Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
NEW i. S. BUILDINGS
WILL Be EXPEDITED
Secretary Mellon Announces
Aim to Construct Three
Projects Here in 1880.

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the mill and surrounding grounds are
used for automobile parking. The
commission building, however, probably
will stretch out beyond the confines Of
this comparatively small block and viii
probably take In part of Ohio avenue
| and some Of the adjacent block to the
| west.
The twin buildings are to be monu-
mental in character to help form the
majestic north front to B street, the
great new avenue of the future.
Plans Tor the new Public Health serv-
ice Building are being drawn by the Of
fee Of the supervising architect, Treas
ury Department, and are In the pre-
lisnInary stage from which estimates
can be made. They provide for q beau-
tiful building Of such ornamental ma
ture that It will harmonize with its ma
jeStic surroundings. 1t will line Up ON
the 3 street front with the beautiful
headquarters Of the National Academy
Of Sciences, on the east. As it viii face
the Lincoln Memorial grouAds and be
| one OF the most prominent buildings
visible from those grounds, 1t must
therefore be designed 70 form an archi-
tectnral feature to hold the beauty Of
the general landscape, and not to mar 1t.
Cramped at Present.
The Public Health Service now Is in
cramped quarters of old wartime
structures. Dr., Hugh s.. Cumming,
surgeon general of the service, and his
headquarters staff moved out Of their
home on Capitol Hill last April to tenn
porary building 90" at Seventh and B
streets southwest. The structures which
they occupied on Capitol Hill have now
been completely torn down to make way
for the new addition to the House Once
Building. Some personnel of the serv-
ice was already housed in Building 20"
and q few more are In Building "P," at
Seventh and B streets northwest. There
IN the Hygienic Laboratory, ct Twenty.
fifth and E streets, where the sensa-
tional developments on parrot fever re-
Gently have taken place.
The new Public Health Service Build
ing will receive total of about 800 per.
sons when completed, but viii be large
enough to accommodate an enlarged
star in the future. It viii be conven-
iently close to the Hygienic Laboratory
and the Naval Hospital.
The course OF procedure In the local
buildings win await enactment OF the
Keyes- Elliott bill. As soon Is IL Is o
by the Treasury for the projects chosen.
As soon Is the appropriations are avail
able working plans can be started and
contracts follow. .s..
The Department Of Labor had been
at one time considered as In line for
early completion. It was omitted by
Secretary Mellon from his statement
last night. This was interpreted In
some quarters Is due to the complicated
business Of removing the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. from It's present property
on the Labor site, to its new home soon
to be built at Tenth and e streets. The
Potomac Electric Power Co. Offices win
be moved to that location, but the
numerous underground conduitS which
carry high-power electricity 70 the sub
station distributing point for the whole
downtown area VIII have to be relaid
under the downtown streets to other
SUbstations. This will entail an enor-
nous amount Of work, and delay the
Department Of Labor somewhat. 1t will
also result in big tearing UP Of the
downtown streets for sometime,
Follows Hoover Policy.
In his statement last night on the
general situation. Secretary Mellon said
he was celebrating the activities Of
the department in line with the Hoover
policy on unemployment.
Prompt passage Of the Keyes- Elliott
public building bill by the Senate" he
said, would enable the department. TO
speed up its plans much more rapidly
than at present. besides making avail
able for this and other years an In
"The contracts that have been
awarded or are to be awarded this
year cover every section OF the country,
with the structures ranging IN size
from village post Offices to the enor-
nous $14, 900 900 building to be erected
in Chicago. This will be the largest
post Office building in the world. This
program will afford employment not
only for many thousands OF men IN
the actual building construction, but
for many other thousands IN the quar-
rtes and factories.
Besides the Chicago building, other
mammoth structures. the contracts Tor
which will be let this year, include Q
ST, SOC, 900 structure in Pittsburgh, I'll
story $4,000, 900 structure in Boston, and
n 43.300.000 building which is to rise
on the present site OF the Federal
Building In Baltimore.
Outside Of District.
leaving out Of the equation, the
$40 600 600 expenditure which win be
expedited BY the passage Of the Reyes
Elliott bill for this calendar year, $1o,-
O0O. 600 worth of projects are to go on
the market by June, and approximate
iy $S5 ,OOO, 900 worth between that time
and October I.
"AIl of this projected work is out
side the District Of Columbia, where
nearly $so,000,000 in Federal construc-
ton is under way, with an additional
$40 900 900 to be put under way this