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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-04
POLICE FUND CUT
NEARLY S5OO,O(|D
Budget Allowance Of $3,097,-
TAI, However, Is $13,791
More Than Current Year.

The estimates for the Police Depart
ment submitted to Congress today by
the Budget Bureau are far short of the
funds asked by Maj. Henry G. Pratt
superintendent Of police, in his request
to the District Commissioners for the
1891 fiscal year.
Maj. Pratt had asked for a total of
1881 sol and the ALLEGATION allowed by
the Budget Bureau totals $3,097,745 q
reduction of nearly 100000. The ap-
proved figure, however, represents an in
crease of $l3,795 over the appropriation
for the current fiscal year.
Provision Is made in the estimates for
the elevation of the lieutenant detailed
to the TRAFFIC Bureau to the rank of
captain and also for the appointment
of two additional lieutenantS and in
creased compensation for 10 additional
privates in the detective bureau. The
bureau, however, decreased the allow
ances for officers and men, mounted on
horses, or motor cycles, but offset it with
an increase in the estimates for the
purchase and maintenance Of motor
vehicles.
The Budget Bureau allowed an in
crease in $1,000 in the department.
contingent expense fund raising this
item to S63,500, as compared with
$4,000 for the current fiscal year. This
fund is used to pay rewards for the cap
ture of fugitives. purchase of firearms
and sundry other incidental items.
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INCREASE OF $S2,19O
FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT
Budget Allowance of $2,253,9s0
Includes Items for New Site
and Fire Houses.

Appropriations totaling $2253,98 are
recommended for the District Fire De-
partment in the 1881 budget submitted
to Congress today by the Budget Blu
reau. This is an increase Of $50, 100 over
the current fiscal year.
One of the most important items in
the Fire Departments estimates pro-
vides for the purchase OF site and the
erection of new fire house for Engine
Company No. '16, now located on d street
near Twelfth. and for Truck Company
No. 3, located on Fourteenth street at
Ohio avenue. Both Of these units are
in the Pennsylvania avenue-Mall tri-
angle, which is being built up with
structures to, house Federal activities.
and have been ordered to vacate. Funds
approved for these two new fire houses
total $150,000
The Budget Bureau also approved an
item Of $4,000 for the purchase of and
equipment of a motor-driven ambulance
and another item of $34,500 for the
purchase of additional equipment, in
Guiding an aerial hook and ladder
truck, pumping engine and combina-
ton hose wagon 1t Is the plan of Fire
Chief George S. Watson to use the am
bulance as an auxiliary unit of the fire
rescue squad. Watson pointed out that
the present fire rescue squad wagon Is
now used as an ambulance, but 1t Is not
suitable for this purpose in view of the
fact that 1t carries all types of fire.
lighting and medical equipment.
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HOSPITAL BUILDING
ALLOWED $4,000
Tuberculosis Fund for St.
EIizabeth'S Included in
$1,72S,24e Total.

For the construction and equipment
OF new tuberculosis building $4,000
is recommended in the budget for st.
Elizaheth's Hospital, and for beginning
the construction and equipment of a
male receiving building 100000, with
authorization for the Secretary of the
Interior to enter into contracts for con-
struction of this building at a cost not
to exceed 81 ,050,0 900.
The total budget figure for st. Eliza
beth's is $1,728,248.
For the 1929 employees $2O25, $500 in
salaries is recommended. the highest
salary paid being $4,000.
The total for supplies and materials
is $978,79l, the largest item being S5O7,-
29l for provisions, with $4,000 fol
fuel and 100000 for wearing appare,
and sewing supplies
The total for equipment is S252,O45
OF which $4,000 Is for furniture ano
fixtures.
The deductions from the total of So.
264,256 include payments from the Dis.
trict OF Columbia of $1,7l5,472; from
the United States Veterans Bureau
$235, 1886; from miscellaneous revenues
collected, 100000; from the United
States Public Health Service, $77,0s8;
from pensions OF District of Columbis
inmates, $4,000, and from the United
States Soldiers Home, S105l2, making
the total for running expenses 81 ,oe3,.
24S.
Also included in the recommended
tons for st. Elizabeths Hospital are
$4,000 for refunds to patients, under
the heading of personal funds of pa.
tients," and $4,000, refunds to anc
support Of patients, under the headins
pension money"
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.S222,87O TOTAL
.PROV|DEDASSESSOR
$1,000 Increase Largely to
Be Used in Creating Five
New Positions.

