Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 36

THE EVE NING STAR, WASHINGTON, U. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929 $10,226,400 ASKED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPMENT OF PLAZA PROJECTS NEAR CAPITOL GET IMPETUS IN BUDGET Large Amounts Provided for Grounds, Office Buildings, Supreme Court and Other Improvements. otus is given the wonderful de- \‘v{r’:’x’)‘;ncm about the Capital alreads authorized in law, estimated to cost upward of £30.000.000, in the budget submitted today, which carries recom- mendations totaiing $10,225. art or continue work cn these proj the major portion of which it e pected ‘to Architect of the Ca 3 pared to start work just as soon as the | e been made anA title | ured under | on proceeding: | sposed_improvements in_the | Capitol area include the new Supreme Court building, $9.749.000 for the buil ing and $1,700,000 for the land: new | House Office Bull $7,500,000 for | the building and uire the | privately owned lan: S lected for the site; Botanic Garden, { the new site and a model conservatory and other buil $1,500,000; for completing the Senate Office Building, $3,500,000; for enlargement of the Cap- itol Grounds, approximately $4,500,000 | In Today's Budget. The budget submitted today includs $3,615,700 for rk on the Capitol | Grounds; $2,730,300 for completion of | the Senate Office Building: $2.300.000 | for the Hcuse Office Building, $2.100.- 000 already having been appropriated; for the Supreme Court Building, $1,000.- 000, with $1700000 already ;\s\:r‘xg een appropriated for the land: for the| Betania, Gardon, $581400, with 8600~ 000 already appropriated for purchase of the site and $300,000 appropriated C qu. of the Librery be acquired, and the architect of the Capitol has just b gun negotiating for acquisition of thi ldings on the site for the new House Office Building between Dela- ware and New Jerseys avenues, B and C streets, south of the Capitol are be- | ing demolished to make way for the w structu p P Practcially all of the funds required for the enlargement of the Capitol| Grounds as authorized in the act ap-| proved June 25. 1910, covering ‘the area between the Capitol and Unicn Station, | and including 12 blocks, on many of which the so-called Government hotels were erected during the war, is provided in the budget. The blocks nearest to the Capitol Grounds have been cleared | of temporary structures and work will be begun on the development of these | just as soon as the appropriations have | been acted upon. | The purpose of the act is to extend | the Capitol Grounds as a park with| beautitul landscaping, in harmony with the L'Enfant plan of 1792 and develop- | ments in the Park Commission plan of 1901. The principal features in this project are (1) provision for a new avenue to connect the Union Station with Penn- sylvania avenue near Second street; (2) the possibility of clum, several streets which are not required for traffie, so as to make svailable an unbroken park area desirable for san extension of the Capitol greunds; (3) provision for the sheiter of autcmobiles which are no sheltered in a garage at Delaware ave. nus near C street; (4) designs for the entire area o as to produce with the Capitol and the Senate Office Building a unified architectural scheme. The completion of the Senate Office Building with a new ornamental front facing Union Station is an essential part of | this project. The area between B and C streets, re- cently cleared, will be attractively land. 2ped cn the surface, and under the und at this point will be built the storage place for automobiles. A fea- ture of the plaza project will be the construction of an ornamental retaining wall along C street, corresponding to the architecture of the propcsed north front of the Senate Office Building. In order to give a clear vista of the Capitol from | Union Station the present street car tracks on C street will be lowered into | a subway from New Jersey to Delaware avenues. For this distance they will pass | under a terrace in such a way that they will nct mar the attractiveness of the park or obstruct the vista between the Capitol and Union Station. Witi this same object in view the present| tracks on Delaware avenue from the| station to B street and on B street from | Delaware avenue to First street east will be removed. The tracks coming up C reet through the new subway will cen- rare avenue to First street east. and new tracks will be laid on First street. east from B to Unicn Station, therebv routing the cars around the edge of the park instead of through the center. Street Changes. North Capitol street, being stub-ended at B, is to be closed at D street, without imposing a hardehip on traffic, which will have the new avenue running di- agonally from that point toward Penn- sylvania avenue.* The plans show an attractive circle and fountain in the center of the stretcn between the station and the Capitol. midway between Delaware and New Jer- sey avenues, near C street. Smaller cir- cles, surrounded by shrubbery and walks, flank this central circle along the B street frontage of the new park. The plans as finally approved swing the new avenue further west than the original suggestion of having it meet Pennsylvania avenue at Peace Monu- | ment, because it would have cut off a corner of the present Capitol grounds and would have caused traffic conges- tion. This and other modifications ne- cessitate purchase of additional land west_of the original plaza area, the cost of which is included in the total figurss | previouely given for this project. BUREAU TAKES STEP TO ELIMINATE 14 PORTABLE SCHOOLS (Continued From Page 35.) care of school buildings and grounds, including “care of smaller buildings and rented rooms at a rate not to ex- ceed $95 per annum for the care of each s°col room, other than those occupled oy _atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed.” New positions included in this item are an assistant gardener at $1,440, and the working equivalents of 7 of a mechanic's position at $1,680; ‘4 of & junior mechanics’s position at $1,500; .4 of an undermechanic’s posi- | tion