The Washington times., 1922-12-04

Streets ................ ,O66, 900
Health department.. ...... 2l7,3S5
Water department ...... 86l ,0e0
Fairgrounds ............ $4,000
The largest slice Of the estimates
goes to public schools. $6.S33.1S2.
which is about one million and a
half below the amount appropri-
ated for the present year. The
Police Department gets $1.s+s,9o0.
an increase of $4,000 over this
wear and the Fire Department ST..
413.3l3, an increase Of $4,000 over
last year The electrical depart
ment gets $4,000 more, which will
be used for improving the light
ing system here.
| The budget bureau took cogni.
zance of the condition OF the main
avenues Of Washington and urges
Congress to appropriate $730.000 to
repave Connecticut avepue. Rhode
| Island avenue northeast, Good
Hope road. Blandensburg road.
Canal road. Georgia avenue. Nichols
avenue and Massachusetts avenue.
New Teachers Asked.
In the public schools the bureau
saw the need Of new teachers and
they ask Congress to provide 1874
additional. They also ask an ap-
preparation Of S1.200.000 for new
school building projects. This in
cludes $216.000 for a site for the
Mckinley High School: 3200,0OO for
an addition to Western High School
and $4,000 for a site for a new
junior high school to be located
near Twentieth and o streets.
Provision for appointment Of
forty group principals to supervise
three or four graded schools. is
business manager Of the schools
at s3.75O a year is urged.
The budget seeks twenty-five
more policemen for Washington and
GIso an additional captain Of police
who will command the new Twelfth
precinct on Rhode Island avenue
northeast.
Twenty-six more firemen are
rsked, also one new lieutenant and
nereeant for the department. The
Eight pieces of fire apparatus will
nearly complete the motorizati tion OF
;he Fire Department. These new
motor fire trucks wilb cost about
SI2o 900.
Purchase of the site of the
Hoover Playground and also a site
for a playground at Twenty-seventh
and o streets Is requested.
No increases in salary for Dis
trict employees or officials 10 con-
tained in the budget.
Cuts Rent Board.
Seventy thousand dollars for the
erection OF a nurses home to ad.
Join the tuberculosis Hospital near
Fourteenth and Upshur street
northwest Ia sought. Erection Of
this building will result in the use
Of the hospital entirely for patients.
providing room for many additional
patients.
The Rent Commission which this
year gets 372.50o through appro.
priatiops 10 cut to 365,000.
The budget contains an appro-
priation Of $4,000 for public
library branch in Mt. Pleasant. The
estimates authorize the District
government to accept a gift OF not
less than 100000 from the Car.
nskie Corporation Of New York
with which to erect the building.
The material increase In automo-
bile traffic is noted by the budget
bureau and II recommends TO Con.
gress that 125.o0o automobile tags
be purchased for next year. This
year 100000 tags were bought.
Fifteen hundred dollars IL urged
for the surveyors office to be used
to revise the highway plan Of the
District Of Columbia.
The employment bureau on Penn.
sylvania avenue, operated under
the supervision of the District
Commissioners, is again provided
for by an appropriation OF $500.
Repair Of Streets.
For the repair of streets In the
District the budget allows $2s5.oeo,
an increase Of $ss.0oo over last
year.
In the estimates.
The total appropriation asked for
the Health Department IL $217,3 1856.
compared with $20s.540 this year.
The department asks $4,000 addi'
tional for the dairy inspection serv-
ice, also $500 to repair the con.
tagious disease ward Of the Garfield
Hospital. Five hundred dollars ad.
ditional is asked for maintenance of
the public crematory.
An lnoTe3ec Oh tSoV, OrlHkluB uS
total appropriation to 81, 900. 10 asked
for the chemical laboratory. to be
used for the upkesp Of the labora'
tory's library. Twelve hundred dol.
lars 10 sought with which to pur.
chase q new automobile for the dog
pound. A decrease Of $1,000 is asked
In the appropriate for clinical ex.
animation, advice. care and main.
tenance Of children under six years.
This work 10 done by contract with
the Child Welfare Society and this
year SIS, 900 was appropriated.
A $500 Increase for the disinfect.
ing service 10 sought.
New inspection Urged.
One new clerk. a specification
clerk at $4,000 . year, IL sought for
the purchasing division Of the local
government. Two new clerks at
81 900 and two at 81 800 a year each
are sought for the building depart.
ment. The appropriation this year
OF $40, 900 for temporary additional
inspectors for the building depart.
ment is cut to $4,000. An increase
OF 81 900 II asked for temporary en-
pioyment Of additional inspectors Of
plumbing and laborers. This year
the amount was $4,000.
In the assessors office $500 addi-
tional 10 asked for temporary clerk