The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

Nearly Ten Millions Are Set Aside for Current
ExpenSeS---Police Force Will Be In
creased by Hundred Men.

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| For maintenance Of the two public
convenience stations. $1,000. an increase
Of $500.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT
900. w. c. Alien, electrical engineer, is
recommended for an increase from
$500 to 5000, and James c. Simpson
his assistant, from $500 to s2000.
Public School Estimates.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS-S4, I25, 600: OF this
, Sl,sS6,OOO is for new buildings and
grounds. and 8, lS9, 600 for the payment
| of teachers. officers. and all other ex-
! penses. This total appropriation is
sis 900 less than the Board Of Education
f. asked for. and 5000 more than was
appropriated for the present fiscal year.
The new buildings and sites provided
: for are: Extcntion to Mckinley Manual
/ Training School. S.. 900: a new normal
and model school on Columbia Heights,
! $500, 900; for construction Of normal and
model school for colored children.
| $3.50, coo; for the purchase Of site and
/ the erection of twelve-room building
! to relieve the Franklin anc Thompson
| Schools; 100000 for the alteration and
/ repairing of Central High School Build
! ing $4,000; for the completion of the
| Mckinley Manual Training School and
! originally planned, SIPS, 600; for the eX-
! tension Of the business High School
! building. SS0.0O0.
| Provision Is made for an eight-room
/ school building in Cleveland Park, 49,.
| 600: for renting the Franklin School for
store rooms, offices. and board rooms,
SIS. 600: for additional ground and four
I nd
/ S54. 900; for tweIve-room school in Gar
/ field. $500: for addition to Western
| High School. So. 600; for construction OF
/ a gymnasium for the NJ Street High
/ School, SIS, coo; for the erection Of an
| eight-room addition to the Johnson
School 100000; for the purchase Of lots
adjacent TO the NJ Street High School
| for playground purposes, SIS 600; for the
/ erection of a four-room addition to the
Orr School. $2S, 900; for a four-room addi-
I ton to the Chevy Chase School, $4,000
| For the purchase Of lots adjacent 70
/ the Phelps School for playground Dur-
| poses, $1,000; for the purchase and cree
( ton Of a twelve-roOm building south OF
Pennsylvania avenue and west OF
Twenty third street, $4,000; for the pur-
| chase Of ground adjacent to the Stevens
School for playground purposes, SIS, 00e;
/ for the purchase OF ground adjacent 70
/ the Peabody School for Fairgrounds
| Sl3, 900; for the purchase Of ground ad-
| jacent TO the Phillips School for play
grounds Sl6,50O; for the purchase OF
| ground adjacent TO the Fillmore School
| for Fairgrounds, $4,000; for the purchase
of ground to replace the Potomac School
| $500, and for the purchase Of ground
for school in the Ninth division. 5000.
$4,000 for Public Library.
PUBLIC LIBRARY-s7S,s6 $50, an in
| crease Of $3.50 over the present year.
| Increases IN salaries are recommended
, as follows: Librarian, from 5000 to
81, 900; assistant librarian. from $3.50 TO
81, 800; childrens librarian, from 900 TO
81, 200: librarians secretary, from $500
10 81 900; I'VE attendants from $3.50 to
| $40 each; five attendants, from $50 TO
/ $3.50 each; two messengers. from $3.50 TO
$3.50 each. and one engineer. from 500
/ to 81 zoo.
/ The following new positions are Gre
ated: Chief Of circulating department,
i 81 500; chief Of order department, $500;
chief of catalogue department. $500;
library guard, $40. For the purchase Of
new DOCKS el0sVtJ ID doAgAB III HNNoF--A5
the library open Sundays and holidays,
! s, 800. . .,,
POLICE COURT-S64.OS 6; the Commits
sioners approve the request Of the judges
for an increase of salary from 5000 to
$4,000 a year, and recommend the in
crease in salary Of the deputy clerk
from s.. 500 to s.. 800. and the employment
of seven bailiffs. at S7O0 each, instead Of
three. at 5000 each, as at present
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 800;
including the increase in the salary Of
the superintendent from 5000 TO $500
per annum. Provision is made for an
auditor for this department at $1,000,
and an additional clerk at $500. The
sum Of $24, 900 is asked for the justices
of the peace, and It is recommended that
their salaries be increased from $500
to $1,000.