The Washington herald., 1920-12-29
Make Personal Tour of
City With District
Commissioners.
MAY. ASK PAVING
ON SUBURB STREET
Phipps Declares Funds
Asked for by ID. C..
Are Needed.

Anacostia and the SontneasI anu
northeast. sections of the city and
cross streets reaching as far into
the northwest as Sixteenth street
were visited by the Senate Appro-
priations Subcommittee, accompa-
MED by the District Commissioners,
in the first OF two automobile tours
of inspection of streets. school cites
and Fairgrounds yesterday.
1t was found that paving is badly
needed in the suburbs where prop
erty improvements have extended
thoroughfares, and that many
streets listed in the District esti-
mates for next years needs can
hardly go another year without i'm
provement.
1t was found that many schools
urgently require additional play
space. Parxview and Ludlow schools
Were among those which offered ex-
amples of how the growing popula-
tion has driven children of vacant
lots and increased the demands of
the acquisition of ground adjacent
to buildings where they might have
room for recreation.
Tour Again Today.
Chevy Chase. Georgetown and the
whole of the northwest section will
be visited on the tour today. which
begins at 1880 o'clock, with Com
rlissioners Boardman. Hendrick and
Kutz accompanying the subcommit-
tee. Senator Curtis. of Kansas. Is
chairman of the subcommittee and
with him yesterday were Senators
Phipps, of Colorado: Hale. Of
Maine. and Jones, of washinFtcn.
Senator Jones said his observa-
tions convinced him that the streets.
schools and Fairgrounds deserve all
the money that Congress can spare
in its passage of the District ap-
propriations bill. What effect the
tour may have upon the decisions OF
the subcommittee he was unwilling
to forecast.
ct don't think that the commIs-
sioners have asked Tor any funds
that are not very badly needed"
said Senator Phipps. There Is a
limitation TO the governments ca
pacity for supplying the money.
however. and the object % the in
spection is to determine which
among all the needs covered in the
estimates are least Indispensable.
We can do Just 50 much each year.
and no more. We expect to DO the
best we can"
sIxteenth street Arteries Bad.
The streets intersecting with
Sixteenth received much attention.
and were found to be in Ill repair.
though members OF the touring
party were proud OF the condition
of Sixteenth street. and said they
found pavements generally through
out the city in a better condition
than might have been expected.
A makked Improvement in build
ing W. noted in Anacostia, and
many new houses were found along
the fringes of the northeast and
southeast sections. Handsome new
apartment buildings in the small
section of the northwest that were
seen ELECTED much admiration
The District officials hope to con-
vince the Senators of the need of
restoring to the District bill before
II is reported in the Senate the
items amounting to many thou.
sands of dollars which have been
stricken out. OF the street esti-
mates alone amounting to s2.45S,755,
only S1.3ss,720 was left when the
Diii chicTbcu iEOnl Lne HOUSE. Indt
a goodly portion of the estimates
will be restored Is the firm belief
OF the Commissioners who feel that
the Senate committee has been con-
WINGED after a week of hearings
that Washington Is too big and i'm
portant to be dismissed with so low
q sum as sts.s7s,012 for its running
expenses during the year of 1921-22.
The total appropriation asked by
the District was s25.03s,044, to take
care OF schools. streets, health
service, charities and corrections.
police and fire departments, salariet
generally and everything else.
No report Is likely to be made
to the full Senate Appropriations
Committee before next week, IL be-
came known yesterday. The tour
today win leave but little time this
week for the fnal deliberations on
fhA hD n.