Evening star., 1922-01-20
FUNDS FOR THREE
NEW D. c. SCHOOLS
CARRIED IN BILL
Appropriation Measure Which
will Be Reported Early in
Week Gives More Buildings.
TOTAL ON CONSTRUCTION
FOR SCHOOLS, $1,711,000
Provision Also Recommended for
Street Improvements and
Additional Teachers.

Provision for three new school
buildings, in addition to those on
which work already has been started,
will be carried In the District ap-
preparation bill; which will be re-
ported to the House Monday or Tues
day.
The total appropriation made for
these three new schools is $305.0OO
Other items of appropriation will pro-
vide for continuing the work on the
schools already started-two junior
high schools, the Eastern High
School and the Wheatley School. The
total for school building to be recon-
mended by the appropriations COM
mittee is $1,711 900.
A total Of s107. 900 for specific items
of-street improvement will be recon-
mended.
A substantial number Of additiona!
teachers-sufficient to provide for al!
OF the rev school facilities - will
be recommended. 1t was testihed
before the committee that there Will
be los additional rooms ready for
occupancy next fall.
Increased Number of Firemen.
An increase in the number of fire
men, but no increase in policemen. will
be carried in the bill. Appropriation
for the automatic advance of police
and firemen from one class to an
other, in accordance with the esti-
mate. has been provided. Additional
motor equipment for the fire depart
ment, to about $4,000, has
been written into the bill.
Provision will also be carried for a
bathing beach for the colored people.
The District appropriation bill as 1t
has been prepared ter the commit
tees consideration makes provision
the third high service. covering the
territory from Chevy Chase across to
the neighborhood of Walter Reed
Hospital. They are now pumping what
are called dead ends and the bill
makes provision for a complete cir
cult.
No Salary Increnses.
As has been predicted, in accord
ance with the general policy Of the
appropriations committee, the bill
provides for no salary incr6asez. 51t
does, however. carry out the recon-
mendations of the budget bureau in
reducing the salaries of three officials,
One of these is the secrstary Of the
Public Utilities Commission. from
$4,000 to $500: the superintendent of
the workhouse and reformatory, from
$4,000 to $500, and the secretary to
the minimum wage Doard, from $Z,oOO
to $2.400.
The proposed appropriation of
$4,000 for nurses home in connection
with the tuberculosis hospital was
rejected.
The proposal for S125.00o with
which to purchase land and develop
it for bone for the feeble minded
was stricken from the bill. Linked
up with this was the proposal that
the Secretary Of War should turn over
part of Camp Humphreys as a site for
this school.
The provision for s3.0O0.000 to i'm
prove the water supply of the District
by building new conduit was strick-
en- from the bill.
The District bill as prepared for the
committee carries a total Of $2O,3S1,-
$3.50, as compared with the esti-
mates sent in by the budget bureau of
$26.8S6.S66.75. The amount written
into the bill for the fiscal year 1923
is approximately s2.620.0O0 less than
for the current fiscal year.