Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1922, Page 13

- N THE BEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1922. 3 Commissioners’ Report Outlines Need for Greater Appropriations for District WOULD ENLARGE TRAINING SCHOOL, Budget Bureau Asks $62,000 for New Buildings at Girls’ Institution. For the purchase of land not to ex- ceed 160 acres. in Maryland, and the construction thereon of two buildings to accommodate not more than 150, an appropriation of $62,000 is recom- | mended for tae board of trustees of; the National Training School for Girls of the District. This legislative pro-. vision stipulates that the site must he approved by the District Commis- ners and that the $62,000 shall be paid 60 per cent from the revenues of the District and 40 per cent from the Treasury. The title to the land shail be taken directly in the name of the United Scates. 1 For the Board of Charities a total of $24.340 is recommended. which is an increase of $2.300. of this is for the purchase and equip- ment of 2 motor ambulance and $300 : Surpl for’the maintenance of (Tee MOWOL{ o yy1 1 1930, the 8 A or the jail $50.750 is recommended. | i€ of theDistrict of which is an increase of $4.750. For salaries of those in joint charge of l_h(’, workhouse and reformatory $11.660 is recommended. which is an increase 1 $3.000. Thig Is for three assistant | engineers at $1.000 each. The total appropriation for the workhouse is $227,600, which is an increase DY_ $2 000. Of this $20,000 is for repairs to buildings, rgadways and walks, $5,000 for fuel, m¥intenance and manufac- turing. For the reformatory a total appro- priation $140.000 is recommended, which is 0 greater than the cur- rent appropriation. This includes an | increase of $10.000 for maintenance,, custody, clothing and support of in- mates, rewards for fugitives and pur- chases of supplies. This additional amount is asked because of the ex- pected increase in population. A de- crease of $260 is shown in the cost of } fuel. . For_ the National 'kai ing School for Boys $60,000 is rernmmend_ed. which is a decrease of $10.000. For the National Training School for Girls, in addition to the item of $62.- 600 for new buildings, an increase of $4.000 is proposed for the maintenance fund. SIX PERSONS BURIED UNDER AUTO IN GRASH . Narrowly Escape Death When Speeder Hits Car and Rushes Away. Frederick C. Parker. proprietor of the Perfection Printing Company, 1108 H street: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sutton of #04 D street. southwest and their three children. narrowly escaped death when Mr. Parker's automobile was ditched by a passing touring car! near Jenkins, Md., yesterday evening. Glaring Headlights Blamed. The accident. which is attributed by Mr. Parker to the glaring headlights flashed by the driver of the car that struck him occured shortly after 5:30 o'clock yesterday, when Parker and his friends were returning to the city from a visit to Chapel Point. ! Md. He was rounding a curve when ! the lights from a speeding automoblile blinded him. The passing car, after overturning Parker's 1machine and | pinning the occupants under it. sped along without Stopping. g Sutton, who managed to extricate) himgelf from the wreck. tore franti- cally at the ditched car and succeeded tn making a hole in its top lnrge‘ enough to release the prisoners, none of whom except Parker was serious!y hurt. Mrs. Sutton received a badly bruised nose. while her children. Elizabeth, Lenora and Oliver, aged two. seven and nine respectively, were badly shaken up and suffered from fright. The car was demolished. Complains of Bootlegging. | Passing motorists picked up the. injured persons and brought them to} Washington, where Parker's hurts! were treated by Dr. J. Chester Pyles) and he was taken to his home. | Mr. Parker sald that he would enter| complaint with the proper authorities | as soon as possible and declared he | could present sufficient proof to show , Maryland officials that bootlegging on {Amount of 3.65 per cent Digtrict of Colum a tremendous scale was being -carried - on in that section of the state and' made the highways dangerous. ) P.0. HALFHoLDAY - WEEKLY 15 PLANNED Postmaster General Work Orders Such Under Certain Condi- tion After January 13. | Saturday half-holidays to postal em- ployes the year ‘round came into sight today. when Postmaster General Work authorized postmasters throughout the country to grant the holiday whenever | possible without injury to the service. Dr. Work stipulated. however, that | the order shall not be put into’ effect until January 13, 1923, in order that there may be no danger of interference with the handling of the Christmas mails, which are expected to be tie greatest in postal history. The order is an extension of one issued last July. in which workers in the postal service were excused on Saturday afternoons during the sum- mer scason. The new order applies particularly where employes, by un- nsual effort or by a situation that may exist on Saturday afternoon. are able to finish their customary work : earlier than the required time. City Postmaster Chance said today that he would take the order under advisement and sec how far it may he applied to the employes of the ‘Washington city post office. b Reduces the Amounts Asked for Refunds And Damage Awards. The budget bureau. recom- mends $25,000, which is a re- duction of $15,000 from the present law, for the payment of amounts cellected by the District em-t.'—lv n sccount Two thousand |} .|cally every Public Works Lag as City Grows With Funds Lacking __(Centinued from First Page.) States on account of its proportion of appropriations, $9,187,792.98. The collections from taxes on real | estate for the fiscal year 1922 amount- ted to $8.431,18 23; collections from taxes on personal property, including taxes on gross earnings and receipts of public utilities, banks and building assoclations and on gross receipts of street railway companies, $2,670,284.92. and collections from taxes on intangi- ble personal property, $949,058. Col- lections from miscellaneous sources, amounting to $1,866,482.47, made up he balance of the District’s revenue. #1S0,000 for Pemsions. The sum of $189,000 was transferred from the revenues of the District of Columbia to meet the payment of po- licemen’s and firemen’s pensions dur- ing the fiscal year 1922. The cash expefiditures for the fiscal year 1922 from appropriations amount- ed to $22.929,019.99, classified as fol- lows: General Charities and correct Education i Recreation Miscellaneo Public-sers, Interest and debi the Treasury of the Unite excess of appropriations and other charges against such revenues to that date, amounted to $4.648,666.69. This amount accumulated between June 30. 