Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-04
PAID OUT FOR RENT
About $275, 900 Annually Ex-
pended by the Government.
MORE BUILDINGS NEEDED
Growth of Business Far Exceeds the
Accommodations.
PROVISIONS OF HEPBURN BILL
Proposed Purchase Of Land South Of
the Avenue to Increase Facilities
for Public Work.


COMMITTEES In reporting the Hepburn bill.
providing for the purchase Of the land lying
between the avenue and the Mall for sites
for public buildings. has resulted in d.
recting attention to the large amount paid
out annually by the government for rented
buildings.
For the fiscal year ended June 30 last
the government expended about $275.0O0 in
rent for buildings In the District Of CO.
Iumbia. used to carry on public business.
The largest amount in rents Is expended
by the Interior Department. For the past
fiscal year the total was $64.70O. and this
will be reduced by only $500 In the pres
ent year. The civil service commission &C.
cupies a building which Is rented at an an
nual cost Of 4500. The building occupied
by the bureau of education on G street
northwest, across from the main building
Of the department, Is rented for $4,000. Por-
tons Of buildings at 1910. 1872. LEO and
in the city are rented for the geological
survey at cost Of $50. 400 year. For the
storage of models the patent office pays
$4,000 a year for two floors of the Union
building and part of the basement Of the
same building is rented for the storage of
documents from the secretarys office for
$500 a year. Two thousand five hundred
dollars year Is paid for the Citizens Ma
q,
United States pension agency.
Aside from the buildings rented for the
various substatiOns of the city post ONCE,
for which $1O.35O was paid out in the last
fiscal year, the Post Office Department
rents a number of small buildings and por-
lions of buildings in the downtown section
of the city near Pennsylvania avenue,
which brings the aggregate rent of the de-
partment to SO, 746 a year.
Department Of Agriculture.
A large number of buildings were rented
by the Department of Agriculture during
the last fiscal year, the total amount ex-
pended in this manner being $3S. 568.GO
When the new building for the department
is finished on the Mall some of these will
be abandoned. Buildings and portions of
buildings near the Mall on 14th street
southwest, 18th street southwest, B street
southwest, 18th street southwest. E street
northwest, surgeon generals ONCE. 1.OOO;
1900 F. street northwest, bureau of insular
affairs, 500; 1712 G street northwest, mill
tary secretary's Office 500; 900 and 922 E
street northwest. portion of building, =. 100.
The Navy Department spends $4,5OO for
the Mills building. corner OF pennsylvania
avenue and 18th street northwest. In which
are located a large number Of offices.
The Treasury.
The Treasury Department rented the
following buildings: Seventeen hundred and
and other purposes. 5000: 400 10th street
northwest, stables and storage rooms,
81 200; third and fourth floors and a part
Of the fifth door Of go and 922 street
northwest, for storage of documents and
records, 5000: third floor and one room on
fourth floor of The Star building for the
offices Of the hve-saving service, 5000;
fifth and sixth floors Union building. offices
for the auditor Of the Post Office Depart
ment. $14, 500; making total for this de-
partment of 10000.
A total of sI4, 100 is spent by the inter-
state commerce commission for it's offices
at 1917 street northwest and the base
ment of 1884 street northwest.
The War Department spent In rent during
the last fiscal year $1S.32O. as follows:
Seventeen hundred and twenty-nine New
York avenue. department and bureau
offices, 1920; $50 18th street northwest,
depot quartermaster's Office. $500; 1744
G street northwest. ordnance and signal
offices. $500; SO 18th street northwest,
military secretary's Office. 1850; 1914 G
street northwest and street northwest
are occupied by as many as ten different
offices of the department. The largest rent
Is paid for the Atlantic building, on F
street between 9th and 10th streets north
west. amounting to s13. 1880 yearly.
Department Of Commerce.
Office room is rented by the Department
of Commerce and Labor amounting to $751;
1880 a year. This department has no
building of its own. The amount Is divided
as follows: Willard building. at 513-515
18th street northwest. main building of the
department. $11 $50; Emery building, north
west corner Of LIST and streets north
west. for the census ONCE, $4,000: National
Safe Deposit building. corner Of New York
avenue and 18th street. In part, So $50;
Builders' Exchange building. 1921 18th
street northwest, in part, for the light
house board. steamboat inspection service
and the bureau of navigation, 81. 900; Adams
building. 1333-1335 F street northwest. in
part. bureau of statistics. $4.OS9. 80: 1137-
1139 18th street northwest, stables 81 300
The State Department paid out $500 for
stables at 1913 L street northwest and at