Funds totaling $222,s7O, an increase
Of S16,360 over the current appropria-
ton, are allowed the Office of Tax AS
SCISSOR William P. Richards in the Dis
trict's 1881 budget sent to Congress to-
day. The major portion Of the in
crease is designed to create FIVE new
positions, while the remainder will be
used to take care of salary step-ups in
accordance with the classification act.
Principal among the i've new posi-
tons provided is that of a deputy as
SCISSOR with a salary of $4,000 a year.
The deputy assessor will be required
to perform all the duties of the assessor
in his absence.
Difficulty of Present.
Under the existing organization when
the assessor is absent he depends on
one of the eight assistant assessors to
substitute for him, but not through any
special designation Of law. At times
all OF the assistant assessors are in the
field; in fact their duties require a
great deal of field inspection, and to
ask one Of them to act in the absence
of the assessor, according to Mr.. Rich
ards, tends to break into the orderly
arrangement of the work.
The four other positions are an in
spector of gasoline accounts, an ad.
dressograph operator, clerk and the
transfer OF two per diem positions to
the annual roll.
Necessity of Clerk.
In recommending the position Of in
spector of gasoline accounts, Mr.. Rich
ards explained that the work of check
ing the gasoline tax reports had in
creased to such degree that 1t is
necessary to have q clerk assigned to
this particular duty. In 1925, when the
gas tax was first collected, there were
19 importers upon whom the gasoline
tax was levied. and now there are 80.
The assessor said that it is necessary
to audit each of these reports as re-
ceived, and If necessary examine the
books of accounts of these companies
to discover discrepancies that may have
arisen.
The addressograph operator, Mr..
Richards explained, will be occupied
continually throughout the year, max
ing changes in the assessments On the
addressograph plates. The ownership
changes amount to 10000 a year.
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100000 PAY RAISE
FUND is CARRIED IN
DISTRICTS BUDGET
Continued From Page $50

partment, of clerical workers, $3.50 Il
included for 4 positions.
For the health department, S187,01C
is recommended for salaries for SO en-
ployes and new position.
For the conduct of hygiene and sani-
tation work In the public schools, $685.
900, which is an increase of $15,320, is
recommended for Al employees and Z
new positions.
For maintaining child hygiene serv-
ice, $44,050 is provided for salaries OF
Al persons.
For the Juvenile Court, $60,61o is
provided for salaries of 80 employees.
For salaries in Police Court, $l02 $50
is included for AZ positions.
In the Municipal Court, $69,e90 Is
provided for salaries of IS employees.
For the Supreme Court, $SS, TOO Is
provided for the salaries of IA persons.
For pay of bailiffs $50, $50 is provided
for 90 employees.
For care and protection Of court
house $37, 700 is carried for 80 positions
Court Of Appeals.
For the Court Of Appeals $68, 800 is
provided for IS employees.
For personal services for care and
protection OF the Court of Appeals
Building $3.50 is provided for six en-
ployes.
In the execution of writs of lunacy
$4,000 is provided for salaries of two
employees.
In the Public Welfare Department
$113,360 Is recommended for salaries
OF 30 employees, including new posi-
tons.
For the home care of dependent chill
dren $l3,460 is recommended for sala-
ries OF seven employees.
For reception and detention of chill
dren $l8,24O is recommended for sala-
ries for l6 positions, including 2 new
employees.
For salaries at the jail $7s.4lo is
recommended. covering 48 positions, 8
OF which are new.
For personal services at the work
mouse and reformatory S24l $50 is rec
commended for 153 employees, including
IA new positions.
For salaries at the National Training
school for Girls, $39, 240 is recommend
ed for 81 employees.
Tuberculosis Hospital.
For salaries at the tuberculosis Hos
pltai $t6'ISO Is recommended for so
employees, including new positions.
pal Hospital $3l0,3OO is Recommended
Ior SlS employees, including 8 new posi-
tions.
For personal services at the District
Training School $78,420 is provided for
90 employees, including new position
FOR salaries at the Industrial Home
5chocl for Colored Children S34,54O is
provided for % employees.
FOR personal services at the Industrial
Home school, $26,400 is provided for
FL employees.
For salaries at the Home for Aged
and 1nfirm, S60.4so Is provided for 4S
employees including three new posi-
For personal services at the Munich
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cular children. including $4,000 for ma
terials and 81 900 for equipment.
