e range for target practice. In this
new building there are 35 class rooms, 5 retiring rooms, an emergency
room, 7 locker rooms and locker accommodations for 1,500 pupils. A
greenhouse and a roof garden are being constructed and it is hoped
that Congress may make an appropriation for building a stadium in the
rear of the school.

The course of study in the Dunbar High School includes all the
academic and business subjects taught in similar schools of accredited
standing, as well as domestic science, printing, physical training and
military science.

[348] Annual Report of the Colored Schools of Washington and
Georgetown, 1872-73, p. 31.

[349] _Ibid._, pp. 31, 62, and 95.

[350] First Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools of
the D. C., 1875-76, pp. 174, 181.

[351] _Ibid._, 1874-75, p. 252.

[352] Third Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Colored
Public Schools of Washington and Georgetown, The Preparatory High
School.

[353] Simmons, "Men of Mark," p. 428.

[354] This is based on the Reports of the Board of Education of the
District of Columbia.

[355] Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools,
1889-90, p. 175.

[356] The site of the building cost $24,592.50, the building itself
cost $74,454.88, the fixtures $9,862.44, making a total expenditure of
$109,909.82. (See Report of the Board of Education of D. C.,
1904-1905.)

[357] From 1875 to 1882 he was principal of a Grammar School. In 1882
he was appointed supervising principal and served in that capacity for
fourteen years. In 1896 he was placed at the head of the M Street High
School and served three years. In 1899 he was again appointed
supervising principal and served two years. In 1900 he was made
assistant superintendent for the colored schools and remained in that
position for seven years. In 1907 he was appointed for the fourth time
to a supervising principalship and holds this position at the present
time.

[358] Among the officers are Captains C. C. H. Davis, S. H. Epps, L.
H. Patterson, Lieutenants A. C. Newman, Principal of the Armstrong
Manual Training School, B. D. Boyd, T. J. Abrams, C. King and R. A.
Jackson, all products of this high school.

[359] He served in Liberia with Colonel Young, who organized the
Liberian Constabulary.

OUR NEW POSSESSIONS--THE DANISH WEST INDIES

By the recent purchase treaty agreed upon between this country and
Denmark the United States government h