The Washington times., 1920-11-26
ENG|NEERASKS
VAST D. C. SUM.
Seeks $l,4l1,790 From Con.
gress to Be Spent in Capital
During Fiscal Year.
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drawn from other parks "where their
services are sorely needed"
The appropriation of $ls,540 asked
Tor salaries would increase the salary
OF the superintendent OF public build
lngs and grounds from $4,000 to $4,-
zoo.
The report announces that a de-
sign for the memorial for John Erics-
son, inventor of the Monitor, has
been accepted. II will be erected at
once at cost OF $4,000.
During the past year the report
says, 253.674 persons assembled TO the
top OF the Washington Monument or
these zoe, 504 made their ascent In the
elevator and 53.l70 walked up the
stairway.
Expenditures on the monument to
date total S1,6os.333,6o.
FIVE MILLION IN MONUMENT.
Between October Q. 1888. the date
when the monument was opened to
the public and the present time,
cended to the top OF the shaft An
appropriation of sl5.s2O is asked for
the care of the monument Turing the
fiscal year.
During the last fiscal year sixty
parcels of land were acquired by the
Government at cost Of $446.903.36
in connection with the parkway
project between Potomac Park, the
Geological Park. and Rock Creek
Park. A mo limit" appropriation Of
S250,0 900 was made for this purpose
last year. To date. 1872 parcels OF
land have been acquired.
During the past year the Engineer
Department maintained for outdoor
sports twelve baseball diamonds.
twenty-eight tennis courts and pro-
vided for golf cricket, polo, volley
ball, croquet, hockey, and soccer ball.
Park police made 1,S20 arrests dur
ing the year; fines aggregating 1861
were collected and $l0,253 collateral
was forfeited. They also sent sixty
two sick and injured persons to the
hospitals, four sick persons to their
homes; took thirty children to their
parents for correction and sent five
dead persons to the morgue.
Willow Tree Park, between Thru
and Four-and-a-half, and B and c
streets southwest was acquired dur
ing the year at an expense of $4,000
1t Is being used for playground pr
poses.
An appropriation Of $1,000 Is asked
for continuing the operation of the
ferry to East Potomac Park. Total
number Of passengers carried during
the past fiscal year was 11,1S9 OF
which 1886 were paying passengers.
The non-paying passengers were en-
ployes of the park and children under
five years of age.
IMPROVING GOLF COURSE.
Work is progressing on grading in
the area west Of the nine hole golf
course which will ultimately be in
creased to eighteen holes. An ap-
preparation of $4,000 has already
been made for this project.
Among the improvements planned
for Meridian Hill Park during the
next fiscal year are: Planting ad-
ditional hedge, constructing ad-
ditional walks on upper level. con-
structing Euclid and Fifteenth street
walls, and preparations of planting
beds on the Fifteenth street side.
At the end of the last fiscal year
the Meridian Hill Park project was %
per cent completed.
There are at present 40 park res
ervations in the District, with a total
area of 2,I4I acres. During the fiscal
year thirteen small park spaces were
added.
An additional appropriation of
$1S2,0OO is asked for maintenance of
the Washington Aqueduct during the
next fiscal year.
No recommendation is made in con-
nection with the proposed Great Falls
project. This undertaking would
provide electric power and increase
the water supply of the District Of
Columbia.
During the past year the engineer
department installed water meters on
most of the Government buildings in
the District at cost of $945S.94.
After n sufficient test, Congress is
expected to enact legislation requir-
ing Federal buildings to pay for
water consumed. Because the Gov
eminent paid the original cost OF APP
proximately S15,O0o,OO0 for the Dis.
trict water system, no charge has
been assessed.
Work on the Key bridge at George
town is 1895 per cent completed
says the engineer report. An appro-
priation OF S45O.OOO will be required
in addition to funds already appro-
priated for the construction OF the
bridge. The setimated cost OF the
bridge completed Is 81 100. 900. Ap-
propriatio to. date total s., 800, 900
The old Acaueduct bridge which the
Key bridge will replace has been in
service since 1868 and Is now regard
ed as d. ngcrous and unsafe.
An appropriation OF 100000 Is ask
cd lot IuTtntT improvements Oh ana
costa river and flats.
URGE STRONG NAVAL BASES.
So long as our important naval
stations are adequately defended against
any probable naval attack. no foreign
enemy will venture landing in
strength on the soil OF the United States
according to Major General Beach, in
the first section OF his annual report.
at is an accepted fact" said Gem
sral Beach, "that our shores can never
he invaded in force unless our own
navy Ii either destroyed or effectively
blockaded within our coast line. Tho
arst essential OF n successful defense
requires. as never before, that our
important naval stations shall be
Adequately defended against probable
naval attack
so long as our great naval bases,
such as Narragansett Bay. tho Chesa-
neake, Guantanamo, the Panama
, sanai and San Francisco, are made
.fo AGAINST probable attack and so