Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-03-01
|M|RED RESIDENTS
| WOULD GET RELIEF
| |NPERM|T SYSTEM
Amendment to District Ap-
preparation Bill Provides
$4,000 for Streets.
OWNERS WOULD PAY HALF
TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS
Fund Encourages Good Roads in
Front of New Houses Without
Any DELAYS.

Any Delays.
Lifting of some of the people of the
newly developed sections of the city
out of the mire which The Star man
found them enduring on his inspec-
tions of the city is provided for in an
amendment inserted in the District
appropriation bill by the Senate COM
mittee on appropriations. This amend
ment provides general fund of $780,
600 for the Commissioners for paving
roadways under the permit system.
This provision, if passed by the Sem
ate and approved by the House when
the bill goes to conference. will fill a
great need which has BEEN pointed
out by the District authorities and
many citizens. IN the past few years
the Commissioners have been helpless
to provide relief in the way Of an i'm
proved roadway in front of houses
built on newly opened streets. 1t Is
the lack of such Il fund in the past
feW years which has brought about
the serious conditions in the newly
day.
Cost $1,000 a Block.
The Commissioners can use such a
fund in providing good roads in front
of new houses upon application of
the owners. who must pay half, and
1t will not be necessary to await for
Congress to provide specifically for
the Improvement. 1t will cost ap-
proximately $1,000 a block to put a
solid roadway in front of new build.
ing projects, it was estimated at the
District building, and the fund pro-
vided by the Senate committee would
allow for improvement of ten blocks
year. This. it was explained, will
help materially in providing relief.
Such a provision was contained in
appropriation bills some years ago, it
was explained. but at that time there
was provision that block had to
be IS per cent improved. The SEN
ate amendment does not provide such
a restriction. 1t was pointed out that
such an appropriation would be real
economy. because If it Is necessary
significant expenditures in temporary
surfacing are largely wasted, with
quite unsatisfactory results. Under
such fund. 1t was asserted, such
roadways will no longer be the only
major public appurtenance to a hous-
ing project that the District is unable
to supply for lack of available funds.
Increased by Senate Committee.
The Senate committee increased the
appropriations for specific street I'm
provements more than 100 per cent
over that provided by the House of
Representatives. The House provided
only S113.600. which the Senate COM
mittee raised to $27s,500, an increase
Of s164,900.
Five projects which the House re-
jected were inserted by the Senate
committee. and the latter added one
project which was cut out in the bu-
reau of the budget. This was the pro-
vision for paving 2Sth street north
Cathedral avenue, a street which The
Star man found almost impossible,
and. according to the residents Of this
street. the nightly scene Of many
automobiles stalled. The Commits
sioners asked $16,S00 for this i'm
provement. and the Senate in putting
it in the bill provided for an appro-
priation of $4,000.
The Commissioners presented an es-
innate of S5S,SO0 for the paving of the
west side of Connecticut avenue from
Chappell road north to Chevy Chase Cir
Gle, but it was rejected by the House.
The Senate committee amendment pro-
vides $4,000 for paving this piece of
roadway, but providing only from In
gomar street to Chevy Chase Circle
This side of Connecticut avenue Is mar
row and badly cut up, the present road
way being of worn macadam.
Estimate Restored.
The Senate committee also put back in
the bill the estimate, rejected by the
House, Of $4,000 for paving East Cap
itol street from 18th to 1sta streets, the
main approach to the new Eastern High
School and now having a roadway of
soft, sticky mud, difficult to negotiate
after heavy rains.
Paving Of Rhode Island avenue
from 18th to 10th streets at a cost
of $45,000 was provided by the Sem
ate committee. The House rejected
this provision. The roadway at this
point is seriously cut up, full Of
ruts and dangerous for travellers on
this highway, which is a feeder to
Maryland.
The bill as reported to the Senate
also naQ inserted Dy the committee
an appropriation of $1,000 for paw
ing Michigan avenue. 18th to Upshur
streets. Brookland, now>a roadway Of
badly cut up and worn macadam and
narrow. The House rejected this
provision also.
Paving of Randolph street from
18th to 14th streets. at a cost of
$4,000, was provided by the SEN
ate committee, after the House had
rejected it. This street was found
by The Star man to have roadbed
of cinders and clay, soft and miry, as
we'll as dangerous in wet weather.
1t would provide, If improved, a good
roadway from 14th street for resi-
dents of 18th street northwest, the
latter street being in the same con-
dition as Randolph street. Residents
there informed The Star man bf ye-
hicles and people being stalled while
attempting to negotiate these streets.
SENATOR ALBERTINI BETTER,
PARIS. March Senator Luigi
Albertini, one of the Italian dele
gates to the Washington conference
who suffered an attack of rheumatic