Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1925, Page 35

THE EVENING MANY INCREA Ei PROPOSED - FOR VARIOUS CITY DEPARTMENTS Budget Bureau Also Agrees to Submit Urgent Sup- plemental Estimate U (Contined from Page.) treet pavinz which will be submitted s a_supplemental item for the current year. the actual amount being recom mended for expenditure in 1926 for im nrovement of the cify becomes 446,57, or $114.026 mare than c illotments, Few New Workers he estimates provide salary only in_ accordance terms of the classification new emploves are recommended The item for personal servic the building inspection division ased from $78,000 to SHS510 new positi personal services in ection division the 940, an increase of Asked. increases with in the ¢ in is in o with For inz in provide In the oftice of the corporstion sel the estimate for i< $39.040. an increase of about $3,000. én the gineer Commissioner’s of fice the estimates for personal ices 1= $407.880, as compared to $26i 300 appropriated for the present fises) veay The municipal $40.420 estimate: hon i personal service fice will to §32. irchiteet's veceive 1s compared 340 The Public Utilities Commission will get $40.820, ax compared $37.240 In the latter office one new position i= recommended at £2.100 The survevor's office $67.920. as compared to For the employes fund 12,000 s of $2.000 Wil receive $46.640 compensation recommended. an in crease Traffic Bureau Funds, The RBudzet £100.000 for Bureau the office of The This™ will cover services and the purchase lation of traffic li The appropriation fiscal vear ix $5.200 The estimates for person. ir the free Public Li 60 compared to £16 present vear. Two new positions are recommended for the main lbrary, one at $1.860 and the other at $1.320 For the Southeastern Branch one new pesition is recommended ai 21 For the Mount Pleasant Branch 1w positions are recommended #t $1.680. one at $1.300, one at §1.3 one at $1.140 and one at $300. One rew position is recommended for the 4 own-Tenley School hranch smmends divector personal nd_ instal signals the prose hts. for ¢ total $177, 300 for the services as five one The item of expenses for the Public Library for books, periodicals, etc.. is fixed at $25.000, which ‘s $17.000 less than in the current appropriation The library is given $11.( hind nz. The item for maintenance and repairs is $20,000, an increase of £5.000 and $2,000 extra is recommended for repairs and improvements to build - and for new furniture. The total recommended for the Puh. Library is $239.860, as compared to 45.000 in the current act The estimates under the head “Continent and Miscellaneous penses.” total $239.126 approximately 19,000 for af Ex an increase of Provision for Sewers, The 417000, for estimates for sewers total $1 compared with $1.188,250 the present fiscal vear 1 increase is found in the follow inz items—for main and pipe sewers and receiving basins. $175.000. as com- parec with $150.000: for suburhan sew ers, $550.000 compared with $3%5 S06. for assessment and permit work. £400.000, as compared with $275,000 - items of $67.500 in the current for the extension of the Rock Creek main interceptor is omitted. hut $10 000 is recommended for comple. ting construction of the Anacostia main interceptor along the Anacostia River For the collection and dispo refuse the estimates are $1.432 an ircrease of less than $1.000. The item for dust prevention and sireet cleaning is $450,000, an increase of £20,000. To enahle the Comm lect and dispose of s i recommended. an yroximately $15.000. however, carried $35.000 for the pur chase of square 739, on which the present garhage transfer siation is lo. cated. which is omitted In the esti mates For the playgrounds of the Dis trier the hudget hurean recommends | $152.805, as compared with $146.880 in the current act. A part of this in erease is for personal services is propesed to operate four reols in connection with zrounds. instead of three The estimates for the electrical de partment total $852.240. as compared with 765,628 in the cinrent act. The item for lighting is $730.000 crease of $160.000. This provides for purchase, installation and main tenance of public and lamp. posts 1 of ioners io col rhage $42 increase of ap. The current act, It swimming the play lamy School Estimates. The total schools of 7. This estimates for the the District are $11.283 is 4 decrease of S803.260. The total estimates for the schools, exelusive of buildi and grounds, are $8.610.577. as compared with ( £7.911.837 in the currert act. The increases ave larzely for iersonal services in accordance with schani teachers’ pay act. The eare of hnildings and « 100 10 a0 itnre and equipment 200, is recommended comparend 887 in the « \ increase is rece ind < for pupils 5 hools he total esin €200.000 ; repairs improvements buildings and 4 cecommended The 1511 >d for_ the £3.027.070. public unds s an or fur with 72 rent imanded <uny o [ oks <chool v the te heir nd o sehool 3.000 €25.000 ommer police Zronnds an in Appropriation v metropolitan The crirent tiens are $£2.961.1%0. For officers and members of force the estimate A with $2.616.90 ftem for Al and fees is as compared with £69.800. new custodial position is recommended at 21.146. - For the purchase of a site and the | erection of a building to be known as | the fourteenth palice pricinct station | hous= to replace the subpolice station | at Tenlevtown $60,000 is recom- | mended. i The estimates recommended for the| Vppropria salaries of the poiice 570, and custodial sery is as camp: the for $820,000 to Be ed in Street Work. pumping engines. | mator driver ind for and 24,000 Health Department Need: total recommended for the Health Department i: 4.000, an in crease of about $22,000, which is lavzely taken wy in salaries for per- sonal ‘services. An item of $2,100 for the purchase of a motor ambulance, use in removing persons suffering rom smallpox to the Snallpox Hos: is proposed the courts and ~t the estimates case of about the Juvenile Court $5 an increase of about $4.0 fice Court the estimates 170 decrease of about to enttinz down the items [ imd alterations items for heen ineransed of triple combination $33.000 is recommended three combination chemics wagons, matar The prisons in the total $741.937, 0,000 For For \ 000, due rorepairs | buildings. The ensation of jurors have nd for the fees i also wit The total for Municipal Court 19,501, an increase of abont §300. For vepairs and improvements to the Courthonse an item of £7,500 is recom mended | ¥ workhouse of the District the estimates are 267,740, as com- pared with $246.340 in the current act And the estimates for the reforma tory are £169.000, the same as for the | current fiscal vear. The estimates for the National | Training School for Boys are $46,000, 1 decrease of $9,000. For the Training School for i proposed, a decrease is the 36 hout tional 120 iz £ 000, Hospital Appropriations. The anpropriations for the various hospitals in Washington are the same | the current year. with the fol lowing exceptions: For pairs the Columbin $25.000 instead of $14.500, il vices at the 18 for and for Tul per reolnsis 80, i of $215.580 The estimates for the Children’s Guardians total h increase of less than £2,000 The item proposed for the Distriet Training School is £217.500, as com pared with $188,300 in the current act. For continninz construction of the school. £100.000 is recommended h is 0.000 less than the amount e the current act for that purpnse. The items of increase cover salaries and equipment For the Industrial Home School for Colored Children $52.740 is proposed an increase of less than $2.000. For the Home for Aged and firm the estimates are $123.640 proximately 000 increase The Southern Relief Society will re. ceive $5.000 instead of $10,000 and the National Library for the Blind $3.750 instead of $3.000. The estimates the indigent in St. Elizabeth's n_increase of The total es corrections in 970, compared the current act. ¢ burean has recommend- ) for continuing the work on the project for an increased water supply. This is a decrease of $1,000, 000 from the current act In ap- for the support of ne of the District in Hospital is $1.000.000, £100.000, ated for charities and the District is $3.310 with $2.828.920 in For Water Department. The total for the Water Department 21.214,681.- ax compared with Sl 710 in the current act. Several new projects are proposed which make up this increase, including the follow- ing: 5.700 feet of 16-inch main in Six teenth street northwest. from Me ridian to Fuller streets, west in Fuller street and Columbia road to Kight centh street narthwest, $34.150: 2 feet of 2i-inch main in B street be- tween Fourteenth and Seventeenth streets northwest. §: for 1.800 feet of 16-inch main in H street north west from Eighth to Thirteenth streets, $19, for 9.000 feet -of inch main in Alabima avenue south east from Branch avenue to the Dis trict line, $42.800: for 2,750 feet of 20 inch main in Forty-seventh sireet. from Upton to Brandywine streets northwest. § : for replacement o/ old mains in various locations en ac count of inadequate size and bad con dition of pipe and laying mains vance of pavement. £50.000, anc the e or condemnation of ney third high-service reser acing lots 1 to 9. inclusive to 16. inclusive. square inclusive. square 1766 _inclusive, equare 1845, & The recommendations for the firemen's relief fund authe 000, the ame in the current is U. S. Veterans” Bureau. «ontinued from Paze Thirty-four.) erans’ act as amended March 4 and partienlarly the bonus act The increases include: From $12 100,000 to $140.800,000 for military and naval compensation due to increased rates for compensation for death and ility, authorized by the new act, from $50,000.000 to $140.000.000 for the adjusted vice certificate ; fund due 1o’ pendiing and prospective | applications. which now indicate, it is | said, that a supplemental appropria-| tion of $106,000.000 for 1926 will he ! required 1o provide the necessary payment by January 1. 1926, i re Hospitals Asked. here is a new item of $4.0 0no for \dditional hospital and ont-patient cilities anthorized by the act of M 3. 192 h Reductions from this priviions inchude from SL4.000.000 for sala from £200.000 10 £1 ind bindine: from 000,000 for milita e he which priations for vehubilitati arvice and dependent pax. ve: £4. os and 000 for £45.000 - and 00,000 10 expenses: printing o 295 naval insur. items omitted from mates | incluged in the appro. 1926 included vocational $35.000.000, and adjusted £12,000,000. 1 Library of Congre R A S The estimate for the Library 1|i| Congress $1.469.161, as against £1,341,527 appropriated this vear, anj| increase of $127.623. An increase of the force of this in- <titution from 682 to 707 emploves is provided for in the estimate of $910 driven, STAR. WASHI D. (. