Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-24
Supplementary Estimates, 1897


Supplementary Estimates, 1897.
For completing the execution of the sys-
TEN Of sewage disposal and protection
against floods, recommended by the board
of sanitary engineers appointed by the Pres
ident of the United States pursuant to the
provisions of an act of Congress approved
March 2 1889. and whose report is published
as House Executive Document No. AS,
first session, Fifty-ffst Congress-. $500, 900;
For constructing ing trunk sewers outside OF
For street lighting. SIS. TOO
For .! grading din unsradfd streets in Washing
ton, $0OO,OOO.
For storage yard foff the Washington aque-
For underground conduits, to be expended
in carrying out the general plans of the
electrical board as reported to Congress De
cember 70, 1891. and the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia are authorized, in
their discretion, to purchase any or all of
the electrical conduits in the streets and
avenues Of the city Of Washington now be-
longing to private corporations by agreement
or condemnation, as hereinafter provided
to fix the annual rental of all conduits so
purchased or constructed and to make such
expenditures from this appropriation for
assistants and other items and services as
they shall deem necessary to carry this pro-
vision into effect, 100000.
For adapting the inner basin on the Po-
tomac flats for public bathing pool, 5000.
Charities.
For Washington Asylum, s73, 1903. This in
cludes the erection of a central heating
station. at cost of $4,000. and the erection
of vault in potter's field cemetery
Reform School.
For this important Institution total of
S4S,3O6 Is recommended. This includes an
increase of $40 for teachers, an increase of
$40 for the employment of additional
watchmen, a manager of the box factory
at $1sO, driver for the box wagon at S27O
and a clerk at $500. Also a new bake oven,
to cost $1,000; for the support of the insane,
$lO4 90: for instruction of the deaf and
dumb. $lO.50O; for the relief of the poor,
1000; for the municipal lodging house,
$4,000; for the Soldiers and Sailors Home
$500: for the Woman's Christian Associa-
ton. $4,000; for the central dispensary and
Emergency Hospital, $4,000; Columbia Hos
pital for Women. $4,000; for Children 8
Hospital, $4,000; for Freedman's Hospital.
so7 500; for Homeopathic Hospital $3.50;
reform school for girls ST.. 1855; hospital for
fcundlings. 5000; church orphanage. st.
Johns parish. $500: German Orphan Asy-
| lum. $500. for the relief of destitute color
ed women and children, 81, 600; St. AIMS
Infant Asylum. $1,000; Association for
Shepherd. 1850: ST. Roses Industrial
school, 81. $50: st. Joseph's Asylum 81 800;
Young Women's Christian Home, $1,000;
industrial home school. $4,000; board of
childrens guardians. $4,000: Hope and
Help Mission, $1,000; Newsboys and Chill
drens' Aid Society, 81 600; eastern dispensa-
ry, including purchase of property upon
which it is located. 10000; for women's dis
pensary. $4,000; Washington Home for In
curables, 5000. In all for charity 1881, 99S.
Last Years Estimates.
The estimates submitted by the District
Commissioners a year ago were So 9s3, O14.9
from the general revenues and 1894, 919 q
from the water revenues. The congression-
| al appropriation was 5,597 24397 from the
| general revenues. Of which $4,000 was for
the aqueduct tunnel and $231 ,293. 81 from
the water revenues. Ia,