Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-02

tanning eighteen already established play
grounds. 400; for wagon and driver,
$1.40O, and the following new items:
Construction of Schoolhouses.
For construction of normal school
building on lots IS and 1O6 Of Parker 4
Pulsifer subdivision of Columbia Heights.
100000. and the total cost of the building
under contract which is hereby author
lied therefor shall not exceed $500
For retitting Franklin School building for
storerooms, offices and bOardrooms So
coo. For alteration and repair of Central
High School building and equipment. $N,-
O00. Equipment of Business High School
addition. $4,000. Purchase of ground
adjacent to Fillmore School. approximate
ly 5000 square feet. $4,000 For con-
struction of further extension of Nc
Kinley Manual Training School. $4,000.
For purchase of lots adjacent to Petworth
School, approximately S,715 square feet.
$4,000
/ Police Department.
Metropolitan police: New item for clerk
and assistant property clerk. $1,000; 80
instead of 81 privates of class 3 at 81, 200;
81 instead of SO privates of class at
81 800 each: 142 instead of IS of class
at $500; six telephone operators raised
| to 500; new provision that any private
| who served for period of five years prior
to June s. 1906. shall be included in class
3: new item for purchase of site for sub
station in ninth precinct. $1,000: new pro
| vision allowing War Departments ODD
equipment to be used by local police; new
item for new cells, etc, in first. fourth
and sixth precinct station house. $lo.Uo;
new item for motor patrol wagon, $1,000.
| House of detention: Increases are made
for matrons and clerks, amounting in all
to 5000 more than House bill. and the
| following new provision: ITO aid in the
support of the national bureau of crimi-
nal identification, to be expended under
the direction Of the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia: Provided, That the
several departments of the general gov
| eminent may be entitled to like informa-
ton from time to time as is accorded the
police departments of various municipali-
ties privileged to membership therein
5000
| Habor patrol: Two firemen at 5000
each, instead Of one at $3.50: Waterman
raised to $40, and deck hand raised to
| $540
/ Fire Department.
Fire department: Additional messenger
at 5000, and additional hostler at depart
ment stable, S72O: for repairs and new
motor vehicles, $4,000, instead Of $l2,-
GOO; for forage, $4,000, instead of $4,000,
and other small increases; for house. site
and furniture for engine company No. ,.
| lowing new items:
| For house. site and furniture for an en-
CINE company, to be located in the north
| west section of the city, in the vicinity
| bounded by II and / streets and 18th ana
18th streets. including cost of necessary
| instruments for receiving alarms and con-
Meeting said house with fire alarm head
| For house, Site and furniture for a
truck company, to be located In the
northeast section of the city. in the vi
cinity Of 18th and H streets northeast, IN
GLIDING cost of necessary instruments FOR
| receiving alarms and connecting said
house with fire alarm headquarters,
$4,000.
Health Department.
Health department.: The salary of the
health officer is increased to $4,000 and
new item for assistant health officer, 81
500; and other increases, including $50,
600 instead of $4,000 for enforcement of
health laws, are added; item for travelling
expenses of inspectors is stricken out and
| the following new provision is inserted:
| For allOtments to the health officer
and assistant health officer. medical in
| spectOr in charge of contagious disease
| service, and inspectors assigned to the in
spectfon of dairy farms. for the mainte-
! nance of horse and vehicle. or motor We
hicle, for use in the discharge OF his ON
| cial duties, not to exceed $50 per an
1
penses. including horse hire incident to
| the inspection of dairy farms, 5000. or SO
much thereof as may be necessary.
For the maintenance of an additional
pound wagon. including compensati for
personal services when ordered in writing
by the Commissioners and necessary for
the maintenance OF said wagon and all
other extra expenses whatsoever connect
ed Herewith, $1,000. or SO much Thereon
as may be necessary.
Juvenile Court: New item for deputy
marshal at $1,000.
Police Court: Seven instead of three
baliffs at $500 each
Reformatory and Workhouse Sites.
The new provision for sites for re-
formatory and workhouse is as follows:
The Commissioners of the District of
Columbia are. hereby authorized and
directed to purchase two tracts of land.
widely separated of not less than 1000
acres each. either or both OF which TO
be situated in the state of Maryland, or
in the state OF Virginia: one of said
tracts shall be used as a site for the con-
struction and erection of reformatory
Of sufficient capacity to accommodate at
least 1000 prisoners, and the other for
the construction and erection of work
house of sufficient capacity to accommo-
date at least 500 prisoners and to build
necessary temporary structures on each
tract.
The said Commissioners are hereby alI-
thorized and directed to appoint a COM
mission to consist of three persons. one
of said Commissioners shall be chairman
which commission shall employ an archi-
tect skilled in the construction of such
buildings to prepare all plans. specifica-
tons and estimates deemed necessary or
, required by said commission, and which
shall first be approved before acceptance
by the Commissioners of the District Of
Columbia, who are hereby required to
construct said refOrmatory and work
! house; and on their direction the prs-
> oners at the time confined in any exist
ing wOrkhouse of said District shall. clear
and prepare any or all such tracts of
land for building. and assist in the con-
struction of any Or all of said buildings:
and the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia and the Attorney General and
the warden of the Jail of said District
are hereby authorized and directed. on
the request of the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, to require male
} prisoners at the time serving sentence
in said Jail to do the said work.
, For the purchase or condemnation OF
said sites, work of preparing same for
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