Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-11

4 NKw DIsrRIcr BUILDING AND NAxY NEW SCHOOL
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. THE RIVER FRONT AND
THE WATER suPPLY-REPAIRs TO PUBLIC BUILD
Nes-THI NEW POST OFFICE
The government today published large and
interesting holiday volume entitled THE Book
of Estimates" Its lack Of diversity in narra-
tive and its somewhat tabular form may pre-
vent its extensive circulation In the higher lit
erary circles, but by certain class Of readers
il will be scanned with great interest Its use
Of statistics is marvelously accurate, and in
some respects the work may be characterized
- unique, even though it may bear q striking
resemblance to its annual predecessors
FOR THE DIsTRIcr OF COLUMBIA.
Locally the work is well up with the times.
Indeed it is fully year ahead of time. Some
entertaining items are to be found in its pages.
Among these are the following: One hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for a new municipal
building. District of Columbia; ESQ. 900 for the
expenses Of q representation Of the District at
the worlds fair; s45, 900 for the collection of
garbage and dead animals in the District an
increase Of $2l.000; SSl, $40 for q new fire en-
CINE and house and lot for same; sl4, 900 for an
additional story to the Police Court building;
$4,000 for compensation for Police Court juries;
50, 600 for an addition to the kitchen and cook
ing appliances at the Washington Asylum;
%, 500 for new electric appliances in the fourth
and ninth police precincts; Sc, 900 for q police
stable on ground now owned by the District;
elO, 600 for the expenses Of the annual encamp-
ment Of the District militia; 5000 for the eX-
pense OF sending a detachment Of four COM
panies OF the District militia to represent the
District at the dedication of the worlds fair in
October, 1892; S35,000 for q new school build
ing of eight rooms in the fourth division on the
site of the Greenleaf building and the purchase
of the adjoining lot; S35, 600 for an eight-room
building, fifth division; s27.0 for an eight
room building in sixth division, to replace
for an eight-room building, eighth divi-
sion; $4,000 for four-room building
in sixth division, Conduit road; 100000 for
commencing the construction of a new high
service system Of water supply, to include all
necessary land, machinery, buildings. reser-
voirs. stand pipes, mains and appurtenances.
or so much thereof as may be avail
able in the water fund after providing for
the expenditures before authorized and the
Commissioners of the District of Columbia are
authorized and empowered to acquire by pur-
chase, condemnation or otherwise the land
needed for the said new high service system of
water supply; IS. 600 for incidental expenses Of
superintendent of charities The total amount
OF estimates for the District of Columbia, in
GLIDING the water department, submitted
by the Commissioners, is Sc, III, sos. 43.
The Secretary of the Treasury, being unable to
indicate the several items of the estimates for
the expenses of the government of the District
OF Columbia in which changes should judi
amount as submitted by the Commissioners and
recommends that the total appropriation for
said expenses for the next fiscal year be limited
to the amount appropriated for the current
year for that purpose, s5,6O2, 1851
IMPROVING THE POTOMAC.
Under various heads other than the District
OF Columbia are a number of important in
creases that do not fall under the ban Of this
sweeping disapproval by the Secretary. The
most important, perhaps, occurs in the esti-
mates of the War Department Of 1881, 1865 for
the completion Of the improvement of the
Potomac. Other new estimates are as follows:
Two hundred and ninety thousand six hun
dred and twenty five dollars for improving the
quality of the Potomac water and restoring the
capacity for its storage by improving the re-
ceiving reservoir. including the purchase or
condemnation of the necessary land: S12. 500 for
further improving the quality of the Potomac
water by lowering the height of the cross-dam
at the distributing reservoir S13, S25 for clean
ing out the distributing reservoir; $4,000 for
the purchas, or condemnation of a site for a
storage yard; 5000 for protecting the inlet to
the aqueduct at Great Falls; sis, 900 to COM
plete the erection of fishways at Great Falls;
S3l, 600 for replacing the present system of
government telegraph and telephone wires with
q duplicats six-conductor underground cable.
| An alternative estimate amounting to 81, 600 is
also submitted for replacing the present poles
with new and taller poles, and if an appropria-
ton for that purpose be made it should be &C.
companied by authority to erect the poles.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
Two thousand dollars for erecting eight iron
posts in tho Monument grounds and supplying
them with electric lights; $1,000 for renewing
the superstructures of two green houses con-
nected with the Executive Mansion. damaged
nv ha lat vel ahnt1f
Franklin Square, submitted, 5000; laying
asphalt walks in various reservations. IS, 600;
improvement and care Of Henry and Seaton
parks $1,000; lodges for park watchmen in
Thomas, Mcpherson and Folger reser-
vations, at $500 each. So, 500; con-
| structing an ornamental fountain in Lafay-
cite Square upon the site originally selected
| for the Lafayette statue, -, 600; replacing the
old tagging pavement of the sidewalk in the
grounds north of the Executive Mansion by q
granolithic pavement, g, 500; construction of
| q large green house at the propagating gardens
| for palm and tropical plants o. large growth
| needed for tropical bedding. &C., in the public
parks during the summer months. 81. 900; i'm
provement of Howard University Park, IS, 600
% 900 for the erection of two galleries. one in
| the southwest court, the other in the southeast
| range, National Museum building said galleries
| to be constructed of iron beams, supported by
iron pillars, and protected by iron ratings, and
| pEONlOtu sultdUlt tue NOfk 10 De
| done under the direction of the architect of the
| Capitol and in accordance with the approval OF
| the secretary Of the Smithsonian Institution.
The erection of these galleries will add mate
| rally to the area now available for exhibition
purposes. The space needed for their con-
| struction can be used without disadvan-
| tage to the exhibits already in the halls.
IS, 600 for increasing the electric plant Of the
National Museum; S100, 900 for continuing the
building operations at Fort Myer, Va; S25 .00O
| for erecting one new brick ward for females a,
the Freedman's Hospital; S300O0 for three
dwellings for observers at the new naval OBJ.
| servatory; sis 900 for repairs to breech mech.
anism shop at the Washington navy yard
$5, 900 for repairs to the property at the cor.
ner of B street and New Jersey avenue
southeast; s34. 134 for repairs to the treasury
Butler and Winder buildings; S68S5 for the re-
pairs at the Botanic Gardens; 81 900 for expen.
SEES Of exhibit Of marine corps at the worlds
| fair; $25, 600 for the maintenance of the new
naval proving ground at Indian Head, Md.
| $15 900 for new boiler and engine at that
place; 5000 for q telegraph line from the
navy yard to the grounds; $50, 7521 Is for the
erection Of a mortuary chapel at the western
entrance Of the cemetery at Arlington for
funeral and other religious ceremonies at the
| cemetery and also for use a. . chapel for the
post at Fort Myer.
THE NEW CITY POST OFFICE.
The sum Of $50O, 900 is asked for continuing
the construction Of the new city post office
building under the present limit Also
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