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9, 1925 District Budget; $9,000,000 Lump Sum for Fi ederal Shar: REPRESENTATIVES TO PASS ON ROSS COLLIN GRIFFIN. FRANK H. FUNK. ROBERT G. SIMMONS. D. C. BUDGET GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHA 'SCHOOL ITEM QUT 1S NOW PROPOSED | Reduction of $1,504.000 in Budget Expected to Wipe Out Available Surplus. duction from $4,176.300 to § | 500 for school buildings and ground lis one of the most important cuts | under present appropriations found in the District budget. With a $19.- 000,000 prozram covering five vears the proportionate annual appropria tion would be $3.800.000. so that in this second vear of the school build- Story of U. S. $] From Birth to Death Told ‘Succinetly in Federal Budget Py the Associated Press | The of where the Govern ment's money comes from and whet it goes. in terms of the awerage dc was told today in estimates for | 7 submitted by the Budget Bureau | follows Where it comes from—Income profits tax. 49.6 cents: miscellaneous internal revenue. 22.85 cents: customs revenue, 14.43 cents; interest. premirm and discount, 4.95 cents; fees. fines, venalties and forfeitures, 0.84 cent repayments on investments; 1.62 cents: truet fund receipts. .16 cents, and other miscellaneous receipts. cents. Where it zoes government. 3.35 fense, 32 cents: military pensions, retirement pay, annuities, World War allowances and life insurane ime. 1655 cents: public works, 5.60 cents 19 as, and General functions of cents: national de CENTER MARKET BUDGET SLASHED Decrease of $5.000 From Al- lotment of Current Year Recommended. For nt expenses of hich under iculture, the bhud Congress today 4 decrease allotmer wuni recommended for \heth's Hospital for the In £1.159.000, as compared with current appropriations of £1.308.000 Fhe item tor general supbort of pa tients from the military services was reduced from $8410.000 to S804.000. The District estimates provide a separate fund for the support of patients sent to the hospital by the eity. For the Columbia Institution for the Deaf the hudget recommends the same amount as for the current vear, namely. $113.400. The recommendation for Howard University is less than half of the ent appropriation, due to the fact the current act c; fed $370.000 for a building. The new budzet pro poses a total of $218.000, as against the_current appropriation of $591.000. For Freedmen’s Hospital the new hudzet recommends $166.390. a de crease of $£36.560 from the current al lotment of $202.950. Last vear there was an appropriation of $30.000 to re model and enlarge the nurses’ home. which does not appear in the new budget. The item for personal service At the hospital is increased from £80.000 to $113.496. the the the curr ‘enter Market Depariment of A zet transmitted to recommends 3171.000 000 from th The total am St Bl sane is th tion over the 1926 _appropriation is rovided in‘the 1927 hudger. the fiz nres being eut down from $24.330,000 0 $14,198.574 ] The principal factors contributing to the reduction, nceordiing to the| widget. are three: 1 First. improvement is expected in the average turnaround of cargo <hips, which it is estimated wili result in an ine ace in the number of vor ages being completed, with a propor tionate increase in revenue. Second. further reduciion in person- nel and other operating espenses. i Third, sale of ships and lines: from the active list for operation hy pri vate American shippinz inter promotion latior marine transportation other civil functions, 7.40 cents funds. 491 cenre; public debr reti ment from dinary receipts, 14 cents: interest on public debt, 22 cents. and trust funds, 6.48 cents Who spends it—Legislative est lishment. 0.46 cent: executive 0.01 cent Veternns' Bureau cents: other independent ments, 1.61 Azriculture cents: Commerce, 0.56 cents: Int 7.66 cents: Justice (including_ judici 0.70 cent: Labor, 0.23 cent: N cents: deficiency in_postal 0.71 cent: State. 047 cent S8 cenisi public debi ret 19,76 cents: inte on_public del 2,75 cents: investment of trust fund S.60 cents: \War in ding Panan Canal, 994 cents District of Columb 1.04 conts B and operation 1.88 cen cents MILITIA ESTIMATE. "IN BUDGET SMALL Makes No Adequate Provi- sion for Rent of Armories Here for Guard. he Coh for in the the et toduy ith the current $17.450 increa estimate shin Militi mitted Con 1s compared priation o 2400 The the local tional Guard facing a serious =it the beginning the riext fi as there is ne provision for ase in the amount for rental mory for this orzanization. T increase anthorized in the es aver the current appropriati is for the geneial expenses of this ¢ Ranization. The of armories is $10,000 amount as the current The guard has 1o vacate its present at L street 30. next. and able te find an \llowance of 56, the £10.000 of other and Rudget Bureau was the situation by M Stephan. commanding the District Columbia Militia, but apparently, fro the estimates, saw fit to leave it in t quandary. Efforts had been made get local builders interested in puttir up an armory expressly for the use the zuard. to be rented, but efforts have faled. Ifforts were made to get vision included in the proposed pub buildings bill for a structure for t Tocal citizen soldiers, but Senat Smoot_objected to this on the zrou wa th this it is probable militia_officials will have to make strong - fight either to mate in-reased so that the guard w have a hame after June 30. next, to provide funds with which to o struet a building especially for it. any event, the guard will have have qu: tion of a new building answer ix for Congrest to boost estimate allowed hy the budget. Distr hudget $49, ApD! estimate ti <mall mate the ppropri heen at local o notifi T nortiwest far it rmor i) nsed smaller n g has heen 4t the prese he remainder tor the ren armories. T quainted wi Gen. B situation view, that the loc t teer Soldiers, $8,210.900, a reducti fof $10.300 over the total amount a Miscellancous Appropriations.