The Washington times., 1922-12-22
TO S I lJDY
5 Rect
NEEDS
House subcommittee Will Con-
slider Improvements Not
Vet Allowed.

l. W. SWOWO0s
The possibility that the House
subcommittee on District appro-
priations will be more generous
than the Bureau of the Budget In
making allowances for street Inn.
provements loomed today when 1t
was learned that the subcommittee
In addition to visiting the streets
included in the budgets, will also
look at the streets provided In the
original estimates OF the District
Commissioners.
improvements to about ten
streets, all of them thoroughfares
leading from the center of the city
to the District line. were allowed
in the budget. These improve
ments will cost about $730.000.
Omits Fifty Items.
Fifty other street improvements
asked were eliminated by the Bud
get Bureau. It In understood the
House committee il anxious to see
the streets which tho bureau elimi.
mated and will make q survey OF
them. ~
The Commissioners originally
recommended appropriations Of
about $1.200,00O for street improve
ments.
The streets not included in the
budget which the committee plans
to inspect on its tour of inspection
early next week are as follows:
Streets not heretofore improved,
recommended by Commissioners for
permanent Improvement: Jefferson
street, Georgia avenue to Thirteenth
street; Ingraham street. Georgia
avenue to Thirteenth: Thirteenth
street northwest. Hamilton to JET
ferson; Eighth street northwest, Bu-
chanan to Crittenden; Ninth street
northwest. Buchanan to Crittenden:
Buchanan, Georgia avenue to
Eighth; Crittenden. Georgia avenue
to Eighth; Decatur, Georgia avenue
to Ninth: Varnum, Grant circle to
Fourth: Fourth. Varnum to Upshur;
Perry place, end Of pavement to Six
teenth; Spring road, Fourteenth to
Sixteenth; Thirteenth. Allison to
Iowa avenue; Alton place. Thirty
eighth to Thirty-ninth; Eighth.
Longfellow to Madison; Ninth. Long
fellow to Madison: Ninth. Quacken-
bos to Rittenhouse; Thirteenth,
Spring road to Shepherd; Kansas
avenue, Quincy to Shepherd: Wood
ley road, Twenty-seventh to Twenty
eighth; Seventh street, Varnum to
Webster; Gallatin, Piney Branch
road to Sixteenth; Ingraham, Eighth
to Ninth: Third street northeast,
Adams to Bryan; Shepherd street
northeast, Tenth to Twelfth; Ascot.
Second to Third; Sigsbee place north.
east, Tenth to Twelfth. and Taylor
street northeast. Tenth to Twelfth.
Grading Recommended.
Heavy grading recommended for
these streets. lexington terrace
northeast, Prospect to r; Albemarle
street northwest, Murdock Mill to
Wisconsin avenue: Forty-seventh
place. New Cut to Conduit road;
Belmont road. Massachusetts, to Con-
necticut avenue: Twenty-eighth
street southeast. r to w; Potomac
avenue northwest, Macomb to Man.
ming; Otis street northeast. Thir-
teenth to Eighteenth, and Fern
street northwest. Blair road to
Georgia avenue.
Extension Of systematic improve
ments recommended for these
streets:
9 street southeast, Fourteenth to
Fifteenth; Fifteenth northeast, b to
p; Twenty-seventh northwest, X to
l.; and Randolph, Eighth to Georgia
avenue repaving recommended.
Repaving recommended for these
streets:
Fourteenth street west, c street
north to b street south; Eleventh
street southeast, Potomac avenue to
Anacostia Bridge; d northwest, Sixth
to Seventh street; George avenue.
Florida avenue to Barry place; WIS
consin avenue northwest, south. OF
M street; Seventh street west, Penn
sylvania avenue to b street south;
Nineteenth street northwest, Penn
sylvania avenue to X; and Water
street southwest q to M street.
The only streets allowed by the
Budget Bureau for improvements
were Rhode Island avenue northeast,
Massachusetts, avenue northwest.
Georgia avenue, Bladensburg ROAD,
Nichols. avenue, Good Hope road,
Canal road, Rock Creek Church road
and Connecticut avenue.