The Wilmington Morning Star

Start Of Work On Negro
Troops' Hut Is Delayed
Plans for an immediate start of
construction of the negro soldiers'
hut, to be built by the city and
county at an estimated $10,000
cost, received a temporary set-
back yesterday afternoon as the
New Hanover county board of edu-
cation denied use of board-owned
property at 13th and Church streets
for the building.
Use of the site
was denied on the
ground that it
was embraced in
property on which the school board
plans to create a school play-
ground, and, ultimately, to build a
school for colored children.
The
area lies entirely within a negro
residential district.
Notification of the school board's
denial was communicated at a joint
session of the
city
and county
boards of commissioners, meeting
to receive bids for materials on the
proposed soldiers' hut, which it-
self will be an exact duplicate of
a hut now nearing completion at
Fourth and Princess streets and for
use of white troops of Camp Davis.
The school board's decision
to
deny use of the site is expected to
cause no more than a one-week
delay in start of construction,
however, as the two-board meeting
yesterday acted swiftly to dele-
gate James E. L. Wade, city com-
missioner of public works. and
County Commissioner Louis Cole-
man as a committee to locate a
new site for board consideration
next Monday. Several sites were
suggested and Commissioners
Wade and Coleman are expected to
make recommendations
at
an
early date.
Bids for materials for the ne-
gro hut were opened, read and
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