Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-25
D. c. DEPARTMENTS
PREPARE TO MOVE
TO NEW QUARTERS
Transfer of Traffic Section to
Walker Building Is Start
of Exodus.
GOVERNMENT PROGRAM
IS CAUSE OF REMOVAL
Detective, Insurance, City Refuse
and, Possibly, Architects Of
fees to Be Changed.

The moving of the Traffic Bureau and
The trafic directors Office to the Walker
Building, 462 Louisiana avenue, tomor-
row will mark the beginning of an
exodus of six departments of the Dis
strict government from their present
quarters to the latter building.
The traffic officers must move because
Of plans of the Federal Government to
take over the area bounded by Four
tenth, Fifteenth and E streets and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. All the buildings
on this block will be razed. The other
DEPARTMENTS will be moved to relieve the
congestion at the District Building,
which for some time past has been acute.
The Detective Bureau and the ONCE
of the superintendent of the Police De
partment will be moved to the Walker
building, probably next week. Later
they will be followed by the insurance
department the city refuse department.
and possibly the municipal archltects
office.
Architects Office Unfixed.
There is an alternative which would
allow the municipal architects once 10
move into the space made vacant by
the moving of the Police Department.
and the Insurance Department. 1t mas
not been definitely settled which VIII
be done.
The decision to move the city Refuse
Department to the Walker Building was
hailed by workers in that department.
with relief, as the previous plan nao
been to put them over the stables
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth,
and @ streets southeast.
The space to be left vacant through
the moving of the municipal architects
ONCE will be taken up by part OF the
Highway Department, which now Is
squeezed into its present quarters. Inc
municipal architects office must nave
substantially larger quarters, as start
will be made soon in building up
force to make the plans for the new
Municipal Center.
welfare May Take Space.
No decision yet has been made as TO
what to do with the space left vacant
bv the CITY Refuse Department, but
this probably will be used to take care
of overflow from the Board OF Public
Welfare Offices. The latter organiza-
ton now resorts to using spaces In the
corridors. a condition also common to
the corporation counsefs ONCE, the
building inspectors office, the Police
Department and several others.
The Fire Department, which viii not
move. is hopeful of being assigned TO
room now used by the Police Depart
ment for Photographic laboratory and
fingerprint room, which adjoins the
entrance to the Fire Departments suite.
The plans for this shifting of ofhces
are being directed by Assistant Engineer
Commissioner Robb. The move to the
Walker Building will take the depart
ments back to where they were 80 years
ago. The building then was used as
the Municipal Building. Since that
time it has. housed the Immigration
Service Of the Labor Department and
an office of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. 1t was bought by the Dis
trict government as part of the new
municipal center site, covering the area
\ bounded by Third and Sixth streets,
Indiana, Louisiana and Pennsylvania
avenues.