at $1,320; .6 of a junior domestic attendant’s position at $1200, and ?.5 positions of a junior laborer's position A Ferm of $295,000 for fuel, gas and electricity is carried as a result of ‘fht Commissioners’ estimate of $300,000 for | this purpose. The total includes $17 000 for fuel, $11,000 for gas and $10i lectricity. : 00%13’[:&!;( $20,000 is carried for the transportation of tubercular pupils and pupils of the schools for cripples. Of this sum $19,800 is for busses and $200 street car tokens. “lgggfl.sinn is made in the budget for | furniture for sclk;l $75,100. Among the are the Buchanan Ie:g\g‘lgx’%e«:dm addition, including assembly hall and gymnasium, $8,000; Eaton| School combination assembly-gymna- | buildings to be thus | school's sium, $3,400; Eliot Junior High School, | to render its omission a menace to the | $48,700, and Park View School addition, $14,900. [ $267,000 for Accessories. er contingent expenses a sum of | 8207500 15 carried for Certain furniture and furniture repairs, stationery, ice.| TUnited States flags, paper towels end| other necessary items not otherwise | provided for. The sum includes also| a sum not exceeding $3.000 for refer-| ence books and periodicals; another, not | exceeding $1,500, for piano replacements | at an average cost of $300: $50.000 for equipment and repair of equipment a Dunbar and Central High Schools: a sum not exceeding $62,000 for complet- | ing equipment of the stages in those | two buildings. and a sum not exceeding | 5 ¢ labor. O o of 8125000 15 carried text books and supplies for pupils s t grades and for eces- | e e e ©f purchase, distribution and preservation of these properties, in- for | s of cluding necessary labor not to exceed | 1,000. | k The budget carries an item of $10.- 000 for the main‘enance of kindergar- tens, including a sum not to exceed $3,000 for furnishing and equipping | taree additional kindergartens. Utensils, material and lIa!mr for lhs; establishment and _maintenance of | school gardens are provided in an item 1 $3,000. O 2% of $16,000 is carried for lhr‘ purchsse of apparatus, fixtures, speci mens, technical books and for extending | the equipment and for the maintenance of laborateries in the department o! physics, chemistry, biology and general science in the senior and junior hlgh‘ schools. A sum not to exceed $100,000 is made available through the budget of unex-| pended balances of appropriations for buildings and grounds for the improve- ment of school grounds. This work is to be done by day labor or otherwise, at the discretion of the Commissioners Fund for Teachers’ Colleges. An item of $39.000 is carried for the necessary remodeling, painting and equipping the Wilson Normal School and the Miner Normal School s teach- | the transfer of four per diem workers | ATeA as well as a model, ers’ colleges. This sum includes funds for the repair and refinisning of equip- | will keep one of the new employes in | ment already in use in those bulldings An item of $7,000 is allowed for the rent of certain properties used as schooi buildings and grounds and as storage ) 2nd stock rooms. A sum of $10,000 is carried for the | purchase and installaticn of play equip- ment in school yards. An item of $7,000 is carried for the maintenance of the schools for tuber- cular children. including $6,000 for ma- terials and $1.000 for equipment. An item of $90.000 is earried for pur- | chase and repair of furniture, too) machinery, material and books a apparatus uszd in the manual and vo- cational training classes, An item of $20.000 is allowed for ex- penses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Co- lumbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. This is $500 more than the Commissioners’ estimates in order to provide for pupils awaiting admittance to the institution 8ix thousand dollars is provided for the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf mutes in Maryland or institutions of other States. Eleven thousand dollars is provided for the instruction of blind childr:n of | the District of Columbia in Maryl 1 or some other State under a contract | entered into by the Commissioners. An item of $36,000 is carried for the instruction and supervision of children | in the vacation schools and playgrounds and to provide for supervisors and teachers in these institutions. A sum of $400,000 is provided as an- nuities for retired teachers. ‘Two items which were stricken from the original school estima‘es without serious consideration were th of £225.000 for health department require- ments and $150.000 for fire department requirements. These were inserted in the &chool estimates by the school au- thorities as a perfunctory response to recommenciations of the health and fire ools in an item of | department officers for school building | improvements which would make the structures “ideal” with respect to health and fire precautions. Nene of the items covered in these two sums, howsver, was believed to be of enough importance schools, $300,000 FOR MARKET IN SOUTHWEST SECTION Office of Weights, ;lsuru and Markets Allowed $67,015 for Other Improvements. Items totaling $367,015 make up the | estimates for the Office of Weights, | Measyres and Markets, submitted to Congress today by the Bureau of the Budget. The largest item of $300,000 provides for the establishment of the Farmers' Produce Market in southwest Washington. Other important items in the esti- mates of this department provide $10.000 for the construction at th» | Eastern and Western markets, of suit- | to receive a salary of able sheds and facilities for the use of armers’ reiailing farm produce, and $7.500 for the maintenance and repairs of these two markets. A major portion of the repair fund is expected to be used in_completing the reconstruction of the Western market. $127,400 FOR OFFICE OF DISTRICT AUDITOR Two New ;n:;tioni ;rovided by $8,760 Increase Over Appropria- tions of Current Year. ‘The 1931 estimates for the offic® of | Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer of the District, sent to Congress today by the Bureau of the | Budget, total $127,400, an increase of $8,760 over