Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30


recommends an appropriation OF $4,000 for
the construction Of new District sand
wharf on the river front at Georgia avenue
and y street southeast In the same gen
eral class OF District needs. as the property
clerk sees It, Il the purchase by the local
government OF q sufficient amount Of land
adjacent to the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road for the purpose of establishing prop
erty yard. In this connection Maj Simns
"At present the District is occupying part
public space and part private property un-
der rental at Sd and Parker streets north
east 1t IL understood that this ground VIII
have to be vacated within one year at
most, and for this and various reasons. In
Guiding the question of freight rates and
the question of convenient delivery. It Is
essential that a property yard be maintain
ed on the line OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad as well as on the Pennsylvania
railroad. 1t is believed that sufficient pub
lie space Will be available for the contin-
uance of property yard on the Pennsyl-
vania line adjacent to the present location
at "a and streets southeast This latter
question. however. should receive the con-
sideratfon OF the Commissioners and proper
provision made for necessary railroad sid
ings which will not conflict with the plans
for the new terminal system"
Scheme Elaborated.
Following out suggestion made by Com
missioner West a short time ago. concern
ing the maintenance by the school board Of
store room from which numerous small
acquisitions could be filed, the District
property clerk recommends the expansion
Of this system to other institutions under
control of the Commissioners in the follow
ing language:
1T seems advisable to secure additional
store room, IL possible, in addition to that
In use at the Franklin School, in order that
the board Of education may carry on hand
q SUFFICIENT supply of stationery and equip
ment to fill small requisitons of non-perish-
able supplies required from time to time
by the various school buildings, and which
could De hHed from said store room instead
OF necess1tattng SO many small purchases
from time to time as at present, and the
approval of SO many acquisitions by the
commissioners. It would seem advisable
also. to have the police department. fire
department, Washington Asylum and other
large departments and institutions of the
District purchase non-perishable supplies
In larger quantities than at present, and
store them. in order that supplies may be
available at all times. and the number of
requisitions, orders and vouchers may be
reduced. 1t is believed that If contractors
bidding on the District supplies cou.a bid
upon basis of delivery of goods to GER
tain central points in large quantities in
seead OF delivering small quantities of
goods at various times and at. various
places. that the result would be that the
District would secure better prices than
previously"
&APPAACoO4S Elise WueT0.
The practice of the engineer department.
which has been in operation for a number
OF years, OF maintaining store yards and
having each department set aside money by
general requisition. is susceptible of oper-
alton In other departments. The reuuisitfon
is forwarded to the property clerk for the
purhcase of their general supplies for con-
struction work for the fiscal year, and
whereby the property clerk is enabled, as
soon as contracts are awarded for such ma
terials, to place orders, covering the SUD-
pies or such material to be delivered dur
ing the year, and fix the monthly rate of
deliveries thereby having continuous sup
ply OF materials coming in, to be issued to
the various departments called for in
suring better and more prompt deliveries
II the necessary store rooms are provided 1t
Is believed vast improvement could be
issue of supplies 1t would seem advisable
10 nave storage room for each department
sufficient to keep at least three months sup
ply Of standard articles on hand at all
point of delivery for supplies for each de-
partment uniformity In the methods of in
spection of supplies could be observed such
as does not at present exist
Summary Of Expenditures.
In connection with his detailed report
Maj. Simms submitted the following sum-
mary of expenditures for each department
and Of the years business:
Engineer department. $3.50 ,5O91s; other
departments. s601 ,928.71. Total, 81 ,392,-
1850. acquisitions received during the
fiscal year. 9.426; number OF orders issued
21,919; number of vouchers certified and
passed, 1921.
As was exclusively stated in The Star
three weeks ago. Maj Simms has resigned
from the position OF property clerk to ac-
cept an important post with the Capital
Traction Company. His retirement from
the District service takes effect on Octo-
Der Is.
Beside recommending several minor in
creases in salaries in the Office and calling
attention to the advantage to be had by
consolidating all bookkeeping pertaining to
appropriation accounts, Maj Simms con-
cludes his report with the following series
Of statements:
Statement No. l-Amount of material
purchased for issue from the property
yards, $26S. S29.
Statement No. 2-Miscellaneous purchases
OF supplies, $82,981.
Statement No. 3-List of employees other
than those on the per annum rolls, the
amounts paid each and the appropriations
from which they were paid, 500, 1921.
Statement No. EAmOunt expended for
supplies for the departments other than the
engineer department and the salaries paid
the per diem employees, $601, 1925.
Statement No. 5-Expenditures of the Of
fee of the property clerk for supplies pur-
chased for the use Of the engineer depart
ment. $3.50. 500.
Wants Water and Sewers.