Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-29

So. 900 is allowed for the purchase and
repair of tools. machinery. etc. for man.
ual training instruction.
The appropriation for playground main
tenance and repairs is increased TO $2lo
from $1,000
a thousa d-dollar automobile, and a mo-
tor delivery vehicle al 5000 is allowed.
For cabinet maker 81 900 is allowed.
the three previous items being directly In
Representative Redfield of New York in
his recent report on school administra-
ton.
Provision for Buildings.
Generous appropriations for new school
buildings are allowed. as Follows:
Complete equipment for colored normal
school, $4,000.
Construction of a four-room addition to
the Congress Heights School. $4,000
4 million two hundred thousand
dollar Central High School. to house 200
pupils. is authorized. and $3@,Oo is APP
propriated for the first year. This in
Guides the construction OF an athletic
stadium.
A hundred and fifty -thousa nd dol
lar colored high school is authorized and
$loOoUO Is appropriated for the first year.
For siX-room addition to the Birney
school, Sol LOCO; for purchase of ground
adjacent to the Petworth School, $1,000:
for ground adjacent to the Briggs School.
TO be used as Fairgrounds space. Si.0':
Tor purchase of ground for annex to the
Cook School. 49,
For the expenses Of instructing District
pupils in the Columbia Institution for the
Deaf. $li.SO is appropriated. which will
admit thirty-four pupils: and a fifty-dol-
lar increase is shown I'm the appropriation
for the tuition of colored deaf mutes.
For the instruction OF poor blind chill
dren. 81, 900, an increase of 81 600
Police and Fire Departments.
The appropriations for the metropolitan
police force show little change. although
a net reduction Of eighteen policemen is
made. under the operation of the last
law. The appropriations committee was
advised by the Commissioners that citi-
zens' associations in all sections of the
District had been asking for an increased
force. Eighteen drivers are provided for
this year. I'm place of twenty-six last
year. because of the fact that there will
be five new motor patrol wagons These
Will go in the first sixth, third. fourth.
NTH. seventh, eighth and tenth precincts.
doing double duty between some of the
station houses. The miscellaneous en-
penses Of the police department are limit
/
The fire department will get a new fire
engine at $1,000. and this will. presum-
ably. be new motor-propelled apparatus
Tor No. 16 company. at 18th and ID streets
northwest: the same company will get a
combination chemical engine and hose
wagon. motor propelled, at $1,000. Two
tractors, designed to be placed under the
front of steam fire engines and hook and
ladder trucks. will be bought with the
5000 provided. The installation of these
tractors will do with
The fire department will get storage
and repair building. to be located next to
No. engine house. $4,000. There will
be twenty-five engineers instead of twen-
ty-three. and their pay is increased from
81, $50 to S1.2oO. There will be two new
assistant engineers. and the marine en-
g1neers will draw S1200. instead OF 81. 49,
Clerk for Health Office.
A net increase OF one clerk at $1,000 is
provided for i'm the health department;
and the bill provides that at least twelve
inspectors shall be employed in the en-
forcement Of the milk and pure food laws.
The bill ratifies the action of the Com
missioners in locating a pound and stable
at South Capitol and / streets southeast,
and provides that the District shall pay
to the United States one-half the esti-
mated value. namely. 81, 100.
The clerk of the Police Court is promot-
ed from 5000 to $500. and one deputy
clerk from $500 to $1,000
The usual sum- 1913 40S. is provided for
the interest and sinking fund on the
funded debt.
For the support and transportation of
convicts, $6O,OOO, an increase of $1,000
is appropriated.
Charities and Corrections.
There are several salary changes under
the board Of charities. as follows:
Chief clerk. from $1,000 to $1.35O: ste
nographer. from 81. 200 to 81, 800: assistant
engineer in Washington asylum and jail.
from $3.50 to 5000: superintendent of nurs-
ing, from $40 to $500.
For the expense of maint aiming Jail
prisoners. including pay of guards, 50, 600
is appropriated. an increase of s. coo: and
the Jail will get $4,000 for new water
tube boilers.
Increases at the Home for the Aged
and Infirm: Superintendent, $1,2OV TO
81 $50: chief cook, 5000 to S720: chief en-
gineer. $500 to $1,000: a laundress is pro-
vided for at $40 Repairs and improve
ments to the grounds are increased from
81. 800 to $500 and So TOO is authorized
for improvements to the heating and
lighting plant
The care and maintenance Of boys at
the National Training School for Boys
The bill authorizes the erection of a barn
and warehouse. 5000.
For the care and treatment of patients
at various hospitals the following sums
are allowed: National Homeopathic Hos
pital, $500. an increase of $500: Emer-
gency Hospital, $1,000, an increase of
5000; Eastern Dispensary, S12JOO. an
increase of 81 800; Georgetown University
Hospital, 5000. an increase of 1000:
George Washington University Hospital,
$1,000, an increase of 81 600
The Tuberculosis Hospital appropriation
amounting to $J4 ,G20. includes the author
ization to erect a new building to afford
additional accommodation for inciplent
cases, and other hospital necessaries.
Child-Caring Fund.
Increases of $1,000 are granted to The
board Of childrens guardians for child
caring work. The sum Of 5000 is pro-
vided for the contract with the Washing
ton Home for Foundlings. a reduction Of
$1,000.
A change is authorized in the municipal
lodging house, where q foreman at $500 is
omitted and the superintendent is reduced
from $1,000 to 5000 and made TO act as
foreman by specific wording of the law.
An increase of $4,000 appears in the
item appropriating for the support Of the
INDECENT insane.
The correction made in the reimburse
ment required by the United States from
visions Of the sundry civil act of August
"a, 1872, is provided for in the District
appropriation bill, the sum to be paid
hac l, this Year heing S71g I?S