the appropriation for the | current fiscal year. Maj. Donovan, in his tentative estimates, asked for $3,440 | more than he was allowed. ‘The increase, however, provides for | the creation of two new positions, and to the annual pay roll. Maj. Donovan his office designating him as a field ex- aminer, and detafl the other as se retary to Maj. James L. Luzby. put | chasing officer, who told the Budget Bureau he did not have in his organi- eation an employe qualified to perform swnogrlghlc and typing services and that such an employe is necessary and sasential for the effective discharge of his duties. Traffic Lights Allowed $60,000 In New Budget ‘Funds totaling $103,000 are al- located to the Traffic Bureau in the District’s 1931 budget, trans- mitted to Congress today by the Budget Bureau. This represents an increase of $59,300 over the ppropriation for the current fis- cal year. Of the total estimates, $60,000 will be used for the purchase and installation of traffic signals, compared with $15,000 in the cur- rent year. The budget specifically stipu- lates that no part of the funds provided for the Traffic Bureau shall be used for building, install- ing and maintaining street car loading platforms and lights to distinguish them, GALLINGER FUND STANDS §173,000 Completion of Nurses’ Home and Equipment Provided in Budget. Completion of the construction and | equipment of the nurses’ home at Gal- | lingsr Municipal Hoepital is pm\'lded‘ for in the estimates of the Board of | Public Welfare, submitted to Congress | today by the Budget Bureau. Funds allocated for this work total $175,000. The Budget Bureau also allowed ftems of $130,000 for the comstruction of a | domestic service building at the Dis- triet Training School and $12,000 for | the replacement of farm buildings at | the Industrial Home School for colored | children. Other items in the Board of Public Welfare's estimates approved by the Budget Bureau include $8,000 for re- modeling and enlarging the infirmary bullding at the Homes of the Aged and Infirm; $117,000 for the purchase and installation of laundry machinery and equipment at the work house and re- formatory, and $50.000 to provide a working capital fund for the following industrial enterprises at that institu- tion: Brick plant, machine shop, auto tag shop, foundry, broom and mattress shop, print shop, canning plant and auto repair shop. The Budget Bureau stipulated that the various depariments and institutions for the Diserict gov- ernment and Federal Government may purchase at fair market prices, as de- termined by the commissioners, such | surplus products turned out at these shops and directed that the receipts from the sale of the products shall be deposited to the credit of the working captial fund, and that all receipts credited thereto shall be used as a re- volving fund for the 1931 fiscal year, for the purchase and repair of m: chinery, tools and equipment, the pu chase of raw materials and manufac- turing supplies, and the purchase, ‘maintenance and operation of non-pas- senger carrying vehicles, and for the payment to inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings, as the Com- missioners deem proper. FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL ITEMS RUN $424,000 Increase Nearly $140,000 More Than Current Appropriation in Interior Budget. For Freedmen's Hospital $424.000 s | carried in the Interior Department | budget, which is nearly $140,000 more | than the current appropriation. This | includes a pay roll for 275 employes, to a total of $261,660, from which $80,160 is deducted for lodgings, subsistence, ete, making the cach payment for sal- | aries and wages $181,500. | For supplies and materials the total | Is $116,135, the largest items being 862,000 for provisions, 830,000 for fuel, $12,000 for medical and hospital sup- | plies, and $4.000 for sundry supplies. For telephone and telegraph service | the allowance is $1,505, for traveling | expenses, $100; for transportation and | haulage, £500; for repairs and altera- tions, $4300; for special and miscel- ’aneous and current expenses, $1,600, m:nznr electricity, $200. ong the items of income are $21,000 from pay patients, $30,000 IS CARRIED FOR ARBORETUM Erection of Buildings, Salaries, | | Employes’ Traveling Expenses and Advisory Council Provided For. For operation of the National Ar- boretum, established under the act of March 4, 1927, and subsequent amend- ment, $30,000 is carried in the Depart- ment of Agriculture estimates, This in- | cludes erection of bullding: salaries, traveling expenses of employes and the | Advisory council. The salary item is | $17,680 for 10 empl ., one of whom |s $3.800. another | {$2.900, one” $1.860, one $1.470, ‘five a( | 181,200 and one at’ £1.200. 'The allow | ance for transportation is $500 and | | subsistence $250. There is an ftem of | 85,750 for equipment. | ARCHITECTS TO PREPARE HUGE MODEL OF CENTER! Budget Estimates Carry Fund lol‘ Plans for Buildings to Be Erected. A huge mod-l of the municipal center development on the north side of Penn- sylvania avenue between Third and | Sixth streets will be prepared by the | municipal architect’s office in_accord- | ance with a provision in the District's | mitted to Congress today by the Budget | Bureau. The "budget contains an item of $65,000 for preparation of plans for The budget, also recommends $3,000,000 for pletion of the purchase of the land, a | similar amount already haviag bewn aporopiiated by the last Congress. The item for the preparation of the plans and the model was substituted by the Budget Bureau for one of $500,000 sought by the Commissioners for "~ erection of the first unit in the center 8 courts building to house the Police, Munieipal and Juvenile Courts and the office of the recorder of deeds. {Be | corporations of the District, resulted in | estimates for the 1931 fiscal year sub- | the bui'dings to be erected in the eenter | com- | Line Between Rock Parks Is Set Back In allowing only $134,785 for the Rock | Creek and Potomac connecting park- way of the $500,000 asked for by Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of gPublic Buildings and