Evening star., 1925-03-25
Outlines Consolidation of
Buildings and Parks Work
Under One Head.
ECONOMY IS EXPECTED
TO FOLLOW REAL IGNMENT
Step Regarded as But One Under
Presidents Plan TO Cut Gov
ernment Cost.

Reorganization and merger of the
Offices of Superintendent Of the State
War and Navy Buildings and Super
intendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds-the new office to be known
as the commission Of public build
ings and parks of the National Cap
ital-will become effective April !.
according to an announcement to-
day of Lieut.. Col. Clarence o. Sher-
rill director. This consolidation,
which is the entering wedge for
merging other Government bureaus
doing substantially the same work, is
in line with President Coolidge's eff
forts to bring about Federal economy
by putting various branches of the
Government on an efficient business
basis.
Great economies in the operation
and maintenance of public buildings
and public parks in the Capital, and
in connection with the construction
of memorials, such as the Arlington
Memorial Bridge, the Ericsson and
Titanic memorials, will result from
the consolidation, it is predicted. and
full credit for bringing about the
merger of the various bureaus of the
by those in close touch with the sit
uation. The consolidation was recon-
mended by the President and was ap-
proved by the joint committee Of Con-
gress on reorganization in the Gov
ernment departments.
New Divisions Created.
Lieut.. Col Sheriff. is to be director
of the new Office, in which have been
a h liSA cd he fol
Administrative. buildings mainte-
nance, construction and design, horti-
cultural, park maintenance, prOteC-
ton, Rock creek Park. transportation
and supply and White House main
tenance and welfare.
The personnel of the division and
section chiefs. so far as they have
been selected. were announced today
by Col Sheriff. as follows: Admins
trative division, +. w. Hoover, acting
chief; buildings maintenance division,
F. w Hoover, chief; j. r. Gill, assist
ant chief Under this division will be
the following sections: Main section,
w. E Wilson, superintendent; Po-
tomac Park section, H r. owen,
superintendent; Mall section, A. B.
Eadie. superintendent; interior sec
tion. S W. Hawkins. superintendent;
Bureau of Standards section, o. L
Britt, superintendent
The chief of the construction and
design division has not as yet been
selected, but the following section
chiefs in this division were an
nounced: Earl c.. Marsh. construction
and major alterations section; John
L. Nagel, engineering section; l. W.
Payne, landscape architecture section;
architecture section Cacancy):
George c. Clark, surveying AID draft
ing section.
other Officers Named
Charles Henlock will be chic of the
horticultural division; Fra,k T.
Gartside, chief of the park main
tenance division; Capt. w. L. Minor
ris, L. S Army, chief of the pptec-
tion division; Patrick Joyce, rhief
of the Rock Creek Park divisio; b.
C. Gardner, chief of the transpeta-
ton and supply division, and Iaj.
o. y. Solbert. U. S. Army, chieiof
the White House maintenance nd
welfare division.
The chiefs of the various divisies
will be directly under Direct
Sheriff., and the functions Of Z
divisions are outlined as follows:
Administrative divison-Disburst
ment o. funds; procurement of sup
plies: procurement assignment ant
keeping of records of personnel, eX-
Cept temporary per diem employees
not in the civil service; conducting
correspondence relative to admins
trative questions, and such miscellan-
eous correspondence as is not handled
by the divisions; bookkeeping and
accounting; cost accounting; statis-
tical data; preparation of estimates;
allotment of funds: custody of files
and receiving and dispatching mail
Duties Are Outlined,
Building maintenance divisions:
Operate and maintain and clean all
BUILDINGS and memorials under the
charge of the office. The Washing
ton Monument and Lincoln Memorial
will be operated as part of the Poto-
mac Park section. The main section
of this division will have headquar-
ters in the State, War and Navy
Building and will furnish such addi-
tfonal mechanical and other labor as
shall be called for by the chief of
the White House section for meeting
unusual conditions.
Construction and design division:
Responsible for the preparation of all
engineering (civil, mechanical and
electrically, architectural and land
scape plans and designs, and for all
construction and repairs of general
and extensive character requiring
greater number of employees for exc
cution than the maintenance force
assigned to various operating divi-
sions can handle; obtaining data for
preparation of designs, including sur
veys and maps; the drafting neces-
sary in preparing plans and designs;
preparation of all sT~s '$1ga tons for
proposed work; laying out - work
and inspection of all construction
work whether done by contract or
day labor This division also will
prepare construction estimates; make
floor plans of buildings, location
plans Of structures and pipe lines and
record drawings of all work done un-
der the, office. 1t also will be respon-
sible for the custody and keeping up
to date of all maps and plans, includ-
ing parks, reservations and buildings.
horticultural Division.