The Washington times., 1924-08-20
bis CONTRACTS.
FOR PAVING
TO Be LET
Million Dollar Improvements
Under Way OF to Begin in
Fall or Spring

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month. Leonard Robertson. acting
engineer Of highways, announced
today.
The $1,50O,OOO highway improve
ment program, of which nearly
million dollars comes from gasoline
tax, viii be two-thirds completed in
the fall, leaving the rest for. the
spring,
The following street improve
ments are under construction:
For paving IS street northwest,
| Thirty sixth to Thirty seventh
street, cost $500: widening Of
Thirteenth street, between r and /
streets, $50, 1000; Massachusetts, ave-
nue. southeast, Fifteenth to Six
teenth streets, $4,000; Varnum
street northwest, Fifteenth to Six.
teenth streets, $4,000; Taylor street,
west of Fourteenth street, $4,700;
Varpum street northwest, Four
teenth to Fifteenth street, 500;
Thirty-fifth place, T to U street
northwest, $500: Fifteenth street
northwest, Vaffum to Webster
street, $4700: Twenty seventh street,
X to l. street, $4,000; Georgia ave-
nue., Military road to Fern street.
SIP, 900.
Fall and Spring.
The following improvements are
planned for, the spring and fall
(all streets northwest unless other
wise designated):
! Varnum street, Second street to
Fourth street, $11, 500; Third street,
| Varnunl street to Webster street,
800; Second street, Upshur street
to Webster street, $4,000; Eighth
street, Crittenden street to Decatur
street, $500; Emerson street, Geor-
gia avenue to Ninth street, $3.50:
IFarragut street, Georgia avenue to
Eighth street, $12,7OO; Hamilton
street, Georgia avenue to Illinois
Iavenue. $500; Webster street,
lSeventh street to Illinois. avenue.
$4,000; Monroe street, Eighteenth
street to Twentieth street, $11, 800:
Ninth street, Emerson street to Far
Iragut street, 1920; Upshur street,
Second street to Fourth street,
500; Fourth street, Varnum street
to Webster street. $4,000; Quincy
street, Tenth street to Kansas ave.
nue., $1,000.
Second street northeast, Bryant
street to Claiming street, 5000;
Bryant street northeast, Lincoln
road to Fourth street, $4,000;
Princeton place, Warder place to
Georgia avenue, $4,000: Kearney
street. Eighteenth street to Twen-
tieth street, 1900; Ninth street,
Butternut street to Cedar street,
i NE 00ns rk~
street to Cedar street, $500; Otis
street, Sixth street to Park place,
$1,000; Farragut street, Georgia ave-
niue to Thirteenth street, IS. 100: Ken.
nedy street, Fifth street to Eighth
street, $4,000; Savannah street
southeast, Wheeler road to Eleventh
street; Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
streets, Savannah street to Alabama
Iavenue, 81 900; Seventeenth street
Webster street to Allison street.
l$4,S00; Ninth street, Crittenden street
to Decatur street, $1,000; Fourth
kstreet, Taylor street to Upshur
street, $4,000: Thirteenth street. ALI
son street to Iowa avenue. SIS, 600:
Jefferson street, Thirteenth street
to Fourteenth street. $11 500: Ali.
son street, Seventh street to Illinois
avenue, $4,000.
Garrison Street.
Garrison street, Belt road to Wis
consin avenue, $11,700.
Seventh street, jefferson street to
Kennedy street, $4,000: Seventh
street, Kennedy street to Longfel-
low street, $4,000: Eighth street. In.
graham street to jefferson street.
700; Ninth street, Hamilton street
to Ingraham street, $500: Kansas
avenue, Allison street to Buchanan
street, $500.
Potomac avenue, Macomb street
to Norton Place and constructing a
culvert in connection Herewith.
$12,b00; Forty-fourth street north.
east. Dix street to Grant street,
For grading Otis street noftheast.
and Perry street from Eastern ave.
nue. westward to a point about 155
feet west of Thirtieth street; Thirt
ieth street, Otis. street to Perry
street; Eastern avenue, south line
of Monroe street to a point about
eight hundred feet northwest of the
northerly line of Bunker Hill Road,
$1,000.
Sixteenth street, southeast. East
Capitol street to A street, thirty
feet wide, $4,000 Kansas avenue
thirteenth street TO Quincy street,
5000; for grading Fern street.
BAR Road to Eighth street, $2,400;
quebec Place, Tenth street to Thir.
teenth street, $1,000; Vine street,
balIimore and Ohio Railroad tt
Maple street, $4,000; Arkansas ave
nue., Georgia avenue to Emerson
street, $4,000; Twelfth street
northeast, G street to D street.
$4,000; Seventeenth street. Irving
street to Kilbourne street. $1,000:
Twelfth street northeast, Otis street
to Michigan avenue, $4,000; Fifth
street, northeast, + street to w
street, $4,000.
Northwest and southwestern
paving Fourteenth skreet, B streel
south to G street north. fifty and
seventy feet wide, $4,000: Eleventh
street southeast, Pennsylvania
avenue to the Anacostia bridge,
| $4,000; Twentieth street, II street
to Virginia avenue, $4,000; Central
avenue, Benning road to District
line, $4,000; Fifteenth street north.
east, street to E street: $4,000;
I, Fifteenth street southeast, B street
to = street, $4,000; Butternut
street, Fifth street. to Blair road.
$4,000; Forty-first street, Dayen.
port street to Livingston street,
$49, OOO;. Nichols avenue southeast,
Portland street to Fourth street,
$25, 900; Bladensburg road northeast,
end OF concrete to District line,
$50, 900.
Wisconsin avenue, Massachusetts
avenue to River road, sixty feet