Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-14
Engineer Department Adopts Schedule
for Street improvements.
TOTAL APPROPRIATION Is SMALL
List Of the Thoroughfares to Be
Paved and Graded.
DISTRIBUTION OF FUND

The engineer department has lust com
pleted its list of streets which will be i'm
proved during the current fiscal year 1t is
small, because of the meager appropria-
lions made by Congress to carry out the
necessary improvements of the streets and
avenues OF the city, and disappointing be-
cause OF the hundreds of property owners
who have waited and waited for their re
spectlVe streets to be improved. Some IDEA
OF this may be gained when 1t is stated that
the schedule is four years behind. And it
Is getting further behind every year Con-
sress stipulates that the schedule, as adopt
ed. shall be strictly followed, and the Com
missioners, being bound by this. are COM
PEELED to improve the streets in the order
they appear on the schedule.
1t is only necessary to set forth the
amount appropriated for the improvement
of thoroughfares in the several ections to
convince one that little can be accomplished
this year in the way of street development.
Distribution of the Fund.
There will be expended in the northwest
section, $4S,S12; Georgetown will receive in
streets, $15125; the northeast will have ex-
pended in its section, s42 1875; Southeast
Washington must be content with Si5,17S;
Southwest Washington must be satisfied
with s22,55O.
Congress has way of getting around its
own laws sometimes, and experience has
demonstrated that great influence will
cause a street to be improved outside of its
regular turn. This is called a special
schedule, and during this fiscal year sew
eral streets will be improved under it.
The great mass of citizens are interested
in the regular schedule. They want TO
kr'ow just when their street is to be i'm
proved. The schedule which is presented
,xn:ox Ia God anfc
just what the Commissioners are going to
do this year in the matter of improve
ments.
Contracts to Come.
Contracts for these streets have not yet
been let In fact, they have not even been
advertised. But along about the latter
part of August proposals will be invited,
and as the cool September breezes begin
to dispense themselves the work of i'm
proven ent will begin, ard will be finished
before the breezes attain a frosty tinge.
Northwest section-I, from I'D to 10Th,
pave; 10th, from d to F, widen and regu-
late; c. from 18th to 18th, pave; 10Th,
from c to D, pave; 18th, from B to c,
pave; 18th, from H to K, pave; T, from
avenue, from New Jersey avenue to Flori-
da avenue. pave; K. from 1st to North
Capitol, pave; H, from 22d to I'D, pave;
North Capitol, from o to Q, pave
Northeast section-F, from Sd to 9th.
pave; Florida avenue. from NJ to Brent
wood road, grade and macadamize; 10Th,
from East Capitol to c, pave; 4th, from K
to l., pave: Morris, from 9Th to 18th, pave.
Southeast section-E. from 1:Sc11 to 18TH
pave; 4th, from c to Virginia avenue, pave;
9th. from Pennsylvania avenue to South
carolina avenue, pave; South Capitol, from
Fl to X, pave: E, from Sd to 18th, pave; D,
from 9th to 18th, remove cobble and replace
with asphalt blocks.
Southwest section-3d. from H to K
pave: 6h. from d to f, pave; Virginia ave-
nue., from South CapitoI to Delaware ave-
nue.; N. from AZ to 9th, pave.
Georgetown-M, from 32d to 33d, pave:
2'th' from NJ to P, grade and regulate
Suburban Schedule.
Connecticut avenue and Columbia road
from Florida avenue to 18th, pave.
Any surplus remaining of the s36 COZ
after improving above avenue and road,
to be used for regulating grading and
paving Baltimore street from Columbia
road to 10th street and on 10Th street to
Adams Mill road, entrance to the Zoo Park
provided as to defeating Baltimore and
10Th streets so improved.
To grade and regulate Clifton Irving
Yale, Bismark. Harvard. Columbia, Steu-
ben, kenesaw, Wallach and 18th and Roa-
noke and Princeton streets.
Grade and regulate Sherman avenue.
Grade and regulate Kenesaw avenue and
Park road, subject to dedication.
Grade and regulate 18th street extended
from Florida avenue to Mt Oliyet road.
rave Massachusetts, avenue extended
from I'D street to Sheridan circle; Emporia
from 18th street to Brentwood road grade
and regulate; 31th street from Back street
to Tenleytown road, improve
Pave Spruce and Bohrer streets from
Larch to Florida avenue
Grade ard gravel Joliet street from Con-
recticut avenue extended to Zoo Park.
This erect to be purchased or condemned
to width of 100 feet.
Pave Princeton and Roanoke streets from
18th to 14th.