Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
D. c. Navy Yard, Quantico
and Anacostia Airport
to Employ Labor.
EMPLOYERS EVERYWHERE
HELPING IN WOODS PLAN
Rebuilding of Quay Wall at Naval
Academy and Yorktown Pier
Repairs Listed.

The Navy Department announced to-
day that the Bureau of Yards and
Docks would undertake the construc-
ton of public workss and utilities ag-
gregating $l4,0o0,000 as fast as con-
tracts for the projects could be let.
The announcement followed reports
from industrial areas that employers
are responding to the efforts of the
Presidents Emergency Commute for
employment to keep men on the Job
during the Winter months. These re-
ports were made public by Col. Arthur
Woods, chairman.
Many Repairs Listed.
Improvements at the Marine Bar
racks, Quantico, Va; at the Washing
ton Navy Yard, the Naval Air Station
at Anacostia and the Naval Academy
at Annapolis were included in the pro-
gram.
The Department said the filling and
grading of the parade ground and sur
rounding areas at the Marine Barracks,
Quantico, Va, would cost approximately
100000. and approximately $4,000
has been set aside for Improvement Of
the boiler plant at the Washington
Navy Yard. For this work two new
1000 horsepower boilers with settings
and auxiliary equipment will be needed.
Improvements in the electric sys-
tenn Of the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa would cost $4,000, while re-
envy was estimated to cost $50, 1000.
In a capitulation of contract placed
by the Bureau Of Yards and Docks for
Public Works over the country since
July l, the department recalled that 1t
had authorized $1,243,000 for new Ma
rine barracks at the Quantico post.
VIII Repair Yorktown Piers.
The other projects the department
said 1t planned to advertise for bids
before January 1, were:
A mine filling plant at the Naval
Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, New,
$2e5 600; improvements at the operat-
ing base, Hampton Roads, $40. 600: .
shell house and magazine at the Naval
Ammunition Depot, Lake Denmark,
N. j.. SIS, 900; water reservoir - the
Hawthorne Ammunition Depot, $780,
600; repair of piers at the Naval AM
munition Depot, Yorktown, Va. $4,000:
construction of barracks at the Hamp-
ton Roads Operating Base, 100000;
barracks construction at the Submarine
Base, Mare Island, Calf, $195,00O.
VIII Remodel Aircraft Shop.
Aircraft Structure Shop at San Diego.
Calf, $4,000: fire protection system
at the Naval Supply Depot, Brooklyn,
N. Y, $4,000, and improvements ut
the Naval Air Sation, Pensacola, Fla,
$135, 900.
The program for the construction Of
shore works ives authorized by Congress
May II. 1880. The department an
nounced that contracts already had
been placed by the bureau totaling
50, 900,0 900.
The contracts let include rebuilding
piers at the submarine base, New Lon
don, Conn, $114.5O0; reconstruction of
piers at the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
$195, 900: power equipment at the fuel
depot, Melville. r. l., $88, 600; pier con-
struction at the Naval Air Station, San
Diego, $10l 900; dredging at the Phil
adelphia Navy Yard. $124,000, and i'm
provements at the Naval Academy, An
napolis, $145,500.
Contracts Of $23,265 Awarded.
At the same time contracts total
ing $23,265 were awarded today by tha
department for a program of public
work, mainly in Washington and VI
cinity. for the erection of radio towers
in the Navy research laboratory and at
Quantico, Va.
McCay & Kirkland of Baltimore
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