Evening star., 1922-12-10
Some Ready to Fight for
added $25O,OOO En-.
gineer Sought.
OPPOSE Any LET-UP
BEFORE COMPLETION
Extending of Mains to Be
Supported That All
May Be Served.

Leading members Of the House,
friends of the National Capital Dis
trict legislative committee and on the
subcommittee on District budget of
the appropriations committee give
assurances that the work Of provid-
ing the National Capital with a safe
and adequate water supply will be
continued with sufficient funds until
the entire project Is completed There
will be no lapse next year. or any
year. until the entire work as recon-
mended in the report of Maj. NJ. e.
Tyler and adopted as continuing
project last year as been entirely
completed. they say.
In fact, although Maj. Tyler. In
revised report submitted yesterday
in conformity with provision in the
appropriation bill last June. has now
cut his estimate by approximately
they do not see where it will be
possible to make-any reduction, and
that whatever is required to do
thorough job will be appropriated:
Representative Robert Is. Evans of
Nebraska. who, as a member of the
subcommittee on District appropria-
tions last year. led the fight in the
House for the new conduit. thinks
that with the increasing cost OF fuel,
steel and other materials. it will be
less than approximately $10.00o.000.
He thinks the job ought to be done
right while Congress is about 1t.
He expects to have personal con-
ference with Mai. Tyler this week
and to go over with him the entire
project. Representative Evans VIII
take strong personal interest in
this work this year. and feels certain
that Congress will not hesitate to
make the appropriation Of $1.500,o00
recommended by the budget bureau
for continuing the work. He is par
ticularly anxious to have the new
conduit put in operation at the ear
liest possible date, So that extensive
and much needed repairs can be made
on the existing conduit. which Maj.
Tyler's revised report shows is now
SO constantly busy that it is impossi-
bic to make any repairs until an aux
iliary conduit has been completed.
For Increased Facilities.
Representative Fred y. Zihlman of
the House District committee is look
ing forward to increased reservoir
and filtration facilities and the ex-
'ension OF the water, delivery system
through mains He hopes to see the
pending measure for protection of
shed soon enacted into law and the
District mains extended out into
suburban territory. Representative
Zihlman says:
Nov that there is no question about
the completion of the conduit for an
additional water supply for the Dis
-rict of Columbia at as early a date
rs the contractors are able to finish
.he project, the attention of those in
crested in the future development of
the Capital will be centered on in
creased reservoir and filtration plant
facilities. and the extension of the
system to the environs OF the capital.
II am advised that many of the
mains in the downtown section of
the city will need replacing and these
projects should receive the attention
of the citizens of the District and of
Congress until such time as the i'm
proved system Will be everything that
we have right to expect in the
capital city.
II am hopeful that action will he
taken on the joint resolution which
has passed the Senate. and which is
now on the calendar of the House.
providing for a survey of the banks
and adjacent lands to Great Falls
for park system, taking in the Con-
duit road. which will carry the two
conduits from Great Falls to George
town.
This work should be done now and
Conduit road widened, and this Won
derfu; natural parkway preserved
and beautified for the citizens of the
entire nation.
Final Accomplishments.
"When these plans have been fully
carried out the present splendid sys-
TEN will be substantially what the
people of Washington have been hop
ing and laboring to accomplish for
many years. The District is to be
congratulated on the painstaking
care with which Congress has ap-
preached this entire subject matter.
and on the completion in the near
future of splendidly balanced wa
ter and filtration system, each eco
nomically constructed and wonderfully
efficient, which will furnish a pure