Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-31

IOtal. ..$3,5Z4,.)Jt 1Otdi. .$OJ4 W.
The receipts for the year of the building
inspectors office were $5.5SO.71, a decrease
over the previous year of $1,290.31.
Department of Inspections.
Mr.. Brady reports that the corps of as
sistant inspectors have been faithful and
painstaking in the discharge of their duties
and appends a statement of the miscel-
laneous character of their assignments and
their execution of them. The three in
spectors state that they made total of
4,S14 inspecticns: 50 brick and 100 frame
buildings were condemned. q dangerous
buildings were ordered vacated There
Vtre 3S violations of building regulations.
In their report, the assistant inspectors,
calling attention to the vastly increased
duties devolving upon them, state that they
think there is an absolute necessity for an
increase of force both of office and field
work. in order that they may be able to de-
vote more time and give a more careful in
spection to the supervision and construction
of new buildings being erected in the sixty
square miles of the District.
Additional Force Recommended.
In approving this recommendation Build
ing Inspector Brady says:
THE increase in the physical equipment
of this department, suggested above is a
reiteration of the argument l used in nv
last annual report. The volume of work Of
a miscellaneous character increases each
year, and to dispose of it promptly will re-
Quire an additional force.
Il recommend that four more assistant
inspectors be provided, each at a salary of
S1,aU per annum. and that the salaries Of
the present inspectors be increased to 81 2uU
per annum, also that an additional clerk at
$1,DO per annum be provided.
IF this increase be granted the admins
tration of this office will be more efec tual,
and the community will appreciate the
M mt dara
der with such changed condition"
District buildings.
Reporting upon the several municipal
buildings, for which plans and specifica-
tions were prepared in his Office, the build
ing inspector makes full and detailed re
ports. TIE school and other buildings, the
amounts appropriated for them, the ex-
Tenditures and balances, were as follows:
School building, Congress Heights, Gies-
boro' - Appropriation. 5000; expended,
sS.7S0.24; balance, $219.76.
School building, Langdon-Appropriatio
5000; expended, 81, !GA IL; balance $50
Conduit road school = Appropriation,
5000; expended. 81 1921 balance, $57S2.
Central heating neutrality-suspicious.
$1,000; expended, s75.21: balance. So 924.73.
The bids for this building exceeded the
appropriation and AN additional appropria-
ticn of $500 was ,nade for 1888, and the
work is now in progress.
Garfield acknowledgements $500;
expended. $500.
Repairs to School Buildings.
Appropriation. $4,000; deficiency appro-
priation, S4.543; total SIG. 543.24.
Expended as follows: First division
s70,.6i; second division. s2,65S.62; third di-
vision, 81. 445.41; fourth division, $500 IL ;
fifth division, s1499.61; sixth division,
Sl.5?0.36; seventh division. s4S6.59; eighth
division. $;.l93.95; Colored High School,
S527.51; pay rolls and materials delivered at
shop, S1s,S49.0S Total, S32,2SO.S3. Balance
81. 262. "A.
Regarding the remodeling of Wallach
School and building addition to same, Mr..
Brady says: A contract was made for this
work for the sum of s19, I79. After the old
portion of the building had been odeIed
and occupied for school purposes and the
new addition had reached the first floor of
jo.sts, the contractor abandoned the work.
His bondsmen took possession of the build
ing and carried ii far as roofing in the
building, when they, too, abandoned the
work. The Commissioners then ordered the
inspector of buildings to complete the build
ing.
The sum appropriated for this work was