Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
WOODWARD TO GIVE
TRANSMITS WORK
D. C. Committee on Employ.
ment to Finance Project
With Movie Funds.

A municipal woodward, to be operated
under the auspices of the District Of
Columbia Committee on Employment
to provide work for destitute tranSients,
is to be opened by the end of the week
on the George Washington Memorial
site on Constitution avenue between.
Sixth and Seventh streets, it was an
nounced today. i
The project is designed to relieve the
streets Of able-bodied beggars. The
Metropolitan Police force has promised
to cooperate by directing all pam
handlers to- the woodward. A gang
of 80 men now is employed placing 1t
in readiness.
The wage to be paid will not exceed
IS cents an hour for not more than
four hours a day. The woodward offlce
will be located in the old st. James
Hotel, Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth
street, where all wishing work must
apply.
Jobs Are for Transients.
In announcing the relief project, the
Employment Committee stated that 1t
is not setting up the municipal wood
yard as a work place for Washing
tonians. The committee hopes soon to
be able to provide work for residents
of this city at a wage of not less than
As cents an hour. 1t was stated that
the 25-cent wood yard wage is all the
committee can offer to outsiders who
come here in search of employment and
who constitute one of the most imme-
diately pressing problems facing the
committee.
Work on park and playground i'm
provement projects is being sought for
Washingtonians.
The George Washington Memorial
site is a huge excavation, several hum
bred feet square and about II feet deep.
surrounded by a high board fence. At
the north and south ends of the foun-
dation are long covered galleries capable
of sheltering two or three hundred men
in wet weather.
It is planned to install hoodlights IN
these galleries so that men may work
at night Thus the woodward never
will be closed and no man, no matter
at what hour he arrives in the city, will
have an excusei for begging on the
street.
Hendricks in Charge.
The municipal woodward will be I'M
der the direct supervision of F. H. Hen
bricks of the Employment Committee.
The timber which will be chopped
and sawed, has been obtained from
several AAlSGOIl SCLACLCAy
has contributed part, while more has
come from Rock Creek Park. The De-
partment of Trees and Parking of the
District Government also has con-
tributed.
The committee announced that it
will gladly accept any donations of tim
Der but that it is not in a position to
transport it.
The money to finance the woodward
is to come from proceeds of the Dis
trict of Columbia motion picture benefit
for unemployment relief arranged by
the committee Tomorrow and Satur-
day all neighborhood theaters will give
benefit matinee performances In ad-
,dition, three downtown theaters, the
Fox, Earle and Palace, are to give bene-
fit midnight shows tomorrow. The
Howard Theater also is giving benefit
show tomorrow.
Other benefit performances will take
place at the Columbia, Metropolitan,
Rialto and R-K-O Keith's at midnight,
Saturday, November 81.
In making public the establishment
Of the woodward. the Employment Com
mittee expressed its gratitude to Mrs.
Henry F. Dimock. president of the
George Washington Memorial Associa-
ton, for permission to use the memorial
site.