Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 34

District Gets Nearly $2, 000,000 Increase Over Current NEW ESTIMATES FOR SCHOOLS $123.220 for D. C. |$3.589.5001S Total Increase of $1.439.330 for All Pur- poses in the Departmcnt Is Approved By Budge Allowing for greater progress on the school building program. the Bud- get Bureau has recommended a total of $12,344.701 for all expenses of the | public school system for the next fis- cal year, as compared with current appropriations of §10.905,371 This is a total increase in school estimates of $1,439,330. of which ap- proximately $700,000 iz being added to the construction program. The re- malrder of the increase is distributed among other routine school expenses. In additlon to recommending the | actual appropriation of $12,344.701, 1 the Budget Bureau has recommended that authority be given the Commis- sioners to make contractual obliga- tlons in excess of that amount by $1,195,500. For the current fiscal year the contractual authorization is only 0,000 in addition to the actual ap- propriation of $10,905.371. Excluding the items that make up the building program, the new esti-| mates for the running of the school | system next year total $9.337.351, as | of against current appropriations only $5,609,371 The new estimates for buildings | and grounds amount to $3,006.750, | while the appropriations for the cur- | rent vear under this heading totaled | 32,296,000 | While this is a substantial step for- ward in the effort to provide adequate gchool facilities for the children of \Cashington, it still is less than would | be required to keep the cons'r\wunn; ork going on the basis of a five-vear | program. i When the school building program | was authorized several years ago it | was figured that $20,000,000 was need. | ed to overcome the accumulated | shortage in classrooms. On that basis | the annual allotment for construction work would have to approximate £4,000,000 a year in order to carry out the program in five years. Construction Figures. The building items recommended in the budget are as follows: For the completion of the construc- tion of the Gordon Junior High School in Georgetown, $275,000: for the erec- lion of a four-room extensible building in Potomac Heights, $85,000; for the | construction of an eight-room addi- tion, including a combination gym- nasium and assembly hall, to the Barnard School, located at Fifth and Decatur streets northwest, including | the necessary remodeling of the pres- ent building, $175,000; for the prepara- Tion of plans and spectfications for the | arection of an extensible junior high school building in Brightwood, in ac- cordance with the plans of the Macfar- land Junior High School, modified as the limits of the site may require, $5.000, and the Commissioners are au- thorized to enter into contract or con- tracts as in this act provided for such building at a cost not to exceed $475.- 000, $5,000. for the preparation of plans and specifications for the erec- tion of a 24-room building, including . combination gymnasium and assem hly hall on a site already purchased at Nineteenth street and Colum- bia road. $5,000, and the Com-| missfoners are authorized to en ter into contracts for the construc- tion as in this act pro#ded for such building at a cost not to exceed $500.- 000, $5,000; for completion of the con- | struction of the addition to the Lang: ley Junior High School, $875,000, and the authority to enter into contract or contracts for this addition con- tained in the District of Columbia ap- | propriation act for the fiscal vear | 1927 is hereby increased by $75.000. | 375,000 for the erection of a 16-room | building, including a combination | smnasium and assembly hall, to re- place the present Langdon School | Building, $275.000: for the preparation | of plans and specifications for a’com- | and assembly hi ymnasium 5 N vg?‘;:? e heatley School, $1.300, | High Schools. The insertion in the d the Commissioners are author- |text of the repair item of a pro- ized to enter into contract or con- | Vision for electric lighting equipment tracts for such addition at = cost not to exceed §75.000, $1,500: for the con- atruction of a six-room addition to the Bryan School, including the necessar remodeling of the present building. £125.000 v the preparation of plans and specifications for the construc- | tion of an eightroom addition to the including a combina- | Aforgan School and assembly hall. tion gymnasium and the necessary remodeling of the |cation, 186 emploves. $625,600, as bresent buflding. §3.000, and the Com- | against the current allotment of missioners are authorized to enter into | $607.500. i contracts for such addi- tlon at a cost not to exceed $160.000, £3.000. for the completion of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School. | the construction of an| contract or 000, for eight-room addition to the Margaret Murray ~ Washington Vocational School. lacated on O street. including the necessary remodeling of the pres et building, $150.000: for continuing the construction of the MeKinley | Technical High Scheol, §1,000,000; for the construction of a six-room addi tion to the Crummell School, includ- | modelng of the ing the necessary r present huilding, §100.000 | In addition to these construction projects. the budget calls for $157.250 | for the purchase of sites for school | buildings and for school playgrounds, | ng locations In the vicinity of the Langdon School, to provide for the erection of a new 16.room school building to re Lanzdon School: in the follow ace the pres the ‘vicinity of Ninth and Euclid reets northwest. for a ncw health schoel for red pupils; land ad inining the site on Grant road now awned by the District of Columbia: in the vicinity of the Peabody School for Maver purposes the vicinity of the Wormley School for playground | o be disbursed and | as “building and play- | cround sites. public &choels,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and shall remain available until June 20, 1928. Provided, That no part of | the appropriations herein made shall expended for the purchase of any which shall exceed e the cost of the full value assessment of such | property last made before purchase | Thereof plus 25 per centum of such | assessed value Provided further, That if any of the above enu- merated cannot be purchased under <aid limftation as to price, then any | of said moneys remaining