| Alask: ! vear’s appropriation continued. | Allen Property Custodian, $130,650, | a reduction of $58,570. { American Battle Monuments Com. | mission, $800.000, a continuing appro- | priation. ~ Provision is made for ihis commission to incur obligations not to able for the present fiscal vear. Panama Canai, § redy tion of £1,096,272 over the total amou Relief Funds, $15.000, last|available for the present fiscal vear. tailroad Labor Board, reduction of $11,220. Smithsonian Institution, $858,220, reduction of $15.780. Tariff Commission, $699,000, duction of $22,500. United States Geographic $285, a establish N imonnt for the rentat rented quarter- Antdh these pro- distinctly local have the esti- | rters while awaiting the erec- and the only Board, ing program a serions reduction is al ready With this reduction comes the reuli- tion that at the end of the coming ficcal vear practically all of ony 33,236,328 of accumulited surplus in the Treasury will have heen svent In the current fizcal vear authorized the nse of 52.631 surplus as part of the ment of the five-vear program. The new for the use of $2.025.000 more of the surplus toward next vear's school Loilding list, which means that only 64 will be taken from the gen- eral revenues for school buildings and unds next year £600,028.75 of Surplus. proposed Conzress 300 of the initial install scheol building hudzget provides of re o 6 an This will leave oniy $600.625.75 hal ince in the surplus fund. which it is proposed to be used for acquiring the rermining land for the Rock Creck and Potomae Parkway connection. In quirinz 92 per cent of the necessary land authorized by Congress in 1913 the totl suthorized cost of $1.300.000 has heen expended. It will be sary to zet an increased limit of cost of ~ $1,900.000. Thix will use up the balance in the Distriet surplus, as Col. Sherrill is askir 0,000 in the re<ent budzet to complete the Rock Creek and Potomae Park pure In submitting the estimate. how ever. the Budget Burcau explains that with the school huilding contract propesed the amount will make provision for Fryinz along the five-year program withont materially retarding the work In further support of the contention that the five.vear program will not be .tarded on the basis of the new hud cot recommendations. Maj. Daniel .J { Donovan. District auditor, today an vzed the progress of the school build m thus far current eress appropriated $4. the five-vear program. set se ward only £ 00, would represent 1 for the 149,000, Mai. Donovan pointed onj. howeve that in addition to this amount thers would he contract anthorizations of $1.550.000. This wonld make the total amount anthori for the first two years $8.349.000. “Dividing this total authors $8.399.000 by iwo gives an a approsimately $1,200.000 each of the first fwo Donovan declar £19.000.000 five m would he only $3.860,000. refore. by taking into account the authorizations asked for as well as the actual appropria tons, the five.veir program is heinz rdhered to.” New Work Proposed. | The specific items urged hy the | Budget Rureau to he carried on under the appropriation recom mended for the coming fiscal vear ure as follows: 325,000 for the comple tion of the Francis Junior High School at 4 cost. mot exceed $500.000 | £.000 for preliminary studies on plans for 1 new school buiiding for Busin | Hizh School. £100.000 for |1e purchase of a site on which to leate a new junior high school building in Bright- | wood. $100.000 for the purchase of a | site for a new 16-room school buildinz in the vicinity of Fourteenth and Oz ht i 4 neces. in fons he said. Con A00 10 bezin The new bud: today recommends which. if granted + total amount apy first (wo vears o n of ti- n - ion of 2 \ of me . ed ne m nt he th n | of m he to N of | Tic he or nd of ite for new 16.room school | bhuilding in the vicinity of Sixteenth |and Wehster streets. $17.500 for the ! purchase of land in the vicinity of the Morgan School- for playground pur poses, $200,000 for continuing the con | struction of the new huilding for the | McKinley Technical School, $245.000 | for the construction of an S-room addi | tion and combined assembly hall and zymnasium to the Burroughs School $80,000 for the constructlon of a_third story £300.000 for the erection of a 24-room | building to replace the present Garnet in al a in or n- n to he { not to exceed $300.000, $85.000 for the { construction of a i-room addition | the Smothers School. inciuding neces remodeling: $15.000 for the pur- chase of a site for A new 8.room school huilding Potomac Heights or vicinity, $75.000 for the purchase of a site for on 1 e nt