Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1926, Page 4

RIVER AND HARBOR | PLAN SHOWN BY NEEU: 6574]7v£5 Anacostia Reclamation Work Going For-j ward, Engineer Chi Army Engineer Chief Gives Estimates for Year in Re- port to Congress. Steady progress in the execution of the project instituted in 1923 for doubling the water supply of the Dis. trict of Columbia, at a total author: ized cost of $9,169,000, is shown in the annual report of Maj. Gen. Edgar Jad. win, chief of engineers, submitted to Congress today. Though no official statement is made as to the date of completion, the engineers in charge o the work privately have expressed the | hope and helief that the auxiliary sys- tem will be practically completed and {ready for operation during the next {fiscal year, and possibly as early as January 1, 1928, within the dmits of the original estimate of cost. Gen. Jadwin outlines the status of waterways development in this sec- tion, tells of the progress of the rec- (lamation work on the Anacostia Flats and again urges removal of the old Aqueduct Bridge. During the past fiscal year $1,934,- 110 was expended in the construction of the filtration plant and pumping statlons at Dalecarlia, two high-ser- vice reservoirs, high-service tunnels and pipe lines, substructures, etc. Gen. Jadwin savs that the sum of $127,600 can profitably besexpended in completing and testing l?m work dur- ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 11938, He savs that all the major fea. tures of the project are practically ] conipleted, and that the remaining Expenditures in the fiscal year 1926 | items, with the exception of the nec- amounted to $63,463.786, and for the|essary repair of the old tunnel to the current fiscal year 1927 Congress made | McMillan filtration plant'and tests of a lump-sum appropriation of $50,000,- | various sections of the system, will be By the Assoclated Press. The nation's seacoast and inland® harbors and the waterways and rivers will require $65,4 during the year beginning next July 1 to keep them in shape to transport the vast volume of traffic, which last year amounted to $23,846.000.000 in commerce and pas- sengers numbering 937,100,734, Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers of the Army, in whose care these river and harbor projects are placed, in his annual réport, eubmitted to Congress today with the Govern- ment’s 1928 fiscal year estimates, placed the amount necessary for gen- eral river and harbor work at $54, 459,365. In addition $11,018,000 will be required for flood control work, surveys and other specific purposes. Of the total river fund $219,700 is sought for the Washington district, including $160,000 for the Potomac. Since Congress began spending money on the.country’s rivers and harbors, in 1824. the total of more than $1,600,000,000 has been devoted to that work, including about $48,000,- 000 for the Muscle Shoals hydro-elec- tric project in Alabama, which .has heen completed and for which only £300,000 is asked for the coming year for maintenance of the plant. PROGRESS ON D. C. WATER SUPPLY moval of Old Aqueduct Bridge. E EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO SHIPPING BOARD 10 QUTLINE POLICY Annual Report Discloses Plans & Keeping U. S. Flag on Ocean. JADWIN REPORT ef Says—Urges Re~ operated by the municipal and ral governments, d‘fi reported to- bé \“in s very poor condition.” The Bhipping Board will make its ectAc&irdtil?: ::coswn. 'l'::':fn':nh:mm?fi recommendation to Cofigress on a River and flats, from the mouth of !policy for the future of the American the river to the District line, near:merchant marine about the first of the Bladensburg, and their development year, it aisel today, When thé ‘nto a park for the use of the public 'y completed. Expendl. | board made public its annual report. :xr‘el‘tope;u::n§o luz’ :g te?l‘ $2,.| This agency is going ahead with 1) 'its plans to get the Goveérnment out wi that it will (0 8 o shibpitie’ business, &nd in-sell: ing Fedéral-owned ships as fast as sat- isfactory deals can be made with pri- vate concerns, thus eliminating a di- rect source of loss to the American people, but at the same time, it was explained, it is making certain there will be sufficlent guarantee that the American flag will be kept perma- néntly on the seas. In this connection the board calls attention to the need of a replacement program to keep an adequate number of vessels on the water, even after they have passed into private hands. The rt dropped a warning about the decline in trade to South America, due to keen foreign competition, and lifted again the danger signal against increasing international propaganda to “Influence the United States to abandon its protective coastwise sys- tem.” 104,523, and it is estimat require the appropriation of $1,861,540! to complete the project. Money Being Spent. Avallable funds amounting to $268,. 