Public Parks, in his estie mates, the Budget Bureau is setting back the final development of this m;ieor parkway system until 1935 or 18: Officials of Col. Grant’s office had hoped, with the assistance of the half- million-dollar fund for the fiscal year starting next July 1. to complete the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway about 1032, In time for the GPO\‘;CI Washington bicentennial celebration, when the approaches to Arlington Me- morial Bridge are completed. The ma- sonry for these approaches is now being put in and is scheduled to be finished during the current fiscal year. There is yet about $1,000,000 worth | of work to be done on the Rock Creck | and Potomae Parkway, and the appro- priation. as allowed by the Budget Bu- reau, will permit a good start on thc section between Massachusetts svenue and Q street and do about two-thirds of this work. An expensive retaining wall will have to be constructed under the @ Street Bridge and tentative plans cell for linking up the parkway with Florida avenue. In order to conserve the forest in the park in the vicinity of the Q@ Street Bridge, two 20-foot roads, rather than one 40-foot road, will be built, under the tentative plans drawn up by the engineers. Excavating Is Expensive. As the work proceeds and develop- ment of the park is brought farther toward the Potomac River, some ex- nsive excavating work will have to done to purh th® connecting road- way down to the approaches to Ar- lington Memorial Bridge, now under construction. For Col. Grant's office, the Budget Bureau has allowed an item for $10,000 for newly acquired reservations. For & number of years the regular appropria- tion for the maintenance and care of these smaller parks and reservations and tiny triangles left after cutting through streets has remained the same, despite the fact that from 10 to 30 little triangles annually have been turned over to Col. Grant's jurisdiction by the District Commissioners as streets ex- panded. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission is buying consid- erable areas from time to time out of its million-dollar appropriation, and out of this $10,000 will come funds for ;'nr:‘ng for this newly acquared plrk‘ and. This sum will likewise provide funds | to clear up forested areas, which in their | present neglected condition, due to the | lack of adequate funds, are a fire | | PARKWAY CONSTRUCTION DEFERRED BY ESTIMATES Creek and Potomac for Development in Either 1935 or 1936. menace. ‘There is no water in many of these forested areas, Col. Grant's| office explains. ‘The Budget Bureau is allowing $14,- | 300 for the Burroughs Recreational | Center, located at South Dakota avenue | and Queen’s Chapel road, bounded by | Otis street on the south. This develop- | ment will permit expansion for major | &ports. Tentative plans of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion call for a quarter-mile track, an athletic field, a music stand, two swim- ming le, one for smaller children; | a sand-play area, provisions for basket | ball, croquet, volley ball and horseshoe | pitching. The Budget Bureau estimate for reclamation and development of Ana- costia Park includes an increase of $150,000 for the purchase of land to expand the system in that expanding area of the eity. Increase Is $139,385, For public buildings and parks the estimates provide a total increase of $139,385. For the continued deveiop- ment of park improvements, the Budget Bureau includes $100,000 for Meridian Hill Park, $134,755 for the Rock Creek and Potomac connecting parkway, $25,- 000 for Anacostia Park, $10,000 for the improvement of newly acquired reserva- tions, $15.000 for minor auxiliary struc- tures, $3,000 for Rock Creek Park lights and $14,300 for the Burroughs Recrea- tional Center. For the park police there is an increase of $12,330. For the work of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, including the pur- chase of land for park and playground purpeses, $1,000,000 is provided. Under the program of the Budget Bu- reau for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks there is an increase in aalaries from $2,025,611 to $2,422,250 a5 follows: Care of Southern Railway Building, $86,639; care of new Internal Revenue Building, $300,000: for promo- tions within grades, $10,000. There 1s an increase of personnel involved of 357. In general expenses there is an in- crease from $847.841 to $1,165940 as follows: Maintenance of Southern Rail- way Building, $21,800; maintenance of Internal Revenue Building, $200,000; rent, $2,000; emergency repairs, $5,000; new cables Washington Monument, $3.500: repairs to Army Medical Mu- seum Building, $9,000; repairs to Winder Building, $20,000: repairs to elevators, $5,000; repairs to bollers, $4,500; re- paving West Executive avenue and State place, $35,000; total, $305.800. The de- creases are, installation of boilers, $40,- 000; demolition of temporary buflding 7, $5,000; leveling floors, $10,000; miscel- laneous maintenance, rent, repairs to buildings, ete., $32,701; total, $87,701; leaving a net increase in general ex- penses of $218.099. HOSPITAL BUILDING ALLOWED §120000 Tuberculosis Fund for St.! Elizabeth’s Included in $1,728,248 Total. For the construction and equipment of a new tuberculosis building $120,000 | is recommended in the budget for St. Elizdbeth's Hosp| and for beginning the constructi d equipment of a male receiving building $300,000, with authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts for con- struction of this building at a cost not to exceed $1,050,000. The total budget figure for St. Eliza- | beth's is $1,728,248. For the 1209 employes $2,025,620 in salaries is recommended, the highest salary paid being $0,000. The total for suppiles and materials is $978,791, the largest item being $507,~ 201 for provisions, with $122,000 for | fuel and $120,000 for wearing apparel | and sewing supplies. The total for equipment is $252,045, of which $110,000 is for furniture and | fixtures. The deductions from the total of $3,- 264,256 include payments from the Dis- trict of Columbia of $1,715472; from the United States