An item of 5000 is carried for pur-
chase and repair Of furniture, tools.
machinery, material and books and
apparatus used in the manual and vo-
cational training classes,
An item of $4,000 is allowed for eX-
penses attending the instruction of deaf
and dumb persons admitted to the Co
lumbia Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb. This is $500 more than the
Commissioners estimates in order to
provide for pupils awaiting admittance
to the institution
Six thousand dollars Is provided for
the maintenance and tuition Of colored
deaf mutes in Maryland or institutions
of other States.
Eleven thousand dollars Is provided
for the instruction Of blind Children of
the District Of Columbia in Maryland
OF some other State under a contract
entered into by the Commissioners.
An item of $4,000 is carried for the
instruction and supervision Of children
in the vacation schools and Fairgrounds
and to provide for supervisors and
teachers in these institutions.
A sum of 100000 Is provided as an
nuities for retired teachers.
Two items which were stricken from
the original school estimates without
serious consideration were those OF
S225,000 for health department require
ments and $150,000 for fire department
requirements. These were inserted in
the school estimates by the school au-
thorities as a perfunctory response 10
recommendation of the health and FIRE
department officers for school building
Improvements which would make the
structures ideal" with respect to health
and fire precautions. Meme Of the items
covered in these two sums, however
was believed to be Of enough Importance
to render its omission menace to the
schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-04
.Sl52.53O INCREASE HELPS
5.YEAR WATER PROGRAM
Commissioners Hope to Avert Higher
Rates Resulting From Drain Due
to improvements

The initial step to carry out the
proposed far-reaching f1ve-year pro-
gram of improvement in Washington's
water distribution system has been
taken by the budget bureau In the
estimates submitted to Congress today
for the 1881 fiscal year, which pro-
vide an increase Of @l52,530 over the
water departments appropriation for
the current fiscal year.
The increase, however, created an
ironical situation. since the water de-
partment is a self-sustaining unit Of
the District government, supporting It
self on the revenues from water rents.
The added drain on It's income, 1t is
feared at the District Building, will
lead to an increase in water rates,
despite the efforts Of the Commits
sioners to preclude such action.
Five-Year Program.
Obviously forseeing an inevitable
raise In rates II the revenues from
the sale of water were to be depended
posed improvements, the Commission
ers, in presenting the f1ve-year program
to the Budget Bureau, urged that the
extra funds be appropriated out Of
the general revenues Of the District,
which would have shifted the expense
on the taxpayers. The Budget Bureau
did not approve the suggestion.
The cost of the five-year program
| 1t has been estimated, exceeds by
S1,287,000 the amount that the water
revenues can be expected to furnish
over that period, which will inevitably
result in a deficit in the water fund
Aside from providing for major i'm
| provements In the distribution system
the estimates also will permit the re-
pair or replacement Of a number OF
the nearly $4,000 water meters which
are not functioning properly and the
beginning of comprehensive survey
to determine the cause Of the annual
waste of one-third of the total supply
The Budget Bureau approved an item
of $4,000 for the installation and re-
pair of water meters, an increaM Of
$4,000 over the current appropriation
| for this purpose, and inserted another
item Of $4,000 for starting a check-ur
on water waste.
4S-Inch Main Provided.
Three of the major improvements ir
the distribution system provided in thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-04
PROJECTS NEAR CAPITOL
GET IMPETUS in BUDGET
Large Amounts Provided for Grounds.
Office Buildings, Supreme Court
and Other improvements.

are % provision for a new avenue to
connect the Union Station with Penn
sylvania avenue near Second street; (2)
the possibility Of closing several streets
which are not required for traffic, so as
to make available an unbroken park
area desirable for en- extension of the
Capitol grounds; 81 provision for the
shelter of automobiles which are now
sheltered in q garage at Delaware ave-
nue. near c street; A) designs for the
entire area so as to produce with the
Capitol and the Senate Office Building
a unified architectural scheme. The
completion OF the Senate once Building
with new ornamental front facing
Union Station is an essential part Of
this project.
