The Washington times., 1902-10-06
PLAN DISTRICT BUILDING
Current Year Will Make Rec
ord in Number Erected.
WILL BE II scH0oLH0UsEs
While Past Twelve Months Have Been
Busy, There Is Long List Wait
ing Action.

Mr.. snowden Ashford, the Inspector
of Buildings in addition to his many
labors in looking after the issue of per-
mits and the inspection of private build
ing operations, is busy with plans for
municipal structures and the erection
of the buildings. The last fiscal year
was a sort of banner year in the num-
Der of municipal edifices finished and
turned over to the uses for which they
were erected. There were eleven school
houses. including the large manual
training school buildings, one police
station. one engine house, and number
OF minor structures.
But while so many buildings were
completed there remains a long list II
process of construction. Plans are be-
ing drafted for others. and there VIII
be no cessation of the labor and care te
be exercised in the municipal structures
for several years to come, for the mu-
nicipality is engaged in building op-
erations greater at the present time
than ever before in its history.
Plans for the municipal hospital to be
erected on the site purchased therefor
on the Brightwood Road are being pre-
pared by a Boston architect, and the
specifications which will show the cos'
of the several buildings will be in the
hands of the Commissioners in time tt
be presented to Congress at the mex
session. TIE site for this group o.
buildings cost $4,000. and was pur'
chased nearly two years ago.
Almshouses Located.
A group of buildings are also to bt
constructed for the almshouses, the site
for which has been purchased in the
southeast part of the District beyond
the Government Hospital for the In.
sane. Plans for these structures have
not vet been drawn, but data therefor
has been accumulated by the secretary
of the Board of Charities, and the con-
sideration of plans preparatory to be-
ginning the competition for the struc.
lures needed will be taken up in the
near future.
The competition for plans for the new
municipal building, or City Hail. to bt
erected on the site known as the ole
power house square, has been started
and ii is expected that the plans fol
this building will be ready in time tc
be presented to Congress at the next
session, so that an appropriation ma!
be made
Meanwhile the Inspector has on hi!
hands heavy burden in the prepara.
tion of plans for four new eight-roou
schoolhouses, three four-room school
houses, the enlargement of the Crancl
School building, the reconstruction o
the Manual Training School building IL
Southeast Washington, and the enlarge
ment of the girls cottage at the Indus
trial Home School. Appropriations fol
all these buildings have already beel
made, and work will need to be pushed
along as rapidly as possible, as the sew,
eral structures are much needed to Civ,
relief to crowded conditions in ths
schools.
The largest schoolhouses are to b.
erected on Pierce Street, and at Twenty
Seventh and X Streets northeast, al
Twelfth and \ Streets, and at Nintl
and d Streets northeast. The plans fo
these are now undergoing revision t.
cheaper the building somewhat so a.
to bring their cost within the appropria
tions The same is true of the four