unexpended | or unobligated by reason of such price | limitation may be expended. -uh;ecr} to said limitation as to price, in the | purchase of any or all other land authorized to he acquired in the 5. ear school building program act. ap-, Brmved Febraary 26, 1025 (Forty-third 986 Adjusts Flow of Work. It will be noted that four of the tems in the school construction pr «ram for next vear call only for suf-| felent money to prepare plans. | coupled with authority for the Com- inissioners (o enter into contracts for he actual building work. The Bud-| cet Bureau explained that pro- | edure was followed “for the purpose | ¢ adjusting the flow of work in the fice of the municipal architect. The | inunicipal architect prepares his pro- Zram of work for a fiscal year upon The hasia of continuing approx.mately ¢ same force throughout the year. | of desks and other equipment. | that will be made during the present |as the amount for the present vear. | of children t Bureau. This requires postponement of the preparation of plans for some build- ings until toward the close of the fiscal vear. “The plans and specifications, for example, for all of the buildings for which appropriations were made for 1927 will not have been completed until the end of that fiscal year; and the funds appropriated for the con- struction of several of these buildings will not be required for expenditure until the fiscal vear 1928. ““The estimates for 1928 have been prepared upon the basis, first, of pro- viding appropriations for construc- ion expenditures in 1928 for those proposed new buildings for which the municipal architect will be able to prepare plans and secure all or part construction thereof during that fiscal | vear: and second, of providing, in ad dition to contractual authorization, merely the small sums necassary for the preparation of plans for those buildings the plans of which cannot be completed in time for beginning construction work prior to the end of the fiscal vear. This latter pro- posal has the further advantage of permitting accurate estimates of ap- propriation needs. “It is proposed that $300,000 of the amount estimated for buildings and grounds shall be charged to the surplus revenue fund of the District fpractically exhausting that fund), with the remainder to be paid direct- Iy from District revenues. It is also proposed that the paragraph requir- ing construction of any building un- der only one contract, except for heat- ing. lighting and plumbing needs, shall be amended to provide a further exception with respect to painting and treatment of grounds.” Teachers’ Salaries. The item for salaries of teachers is increased from $5.564,800 to $5,783, 740. Of this amount, $121.100 pro- vides for 74 new teachers for varying periods of service during the year based upon class needs and probable date of occupancy of new buildings. The remainder is required for longev. ity salary increases. The item for payment of annuities is increased from $70,000 to $359,000 in accordance with section 7 of the act of June 11, 1926, directing the submission an- nually of an estimate of the amount, calculated upon an actuarial basis, sufficient to liquidate, within a period of approximately 30 years after July 1, 1926, the accrued liability as of that date, The item for care of buildings and grounds is increased from $575.000 to provide janito forces for the new school buildings to he oc- cupied during the year. The amount estimated for furniture and equipment for new school build- ings to be occupied in 1928 i $199,691, as against $195.071 for the same pur- pose for 1927. This does not include a new item of $100,000 for equipment for the McKinley Technical High School, which is carried for the pur- pose of permitting the installation of certain laboratory and other equip- ment that should be installed during the construction of the building. An increase from $85.000 to $100.000 is recommended in the contingent ex- pense item for replacement and repair The amount proposed for text books and school supplies, $175,000, repre- sents a reduction of $25,000 from the appropriation for 1927. The progress vear in replacing obsolete hooks war- rants, it’is helieved, the proposed re- duction for 1938, The amount recommended for re- pairs to school buildings is the same There is included, however. a new item of $100.000 for installing fire curtains at the Central and Dunbar recommended. Miscellaneous Items. Other items in connection with an- nual maintenance of the school sys- tem, aside from construction work and improvements, follow: For personal services of administra- tive and supetvisory officers and other employes of the Board of Edu- vices, clerical and administrative. 75 employes, $110,600 recommended, as against $109,500 last | vear. Two new clerical positions are | recommended in this group at $1,320 | each. Total recommended. £113,240, as | against $109.500 this vear. | Personal services in 1he department | of school attendance and work per- | mits, 18 employes. $31,500 recom- | mended, as against $29.900 this vear. The difference is due to longevity al- lowances For the instruction and supervision in the vacatiow schools and playgrounds, $30.000, the same as this year. For salaries of teachers and jani- tors in the night schools, $90.000, the | same as this vear. For expenses attending the instruc- tion of deaf and dumb persons admit- ted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf. under existing law, £27,000 rec- ommended. an increase of $2,000. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf mutes. $5.000, an increase of $500. For instruction of blind children, un. der contract. a decrease from $11.000 this vear to $10.500 For Americanization work, §10.000, the same as the current appropriation. Con unity Work. Community Center Department. For | vereonal services of the divector, gen. | eral secretaries, community secretaries and contingent expenses, $40,000, | an increase of $1.000. Salaries for the director, two general secretaries and geven community secretaries, $19.500 recommended. as against $19.008.33 this year. the difference being due t& longevity allowances. For the care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools, $7,000, a reduction of $1.000. For the main- tenance of & typical openair and un- graded classes, $4.000, a decrease of $500. For maintenance of schools for tu- bercular pupils, $4.500, an increase of £300. For transportation of pupils at- tending tubercular schools, $3,780, an increase of $780. For purchase and repair of furni- ture, tools, machinery., material and bhooks and apparatus in connection with manual training. $75,000, an in- crease of $5.000. The item for fuel, gas and electric light is the same as this year, $250.000. | For furniture and equipment for new buildings and additions to build- ings, $199,691, as compared with $195,- 071 this year. Furniture and Equipment. For furniture and equipment, in- cluding pianos and window shades and repair. remodeling and refinishing of existing equipment for the McKin- ley Technical High School $100.000 is recommended, and the Commissioners For personal C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8 1926, Budget Indicates Increase in Ranks Of U. S. Employes The average number of employes in the District of Columbia esti- mated for the fiscal year of 1928 is 47,666 and 612 and they receive an average salary of $1,819, accord- ing to a table contained in the bud- get statement sent to Congress to- day. For the fiscal year 1927 the av- erage number will be 47,5863 and 712, who will recefve an average salary of $1,826. In 1926 the average number of employes was 46,983 and 3-12, and they received an average salary of $1,809. The average number of em- ployes for the Federal power com- mission is one. and the average salary $7,500, which is the smallest in personnel and highest in aver- age salary, which compares with the average number of the Treas- ury Department, 14,009, who re- celved an average salary of $1,840, according to the estimates for the fiscal vear 1928. “The District of Columbia service, according to estimates, will main tain an average of 3,205 employes during the fiscal year of 1928 and they will receive an average of $1,490. LIBRARY BUDGET SET AT §285.600 Fund Sought for Coming Year Is $14,300 More Than That Given in Current List. For support of the Free Public Li- brary in the District, a total of $285.- 600 is recommended in the budget transmitted to Congress today, as against $271,300 appropriated for the current fiscal year. Of this amount a total of $199,700 is for salaries, in ac- cordance with the classification act, which is an increase of $17,400. For substitutes and other special and temporary service at the discre- tion of the librarian, $6.000 is recom- mended, which is an increase of $2,500. The item for extra services on Sun- days, holidays and Saturday half holi- d al year, $3,600. , One of the largest items in 'the library budget is § ’Mmdlor pm'c::se books, periodicals and newspapers, ‘\‘\Fhmh f an increase of $2,000. The item n bringing it up to $13.500. An increase of $4.000 is allowed for maintenance, repair, fuel, lighting, fit- ting up buildings, lunch-room equip- ment and the purchase and mainte- nance of motor delivery vehicles and other contingent expenses, bringing this schedule up to $24,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings, an appropriation of $5,000 s recommended, while the current ap- propriation carried £20,000 under this heading. For rent of suitable quarters for a branch library in Chevy Chase, a new item is submitted of $2,400. Fire Department. The Budget Bureau recommends $2.123,206 for the District Fire Depart- ment, which is a decrease of approxi- mately $110.000 under current appro- priations. The item for salaries for 863 uniformed officers and men of the department is $1,825,000, and for three civilian employes, $7,080, the same as in the current apprnnrimlon. For repairs and improvements of engine houses and grounds, $25.000 is recommended, a decrease of $3.000. For uniforms and other official equipment, $30,125 is recommended, as compared with $32.000 appropriated for the current fiscal vear. For re- pairs to apparatus and motor vehicl and for the purchase of necessary sup- plies, $50,000 is recommended. which is an increase of $2,200. An additional $1,000 is recommended for repairs and improvements on the fireboat. For hose, the item iz $21,000. or £1,000 less than the current appropria- tion. The recommendation for fuel is $30,000, or $5,000 less than for the cur- rent fiscal vear. For permanent Improvements. $31.- 000 is recommended, which is double the current appropriation, for aerial hook and ladder truck: $33.000 for three pumping engine: $16.000, or a reduction of $8,000, for two combina- tion hose wagons, and a new item of $4,000 for two automobiles at $2,000 each. One of the most important pieces of new equipment designed to build up the quality of the fire-protection serv- ice is @ drill tower and equipment, costing $20.000. to be located on land owned by the District adjacent to No. 8 engine house. ——————— this building at a cost not to exceed $450,000. A P For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, pay of cabinet maker, for United States fla and other necessary items not other- wise provided for, $100,000 recom- mended, an increase of $15,000. For the purchase of pianos. at‘an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1.500 is recommended, the same as this year. The amount for maintenance of kindergartens is the same as this vear, $7,000. For purchase of apparatus and for maintenance of laboratories for physics, chemistry, etc., $14,000, an increase of $1,000. * For rent of school buildings and grounds the budget recommends §11.- 000, a reduction of $1.000 from the current appropriations. For repairs. and improvements to achool buildings and grounde the budget again recommends $550.000, the same as the current appropriation. Playground Expenses. For maintenance and repair of school playgrounds an increase from $5.300 to $5.500. For repair, replacement and exten- sion of equipment to adapt for use as junior_high schools the old Eastern High School, the Jefferson School and the Powell School the budget recom mends $17,500, as compared with $22.- 000 carried for the same purpose the current act. For teachers' salaries the total recommended is $5,783.740, as com- pared to $5,564,300 in the current law. Of the total amount for teachers’ sala- ries, $5,662.640 is for the 2,666 regu- lar and the 24 substitute teachers already in the service. The budget then recommends 74 new teachers’ | positions, calling for a, total of $121.