Evening star., 1926-09-10
TREASURY BRANCH
MAY GET NEW HOME
Public Debt Service May Be
Housed in Addition toslib-
erty Loan Annex.

erty Loan Annex.
Adequate facilities for the public
debt service Of the Treasury Depart
ment. which will make possible re-
lease of the Southern Railway Once
Building at 119 - street northeast.
and the saving Of its rental of about
100000 n year. loomed today as among
the next steps i'm the Government <
housing program.
Two mae stories are TO be added
to the Liberty Loan Annex Building
adjacent to the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. under the building pro.
gram. providing additional space into
which may be moved The Office Of
the Registrar OF the Treasury, which
is part of the public debt service,
now occupying the Southern Railway
Building.
Architects Push Plans.
Plans and specifications for the two
additional stories. for which Congress
appropriated $3.50 000 To he expended
this year. are being pushed in the
office of the Supervising Architect. and
may he among the early projects
ready for bids. Congress uthorized
a total expenditure for the two stories
of not to exceed s313. .000.
Bids for this work may he asked
within a few weeks. 1t is possible
that they will he the second lot of
lids advertised in the Governments
building program here in Washington.
The first. are expected shortly. when
the Treasury will ask for offers on
wrecking Government buildings on
square 324, bounded by Eleventh and
Twelfth, little Il and & streets. part
of the site of the Internal Revenu"
Building, and adjacent 10 the Farmers
market.
The plan to. consolidate the work of
the Public Debt service of the Tr"ss.
uiN. which is in charge of. William :.
Prnushton. commissioner of the pun
lie debt. has been under WY fur wears.
II has been rortcrded tilat not ouIv
will concentration of this important
service elimiEatc the rrut3l pad for
privately-nwncd office space. h'It il will
make for greater efficiency aud c""u
omy in operation.
Offices Widely Split.
At present the Public Debt Srrvi,"
is housed in three places. besides the
headquarters in the Treasury RuiIdiu.e
the Southern Railway ohiC. EU,id-
ms. tho Liberty Loan nnncT. of tire"
floors. and part Of tn" old liprcau "f
EnCra wing AMI Printing.
1t has been definitely decided T."
vacate tho building on ~ street. hut
whether all employees will he moved
from the old Bureau of Engraving and
Printing Building. which is in tho
same vicinity. will have To he decided
when the new quarters are ready.
The Pubic Debt Service is COM
posed of four parts: The Division Of
Loans aud currency, Registers office.
Division of Public Debt. Account and
Audit and Division of Paper Custody.
The Liberty Loan Annex which is
now three stories high is at 40l -Four
tecnth street. south of the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing. and Of a
monumental character similar To tho
larger bureau building.
plans for construction of a. now
building west of TWent v-fOulth street
near II street. To house the lygienic
Laboratory of the Public Health Serv.
ice. will he laid before tho National
Commission of Fine Arts at its meet
ing next Thursday. While the dis
cussion will only enter is preliminary
stage with presentatio of the pro.
posal. it has BEEN before Surg. Cen.
Hugh s. Cumming for some time.
The head of the Public Health Service
is represented as feeling that the HY-
Sienic Laboratory should he moved
from its present location on New Jer-
soy avenue near !; street southeast.
not only because n new building is
needed to take care of eXpa nsiur and
provide modern facilities. but hocaUS"
the present building will interf"r" with
future Nall development. The pres
ent structure is adjacent to the build
,.,1 I,N-t
Survey.
Several Acres Available.
The Public Health Service new
owns several acres of land near tho
Naval Hospital. west of Twenty
fourth street. and ContemplateS con
Struction of the new laboratory on
this site. Estimates of the cost of
the building and the floor space :"
be made available for the laboratory
have not been presented to the Fine
Arts Commission. The proposed
will also be laid before
the Public buildings Commission.
Several other matters of import
ance will come before the first Fail
meeting of the commission. which
may run over into Friday. The on
tire membership of the commission
will visit Arlington during it's meet
ing to decide upon site for the
loca ton of n G.. A. R. memorial
tablet to he placed in the Amph'-
theater. Members also will visit
every part of the Arlington reServa-
tion to inspect the general improve
ment program planned for'the Ma.
tional Cemetery in line with chaneeS
TO he made in the eastern end of
the reservation for treatment OF the
Virginia approach To the Arlington
Memorial Bridge.
TO Study Jardine Point.
Commission officials expect to taka
up the objection raised by Secretary
of Agriculture Jardine to construction
of a new Commerce Department buNd-
ing on r street between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets, now occupied by
Government greenhouses, and p COun-
ter proposal which has already been
considered by Secretary Hoover, for
location of the Commerce Building on
PENNSYLVANIA avenue between Seventh
and Tenth streets. One of the prime
objections raised to locating the Com
merce Building on this former site is
the fact that it would mean further en-
oachment on the Mall.
The fine arts body will take up the
design of war memorials and battle
monuments to be constructed in Euro
pean countries under the direction of
the American Battle Monument Com
mission. Gen. Persbing chairman of
the commission. who returned to
ashington two days ago after n trip
abroad to inspect sites and plans for
the war memorials and monuments is
not expected to appear before the fine
arts body. The present plan is to have
all the memorials and monuments
completed by November IL, 1928. the
tenth anniversary of the armistice
During the afternoon Of it's first meet
ing day the commission will visit and
inspect the Meade Memorial in the
(.arJaps n0n oP