Evening star., 1932-07-24
BUILDING SPEEDED
BY j. S.FOR RELIEF
Treasury and Post Office De.
partments to Rush Pro-
gram of Work.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
To relieve unemployment through
furnishing work on the public buildings
authorized and appropriated for by
Congress, Treasury and post Office Of
ficials are bending every effort to ex-
pand and speed up their program as
far as possible.
Plans have been laid for spending
S123 100000 in the erection Of Fedora
buildings throughout the country during
the fiscal year which began July l. The
entire program, which calls for the ex-
penditure of 100000 900, will take sew
eral years to complete.
100000, 900 More Available.
Congress already has appropriated
S496, ,463,942 and the relief bill passed
, priated another $100,000,000 to be spen,
whenever the Secretary Of the Treasury
can certify to the President the money
is available to start the additional work
1t is not deemed likely that this work
will get under way this year. The build
inngs which will be erected under this
provision will be selected by the Treas
ury from a list already allocated by
Congress. and is expected to be made in
time to begin work in the next fiscal
year, a year hence.
The Treasury had $4,000 900 OF
public buildings under obligation on
July /, and during this year expects to
place another S110O00000 under con-
tract, spending in the fiscal year Sl23,-
100000 While Congress has made an
other s10O000000 available when the
money is on hand, the economy bill
70; IL I,ot I,a ~
cost on all building projects not now
under contract must be cut 10 per cent
Treasury architects expect they will be
able to revise the plans of most of the
buildings to come within the reduced
limits. but in some cases they will have
to call for supplementary bids reducing
the cost of the buildings, and in others
call for new bids by readvertiSing the
projects. In all, about 220 projects will
be affected. but the reduction is not
expected to slow down the program
which has been pushed at a maximum
speed for the last three years.
2O5 Buildings Completed.
The Treasury. under it's building pro-
gram started anew in 1923, had COM
pleted 2O5 buildings bv July 1 this year
at a cost of 64,689,919 1t had 359
buildings under contract, which will cost
S307 7.416. 800, while sites purchased in
the District of Columbia had cost S27.-
522, ,523 and bids we're on the market
or in the specification stage for 1l8
projects which will cost S53675.023.
The supervising architects Office OF
the Treasury is drawing plans for A
projects, while private architects are
drawing plans for 62 projects, the COM
bined cost of which will be $3l, 1924, 600
The Government owns the land for
three additional projects for which the
drawings have not been started. These
buildings will cost s595, 900. 1t has Sc
lected the sites for six projects which
will cost s1,780,000, but has not yet re-
ceived title to the land. Sites for four
projects are awaiting selection. These
will cost 81 .585, 900, while Is projects
are held up for amended legislation and
will cost S6700,000. There is still avail
able an additional s1,157477 for pur-
chase of land in the District OF
Columbia