- | 000, bringing the aggregate sum for teachers’ salaries up to $5,783,740. Of the new positions recommended 25 are authorized to enter into contracts for the furniture and equipment for would be at $1574 sgyvear, 25 at $1,138, 19 at $2,200 and five at $2;300. ‘s is the same as for the current| $38.519.869 BUDGET FOR D. C. IS DECREASE FROM ESTIMATE _ (Continued from Firat Paj present bud totals $40,000, other $9,000 g for pay of troops other than Government employ An increase of $15,000 for the reclamation of Anacostia River flats brings the recommended appropria- tion for continuing the re mation and development of Anacostia Park up to $185,000. $1,013,406 Sought for Parks. For public bulldings and public parks a total of $1,013,406 is recom- mended, as against the current appro- priation of $815,886. Of this, $347,000 is for salaries for 265 persons; $363,000 is for general expenses. There is a new item of $1560,000 for the construc- tion of two bathing pools, in accord- ance with the act approved May 4 of this year, to be .made immediately available. An item of $140,406, which is an increase of $13.000, is for sal- arfes for 68 men in the United States park police force, and another item of $18,000 is for providing them with uniforms und equipment, including bicycles and motor cycles. For the National Capital Park and Planning Commission an item of $600,000 is included to continue the program of purchasing desirable land for the park system. For the National Zoological Park an item of $176,000 is for roads, walks, bridges, water supply, drainage, etc., including necessary employes. Acqueduct Fund Is Same. For the Washington Aqueduct a total appropriation of $202,210, iden- tical with the current appropriation, is recommended. For the Water Department the Budget Bureau recommends a total of $1,639,000, which is practically & $600,000 increase. This includes $450.- 000 for the laying of approximately 21,000 feet of 48-irich water main from the intersection of Nebraska and Wis- consin avenues to Georgia avenue and Military road, and for an addi- tion to Reno reservoir, $450,000, to be immediately available, of which amount $300,000 shall be paid from the revenues of the Water Depart- ment and $150,000 from the revenues of the District of Columbia. For construction of an additional water tower of 160,000-gallon capacity at Reno reservoir an appropriation of $60,000 i recommended. There is an increase of $264,810 in salaries for District employes from a total of $1,735,300 to $2,000,110. This increase is made up as follows New items representing $75,120 for the office of the register of wills and §110,000 for the recorder of deeds are required by the act of April 24, 1926, which provided that beginning with the fiscal year 1928 the fees collected by those offices would be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the Dis- trict revenues and the expenses of the offices would be covered by direct appropriations. Similarly the items tor binding is increased $1,000, (for the Free Public Library are in- creased hy $16,000 on account of the act of April 1, 1926, which provided that beginning with July 1, 1927, rev- enues from book fines, theretofore available for expenditure, would be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the.District of Columbia. Further increases of $13,300 were allowed for additional personnel and equipment and for rent of the branch library in Chevy Chase. A reduction of $15,000 was made, however, in the item for repairs to buildings, due to the fact that major repairs costing that amount at the central library building will be completed during the present fiscal year. The amount for salaries in the assessor's office is in- creased by $17,820 to provide nine ad- ditional employes on account of the additional work involved in carrying out the provisions of the act of July 3, 1926, requiring annual assessments of real property. The increase in the item for recla- mation and improvement of the Ana- costia River flats from $170,000 to $185.000 is intended to provide for the purchase of all the remaining land to be acquired above Benning Bridge. The amount provided for work below Benning Bridge will complete that work. : The amount for general expenses, public buildings and public parks is increased from $334.660 to $363,000 to provide for additional park im- provement work. The items for sala- ries and for uniforms and equipment for the park police are increased ap- proximately $15,000 to provide for the compensation and equipment of addi- tional men authorized by the act of July 3, 1926. For the construction of two bath- ing pools authorized by the act of May 4, 1926, an estimate of $150,000 s recommended. Purchase of Park Land. Provision is made in the 1928 estl- mates for the purchise of land by the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission for park and play- ground purposes in the same ameunt and with the same limitations as are provided in the appropriation for 1927, An item of $53.000 is recommended in the District budget for completion of an_exhibition building for birds at the National Zoological Park, which is in addition to the appropriation of $49,000 last year for commencing this work. Besides .this $102.000 for a bird house, estimates are submitted also for an additional $25,000 for cages within and without the build- ng. The project for increasing the Dis- trict water supply will be completed during the next fiscal year with funds already appropriated for that purpose. ‘When the water supply is put into operation and the Bryant Street Pumping Station is discontinued there will be needed, in order to maintain the required pressure for the third high service area, a new 48-inch water main from the intersection of Ne- braska and Wisconsin avenues to Georgia avenue and Military road at an estimated cost of $700,000. It is proposed in the budget for 1928 to provide for the comstruction of this main next Summer by an appropria- tion, to be made immediately avail- able, of $300,000 from the revenues of the Water Department and of $150,000 from the revenues of the Dis- trict of Columbia, together with an authorization to expend for this pur- pose not to exceed $250,000 of the un- expended balances of appropriations heretofore made. New items of $42,800 and $20,700 for laying water mains in Alabama ave- mie southeast appear in the 1928 budget, as does also an item of $60,000 for the construction of an additional water tower at the Reno Reservoir The program inaugurated for 1927 by an appropriation of $50,000 for re- placement of