Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1935, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, P Park Protection Handicapped VIRGINIA SBHUUI' By Inadequate Police F acilities WORK IS PLANNED $1,500,000 W. P. A. Funds Await Washington Ap- proval of Plans. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, September 16.—School buildings and grounds throughout Virginia will blossom with eye-pleas- ing improvements during the coming Winter months if W. P. A. authori- ties at Washington approve plans for spending $1,500,000 of work-relief funds to employ unskilled and semi- skilled workmen on the project. Dr. Sidney B. Hall, State superin- tendent of public instruction, said yesterday he and Raymond Long, building division director of the de- partment, had received encourage- ment for the proposal from officials whom they had interviewed in Wash- ington. These authorities, Dr. Hall said, had told the Virginia educators that the project was of the kind most fa- vored by work-relief leaders, as it employed the types of labor that pre- dominate on the relief rolls. The project, which has been ap- proved by W. P. A. Director William A. Smith here, was sufmitted in blanket form in order to meet the ac- celerated dead line set for all appli- cations. He and his co-workers are engaged now, Dr. Hall said, in preparing de- tailed allocations for each county in the State, based on the estimate county school leaders make of the funds needed in their territory. Under present tentative plans, gul- lies and other irregularities on school g-ounds will be leveled and shrubs Nlanted. | insufficient number of park police Personnel Has Not Kept Pace With In- crease Acreage of System Owing to Lack of Funds. Inadequate police facilities is one, of the principal obstacles in the way of careful maintenance of the Wash- ington park system. This inadequacy is blamed en- tirely upon lack of funds by which the United States Park Police are supported, for, while the acreage of the park system has been steadily in- creased, the personnel of the police force has been kept at about the same point. At the present time this force consists of Capt. P. J. Carroll, commanding officer; 1 lieu- tenant, 9 sergeants and 65 privates. Included in the domain of the park system are many pieces of valuable statuary, much of it worthy of artistic approval, as well as being repre- sentative of material investment. Fre- quently vandals have destroyed or de- faced some of these works, as an officials have been unable to keep them" under thorough surveillance. Utility Property Important. Representing less value, but of con- siderable importance, is the utility property of the parks, such as signs, benches, fences and the lawn. Unless reasonably well policed,” the latter often turned into thoroughfares, pic- nic groves are turned into dumps and some of the tracts into outdoor sleeping quarters. The problems involved in protecting the property just noted are among the permanent all-year requirements of the park police force. At certain seasons of the year, however, these duties are increased greatly. In the Spring, for instance, the city is crowded with tourists here to view the cherry blossoms. Anxious for souvenirs, they frequently break off limbs of the trees or invade other gardens in the park system. Resi- dents of the District have gone so far as to chop “down whole trees in the outlying park areas and use them for firewood. Y This past Summer has been par- ticularly severe on the park police, they say. Twice each week they have had to police the National Symphony Orchestra concerts at the Water Gate, as well as the regular run of at least three band concerts in the park each week, convention parades, such as the colored Elks and the Shriners last June; Sylvan Theater performances twice each week, White House social functions, polo games at Potomac Park and other ceremonies. Four Kept on Highway. In addition, the undermanned force has to keep four men on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, a 16-mile drive, and two men in the outlying park areas. With the number of tourists reach- ing record proportions, recreational activities increasing each year and the number of unemployedy “floaters™” always high in recent years the duties of the park police in connection with their extensive territory are becoming steadily greater. Expenditure of about $1,000,000 for new park areas and the improvement of those now maintained will place added responsibility upon this handicapped force. 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