1916, and June 30, 1920, while the half-and-half plan of appropriating for the District was in_operation. During the fiscal vear 1921 the sur- Plus revenues were increased by $512.171.86, making a total of $5,160,- 838.55 of surplus revenues belonging to_the District on June 30. 1921. The revenues of the District of Co- lumbia for the flscal year 1922, in- cluding credits arising from lapsed appropriations. available to meet ap- propriation charges of that year, amounted to $14.3 0.74, trom which the sum of $189.000 as tra to the credit of the policemen's and fl:tr:\eh s relief fund. This left $14,- 26.760.74 to meet the District's pro- rortion of appropriation charges for the fiscal vear 192 Surplus, $4,677,347.90, The appropriations of the District of Columbia for the flscal year 1922, pavable by the United States and the Dist of Columbia. amounted to $: 411.07. The charge against the District of Columbia under these ap- propriations totaled $13.784,647.70. Th appropriations pavable wholly the revenues of the Dist lumbia amounted to $240. The receipts of the Distri. lumbia for the fiscal year I able to meet its “charges under appropriations was $14,126,760.74, against which the total appropriation charges were $13,784.647.70, leaving a balance of receipts of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1922, over and above all charges for that year, of $342.113.04. Tais amount, «dded to the eurplus revenues in the Treasury on June 30. 1921, namely, $5,160,838.55, increased the total of sarplue reve. t of Co- 5. of Co- 922, avall- 0 | nor is any appropriation for such pu ferred | v. . The { from | nues of the District of Columbia :n the Treasury on June 30, 1933, $5,602.951.69. From this amount must deducted, however. $825,60: arising because of - difference: treating certain appropriations and revenues, which are considered in one fiscal year for tax-rate purposes and in another year for accounting pur- poses. With these adjustments the real surplus revenues of the District on June 30, 1922, would amount to $4,677,347.90, an increase of $28,681.31 '?:eor the amount existing on June 30, Bonded Debt. On June 30, 1921, the outstanding 3.65 per cent District of Columbia bonds amounted to $4.915,750. During |the flscal year 1922 §$196,050 of these bonds were purchased and canceled, leaving the amount of bonds ou istanding on June 30, 1922, $4,719,700. The sinking fund assets amount to $4.563,465.62, thus making the net in- debtedness of the District of Columbia on June 30, 1922, $156,234. The Dis- trict of Columbia has no other form of indebtedness than that represented by_its outstanding 3.65 bonds. No appropriation is made for in- terest and sinking fund for the fiscal year 1923, as the income derived from investments in United States bonds is more than sufficlent to meet the pay- ment of interest on the 3.65 bonds, ;);\sc- recommended for the flscal year 1924, $4,106.442 Personal Tax. The fifty-year period for which the 3.65 bonds were issued, the issue be- ing limited by law to $15.000,000, will expire August 1, 1924. The sinking fund assets, represented entirely by investments in bonds of the United States, will nearly be sufficlent to take up the outstanding 3.65 bonds, al- though a further appropriation not exceeding $200,000 may be required for this purpose, the amount of the appropriation depending entirely upon the price at which the investments may sold. ‘The personal tax levy for the fiscal year 1922 had a grand total of $4,106, 443.13, derived from three classes assessment—first, an amount de- rived from a levy of 1.82 per cent on household furniture (above $1.000 merchandise, jewelry, boat: vehicies, ho: etc., or what Is com monly known as tangible person: property; this equals $1,539,118.5 second, from a tax on the gross earn- ings of banks, trust companies and public service corporations, or an amount of' §1,470,076.08; third, from the tax on mone; and credits, in- cluding mo: 's loaned and invested, bonds and shares of stock, or what is generally known as intangible per- sonal property; this amounts to $1.007.249.46. New Assessment About Complete. l The new biennial assessment of real estate will soon be completed, and the books will be open to inspec- |tion and review from the first Mon- day in January to the first Monday in ! June. During the last fiscal year the as- sessor’s office collected data on th transfer of ownership of 13,433 piec of property. as compared with 16,405 I the previous vear. Then follows in the report this composite statement of cash income, expenditures, surplus revenue and bonded debt of the District: Compoaite Statement of Finances. 1) CABH BALANCES JULY 1. 1922 To'the credit of the Columb; on ace s ursing offcer, District Appra on: Trust and sp ial fn the Treasury of the United States on acco: o Gegeral fund, Trust and spe strict of Columbia. . Income. ed account general fund of collected Expenditures. Net expenditures from approj Gross expenditures from trus ion Balances June 30. 1922, To_the credit of disbursing officer, Columbia, account of— Appropriations Trust and spec District fands. Io the Treasiry of the United States— General fund District of Columbis “Trust and special funds....... 12) SURPLUS REVENUEX. Burpius revenues of the District of Colambis over and ubove appropriation and other c! rplus_revenues of the Distrct of Columbl. rges for said fscal year. Tevenues of the June 30, 1 (3) DEBT. honds outstanding July 1. Purchases and 1921, cellation of 3.65 fiacal year 1 Amount of 3.63 bia bonds out: Ainking fund assets. Net bonded indebtedness June 80, 1922. 69,541 th e Schools. During the last fiscal year the Dis- trict collected $512.480.20 from auto- mobile tags and permits and for mis- cellaneous licénses and permits. This was approximately $70.000 more than the license office took in the previous year. During the calender year 1921 the report shows Washingtonlans paid insurance premiums amounting to $15,157,234.94. Losses paid by insur- ance companies amounted to $4,898.