937 are being applied to bullding sea- wall foundations around Lake King- man, building masonry sea walls in sections D, E and F, constructing in- take .conduits and flt at the lower end of Kingman Lake, purchase of land in section G, construction of a derrick boat, etc. These funds will be exhausted by June 30 next, and Gen. Jadwin says that $370,000 can be profitably expended in the following fiscal year in conunulr‘n’g the work on Lake Kingman, in building a lock and bridge in section F, clearing an open- ing under Benning bridge for passage of boats, improving. section G, pur- chase of land, etc, Sections A, C, D, E and F, on the left bank of the Anacostia River, the report says, have been fully reclaimed, and sections A and B, known as Bolling Field, have been set aside for Must Protect System. “In the absence of some appropriate form of diréct Government aid,” the report gaid, “the protection of the coastwise system is peculiarly impor- 000, of which $45.530,150 has been allotted to various projects. More than 200 harbors are under improve- 2 rivers and 47 canals and Vays. . The lion's share of the money will go to the Mississipp! River, for which $17,670.000 1s asked. Neiw York Har- bor and vicinity waters require $6.405.- completed during the next fiscal year. The additional supply water works, he $1ys, are to be used for purifying and supplying water to all the high areas within the District of Columbia where pumping is required to lift the water. Purification Satisfactory. Regarding the existing supply sys- 000; the Ohio River, $5.500,000; Phila- delphfa and the Delaware River, $3,431.000: the Missour! River, $2.550.- 000; the Hudson River in the vicinity of ‘Albany and Troy, Louisiana-Texas intracoastal water- way between New Orleans and Gal- veston, $2,000,000; the Sabine:Neches waterway. $1.000,000; the Allegheny River, $1.500.000, and the Sacramento River, $1,000,000. Harbors for which large appropria- tions are asked include: Boston, $150,- 000; Norfolk, $640,000; Savannah, $800,000; Miami, $700,000; Mobile, $437.500; Galveston and vicinity and the Houston Ship Channel, $1,654.500: Milwaukee, $872,000; Muskegon, Mich., $290 000; Frankfort, Mich., $358.000; Chicago, $137,000; Los Angeles, $1,800, 000; Oakland, $345,000; Humboldt, £350,000; Hilo, $634,000, and Nawill- wili, Hawail, $400,000. Figures by Districts. The recommendations, by districts, tnclude- Baltimore district—Baltimore Har- bor and channels, $460,000 (including enlarging Fort McHenry anchorage, $206,000; Ferry Bar Channel, $75,000; Spring Garden Channel, $80,000, and upper anchorage adjacent to Fort Me- Henry Channel. $45.000). Washington district—Potomac River at Washington, $10,000; below Wash- ington, $150,000; Occoquan Creek, Va.. $6,000: Nomini Creek, Va., $14, 600; Rappahannock River, V 0 Mattaponi River, Va., $8,600; P: key River, Va., $8,60 Norfolk district—Norfolk Harbor, £640,000 (Including dredging in south- ern branch of Elizabeth River, $191,- ern branch of Elizabeth River, $135,434: harbor channels, redredg- ing, $192,000); Thimble Shoal Channel, $180,000; James River, redredging channels between Richmond and mouth, $50,000; Appomattox River, $10,000; Pagan River, $2,000; Nanse. mond River, $2,000; inland waterw: Norfolk to Beaufort Inlet, N. C., $800, 000 (including extending Alligator River-Pungo River land cut, $375,000; building three bridges on Alligator River-Pungo River land cut, $255,000; building si1x houses for bridge tende: 5,000, and redredging between Nor tem, Gen. Jadwin says that the purification of the water during the past fiscal year was very satisfactory, | the average turbidity having been re- duced from 90 to 0.00 and the bac- terial content from 4,165 to 2 per cubic centimeter, The average con- sumption was 69.28 million gallons per day, making the average per capita consumption 140 gallons per day. Twenty-five thousand four hun- dred and fifty-nine pounds of liquid chlorine, at the rate of 0.17 per million gallons, were applied for sterilization to the water leaving the filtered-water reservoir for 287 days during the vear. The operation and maintenance of the existing system during the past year cost flfl7.210 and Gen. Jadwin says that $202,210 can profitably be expended for that purpose during the coming fiscal vear. An accompanying table shows the high daily consump- tion of water in the various Govern- ment buildings in this city. The Navy Yard heads the list with a daily con- sumption of 1,358,805 gallons, fol- lowed in order by the Bureau of En- graving and Printing at 935,620 gal- lons, the State, War and Navy Build- ing at 687,227 gallons, the Agricul- tural Department at 466,785 gallons, the Zoological Park at 431,376 gal lons, the Government Printing Office at 387,988 gallons, the Post Office at 372,086 gallons, the Treasury Depart- ment at 232,017 gallons, parks and reservations at 227,576 gallons, and smaller quantities for all the other Governmient buildings. Gen. Jadwin makes a strong plea for additional funds for the continued improvement of the channels of the Potomac River between this city and the mouth of the river, a distance of 108 miles, and also for the channels of the river opposite this city. Shoal- ing has recurred at Kettle Bottom, Maryland Point, Smith Point, Matta- woman, Marshall Hall and Naval lagaine and threatens to interfere with navigation. An allotment of $100,000 has been rescrved from the 1926 appropriation, Gen. Jadwin says, and will be expended in maintenance dredging. That sum will be exhausted by June 30 next and the Chief of En- gineers says that $150,000 can be profitably expended during the fiscal L. and Albemarle sound, $140,000; Blackwater River, Va., §3,000; Meher- in River, N. ' $3,000; Roanoke auver, N. $3,000, Scuppernong | River, $3,000. 