vicinity of Alaska avenue and Holly | street, $15.000 for the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Wheatley School for playground purpose. $200,000 for a { junior high school building in George- town at a cast not to exceed $500,000, $400,000 for construction of an addi- tion, hall a re; 2l the items fo | den streets. $100,000 for the purchase | addition to the Amidon School, | | Patterson School huilding at:a cost of o 2 new 16-room school huilding in the | PARK AND BUILDING BUDGET, §1,585.5% | Year—Anacostia Reclama- tion Item Is $170,000. | The estimate for care and mainte | nance of public buildinzs and the im | provements and care of public parks contained in the hudget submitted to Congress today totaled $1.585,536, as compared with the current appropria tion of $1,585.955, or a decrease of | $40.955. Thix includes an estimate of 170,000 for the teclamation of the Anacostia River flats, hut does not in- clude the estimate of $2.500,000 for continuing the work on the Arlingto Mamorial Bridze nor one of $600,00 for the purchase of lands and the in expenses of the National *ommission. both of which estimates are carried in the lmdget The estimate for the Arlington Me morial Bridge is the first large one for thix structure, work on which will be started next month, the ) commission now workinz on an init apprepriation of $300,000. The mate for the National pital Commission is the same as wis vied in the initial appropriation the current year To Get Land Above Bridge. Provision is included in the esii mates for the reclamation of the Ana costia River flats for an expenditure | of £23.000 of the amount for the ac | auirement of necessary land ahove | the Benning Bridge, the remainder Dbeinz available for the work now zo inz o1 below the bridze There is a reduction mate, as compared with avpropriation. for the and_care of buildings £5.475. The estimate appropriation of $599.85 with the present appropriation of 5.805. This fund is for the gen 1 expenses in connection with the care. maintenance, protecting. heat mg. lighting. etc.. of the Washinz ton Monument and grounds: Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool. incind not to exceed $5.000 for the in Nation of a lizhtinz system for the former: the house where Lineoin diec. srounds surroundinz the execu tive departments. public buildings in the District under the supervision of the public buildinzs and parks office and uniforms for the employes of 1he Washinzton Monument 2nd Lincoln Memorial. £11.315 Increase Wanted. There also is a separate estimate of $20.000 for the installation of Jublic comfort station in the Lincoln Memorial. The total estimate for the office of public buildings and public park: of the National Capital. in clusive of salaries, is $2,293.850, as compared with the current appropria tion of $2,282,505, or #n increase of £11.343 Fe: the general expenses of the im provement and eare of parks the esti i $334.660, as compared with appropriation of $369.660 e of $35.000. The estimate ies a provision that not exceeding £100.000 of this amount may bhe ex ended for placing and maintaininz sdons of the parks in condition outdoor sports: the aperation. care Y and maintenance of the pumps whic) operate the fountaing in the Union Siution Plaza: expenses incident 1o ihe conducting of band concerts in the parks: the improvement and main tenarce recreation parks of sec tins C and D, Anacostia Park. be tween Pennsylvania Avenue and An acostin Bridzes: the improvement of eek Potomae conneeting and the erection of miner uxniary structures, the aggregate cust of which shall not exceed $15.000 Park car for in the esti the current maintenance amounting t called for an = compared 7. reported to Congress today, Dr ank W. Ballou. superintendent ‘4.{ schools, warned. in a brief state. ment today, that the proposed budget would jeopardize the five-vear huilding | program. Dr. Ballou commended the hurean. however, on the large num ber of huilding items it did approve Pointing out that only §2 was recommended by the bure =chool buildings and grounds more than half the mount would she needed to carry o which out ihe d: Tt will be a disappoint ment to the people of the District that one-fifth of the hnilding pro; net carrvied in the 19 budget Dr. Ballou also expressed disappoint ment that. with an exception or rextension of the sche playgrounds were eliminated from the burean’s recommendations. 1 Text of Statemen Dr. Ballou’s statement follows The publication of the hudget for the public schools for 1927 prompts feelings of <atisfaction and also of disappointment commended for the judgment which i exercised in carrying such a large number of the buflding items recom mended by the Board of Education within the total amount of money ap- I propriated for buildings and grounds. This was done by making an initial appropriation for’ beginning the con struction of a number of buildings and providing an obligated appropri |ation to be carried in subsequent budgets. ““The total budget for buildings and | grounds is only $2.672.500. A large part of the proposed appropriation i to he paid out of the surplus in the United States Treasury which has been accredited to the District of (o lumbia, and only a very small part is }to be paid out of District taxation for the Tt will be a_disappoint- | ment to the people of the District that one-fifth