- 658.66. They were divided as follow; Premiums r cent District of Col nding June 30, 1922. received. Losses paid. Lite . ..$10937,082.98 $3.390.555.15 Fire and ‘marine.. 2.451.288.74 .243.68 Miscellaneous 1.768,863.22 581,389. Total $15,157,284.94 $4.896,638.56 During the Jast fiscal year the su- perintendent of weights and measures instituted 103 prosecutions in court, in which fines and forfeitures were collected from 101 defendants. Total enrollment in the public schools for the. fiscal vear ended June was: White, 48,058; total, 69.541. + Playgrom Needs Discussed. In reporting on the activities of the playgrounds department the Com- missioners pointed out that of the 44,000 acres of land in the city less than forty acres afe devoted to or- nized recreation. And of these forty acres not more than twenty acres are owned by the District gov- ernment. y “The increasing needs of the com- munity,” says -the report, “with in- adequate appropriations to meet the demands, has impelled the public press to appeal continually for addi- tional play space for the capital city’s children. ~ Civic organizations and commercial bodies have urged in- creased play ongormnmu. Practi- child welf: organiza- tiori, either preventive corrective, colored, 21,483; * fo! rel in a nited States, account of pro- of Columbia appropriations. . unt truse and special funds. . . , 'd special funds.. reasury of the United States June 30, 1921 Distri the United States Treasury Bonds "during. handicappes their findings is ineorporated in ita .of the population of the munity served is a reasonzble min- imum annual reven tem, with trained ‘communities desiring thei to supply these needs exten: with the highest grade of service will find it ne ry to pro- vide a support much larger than the minimum of $1 per capita.’ Detail. Total Grand total. of $993.954.31 .307 unt 8.001.791.69 the 25737 $34,846.319.17 22.929.019.99 $96,962.93 ———— Hes92e of 8.141,806.30 34,848.319.17 in es. 5.160,838.55 for r 1922 over and above appropriation 6.302,951.59 41915.750.00 196.060.00 um- 15@,234.38 attend‘l"e on municipal playgrounds was 2,994, 686 boys and girls. Public Library Handicapped. The Public Library is “grievously by the insufficiency of | its appropriations,” the report of the | Commissioners declares. The city | fathers tell Congress “that increased | appropriations are justified by the |Pa | facts that public library support in Washington is far less than in other comparable American citles and much below the standard adopted by the American Library Association.” The striking fact is revealed In the report that Washington spent only 35 cents per capita la: on its year Public Library. while the American Library Association has concluded that $1 per inhabitant is the mini- mum_amount any community should spend if it hopes to maintain good library service. Elaborating on this point, the Com- missioners say: “The American Library Association, a national organization of nearly last | 6,000 members, has recently made & study of the proper basis of -urwrt r public libraries. :The result of solution declaring ‘that $1 per cap- com. e for the library & community desiring to. maintain good, modern public library ibrarians,’ but brari ely and trained Basis in Other Citfes. “Several citles both larger and smaller than Washington spent last year a dollar or more per capita for public library support. Washington spent last year 35 cents per capits on its Public Library. Th n-n::. : ital. should have the Ty ublic library system in the country. ;l'hls it cannot have so long as the OUTSTANDING RECOMMENDATIONS IN COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT Following are the outstanding recommendations in the Com- missioncers’ annual report to Congress: Modification of the Borland street-paving assessment law. Larger appropriations for maintenance ;and development of the free Public Library. That all charitable and correctional work, including the ac- tivities of public child-caring agencies, be co-ordinated under the Commissioners. . Prompt improvement of the main suburban highways with con- crete and asphalt surfaces. Enlargement of the District building to meet demand for more office space for municipal departments. Enactment of a more stringent law to curb sale of deadly weapons. 2 Enactment of a comprehensive statute governing penal insti- tutions and providing for the indeterminate sentence and parole system. » X Appropriations for additional buildings at Gallinger Municipal Hospital. 3 : Money for a nurses’ home for Tuberculosis Hospital and authority to receive pay patients there. " Liberal appropriations for more motor fire apparatus. of children's guardians and the In- dustrial Home School during the year {s reviewed. The cause of the difficulty s held to be lack of oen- tralized authority, and it is recom- mended that all charitable and cor- rectional work, including the work of the child-caring agencies, should he co-ordinated under the direction of the Commissioners, so that when Public Library must have an increase in its appropriations for maintenance. ‘The Kllc Library ought speedily to be given the resources needed for fur- nishing the National Capital commu- nity popular library service. Financial Support Inadequate. Further discussing the needs of the brary, the Commissioners say. i i s resent financial support of | differcnces arise it would be possible meT;I:mrvc Library is totally inade-| for the Commissioners to secure ! quate. A business enterprise which a | harmonious action.” Referring to the location of the proposed home for feeble-minded persons at Blue Plains, the Commis- sloners say: “With reference to the care of the feeble-minded, the opinion Dressed that it was a fatal error Lo provide for the location of the proposed institution on the Home for the Aged site at Blue Plains, and it is recommended that a reconsid- eration by Congress be sought. The impossibility of proper segregation and_ classification on the limited site available is dwelt upon. Attention is called to the fact that similar in- stitutions recently developed in the Several states are all located on large tracts of land in the open country away from other charitable Institutions and from thickl: - tled communities.” G Would Modity Borland Law. In arguing for a modification of the objectionable Borla: ""Er;"“"‘: orland law the report is legislation, which is known as the Borland amendment. was not rec- ommended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbfa, and