Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-05
Grand totals. .s61e, 669, ss2.21 $614,54s,9 SO
Commissioners Estimates Cut.

able to indicate the several items of the es-
Inmates of the government of the District
of Columbia in which changes should be
made, disapproves of the total amount sub
mitted by the Commissioners, and recon-
mends a reduction in them Of 81 49,, 500 60,
to bring the total to the estimated reve-
nues."
The total amount of the original estimates
is So, 558, 1885, and the amount recon-
mended by the Secretary of the Treasury
for appropriation is $11 ,O62, $40. The amount
of the appropriation made last fiscal year
for the current year was $1O,SlS,134. The
Commissioners in October estimated the
revenues for the next fiscal year at SIC, 56O,-
600, or $5O2 go less than Secretary Shaw's
figure.
Public Grounds Around the City.
The estimates include the following new
items for the improvement of buildings and
grounds in and around Washington: Mac
adam walk around White House ellipse,
5000; roadway in Smithsonian grounds
from 7th to 10Th streets, 5000; children's
play grounds, 5000; completing improve
ments of the grounds of Mount Vernon
Square around new Public Library build
ing, $4,000; utilizing for purposes of
nursery the unimproved portions of POto-
mac Park between causeway Of Pennsyl-
vania railroad bridge, the tidal reservoir
and the Potomac river, and for general inn
provement of grounds, $4,000; macadam
tidal reservoir in Potomac Park from ter
minus Of 18th street to Potomac river en-
trance to reservoir, $85. 600; preliminary
plans for construction Of power house for
ment and buildings in vicinity, 5000; for
eliminating system of roadways in grounds
south of White House. $500; for removing
cables from roof OF the treasury building
and placing them underground 81 200; for
constructing 242 feet Of the sea wall Of the
Potomac river, $500.
For the Navy Yard.
The estimates submitted by the secre-
tary Of the Treasury for the Washington
navy yard include: For extension of the
electric power plant building, $4,000; loco
motive and crane house, 10000; fire and
telephone station building. $4,000; fire pro-
lection system. 5000; railroad system,
$4,000; underground conduit system, $1O-
600; dredging, 5000; one platform scale,
LEO: paving, $1,000; heating system.
s. 600; water system, $4,000: steel timber
shed, 10000; muster house, $500; f1reproof
model storage building, $4,000, an aggre-
gate Of about 100000. The appropriation
for the yard last year was 1916, 9O6
For the naval gun factory at Washing
ton: Improved machinery for existing
shops. 100000; new machinery for pro-
posed sighting shop. $4,000; for boilers,
machinery for new locomotive house, $12-
600; for reserve torpedoes and appliances.
$4,000: additional building and grading
for hygienic laboratory, 5.O00 for the con-
and amusement room for the Marine Corps
near the Washington navy yard, $25 600 is
recommended.
For Local Buildings.
For an electric light plant to suppIv illu-
minating power for the Interior Depart
ment, the patent office, the old post Office
building and the pension building, $4,000
is asked: for special repairs to the Court
of Claims, $1,000: for an addition to the
Columbia Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb, $4,000.
Among the miscellaneous new appronria.
tons recommended are the following:
National Museum.
Purchase Of specimens for National
Museum, 10000; Sunday and night OPEN
ings, National Museum, $11.616.
Additional tract of land for National
Geological Park, 10000.
Salary Of inspector of furniture and fur
nishings in government buildings in Wash
ington, 81, 1000
Improvements in Arlington national ceme
terry, $4,000; memorial amphitheater in
Arlington cemetery, 5000.
Additional for fish culture stations, $50, 600.
War Department.
The following new items are included
under the War Department estimates:
For the purchase and manufacture and
test of ammunition for seacoast cannon in
the insular POSSESSIONS. 10000
For the repair deep sea military cables,
500 600.
asked for cler4 a u messengers in the
various bureausIO OF Vie War Department.
These appropriations, however, are desired.
in order that the clerks now employed in
the various bureaus but attached to other
bureaus may be transferred from the tenn
porary to the permanent rolls
Navy Department.
Under the Navy Department new appro-
priations are asked for a number of mis-
cellaneous items including the following:
For the purchase Of wireless telegram
apparatus. $4,000,
For all freight charges pertaining to the
Navy Department, except the freight on
coal, 100000.
For equipping government navy yards for
the construction Of vessels, 100000.
For machinery plant at Portsmouth
IN. HI yard. 100000; at Brooklyn, $50 600:
at Pensacola, $3.50
Naval observatory, 5000 for expenses of
observing total eclipse of the sun on August
20, 1905. Salary OF one assistant astrono-
mer, 81 600; salary of one assistant in de-
partment of nautical Instruments 81 600
1t is also recommended that the salaries
of the chief clerks of the various bureaus
of the Navy Department be increased from
&, $50 to $500.
Interior Department.
Under the Interior Department 81 900 is
recommended for additional compensation
to the assistant secretary: 500 additional
to the clerk in charge of documents; addi-
tional to seven chiefs of division, $3.50 each.