Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23

| to be given to another building is
| limited, due to the need for providing
there only such a building as will in
size and architecture fit into the sym
metry of the location. Such a build
| ing as is now projected, Representative
| Wood points out. would at maximum
make available five courtrooms and
| the present Police Court already has
| four Judges and more have been sug-
gested in order to relieve the conges
| ton OF cases.
The future growth of that court
rapid as it must be- coupled with the
| suggestion recently made for legisla-
ton to consolidate the Police Court
and the Municipal Court, render it
inadvisable in the opinion of the House
appropriations committee to commence
work on this project now at this site.
Changes in Courthouse.
The sum of $4,000 is recommended
to enable the architect of the Capitol
to effect changes in the courthouse
of the District Of Columbia by con
version of the public restaurant space
into Office rooms, the conversion of a
storage room into a room for housing
jurors and to make provision for
storage in space not otherwise pro.
vided for.
Appropriations are provided to sup
plement the existing appropriations to
enable the Board of Public Welfare
to supply board and care for children
committed by the courts of the Dis.
trict
The sum Of $l3 900 is recommended
for supplying furnishings for the new
wing of the District jail now under
construction and $500 is provided for
the compensation of additional guards
from August /. 1927 to July 80, 1928.
The sum of $14 900 is recommended
for renewing elevators in Columbia
Hospital.
The use Of $4,000 from appropria-
tons heretofore made for the Office of
public buildings and public parks is
recommended for expenditure in the
erection of a public comfort station
on public land at Seventeenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
subject to contribution of 800 by a
local street railway company to pro-
vide for inclusion in the project of a
waiting room for patrons of street
car and bus lines.
The sum OF $4,000 for the Botanic
Garden is recommended for the inn
provement of roads at the nurseries in
lieu Of $4,000 requested.
100000 for Botanic Garden.
The appropriations committee rec
ommends 100000 Of the $500, 900
recommended for the enlargement and
relocation of the Botanic Garden
under the provisions of the act ap
proved January 5 last. OF the sum
recommended, $4,000 has been asked
for the removal and re-erection of the
Bartholdi Fountain and 100000 for
the acquisition of the property in the
squares proposed to- he taken. The
committee has eliminated the amount
for removal of the fountain at the
present time, believing that such re-
moval should not be made until all
land in the area has been acquired
and construction authorized for the
new Conservatives proposed. The
amount for acquisition of the prop
erty has been reduced from $500 900 to
$780, 900. The estimate Of 100000
was based upon twice the assessed
value of the property. One square to
be acquired has an assessed value Of
1894, 096 and. the other square, ex-
elusive of property owned by the Dis
trict Government. has an assessed
value of $53,333. making a total as
sessed value of the two squares of
$3S7,429.
For Encouragement of World War
veterans graves in France, $94 1853
is recommended. with an additional
$186 900 to purchase headstones and
otherwise mark graves abroad. The
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
al,