The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-04
S926,235 SLASH
IN D. c. ITEMS !
IS MADE
Schools, Salaries, and Sewers
Suffer Most Streets
Literally Dealt With.
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In the matter of street and road
Improvement and repair, the COM
mittee was more generous in it's rec
concentrations than in the other i'm
portant items of the bill. An appro-
priation of $2,113,200 is carried In
the bill, which is $4,000 more than
the estimates submitted by the Blu.
reau of the Budget and $7O9 500
more than the appropriation for
1928
The report states that it is need
less to dwell upon the conditions of
the streets both in the city proper
and in the outlying areas. The
growth of the city, it says, and the
increasing amount and weight of the
vvehicular traffic are contributory to
a condition compelling larger appro.
priations.
The report says:
With respect to- the growing size
of commercial vehicles, SO Injurious
to the roadways, the Commissioners
are now engaged in study of the
subject with the view to promul.
eating rules which will lessen their
destructiveness. The fact is. com
merciaI trucks should be required
to pay larger license Zee. The
weight of such vehicles operating
In the District is restricted to Is
gross tons, but the license fee is
based on the horsepower (39 stat.
1922. Hence, a commercial truck
of the largest size may have a
horsepower rating which would re-
quire the payment OF license fee
no larger than required of the light
est passenger vehicle. This is q
matter the committee believes that
might we'll be looked into. The
maximum fee now charged for the
licensing and. registration Of any
motor vehicle in the District OF
Columbia is S1O..
Street Repairing Listed.
The following street improve.
nents are set forth in the bill:
For paving, repaving, grading and
otherwise improving streets, ave-
nues, suburban roads and suburban
streets, respectively, including the
maintenance Of motor vehicles used
in this work, as follows:
For paving Rhode Island avenue
northeast, Sixteenth street to Dis
trict line, fifty-six feet wide, 500, 900.
For paving west side of Connect
cut avenue, Ingomar street to. Chevy
Chase circle, sixty feet wide, $45, 900.
For paving Connecticut avenue,
Porter street to Tilden street, sixty
feet wide, $17, 900.
For paving Connecticut avenue,
Van Ness street northward, sixty
feet wide, $4,000.
For paving Georgia avenue mill.
tary road to Dahlia street, sixty feet
wide, $4,000.
For paving Bladensburg road from
end Of asphalt northward, sixty feet
wide, $4,000.
For paving Nichols avenue, south
entrance Of st. Elizabeth's Hospital
grounds to Portland street, forty feet
and fifty-six feet wide, $4,000.
For paving Canal road, Aqueduct
bridge to Foxall road, thirty feet
wide, $4,000.
For paving Good Hope road, Min
nesota avenue to Alabama avenue,
twenty-four feet wide, $4,000.
For paving Alton place, Thirty
eighth street to Thirty-ninth street,
$4,000.
For paving WOodIey road, Twenty
seventh street to Twenty eighth
street, $780,.
For paving Perry place northwest,
end Of pavement to Sixteenth street,
$4,000.
For paving Spring road, Four
teenth to. Sixteenth streets, $40 800.
For paving Thirteenth street,
Spring road to, Shepherd street
$18 $780,.
For paving Shepherd street west
Of Fourteenth street, $1,000.
For paving Thirteenth street, Ham
ilton street to Jefferson street,
81, 800.
For paving Ingraham street,
Georgia avenue to Thirteenth street,
81 800.
For paving Jefferson street, Geor-
gia avenue to Thirteenth street,
$4,000. .....
For paving Ingraham street,
Eighth street to Ninth street,
For paving Crittenden street,
Georgia avenue to Eighth street,
IS, 1900.
For paving Ninth street, Bucha-
nan street to Crittenden street,
$500.
For paving Buchanan street,
Georgia avenue to Eighth street,
IS, 900. .,..
For paving Eighth street, Blu.
chanan street to Crittenden street,
$4,000. e.
For paving Seventh street, Var
mum street to Webster street,
81 800.
For paving Varnum street. Grant
Circle to Fourth street, $500.
For paving Fourth street, Var
mum street to Upshur street, $4,000.
For paving Ascot street, Second
street to Third street, $4,000.
For paving Third street, Adams
street to Bryant street, $4,000.
For paving Taylor street, Tenth
street to Twelfth street, $4,000.
For paving Sigsbee place, Tenth
street to Twelfth street, $4,000.
For paving Shepherd street,
Tenth street to Twelfth street,
81 900.
1885, 400 for Police.
For the Police Department the
bill carries an appropriation OF
81 $50, 400, which is $4,000 less than
the estimates of the Bureau of the
Budget and $8,786.36 less than the
appropriation for 1923. The COM
mittee follows the recommendations
Of the Budget Bureau in the mat
ter Of salaries for the department.
An additional captain is provided
for, five additional privates allow
ed and provision made for two ad.
ditionaI driver-privates and an adj
ditional janitor. These additions, the
report says, are required for the
new station being erected on Rhode
Island avenue northeast, near Sew