The area between B and c streets, re-
Gently cleared, will be attractively land
scaped en- the surface, and under the
ground at this point will be built the
storage place for automobiles A fea-
ture Of the plaza project will be the
construction of an ornamental retaining
wall along c street. corresponding to the
architecture of the propc sed north front
Of the Senate ONCE Building. In order
to give clear vista of the Capitol from
Union Station the present street car
tracks on c street will be lowered into
a subway from New Jersey to Delaware
avenues. For this distance they will pass
under a terrace in such q way that
they will net mar the attractiveness of
the park or obstruct the vista between
the Capitol and Union Station. With
this same object in view the present
tracks on Delaware avenue from the
station to B street and on B street from
Delaware avenue to First street east will
be removed. Ths tracks coming UP G
rt~ he yxr.f1I
tinue east from Delaware avenue to
First street east. and new tracks will be
laid on First street. east from 3 to
Union Station, thereby routing the cars
around the edge of the park instead Of
through the center.
Street Changes.
North Capitol street, being stub-ended
at B, is to be closed at D street. without
imposing a hardship on trafic, which
will have the new avenue running d.
agonally from that point toward Penn
sylvania avenue
The plans show an attractive circle
and fountain in the center Of the stretch
between the station and the Capitol.
midway between Delaware and New Jer-
sey avenues, near c street. Smaller cir
cles, surrounded by shrubbery and walks
flank this central circle along the B
street frontage of the new park.
The plans as finally approved swing
the new avenue further west than the
original suggestion Of having it meet
Pennsylvania avenue at Peace Monu-
ment. because it would have cut off q
corner of the present Capitol grounds
and would have caused traf1c conges-
ton. This and other notifications ne
cessitate purchase Of additional land
west of the original plaza area, the cost
of which is included in the total figures
previously given for this project.
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estimates are the installation Of AZ
inch main from the Bryant street pump
ing station to Euclid street and Georgia
avenue, making q connection on the
third high service with the two exist
ing 20-inch mains at that point; the
installation Of q 10000, 900 gallon turbo
pump on the third high service in the
Bryant street station. and lowering of
l,94S feet of the 48-inch main in New
Hampshire avenue from M street to
Dupont Circle.
The Bryant Street Station Is at pres
ent equipped with two pumps, one of
10000 00-gallon capacity and the
other Of 100000 gallon capacity.
Both are on the third high service.
dificult to operate. these pumps to-
gether and the estimated demand on
the third high service, due to the
phenomenal growth" Of the population
| In that service area, IL Is estimated,
will exceed the capacity of the present
pumps in 1881. A breakdown in the
pumps at Dalecarlia, 1t was said,
would make 1t impossible for the
Bryant street pumps to supply the
maximum demand during that year.
Reduction in Pressure.
The 4s-inch main in Bryant street
would provide a 48-inch loop between
| bhe pumping station ana the Keno
Reservoir. This line is designated TO
eliminate the loss in head, otherwise
known as a reduction In pressure in
the present small mains in the third
high service area and at the same time
provide an adequate breakdown service
for the Dalecarlia plant and supple
ment 1t when the capacity of the Dale
carlia plant Is reached.
The Budget Bureau also recognized
the urgency Of replacing a number Of
old mains, some of which have been
in the ground for 40 and so years, by
allowing an item OF 100000 for re-
placements, which is double the sum
appropriated for the current year for
this purpose.
Although the United States engi-
neer's ONCE for the District, which has
supervision and control over the water
supply system, had sought an increase
Of $4,000 in its appropriation for 1881
for the Washington Aqueduct the
Budget Bureaus figures show that it
approved figure of SAL 900, the same
amount as Congress appropriated for
the current fiscal year.
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pal Loding House. $s,72o is provided for
three employees.
For salaries at the Temporary Home
fer Former Soldiers and Sailors, $4,000
is recommended for four employees.
For personal services in the District
Militia, s26,070 is recommended for IL
employees and temporary labor.
For salaries connected wi h the rec
lamation of Anacostia River flats. $685.
100 is recommended for rs employees.
Public Parks Salaries.
For salaries connected with the pub.
lie parks. $416,293 is recommended for
253 positions, and in the field service.
1921, 079 Is recommended for 242 posi-
tons.
For the park police, a total Of Sle2,-
100 is provided for n positions and for
allowances.
For salaries in the department of
service OF the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, $50 900 is
recommended for 10 positions.
For salaries in the National Zoologi-
cal Park, 1851 900 is recommended for
95 positions.
For the field service of the Washing
ton aqueduct, total of salaries and
wages amounting to S266 900 is recon-
n1ended for Ill employees
For personal service in the revenue,
inspection and distribution branch of
the water department, q total Of $685.