Veterans' Bureau, $235,036; from miscellaneous revenues collected, $120,000; from States Public Health Service, $77,088; | from pensions of District of Columbia inmates, $12,000, and from the United States Soldiers’ Home, $10,512, making “;‘5 total for running expenses $1,093,- | Also included in the recommenda- tlons for St. Elizabeth's Hospital are | £140.000 for refunds to patients, under | the heading of “personal funds of pa- | tients,” and $75,000, refunds to and| support of patients, under the heading | “pension money." | SIX NEW POSITIONS PROVIDED COMMISSION Budget Bureau Approves Items for| Public Utilities Accountants and Engineers, The persistent fight of the Public | Utilities Commission for _edidtional funds with which to employ account- | ants and engineers to keep a closer | check on the accounts of the utility | approval by the Budget Bureau of items for the creation of six new positions, it was disclosed in the budget submitted to Congress today. Of the six new positions, three are classified as engineers, two as account- ants and done as a stenographer. The senfor engineer will receive a salary of ' 4.600 a year and one assistant $2,600 and 2 junior engineer $2000. One auditor would be given $3,200 a year | and the other $2,000. The stenog- | rapher’s salary is fixed at $1,620. This | makes a total increase of $93.260 in the | annual pay roll of the commission, The total funds allocated to the com- mizsion in the budget amount to $93.260 compared with the current ap- propriation of $76,620. ELEVATOR FUND ASKED. Carriers Will Be Made to Conform | to Code. The efforts of District officials to bring the District Building elevators into econformity with th® municipal | elevator code will go forward in 1931 if Congress approves the Budget | | Bureau’s recommendation for an appro- | Priation of $2,500 for this work. The 1930 appropriation act contains $2,000 for equipping the elevators with such safety devices as prescribed in lh'e | elevator regulations, The District’s budget for 1931, sent to Congress today. recommends $2,500 for the completion of this work. ) L | the Budget Bureau totals § POLICE FUND CUT NEARLY $a00,000 Budget Allowance of $3,097,- 741, However, Is $13,791 More Than Current Year. The estimates’ for the Police Depart- | ment submitted to Congress today by the Budget Bureau are far short of the | funds asked by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, Superintendent of police, in his request | to the District Commiscioners for the | 1931 fiscal year. Maj. Pratt had asked for a total of | $3,501,601 and the allocation lllow_-’e‘c; by | a reduction of nearly $500,000. The ap: proved figure, however, represents an in- crease of $13,795 over the appropriation for the current fiscal year. Provision is made in the estimates for the elevation of the lieutenant detatled to the Traffic Bureau to the rank of captain and also for the appointment of two additional lieutenants and in- creased compensation for 10 additional privates in the detective bureau. The bureau, however, decreased the allow- ances for officers and men, mounted on horses, or motor cycles, but offset it with an increase in the estimates for the purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles, The Budget Bureau allowed an in- contingent expense fund, raising this item to 863,500, as compared with $62,000 for the current fiscal year. This fund is used to pay rewards for the cap- ture of fugitives, purchase of firearms and sundry other incidental items. INCREASE OF $82,190 FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT Budget Allowance of $2,253,980 Includes Items for New Site and Fire Houses. | Appropriations totaling $2,253,980 are | recommended for the District Pire De- | partment in the 1931 budget submitted | to Congress today by the Budget Bu- reau. This is an increass of $82,190 over the current fiseal year. One of the most important items in the Fire Department’s estimates pro- vides for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new fire house for Engine Company No.'16, now located on D street near Twelfth, and for Truck Company No. 3, located on Fourteenth street at Ohio avenue. Both of these units are in the Pennsylvania avenue-Mall tri- angle, which is being built up with structures to, house Federal activities, and have been ordered to vacate. Funds | approved for these two new fire houses | total $150,000, The Budgel Bureau also approved an item of $3,500 for the purchase of and | equipment of a motor-driven ambulance and another item of $34,500 for the purchase of additional equipment, in- cluding an aerial hook and ladder | truck, pumping engine and a combina- tion hose wagon. It is the plan of Fire Chief George S. Watson to use the am- bulance as an auxiliary unit of the fire rescue squad. Watson pointed out that the present fire rescue squad wagon is now used as an ambulance, but it is not suitable for this purpose in view of the fact that it carries all types of fire- fighting and medical equipment. NEED FOR ECONOMY. ‘The bailiffs and jurors in Police Court will have to practice a little more | economy in their dinner bills in 1931, Jjudging from the aclion of the Bureau of the Budget in reducing an item for lodging and meals from $173, the 1930 appropriation, to $169. e $4 cut is believed to the smallest $10,000 to Patch District Building Roof, Budget Item ‘The plaintive appeals of the Dis- trict Commissioners for funds to re&lk‘ the leaks in the roof of the District Building have at last been heard by the Budget. Bureau, which sent to Congress in the estimates today an item of $10,000 to patch up the roof. The work of repairing the Dis- trict Building roof was undertaken in 1922 when Congress appropriated $8,000 of the $30,000 asked at that time for replacement of paper and tile. The $8.000 was sufficient to complete less than one-half the roof, and despite persistent pleas for money to finish the work it was not forthcoming. Aftet a hard rain as many as 50 leaks de\'elor. and the water has to be trapped in buckets before it gets to the ceiling of the fifth floor. Some of the water has escaped, however, and while falling