for new school construction in the
northwest section, and in some Of he
outlying ones where the population Is in
creasing rapidly.
The portable schools cited by Mr..
Crane to be removed include three now
and Northampton street. These will be
replaced by the new Lafayette School,
now under construction. Similarly three
portables will be removed from the
Elizabeth v. Brown School by virtue of
the opening in September of the new
Lafayette School. The Brookland School
will be relieved of two portables
through the opening OF the Crosby
NoyeS School, now under construction
at Tenth and Franklin streets northeast.
Two more, comprising schol unit on
the site of the new Noyes School, also
will be eliminated.
Other Examinations.
Other portables to be eliminated at
the same time include two at each of
Congress Heights School and Deanwood
School, three at the John Eaton School
in Cleveland Park. two at Kalmia road
and Fourteenth street, one each at the
KingSman and the Maury Schools, two
each at the RoSedale and Whittier
Schools and five at Wesley Heights,
where the new Horace Mann School IS
under construction.
The % portables doomed for elm
nation by February, 1882, are the four
at the Cleveland School, six at Gar
rison, three at Harrison and two each
at the Orr, Syphax, Fillmore, Giddings
and Jefferson Junior High Schools.
With completion of this program,
Mr.. Crane said, only five portable
schools would remain in service. These
would be one at the old Bates Road
School site, one at the Benning School,
two at the Keene and one at the
Ketchum School While it is possible,
the school business manager pointed
out, that one or more OF these may
be eliminated if items carried in the
budget estimates for 1888 are allowed,
it also is possible that one or two
service slightly beyond next February
If unforeseen demands arise in any
of the localities.
Saving More Than $1,000.
With permanent elimination of each
portable, the District of Columbia will
save between $1,000 and $500, which
otherwise would be spent for its re-
moval and re-erection at new site.
In some instances, Mr.. Crane said. the
District has been able to sell the port
able building for a nominal sum, with
the understanding that the purchased
structure be removed from the school
property by a specified time. While
most of the portables now in use have
been carted around the District from
one location to another since 1918, when
the newest of these one-room frame
buildings were purchased to afford emer-
gency and temporary accommodations
for a war-gorged population, some OF
these flimsy schools have been in use
since 1911-12.
In recent years, public sentiment, in
famed by damage suffered by these
buildings during windStormS, has de-
manded their removal and the school
authorities have consistently undertaken
to take them out of service.