was adopted by Congress without any hearing on its merits. It has never received the official approval of the Commissioners book collection of 243.000 volumes with a circulation of over a million volumes a year represents must have the equipment needed to handle it ex- peditiously and according to sound business methods. Yet the librarian in his annual report shows that the library lacks altogether certain es- sential equipment and that other nec-! essary- equipment is so much out of repair as to handicap the work seri- ously. These lacks or shortages in- clude such ordinary necessities as typewriters, filing cases, desks, book baskets, book trucks and an auto- mobile for delivery of books to the schools. ) “Furthermore, the librarian points out that the staff is underpald and overworked. To perform the educi- tional service for which the Mbrary was created it is necessary that the personnel be well educated and well trained and sufficlent in numbers 1o have time to direct readers to proper courses of information and to worth while reading. At present the ener- gles of the staff are largely swallow- ed up in the mechanical :ide of the work to the exclusion In large part of the informational service. Seventeen additional assistants are immediately required to bring the service of the {central Ibrary up to a proper stand-;Oof the District of Columbia, and has ard. Ibeen very objectionable to the citizens “A larger book fund and more!of the District. Recently its legality money for binding are essential. p “It is wasteful to hold out of use 5.000 volumes because of lack of funds to have them promptly repaired or re- bound, as the library {s now compelled to do. Books are more expensive thax ever before, thus requiring u larger amount of money than formerly to buy an equivalent number of vol- was called into question in a case fore the courts of the District of C lumbia. and an assessment against cer- tain outlying property located on a main thoroughfare leading out of the Dis- trict of Columbla was quashed. The court in passing on the case heid that the act intended to apply to the built- up portions of the city and rot to su umes. But larger use means that|Urban roads. more books wear out. More books o ‘With the advent of the automobile desired by the public than ever be-|the strcets, avenues and ways_of the District of Columbia are much more used by the traveling public than for- merly. While the paving of a roadws: n’ ‘zr?nr:lotl prlvhl.l; property undoubt- y tends to en S e ce the value of that does enhance it to the cxtent of 50 per cent of the cost. In the Dhtrlclpcl Columbla. with its broad highways, the ot of pn:vlr:" Strests in greater than in T municipali v Swaypunicipalities with narrower Tn the adjoining counties of Mary- land. where highways are improved. the cost is not assessed as special benefits. but the improvements are covered by roadway taxes which ply‘gcnerlll fore are being published. The stock- ing of new branch libraries presents a formidable problem to be met from an insufficient book fund. Extension of the Service. Progress made toward extending the library service is recounted in this paragraph of the report: “Definite progress has been made Tin the direction of the branch develop- ment. The southeastern branch is jexpected to open in December. The I Carnegie Corporation allotted for the {building and its equipment 367,000, | with which an excelient building has |been constructed at ith and D streets | jand South Carolina avenue southeast, {just off Pennsvivania avenue, on a site costing $8.360 out of an appro- priation of $10,000 provided by Con- gress. The Carnegle Corporation has made a further allotment of $100,000 for a branch library building in the Mount Pleasant section, for which an appropriation for a site'is being asked of the Congress. In the new Eastern {High School building, to be opened in February, a good sized room, situ- ated at the right of the main en- itrance, has been assigned for use as ia branch of the Public Library. This {branch is to give a community as well ias a achool service and will be the jfirst of a series of school branches to iserve suburban communities where the population will not justify separate branch library buildings. In two other schools about to be erected. the Macfarland and Langley Junior High | schools. branch “library "rooms will be inciuded. In these schools there ! will be no separate school libraries. {%o that the Public Library branches | {will furnish the sole library service to teachers and pupils as well as the communities. Better Police Equipment. Perhaps the most important new step taken by the police department during the year was the establish- ment of telephone booths in the sub- urbs, affording better protection to those outlying sections. One police- man remains always in the booth while another patrols the surround- ing territory on a motor cycle. With this system In operation residents of the suburbs know they can always find an officer at a given point. r side of the boundary line between the District of Columbia and Maryland. the property owner in the District of Columbia is now required by law to pay half the cost of paving the highway in front of his _premises. while his abutting neighbor in Maryland does not pay more than a emall proportion of the cost of the roadway in front of his over the whole county. “While the princip] ml_\'k be ‘5ound. works inequity and hardship; i places a bu%duunmo cost on. the, e velopment of the newer sections of the District which was not borne in previous years by older sections of the city which did not bear any as- sessment for paving roadw: The Commissioners feel that the law is inequitable and they again state their belief that some new legislation should be enacted which would re- ;flo\‘g the inequalities of the present aw. Preservation of Park Areas. In connection with the report of the surveyor's office, the Commissioners again call the attention of Congress to the need for immediate action, if desira- ble park areas are to be acquired before buildinx operations encroach upon them. Th repor]t conl:nuu: . The plan of the original city of Washington provided for a con{ure- hensive street plan and beautiful parks. A comprehensive street plan outside of the original city was adopted by Con- of the law it is questionable whether ft! property, the cost being