Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-07

| ii may be connected with the water
| side drive now under construction in Poto-
| mac Park. To accomplish the work out
| lined above will require the sum OF $4,000.
and the appropriation of that amount is re-
| spectfully urged.
"Ar estimate of $16O.OA0 is submitted for
! the construction of a riverside drive i'll Po-
| tomac Park The Potomac river has never
been accessible IN pleasant way to the
| people of the city, and this proposed drive
| Is intended to make 1t so. 1t will be readily
| reached from the foot of 18th street or 26th
street and will furnish new, beautiful
| and unique feature to the CITY drives. The
appropriation of the amount requested is
earnestly recommended.
| THE sum of s25.G00 is asked for construct
| ing central heating plant for the propa-
eating gardens. The necessity FOR this must
| be apparent when 1t is considered that
| there are at the gardens thirty green
houses which are heated by twenty separate
and distinct heating plants. consisting each
OF furnaces and boilers and each requiring
| to be attended to- fed apd cared for sepa-
rately. The care of. these separate plants
requires much more labor than single GEN.
| trail plant doing the same work would and
the consumption of fuel is very considerably
| greater. In all private nurseries and collec-
| tons of greenhouses similar To these prope-
eating gardens a central heating plant is
| used because of it's greater economy and
efficiency. For the reasons given the APP
| preparation Of the sum requested Is earnest
| ly recommended. 1t is also necessary that
| these gardens should be severed and drain
| ed, and an estimate of s2..TUo for the purpose
| is submitted and recommended.
IAN estimate OF 50 0tD IL submitted for the
| care and maintenance of. the conservatory
| and greenhouses of the Executive Mansion
| (White Housed. which IL the amount asked
! for the fiscal year ending June a. 1874, but
| for which Congress granted but $1,000. The
| last-namcd amount Is rot sufficient to pro-
vide the force OF gardeners, fremen and
| laborers necessary for the proper care of
| the Executive Mansion white Housed
greenhouses which have been regretted at
the propagating gardens and for the pur-
chase of supplies, tools, plants and seeds,
| and it is recommended that the increase of
50 ESQ be granted.
THE few green houses of those formerly
connected with the Executive Mansion
white House, which it was possible to re-
erect at the propagating gardens are not
of sufficient capacity to do the work re-
quired of them, but in their re-erection the
best was done with the funds available.
| They should be increased by the erection
of at least two additional houses, and an
estimate of $1,000 for the purpose is sub
mitted and recommended One of these
houses is required to give winter shelter TO
the expensive bay trees which during the
| summer adorn the terraces and porticoes of
the Executive Mansion white House).
An estimate of 100000 is submitted and
| recommended for building stable for the
use of the President, the executive Office
and the Office of public buildings and
grounds. The stables at present in use ara
inadequate and in nowise corresponding to
or commensurate with the splendid residence
Of the President or his stable needs, or the
variety and Importance Of the bus ness OF
the executive Office and the Office of public
buildings and grounds, which are all ac-
commodated together. The present stable
is low brick structure built many years
ago, and so near the ground as to be damp
and unhealthy for horses. In connection
with 1t is an old wooden stable which is
needed to Increase the capacity to the re-
quired amount. They are situated on the
Presidents Park directly south of the
State Department, on plot of ground which
will undoubtedly in the near future be Sc
lected as the site OF q monument to one OF
the nations great men, A proper and ade-
quate stable should be built on new site