The Washington times., 1911-02-06
ANNOUNCE DISTRICT
DECADE EXPE ENSES
Sum of $50, 14O,41e.76 Is
Spent for Public I'M
provements.

Just as $5O,140 419.76 was spent in the
| nscal years 1901 and 1910, inclusive for
/ public buildings parks, streets, avenues,
\ and boulevards in the District of Co.
dumbia, out of a total amount of $52,-
! 725, ,253.S7 appropriated for these pur-
poses.
These figures are made up from the
| official records Of the Treasury Depart
ment, and have just been completed. OF
this amount there was expended in
buildings and permanent improvements
S3i,S4S. .267.s1, and the balance was d.
vided, H,19S, ,6SS.93 for parks and $l4-
O93, 1922 for streets, avenues, and boule-
wards.
AS these figures are not included In
those given out by the building inspec-
tor of the District for private building,
they are particularly significant in ap-
praising the amounts expended In the
upbuilding of the District In the last
decade.
The legislative department of the Gov
ernment led all the rest in the amount
or money expended in buildings for its
use. Upon this department, includinG
the Capitol, Senate, and House Office
Dullolngs' Government Printing Office,
e,a Gen tnere was expended a total of
Buildings for the District government
came next, with total of $7,S37, ,465. go
diplded as follows: Municipal building
SZ,oS4'l5I.I6; public schools, $3,604, ,645. I5;
police and fire departments, $5g7, 10. s.; /;
hospitals and asylums, $685., SO 70; mis-
cellaneous, $l5S, ,317.57.
Upon the Navy Department was ex-
pended Pc the next highest amount. $4,2l4.-
g.
navy Yard gun plant, Marine Barracks,
pital.
The other amounts are as follows:
war Department, including Army
Medical Museum, Engineer School,
Army War College and Army General
Hospital, $2,047, ,G7S.l0.
Interior Department, including depart
ment building; Government Hospital for
the Insane, Columbia Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb, Freedman HospitaI
and Howard University, 81, ,75, ,0lsS2
Treasury Department, including de-
partment building; Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. Hygienic Laboratory, Pub
lie Health and Marine Hospital Service.
and Custom House, 81, ,423, ,669 10
Department of Agriculture including
department building and Weather Bu-
reau building, $l,71,713.0
The White House saw it's reconstruc-
ton in the last decade. Under the ad =
ministration of President Roosevelt the
new wing and Executive Offices were
added to the ancient structure. The to-
tai cost of improvements to the White
House in the ten years amounted to
$629, ,141
The Department of Commerce and La
Dor had charged to it an expenditure
of s56i.2H.1S for a laboratory, Bureau of
Standards and Lighthouse Depot.
The Department of Justice cost the
United States $69S. rs for its building.
new court house, Court of Claims, and
the National Training School for Boys.
The expenditure OF over S14, ,OO0, zoe upon
streets, covered extensions and perma-
nent improvements, elimination of grade
crossings. and terminal improvements.
w. T. Largent has sold. through
attic brick house. 1855 Otis place north
west, to Mrs. r. G. Pierce for 800,
who will hold the property as an in
VeStment. 1t is a nine-room, modern
dwelling, constructed about two years
ago.
Woodward & Lothrop are consider
ing the erection of three one-story
stores upon the property owned by the
company on the north side OF G street
between the buildings numbered 1915
and 1225. No definite plans have yet
been made.
The Evangelical Lutheran Congrega-
ton of the Epiphany has purchased a
lot on New Hampshire avenue over
looking Sixteenth beyond U street, and
will erect this spring a chapel to cos.
about 5000. The lot has frontage of
fifty feet, but an adjoining frontage of
twenty-five feet is being negotiated for.