Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13
Subcommittee to Decide To-
day on Changes in D. C.
Fund Measure.
ACTION MAY BE TAKEN
ON BILL NEXT WEEK
Schools, Streets, Sewers and Bridge
Approach Among Improve
ments Considered.

Following an automobile tour of the
city today, the District subcommittee
OF the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee will hold an executive session al
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon to decide
what changes it will make in the local
appropriation bill for the next fiscal
year.
If the subcommittee finishes its work
this evening, the bill probably will be
acted on by the Senate APPROPRIATIONS
Committee tomorrow ana taken up III
the Senate next week.
Headed by Senator Bingham, Repuo-
Ucan. of Connecticut, and accompanied
by District of Columbia officials, the
subcommittee made complete circle OF
washington this morning to look at
the more important street improvement
projects and school sites. In the NORTH
cast the subcommittee looked at Ben
ming road, which is to be paved under
the House bill from Fifteenth street 10
the lake in Anacostia Park, at cost
of sl54,4OO, and the street car tracks
moved from the side to the center OF
the roadway.
Traffic Relief Proposal.
The subcommittee also looked at New
York avenue extended, which Is 10 pc
nayed under the House bill from the
hridce at Florida avenue to Bladensburg
road. thereby opening up new artery
into the city that win relieve the tramc
bottle-neck now existing at the inter.
section of Fifteenth, H street ana
BladenSbuEg road.
THE subcommittee then motoreo
through Langdon, Woodridge ana
Brookland, looking over the area wnere
dlfIRrenL
Viewpoints as to the school needs on
onnoslte sides of Rhode Island avenue.
The subcommittee also inspected the
Junior hign school site in the nelgh-
horhood OF Queens Chapel road ana
South Dakota avenue.
Going to the otner side OF Sololers
Home, the subcommittee stopped az
Manor Park, where a request mas Deen
made for an increase in the House item
to cover an additional wing and GYM
rasium at the Paul Junior High Scnooi
The subcommittee also looked at pro-
nosed site for a future senior hlgn
school some distance north OF Manor
PARK in the vicinity OF Van Buren,
street.
Look at Keene School.
Near Concord avenue and Rock Greek
Church road the subcommittee looked
At the Keene School, where 1t Is pro-
posed to relocate the school across the
The subcommittee visited the Calvert
Street Bridge over Rock Greek In con-
nection with suggestion that an allow
ance be made to Draw plans Tor new
structure later on that would cost
about 81 100000.
The subcommittee inspected the Ben
Murch School, which senator Nye OF
North Dakota believes should be en-
larged instead of building a separate
new school at Thirty-ninth and FesSen-
den streets. In the same vicinity the
subcommittee looked at senior high
school site for the Reno section. From
there the subcommittee visited school
site in Foxhal Village.
Trip Ends at Bridge.
The subcommittee also looked at sew
er conditions in the Piney Branch VAL
ley and rode through B street, which is
to be widened and paved between Four
teenth street and Virginia avenue. The
trip ended at the south end of High
way Bridge. where the Commissioners
desire to improve the roadway that Is
under their Jurisdiction.
The subcommittee followed a rule
this year of not looking at proposed
street improvements where the street Is
less than IS per cent built up, unless
such q street forms a part of main
tTafnc artery.