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boundary line with the uniform width OF
160 feet. Other street extensions follow:
s, s22d and Decatur streets, through lots
Al and 42 Of Phelps and Tuttle's subdtvi-
sion of Connecticut Avenue Heights, part
of Widows Mite.
Eleventh street from Florida avenue to
Lydecker avenue.
New Hampshire avenue from intersection
of Whitney and Sherman avenues to Bright
wood avenue.
Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the Dis
trict line.
Stoughton street from its present termi-
nus westward to Columbia avenue.
lexington place to be widened between @
street to Florida avenue.
Sherman avenue between Florida and
Whitney avenues.
Twentieth street southerly from Wyoming
avenue to Columbia road.
Elm street, LIE Droit Park, from Linden
to 9Th street.
Fifth street. LIE Droit Park, from Elm
street to Wilson street.
Howard avenue through lot No 1904 in
Chaplin Browns subdivision Of Mount Pleas
ant and Pleasant Plains.
Nineteenth street from Florida avenue to
Columbia road and to connect Wyoming
avenue with Columbia road.
A roadway is provided from the northern
extremity of Brightwood avenue westward
ly toward Rock Creek Park, across Rock
Creek Park, and a branch road at a point
to be selected by the Commissioners. north
of Rock creek, running northwesterly to
road In Montgomery county, Nd, connect
ing Linden and Forest Glen, Md; also an
other branch starting at a point north of
Rock creek, to be selected by the Commis-
to connect with road or roads leading
from the direction of Chevy Chase, Nd.
Rhode Island avenue from Florida ave-
nue. to LIE Droit avenue. .-
In addition to the above extensions an
appropriation of 5000 was made to pay
the expenses of completing a plan for the
extension of permanent system of high
ways in conformity with the "act to pro-
that part of the District of Columbia lying
outside of Cities" approved March 2, 1893;
also $1,000 to pay the expenses of such sur
veys as may be necessary to enable the
commissioners to determine whether plats
of subdivisions of land within said District
offered for record have been made in con-
formity to the "act to regulate subdivi-
sion of land within the District of Column
bia," approved August 27, 1885
An appropriation of $4,000 was made for
grading and paving 10Th street extended
between Florida avenue and Columbia road; !;
provided that this street shall first have
been widened to ninety feet from its pres
ent width of fifty feet.
For work on streets and avenues named
in the book Of estimates s1S2, 900 was appro-
priated, to be divided among the different
sections as follows: Georgetown, $500;
northwest, ,$43, 500; southwest, s21 600; south
east $4,000; northeast, $44, 900.
County Roads and Streets
The sum of $4,000 was appropriated for
the construction Of county roads and SUBJ
urban streets, as follows:
Paving University place between yelling
and Huntington places, $6,5O0
Grading and regulating Wilson street.
Howard University subdivision, $5 900.
Paving Spruce street, LIE Droit Park
$4,000.
Paving Harrison street, Anacostia, $5 1000
Paving Kenesaw avenue and Columbia
avenue and Harvard street, from 13Sh to
14th streets, $15, 900.
Grading Pennsylvania avenue extended
southeast and Branch avenue, $1,000.
Grading and improving Michigan avenue
$4,000
Grading Albemarle street and laying cob
BILE cutters and macadam roadway, 81, 600.
Grading and regulating 3fth street be-
tween New Cut road and Tenleytown road
$500.
Grading and regulating Kenesaw avenue
and Park road, $4,000.
Grading and graveing 22d and oath
streets. Langdon, $4,000.
Grading and paving Kenyon street be-
tween 18th and 14th streets, $1,000.
Paving Belmont street from 18th to Co.
lumbia road, $1,000.
Constructing granite block and asphalt
eastward, $17 900.
Grading and regulating Adams Mill road
from Columbia road to the Geological Park
entrance, $1,000.
Grading and regulating Illinois avenue,
81 900.
Grading and regulating Kansas avenue,
from Brightwood avenue toward Trenton
street 50 900.
Improvements of Connecticut avenue ex-
tended So 900.
Paving Sheridan circle, sis 900.
Paving kalorama avenue from 18th street
to Columbia road, SO, 600.
For current work of repairs Of streets
avenues and alleys $1S0,000 is appropriated
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and
nicipal buildings $4,000 Is allowed. For
current repair of county roads and SUBJ
urban streets 100000 is appropriated.
Cleaning the Streets.
During the next fiscal year the streets Of
this city will be cleaned by days labor in
stead of by contract. unless contractor
can be found to do that work at the rate Of
not to exceed % cents for hand work and
% cents for machine work per / 600 square
yards. If the Commissioners should do the
work themselves 1t will have to be Perform
ed In accordance with the specifications
they are to prepare for bidders. The law
also provides that specifications for bids
In the execution of these contracts shall
not be less than the price now paid by the
commissioners for cleaning the streets by
hand. ~ gss
These provisions were put in the District
appropriation bill largely by the persistent
efforts Of Superintendent Stutier, who has
secured a guarantee that laborers on the
streets shall receive $1.25 a day in the fu-
ture, instead Of 81, as previously paid them
by the contractors.
Girls Reform School.
The facilities at the reform school for
girls will be largely increased by the new
$4,000 building to be built there in ths next
fiscal year
Provision is made for three cottage build
ings for working inmates at the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. at a cost of
$4,000.
An appropriation of s., $3.50 was made
Tor repairing the house on 10th street In
which Abraham. Lincoln died, this sum to
be expended under the direction of the
chief of engineers.
Washington Asylum.
The Washington Asylum win find con-
siderable relief from the pressure on its
facilities by overcrowding. as provision 10
made for north wing of the almshouse, to
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