Evening star., 1924-12-02

total OF $2.510,238 is recommended
| in the budget transmitted to Congress
| today. This provides for paving. re-
paving. grading and otherwise improv-
ing streets. avenues. suburban roads
and suburban streets, specifically men
| toned, and includes the maintenance of
| motor vehicles used in this work.
In view Of the fact that after Congress
had provided in the District appropria-
| ton act for the current fiscal year for
increasing the width and paving the
roadway Of Thirteenth street, between
# and / streets, to width of so feet
and the District Commissioners. at the
solicitation of merchants along. that
street, allowed the work to be done to
| width OF only 70 feet with the under
| standing that II Congress disapproved
the interested merchants would have
| the width increased to 80 feet at their
own expense, specific provision is made
in the budget approving the width Of
| 10 feet as it now stands.
List OF Improvements.
| The street Improvements. which are
in the northwest except where other
wise stated, specifically provided for are
as follows:
| For paving Klingle street, Tunlaw
road to Forty-ffth street, 80 feet wide,
$l3.42o
|
klingle street to Lowell street, 80 feet
wide. $500.
For paving Lowell street, Forty fourth
street to Forty fifth street, 30 feet wide,
$500.
For paving Ordway street, Thirty
fourth street to Thirty-fifth street, 90
feet wide. $500.
For paving Eighth street, Florida
avenue to Barry place, 80 feet wide.
$2I,75o.
For paving Forty-second street, Fes-
feet wide. $3.50.
! For paving Rodman street. Reno road
to Thirty-f1fth street, so feet wide,
$500.
For paving Ninth street. Decatur
street to Emerson street, 80 feet wide,
| 81, 900.
For paving Delafield street. Georgia
avenue to Ninth street, 80 feet wide,
$500.
For paving Emerson street, Ninth
street to Illinois avenue. so feet wide,
| Sc, 500
| Southeast-For paving Shannon place.
L TO w; and L street, Nichols avenue
to Shannon place. 80 feet wide. $500.
| Northeast-For paving kearney street,
Twenty second to Rhode Island avenue,
80 feet wide. 5000.
| NOElnedsl-FO OF paving IIiNiodo ave
nue., Florida avenue TO Neal street, 80
feet wide. $4,000.
| Northeast-For paving Monroe street,
Twentieth street to Twenty-second
street 30 feet wide, $3.50.
Northeast - For paving Claiming
street. Lincoln road to Fourth street, 80
feet wide, $1,000.
| Northeast-For paving Third street,
Bryant street to Douglass street 80 feet
wide, $4,000.
Southeast-For paving Esther place,
feet wide, $4,000.
For paving Decatur street, Georgia
avenue to Kansas avenue, 30 feet wide,
s1s.7oO.
For paving Buchanan street, Eighth
street to Kansas avenue, 80 feet wide,
$4,000.
For paving east side Sherman Circle.
Crittenden street to Illinois avenue ~
feet wide. $1,000.
| For paving Illinois avenue, Allison
street to Buchanan street, 40 feet wide,
$3.50.
For paving Crittenden street, Sher-
man Circle to Fifth street, 80 feet wide,
$500.
For paving sth street. Hamilton street
to Ingraham street, 80 feeet wide, $500.
For paving Seventh street, Hamilton
street to Jefferson street, 80 feet VIDE,
1900.
For paving Kansas avenue. Buchanan
street to Sherman Circle, so feet wide
with l0-foot center parking; west side
Sherman Circle, Kansas avenue to Hi
nois avenue, 40 feet wide; and Illinois
avenue, Sherman Circle to Emerson
street, 40 feet wide, s24,5oo.
For paving r street. Thirty-seventh
street to Thirty eighth street, 80 feet
wide, $500.
For paving street, Thirty-seventh
to Thirty eighth, 80 feet wide. *o'Soo.
For paving T street. Thirty-seventh
to Thirty-eighth street, 80 feet wide,
5000.
For paving Woodley road, Twenty
eighth street to Twenty ninth street
and Twenty-nint street, Woodley road
to Cathedral avenue, so feet wide,
$4,000.
For paving Thirty-third place, Ma
comb street to Woodley road, 80 feet
wide. $3.50.
For paving Cathedral avenue, Cleve-
land avenue to Thtrty-fourtn street. gu
feet wide, A,40o.
For paving Crittenden street. Eighth
street to Sherman Circle, 80 feet wide,
$4,000.
Northeast For paving Twentieth
street, Lawrence street to Monroe
street, 80 feet wide, $500.
Northeast-For paving Second street,
1 Charming to Cromwell Terance, 80 feet
wide, $1,000.
Southeastern paving V street.
Nichols avenue to Fourteenth street, 80
feet wide, $40, 600.
Northeast-For grading Evarts street,
Fourth street to Central avenue, S4.4oo.
| Cost to Abutters.
Provision is made that in the
F., widening and repaving of these road
| ways, 40 per cent Of the entire costs
in each case shall be assessed against
owners of abutting property.
The following roadways in the
otherwise stated, are to be covered
with asphalt and curbing and gut
ters provided where necessary under
the fund received from gasoline tax:
! Thirtieth street, Q street to r
| street, $1,000.
| Cathedral avenue. Connecticut ave-
nue. to Twenty-ninth street, $4,000.
| Southwest--Seventh street, from G
street to Water street. $1,000.
| Nineteenth street from Pennsyl-
vania avenue to r street, $4,000.
Twenty first street, Pennsylvania
avenue to K street, $4,000. Q
Northeast-Rhode Island avenue.
Lincoln road to Fourth street, $4,000.
| Fifteenth street, Euclid street to
| Irving street, $10,500.
| Ontario road, Columbia road to end
| of pavement south of Euclid street,
$500.
! Seventeenth street, Columbia road
to Euclid street, $500.
| Northeast-V street, Lincoln road
| to Rhode Island avenue, $2,6oo.
| Buchanan street, Fourteenth street
| to Sixteenth street, $500.
| Allison street, Seventh street to
| Georgia avenue, $7,700.