Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Structure to Be Ready Next
September Instead of
February, 1882.
SIMMONS CITED LATTER
DATE IN CONTROVERSY
Contract Is Also Let for 12-ROom
Addition to Anthony J.
Bowen Building.

The Commissioners yesterday affixed
their signatures to the architects plans
and specifications for the new 12-room
addition to the Gordon Junior High
School, around which a controversy was
started recently by Representative Sim
mons, chairman OF the House District
| Appropriations Subcommittee on the
District, and bids for the new structure
will be advertised next week.
Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris
stated that the new school would be
ready next September, instead of Feb
ruary, 1882, as charged by Representa-
| tive Simmons. This is one of the
rush" jobs that Mr.. Harris has been
able to put through by greatly increas-
ing his drafting and office force early
in the Fall, at the time of the concen-
tration Of energy on the project Of
keeping all public building works going
throughout the Winter as matter Of
insurance against unemployment in the
District.
$171,020 Estimated Cost
The job is estimated to cost $I71 ,O2O,
and there is an unexpended balance of
| appropriations of $247 ,094 available for
1t. The school building is located on
U street between Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-f1fth streets.
At the same time the Commissioners
| awarded to the Loudon-RuSt Co. of
Washington a contract for the con-
struction of a 12-room addition to the
Anthony j. Bowen School, Second and
NJ streets southwest, for S104,495. The
local firm put in the low bid for the
work, for which there is an available
appropriation Of $194,303. Eleven bids
were submitted. The contract was the
second to have been awarded in two
days, as on Friday the Commissioners
| let a contract for the construction of
the John Greenleaf Whittier School
addition.
The municipal architects office has
been working in high gear this year,
and already all plans for elementary
school buildings in the 1912 appro-
priation bill have been completed.
These include the Crosby Noyes School,
the Horace Mann School, a school at
Northampton street and Broad Branch
road, the Charles Young Platoon
School and the Congress Heights and
Deanwood additions, as well as the
two mentioned for which contracts
were awarded last week.
Work Starts on Stuart Plans.
Work began yesterday on the plans
and specifications for an addition to the
Stuart Junior High School. These
plans will be ready some time in Feb
ruary. The Alice Deal Junior High
School contract was awarded last Au-
gust and work on the structure Is now
under way. This building, the contract
price for which Is $463, 100, Is expected
to be finished in August, 1891.
The biggest school job of all for the
year was the completion of the plans
and letting Of the contract for the
new Business High School, which in
wolves an expenditure of $1,251, 800.
In order to give comprehensive
idea Of all the planning work in
progress in his ONCE, with the excep-
ton of that done by the separate Mu-
nicipal Center plan drafting force, Mr..
Harris has prepared a table showing
the date Of completion Of plans and
specifications for all of the work going
on in his ONCE since the beginning of the
fiscal year. These individual jobs range
from the Business High School contract
down to the installation of awnings at
the Municipal Fish Wharf at cost OF
$3.50. Much Of the work was done for
institutions under the control OF the
Board Of Public Welfare.
Summary Of Contracts.
A summary of the table shows that
plans for the following projects have
been completed and contracts let:
District Training School, superin-
tendent's residence, $22 ,467; garage for
Highway Department and addition to
auto repair shop, $211, 200; nurses
home at Gallinger Hospital, $311, 120;
design of electric lighting fixtures for
four schools, $10,309; Francis Junior
High School Athletic Field, $4,000;
retaining walls for Mckinley High
School, $4,000; remodeling heating
systems at four schools, $22,342; putting
O new roof on the District Building,
SO ,797; and many smaller items.
Bids for an addition to the Congress
Heights School. for which specifications
were completed December 20, will be
opened on Wednesday, and for an addi-
ton to the Deanwood School bids will
be opened January 20. Plans and
specifications for the latter job also were
completed December 20.
The plans for the Municipal Center,
as has been mentioned, are being
drawn by an entirely separate force of
craftsmen from those engaged on the
school and other work. This force
works in consultation not only with
Mr.. Harris, but with the members of
the Allied Architects, Inc, employed by
the District as architectural consultants
for the Municipal Center plan. Plans
for the new center have progressed so
far that a cardboard model, accurately
made to scale, has been made in New
York from the drawings. The model
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