of the five- 00l build ing_program is not carried in the | 1927 budget. Less Than One-fifth Carried. “The sienificance of this lies in the that less than one-fifth of the ar program s carried in 1827, for which vear a considerable part of the unexpended badance is available. The obligated appropriations recom. :I\\flnliQd by the Bureau of the Budget for 1827 will be the first charze against the budget for 1925. If the hudget for 1928 is to carry its part {of the five-vear program it must carry these obligated appropriations in ad- i dition to the $4.000,000 which should I be regularly carried. This will make ia very large appropriation for build- ings and grounds for the 1928 budget, |when. the unexpended - balance ac. |credited to the District of Columbia will have been exhausted. “The Bureau of the Budget is to he | Decrease of 346.955 This | nne. $92.000 it | | road, '$4.300. SRANTED BY BUDGET BUREAU One-Third of Program Sent to Congress So That It Can Be Put in Deficiency Bill—$820,000 in (Continued from First Page.) str ing items includes a request for au- $7. thority to widen and pave Eleventh street’ from Pennsylvania to New York avenue and Connecticut avenue from K to Eighteenth street. The list alzo calls for the # number of streets th traffic arteries Maj. Daniel budget officer, Budget Bureau was asked to take ahont one-third of the street paving money out of the regular hudget and transmit it to Congress as an urgent supplemental project for this vear because it was anticipated the new District tion may not pass unui June “Last vea..'-Mai. Donovi the District bill X sessfon and Congress the street paving funds immed available, which enabled the enzineer department to launch its work in the Spring. This made it possible for the highway division to zet nearly all of the pavinz work anuthorized by the last Congress done hefore the present had weather in ' Tri 52 re important J. Donovan explain Distriet that the | av cle str [ av w 6. et s sty Money Available in Spring. } “Since this is to be a long session, howeyer. we anticipated that the Dis- trict bill probably wonld net pass in time to dn any pavinz work in the Spving. so we requested that a sub ttantial part of the highway funds ne treated as a supplemental item. of If grunted by Congress and placed in 2 1 deficiency’ bill for the fiscal vea 1926, this $520.000 will he availabie to the bighway departmen: early in the Spring, as was the case in 1325, The followinz of this course will make possible an efcient and economical raling of the pavinz work to be done next year These supplemental ave divided hetween the street im Provement appropriation pavable from zeneral taxation and the gaso Ime tax fund, The list follows Streef Improvements. Da £ $3 hizhway items o < “ving to he appropriated for street improvements sham street, Seventh to F un Jighth Certer street. Sireets. £4.700 Decatar street teenth. 87,500 Decatur street Fifth street. $7.600 Lighth street. Decatur to Emerson street. $6,800 T street. Lincoln road street northeast. $12.600 Neal street, West Vir: fir dad avenne. $20.200 O:tes street, Montello tn Trinidad . avenne, £10.200 Trinidad avenue, street, £14.000 Grading projects priation “street improvements' Alhemiarle street. Murdock 1 1o Wiscansin avenue, $5.300 Ledral avenue. Conduit road Weiver place. $13,600 Athemarle street to Mur Meridian to Oszden Sixteenth 1o Seven $5. Kansas avenue to sa o Second Al nia to Trini Neal 1o Queen under the appro Mil th Massachusetts ave. ok Mill road. $2.800. Garfield street, Tun Forty-fourth street, DIx street northeast rivininth street. $4.400 Evaris street northeast, Fourth northeast, $1.600 Twentyninth street, Woodley to Calvert street. $15.000 Firth Sterlinz avenue Steven road. $5.100 pr to Forty fourth to [ s Third to road Howard From Gasoline Tax Fund. Payahle fund For out the gasoline tax videning hy feet on each | side to 4 total width of 80 feet and re pavinz the roadway of Connecticut avenue from K to M street and for wideninz by 15 feet the east side to a total width of 65 feet. and repaving the roadway of this avenue from M to Eighteenth street. £66.000 . For widening to 70 feet and repav inz the roadwsy of Eleventh street from Pennsylvania to New York ave (The District was given an appropriation in the current law to resurface Eleventh street from E to G street. hut this recommendation is in tended 1o extend the job to New York and Pernsylvania avenues and 1o pre vide at the same tifs for the widening of the oudway.) Others to Be Paved. Other streets to he paved ont of the | D £aX tax fund and asked for on the urgent supplemental list follow Columbia road, Sixteenth to teenth street, $22.04 Missichusetts avenue, hteenth. $63.000. Vermont savenue, Thomas Circle, $28.000 Vermont avenue. £13.50 o street $1 wa 5 dr. $5 He av . + Eigh. st Fourteenth to T Towa to R to street, street, Ninth to £32.000 West Virginia nue to Penn street. $20.700 Kentucky avenue southeast, Admiral Barney Circle, $5.400 | Kentucky avenue. Fifteenth street | to South Carolina avenue, $34.200. € street southeast. Twelfth to Fif- | teenth street, $35.200. Kansas avenue, Sherman to Farragut street, $24.000. \ Buchanan street. New Hampshire to Kansas avenue, 00, South and east side of Sherman | Circle. Kansas avenue to Crittenden, and Ilinois avenue. Buchanan to Sher- man Circle, £12,000 Seott