Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
|$2,77S,S76 ASKED
FOR D. c. PARKS IN
BUDGET ESTIMATES
ST, 900, 900 Would Be Ex-
pended in Carrying Out Gen.
eraI Expansion Program.
ONLY 100000 OF SUM
TO BE SPENT FOR LAND
General Expenses Call for ST..
e60,195, More Than Double
Last Years Amount.

The District Commissioners have
under consideration In the 1882 budget
estimates requests for $2,778,856 for the
maintenance and improvements of
Washington's public parks, including
100000 to be expended under the
supervision of the National Capital Park
ana Planning Commission for carving
out the general park extension program.
The mtllion-dollar item is the sum
usually asked annually for park land
acquisition, but it is proposed this year
That the commission shall spend not
more than 100000 of the sum for land
for which condemnation juries placed
value IN excess Of 125 per cent of its
assessed value.
$509,5SO Asked for Zoo.
The sum of $509,580 is asked for the
National Geological Park and $40, 600
Tor the reclamation of the Anacostia
flats. For the latter project in the 1881
bill $4,000 is provided, the explana-
ton for the decrease being the gradual
completion of the work. Salaries of
park police and other employees take
account Of $4,000 in the estimates.
General expenses in connection with
the park system call for appropriations
OF $1,660, 195, more than double the
amount Of last year, or an increase of
$685., $40, due to the inclusion of a num-
Der OF necessary projects.
IL Is proposed to construct four CEN
tral roadways in the Mall to carry out
the original purpose of the MCMILLAN
plan in 1901. To start this work.
100000 Is asked. This would be dt-
vided into $19,645 for a road between
Third and Four-and-a-half streets and
$4,000 for the improvement of another
street between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets. =
Plan Shelter for Apes.
Ngai and the other large apes of thu
Zoo will have a fine, modern shelter II
an item OF $250,000 to construct new
building is granted. This building
would be primarily for the smaller ani-
mas oelng received constantly at the
zoo and Tor which there Is now no gen.
eral quarters. 1t is also suggested for
domicile of the apes, Of which the Zoo
mas a large number.
A renewed request is made in the
estimates Tor two bathing pools at n
cost OF 100000 and $14,565 for cons
unuing the war on mosquitoes. Com.
pletlon OF the field house for golfers ia
East Potomac Park would entail another
expense OF SOS, 900. Another appropri-
alton Of $4,000 for a seawalI in Po.
tomac Park also is requested.
or the total amount asked by thu
ONCE OF public buildings and public
parks, $45, 1000 would be used for band
concerts and sports, $15,14O to start
improvements at the Langdon- Woods
ridge Park and $45,00O to start the
Takoma-Manor Park Recreation Cen-
ter, which will cost a total of 1923 ora.
Another item of 100000 is asked to
continue the work being done at Merid-
Ian Hill Park and $500,00O for con.
tinued Improvement of the Rock Creek
and Potomac parkway.
>. The estimates also include a 5000
Item Tor the Aqueduct Bridge, to pro.
vide for the pumping of the inrraaseS
amount Of water which It is estimate
Washington will need in 1882.