plaster and additional painting has resulted, the Commissioners, whose offices are on the top floor, have not vet been required to raise umbrellas over their desks. §222810 TOTAL PROVIDEDASSESSOR $16,360 Increase Largely to Be Used in Creating Five New Positions. Funds totaling $222,870, an increase of $16,360 over the current appropria- tion, are allowed the office of Tax As- sessor William P. Richards in the Dis- trict's 1931 budget sent to Congress to- day. The major portion of the in- crease is designed to create five new positions, while the remainder will be used to take care of salary step-ups in accordance with the classification act. Principal among the five new posi- tions provided is that of a deputy as- sessor with a salary of $4,600 a year. The deputy assessor will be required to perform all the duties of the assessor in his absence, Difficulty of Present. Under the existing organization when the assessor is absent he depends on one of the eight assistant assessors to substitute for him, but not through any special designation of law. At times all of the assistant assessors are in the field: in fact thelr dutles require a | great deal of field inspection, and to ask one of them to act in the absence of the assessor, according to Mr. Rich- ards, tends to break into the orderly arrangement of the work. ‘The four other positions are an in- spector of gasoline accounts, an ad- dressograph operator, a clerk and the transfer of two per diem positions to the annual roll. Necessity of Clerk. In recommending the position of in- spector of gasoline accounts, Mr. Rich- ards explained that the work of check- ing the gasoline tax reports had in- creased to such a degree that it is necessary to have a clerk assigned to this particular duty. In 1925, when the gas tax was first collected, there were 19 importers upon whom the gasoline tax was levied, and now there are 39. The assessor said that it is necessary to audit each of these reports as re- ceived, and if nrce$ ry examine the books of accounts of these companies to discover discrepancies that may have | arisen, The addressograph operator, Mr. Richards explained, will be occupied contnually throughout the year, mal ing changes in the assessments on the | addressograph plates. The ownership changes amount to 16,000 a year, $100,000 PAY RAISE FUND IS CARRIED IN DISTRICT’S BUDGET (Continued From Page 35.) partment, of clerical workers, $9,580 is included for 4 positions. For the health is recommended for salaries for 86 em- | ployes and 1 new position. For the conduct of hi'nene and sani- tation work in the public schools, $93.- the United | crease in $1,500 in the department's | 920, which is an increase of $15,320, is recommended for 41 employes and 7 new positions. For maintaining a child hygiene serv- ice, $44.050 is provided fqr salariss of 44 persons. For the Juvenile Court, $60,610 is provided for salaries of 30 employes. For salaries in Police Court, $102,980 is included for 47 positions, In the Municipal Court, $68,890 is provided for salaries of 25 employes. For the Supreme Court, $88,700 is provided for the salaries of 14 persons. For pay of bailiffs $50,380 is provided for 29 employes. For care and protection of court- house $37,700 is carried for 33 positions. Court of Appamis. For the Court of Appeals $68,360 is provided for 15 employes. For personal services for care and protection of the Court of Appeals Building $8,340 is provided for six em- | ployes. In the execution of writs of lunacy $4,900 is provided for salaries of two| employes. In the Public Welfare Department $113,360 is recommended for salaries n’( 55 employes, including 2 new posi- tions. For the home care of dependent chil- dren $13,460 is recommended for sala- ries of seven employes. ( For reception and detention of chil- dren $18,240 is recommended for sala- ries for 16 positions, including 2 new employes. For “1521" at t1he jail $70.410 is recommended, covering 48 itions, 3 of which are new, . 5 t° Pos! | For personal services at the work- house and reformatory $241,620 is rec- ommended for 153 employes, including 14 new positions. | For salaries at the National Training School for Girls, $39,240 is recommend- ed for 31 employes. Tnberculosis Hospital. For salaries at the Tuberculosis Hos- | pital $76,280 recommended for 60 employes, including 3 new positions. For salaries at the Gallinger Munici- pal Hospital $310,300 is recommended {?rn:w ‘employes, including 8 new posi- ons. For personal services at the District Training School $78.420 is provided for 65 employes, including 1 new posifion. | . For salaries at the Indusirial Home Schocl for Colored Children $34,540 is provided for 28 employes. | For personal services at the Industrial | Home School, $26,400 is provided for | 21_employes. For salaries at the Home for Aged and Infirm, $60,480 is provided for 48 made by the Budget Bureau in all of the District's estimates. | a:-:.loyu. including three new posi- For personal seryices at the Munici- department, $187,010 | The initial step to carry out the proposed far-reaching five-year pro- gram of improvement in Washington's water distribution system has been taken by the budget bureau in the estimates submitted to Congress today for the 1931 fiscal year, which pro- vide an_increase of $152,530 over the water department's appropriation for | the current fiscal y ‘The increase, however, created an ironical 8ituation, since the water de- partment is a self-sustaining unit of the District government, supporting it- self on the revenues from water rents. The added drain on its income, it is feared at the District Bullding, will lea an increase in water rates, despite the efforts of the Commis- sioners to preclude such action. Five-Year Program. Obviously forseeing an inevitable raise in rates the revenues from the sale of water were to be depended upon entirely to out the pro- posed improvemen Commission- ers, in presenting the five-year &mtnm to the Budget Bureau, urged that the extra funds appropriated out of the general revenues of the District, which would have shifted the expense on the taxpayers. The Budget Bureau did not approve