1 M;;vell Is Arrested. city to s ol Robert ¢, Maxwell, or Mari ittsburgh, Fa., 3 7 to information d from that city Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief of detectives. Detective rnall is in Pittsburgh today 1 Maxwell, stationed at Q and another former Marin saulted and r the latter's pi ) Va., are alleged to h tico, Ha, e her har bed Charle: of. busine: taking move HIPPING NEWS at and_Sailings From New Arrivals York. Hul American Banke Chatead- Thierry Vs Scolia—Tri Aconcagua—V American _Shij Monterey Nieuw Amst b4 H: & ampico erdam—Rotterdam. romen. . . et eat=t eliance. the n.gnt ot April 7, | ¢ vear 1! in continuing the work. The existing project provides for dredg- ing a channel 24 feet deep at mean low water, and 200 feet wid>, from this city to the mouth of the river. Commerce for the calendar yvear 1925 is reported as 2,439,365 short tons, valued at $54,043.300, the principal items in order of tonnage being sand and gravel, petroleum and its products, forest products, general mer- chandise, fertilizers and bituminous coal Bigger Vessels Helped. | v per cent of the commerce i over the improved sections of stream, of which 20 per cent re- ed the depth increased by dredg- As 2 result of the improved| nnel, Gen. Jadwin eays, deeper | draft ocean and coastwise commercial ! and naval ‘vessels can now reach | Washington and Alexandria, thereby increasing commerce and reducing cost of transportation. Current operations in the Potoma River at Washington are being con fined to the dredging of the Virgl channel, the maintenance of levees | around Columbia Island and the oper ation of the tidal gates. The channe on the Virginia side of Columbic Isiand, five feet depth, and the | structures on the island, the report says, are in poor condition, Avaflable ! funds will be exhausted by June 20| xt, and Gen. Jadwin says that $19,- | 100 can be profitably expended on the | ot during the next fiscal year. ug_terminal and transfer facill- ties Washington, consisting of | about 9,440 feet of water front, are considered by Gen. Jadwin as “inade- quate” and most of the wharves, not i | tuneral parlors. |1s survived only by his father. | parents were formerly of Virginia. Taft’s Pharmacy aviation purposes. Section D has been turned over to the director of Public Buildings and Public Parks and s being developed into a public play- ground. The reclamation work already completed has been of benefit to navi- gation, Gen. Jadwin says, and deep- draft vessels now use the area be- tween the Anacostia and Pennsylvania Avenue bridges, where a harbor has been provided for yachts. In addition, space on the réclalmed area has béen provided for community gardens, a nursery for the District of Columbia and for Agricultural Department and Botanic Garden activities. The west, or city, side of sécttons D and E has been set aside for commercial pur- poses and is partly occupied by boat and yacht clubs and lumber yard reservation. General sanitary condi- tions have been much improved, the report says. Urges Bridge’s Removal. In renewing his oft-repeated recom- mendation for the removal of the old Aqueduct Bridge crossing the Potomac between Georgetown and Roaslyn, Va., Gen. Jadwin says that the structure is totally abandoned and has been closed to all traffic since January, 1923. “The structure,” says he, “serves no useful purpose and Is very unsightly beside the graceful Francis Scott Key Bridee.” ~He points out that House bill 4056, pending in the Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, provides for the removal of the bridge at a cost of $190,000, but that amount being regarded n~ insufficjent for the purpose, he s . the War Depart- ment has recoinmended to Congress that the appropriation be increased to $228.000. No direct reference is made in the report to the proposed retention of the span of the old bridge over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for use as a public recreation pler. Gen. Jadwin says that the sum of $4,200 can be profitably expended dur- ing the fiscal year 1928 for the mainte- nance and care of the Government reservation at Wakefleld, Va., the birthplace of George Washington, lo- cated on Pope Creek, a small tidal stream flowing into the Potomac River, 74 miles below this city. The monument erected there by order of Congress and its Inclosure, he says, are In good