Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18

Continued From Third Psse.)
haps this example will give you an idea
of the extent of relief building activi-
ties will bring. We are building in
Chicago the largest Federal post ONCE
building in the country. It is to cost
SIG 100000. 1t is probably the largest
way anywhere. It will be of the great
est help to the city of Chicago this
Winter and next Summer, and next
Winter It's benefits will not only
accrue to the man working on the job.
but to the man in the steel plants at
Gary, to the man in the mines. to the
| fabricators of every material that goes
into the building to the grocer, to the
t.;lor and everybody in the town from
whom supplies are purchased by the
people engaged on this project, and the
Sl6000,000 will seep in every direction
5000 Employed by Office.
Chicago is in Cook County The or
binary expenditure for building con-
struction in Cook County in a normal
year is somewhere around $500. 900 000
Private building expenditure, then, in
Cook County in one normal year
| amounts to as much as the total spe-
officially authorized Federal building
tend over a period of several years and
to apply to the entire United States
Obviously the starting of this project
/ in Chicago is not going to make up for
the complete dislocation of the building
industry in Cook County.
We are building all the buildings, or
planning to build all the Federal build
ings in the United States that can be
justified on any business basis, or on
fhnNPU Nf hui d
buildings, and we are building them in
an amount from six to ten times above
normal. I submit that fair criticism
cannot be based on any lack Of effort
on the part of this administration to
be helpful.
To give you briefly a picture of the
supervising architects Office Of the
Treasury. which, as I have said. has
charge of most of the Federal buildings,
the cuStodial force now numbers over
1000 persons. and the total employees
of the architects office number over
8,000 persons, with a pay roll for Au-
gust of over $l,000,o00. During the
month approximately 10000 letters and
kilograms were handled, and contract
obligations were made totaling over
$30,000,0o0 which involved the award
ing of So formal contracts. The ex-
penditures during the month were over
of over 5000 vouchers. Among the ac-
tivities of the month were the purchase
over so new sites for Federal buildings,
involving negotiations with hundreds of
property owners and the appointment
of many private architects as soon as
the sites were decided on.
Capital Built for All Time.
do not wish to close without telling
you something of the work going en- in
your Capital. This Summer blocks of
buildings have been razed; excavations
have been started; foundations are being
built and the steel work soon will be
rising for the National Archives, the
Department of Justice, Interstate Com
merce Department, Department of
Labor, Federal Auditorium and the new
Post once Department Building. The
architect Of the Capitol Is letting the
contract for the new Supreme Court
Building. The annex to the House
ONCE Building is we'll on its way. The
work of altering the Senate once
Building is in progress, and the great
Memorial Bridge TO Arlington will be
opened in the Spring.
Next year the Nation will celebrate
the centennial of the birth of George
Washington. Here on the very land he
bought for the Government he helped
to found we are carrying on building
projects which are to fulfill che dreams
Washington and the fathers Of the Re-
public dreamed many years ago. AL
tile romance In the life OF this Republic