old water mains is con- tinued in that amount for 1928. The total amount of the permanent and indefinite items is increased from $1,673,557 to $2,542,000 to meet prob- able expenditures under these items in 1928, Consolidation of certain appropria- tion items of small amounts has been recommended at different places In the dstimates in the beliet®that such consolidation will be of assistance in securing & more economical and «d- vantageous expenditure of funds. Public Welfare Board For the new Board of Public Wel- fare, which went into operation July 1, a total of $335,460 is recommended, which is an increase of $18,000 above the appropriation made for the cure rent vear. An' increase of $10.460 is shown in the item of $90,460 for salaries for 48 persons, as against 48 in the current appropriation. An item of $5000 is carried for the division of child wel- fore for administrative expenses. For the maintenance of feeble-ntinded chil- dren, both white and colored, an ap- propriation of $15,000 is asked, which is a decrease of $22,500. An increase of $20,000 is shown in the item of $140,000 for the hoard and care of children committed to the guardianship of this board by the courts of the District and for tempo- rary care of children pending investi- gation. An increase of $10,000 is shown in the item of $85,000 for home care for dependent children. For the support of prisoners of the District at the jail, $108,000 is recom- mended, and $15,000 for general ad- ministration costs for the workhouse and reformatory. This includes sala. ries of seven employes. For personal services at the work- house in accordance with the classi- fitation act, $72,640 is recommended for 57 employes, which is an increase of $3,300. An increase of $20,000 is shown in the item of $110,000 for maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care and support of prisoners, rewards for fugi- tives and other expenses. The fuel bill for the workhouse is $47,500, and for construction work an appropriation of $60,000 is recom- mended, making the total for the workhouse $290,040, which is an in- crease of $22,300. For the reformatory a total of $178,- 800, which is an increase of $9,800, is recommended. This includes $50,800 for salaries of 39 employes; $53,000 for continuing construction of permanent buildings; $65,000 for maintenance, custody, clothing and support of in- mates, and $10,000 for fuel. For the National Training School for Boys $42,000 is recommended, which is & decrease of $4,000. For the National Training School for Girls the salary item is $31,600 for 29 employes. The bill for groceries and other provisions is $35.000, mak- ing a total of $66,500 for the school. The allocation’ of funds for medical charities covering the care and treat. ment of indigent patients under con- tract to be made by’ the Board of Pub- lic Welfare with various institutiens is as follows: Freedmen's Hospital, $42,500; Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $17,000: Chil- dren's Hospital, $22,000. Providence Hospital, $17,000; Garfleld Memorial Hospital 000; Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $23,000; stern Dispensary and Casualty Hos- pital, $10,000; Georgetown University Hospital, $8,00¢ Washington Home for Incurables, $5,000, which is one half of the current appropriation, and George Washington University Hos- pital, $8,000. For Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum an item of $15,000 for repairs and additional construction is recom- mended, as against $25,000 in the cur- rent appropriation. For the Tuberculosis Hospital a total of $128.800 is recommended, which s an inapease of $13,400. This includes $55,300 for salaries for 52 per- sons; $57,500 fof provisions. fuel and other supplies; §6,000, or an increase of $11,000, for repairs and improve- ments to buildings and grounds. For the Gallinger Municipal Hos- pital a total of $340.500 is recom- mended. This includes $185,000 for salarles for 220 employes, $140.000 for maintenance of vehicles, books of reference, etc.: $5,000 for repairs to buildings and a new item of $10,000 for the purchase of radium. For the District Training School a total of $255,700 1s recommended, which is an increase of $38,200. This includes $35.000 for salaries of 24 em- ployes. A recommendation is carried for 39 new positions. An item of $56,700 is included by the Budget Bu- reau for maintenance and other ex- penses. There is a new item of $9,000 for the erection of a cow barn and hay loft and one of $150,000 for the erection of two additional dormitories, and one of $5.000 for the cénstruction of a tool house. For the Industrial Home School for Colored Children a total of $54,250. This includes $28,500, or an increase of $1,460 for salaries for 26 employes. For the Industrial Home School for White Children a total of $48.800 is recommended. which includes $20,800 for salaries for 20 employes, $24,600 for maintenance and $3,000 for repairs and improvements to buildings gnd grounds. For the home for the Aged and In- firm $114,000 {s recommended. which ie a decrease of $9,640 under current appropriations. Of this $48,000 is for salaries of 42 persons, $50,000 for pro- visions, fuel, etc. A new item is in- cluded of $15,000 for new laundry equipment. For the Municipal Lodging House a total of $6,300 is asked, which includes $3.300 for salaries for three persons and $3,000 for maintenance. For the Temporary Home for For- |mer Soldiers and Sailors $10,120 is recommended. which includes $3,120 for salaries for three employes and $7,000 for majntenance. Other allocations to the eleemosynary institutions making up the total of $3,416.495 for the public welfare activi- ties of the District include the Flor- ence Crittenton Home, $4,000: South- ern Relief Society, $10.000; a National Library for Blind, $5,000 Polytechnic Institute, $1,500; St. Eliza- beth's Hospital for the Insane, $1,200,- 000, which is an increase of $200,000; for deportation of non-resident insane rsons, $5,000; for relief of the poor, 8.000, and for transpartation of pau- pers, $3,000. For the Electrical Department $978,- 780 is recommended, as compared with $952,240 in the current appropriation. Of this $104,480 is for personal services by 62 persons, and four new positions, one at $2,400 and three at $1,680. This salary item is an increase of $8,440. For general supplies the item of $33,800 is the same as for the current fiscal year. For