condition, the grounds are in fair condition, the réads and right of way are in poor condition and the whart erected several years ago has been destroyed by ¢ and storms. During the past fisphl year about 12,600 persons visited the reservations and 3.126 automobiles traversed the right of way. The funds appropriated for the fiscal vear 1927, $1,500, are| helng expended for general mainte- nance. At the recent session of Con- gress an act was passed authorizing the Wakefield National Memorial As- soclation to construct on the reserva- tion a reproduction of the house In which George \Washington was born, but what, if any. progress has been made is not reported. RITES FOR J. F. PATTERSON | Puneral of Montana Attorney Held Here This Afternoon. Tuneral services for James F. Patterson, attorney of Forsyth, Mont., and son of John W. Patterson, con- tract builder, 409 Tennessee avenue, who died in the Western oity last Tuesday. were held th's aftérnoon at 2 o'clock at the Norval K. Tabler Rev. Dr. Hugh K. Fulton of Westminster Presbyterian Church, officisted. Burial was in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Patterson was 44 years old. Jeath was due to heart disease. ‘}x{e 8 He was educated in Washington and vent West about 16 years ago. Since ‘hat time he has practiced law in forsyth. ———— A quartet of beehives camouflagx within well executed wooden status of Biblical characters—Moses, Aaron, Simeon and the Apostle Paul—is one of the sights on a German bee farm near Loewenburg. tant. The desire of foreign vessels to invade the coastwise trade of the United States is being emphasized by forelgn operators and by foreign offi- clals and commercial bodles.” An indication that Europeans were not still clinging to the belief that the American war-inspired merchant fleet was an ‘“emergency” affair, as implied in the name, “Emergency Fleet Corporation,” the board's oper- ating subsidiary, was given in the re- port, which declared West-bound loading from Europé increased dur- ing the year and on every hand there was “a growlng appreciatian by shippers and receivers of cargo of the good service rendered by our vari- ous lines.” Anothér reason assigned for the falling off in South American trade was the fact that foreign competitors were employing motor ships with much greater speed than hoard ves- sels. The board, however, is engaged in an extensive conversion program involving the Dieselizing of many of its cargo ships and reported it hoped to apeed up this work in future by experience gained in converting fits first group. Attention was re-directed to the fact -that the coastwise laws had not yet been extended to the Philippines, al- though the board certified to the President in 1922 and still holds that adequate tonnage. is avallable for service between and the islands, warranting applica- tion of these protective laws to the American possesson. #The hoard reduced the one-time Wil- lion-dollar fleet during the year by 350 ships, four complete cargo and two entire passenger lines being sold with 199 vessels going to Henry Ford to be scrapped. The American-Pal- metto lihe, a cargo service, was taken back after sale when it was seen the guaranteed operation could not be maintained, and disposal of the Pan- American and American-Oriental lines left the board with only one complete ‘uenger service, the United States nes. Attacks Foreign Pacts. At the end of the year, 881 vessels remained to be disposed of. Largelv through liquidation of the standing fleet and savings from more efficient operation, the board reported that the 1oss of $41,000,000 sustained by it in 1924 had been cut to $20,000,000 in the last year. The board renewed its attack on agreements between Américan trunk- line railroads and foreign shipping services, preaéntéd a récommendation for a codification of American naviga- tion laws and sald the replacement of the 12 passenger vessels etill in the Government fleet will have to be ac- complished within 16 yvears, which will require the construction of about 28,000 gross tons of passenger ves- Sels each year. This 1s in addition to the provosed construction of two passenger.cargo vessels required to operate in con- junction with the Leviathan in the North _Atlantic service, plans for which have been prepared. Including these two vessels, the hoard said. the “building program would involve the construction of an average of 30,000 Rross tons of passenger vessels per year during the period from 1928 on- ward.” 1 GROSNER'S roSner: 1325 F STREET House of Kuppenheimer Clothes MONDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1926. EQUITABLE FISCAL RELATIONS ARE AIM . OF COMMISSIONERS (Continued from First Page.) consideration by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. “Such consideration,” the Commis- sioners commented, “should be to the library's advantage in the building of branch libraries. The first branches in the public schools will be estab- lished during the coming year at Chevy Chase and Tenleytown. These