Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
CRANE LISTS COSTS
FOR SCHOOL AREAS.
Charges of Critics Recsive
Detailed 3-Year Report
OF Expenditures.

years for improvements to schoo
grounds was the answer of Jere j
Crane, school system business manager
last night to school administration
critics vino charged oficials with ignor-
ing these needs.
Allowed 100000 q year out of unex.
pended balances of school building APP
propriatiens for Improvements to
grounds" Mr.. Crane accounts for s2e7,-
862.77 spent on school ground land
scaping and playground conditioning
for the fiscal years 1929 to 1881. BY
the end of next month, he said, this
sum probably will be increased to the
full 100000 with completion Of work
now under way.
The expenditures listed by Mr.. Crane
range from amounts of less than 50 to
$22,45s.28. the sum spent to convert the
below-street-level gulley adjoining the
Gordon Junior High School to ver-
liable garden stadium. The money, he
explained. was paid for labor and ma
terial In grading and surfacing grounds
Sodding terraces, building retaining
walls and fences and planting shrubs
No playground equipment or athletic
devices are included in these figures.
Lacks Police Protection.
In making public these expenditures
Mr.. Crane scored the lack of support
given the school administration in
keeping up grounds through lack of
parental restraint as evidenced by chill
dren playing roughly on lawns and
planted areas. and in the lack of ade-
quats police protection of school prop
critics against trespassers after schoob
hours He said: I'VE have repeatedly
asked for additional protection, and in
its absence we can rely only upon a
xTyni lx fe
lacking, too"
In addition, Mr. Crane made known
several ground improvement projects
provided for in the 1888 estimates now
In the hands of the District Commits
SioneFs. These include $4,000 for the
s. j. Bowen School, $500 for the
Buchanan School, $6.110.32 for the H.
D. Cooke School. $500 fer the Lang
don School, 5000 for the Murch, $4,000
for Congress Heights, 81 900 for Emery,
$4,000 for Deanwood. $500 for Gage,
1880 for Hine Junior High, $4,000 fer
Mcfarland Junior High, $4,000 for
Military Road, $4,000 for Mott, $1,000
for Oyster, $1,000 for Paul Junior High,
$4,000 for Powell Junior High, ss 900
for. Takcn1a, $500 for Webb, $4,000 for
Van Buren,. $4,000 fer Wormley and
$500 for Woodbridge School.
Seven Receive $4,000.
Seven schools were listed by Mr.
Crane as having had more than Si0,-
900 Spent on the improvement of their
grounds during the three fiscal years.
Eleven received between $1,000 and Sl0,-
900 and 80 had between 81 600 and
$1,000 spent upon them,
The FIRST seven and their respective
amounts are: Barnard School, $l3,-
s6025: Brightwood, $11.156; Burroughs,
Sl7,441.19: Gordon Junior High. S22,-
45S 2s; Smothers. Si2,l64.75; Stuart
Junior High, $14,33o.25, and Wheatley,
$1l,03s.25.
The next highest group In amounts
expended were: Bancroft. $5,742 20;
Benning, So, 1889 Bruce, SIS, 6S057; j.
r. Cook, $6,182.4S; Garfield, $6.594.25;
Janney, $5,11040; Kinssman, S6.i20.6s;
Petwcrth, $7,773.61; Raymond, So
172.7e; Truesdell, $7,30f.68, and Whit
tier, Ss.s25.19.
Other Expenditures Listed.
Schools receiving between $1,000 and
81 900 included Armstrong High School,
s4,7lG.S0: Bell School new, $3,872.33;
Birney, sl,I7S.l1: Blair. $2,745.56;
Brsn. :2sl 1:s F. BrGekland :i q s02 g
Central High School, SI.561.sO H. d.
Cooke. s1.o33.10 (seheduled to receive
an additional $6,Ii0.32 under 1885
estimates); Crummell, $4.245.67; Curtis,
S3,Se6.i0: Eaton, 42,9e6.15; Emery,
S1,264 with 81 900 additional scheduled
for 1889: Fairbrother, $2,464.33; Gar
net-Patterson Junior High, $4,727.s7;
Hayes. S1,788.33; Lovejoy, $3,307 "a;
Madison, $4,344.44; Magruder, s2.5s4.7I;
Miner Teachers College, $2,2ss.61;
Monroe. $1.333.70; Reservoir, $4,000 80;
YR~~a y4~k, q q. >ts1sy
s1,1Ss.7e; Thomson, $1,114.95: Wallach.
$l,52S.5e; Margaret Murray Washington
Vocational, $1,677.92; Weightman, ST.
47SS6; Western High, $2.628.30 Wilson
Teachers College, $2,915.16, and Wood
ridge, S2,616.04.
Buildings on which less than $1,000
has been spent for ground improve
nlents included Adams, s50703; Add
son, e203.0S; Anidon, S36.49; Banneker,
SlS9.74: s. J. Bowen lunajor improve
ment scheduled for 1850. $40; Briggs,
provemeT1t scheduled for 1899: Burr
vile, si56.s4; Carberry, S31S58; Car
dozo, ,$i.o5; Chain Bridge, s6O.74; Co
lumbia Junior High, S53S.75; Congress
Heights, 1921 (major improvement
scheduled for 1880; Corcorau, e6016:
Cranch, $66730; Dennison Vocational.
Sl17e; Dent, S130.39; Douglas, $500;
Dunbar High School, s1,6s; Eastern
High School. $347.2s; lexington,
So5.57; Edmonds. $l65.ss; Fillmore,
$3.50; Force, 1895.
lin Administration Building. s2s1s;
Gage, s24.ST (major improvement
scheduled for 1880: Gales, s2oo2s;
Garrison, $4S2s5; Giddings. s36247;
Greenleaf, $4o7Ol; Hamilton, S90.0s;
Harrison, Sl6467; Health School
sl9256; Henry, s405: Hine Junior
High, s376.22: Hyde, Sl30.33: jackson
s20o.3l Jefferson Junior High, $21l SIS
johnson. $397.37: Jones, si4.33; Keene
s7276; Kenilworth, Siee SO; Key, sTs.l6;
IAngdon, $S7l96 (major improvement
scheduled for 1889; Langston, s62.i3;
lincoln, sl4o: Logan, $l3385; Ludlow
$27s.s7 Mcfarland Junior High
s422.30 (n1ajor Improvement scheduled
for 1889; Maury, t342.43; Mckinley
High School. s4l9.67; Military Road
for 1889; Montgomery. s85399; Nor
gan, S3773o; Murch, s32242 (majoi
Improvement scheduled for 1881: Orr
5000: Oyster. 32.2o (najor improve
rnent scheduled for 1889; Park View
50 "a: Paul Junior High, s12o56 (majol
Improvement scheduled for 1880; Pea
body. 5000 so; Phillips, sl167s Pierce
s4s.67; Polk, s325e; Potomac, s4740
Handle, $3.50; Ross, s13s37: RosSell
Se7.0e: Seaton, $l35 81; Simmons
SBS.4i; slater, tz0.3e: Smallweod
Ss3eT; stanton. t177.eo; Stevens, sails
Sumner, 1850; Tenley. sll9.4s; Var
Buren, 9le2.Te (naaJor improvement
scheduled for 1889; Van Ness, 8443.3o
Webb, eo42g additional. improvement
scheduled for 1880; webster, 1864
West, $ss.5i; Henry Wilson, t54.o2. and
Wormley. eTi3.37.
The list tncludes an item Of 9i8,'
3o573 for miscellaneous expenses, which
included the purchase Of tools, blu'
printing. cement and sand, hiring Of {
tesn, shop equipment. repairing AMI
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