The Washington times., 1915-12-27

all the Federal Government buildings,
with which II will be linked up with
tunnels. and the District building. II is
probable that thousands of dollars more
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
pleted, and the new fish market build
ing to he erected on Water street adJa-
cent to the wharves is one OF the prIn-
cipal District projects. Congress has
appropriated $4,000 for the three
wharves and S126OOO 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 IL
S180,O0o Congress is expected to make
the appropriation OF the other $500
needed to complete the structure.
On High Schools.
Other 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 IL
the prospect of an early appropriation
for the new Eastern High School.
Money has already been appropriated
for the acquisition OF a site for this
structure.
Completion OF the new Pennsylvania
avenue bridge and the new q street
span over Rock Creek Park will re-
ha
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 Is.
Work on the new Bureau OF Stan
dards building. for which an eXpendi-
ture of 5000. 900 is being mace. is pro-
crossing and WIN continue through
out the winter and spring. The cor
tract calls for the completion OF the
structure which Is to be used for the
chemistry department of the bureau,
Dy June. 1915.
Private construction alone calls for
an expenditure of millions. The
southern Railway building being erect
ed at Thirteen and -a-half street and
pennsylvania avenue, will cost $780,
900. Building operations in the Kali
Drama Heights section. not including
the prospect OF ground being broken
for more homes. involve an outlay of
more lHdH SEOV,OUOs mere are l"elNe
more houses to be built on the north
side OF Irving street between Eight
eenth and Kenyon streets northwest:
sixteen more six and eight-room
structures in Princeton Heights; hf-
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 lngleside, fifteen.
There are seventy-hve new homes go
ing up in the Petworth section.
Then there are the large apartment
houses in construction at Florida av-
enue and Decatur street: at Thirteenth
and Clifton streets; on Columbia road
near Quarry road; the Trusdell apart
ments ar Columbia road and Wyom-
ing avenue; the Warren apartment
house, Connecticut and Wyoming av-
enues and the large Pickford apart
streets northwest.
Add 10 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
trCir present forces, II changed at all,
bid fair to be increased rather than
reduced and you have a fair sumple
of the prosperity in store for the
District OF Columbia for the remain
der OF 1915 and the new year OF 1915.