Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
S1,7A,678F FOR D. c.
VOTED BY HOUSE
Walter Reed Hospital Also
Gets $1,000, 900 Under
Deficiency Bill.

Carrying appropriations totaling
S1.734,67S for the District of Column
bia, besides $4,000 for urgent re-
pairs on temporary office buildings
erected during the war and direct
appropriations of 81 100000 and con-
tract authorization of $3.50 900 to re-
place temporary buildings at the
Walter Reed General Hospital, the
1891 .236.254 deficiency appropriation
bill passed the House late yesterday.
The temporary war work buildings
which are to get emergency treatment
are wooden structures resting on
wooden piers. A recent survey indi-
Gates that the underpinning has rot
ted in many places to such an extent
that it would be unsafe TO continue
longer without replacement. Tenn
porary repairs have been made and
will continue to be made pending the
substitution of concrete piling for the
present wooden underpinning.
House Many Activities.
The buildings were constructed
during the years 1917 and 1918, and
house a very large number of perma-
nent activities of the Government.
manent structures are erected to re-
place them and should be kept in safe
condition.
In addition to the 100000 build
ing program for the Walter Reed
Hospital, the sum of $500, 900 has been
allotted by the Veterans Bureau and
$3.50, 900 will be expended by the Red
Cross for its building. making the to-
tai of the completed facilities $685.
600. When completed the hospital
will have a capacity of 900 beds, all
in permanent buildings, of which 500
will be provided by the present ap-
preparations and authorizations
A total of s1,734.6 1888 is carried for
the District of Columbia. The princi-
pal items included in this sum are as
follows:
For the Traffic Bureau, s41,755, to
cover the denomination as required
by law of approximately 200, 900 motor
vehicle operators permits, the pur-
chase and placement of spot lights for
traffic officers at inadequately lighted
intersections, parking signs, street
markings, boulevard stop signs. dan
ger signals and traffic lights on Six
teenth street from Florida avenue to
Park road and on Massachusetts ave-
nut from Twelfth street east to
Seventh street.
S767,0 for Streets.
For street paving, repaving. grad
ing and widening, the sum of $767 700
is recommended, divided as follows:
Paving under permit system, 500
600: specified streets, general fund
$135,700; specified streets, gas tax
fund, $462,000; repairs and resurfac-
ing, $150,000.
These sums include the widening of
Connecticut avenue from X 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 were 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 appropriation act in order to
take advantage of the full working
season.
For assessment and permit work in
connection with building operations in
the residential district the sum of
S255 900 is recommended for sewer ex-
tension and $125,000 for extension of
water mains. A very large part of
each sum will come back in the form
VI dSScSSflcHtS lSNlou against tn6
properties affected. A fund of $4,000
is granted for main and pipe sewers
to provide for the renewal of the
sewer in E street from Fifth to Thir-
teenth streets. Funds are available
for the widening of E street over this
exten, but it is DENIED advisable to
renew the sewer. which has been in
for more than so years, before the
widening and repaving takes place at
an estimated cost of sos, 900.
Items for Schools.
For the schools an item of 1922, 900 is
included for completion of equipment
for the enlargement of the Western
High School; $25.500 for continuing
construction on the eight-room build.
ing at Fifth and Buchanan streets;
$3.50 for the eight-room extensible
building at Fifth and Sheridan streets;
100000 for the eight-room building at
Brightwood Park, and $55, 900 for the
wing to the Mcfarland Junior High.
A further amount of $260,O00 is in.
cluded for care of the insane to ena BILE
payments to be made to ST Elizabeths
Hospital to the end of the current
fiscal year.