The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
BUILDING SUPERB NEW STRUCTURES Vast Sum is Being Spent in
 Washington S54,0OO,OOO ON BUILDINGS Corner Stone of Senate Building Laid Capitol Hill Group is to be
 Most Costly in the
 World.
S54,0OO,OOO ON BUILDINGS
Special to the Baltimore Sun.

Special to the Baltimore Sun.
 Washington.-The cornerstone of the magnificent new senate office building was lald last Monday. Three months ago April 2S-the cornerstone of the House office building, which Is a sister struc- ture in marble was laid with Masonic ceremonies in the presence of President Roosevelt, who, on that occasion made his "muek-rake" speech
 The contrast between the two cere- monies will be marked There will be no ostentation about the laying of the cornerstone of the Senate building. There will probably be no Masonic ceremonies and no speeches The stone will simply be set in position at the northeast corner of the building over metallic chest. which will contain documents that are to be preserved for posterlty. The laying of this cornerstone will serve to bring to the frBlt. the fact that con- siderable progress Is being made upon l both the Senate and the House office buildings under the superntendenee of MT Elliott Woods the capable and active superintendent of the capitol. $5o,ooo, ,ooo In New Buildings. More than $50 100000 is now being spent upon buildings and bridges of a public character In and arouond Washington. and | when work already undertaken has been 1 completed, Washington will be without l peer as a city of architectural beauty. In addition to the projects amounting to more than $5000O,O00 now decided upon and under way. Improvements costing an ad- 1 ditonal s20,O00,0OO are projected. These l Improvements cover a wide stretch of ter rltory extending from the Soldiers home i on the north to the arsenal peninsula on ] the south. and from Rock Creek gorge on the west to the marshes of the Eastern brancn.
 1 When the Senate and House office build 1 ings are completed the plaza east of the capitol will be almost surrounded on it's ] four sides by one of the most magnificent ! groups of public structures in the world i built of granite and marble. The north { and south sides of this plaza will be | bounded respectively by the Senate and House office buildings which together are to cost $7O0O0o0. The west will be i bounded by the imposing structure of the i capitol, the eastern front of which Is to | be extended in marble at a cost of s1, ,23o, i O00 The eastern side will be partially ! bounded by the Library of Congress build 1 ing, which has cost the government s6,- ] 920,o0o. The other blocks of ground east of the capitol plaza and just north of the i Library of Congress will ultimately be occupied by a splendid structure for the | supreme court of the United States.
 The capitol and it's proposed extension i the Senate and House office buildings and 1 the Library of Congress will represent an expenditure by the government of $S2, ,S21,- S49, and this will make these structures the most costly marble frame in the world l for so small a rectangle of foliage and ! grasss
 Not far from this sp1endi series of build l ings will be the new Union railroad depot which will front the plaza from Delaware avenue on the north. at a cost of $l2,00o,- 0Oo, with its approaches, making the five structures in this vicinity cost upward of $45, ,0000 000
 The improvements under way have in- volved the throwing of two model steel bridges arcoss the Potomac river another across the Eastern branch, the boring of a large railroad tunnel under Copitol Hill to give five trains direct approach to the new station from the trunk lines of the south the bridging of Rock creek with the Largest single cement structure in the world the construction of tunnel to con- meet the tunnel with the new Senate and House office buildings, the erection of a war college for the army, extensive inn provements at the navy yard and the Soldiers Home and the erection of | number of important university struc- i tures
 Some of the Big Projects.
 The projects authorized during the last
 
 completed. others well in hand and few of them about to be undertaken, in volvng an expenditure of $54. 245,0O0 are as follows
 NewIinlon Station and It's termi-
 nals .. .. ........................$ .$l2,OOO,OOO
 building. . :. ......... 4,5Oo.Ooo House of Representatives office
 building -. .. ................. 35OoOoo Senate office building ...-...... S.5o0'o0o | New National Museum bulding.. 3,500,0o0 New filtration plant . ........ s,50o.00O Fostoffice Department annex 2,oOO,0OO New municipal building .......... 2'5Oo,0oo Sewage disposal pumping plant. 1000 GOO New Hall of Records .............. 2,400,000 Army School for Engineers 1,160'0N New highway bridge across Poto-
 mac ........ .......,,-...... 1'2eOOoO Central Power plant for Capitol
 Library of Congress and Sen
 ate and House office bldgs .... 1,5O0o00 United States Soldiers Home
 group of structures 1,43o,o00 New Connecticut avenue bridge. 100000 Nayy-yard gun shop buildings. 1,145,0d0 Army War college .....-...... 7OOoD Elimination of grade crossings... 45oOOO Anaeostia bridge ......-..... S75O0O College of the Immaculate Con-
 cention ..... so00oo New Freedmen's hospital ~ 3o0O GOO Miscellaneous minor government
 buildings .. .. ..........,--..... 2oo,Opo Naval hospital and medical school 220000 New Business High school ........ 175.o00 Trinity College for Girls eXten- 160,000 Cathedral School for choir boys. 10000 Home for the Aged and Infirm. 12o0O Industrial Home for Colored Chil-
 dren .................... 100000 Daughters of the American Revo-
 luton hall :. ............... o,ooO Bureau of Engraving and Print
 ing, extensions .. :. ........ 2a0Oo1 New police court building 75.00O To complete Bureau of Engraving
 and Printing extensions 65,o0O Four new public school buildings 60000 Pinery Branch bridge :. 5e,000
 Total . . ....................s51, s51, ,245. GOO
 Planned for the Future.
 In addition to these undertakings there are proposed projects, some of which will be undertaken without a