Circle, Specific Paving Items. The specific paving items carried as street improvements" in the regular hudget are Street impro Fourteenth to avenue. Florida ave- to H Circle to ements—For paving, repavinz. srading and otherwise im. | pro & streets, avennes, suburban roads and suburban streets, respec- tively, including the maintenance of, non-passenger-carr used in this work, as follow: Sorthwest—For paving Thirteenth | street, Ruchanan street to Crittenden street, $4.000. rthwest fourth street. street. $4.200 Northwest—For -paving Oak street Odgen street to Sixtenth street. $7.600. Northwest—For paving Seventh street, Allison street to Sherman Circle. $6,100. Northwest—For street, £6.300, Northwest—For paving Ninth street, | be Quincy street to Rock Creek Church | $ For paving Porter street Thirt to Queber ter thy paving Delafield | ac upplemental Item. Southeast esurfacing of | Nichols avenue to Fourfeenth stree: $11.300. Northwest—For paving Forty-fourth street, Northwest road street, Dec street Northwest Northwest culverts, the following Northwest—Andubon to B nean street ments.” constitute one fund, and shall be avail- (narth Twent teenth inz motor vehicles { N ! sidewalks the Commissioners iia, to facilitate vehicular and pedes | purpose That no used for Northeast—Far reet, Sixth streef 0. Northeast—For paving Morse inidad )0, avenue For Cathedral . §7,200 For enue, v-four $6.600 orthwest tur For str $£1.600 Vorthwest reet, New For Han avenu orthwest—For enue. Cathedral £14.000, For hittier street 000 For eet. Shepherd et $5,000 “or grading. drains i avenue 5,000, Northwest—Western vson 100 streat to Northwest—Forty-sixth cott Northwest venport 700 Northwest — Foi street Foi 00, orthwest- ndywine st street to F 500 Northwest—She: street to Fifth street Northwest—Fift street to Van Burean street Northwest—University south of Maseachusetts avenue, $7.000. Northeast—Divi Southeast—Stre 000 Southeast—For eighth street f to the southerly par id driveway to and Thirt abama avenue st street In all $2 counted £20.00 5.000 for and for le immediately to Van and street to Fessenden street ot avenue and Brandywine street, Forty sixth as paving Franklin t to Seventh street to Orren street paving W streef avenue to Klingle Catha rth street to Tunl [ paving Seventh reet to Sherman Cir Fourth avenue to paving mpshire ichanan street and west side of New Hampshire Buchanan street. § Fourth 000, paving Cleveland avenue to Garfield % street to paving First street, Buren street Thirteenth to Taylor paving street necessary retaining walls neluding Lin road, terrace ad Branch avenue, third Ten Thir street, street, Elli $1,500, street rty-eighth to Ellicott rty-ninth street Chesapeake street to Davenport strest Forty-sixth to street Massachusetts “orty-seventh street, ridan street. £3.400. street Fourth h Sheridan £4,000 avenue, sion avenue, Grant street to Sheriff road. $7.000. ets in Barry Farm. Twenty treet southward driveway. along W street: Thirtieth -first street from to W street and W grading R street from Thirtieth street to Thirty- 0 to be disbursed ami street improve- that purpose shalt From Gas Tax Fund. The specific pav e regular budge X fund are: Gasoline tax ovements Northwest T Northwest—Pen uth side). Wa twenty-fifth street, Northwest — Pe: side) \Wa. -sixth stres Northwest — K Northwest — K street o 00 rthwest 1 N street to 300, Northwest AY tracks). 300 Nor i K Seve hwest — W avenue 1o 00, rthwest Southeaxi— road e 5 Northeast enue to Fa ankli Wisconsin street to Thirty-fifth street. $13.000 — Chapin street 3 Oz teenth street to Spring place, $17.300. Southeast—Howard road. end of con crete to Bolling Field, $12.500 Minnesota avenue. Good ing items carried in t under the gasolin® oad and street im avenue, Tt nsyivania ashington L000. nnsylvania shington et. $18,000. street, Twelfth avenne Circle avenu- Circle 1o to Connecticut avenue, $74.00 street. Connecticut avenue (o Eizhteenth street, $8,300 Northwest — Belmont teenth street, Fifteenth street street Fifteenth Four- ) street, (south of rail nth to Ninth street oodley road. Wisconsin Cathe. avenue en street, Four Eighteenth street urth street n street, $14 Central 00. ithwest—M street. Four-and-a-half to Water street, $8 Southeast—Thir street, £3.300. Southeast—Fou | svlvaniu avenue to K s - Tvex Southeast o street, C street to rteenth street, Penn reet. £10.300 place, Fourteenth reet to Fifteenth street. $4.800. outheast — G outheast—G st eventeenth st Southeast—D s Southeast—sixt Massachusetts Southeast Northeas 3 st Northeast—Fou Northeast — D Northeast—I, Sixth street. Northeast — s Northwest Northwest—1lin Northwest—We Northwes avenue 4.500. Northwest—Thi street to 5.000. —Ful to Roadways and For minor chan; fic, $9,30 nstrue rs and adjus ereto. £10,000. In all, $620.000, counted for as available part. of the Orleans street to Seventh street Northeast — Morton street to Seventh street, $4.000 improvement street, Fourteenth reet to Fifteenth street. $8.200.. reet, Sixteenth street reet. $7.800 treet. Twelfth street to Thirteenth street, $9.000 eenth street. A street avenue, $15.900. Southeast—B street, Fifteenth street to Nineteenth street. $45.800. - Eighteenth street to B street. $11.500. — Sixteenth Capitol street to B street, $15,000. North to Sixteenth street, $3.000 street, A street, East reet. Fifteenth street rteenth place, North Carolina avenue to D street. £9,500. street, Fourteenth | street to Fifteenth street, $5.900. treet, n00" Second street place, $4.000. place. Sixth Sixth street, Thirty-fifth stréet to Thirty-sixth street, $5.600 nois avenue. Emerson street to Gallatin street, $13.000 hster street, Illineis avenue to Second street, £16,900. ton Thir treet. ~-ninth Wiscon street, rt W fifth street, Pros sconsin avenue, dewalks. zes in roadwavs and on plans to he approved by Dsitrict of Colur. 