placing wires of fire alarms, police patrol and telephone service under ground and for replacing obso- lete pipes of police patrol signal sys- tem a total of $35,900 is recommended, which is an increase of $7,600. For purchase, installation and main- tenance of public lamps the item of $760,000 is the same as in the current appropriation. The item of $40,000 for replacing gas lamps and fixtures is the same also as current funds. A new item is submitted of $9,000 for the erection and equipment of an addition to the storehouse on land be- longing to the District, to be used for the examination, repair and storage of material and supplies of the Elec- trical Department. Another new item, $1,300, is for alteration to police patrol signal sys- tem so as to pyovide means of call signaling in precincts Nos. 1 and 6. \ Traffic Provided By Budget Figures For the office of the director of traffic a total of $128.220 is pro- vided in the budget transmitted to Congress today, and this includes $88,220 for personal services under the classification act for 17 per- sons. This s a decrease from $48,120 In the current appropriation for 26 employes. The big item in the traffic bud- get is $80,000 for the purchase, in- stallation and maintenance of traffic lights, signals, controls and markers, which is an increase of $33,100. For courts and prisons a total of $743,327 is recommended, which is a decrease of approximately $2,600. Of this amount $57,700 is for the juvenile court, which would receive a big in- crease for compensation of jurors under the budget recommendation, and $50,500 for salaries for 28 persons. The recommiendations for the police court total $132,820, which I8 an in- crease of more than $17,000. Of this, $66,820 is for salaries for 48 persons, $9,500 for printing reference books, ete.; $2,000 for witness fees. There is an increase of $10,000 in the item for per diem compensation of jurors, bringing the amount up to $27,000. An important item in the: police court budget is one of $5.000 for pre- liminary studies on plans and specif cations for the new police court build- ing authorized by act of Congress July 3 last. For the Municipal Court, $71,486 is recommended, of which § 6 is for salaries for 22 persons, $6,500 for com- pensation of jurors, $4,800 for rent of building, and $4,750 for contingent ex- penses. For the Supreme Court the salary bill for the chief justice, five associ- ate justices and six stenographers is $56,660. The {tem for witness fees is $33,000, for jurors’ fees $85,000,.which is an increase of $16,000: for pay of bailiffs $40,580, for the probation sys- tem $8,925, and for salaries of 30 other employes and for care and protection of the courthouse $28,296. For repairs and_Improvements 'to the courthouse, $2,500 is recommend- ed, as compared with $7,500 last year. For salaries for 15 employes and other expenses of the Court of Appeals $50,560 s recommended. For care of the Court of Appeals building. $7.800 is included in the budget. For the support of convicts, an item of §120,000 is included, which is a reduction of $30,000. For writs of lunacy, an ex- penditure of $8.500 is recommended, an increase of $500. For miscellaneous expenses for the Supreme Court. $35,000 is included, which i8 a reduction of $9.000, and for printing and binding the budget carries an item of $4,500. I Refuse Disposal. The Budget Bureau recommends a total of $1,509,860 for collection and disposal of refuse, ,which is an in- crease of $67.300 above current funds. This includes $124,860 for personal servigeg in accordance. with the classi- fication act, involving a total of 68 employes. G For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets and for snow and ice removal an increase of $125,000 is recommended, making the total for this item of $475,000. To enable the: Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and dis- posal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse and ashes a total of $900,000, which is a decrease of $35,000, is urged. To carry out the provision of an act passed last May, providing for acquisi- tion of 65 acres of property in Prince William County, Va., to he used by the District for the reduction of gar- | bage, the budget recommends an ap- propriation of $10,000. I + Sewer Department. For sewers the Budget Bureau rec- ommends $1,601,500, which is an in- crease of $154,500. This includes $260,000, the same as for the current fiscal vear, for cleaning and repairing sewers and basins. There i8 an item of $180,000, an in- crease of $5,000, for main and pipe sewers and recelving basins. The item for suburban sewers is the same as for the current year, $550,000. An increase of $100,000 brings the recommended appropriation for as- sessment and permit work up to | $50,000. There is a reduction of $500 in the item of purchase and condemnation of right of way for construction, from $2,000 to $1,500. For continuing the construction of the upper Potomac main_ interceptor, the recommendation of $50,000 is the |same as for the current vear. A new item is recommended, of $60,000, for beginning construction of the upper Anacostia main interceptor along the Anacostia River hetween Benning road and the District line. Health Departm The Health Department of the Dis- trict will receive an appropriation of $355,910 if the recommendation of the Budget Bureau is carried out. This includes $155,060 for salaries of 85 em- ployes. Forty thousand dollars is rec- ommended, identical with the current appropriation, for prevention of con- taglous diseases. Nine hundred dol- lars is asked for the construction of & brick garage for the smallpox hospital ambulance. For the isolation wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfléld Me- morial and Providence Hospitals, $23,- 000 is asked. For the maintenance of a dispensary for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and from | social diseases, an appropriation of $15,000, identical with the current ap- propriation, is recommended. For maintenance of the disinfecting serv- ice, the recommendation is $6,000, and $2.000 for enforcement of the law cov- ering drainage of lots. For hygiene and sanitation service, a total of $65,800 is recommended, the same as the current appropriation. The item for $1,000 for maintenance of free dental clinics in the public schools is also the same as the cur- rent appropriation. For laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus and other equipment. a total of $3.000 is recommended. For dairy farm inspec- tion the budget carries $5,000, and $1,000 for contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an act relating to adulteration of foods and drugs. For maintenance of the public cre- matory, $2,600 is recommended. For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and a_motor vehicle used in the pound service, $1,750 is asked, with an additional $800 for replace- ment of the motor vehicle for the use in the pound service. For mainte nance a child hygiene service, in cluding the establishment and mainte- nance of child welfare stations, $33,000 18 recommended. Year in New Budget BUDGET FIGURE FOR STREETS: $869.850 ADVANCE $250,000 Is Recommend;tion for New M Street Bridge—Gas Tax Outlay Plan Is $1,350,000. The total for street and road im- provements and repair recommended in the budget tgansmitted to Congress today is $3.58M500, an increase of $869,850 over the current appropria- tion. Included in thie increase is an item of $50,000 instead of $25,000 for paving roadways under the permit system. For paving. repaving, grading and otherwise improving streets, avenues, suburban roads and suburban streets, including the maintenance of non passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, a total of $150.000, which Is an increase of $1.400, Is rec ommended for the following specific projects: For paving Seventh street, Decatur street to Hamilton strect, $19.500. For paving Hamilton street. Sev- enth street to Hlinois avenue, $9.900. For paving Eiyhth street, street to Hamilton street, $11.000 For paving Gallatin street, street to Illinois avenue, $15,400 For paving Illinois avenue, Gallatin street to Hamilton street, $5.600 For paving Emerson street, Kansas avenue to Tllinois avenue, $9.900. 0. street to Decatur street, §1 For paving Decatur street, street to Fifth street, $6.600. For paving Tavlor street. Twelfth street to Michigan avenue northeast, $10,500. For paving Thirteenth street, Mich- igan avenue to Upshur street north- east, $6,100. For paving Twenty-second Monroe street to Otis sireet north- east, $10,000. For paving Thirteenth street, 8 street to Good Hope road southeast, £6.300. For paving West Virginia avenue, Penn street to Holbrook terrace north- east, $7.400. For gradij culverts, d the following: Tennyson street. Thirty-third street to lot 28, square 2006, $3.200. Jay street, Forty-fourth street to Forty-sixth street northeast, $3.000. Evarts street, Third street Fourth street northeast, $4.200. Forty-fourth street, Windom place to Yuma street and Yuma street, Forty-fourth street to Fortyfifth street, $4,100. North Daketa avenue, North Capi- tol street to Third street, $4,800. Spring road, Tenth stréet to Thir- teenth street, $2,000. ‘ourth street, including necessary s and retaining walls to Under Gasoline Fund. gasoline tax fund during the next fiscal vear will total $1,350,000, as against $638.100 during the current fiscal year. The specific projects for repaving and resurfacing sheet as- phalt and asphalt block pavements over 30 vears old to a total of $450,000, and for paving, repaving and surfac- ing. including curbing and gutters where necessary. the following: Alaska avenue, Sixteenth street to Georgia avenue, $68,000. Twelfth street, Rhode Island avenue to Monroe street northeast, $62.000. Minnesota avenue, Good Hope road to Eighteenth street =outheast, $28,000. Nichols avenue, Fourth streat to Upsal street southeasg, $16.000. Thirty-eighth street, Aiabama ave- nue to SRuitland road. and Suitland road, Thirty-eighth street to the Dis- trict line southeast. $13,200. D street, Twenty-first street Twenty-third street. $13.000. Twelfth street, E street to Water street southwest, $3.600. E street, Eleventh street to Fif- teenth street northeast, $35,000. Massachusetts avenue. Sixteenth street to Eighteenth street southeast, £31,500. ‘West Viriginia avenue, Eighth street to _Florida avenue northeast. $13.000. Fourteenth place, North Carolina avenue to D street northeast, $9.000. A street, Fighteenth street to Nine- teenth street southeast. $12.500. Admiral Barney Circle, Kentucky avenue to Seventeenth street south- east, $5.800. D street, Twelfth street teenth street southeast, $25,000. H street, Sixteenth street to Seven. teenth street southeast, $9.600. Ives place, Fourteenth street Fifteenth street southeast, Sixteenth street, Masmchusetts ave- nue to E street southeast, $31,600. Seventeenth street, A street to C street southeast, $35.000. Fifteenth street. Pennsylvania ave- nue to K street southeast, $8,000. S street, Nichols avenue to Six- teenth street southeast, $15,200. Farragut street, Fifth street to Il- linois avenue, $12,900. Piney Branch ad, Van Buren street to Butternuthstreet, $30,000. Van Buren street, \Georgia avenue to Pinev Branch road) $6,000. Laurel street, Eastern avenue to Second street, $5.000. Second street, Laurel street to Van Buren street, $13.000. Van Buren street, Second street to Viaduet, $8.400, R street, Thirty-fifth street to Thir- eventh street. $£15,000. Thirty-sixth street, Reservoir road to T street, $13,000. Argonne place, Harvard street to Lanier place, $7,000. Decatur street, Sixteenth street to Seventeenth street, $8,000. S street, Twenty-third street Twenty-fourth street. $9,%00. Upshur street, Sixteenth street Arkansas avenue, $8,500. Franklin street, Fourth street to Seventh street northeast, $17,000. Fifth street, Decatur street to Emer- son street, $§,000. First street, Whittier street to Van Buren street, $6,000. Seventeenth street, Buchanan street to Crittenden street, $5,600. Crittenden street, Sixteenth street to Seventeenth street. $8.000. Ogden street, Fourteenth street to Spring place, $17 S street, Thirty-ffth strest to Thir- ty-sixth street, $6,000. Klingle street, Fortyfifth street to Forty-sixth street, $8300. Gallatin street, Pinev Branch read to_Sixteenth street, $7.600. Fourth street, Butternut street to Cadar street, $7,600. Newton street, Eighteenth street to Twentieth street, $18,600.