Evening star., 1935-02-25
Supplemental Estimate Sent
Budget Bureau by D. c.
Commissioners.
ACTION is HELD REAL
ECONOMY BY DONOVAN
Move Is in Keeping With Pro.
posal Made Last Year by
Hazen.

The Commissioners have sent to
the Budget Bureau a supplemental
estimate of 100000 for replacement
of the antiquated furnaces in is of
the public schools
The regular 1886 estimates, now
awaiting action in the Senate, con-
tain an item for replacement of four
school heating plants.
Real Economy Seen.
A strong argument for approval OF
the sum was made by Maj. Daniel j.
Donovan, District auditor, in state
ment to the Budget Bureau juStifying
the request. The old plants have been
a constant source of trouble and criti-
cism, he said. explaining that the
purpose Of real economy would be
served by approval of the program
for replacing the hot-air furnaces.
He asked that the requested sum be
approved and made Immediately
available so that work can start
promptly.
The above is in keeping with a pro-
posal made last Fall by Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen, who declared the
thing to do was to ask Congress for a
sum sufficient to make possible re-
placement of all of the antiquated
heating plants at one time.
Parents at the Blair School last
Fall threatened to stage a strike,
taking their children out of the build
ing unless the heating plant there
was replaced. This was called on
when the Commissioners ordered i'm
mediate repairs.
There are "a schools which do not
have modern steam heating plants,
OF these, 23 have old-style hot-air
equipment and one Is heated by
stoves. This list does not include
old-style heating arrangements used
In the portable school buildings.
Needed Requirements.
The Commissioners listed the heat
ing plants they wish to replace in the
order Of their priority. First on the
list is the Van Ness School, built in
1909, which has a furnace Of the
same vintage" The others, in order,
are Amidon, built in 1882, with a
furnace dating back to 1895; Pierce,
built in 1894, with o furnace dated
1900; Webb. built in 1900, with a
furnace Of the same age; Van Buren,
Annex, built in 1881, and heated by
six stoves of unrecorded age; Gage,
1902, with heating plant two years
older; Blow, built in 1906. with a
heating plant manufactured two years
earlier; Fairbrother, built in 1910 and
with a furnace built in 1908; Trues-
dell, built In 1908 and having a
furnace made in 1906; Giddings, built
in 1887, with q furnace dating 1900;
Bunker Hill, 1911, with a furnace
manufactured three years earlier
Berret, 1889, with one furnace dated
1908 and two others manufactured in
1887; Reservoir, built in 1887, With a
furnace that has no date; Rossell,
built in 1897, having a furnace built
two years earlier; Garfield, 1910, hav-
ing a furnace six years older; B. B.
French, 1904, with a furnace four
years older; the old Adams, 1888, with
furnace built in 1916; Blake, 1887,
with a furnace built in 1916; STAN
ton, 1908, with a furnace three years
older, and the Reno, built in 1908,
with furnace dated 1900.
The four plants which would be re-
placed under the regular 1886 esti-
mates are those in the Blair School,
manufactured in 1895; the heating
plant In the Hayes School. built in
the same year; the Hubbard. built in
1893, and the Langston, built in 1900