The Washington times., 1915-12-27

all the Federal Government buildings.
with which it will be linked up with
tunnels. and the District building. 1t is
probable that thousands Of dollars more
VIII be appropriated for this plant by
Congress within the next few years.
Work on the structure will be begun as
soon as the bids which will be submitted
at the office of the Supervising Archi-
tect next Wednesday morning have
Municipal Improvements for the year
call for the outlay of thousands OF
dollars and the employment OF much
labor. The new municipal fish wharves.
one OF which has already been COM
2leted, and the new fish market build
ing to be erected on Water street ada
cent to the wharves is one OF the prin-
cipal District projects. Congress has
appropriated $4,000 for the three
wharVes and S125, 900 as an initial ap-
preparation for the municipal FISH mar
ket Work on the latter building will
be started within the next two or three
months The plans for the structure
are now being drafted in the office OF
Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford.
The estimated cost Of this building s
SlS0,n0". Congress is expected to make
the appropriation Of the other S6UOn
needed to complete the structure.
On High Schools.
Otner municipal improvements under
way are the Central and colored high
schools. the eight-room addition to the
Powell School. ana the sixteen-room
school at Park View. Then there Ia
the prospect of an carly appropriation
Tor the new Eastern High School.
Money has already been appropriated
tor the acquisition OF site tor this
structure.
Completion OF the new Pennsylvania
avenue bridge and the new Q street
span over Rock Creek Park will re-
quire another months work. the ap
proaches to the structures being about
the only work yet to be done. The
contractors have promised to have
the bridges ready for the passage Of
traffic by December 10.
Work on the new Bureau OF Stan
dards building, for which an eXpendi-
ture of 100000 Is being mace. is pro-
crossing and VIII continue through
out the winter and spring. The cor
tract calls for the compl elton OF the
structure which Is to be used for the
chemistry department of the bureau.
Dy June. 1916.
Private construction alone calls for
an expenditure OF millions The
southern Railway building being erect
cd at Thirteen and half street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. will cost $780,
600. Building operations IN the Kali
Drama Heights section. not including
the prospect or ground being broken
FOR more homes, involve an outlay of
more than S2UV.OOO. There are twelve
more houses to be built on the north
side OF Irving street between Eight
eenth and Kenyon streets northwest. .
sixteen more six and elght-room
structures in Princeton Heights; if-
teen more on Twenty-eighth street
south of Cathedral avenue and scores
of others IN other sections or the city.
In the Twining City. Anacostia AMI
Congress Heights sections alone,
there are pore than thirty building
operations IN progress Chevy Chase
has more than twenty building prof.
ects under way. while Cleveland Park
has thirteen and lngleslde. fifteen.
There are seventy-hve new homes 60
ing up in the Petworth section.
Then there are the large apartment
houses in construction at Florida av-
enue and Decatur street; at Thirteenth
near quarry road; the Trusdell apart
ing avenue; the Warren apartment
house, Connecticut and Wyoming av-
enues and the large fickford apart
ment structure at Sixteenth and ]
streets northwest.
Add tC this list the assurances OF
officials of the Washington Steel and
Ordnance Company. the Washington
Navy Yard, the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing. the Government Print
ing office. and other big Government
and private corporation shops that
tr' ir present forces, If changed at all
bid fair to be increased rather than
reduced and YOU have n fair sample
of the prosperity in store for the
District OF Columbia for the remain
der OF 1915 and the new year OF 1915.