distributed ! in its application it The Commissioners express the hope that thev soon will be able to open a new police station in the vi- cinity of 17th street and Rhode Island avenue northeast. Funds for the gress in 1893, but no provision was made for a park plan. If subdivisions continue to be made of the land outside of the original city limits, much beautiful and desirable land suitable for parks will be lost for that purpose. ere is ne which will promote the health mg‘:flf piness of the people of the city more than outdoor recreation and playgrounds, and the new Washington, being cre- ated\ beyond Florida avenus, will not have the benefit of these park areas un- less some provision is madé before the ction of the building are now available and plans are being pre- red. “The test of the efficiency of any police department,” the report states. “is in the apprehending of criminals who have committed felonies. Of the number of arrests made during the last fiscal vear, 3,005 cases were held after preliminary hearing for viola- tion of the criminal law, an increase of 887 over the preceding year, which, in & measure, controverts the state- ment that frequently is made that the police give too much attention to un- important violations of the law and thereby neglect important criminal cases."” City’s Fire Departme: ‘Washington's fire loss during the last fiscal year aggregated $1,179,803. Approximately half of this total loss was suffered by the National and ‘Willard hotel fires. The former hos- telry was damaged to the extent of $138,662 and the latter $400,081. “Tt is hoped.” the report continues, Congress -will, in the near fu- ture, grant an appropriation for the erection of a drill tower for the fire department, requests for which have been made by the Commissioners in past yerrs. L “The _.epartment is badly in need of additional motor apparatus. It is necessary at present for the depart- ment to maintain sixty horses in or- der that this means of traction, an- tiguated to say the least, may be :t lised when actlve apparatus breaks own.” 5 The Commissioners take ooccasion in their report to Congress to con- ratulate the men of the dej zmr:d ft’!' the vlht ce they rendered in ng tims of the l(nlok;:bo:hr i l land {s subdivided and improved. “The office has from time to time recommended the acquisition of Piney Branch parkway, Klingle road valley and the Patterson tract for parks. They are beautifully situated and mestly covered with magnificent trees, and are ideal for park purposes. Improvements are being made so rapidly, which are encroaching upon Piney Branch park- way nr:gj l'ntla tvllley park. that if some action is not taken Wil be lost as parks - o+ °N® they “There is no link in the chain of parks in the District so important as the Klingle road valley. This is cov. ered with most beautiful trees, and will connect Potomac Park and the Mall on the eouth with Rock Creek Park on the north without passing through Zoological Park. If this link is acquired it will complete the park system from the uth end of Potomac Park to the north end of Rock Creek Park, which is the north end of the District. making one of the most beautiful chains of parks in any city of the country. “The enactment of legislation to ac- quire the civil war forts and a fort drive connecting the same is a matter that should be considered. There are @ome forty forts and batterfes in the Dstrict which formed the defenses of ‘Washington.. Some have been . de- stroyed by improvements, while many still remain. Their acquisition would be of historic interest and a fort drive connecting. them would “constitute a beautiful boulevard, which would con- nect all parts of the District.” has joined in the crusade for mote playErounds in the nation's capital. | 3A0 i *HED °ecopnised i a capital through the lack of ' The Library of Congress is a nationl perma. nent play space for its children and youth through these years cannot be measured. The playground performs the function of the sanitarium with- out its cost and in a large measure obviates the necessity for the hos- pital. The economic value of play- grounds has become recognized. Th money spent in keeping boys off the street will save future great expen- ditures_for police and corrective im- stitutions.” ’ 3 During the fiscal year 1922 the total " reference library for the use of Con- gress and research students. The de- trained public library service from the ‘highly intelligent local popula- tion of more than 400,000 is proba- bly larger those of most American cities of equal population. Tnasmuch as they are not and oan- not proj be met by th 1 Hbrary, they the loohd. | i 1_. l mands for books for home use and for | 5u Increase in Building. The Commissioners tell Congress that because.of the many new houses being erected the amount of refuse has - increa necessitating larger appropriations for this work, includ- ing new. equipment, - ‘ % “The estimated value of building construction started -quring the fiscal ce | year was 336,197,059, an- {ncrease ‘of $17,197,133 over the preceding fiscal year, = In order to show that salaries in the buflding ,ln::u»f- office should be . aul STt the ment sho 1 thers were 9,038 8,057 deaths in Washington comnflulow: thoa e c!o:hnl“l- of the activities of the vari- ou':,::“zeh of the healith service. suardians and the trus- e School: child: (4 'm.. '“"'“:r;&'&"' (o et U AU LR s StV de dfadp Jal bR LR R i oD A8 Ao S LA Y employes, and BEACH ASKS FUNDS FOR PUBLIG WORKS Increased Playground Appro- priations in Estimates Given Congress. Liberal appropriations for various public works under way in the Dis- trict of Columbia and for Increased recreational facilities in the parks are urged by Maj. Gen. L. H. Beach, chief of engineers of the Army, in his annual report to Congress today. He leaves the submission of ~detailed estimates to the director of the bud. get and confines himselt to a simple statement of his official opinion as to “the amounts that can be profit- ably expended” on the various projects mentioned. during the next fiscal year. The principal local items in that category are $3,036,000 for the project for increasing the water supply of the District and $1,337,320 for the maintenance and improvement of the public parks of the District. Other Intercsting items are $10,000 for the preparation of plans for rcbuilding the second and third floors and the roof of the Executive