the suggestion. The cost of the five-year program, 1t been estimated, exceeds $1,287,000 the amount that the water revenues can be expected to furnish over that period, which will lne\'lfilb]x result in a defieit in the water fund. Aside from providing for major im- ?ro\'emenn in the distribution system, he estimates also will permit the re- pair or replacement of a number of the nearly 15,000 water meters which are not functioning properly and the beginning of a comprehensive survey to determine the cause of the annual waste of one-third of the total supply. The Budget Bureau approved an item of 870,000 for the installation and re- pair of water meters, an increa@® of $40,000 over the current appropriation for this purpose, and inserted another item of 840,000 for starting a check-up on water waste, 48-Inch Main Provided. Three of the major improvements in the distribution system provided in the $152,530 INCREASE HELPS 5-YEAR WATER PROGRAM Commissioners Hope to Avert Higher Rates Resulting From Drain Due to Improvements estimates are the installation of & 48- Inch main from the Bryant street pump- ing station to Euclid street and Georgia avenue, making a connection on the third high service with the two exist- ing 20-inch mains at that point; the installation of & 20,000,000-gallon turbo ump on the third high service in the ryant street station, and lowerin 1,948 feet of the 48-inch main in Hampshire avenue from M street to Dupont _Circle. e Bryant Street Station is at pres- ent equlsped with two pumps, one of 10,000,000-gallon capacity and the other of 5,000,000 - gallon capacity. Both are on the third high ce. The water department has found it difficult to operate these pumps to- tether and the estimated demand on he third high service, due to the B:nmumeml growth® of the population that service area, it is estimated, will exceed the capacity of the present pumps in 1931. A breakdown in the pum, at Dalecarlia, it was said, would make it impossible for the Bryant street num(rs to supply the maximum demand during that year. Reduction in Pressure. ‘The 48-inch. main in Bryant street would provide a 48-inch loop between the pumping station and the Reno 'fhu line is designated to eliminate the loss in head, otherwise by |known as a reduction in pressure in | ins in the third high service area and at the same time provide an adequate breakdown service for the Dalecarlia plant and supple- ment it when the clglcny of the Dale- carlia plant is reached. The Budget Bureau also recognized the urgency of replacing a number of old mains, some of which have been in the ground for 40 and 50 years, by allowing an item of $100,000 for re- acements, which is double the sum appropriated for the current year for this purpose. Algmugh the United States engi- neer’s office for the District, which has supervision and_control over the water supply system, had sought an increase of ?B,OOO in its appropriation for 1931 for the Washington jueduct the Budget Bureau's Sfuru show that it approved a figure of $441,000, the same amount as Congress appropriated for the current fiscal year. the present INCREASE IS ASKED FOR STREET WORK IN BUDGET REPORT (Continued From Page 35.) The list of streets specifically men- tioned for improvement under the gas- oline tax during the next fiscal year, follows: Southeast: Raleigh Street, Nichols Avenue to Seventh Street, §6,300; Shannon Place, W_Street to Chicago | Street, $6,300; W_Street, Nichols Ave- nue to Shannon Place, $4,000; Chicago Street, Nichols Avenue westward, $7,700; Meunt View Place, Maple View Place to Morris Road, $3,000; Chester Street, Maple View Place to Valley Place, $5,900; Fourteenth Street, Ridge Place to 8 Street, $2,600; Twenty-second Street, Minnesota Avenue to R Street, §7,700; R Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-fifth Street, $16,000; Naylor Road, Minnesota Avenue to R Street, $14,200; Twenty-third Street, @ Street to R Street, $5900: Q Street, Naylor Road to Twenty-fifth Street, $12,100; Park Place, Twenty-third Street to Twenty-fifth _Street, $7,000; White Place, Park Place to Minnesota Ave. nue, $4,700; Thirtleth Street, Pennsyl- vania Avenue to R Street, $8,500; Fif- teenth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street, $4.400; K Street, Fourteenth - | Street to Fifteenth Street, $7,500; X Street, Eleventh Street to Twelfth Street, $3,700; C Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $3,700. Northeast Streets Affected. Northeast: Twenty-fourth Street, Benning Road to E Street, $9,600; Twentieth Street, Benning Road to H | Street, $6,500; Bennett Place, Twen- | tieth _Btreet to Twenty-second Street, $7.600; Oates Street, Montello Avenue to West Virginia Avenue, $8,500; Owen Place, West Virginia Avenue to 300 | feet east, $4,000; Evarts Street, Twenty- | elghth Street to Bladensburg Road, $8,100; Franklin Street, Thirtieth Street to Bladensburg Road, $7,200; Walnut Street, Vista Street to Myrtle Avenue, $9,000; Thirtieth Street, Otis Street to Perry Street, $4,400: Quincy Street, Twenty-first Street to Twenty-second Street, $4,100; Perry Street, Twenty- second Strect to Twenty-fourth Street, $7.600; Twenty-fourth Street, Otis Street to Perry Street, $7,300; Otis Strect, Eighteenth Street to South Da- | kota Avenue, $26,500; Urell Place, Tenth | Street to Twelfth Street, $6,900; Twelfth Street, Upshur Street, to Urell Place, $3,600; Randolph Street, Thir- teenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $9,200; Fourteenth Street, Lawrence Street to Newton Street, $10,200; Jack- son Street, west of Tenth Street, $5,600; Seventeenth Street, 250 feet south of Douglas Street to Pranklin Street, $14900; Evarts Street, Seventeenth Street westward, $8,000; Douglas Street, Third Street to Fourth Street, $5,600. Program for Northwest Northwest: Third Street, Webster Street to Allison Street, $4,800; Allison Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Rock Creek Cemetery, $9,500; Fourth Street, Webster Street to Allison Street, $4.800; gut Strect and Farragut Street, Kansas Avenue to Fifth Street, $5,900; Gallatin Street, Ninth Street to Illinois Avenue, to Peabody Street, $23,300; Fifth