$50 Is recommended for 70 persons.
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GALL|NGER FUND
STANDS S175,ODD
Completion of Nurses Home
and Equipment Provided
in Budget.

Completion of the construction and
equipment of the nurses home at GAL
linger Municipal Hospital is provided
for In the estimates Of the Board of
Public Welfare, submitted to Congress
today by the Budget Bureau. Funds
allocated for this work total $175Ooo.
The Budget Bureau also allowed items
Of $4,000 for the construction of a
domestic service building at the Dis
trict Training School and $4,000 for
the replacement of farm buildings at
the Industrial Home School for colored
children.
Other items in the Board of Public
Welfare's estimates approved by the
Budget Bureau include $4,000 FOR re-
modelling and enlarging the intirmary
building at the Homes of the Aged and
Infirm $4,000 for the purchase and
installation Of laundry machinery and
equipment at the work house and re-
formatory, and $4,000 to provide a
working capital fund for the following
industrial enterprises at that institu-
ton: Brick plant, machine shop, auto
tag shop foundry, broom and mattress
shop, print shop, canning plant and
auto repair shop. The Budget Bureau
stipulated that the various departments
and institutions for the DISCREET gov
eminent and Federal Government may
purchase at fair market prices, as de-
termined by the commissioners, such
surplus products turned out at these
shops and directed that the receipts
from the sale Of the products shall be
deposited to the credit of the working
capital fund. anu that all receipts
credited thereto shall be used as a re-
volying fund for the 1881 fiscal year,
for the purchase and repair of ma
chinery. tools and equipment, the pur-
chase of raw materials and manufac-
turing supplies, and the purchase,
maintenance and operation of non-pas-
senger carrying vehicles. and for the
payment to inmates or their dependents
Of such pecuniary earnings, as the Com
missioners deem proper.
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menace. There is no water In many
of these forested areas, Col. Grants
Office explains
The Budget Bureau is allowing S14,-
800 for the Burroughs Recreational
Center, located at South Dakota avenue
and Queens Chapel road, bounded by
Otis street on the south. This develop
msnt will permit expansion for ma jor
sports. Tentative plans of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion call for quarter-l1ile track, an
athletic field, music stand, two swim
ming pools. one for smaller children
sand-play area, provisions for basket
ball, croquet, volley ball and horseshoe
pitching.
The Budget Bureau estimate for
reclamation and development of Ana
costa Park includes an increase of
$150,000 for the purchase of land to
expand the system in that expanding
area of the city.
Increase Is S13s,3S5.
For public buildings and parks the
estimates provide a total increase of
$139,385. For the continued develop
mert of park Improvements, the Budget
Bureau includes 100000 for Meridian
Hill Park, $134,755 for the Rock Greek
and Potomac connecting parkway, $25,-
600 for Anacostia Park, $4,000 for the
improvement of newly acquired reserva-
tions. $4,000 for minor auxiliary struc-
lures, 5000 for Rock Greek Park lights
and Sl4,300 for the Burroughs Recrea-
tional Center. For the park police there
is an increase of $12,330. For the work
of the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, including the pur-
chase of land for park and playground
purposes. S1,o00,000 is provided.
Under the program of the Budget Blu
reau for the ONCE of Public Buildings
and Public Parks there is an increase in
salaries from $2,o25,611 to $2,422, $50 as
follows: Care of Southern Railway
Building, S36.639; care of new Internal
Revenue Building. $780, 900: for promo
tons within grades, $4,000. There is
an increase OF personnel involved Of 3S7
In general expenses there is an in
crease from se47,841 to $l,165,940 as
follows: Maintenance Of Southern Rail-
way Building, $2l 800; maintenance of
internal Revenue Building, 5000 900;
rent, $4,000; emergency repairs, $4,000;
new cables, Washington Monument,
$500: repairs to Army Medical Mu-
scum Building, $1,000 repairs to Winder
Building, $4,000; repairs to elevators,
$4,000; repairs to boilers, $4,000: re-
paving West Executive avenue and State
place, S35,000; total, S305. 300. The de-
creases are. installation Of boilers, S4O,-
000 demolition of temporary building I,
$4,000: leveling floors, $4,000 miscel-
laneous maintenance. rent, repairs to
buildings, etc, $32,701; total, SS7, 7Ol |:
leaving a net increase in general ex-
penses Of $2l8099.