Evening star., 1932-10-17
STATES BENEFIT
BY BUILDING HERE
|S17 Of Every $40 Spent on
Federal Structures in Cap
itaI Goes Outside City.

Aroused by criticism from the States
to the effect that too much Govern
ment money Is being spent in Wash
ington for the Federal housing program,
as compared to what is being spent
elsewhere in the country, the Treasury
Department has compiled statistics to
show that roughly SIT out of every $50
going into a public building here is
sent out to the States for materials
and their fabrication.
Although little has come to light in
Washington in criticism of the local
program, an increasing cumber of re-
ports reaching the Treasury from vari-
GUS sections complain of the expendi-
lures in the Capital, it was learned.
Certain members of Congress, it was
said. have been casting up grand totals
Of the amount being expended here
and are trying to build up public
opinion against further spending Of
money In this city.
States A-e Benefited.
1t was pointed out by Treasury OFF,
cials, however, tina. the public building
program here not only is for much
needed housing, but construction here
actually benefits the various States
financially to a much greater degree
In construction costs than 1t benefits
this city.
Owing to low prices Of both materials
and labor, it was pointed out, the Gov
ernment also Is Getting the advantage
at this time of mu~l greater return
for the expenditure OF each dollar.
Analysis of the amount of money
spent here and in the States was made
by experts from official records on the
largest single connected group Of public
buildings in the city-four structures in
the heart of the so-called Federal tri-
angle. These are the new Post Office
Department, Interstate Commerce Com
mission, Government Auditorium and
Labor Department Buildings.
Only S3,ooo,ooo Stays Here.
Excluding the price of the ground.
the total construction cost OF these
four buildings has been estimated at
about $40, ,OO0, 900. OF this amount, the
experts have discovered after careful
survey that about 100000 of this
will 60 to this city, mostly for labor,
and the remaining 17,00o,O 900 will go to
the States.
Structural steel, in the case Of the
four buildings, comes to total OF about
81 500 900, including materials from
Minnesota, Ohio, and West Virginia,
and fabrication of the steel IN Pennsyl-
vania.
Cement for these buildings comes
largely from Maryland and Virginia
to the extent of about $500.000 in each
State.
Limestone, costing $2,5oo,0oo. comes
from Indiana.
Marble, from Vermont, Tennessee
and Missouri, amounts to 100000.
Terra Gotta, from New Jersey and
Ohio, sends $450,000 to those States.
Other States Get Money.
How other States benefit by public
buildingsl being erected here is shown
by further figures on material cost as
follows: ]
Clay products, New Jersey and Ohio,
and PENNSYLVANIA, $500, 900; lime and
gypsum, Michigan, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia, 100000.
Electrical products, Ohio, New York,
Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Alabama, $4,000
Bronze and hardware, Minnesota,
Michigan. Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
Arkansas, 100000.
Elevators, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Connecticut, Minnesota,
Ohio. Alabama, 100000.
Hollow metal, New York, Ohio, Wis
cousin, Minnesota, $250,000.
Lumber, Oregon, Virginia, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Wis
consin, Michigan, 100000.
Plumbing heating, ventilating, air
conditioning. Minnesota, Arkansas.
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Connecticut,
Ohio, 81 300, 900.
Paint, Missouri, the Dakotas. Arkan-
sas. New Jersey, Delaware, 500, 900.
Glass, Pennsylvania, Ohio, $4,000.
Ornamental iron, Wisconsin, New
York, Illinois, $150,000.
Asphalt products, Ohio. New Jersey.
$150,000
Metal windows, Maryland, Illinois.
New York, Minnesota, $200, 900.
Asbestos products, Pennsylvania, New
York, s150,000.
sand and gravel, Virginia, Maryland,
$500,000
Reinforcing steel, Pennsylvania, Min
nesota, 100000.
Subcontracts Spread Out.
In the matter of subcontracts, the
record shows that so far 13 Washing
toH firms have been awarded jobs on
the four big structures out OF total
of 50 subcontracts let to date. The
others went to firms In the States.
The general contractor for the Labor
Department, Interstate Commerce Com
mission and connecting wing in the
form of an auditorium, Is the James
Stewart & Co. Of New York. while the
general contractor for the Post Once
Department is McCloskey & Co. Of
Philadelphia.
The Washington subcontractors on
the I. G. c., Labor, and auditorium
structures are: Harry Alexander, Inc,
electrical; David C. Butcher, brick,
hollow tile, terra Gotta; James Berrall,
survey; Carrier Engineering Co., air
condifioaniR. A. w Lee plaster: I'd.