The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-15
PROVIDES SO
NEW TEACHERS
Devotes 100000 to Erection
Of Buildings Needed to
House Pupils.
CONTINUED from First Pase)

for the current fiscal year. Inc
Commissioners request the improve
ments of thirty-scven projects az
sregating 100000.
A new item OF $4,000 Is recon-
mended for the reconstruction OF 'ne
municipal trestles ana pins III
street northwest, between First ana
Second streets.
A paragraph Is recommends.
transferring the jurisdiction and
control OF the Highway Bridge TO
the District Commissioners.
The Appropriation for sewers 10
increased from s612,OOO TO *e"'VoV'
the principal items being tho addi-
tional amount allowed for SUBURBAN
sewers and the continuance OF inc
upper Potomac interceptor.
The appropriation for disposal OF
city refuse Is increased from s15o.Ooo
to 100000. The paragraph creoitins
proceeds from the sale or CITY relus7
to the District revenues and the Fed-
eral Treasury in equal parts 10
| changed to cover the same proper
tions as the support of the service 10
paid from such revenues anu the
United States Treasury
A paragraphis recommended giving
Sthe Commissioners authority TO en-
force collection from the street ran
way company crossing HIGHWAY
bridge of the tax OF u cent for each
passenger.
The sumssof $4,000 and $4,000, re-
1spectiyeiy, are recommended to pur-
chase sites for the Park View and
Logan Fairgrounds.
The appropriation for lighting
streets Is Increased $4,000 to provide
for necessary extensions.
FREE WITH SCHOOLS.
The most generous allowance of the
committee is recommended for inc
support of the public schools. Thcse
concentrations are increased from
s5.O1s,1GO to $6,114,s60. or by S1'o00,-
700.
The appropriation for longevity pay
of teachers Is increased from *62o,-
Ninety-eight new teachers in the
public schools are provided for, ~
follows:
seven. group b, of class 6. at $4,000
leach; thirty, group A, of class o. a.
s1,400 EACH, twenty, class 4, at Sl'zoo
each; twenty, class 9, at $l,2Co each
sixteen, class 9, at $1,000 each, ana
five, class /, at 81 200 each. Inc total
increase is $181,S00.
The estimate OF $4,000 for the pay
ment OF annuities of teachers is omit
ted and the unexpended balance oil
preyious appropriations for annuities,
aggrcgating $4,000. are reappropri-
ated. p .-
-Four additional janitors are pro-
vided and an additional 1anltor at
S72O lis provided for the new school
between Eighteenth and Twehtieth
streets and Monroe and Newton
streets northwest.
$4,000 MORE.
rAnair nf
school buildings is increased from
5000. 600 to $225, 900, and S38. AGO is rec
commended for the equipment OF ad-
ditions to the Petworth. Deanwood,
BurrviIle. West and Takoma schools
and for the new building at Twentieth
and Newton streets northeast and
equipment of the Phelps school.
paragraph is recommended
authorizing the Board of Education
10 designate the months when the
ten salary payments shall be made
10 teachers engaged in nature study
and school gardens. The sum OF
$1,000 each Is recommended for the
equipment Of the Junior high schools.
The appropriation for school build
ings IL increased from $39b'OoO to
81 o43.OOO. or by SS4S.O00. Tho items
provided for are as follows:
Eastern High School (continuance),
100000.
EHght-room addition, Petworth
school (complction), $4,000.
Eight-room addition, Deanwood
school ,(completion), 100000.
Eight-room addition, Burrvine
school (completion), S12S,000.
Eight-room addition. J. n. West
school tcompletion), 100000.
Eight-room addition, Takoma School
(compleuon). $4,000.
Twosys-room addition, Wheatley
school 20 cost s250,O00. for commence
ing, $4,000.
tion), $4,000.
Four-room addition. Henry d.
Cook school tcomplction), $4,000.
site for new building In vicinity
Of Mott School, $4,000.
sTREEr IMPROVEMENTS.
street improvements totaling $21s,-
600 are provided, as Follows:
Northwest--For paving 1npraham
.,.reet. east OF Fourteenth street,
Thirty feet wide, $500.
MISUNDERSTANDING Eleventh street,
n street north Maryland avenue,
thirty-two feet wide, S1o,soo.
So,,theast-For paving sixteenth
treat. @ street to Kentucky avenue,
thirty feet wide, $4,000.
southcast-For paving Kentucky
avenue, Fifteenth street. TO sN'co"'n
street, forty feet wide, $4,000.
Northwest-For grading Thirteenth
street, Buchanan street to Shepherd
street $4,000.
Northwest--For paving Upshur
,treet. New Hampshire avenue TO
T'ourth street. forty-nvo Feet WIDE.
Northwest--For paving Webster
.troet. sixteenth street to Seventeenth
erect thirty feet wide, S10.soo.
NorthwesN-ror paving Upshur
street. Rock Creek Church road TO
second street. forty-hvo rect wide'
$4,000.
Northwest - For paving Yuma
street. Thirty-elghth street 10 Thirty
ninth street, thirty feet wide, s1o,-
500. ,,
Northwest-For paving Varnum
.,reet. Second street 70 Rock Greek
church road, thirty feet vide $500.