Mansion and 375,000 for “extraordinary repairs and refurnishing” of the mansion. “The reconstruction of the upper portion of the Executive Mansio: Gen. Beach says, “is very necessary. because the existing roof is of oid frame construction, which is very in- flammable and constitutes a serious fire hazard. Furthermore, the ex- isting construction has been in place for over a century and has so badly deteriorated and js in such bad con- dition that it has been necessary to shore up portions of the third floor and roof to put the mansion in fairly safe condition.” Including these two items. the total estimates for the Ex- ecutive Mansion tor ail purposes are $190.000. Plans Public Golf Course. The sum of $100,000 is asked to complete the new sea wall at the site of the Lincoin Memorial; $25.000 for a proper road to the birthplace of Washington at Wakefleld, Va.; $30.000 for care and improvement of Rock Creek Park and Piney Branch park- way; $25,000 for the construction of an _eighteen-hole public golf course in Rock Creek Park; $4,000 for prepa- ration of designs for develppment of |Rock Creek and Potomac parkway: |$30.000 for West Potomac Park: $50.- 000 for East Potomac Park. including a_comfort station at Hains' point: $60.000 for widening the road in that park; $5,000 for maintenance of tour- ist®’ ‘camp in East Potomac Park; $20,000 for increasing recreation fa- cilities in the parks: $275,000 for Me- ridian Hill Park, including the con- struction of the main entrance and improving the hiliside area; $15.000 Il’or purification of water at tidal basin bathing beach: $25,000 for en- |1arging the bathing beach: $20,000 for improvement of Seaton Park: $2.500 for operation of fountain in Dupont Circle: $160.000 for a recreation park Yy |on reclaimed area of Anacostia river between Pennsylvania avenue and the Anacostia bridge, one-half of the jamount to be immediately available: $10.000 for using the old Washington Monument powerhouse in he ng the propagating gardens, and $37.000 for lighting the public grounds, in- ciuding Rock Creek Park and the Lincoln Memorial grounds. Colored People’s Park. In urging an appropriation of $30.- 000 for a park for colored people Gen. Beach save that as “none of the large recreation parks thus far constructed are conveniently located for the use of the colored population it is no more than just that a park i be constructed which will be easily ccesaible the colored population “It is for that reason.” . “that the item of $50,000 is submitted for the commencement of this ~urgently needed improve- ment” He savs also that the $25,000 appropriated for the construction of a bathing beach and bathhouse for 1the colored people, will constitute only {2 small portion of the establishment necded. He therefore submits an item of $25,000 additional to provide “suf- | ficient bathing facilities.” Plans to locate the cplored bathing beach on Columbia Island, near the Virginia shore, have been suspended for the present. Gen. Beach says that the demand for facilities for outdoor sports has increased so that the sum provided “is now entirely inadequate to meet more than a small portion of the Jemands made upon it.” Maintenance of existing base ball diamonds. tennis courts, croquet, hockey and other sports, exhausts the avallable appro- priations ‘and he has increased his estimates in order to provide n additional facilities. 2 ceden L. S. Watches District. “The city of Washington, in the Dis- trict of Columbia,” ::;'s Gen. Belvjl. “should be placed in a condition to be an example to the entire United States. The District of Columbia is not by any means to be classed as simply a city of & population of one- half million people, such as is found in the various parts of the United States, but it is the center and seat of the national government—the prop- erty and pride of all the people of and anything that is done for development of character, physical, mental or moral well being among the permanent or temporary residents or the occasional visitors in the capital is money well spent, returning dividends manyfold to the national government. Even if no charges for these privileges what- ever were made to those enjoying them, the return to ‘the national gov- rnment would still be great and would fully justify the expenditures on account of the increased efficiency and contentment of the government employes who are the principal users of the recreational privileges. But since the most important activities can be s0 operated as to be entirely self-supporting, then it seems to me to be self-evident that the national government is failing in its duty if it does not as rapidly extend these pnivileges as reasonable expenditures make fcasible.” Concerning War Buildings. In advocating the removal of the “dilapidated war-time bulldings in the parks,” Gen. Beach says: “During the war there were built in East Potomac Park a large number of temporary wooden bulldings for the housing of troops in training. After the conclusion of the war these huildings were turned over to the general supply committee a5 a tem- porary place for storage of surplus government supplies. The time has now arrived when the improvement of East Potomac Park is rapidly ap- proaching the site of these buildings. This is the last season when the gar- will be operated, so that, unless these buildings ‘are removed in the pear future, we will have a beautiful park incloaing & lot of unsightly and Insanitary structures surrounded zy huge piles of flithy junk and debris. to - the United States: condition, it is necessary ‘that these buildings be condemned during the present fisoal year and be removed, in order that the area mow occupled by them may be converted into the, re- office last year was $51,126, while the pay ‘roil amounted to only $38,503. penses indicates to & marked degree the additional lsbor imposed upon the additional labor impo: upon the should hgleutu. it is sponding Increase . In order to Temove this unsatisfactory , t! $25,000 Provided By Budget Bureau For New Library For the purchase of a site for a branch of the free public library in the Mount Pleasant- Columbia Heights section, an appropriation of $25,000 is rec- ommended by the budget bu- reau. It is proposed that the appropriation bill shall confer authority on the District Com- missioners to accept from the Carnegie Corporation York not less than $100, for the purpose of erecting & suit- able brunch library bullding on such a site, subject to the ap- proval of the Commissioners and the board of library trus- tees. Authority would also be conferred upon a commission to consist of the Engineer Com- missioner, the president of the board of library trustees and the chairman of the committee on branch libraries of the li- brary trustees to supervise the erection of the branch library building. of New 000 creational park for which it was de- signed.” The project for the reclamation of the Anacostia river and flats and thelr conversion into a public park is reported to be 33 per cent completed. Total appropriations to date amount to $1,600,000. n. Beach estimates that it will require 32,140,586 addiuonal to complete the project, and he says that $380,000 can be profitably ex- pended on the work during the mext fiscal year. Operations on the park above Benning bridge await special authorization from Congress. Great Falls Conduit. Total appropriations to date for the new conduit from Great Falls aggre- gate $1.700,000. Tt is estimated that it will require $7.038,000 to complete the project. and of that amount Gen. Beach says $3,036,000 can be profitably expended during the next fiscal year. Up to June 30 last the comstruction and maintenance of the water sup- ply system have cost altogether $14.786,421. Gen. Beach says that $74.000 can be profitably expended during the next flscal year in re: ! ject depth required by existing navigation in the Virginia channel of the Poto- mac at this city. The channel has shoaled five and a half feet since 1919. He says the wharves in the Washington channel. “as a ., Are in very poor condition, except those operated by the municipal and fed- cral governments.” He says also that “the terminal and transfer facilities at Washington, D. C., are considered inadequate and present a most dilapi- dated and unsightly appearance. The irrelevant use of the waterfront for storage yards and junk heaps” he adds, “should be discontinued and the waterfront cleaned up. Suitable te: minal facilities should be provided Work on the country’s rivers, har- bors and other waterways will require $71,515.410 during the year beginning July 1, 1923. River and harbor Im- provements alone will require $57.- 110,410, compared with an allotment ?:Z;CI.OOI.TEO for the fiscal year of Estimates for nearby areas follow: Baltimore district—Baltimore har- bor and channels, $650,000. Washington district—Potomac river at Washington. $74,000; Occoquan creek, Va. $6,700; ' Rappahannock river, Va, $42.700; Mattaponi river, Va., 38.000: Locklies creek, Va., $4.100. district—Norfolk har- himble shoal, $74,660; James river, $40.000: Pagan river, 3§2,000; inlana waterway, Norfolk Beaufort inlet, N. C., $500,000; Black- Meherrin river, § U. S. ASKS BUDGET OF THREE BILLIONS (C.ntinued from First Page.) 1y less than for the current year. It is proposed to ecxpend $20,000 to repair and refurnish the Executive Mansion. Another $5.000 is for preparing plans for fireproofing the White House and plans for the renovation of the second and third stories and the roof. In the office of the alien property cus- todian, the proposed appropriation for including salaries, is $280.- ompared to $370,000 in the cur- In the United States bureau of effi- ciency the total appropriation is fixed at $145.000. as compared with $152,200 i the current act. The total estimates for the Civil Service Commission are fixed at $877.- 295, as compared with $507,911 for the present year. The Federal Board of Vocational Education is estimated for at $6.427.- 000, as compared with $5.932,000 in the present law. Trade Board Asks $955,000. For the Federal Trade Commission the proposed appropriation is $955,- | 000, $60D less than the current ap-| propriation. For the Interstate Commerce Com- mission the total is placed at $4,514.- 500, as compared to $5.361,462 in the current law. A large part of the re- duction is found in the appropriation for the valuation of the property of the railroads. The total for the Shippiag Board | and Emergency Fleet Corporation is set down at 350.411,500. which is ap- proximately $50,000,000 less than the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year. The estimates for the tariff com- mission have been considerably fin- creased over the current appropria- tion to meet the added duties placed upon the commission by the new tarift law. The total for the com- ml::‘llon is fixed at $700,000. as com- pa to current appropri s Smounting to $345.000, L7 OPriation The United States Veterans’ Burcau is to r:xlvta a total of $440,313.000, as compa. o_current a of $422,077.323. EVEopriations Center Market Fund Boosted. The appropriation proposed for the Center market for the District of Co- lumbla, which is under supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, is fixed at $176,000, as compared to $165,- 000 for this year. In the estimates for the Depln-| ment of the Interfor are included those for St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, to- taling $1.431.500, compared to cur- rent appropriations of $1,375,000. Under the same department come the estimates for the Columbta Insti- tution for the Deaf (Gallaudet Col- lege). The total proposed appropria- tion is $110,000, an increase of $6,000 over the current appropristions. Of this increase $5.000 is for sslaries and incidental expenses, and $1,000 for repairs to buildings. For Howard University. which also comes under the Interior Department. = tof of $283.000 is proposed. This is $93.000 more than the current ap- propriation. Of this increase 3$40.000 es to the payment of salaries and for maintenance and $40.000 toward the erection of an. administrative headquarters for the department of ‘:n‘ellnh and hygiene and assembly I > ‘This $40,000 is to be used for part of a bullding L it is es- imated, will cost $197,500 and result in construction of an arm and fum, grading of the athletic and drill fleld and the erection of steel stands the fleld to 10,000 persons. . Imeresse for Hospital Freedmen's Hospital is estimated for at $172,872, as compared to $118.556 in the current ait. ‘A large part of this increase is for the patheological build- ing. 2 Under the Department of Justice, the astimate for the dstection and 1o o of crime s Bzed st SR20 000 o b HOME FOR NURSES URGED BY BUREAU $70,000 Provided for Erec- tion of Building at Tuber- culosis Hospital. The erection of a nurses’ home at the Tuberculosis Hospital is recom- mended by the budget bureau, which submits a proposal for an appropr: tion of $70.900 for this purpose snd lan increase of $2.500 for repairs and Improvements to buildings and grounds at the Tuberculosis Hospita! The recommendations also include an increase of 33.000 in the general maintenance fund: of $600 for ons additional graduate nurse, and for two additional lsundresses at the Tuberculosis Hospital A legislative proposal is made that hereafter patients may be admitted to the Tuberculosis Hospital for cars and treatment at such rates and un- der such regulations as may tablished by the Commissioners, and all revenues from this rource credited to the arpropriation for maintenance. Increases for Some. Other budget bureau recommenda- tions for medical charities include: For Freedman's Hospital. 