Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
HOUSE MEMBERS
INSPECT STREETS
Seventy Paving or Widening
Projects Will Be Seen in
1923 Program.

appropriations have been included in
the 1928 appropriation bill, was begun
today by Representative Frank Ii.
Funk, Republican, of Illinois, chair
man of the District appropriations
subcommittee, and Representatives
Ross A. Collins, Democrat, Mississippi;
Robert G. Simmons, Republican, Ne
braska, and Anthony j. Griffin, Demo
crat, New York City. The House
members were accompanied on their
tour by Capt. II. C. Whitehurst, AS
sistant Engineer Commissioner, in
charge of highways: c. B. Hunt, en-
gineer of highways, and l.. c. Rob
ertson of the Highway Department.
Starting from the House Office
Building at 10 o'clock. the party spent
two hours and half in visiting the
various streets and avenues, covering
a majority of those in the northwest
section that are on the list. Follow
ing the custom of former years, the
House members will arrange at least
two other tours later in the week, in
order that all sections of the city may
be covered
Following is the complete route list
of highways which will be visited by
the subcommittee members. They
also expect to inspect the NJ Street
Bridge. inasmuch as there is an item
Oi N-0psUUu III the OIL VI LttC
structiOn Of this bridge:
Northwest.
Widening OF Twelfth street between
r and Pennsylvania avenue, $4,000;
widening of Fifteenth street between
I and Massachusetts, avenue, $4,000;
widening of Connecticut avenue from
\ street to Dupont Circle, 100000;
widening of Connecticut avenue from
Dupont to Florida avenue, 500, 900;
paving of S street between Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth streets,
$4,000; paving Of r street between
Thirty.fifth and Thirty seventh. streets,
$4,000; paving of Thirty-sixth street
from Reservoir road to T street,
$4,000; paving of S street from
Thirty-fifth to Thirty-sixth street,
$4,000 paving of Hawthorne street,
Forty-fourth and n streets to Forty
fourth and n place, $4,000; paving of
Klingle street, Forty-fifth to Forty
sixth street, $500; grading of Forty
fourth street. Window place to Yuma
street and Yuma street. Forty-fourth
to Forty-fifth, $4.100; grading of Ten
nyson street, Thirty third street to lot
%, square zoos, $4,000; construction
of bridge over Rock Creek at Military
road, $4,000; grading of Audubon
Terrace, Linnean avenue to Broad
Branch road, $4,000: widening of
Woodley road. Connecticut avenue to
Twenty ninth street.
Paving Of Argonne place, Harvard
street to Lanier place, 81 900; condem-
nation Harvard street. Lanier place
to Geological Park; paving of Ogden
street, Fourteenth street to Spring
place, SIT, 300; paving, of Upshur street,
Sixteenth to Arkansas avenue, $500;
paving of Seventeenth street, Blu
chanan to Crittenden, SIS, 800; paving Of
Crittenden street, Sixteenth to Seven
teenth, $4,000; paving of Decatur
street, Sixteenth to Seventeenth
street, $4,000; paving of Gallatin
street, Piney Branch road to Six
teenth street, $500; paving OF Alas
ka avenue, Sixteenth street to Geor-
gia avenue. s68,000: paving of Six
teenth street Alaska avenue to Kali
mia street, $4,000: paving of Van
Buren, street, Georgia avenue to Piney
Branch road. $4,000; paving of Piney
Branch road, Van Buren, to Butter
nut, 100000; paving of Fourth street,
Butternut to Cedar, $1,000; paving of
Laurel street, Eastern avenue to Sec
end street, $1,000; paving of Second
street, Laurel to Van Buren,, $4,000;
paving of First street, Whittier to Van
Buren,, $4,000; paving of Van Buren,
street, Second to Viaduct, $S,400; sew
erS in Manor Park; grading of North
Dakota avenue. North Capitol to
Third, $4,000; paving of Fourth street,
Buchanan to Decatur $4,000; paving
of Decatur street, Fourth to Fifth,
$4,000; paving of Fifth street, Deca-
tur to Emerson, $4,000; paving of
Emerson street, Kansas avenue to
Illinois avenue, $1,000; paving of
Seventh street, Decatur to Hamilton,
$19,S00; paving of Farragut street,
Fifth street to Illinois avenue. $12 1900;
paving of Gallatin street, Fifth to
Illinois avenue. $1,000; paving of
Hamilton street, Seventh to Illinois
avenue, $4,000; paving Of Eighth
street, Emerson to Hamilton, 81 900;
paving of Illinois avenue, Gallatin to
Hamilton, $1,000; grading of Spring
$4,000.
Northeast.
Paving Of Franklin street, Fourth
to Seventh, SIT 600; grading of Evarts,
Third to Fourth, $4,000; paving of
Twelfth street, Rhode Island avenue
to Monroe street, S62 900; paving of
Taylor street, Twelfth street to Mich
fgan avenue, $10,500; paving of Thir-
teenth street, Michigan avenue to
Upshur, $4,000; paving of Newton
street, Eighteenth to Twentieth. $751;
600; paving of Twenty second street,
Monroe to Otis. 10000; paving of
West Virginia avenue, Penn street
TO Holbrook terrace. $1,000; paw
ing Of West Virginia avenue,
Eighth 10 Florida avenue, $13, 900; be-
ginning construction of upper Ana
costa interceptor, Anacostia, Ben
ming to District line; grading Of Jay
street, FOrtyfourth to Forty-sixth.
QOO' pf -
to Fifteenth streets, $35 900; paving Of
Fourteenth place, North Carolina ave-
nue. to ID street, $4,000.
Southeast.
Paving OF A street, Eighteenth to
Nineteenth, $l2,500; paving OF Seven
teenth street, 4 to c. $4,000: paving
or Massachusetts, avenue, Sixteenth
10 Eighteenth, $3l 500; paving of Six.
teenth street, Massachusetts avenue
TO street, $31 500; paving of ID
street, Twelfth TO Fourteenth, $25. 900;
paving of Ives place. Fourteenth to
Fifteenth, $4,000; paving of Fifteenth
street, Pennsylvania avenue to K
street, $4,000. paving of Admiral
Barney Circle. Kentucky avenue to
seventeenth street, $500: paving of
ii street, Sixteenth to Seventeenth,
$500; paving of Thirty eighth street.
Alaska avenue to Suitland road, and
Suitland road, Thirty eighth street to
District line, $4,000; paving of Min
nesOta avenue, Good Hope road, to
Eighteenth street, $28 600; paving of
5 street, Nichols avenue to Sixteenth
street, $l5,200; paving of Thirteenth
street, S TO Good Hope road, $4,000;
paving of Alabama avenue between
Nichols avenue and Eleventh place
S32 500; paving of Nichols avenue,
Fourth to Epsal, $4,000.