Evening star., 1926-02-01

600 less than the budget recommeD-
dati0n, but 100000 is included for
main and pipeline sewers for whtcl
there was no budget recommendation
and for the I4amond station grade
crossing, SO 900.
Various Local Items.
Other District items include the 70
lowing, which are identical with bud
get recommendations:
Condemnation award-LUZon ave
nue. trunk sewer. $3.50. Public Schools
Western High School, equipment
1926, So 900: Macfarland Junior High.
completion Of wing, no year. 500, ,0oo
building, Fifth and Buchanan streets
northwest, completion, no year, s25.
500; building, Fifth and Sheridar
streets northwest, completion, no year
! S27, 500: Brightwood Park School
completion. no year, $50 o,oob. Police
| Depa partment-AdditionaI cells, second
precinct, 1926. $2.250; harbor patroi
boat engine for. 1926. S1,05o. Police
mems and firemen's relief fund, 1926
| SEQ 900. Health Department-Pound
vehicle. maintenance, 1925, 5000; am
bulance, maintenance. 1926, 200. 1n
/ dustrial Home school. heating plant.
sewer connection, 1925, s3,100. Jail,
roof and dormitory, 1926, $4,000.
workhouse. maintenance. 1926, S26.
F.! 600. District Training School, main
/ tenance. 1926. $500. St Elizabeth's
/ Hospital, 1926, S260,o00. Judgments.
1926, s15.51333.
! This makes a total Of 81 500 61S.3S
| for the District, exclusive of the Wa
! ter Department. There is also recon
mended S125.000 for extension Of
mains under the assessment system.
4 III
Plan More Lights.
The s41,755 IN the bill as reported
| for the traffic bureau is TO cover tn
re-examination as required by law Of
| approximately 200, 900 motor vehicle
| operators permits, the purchase and
| placement of spotlights for traffic Off
GERS at inadequately lighted intersec
| tionS, parking signs, street markings,
boulevard stop signs. danger signals.
and traffic lights on Sixteenth street
| from Florida avenue to Park ROAD
| and on Massachusetts avenue from
! Twelfth street east to Seventh street.
| For street paving, repaving, grading
and widening the sum of S767.700 is
| recommended. Work to be done In
| cludes the widering of Connecticut
avenue from K street to Eighteenth
street and of Eleventh street from
| Pennsylvania avenue to New York
avenue and the assessment of 40 per
cent OF the widening cost against the
| abutting property. These street items
| We're deducted from the 1927 budget
and placed In this bill so as to divide
| up the street work and provide the
| funds at an earlier date than would
| be possible in the regular District ap
preparation act in order to take al
vantage of the full working season.
Road Provisions.
The specific street and road improve
ments and repairs included in the
| S135,700 item from the general fund
| are as follows:
! For paving IngrahaIn street. SEX
enth street to Eighth street, 800.
| For paving Center street, Meridian
place to Ogden street, $4,700.
| For paving Decatur street, Kansas
avenue to Fifth street, $500.
! For paving Eighth street. Decatur
street to Emerson street, $500.
| For paving T street northeast, Lin
coin road to Second street, $12,60o.
| For paving Neal street northeast
| West Virginia avenue to Trinidad ave
nue., $4,000.
For paving Oates street northeast
| Montello avenue to Trinidad avenue.
| $4,000.
For paving Trinidad avenue north
east, Neal street to Queen street, S14 -
| 900.
| For grading, including necessary
| culverts, drains and retaining walls,
| the following:
! Albemarle street, Murdock Mil road
| to Wisconsin avenue, $6,500.
| Cathedral avenue, Conduit road I"
Weaver place. s13.600.
! Garfield street, Tunlaw road 10
! Forty-fourth street, $500.
| Twenty ninth street, Woodley road
i to Calvert street, $4,000.
Dix street, Forty-fourth street 70
| Forty-ninth street northeast, S4,400.
/, Firth-Sterling avenue. Howard road
! TO stevens road northeast, $500.
Three Items Eliminated.
(! Three items passed by the budget
were eliminated by the House appro-
priations committee: Decatur street,
, from Sixteenth to Seventeenth street
$500; Albermarle street. Massachu-
| setts avenue to Murdock Mill road,
| $4,000, and Evarts street northeast,
from Third to Fourth street, $4,000.
Under the item of $462 900. from the
gasoline tax fund. the specified
streets TO be improved are:
Observation-Disclosures road. Six
Continued on Page 5. Column 81