Street, Sheridan Street Tuckerman Street, $6,500; Tuckerman Street, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, $11,600; Tewkesbury Place, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, $5,500; Eighth Street, Van Buren Street —————————— pal Loding House, $3,720 is provided for three employes. For salaries at the.Temporary Home for Former Soldiers and Sailors, $6,000 is recommended for four employes. For personal services in the District Militla, $26,070 is recommended for 11 employes and temporary labor. For salaries connected wih the rec- lamation of Anacostia River flats, $35,- 120 is recommended for 25 employes. Public Parks Salaries. For salaries connected with the pub. lic_parks, $416,293 is recommended for 253 positions, and in the fleld service, $281,079 is récommended for 242 posi- tions, For the park police, a total of $162,- or 77 positions and for 120 is provided allowances. For salaries in the department of service of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, $60,000 Is recommended for 13 positions, For salaries in the National Zoologi~ cal Park, $151,000 is recommended for 95_positions. For the field service of the Washing- ton aqueduct, a total of salaries and wages amounting to $266,000 is recom- mended for 171 employes. For ti;enmul service in the revenue, inspection and distribution branch of the water department, a total of $186,- 860 18 recommended for 78 persons. Kansas Avenue, Fifth Street to Farra- | $2,000; Fifth Street, Longfellow Street ' to Underwood Street, $7.800; Venable Place, west of Piney Branch Road, $4,100; Seventh Street, Dahlia Street to Fern Street, $10,000; Georgia Avenue, Rock Creek Church Road to Buchanan Street, $68,400; Hemlock Street, Twelfth -Street to Alaska Avenue, $6,300; Twelfth Street, Alaska Avenue to Hem- lock Street, $9,100; Juniper Street, Morningside Drive to Thirteenth Street, $8,600; Thirteenth Street, Alaska Ave- nue to Kalmia Road, $15,700; Morning- side Drive, Iris Street to Alaska Avenue, $9,500; Van Buren teenth Street to Montague ~Street, to Bixteenth Iowa Avenue, Piney Branch Gallatin Street, $6,200; Emerson Street, Sixteenth Road, $5,100; teenth Street to Center Street, $5,900; Sixteenth Street, Columbla Road to Tiger Bridge, $136,000; Clydesdale Place, Adams Mill Road to Ontario Road, $3900; Twenty-fourth Street, Calvert Street to Connecticut Avenue, $7,000; Woodley Road, Woodley Place to Cathedral Avenue, $4.000; Macomb Street, east of Connecticut Avenue, $6,000; Thirtieth Street, Albemarl Street to Brandywine Street, $9,200; Everett - Street, Thirty-sixth Street to Connecticut Avenue, $600; Fessenden Street, Connecticut Avenue to Thirty- fourth Street, $8,400; Emery Place, | Forty-first Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $5,100; Rodman Street, Thirty-fifth to | 1daho Avenue, $7,600; Thirty-fifth Street, Ordway Street to Quebec Street, $10,100; Thirty-ninth Street, Fulton Street to Garfield Street, $7,100; Norton Street, Sherrier Place to Conduit Road, $5,100; Sherrier Place, Cathedral Ave- nue to Norton Btreet (20-foot strip), $20,000; Reservoir Street, Thirty-second Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $7.300; R | Street, Twenty-eighth Street to Twenty= | ninth Street, $4,200: Twenty-eighth Street, @ Street to R Street, $10,700; Twenty-sirth street, P S'reet to East Place, $4,600; Bancroft Place, east to Twenty-third Street, $4,600. West: Twelfth Street, B Street north | to B Street south, $40,600 For Grading and Culverts. For grading, including construction | of necessary cuiverts and retaining | walls, the following: Northeast: New York Avenue, Florida Avenue to Bladensburg Road, $38,300; Chestnut Street, Vista Street to Mon- roe Street, and Monroe Street, Clinton Avenue to Fastern Avenue, $6,000. Northwest: Tilden Street, Sedgwick Street to Reno Road; Reno Road, Til- den Strest to Upton Street, and Upton Street, Reno Road to Thirty-eighth Street, $5,000; Albemarle Street, Mas- sachusetts ~ Avenue to Forty-ninth Street, and Forty-ninth Street, Massa- chusetts Avenue to Bufterworth Place, $6,000; Nebraska Avenue, Rittenhouse street to Daniels Road, $8,000; Ritten- house Btreet, Twenty-ninth Street to Daniels Road, $9,000. For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary cyl- verts and retainln1 ‘walls, $80,000. For -surfacing block pavements and paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $100,000, For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate - vehicular and pedestrian trafic, $10,000. N For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders in connection with all forms of macadam roadways and ad- justment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing and replacing of bass n{!o‘l‘;ocoh roadways where necessary, For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt or concrete pavements with the same or other ap- proved material, $500,000. The recommendation to provide for replacement of the Klingle Valley Bridge follows in part: Connecticut ~ Avenue Bridge over Klingle anlr?': For construction of a bridge to replace the Connecticut Ave- nue Bridge over Klingle Valley, includ- ing necessary changes in water mains, and -including personal services, en gineering, ~and incidental expenses, $250,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter Mto contract or contracts for construction of sald bridge at a cost not to exceed $500,000: Provided, that any street railway com- ny using the bridge shall install ereon at its own expense an approved standard underground system and an overhead trollefr system of street car propulsion, including trolley poles of approved design, and at its own ex- pense shall thereafter maintain such underground and overhead construction and bear the cost of surfacing, resur- facing and maintaining in condi- tion the space between the railway tracks and two feet exterior thereto. :rovldefl runher.m that |an lcree: rail; Ay company using sa! ridge for its tracks sl prior to such use pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia for deposit to the credit of the District of Columbia & sum equsl to one-fourth of the cost of sald l:l“