Evening star., 1922-07-02

The saving of at least 200. 900 gal
Ions of water day, or $37.560 year.
and a saving in salaries and wages
amounting to at least $56,516.60 per
year are among the economies to be
effected through hooking up the gov
ernment printing office and the
Washington city post office with the
Capitol power plant for light, heat
and power.
This is authorized in the third de-
ficiency appropriation bill. upon the
recommendation of Public Printer
Carter and Architect Woods of the
to rehabilitate the Capitol power
plant to carry the double load is
s271. 900. Public Printer Carter testi-
fled that it would cost $157.00 to re-
equip the government printing Of
f1cei plant to operate Independently
of the Capitol plant Architect Woods
said it would cost S135,Oo0 or $4,000
to fix up the Capitol plant even if
it was not going to serve the govern
ment printing office also.
Advantages Of Plan.
The advantages and economies that
will be obtained by the government
printing office in making the con-
nections with the Capitol power
plant are as follows:
The boiler and engine room equip
ment are now in such condition that
large expenditure of money would
be necessary to place 1t in satisfac-
tory operating condition. and even
then some of the machinery would
require constant attention and care
to keep it up to the highest eff
cheney.
1t is almost impossible to operate
any power plant without making
some smoke, and the dismantling of
the government printing. office plant
will eliminate the smoke nuisance
ticularly desirable because. Of the
close proximity of a school building.
A saving of at least 100000 gal
to the District. and at 10 cents per
thousand this will mean saving to
the District of $120 day, or S37.560
per year, based on 313 working days.
BY adding that load to the Capitol
power plant the latter will have a
throughout the day and night, and
undoubtedly will be able to reduce
the cost of current per kiloWatt hour
economy for several branches Of the
government service which are now
Supplied from the Capitol plant.
The government printing Office is
very much cramped for space and ad-
needed. The dismantling of the boiler
room plant will afford this very much
needed space.
Such a connection will result in con-
siderable economy on the pay roll of
the government printing office. The
gineer's section. including steamfit-
ters and plumbers. is $315.4S per day
Shutting down the electric generat-
ing plant and leaving the steam boiler
plant still in operation temporarily
for heating purposes the expense will
81,
is shut down and the big government
printery gets both steam and electric
current from the Capitol power plant
the expense will drop to $147.64 per
day.
tinuously including Sundays and hol-
idays, these figures can be multiplied
by 1855 to obtain the savings in year.
IT should be noted that the difference
in the number of employees working
on Sundays and holidays will be off,
set by the increased pay. allowed those
who must work on these days.
Full Service Intended.
The total savings in salaries and
wages per year will be. therefore.
ss2.5461O il electric current only Is
obtained by the government printing
office, and $5,516.69 per year If the
service includes both steam and cleo
trio current. 1t is the intention to
give the full service just as soon as
the installations and connections can
be made.
Architect Woods Of the Capitol has
also pointed out that another big saving
will be effected on coal haulage. The
item for transporting coal 70 the gov
ernment printing Office has been quite
an important one. The Capitol power
plant gets all its coal at the raHroad
sidetrack. and will save all the hauling
charge on $4,000 tons OF coal a year
There viii be still another saving on
the carriage of ashes, which amounts to
$50 a month.
Also taken into consideration was the
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