| Show PORTABLE SCHOOLS FOR CITIES temporary structures found to lo be very useful in the crowed districts allhouse All Alt housh bough opinions are divided con berning it there in much talk about the portable schoolhouse it IL new york only a few days ago the matter camo up unofficially in tho the board of education brought about by the sa of an experiment made with them in the bartugh boc of brooklyn rooklyn Il and by the word from hoston boston where portable por tab t bouses havo lave been placed hero here there and avd when there wae was need of more room the that authorities in manhattan balse ala Is I 1 that playground space la Is so limited that there la Is hardly room to put dut portable buildings alongside of schools in the crowded 1 of the city where they would io e moat most va val loble tible oa on tho other hand a portable building hae has ln squeezed ao 10 A by a school ja a most populous loue 1 u cc tion of and it la Is proving very three portable schools arp are already in operation in brooklyn estia seating ting alto gether children who could not oth berwise be accommodated the theory ie Is that a ity should own or ithe a number of 0 a portable tk and ad move chent around to crowded die tracts te 14 arl otice however each portable school that has bas been put up in limits deerns in danger of becoming a permanent structure school no 49 in greenpoint Green point in dorrum street near manhattan aw a aue haa has a big portable house howe ot of tro two rooms holding hol liag pupils school no so in the canarsie Can section in 1 ate amsen avenue has ha two of them each 22 by 39 36 and each containing sixty desk desks A days work would brins bring them to the ho ground for there ie in not a nail about them and they could be erected quite as quickly anywhere else but in both tan Lan arste and Green polut there ie in no question of their beenk taken a away ay at present prea ent for no permanent perina pent are likely to take their place each hach schoolhouse has its little porch says the new corp times and ia Is heated by the cimpl expedient of running a steam pipe rora toom r ora the school each la Is a class room by itself except in the portable por tAbIe building in greenpoint Green point which ie Is so large that it hold holds two classes tuo coat cost of these buildings bought outright in 1 from to 1000 |
