Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-20
$12,75O,OOO LOAN
BILL in COUNCILS
Measure Allots Millions to
Sewer and Highway
Work
$55O,OOO WATER ITEM
Plan TO Start Work on Munic-
ipal Court Building in
Spring
$55O,OOO WATER ITEM

A bill authorizing a loan Of Sl2,I50.-
600 for public improvements was intro
,iuced into Common Council by Joseph
L. Gaffney this afternoon, and referred
to the Finance Committee.
BY this ordinance $10.275,000 of the
proposed loan will be given to the De-
partment of Public Works; $500 600 of
This will 20 to the Bureau of Surveys
for new bridges. The same bureau Will
get s1.00O,0OO for main sewers and
$2.O00.000 for branch sewers.
An item apportioning S350,O0O to the
highway bureau for completion OF the
Parkway is included in the public works
section. This bureau is also to receive
$i,00O,000 for maintaining asphalt
streets, 100000 for paving streets,
s1,00O.0O0 for repaving streets, Sl0O,Ooo
for repairing country roads. $4,000 for
grading work and Sl75, for the improve
ment of Delaware avenue.
The bureau of water will get 100000
for the improvement OF water supply
and S250,000 for extending services and
distribution mains.
The Department of Public Safety is
mentioned for several big items. The
Police Bureau is to get $4,000 for
motor apparatus $4,000 for motor
Fire Bureau a $4,000 appropriation for
erection and maintenance of police and
fire stations. The Fire Bureau is TO get
$500 900 for motOrizing apparatus and
100000 for new fireboats, If the bill
becomes effective.
The Electrical Bureau of the Public
Safety Department is down for S3j5.00O
for extensions and improvements.
The Department of Health and Chari-
ties is to be provided with $450.0OO for
the Childrens Hospital and completing
the power plant at the Philadelphia Gem
eral Hospital Three hundred thousand
dollars is to 60 for additions and i'm
provements to the Philadelphia Hospital
for Contagious Diseases.
100000 Asked for Court Building
Work on the proposed Municipal
Court Building on the Parkway proba-
bly, will be started during the coming
spring.
A bill providing for an appropriation
Of s400,O0O for preliminary construction
on the proposed structure was intro
duced this afternoon in Common Coun-
Gil and referred to the finance commit
tee
The bill was introduced at the request
OF Judge Charles L. Brown, of the
Municipal Court. The money for the
building is available through the loan
Of June. 1915. Plans for the building
have been made by John T. Windrim.
Judge Brown will let the contract as
soon as he gets authorization to spend
the money. The building will be erected
on the Parkway, between Twentieth and
Twenty-first streets.
Judge Brown also asked for a new
item of expenditure in the proposed
$12,000,000 loan. This additional
amount is to complete the court build
ing.
a resolution providing that 1918 de-
ficlency bills be paid out of 1919 appro-
priations was passed this afternoon.
The following bills will be paid To
Glen Mills Reformatory for support of
Juveniles, Sl4,541; TO the Eastern Peni-
tentiary for support of prisoners. S60,-
600, and to the Huntington Reforma-
tory, $4,000.
Park Commissioners Meet
Before the session OF Councils mem
bers of the Fairmount Park Commission
met to take up the question of changing
the name of the Northeast Boulevard
to the Roosevelt Boulevard. This propo-
sition. has the backing of many Coun-
cilmen and a number of business and
civic organizations of the city.