Evening star., 1925-04-12


plan to be submitted by Architect
Lynn will provide for a new auXili-
ary office building on this land al
ready owned by the Government. He
will also submit the more preten-
tious plan of taking the entire two
squares between B and G streets, and
New Jersey and Delaware avenues,
and erecting thereon an office build
ing which would be entirely ade
quate for many years TO come. This
Is the logical location and in the end
1t will be far cheaper for Congress
to acquire the entire property now.
The principal objection will be that
there are now two hotels on this
property.
gs, ,0OO, 900 Plan Favored.
Architect Lynn has estimated that
this larger improvement could be
made at a cost of s7.00o.000 to sS.000.-
900 Some prominent members of Con-
gress have expressed their support of
this larger project.
The s250o00 improvements in the
Capitol power plant, which supplies
not only the Capitol, but the Library
of Congress, the Government Printing
Office, the Washington City Post
once and the Government Hotels, was
emphatically indorsed by the House
ONCE Building Commission after a
conference on Friday with Architect
Lynn: with A. f. Cook, in direct
charge of the power plant; Prof. S. Fl.
Woodbridge, in charge of heating and
ventilation of the Capitol; o. P. Hood.
chief mechanical engineer. United
States Bureau of Mines, and j. r.
Barkley, assistant engineer, Bureau
of Mines.
VIII Save $1,000 a Week.
These plans provide for the install
Iation OF eight new stokers, to re-
place those now in operation, which
have been in use for IA years. which
the efficiency engineers say has meant
a loss to the Government of $1,000 6
week. Defects in the old plant have
been partially corrected by introduc-
tion of equipment for purifying the
water feed to the boilers. 1t is pro-
posed to install new stokers in place
of those that are obsolete for OF
the 16 boilers with the object of
raising their efficiency to 200 per cent
of normal rating. This viii require
ering of the boiler-room firing floor
and rebuilding the boiler settings.
To Protect Rare Books.
A fourth important Job that Archi-
tect Lynn is carrying forward will
increase the capacity of the Library
of Congress about 100000 books.
Contract has just been let for new
book stacks in the northeast court
of the Library. Congress appropriat-
ed $345,00 and granted Mr.. Lynn au-
thority to enter into contracts for a
total of not exceeding s745,000. These
stacks will hold 1,050,000 books of
ordinary size and $4,000 folio volumes.
provided for folios 1t will be possible
to increase the book capacity $4,000
volumes. This improvement also Sc
cures provision for safe storage of
rare books and gives space for three
special reading rooms.
Architect Lynn is also engaged on
completing the freproofng of the
Capitol building. He IS spending
about $4,000 on freproofiing the roof
over the colonnade of the south and
west wings of the House and the
north and west wings of the Senate.
The present construction is wood,
covered with copper. This will be re-
placed by concrete slabs and a. new
copper roof. This is the only remain
ing portion of the Capitol building
that has not been fireproofed.
Some $4,000 is being spent in put
ting in proper shape the Offices of the
Speaker of the House, who will be
Representative Nicholas Longworth,
and the new floor leader Representa-
tive John Q. Tilson of Connecticut
and in refurbishing committee rooms
on both the House and Senate side.
About $4,000 is being spent on con-
tinuing the work of restoring and
decorating the corridors in the first
floor at the Senate end of the Capt.
toll
Other repairs in the Capitol build
ing include: Removal of existing fan
for supplying air to the hall of the
House and installation of a new fan,
together with the rebuilding of con-
trolling rheostat: removal of some
$4,000 feet of pipe in four tempering
and heating coils for warming the
air for the House and Senate cham
bers and the committee rooms and
corridors of both wings of the Capt.
tol, and the construction of new heat
ers to be installed in their place !;
completing the work of renovating
the steam and condensate piping and
trench construction to effect distri-
button of steam at low pressure;
changing the steam piping under
Statuary Hall; warming and ventilat-
ing Coolidge Hall and the new stack
section in the Library of Congress,
and improving the ventilation of the
Senate chamber.
New Floors for Senate.
In the Senate Office Building new
concrete floors are to be laid in the
attic at cost of s15,750, and a new
revolving door is being placed in the
southwest entrance. The freight
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