subbrdn:ches will babopo'r;ad :I‘l‘l ;1‘10'1; nate days and one librarian charge of both. The increase of | BY tie Astocisted Prees. $84,200 in appropriations for the com- | Tightening up of the anti-trust and ing vear will also nfake possible small | prohibition laws ate among numerous increases in personnel, Sunday and:j.gigative meco In the holiday opening, the binding fund and in repairs to and quipment of buld: | aanual report of Attarney Geners ings to the extent of $20,000.” rgent, pi t lor Congress. Mrs. m"f‘v{f'flm llebrandt, As- sistant Attorney General, in charge Attorney General's Report Also\ Urges Congress to Amend Liquor Legislation. Central Police Station. Referring to the activities of the{of probihition, urged amendment of Police Department, the Commissioners | the Volstead act to permit dourts in again urged the erection of a modern, | thelr discretion to impose jall sen up-to-date building as a central police ; tences ‘heavy enough to fit the fact station and headquarters, and thei Reporting that progress against rum erection of a modern garage and re.:6Smugglers fn the last year “has been air shop for the motor vehicles of the interesting, if not enco ng,” she gepartm‘;n:. jreiterated the plea of Treasury Recommendations also are made for | Department for legislation to support the transfer of the 63 crossing police- | the rum treaties worked out with for- men to the permanent rolls of the|eign governments relative to ship police force and the payment of their { seizures. s:l&rlets out of public funds rn?er Forelgn Nations AN. than from the stregt car companies; o enactment of & fugltive 1aw: & AW | ina meonertie b T et oy forbidding the purciise of wud PUSs:s-| ernments in the suppressing of fum sion of deadly weapons in the District: | gmuggling, and related that the Fon- a vagrancy law with teeth In it, and | quran Government had dismissed two the establishment of magistrate courts | of {ts consuls for issuing temporaty in the police stations for the disposal | seg letters to vessels. Both Great of minor cascs of violations of the mu-| Britain and Hondurgs, she said, had nicipal regulations. indicated a desire to prevent the use The outstanding feature of the con- | of their flags by rum runners. struction program of the Highway| willjam J. Donovan, assistant to the Department, the report declared, Was| Attorney General and in charge of made possible by the gasoline tax,!antitrust cases, suggested possfble which amounted last year to moré|amendments to section 7 of the Clay- than $1,250,000. :;m ac}tl wlm;ut definite recommenda- Index of nsion. lons. He sald there had been critiicsm 5 e B that the ast enjoined the a’quisition rm:‘:;lsm::;?mfgeq, l‘;;::m;‘r:"!; u::: gr stock of a competing cofporation, 8800000 (o the {otal annual expend: B oy UL o (LM pROp Ly tures in excess of the preceding year's Donovan also said complaints had total. Although the rate of execution of the work suthorized to be paid for | Doon. made that the act now preveits TIGHTER ANTI-TRUST 22 LAWS ARE SOUGHT :: ated his request for legislative pro- posals submitted a year ago, and sug- ed numerous other recommenda- tions, including the report of confer- ence of senior circuit judges. asked for a Federal statute mak- ing it & crime to escape from a Fed- prison, and suggested that the nalties for violations of the various ‘ederal reserve and agricultural bank- ing laws be harmonized, and that cases of contempt be punishable either in the district in which the de- cree alleged to have been violated was entered or in the district in which the act constituting the contempt was committed. He also renewed his request for ad- ditional salaries for district attorneys and their assistants. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. Cosmopolitan Club—Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley will lecture on “Archaeo- logical Investigations of the Carne- gie Institution in Mexico and Central America in 1926." Illustrated with colored slides. Mount Pleasant Congregational Church—The Men's Club will meet at 8 o'clock. Willlam J. Showalter, an editor of the Geographic Maga- zine, will speak of “The Faith of a Sclentist.” The Ten Event Course of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church will have for speaker, 8 o'clock, Wil- llam Mather Lewis, president of Qeorge Washington University. Sub- ject: “The Haunts of George Wash- ington.” Illustrated. Members of the Citizens' Advisory Council have been invited as guests of the meeting of the Manor Park Citizens' Association, 7:30 o'clock, at the Whittier School. The Writerscraft Club will meet, 8 o'clock, in Mount Pleasant Public Library. Guests invited. The Citizens' Association of Ta- koma Park, D. C., will meet, § o'clock, in the library. A reception to the, Federation of Colored Catholics in_tonvention will CONVIGTED EDITOR ASKS CRIME QUIZ George Dale, Muncie, Ind., Says He Has Decided to Continue Paper. By the Assoclated Press. MUNCIE. Ind., December 6. George Dale, editor