3$42.500, same as the current appropriation: for Columbia Hospital $17.000, same as for the c year: for the Children's Hospital $17.000. an increase of $2.000; for Providence Hospital, $14.000. u de- crease of $1.000: for Garfield Memorial Hospital, $17.000. an increase of §2.000; for the Central Dispensary and Emer gency Hospital, $22.000. the same ay the current appropriation: for East- ern Dispensary and Casuaity Hospital, $10,000. double the current appropria- tion; for the Washington Home for Incurables. for Georgetown Univer- sity Hospital and for George Wash- ington =University Hospital. $5,0a1 each, the same as for the current fiscal year. $275,000 for Gallinger. An increase of $70.000 is reco: jmended for Gallinger Municipal Hos- pital, bringing the tctal for that in- Stitution up to $275.000. This in cludes an increase of $25.000 for serv-. ices of physicians, nurses and others an increase of $75,000 for maintenance charges. which is offset by a decrease 1of $10.000 in the item for equipment of the new psychopathic buildings: a ‘decrule of $5.000 for repairs to bulid- ings, including the completion of al- terations of the old pevchopathic hos pital building tc provide quarters fo: female nurses and other female em- Pployes. A new legiclative provision would 2llow patients to be admitted to tha psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital for care and treat- ment at such rates and under such regulations as the Commissioners may preecribe; all revenues from this source to be added the current ap- propriation for maintenance. $1,780 Provided for Repairs {to Buildings, Pools and Beach For repairs to buildings, pools ana upkeep of grounds at the bathing beach. an appropriation of $1.780 it recommended. The bureau also rec jommends $720 salary for the super- intendent of the bathing beach ana IlQ.SDB for temporary services, supplics jend maintenance. $170,000 Increase Provided For Disposal of City Refuse For disbursement by the street de- jpartment an increase of $170.000 i recommended for disposal of cit refuse, bringing the total for t! item up to $920.000. An increase of $25,000 is proposed for dust preveution, street cleaning and snow removal, bringing the tota! for this service up to $400,000. i, An increase of $10.000. bringing the total for streets and parkings up tc $60,000, is recommended. GEN. WHEELER BURIED. Retired Officer Had Long Military for Women. rrent fiscal Career. Brig. Gen. James N. Wheeler. 1. § A. retired. was buried today in Arlington national cemetery with full | military honors. Fumeral 'services iwere held vesterduy afternoon at ]s:. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York city. Gen. ‘Wheeler was well known in the National Capital, and for a num ber of years was connected with the War Department. He enlisted at the opening of the civil war with the New York Mounted Rifles, became sergeant of that command, and in 1866 was appointed a second licuten- lant in the United States cavalry. e jwas retired in 1801 with the rank | of colonel. and advanced to the rank of brigadier general by a special act ‘o( Congress in 1904. At various times in_his military lifc he had been de- ;tailed as military attache in the { Netherlande. Belgium and Germany. —_— e $5.000 less than $he current appropria- tion. For the enforcement of anti-trust lawe $230.000 is asked, an increase of $5.000. For the investigation and pros- ecution of war frauds $500,000 is es- timated. the same amcunt as in the current law. i, The estimates for judicial salaries have been increased 50 as to cover the ‘twenty-two_ additional federal _district dges at $7,500 each and an additional circuit court judge whose appointment ‘was lllblm’n'u'd under the so-called judges’ bill. - The estimates for the National Tralning School for Boys, Washing- ton, D. C.. which comes under the Department of Justice, is $60.436. or $300 lesy than the current appropria- tion. In the appropriations for the Navy Department is found a total, under the head of “Public Works—Bureau of Yards and Dock: of $18.500 for the Washington nav rd, of which $17.300 is to be expended for repairy to the marine railway and $1,500 for dredging. ‘The proposed appropriations for the increase of the Navy are drafted and in conformity with the treaty on limi- tation of naval armaments. The total for the increase of the Navy is set down at $29,000,000, as compared with $7.500,000 in the current act. A large amount of this appropriation is for construction and machinery, Colombia to Get Five Milljon. The estimates for the State Depart- ment are approximately $4,035.000 in excess of those for current year. Among the appropriations to be mad under the State Department is $5.000, 000, the second payment by the United States to Colombia, under the treaty entered into with that country for the indemnification of Colombla for the loss of the Panama Canal Zone. In the estimater for the Treasury De- partment., under the heading of “Publie Bufldinge, Etc.” lnrlwrom'll'.hsn u:: $10,000 is proposed for alteration repairs to the roof of the auditors in [ building in the District of Columbia. The total ullmnoutar the :“;‘8‘0“5 ot engraving and printing are $5,980,542, as eo'm::red to $6,073,240, in the cur- rent act. The estimates for the War Depart- ment include $4,401,000 for the Reserve ts' Tralning Corps. approximately $1.300,000 in excess of the current ap- Sropriation for that purpose. The a- timates for the civilian military training camps are .$2,972,150, approximately 1,200,000 ‘more “than. the current. &g