National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-12-11
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Tie book Of estimates submitted by the heads
OF the various departments to Congress, contain
ing a schedule of the amounts Of money required
for the next fiscal year, EN- braces the following
items Of District interest For public grounds the
sum asked is 1924 so, the main items being as
follows Filling grounds south of the Executive
Mansion, $4,000; general repairs to the Smithso-
MAN grounds, $4,000; building approaches to
bridge to be erected by the Baltimore and POto-
mac Railroad Company over Sixth street, 5000;
completing the improvements OF reservation be-
tween Third and Sixth streets, SO 900; improving
various reservations, $4,000; care and extension
of greenhouses in the propagating garden, S5,OO0
ordinary care Of Lafayette square, $1,000; remOv-
ing present fence and substituting posts and
claims, 5000; paving 4,22l square yards of walks
in Lafayette square, $lO552.jO; removing allan
thus trees, condemned by the Board of Health.
$500; continuing the Improvement OF reservation
No. 3, 10000; eXcayating bottom and paving sides
Of lake 5000: replacing fountain in l4th street cir
Gle with marble, -, 500; improving Pacific Place,
tcircle, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
Hampshire ayenues,) 5000; improving Stanton
Place, $4,000; taking up and relaying curb and
flag south of the Executive Mansion, 81 500: cut
ting down the embankment on the nursery,
s. go; granite coping and fence in front Of EX-
ecutive Mansion, $3.50; repairing fountain south
Of the Executive Mansion and for coping and
centre-piece for the same, 5000; fountain and
Watchman's lodge in Judiciary square, 5000;
colossal statue OF Lincoln, 10 be placed in Lincoln
square, s2o,UO0; base Tor same, $4,000; purchase
OF triangular square Of ground west OF square ga
and north Of square 563, containing 1854 square
feet, at Sl-Sl7, j64; enclosing and improving the
same, $4,000; enclosing two triangular reserVa-
tons on Ohio avenue, between Thirteenth land
Fifteenth streets, IS COO purchase of 800 seats for
the public grounds, - 400; filling, grading, drain
ing and improving the reservation on Missouri
avenue, lately occupied by the Agricultural de-
partment, $4,000; removing the cast-irOn fence
from reservation on Pennsylvania avenue,
between Twentieth and TWenty-hrst streets,
recasting it into park-pOstS, and for i'm
proving the same, $500; repairs, fuel,
&e., Executive Mansion, SO, 100; light
ing, &c, Capitol, Executive Mansion, &c,
$4,000; Washington MISUNDERSTANDING q stone
dam across the Virginia channel Of the Potomac
river, from the end Of the present dam to the Viz
ginia Shore 500 OOO building dwelling and office
for gatekeeper az the receiving reservoir, s., 600;
reservoir, L, TO4 feet, So 52S; continuing widening
and matchmaking roadway between distributing
reservoir and Great Falls, $4,000; soiling and
seeding embankment slopes Of the distributing
reservoir, $4,000; sOIliDg and seeding slopes OF
the conduit embankment from Great Falls to the
distributing reservoir, SZT,O5O. Building corner
of Seventeenth and F stTeets-RemoVIng en-
bankment and opening an alley along the west
end Of tho building, 500. The sum OF $4,000 is
asked for the navy yard. Building and grounds
Government Hospital for the Insane-Completing
river wall and raising boundary walls at their
intersection with the river WALL IS T4S; supplying
the hospital with water from the Potomac aque-
duct, SO, OOO Reform School Of the District of
Columbia-PurchasiDg remainder of the Peter
farm provided IL can be obtained at 800 per acre.
OF so much thereof as may be necessary, Sl2,O1O:
erecting workshops, steam engine, betting and
machinery, 81, 900; erecting one family building
SIC 600; fencing and hedge plants, 5000. Im-
prOYement Of grounds, Department Of AgricUI-
ture including fountains, &c, S22,S40.