Evening star., 1925-12-09

! ing items includes a request for au
thority TO widen and pave Eleventh
street from Pennsylva MIA to New
| York avenue and Connecticut avenue
/ from Is to Eighteenth street. The
| list also calls for the resurfacing of
a number of streets that are important
! traffic arteries.
| Maj Daniel J. Donovan. District
| budget officer. explained that the
| Budget Bureau was asked to take
! about one-third of the street paving
money out of the regular budget and
! transmit ii to Congress an urgent
! supplemental project for this fiscal
year because it was anticipated that
/ the new District appropriation bill
may not pass untn June.
Last yea. Maj Donovan said
/ the District bill passed early in the
session and Congress agreed to make
the street paving funds Immediately
available. which enabled the engineer
! department to launch its work in the
Spring. This made it possible for the
! highway division TO get nearly all of
! the paving work authorized by the
/ last Congress done before the present
bad weather set in.
Money Available i'm Spring
Since this is to be long session,
! however. we anticipated that the Dis
trict bill probably would not pass in
time to do any paving work in the
! Sr"inc. so we requested that sub
Stantial part of the highway funds
. pe treated as A supplemental item.
{ If granted by Congress and placed in
4 deficiency bill for the fiscal year
/ 1926. this $500. 900 will he available to
the highway department early in the
Spring. as was the case in 1925. The
following of this course will make
POSSIBLE an efficient and economical
harding of the paving work TO be
done next year.
These supplemental highway items
are divided between the street i'm
prcvtment appropriation payable
from general taxation and the gaso-
line tax fund. The list follows:
Street improvements.
Pavinc TO he appropriated for un-
der street improvements"
ln.ra ham street. Seventh to Eighth
So .JGr.
Center street. Meridian to Ogden
( streets. "a 700.
Decatur street, Sixteenth to Seven
teenth. $500.
Decatur street Kansas avenue to
Fifth street. $500
Eighth street, Decatur to Emerson
street. So 500.
T street. Lincoln road 10 Second
street northeast. s1o,60o.
Neal street. West Virginia TO Trini
dad avenue. $4,000.
D.; ties street. Montelio to Trinidad
avenue. $1,000
Trinidad avenue, Neal to Queen
street. 1000.
Grading projects under the appro
rriation street improvements
Alhemarle street. Murdock Mill
road I" Wisconsin avenue. Sc 500
Cathedral avenue. Conduit road to
Weaver place. $500
Abe marie street. Massachusetts ave
nue I" Murdock Mill road. s2.SOo.
Garfield street. Tunlaw road 10
Forty-fourth street. $500
Dix street northeast Forty fourth TO
Forty'ninth street. 81 400
Evaris street northeast. Third to
Fourth northeast. $4,000
Twenty-ninth street Woodley road
TO Calvert street. $4,000.
Firth Sterling avenue, Howard to
Steven road. $500.
From Gasoline Tax Fund.
Payable out Of the gasoline tax
fund:
For widening by l. feet on each
side to total width of so feet and re-
paving the roadway of Connecticut
widening by Is feet the east side to a
total width of 6S feet. and repa wing
the roadway OF this avenue from NJ
to Eighteenth street. S66 900.
For widening 10 20 feet and repay.
ing the roadway of Eleventh street
from Pennsylvania To New York ave
nue.. 500 900 irhe District was given
an appropriation in the current law to
reSurfaCe Eleventh street from f. to c.
street. hut this recommen nda ton is in
tended 10 extend the job to New York
and Pennsylvania avenues and TO pro-
vide Al the same tfs for the widening
of the roadway
=, Others to Be Paved.
Other streets to he paved out vt the
Cax tax fund and asked for on the
urgent supplemental list follow:
Columbia road Sixteenth to E,iCh.
! teenth street. So 900.
Massa chusetts avenue. Fourteenth
To Eighteenth. S63 900.
| Vermont avenue. Thomas to Iowa
Circle. SIS. 900.
Vermont avenue. X to T street
S13. 500
T street Ninth to Fourteenth
street. So 900
West Virginia avenue. Florida ave
nue. to Penn street. $4,000.
Kentucky avenue southeast. II tC
Admiral Barney Circle. $4,000.
Kentucky avenue. Fifteenth street
to South Carolina avenue. $4,000.
c street southeast. Twelfth to Fif
| teenth street. $4,000.
| Kansas avenue. Sherman Circle to
F'arracut street. $4,000.
Buchanan street. New Hampshire to
Kansas avenue. So 900.
South and east side Of Sherman
Circle. Kansas avenue to Crittenden
and Illinois avenue. Buchanan to Sher
man Circle. S12 900
Scott Circle. s25.ooo.
Specific Paving Items.
The specific paving items carried as
street Improvements" in the regular
budget are:
Street mprovements-For paving
repavinC. grading and otherwise i'm
proving streets, avenues. suburban
roads and suburban streets. respec
lively, including the maintenance oi
non pa assenger-carryins motor vehicles
, used in this work as follows:
Northwest--For paving Thirteenth
F street, Buchanan street to Crittender
street. $4,000.
. Northwest-For paving Thirty
+ fourth street. Porter street to Quebe,
) street. $4,000.
Il Northwest-For paving Oak street
OdGen street to Sixteenth street. $500
/. NOrthWeSt-FOr paving Seventh
street. Allison street to Sherman
, Circle. $500.
, Northwest-For paving DelafielC
street. Eighth street to Ninth street
$4,000. --, s..
Northwest-For paving Ninth street
, Quincy street to Rock Creek Church
road, $4,000.
Northwest-For paving Rock Greek
= Church road Georgia avenue to Spring