0. n of curbs and gut ment of roadwars to he disbursed and “gasoline tax road Eighth street to Ninth street, and street improvements” and for that all constitute one fund and _ immediately: Provided, such fund shall be street,- Four-~ including assembly : of any . street or section thereof not herein specified: Provided further, That as- | sessments in accordance with existing exceed a total of $3.000,000. Board of Tax Appeals, $448.616, an increase of $94.206. Bureau of Efficlency, $150,350, last year's appropriation continued Civil Service Commission, $1,001,502, a reduction of $6.500 Commission of decrense of $1,2 limployes’ Compenszation Commis sion. $2,742,040, an increase of $440.540. Federal Board for Vocational Edu. cation, $8,210,620, a reduction of $16.380. Federal Power Commission, $31.400, an increase of $100. Federal Trade Commission, $997,000, a reduction of ‘$11,000. National Home for Disabled Volun Fire Department are $2,138.270, an in- | crease of approximately §175.000 over s the current act. For pav of officers ) and members of the Fire Department | @ total of §1.825.430 is recommended. | 1 00 for increase of Library | s compared with $1.770,000-in the|of Congress: from $300.000 to $305,000 | current act. For clerical and cus. ! for printing and binding: from §104.398 | todial service the estimate is $7.080. as | tn $120.605 for care and maintenance | compared with $3.360. An item of | of library: from $3.350 to $3.740] $92.325 is recommended for a firehouse | “oi day opening. and a new item of and furnishings for engine com- ' §500 for expenses of trust fund hoar pany to be located in the vicinity of | Sixteenth street and Piney Branch Tnad northwest. There is §20,000 rec. | emmended for installing improved tmilet and bathing facilties in the hwenses of the Fire Department For one_antemebile for the chief engineer <5500 is recommended. Far threa $345, a_reduction of and | General Accounting Office, $3.714,000, a reduction of $37,560. Housing Corporation, $674,398, re- duction of $69,517. Interstate Commerce Commission. $6.033.309.25, reduction of $820,652.75. National Advisory Committee fo: Auronautics, $513,000, reduction of | $21.000. ; for salaries, as compared with 14,779 ‘appropriated for this purpose for the current fiscal vear. The fig- ures also carry increases from $100.500 Northwest—For paving Rock Creek gymnasium, to the Langley Juninr\ “It. also is a disappointment that, | |Church road, Georgia avenue to Spring High School, $100,000 for the construc- ' With one or two exceptions, the items tion of an addition to the Hine Junior | for the extension of school play- | road. §5.600. . i B . School, $160,000- for the purchase of | Erounds have been eliminated. ~Un.| Northwesi—For paving Nicholson | law shall be made for paving and re.s land in the vicinity of the Dunbar|fortunately, the .appropriation for | street, west of Colorado avenue, $7.900. paving roadways \here such road- High School, $75,000 for the construc. ' teachers' salaries has Jikewise, ap.| Northwest—For paving Ilinols | Ways are paved or repaved with funds* tion of a combined g¥mnasium and as- | parently, been considerably reduced. {avenue, Grant Circle to Webster street, | derived from the collection of the tax sembly hall at the Petworth School| *In general, while the budget for $2.400. on mator vehicle fuels: [Provided fur- and $75.000 for the construction of a | 1927 initiates a fairly satisfactory | Northwest—For Jenifer | ther, That any projects or portions 6€3 combined gymnasium and assembly | bullding program, this budget does not | Street, east of ayenue, | Projects cuargeshie;to the funddiniie gL ol | carey "one-fifth of the fveyear nro: | $2.400. the fiscal vear 1925 and subsequent e e SR e | fiscal vears and uncompleted at the FUND HELD INADEQUATE. | guent budgets an undue portion of | tloot of tioecyearsihallpea contigu: e = charz com- the expense of the five-year program. pleted and shall, except in so far as T conditions bevond the control of the Commissioners prevent, be given pri- ority over projects subsequently made a charge upon ne Arts, $5.205, a the paving Connecticut Students to. Hear War Secretary. Secretary Davis of the War Depart- i a R - i . T Voi¢ing isappointment over e ment will address the student body at{ VOICINE diappoininent OV the the Army War College; Washington |jotted for new school - buildings &nd | in Barracks, tomorrow morning. Streets in Northeast. {| Northeast—For paving Second | street, T street to Rhode Island ave- I R { 2,000 School girls in Ohio have been study Northeast—For 5 the effécts of different diets on ' street. Twent school sites In the District estimates iwhite rata. : \ U. S. Shipping Board. Reduction of $10,131.426 in the es timate for the United States Shipping Board and Emergeney Fleet Corpo pavinz Monroel y-second street to Twen ty-sixth street, $13.800, 3 a L)