Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-04
ASK MILLION DOLLARS
FOR NAVAL ACADEMY
Estimates Of Appropriations Sub
mitted 10 Congress
PLAN TO spend $l5,OOO,OOO
Both The Navy And Army Proving
Stations To Be Located Within
MARYLAND

One million dollars is asked for
maintenance and improvements of the
Naval Academy during the fiscal aca-
demic year, according 10 estimates
submitted to Congress at its opening
session yesterday This sum is $685.
600 more than what was asked OF
Congress year ago.
Estimates of appropriations trans
mitted through Secretary Of the
Treasury McAdoo, revealed plans of
the War and Navy Departments to ex-
pend approximately $15,00O.00O in the
development of their scheme to make
the Chesapeake Bay and its leading
tributaries a great naval and military
base. About Sill 100000 of this fund
is for expenditure around Norfolk and
The lower bay, and $4,000 600 around
Baltimore and in the upper bay sec
tons
In Maryland the plans of the War
and Navy Departments involve the inn
mediate expenditure of $1.000.000 for
the establishment of great war-sup-
plies and ordnance storage ware
houses on Curtis Bay; the spending of
81 900 900 in developing the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds in Hartford County,
$l50O00 of which is TO be used for
expenses OF officers stationed there or
living in Baltimore and $850.000 for
maintenance and other expenses; the
using OF 100000 in pushing the So
foot channel in Curtis Bay and Spring
Gardens branch of the Patapsco river;
the expenditure of $1.160,000 for en-
larging the Indian Head Proving
Grounds and the erection of new
buildings at the naval powder factory
at Indian Head, and $176,775 for the
purchase of the quarantine station
and equipment, so that the Federal
Government may have complete con-
troll of the quarantine service in the
Chesapeake Bay.
The War Departments plans in the
lower section of the bay call for the
expenditure of $3.500,000 for the en-
larging of the Norfolk Navy Yard. the
construction of new buildings and
other work so that the largest battle
ships can be built there. The sum of
SO 500 900 is wanted to further develop
and maintain the naval base and
training station which has been To-
Gated on the site of the old James
town Exposition. Approximately ST.
$4,000 is asked for the dredging of a
40-foot channel from the navy yard
through the Norfolk harbor to the sea.
This channel will be 1000 feet wide
in some places and will be one Of the
deepest harhors in the United States
More than $5,0O0,OOO is wanted for the
construction of an ammunition ship
ping and storage warehouse system in
Norfolk
The estimates also revealed the fact
thu the Federal Government intends
to have its leading naval proving
ground in Maryland as well as its
leading army proving ground The
81 ,0000 900 asked for the purchase OF
more land at Indian Head will give the
Navy Department proving ground
almost as large as the one in Hartford
County. The navy has complained for
years that the proving ground at In
dian Head was too small for emer-
gency, needs. The estimates also show
that approximately $4,000 100000 of
ordnance will be tested at the Aber-
deem proving ground.
Maryland and Virginia waterways
did not fare well in the Army En-
gineers estimates. Only $4,000 was
asked for maintaining the channels
oil number of small harbors and es-
tuaries along the Chesapeake Bay in
Maryland. These same waterways
generally are given about $4,000.
The James river from Richmond to
the sea. the Rappahannock river from
Fredericksburg to the bay and a num-
Der Of other Virginia waterways were
cast aside entirely
Funds for work on new postofIice
bulldogs in Maryland, which already
have been started, were asked for as
follows:
Maryland-To complete the Sails
bury postoffice, $1S,50O; to complete
the Cambridge postoffice, $64,50O