Evening star., 1930-12-03
81, ,47G,5OO SOUGHT
FOR STREET FUND
Sum Represents Increase of
$4,000 for New Paw
ing and Repairs.

An increase of approximately $l92,OOO
is for new paving and paving repairs,
including $168,500 for widening and re-
paving B street northwest from Four
teenth street to Virginia avenue.
For beginning the construction OF
the Benning Bridge over the Anacostia
River an appropriation of $210,00o is
included in the budget, with contrac-
tual authorization of 100000.
Another item of $3.50, 900 for compile
| ton of the Connecticut Avenue Bridge
over Klingle Valley is included.
Funds are also provided for repairing
and strengthening the New York Ave-
nue. Bridge over the right-of-way OF the
Washington Terminal Co. This bridge
was built many years ago, but has not
been in use, because there was no street
beyond it. In the appropriation act
last year provision was made for grad
ing New York avenue on the eastern
side of this bridge, to the north OF the
so-called Patterson tract.
AIIotments Divided.
For engineering surveys and the
| preparation of plans for bridges to re-
place the Street and Calvert Street
Bridges over Rock Greek an appropr1a-
ton Of $37,500 is recommended.
The total allotted for street and road
work is always split up into several ap-
preparation groups for different classes
| of work. For assessment and permit
work, of which not more than $4,000
shall be available for paving roadwayS
| under the permit system, the budget
recommends $500, 900, the same as the
| current appropriation.
Next comes the gasoline tax fund,
which is required to be used for street
| paving and for which the budget eSti-
mates $2,000000 for 1882, substantial
increase over the current appropriation
of $1,807 900.
Another important allotment in the
| Highway Department Is the lump sum
for repairs to streets, avenues, roads
and alleys, for which the budget car
ries 81 75,000 the same as the current
appropriation.
For construction and repair OF side
walks and curbs around public reserva-
tions and buildings of the Federal or
District government the budget recon-
mends $780, 900 for next year, an increase
of $4,000.
S125,OOO for Bridges.
For construction, operation and re-
kpair of bridges the budget recommends
S125,OOO. in which is included the
S37, 500 previously referred to for max
ing surveys and plans for proposed
structures to replace the P Street and
Calvert Street Brigdes over Rock Creek.
For condemnation work in the High
way Department, including purchase or
condemnation Of streets, roads and al
1eys, the budget recommends $4,000, the
same as the current appropriation.
For the Division of Trees and Park
ings, which is included under the head
| iY7o nf sfraot and road w0rk the budget
recommends total of $4,000 for 1882,
an increase of $500 over the current
appropriation. This fund covers the
pay of laborers and miscellaneous eX-
penses of caring for the shade trees
that line the streets of the National
Capital.
Another item which comes under the
heading of street and road work is the
fund for maintenance and repair OF
wharves, which come under the control
Of the Commissioners, along the Wash
| ington Channel, for which the budget
recommends only $1,000, as compared
with $4,000 in the current law. The
reduction is due to the fact that last
year there was a special requirement. OF
$4,000 for rebuilding the fireboat
wharf.
For maintenance Of public conven-
ience stations the budget allows $29, ,000
an increase of $l,100 over the current
appropriation.
Streets Specified.
The streets specifically listed for sur
facing out of the. gasoline tax fund in
clude the following:
For paving, repaving and surfacing
including curbing and cutters where
necessary, the following:
enthusiastically street, u street
to w street, $500; w street Fourteenth
street to Sixteenth street, $12,400; Ives
place, Potomac avenue to Fourteenth
street, $8,500; Nineteenth street, 3
street to e street, $4,000; Eighteenth
street, B street to G street, $1,000.
Notwithstanding road, Fifteenth
street to culvert, $154,400; L street
BladenSburg road to Twentieth street
$33,800; ChildreSs street, Trinidad ave-
nue. eastward, $4,000; New York avenue
Florida avenue to BladenSburg road
$195, 900; Thirtieth street, South Dakota
avenue to Bladensburg road, $13,200;
Vista street, Central avenue to South
Dakota avenue. Sl2, 400: Central avenue.
!, $11 300; Otis street, Twenty-fourth
! street to Twenty-sixth street, $1,000;
Twenty-first street, Quincy street tc
Randolph street, $4,000; Twentieth
street, South Dakota avenue to Perry
street, $4,000; Sixteenth street, Law
renee street to Monroe street, $4,000;
Tenth street, Taylor street to Upshul
street, $1,000; Twelfth street Urell place
to Varnum street. $4,000; Varnur
street, Twelfth street to Sargent road
S8.500; Monroe street, Michigan avenue
to Twelfth street, $4,000; Lawrence
; street, Ninth street to Tenth street
SIS 200; Ninth street. Lawrence street to
Monroe street, $4,000
In Northwest Section.
v street, Georgia avenue to Ninth
, street (north of Florida avenue)
Sl7,800; Ninth street, Farragut street tc
Gallatin street, S4,700; Madison street
Georgia avenue to Ninth street, $8,400;
Ninth street, Madison street to Concord
avenue, $4,000; Seventh street, Tucker
man street to Tewksbury place, $4,000
Eighth street, Quackenbos street to Fit.
tenhouse street, $5,700; Blagden ave-
nue. Sixteenth street to Rock Creei
Park, S7l 300; Hobart street, from alley
west of Mount Pleasant westward, ap-
/. proximately 200 feet, $4,000; Cathedra
J., avenue, Woodley road to Rock Creel
Park, S39,700; Thirtieth street, nortf
of Brandywine street, $4,000; Quesads
. street, Nevada avenue to Broad Brancf
road, $11, 300; Western avenue, Forty
first street to Chevy Chase Circle
$23,20O Forty-first street, Livingston
: street to Western avenue, $4,000
Brandywine street, Wisconsin avenue tC
Forty-third street. $l3 100; Brandywin'
7 street, Forty-third place to Forty
fourth street, $4,000: Yuma street, Wis
consin avenue to Forty-second street
$12, 300; Reno road, Thirty-fourth stree
to Ordway street, and Ordway street
Reno road to Thirty-fourth street
$4,000; Forty-third street Hawthorn
street to Tunlaw road, $4,000: Haw
, thorne street, Forty-third street to Tun