° Grading Arranged for Northwest. For grading, including necessary culverts, drains and retaining walls, Ithe following: Audubon Terrace, Linnean avenue to Broad Branch road, $15,000. For widening by 15 feet on each side and repaving the roadway of Con- necticut avenue from N street to Du- pont Circle, for widening by 15 feet on the west side and repaving the road- way of this avenue from Eighteenth street to N street and for widening and repaving the roadway of the same avenue adjacent to United States reservations numbered 150 and 150A in accordance with plans approved Jointly by the Commissioners of the Distrigt of Columbia and the director of pul buildings and parks, $60,000. r widening to 48 feet and repav- to to Four- ty to to For paving Fourth street, Buchanan | Ing the roadway of Twelfth streef from E street to Pennsylvania avenus, £10,000. . For widening to 60 feet and repave ing the roadway of Fifteenth street, west of McPherson Square, from I street to K street, and for widening to 70 feet and repaving the roadwav of this street from K street to Mass: chusetts avenue, $95.000 For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to he approved hy the Commissioners of the Distriet of Columbia to facilitute vehicular and pedestrian trafic, $10.000 For construction of curbs and » ters und adjustment rondwin etu, $23.400 The approprintion fur paving Thirt fourth street, Massachiusetts aver to Cleveland avenue. ained appropriation for the fiscal yeur 19 is made available for paving 10 wide that portion of the roadwas o 1 Thirty-fourth street between Mosae {chusetts avenue and Gartield s re | For grading streets, allevs and 1oy | the appropriation of $50.000 axked iy the budget is the same as the amount appropriated for the. eurrent fisoal vear An item of $5.000 is recommended for condemnation as against $13.00 for the current fiscal vear. Under the item for repairs for current work nn streets, avenues and alleye, including resurfacing, an appropriation of $%00 .. 000 instead of $1.000,000 in the current law is recommended. ‘This item is 1o carry ont the provisions of existing law, which authorizes the Commisi sioners 1o open. extend, straighten i widen any street or sidewalk with certain specifled limitations. For Bridge Work. For construction and repair of side walks and curbs around publi reservations and municipal and Unite States buildings, an appropriation o $12,000 is recommended, which is decrease of $3,000 from the ecurren appropriation There Is an 3 increase of $15.000 Street improvement work under the | i | the item for current work of repair to suburban roads and streets, bring ing the total of this item up t | $310,000. | For construction and repair | bridges an appropriation of 000 13 recommended, which is an incfease | $10.000, |7 For personal serviees in conmectiog | with the Highway Bridge across thq | Potomac and for other expenses ine | cident to the operation and main | tenance of this bridge and appmached a total of $19,500 is recommiendedy which is an increase of $100. Trees and Parkings. For operation and maintenance of |the Anacostia River Bridge an appr | priation of £5.000 is recommendeds |which is a decrease of $1900. Tha | recommended appropriation for the Francis Scott Key Bridge is $2.000, which is identical with the approprias tion for the current fiscal vear. For_reconstruction of the bridga over Rock Creek, at Military road, m new item of $18,000 is submitted. For construction of a mew bridge to replace the M Street Bridge oved Rock Creek, including necessary changes in sewers and water maind and including also such sums as ard necessary for personal services. ene gineering and incidental expenses. a new ftem of $250,000 is recommended, For trees and parkings an item & $90,000 is carried in the budget recoms mendations, which is an increase of public $28,000 is recommended, decrease of $5,250. I Police Department. I The National Capital should -mnj $3,087,740 during the next fiscal yea on its Metropolitan Police Department ¢ according to budget recommendations Of this $2,740,000 is for pay and allow ances of 1,284 officers and member of the police force, which i in crease of approximately $19 current appropriations. For the civilian force of 53 clerkd and cutodians a salary budget 76,500 is recommended. For fuel, the item of $8,500 is tha same as for the current fiscal venry as is also the item of $9.000 for red pairs and improvements to police sta tlons and station grounds, and thi item of $60,000 for miscellaneous and contingent expenses. An increase off $6.000 fs recommended for the pure chase and maintenance of motor ves hicles and replacement of those woriw out in the gervice and condemnadg bringing this item up to $55,000. An increase of $25,000, from $50.00 to $75,000, is recommended for fur nishing uniforms and other officin! | equipment to officers and members the Metropolitan force. A new ftem of $5.000 is for additional cells in they seventh police precinct station house, Appropriation of $26,000 is asked In A new item for one police patrol speet hoat, to cost $6,000, and one heavy. duty Dierel engine police hoat, to co: £20.000. For the House of Detention thatent of $16.800 is identical with the cyrrent. appropriation. For personal services | by 12 clerieal and custodial emploves an appropriation of $14,940 is recom mended. . Playground Department. For playgrounds in the District i total of $171.965 is recommended, which s a dftrease of $5000, Thiv includes $94,085 for personal services Ly 109 employes. This Is the same u- the current appropriation. An'increase of $2,000 is recommerii- ed in the item for general maint:- nance, bringing the total up 20/$45,000. A similar increase of $2,000%s recon - mended for the maintenance’and cor tingent expenses of kcqmn;gun dur convenience stations, which ia J ing the Summer months fpe publi school playgrounds under the . dire tion and supervision of the{Cammis sioners, which makes this {tem $23,00" For temporary services, supplies and maintenance. $4,500 i recom mended, the same as in the current appropriation bill or repairs to buildings., pools and of $1.780 is recommended, the same as available for the ourrent fiecal vear. Miscellaneous D. C. Expenses The budget for the executive office is $234,260, a8 compared with $226, for the current year. This inoludes $43.240 for salarfes of 17 employes; $52,700 for salaries of 32 employes iu the purehasing division; $105,520 for salaries of 52 employes in the building inspectlon division: $28,500 for salaries of 16 employes in the plumbing in spection division; $4.000 for temporar employment of additional aseistant in spectors of plumbing and laborers and 3300 for two members of the . plumbing board. | _Other_salary items inoiude $47.340 (Continued on , Column 14