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TRAINING SCHOOLS
Supplemental Estimates
Sent House Include
Funds Tor Work.
SINGLE INSTITUTION
FOR GIRLS is URGED
Sites for Permanent Buildings
Recommended in Report-New
Policy Outlined.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

The first step toward execution Of
a settled policy for reorganizing Dis
trict institutions for delinquent boys
and girls is taken in supplemental
estimates submitted to the House to-
day. These include 100000 for the
National Training School for Girls for
alteration and repair of existing struc-
lures and additional construction.
The supplemental estimates of ap-
preparation transmitted by the Presi-
dent for the fiscal years 1886 and 1887
for the District total $169,700
The report from the Budget Bureau
to the President emphasizes that, after
careful consideration, it is believed
there should be maintained a single
institution for delinquent girls, both
white and colored, properly segre-
gated, and not more than two insti-
tutions for boys. The property on
which the National Training School
for Girls is located is recommended
as the nucleus for the girls insti-
tuition.
1t Is proposed that the property OF
the National Training School for
Boys should be transferred by statute
to District jurisdiction. This would
become the main institution for the
correction of boys, with the Industrial
Home School for Colored Boys at
Blue Plains. D. c., continuing its
present functions.
Disposal Of Building.
The District Commissioners have for
years been authorized by law to dis
pose of the Industrial Home School on
Wisconsin avenue, now used for both
white boys and white girls. Because
OF this law, sums appropriated for
maintenance and upkeep of this in
stitution have been pared to an ire
ducible minimum and such work as
has been done was performed chiefly
under w. P. A. projects.
1t is now felt, according to the
Budget Bureau report transmitted by
the President to Congress, that this
institution should be abandoned and
the property sold as authorized by
law so that 1t may become tax-paying
real estate. The girls would be trans
ferred to the National Training School
for Girls as soon as adequate accom-
modations are provided there. The
boys would be transferred to the Ma
tional Training School for Boys.
1t is proposed that the National
Training School for Boys, now an in
dependent Government agency, but
loosely affiliated with the Department
Of Justice, when transferred by law to
District jurisdiction would function
under the Board of Public Welfare.
The majority of the inmates come
from the District.
List Of Recommendations.
The Board of Public Welfare has
recommended. and the Board of Com
missioners concurs, that the plant and
equipment of the National Training
School for Girls be rehabilitated and
modernized as follows:
O To make extensive alterations
in the Washington building providing
for central kitchen, combination
auditorium and gymnasium, central
laundry, school of domestic arts and
an apartment for the institutions en-
ployes to replace the existing dormi-
tories.
(2) To make alterations In the Shaw
Building. undermining the heating
layout, installing additional electrical
outlets and establishing an additional
toilet room with showers.
(3) To replace existing obsolete
plumbing In the Administration Build
ing.
(D To remodel two barns, one to be
used as a white girls dining and
recreation hall and the other to be used
as white girls school building.
(5) To construct brick cottages with
q minimum capacity of IS inmates
each.
(6 To remodel the sewerage and
heating systems to provide properly
for the expanded plant.
Cd To equip the remodeled and
new hlIildinrs