of a local weekly political newspaper, who on Saturday was found guilty of criminal libel and fined $400 and sentenced to 90 days on the penal farm, sald in this week's issue of his paper that he had asked Federal authoritles to Investigate law enforcement conditions here. He said local authorities were not enforcing the laws. The grand jury, which adjourned last Friday, examined many witnesses regarding stories of alleged law vio- lations, but only four minor indict- ments were returned. Last week Dale sald that he was ready to quit_the publishing business in Muncie. Yesterday he said folks took him too serfously, that they “recognize poetic licens and that he has decided to contin publication of his paper. Saturday night, shortly after his conviction of ecriminal libel, Dalo called police and said that a shot had been fired into his home. A week ago Dale reported that two shots were fired into the house and on two other occasions he said it was stoned. Dale claimed today police have re fused to follow the “lead” he I given them and that he and his family are not receiving police pro tection. Chief of Police Arthur Jones sald that an officer had been stationed near the Dale home, and that every effort is being made by the police to arrest be held at Lincoln Colonnade. Danc: ing from 8 o'clock. the persons who have fired at it. the United States|T! from the gas tax was necessarily lim: wfie:'enemin? .t.;:y":;ll;, m":&l‘:’_ able them to competé more success- fully with an already eéxisting larger unit in the same line.” Defends Consent Devices. Summarizing activities of the anti- trust division, Donovan said 15 crimi. nal and 21 civil cases had been finally determined in the last fiscal year and seven criminal and eight civil cases instituted. First, attention was given, he said, to clearing up old cases, while “‘particular attention” was devoted to the prosecution of suits :&unst con: cerns whose business ected the “‘necessaries of life and living condl- tions generally.” Donovan defended the numerous consent decress obtained during the year, describing them as ‘“analégous to a plea of gulilty in a criminal pro- ceeding and representing simply a submission by the defendant in equity to the demands of the petitioner.” Gradual clearing up of the thou- sands of crimi and civil casés growing out of theé war was shown in the reports of othér assistants. ited by the rate of collection of the tax, all work authorized wae under contract and nearing completion at the end of the fiscal year. “S8omewhat more liberal appropria- tions permitted a more adequate pro- gram of resurfacing of asphdit pave- ments, and the funds provided for the coming year by Congress reflect a recognition of the need of replacin at an early date the large area of these pavemnents whoseé condition, due to extreme age, plainly calls for such action in the interest of public safety and comfort. “The repairing of cuts made in pave. ments for underground installations reached a total cost of $505,000 during the year, an increase of $70,000 over the preceding year and of $1835,000 over that next preceding. This is manifestly a reflection of expansion of various services and of building activity. “The funds for repairs to suburban roads agd suburban streets were $297,- 500, anythe appropriation for grading | streets, alleys and roads was $50,000. e upkeep of suburban roads is con- antly increaging in cost per unit of area, due to a like increase in the number and average axle load of vehicles. The total area of suburban roads maintained was increased dur- ing the year by additions of newly opened streets whose area was 40 per cent of the area of pavements laid within the suburban arca. The funds for repairs are thus charged with an augmented unit cost and an increased area to be maintained.” DIES AT AGE OF 87. Rev. Henry Woods Perris, Uni- tarian Minister, Succumbs. LONDON, December 6 (#).—Rev. Henry Woods Perris, prominent Uni- tarign minister, died here Saturday at the age of 87. He represented English churches at the great Boston Uni- tarian conference, and was a_friend of Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfel- low, John Greenleaf Whittier and Wil Carleton. WAR BODY TO MEET. Business Council to Begin Series of Sessions Tomorrow. The War Department Business Council, made up of prominent busi-! ness men, allied with department offi- clals in the study of current supply problems of the Army, will begin a series of meetings tomorrow_ morning at the Army War College, Washing- ton Barrac Maj. Gen. Hanson Ely, president of the College, will preside and an address will be made by Assistant! Secretary Hanford MacNider of the| ‘War Department. { A Departmental Invest- ment Loan helps you this Christmas, with from $75 to $450. You have a year to repay it conveniently. And by next Christmas this spe- cial repayment plan will have accumulated for you a $50 Savings Balance for every $100 borrowed now! Come in; ask us; use us. 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