The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05
Senate Committee Adds
Item for Municipal
Building.
SALARIES FOR TEACHERS
Money for Fairgrounds, and
Police and Fire Depart
mentS.

terday afternoon shortly before adjourn |
ment. It contains many important ad-
ditions to the form in which it passed
the House
Most important of all the changes is |
the insertion, in the paragraph relating
to the Municipal Building, Of the
authorization increasing the limit
of cost of construction from 81.
oe0. 600 to s., 500 coo. This increase was
finally granted on the representations
made to the subcommittee that the cost
of the foundations was in excess of the
amount allotted to that part of the work
and that the expense of granite for the
outer walls would carry the total cost
of the building beyond the $1,000, 600 limit.
Large Improvements.
Several large public improvements
have been accorded attention. Note
worthy among them are:
Increa sing limit of cost of bridge over
Anacostia river. from $250,000 to 1915, 900,
in conformity with the War Depart
ment's plan for proposed changes in
the channel of the Anacostia river.
Construction and improvement of
country roads, So. 755. Piney branch
bridge. construction, $4,000. Four-and-
a-haf street fntercepung sewer. SIC go.
Grading lowering and improving Bunk
er Hill road crossing. $4,000. in conjunc-
ton with elimination of grade crossings
and building of bridge at this point at
expense or Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Main entrance of highway bridge across
the Potomac $1,000. Harbor and river
front survey, $500. Work streets
and avenues, $500.
Money for Schools.
One of the matters OF greatest public
interest is the increase Of salaries OF
public school teachers. The two lowest
grades of teachers, with salaries of $500
and S525. in which grades there are now
SO and 145 teachers, respectively, will be
abolished, if the committees recommen-
dations are accepted, making $3.50 the
lowest salary to be paid hereafter.
The total increase recommended In the
appropriation for schools is $l4S. 1885, dt-
vided as follows:
For school buildings, $61, 433; salaries
for officers, $780, for teachers, $34, IT'S;
for kindergarten teachers, $1,000; for re-
pairs to school buildings. $500; for re-
pairs and changes in plumbing in school
buildings, So, 900; for fuel. s.. 600: for fur
niture and equipment Of new school
buildings. $15, 500; for free public lee
lures, 81, $50; for text books and sup
plies, 81 600.
The bill as now before the Senate pro-
vides for the following increases in the
staff OF teachers:
Eight additional teachers, at S1,100
each One hundred and twenty-nine in
stead of 121 teachers at $1,000 each, %
instead of 81. at $3.50 each, "a instead of
IS, at 5000 each, 81 instead of %, at 1873.
q instead of 16, at $780, IS instead Of TO-
at $500, IS instead of IS, at $50, "A in
stead OF 4, at S675. 50 instead of ., at
s575, 20S instead Of 139, at $3.50. Tor one
assistant director of kindersartens for
the tenth. eleventh, twelfth and thir-
teenth school districts, $1,000.
Money for Fairgrounds.
An appropriation for the granting OF
which there has been a great demand
has been met in the item: Fairgrounds,
equipment. and maintenance, $1,000. This
the subcommittee inserted after the
House had cut out the entire reference.
At District Building.
Increases affecting the District head
quarters are as follows:
Executive Office, s. JOG; personal tax
hoard, $3.50: Coroners office. $1lo5;
rnarketmasters, s120; engineers office,
$40: street sweeping office, 81, 600; depart
lnent of insurance. s., 600. Public Library.
$3.50; postage on official mail matter
$1,000; purchase Of Latimer plats and
field notes, s, 800; assessment and per-
nit work. sl3, 900; electrical department
sI2120.
For the purchase OF thirty additional
fire alarm boxes and necessary poles
etc, s., 40. for the installation of sepa-
rate telephone communication for the
Fire Department 81. 600. It is provided
that hereafter the iuuminative power
of gas furnished by any gas lighting
company in the District shall be twenty
two csudle-poweT. The District Com
missicners are also authorized TO super
wise the collection of garbage and the
disposal Of refuse. If they find il can
be done at less cost than proposed by
the lowest responsible bidder.
Fire and Police
The increase recommended by the Sen
ate for the Fire Department Is S45, $50:
for the Metropolitan police, $780, for
the House of Detention, 81, O00; Militia of
the District. $1,000; Water Department,
$3.50; Hart farm school, 49, GO: writs of
Iunacy, expenses, 1900; court house en-
pioyes, S., 90; support OF prisoners, S4,-
0oJ; board Of charities, $50: Washington
Asylum, Sc. 425; Columbia Hospital for
Women, repairs, $2,G00; National Homeo-
pathic Hospital building. SIS. 66S. 81; Cen
traI Dispensary and Emergency Hos
pital, S15, 600; Eastern Dispensary, 81. 900;
wonnen's clinic 81. 600; Washington Home
for Incurables, $4,000; Board of Chill
dren's Guardians, $1,000.
In regard to the appropriations for the
Central and Casualty Emergency Hos
pitaIs the Senate committee ignored the
action of the House Appropriations Com
aittec which took from the TWO insti-
tutions their total Of 81. 90. and gave to
the Board of Charities $1,000 to be ex-
pended IN paying any hospitals for the
emergency cases treated by them.
The Senate committee gave to the
Central Emergency Hospital the $4,000,
as il had last year, and to the Casualty
the $500 it had last year. The effect
of this action was to increase the House
appropriations for these purposes by ST.