Evening star., 1932-07-29
TREASURY SPEEDS
BUILDING WORK IN
BONUS ARMY WAKE
Contractors Notified to Push
Demolition, and New Ex-
CavatiOn Is to Start.
HEATING PLANT JOB
WILL BE TAKEN UP
Agriculture Extensible Building
Program Now in Position
to Go Forward.

The Treasury moved quickly today
on the heels of yesterdays evacuation
to go forward with various kinds of
activity in the public building program
both in the Pennsylvania avenue sector
and areas near the Agriculture Depart
ment now vacated by the bonus army.
Contractors were notified to proceed
with demolition contracts, and a new
lob for excavation was placed on the
market.
The new project in the central heat
ing plant between Twelfth and Thlr-
teenth, c and D streets southwest
where several buildings yet remain 10
be demolished The Treasury To-Day
asked for bids to be opened August .
for excavations for the heating plant
Two contractors whose work mao
heen held I'D in that area by presence
of the bonus army were notlfleo thlS
morning to proceed at once 10 cledl
away remaining buildings unoer tneIL
contracts. These firms are Hechlnger
Engineering Corporation ana o. M
Polino, both of this city.
Two Contracts Let.
.r-ha nroiect of the central heating
n1ant is already substantially aoVanceu'
With two contracts already let some
t;rne sgo one for the manufacture OF
IN bnee boilers and the other for the
steam distribution system throusIlou'
downtown Washington, including tun-
nelS and piping. , ru0,ft,
On the adjacent site, between IWelltE
~ Eo,Irteenth and B and c streets
southwest, progress can now GO lor"aLu
on the rest of the great extensible
building for the Agriculture Depart
ment two wings of which alreaoy arc
CONNECTED. The Aaron Berg-Frled 70,
general contractors, were 10 ploGeee
With excavation IN the eastern end OF
this area. while one of their Supcoh-
tractors. H Herfurth, Inc, OF Aiexan-
dria. was expected to continue now WIN
his demolition, which had been inter
rupted by presence OF the bonus g" Iii
The Aaron Berg-Frled contract VII
finish the extenSible bullolng niIllls
three blocks from Twelfth TO FOUR
teenth streets. o.o-
In the Pennsylvania avenue sectoi ;
where the trouble started yesterday tne
Treasury planned to clear on COM
pletely and grade and fence the area
between Third and Seventh streets
PENNSYLVANIA and Missouri avenues.
At present no buildings are 10 De
erected in this area. Eventually one
structure will arise between Sixth ana
Seventh streets. but Congress for the
present has prohibited expenditures on
the so-called "apex" or Federal Com
missions Building for this site.
Wreckers Get Field.
Rhine g. Co. of Alexandria, the wreck
ing contractor, who was ready on two
previous occasions to go forward with
its wrecking contract, had clear field
today for the first time since the bonus
army encamped on this area. Its con-
tract is for clearing the space between
Third and Sixth streets, Pennsylvania
and Missouri avenues.
Prospects are that while this con-
tractor can now clear off all OF his
area there still will remain one large
building between Seventh street and
the Capital in the area between Sixth
and Seventh streets. This is the
structure formerly occupied by the
Colonial Ice Cream Co, final DISPOSE
ton of which is held up pending con-
demnation litigation in the court.
The area on the south side of Penn
sylvania avenue between Third and
Sixth street is to be used for two pur-
DOSeS-Lne cutting through OI SOIlSJl-
tuition avenue across Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and conversion of the remainder
into park. Many old buildings, mostly
of a business nature, but including some
residences on Missouri avenue, were
razed for this purpose.
The contract has not been COM
pleted, and the site was left in a state
of dilapidation when the bonus army
was given permission to occupy it tenn
porarily. The square between Sixth and
Seventh streets will be the site of the
new Apex or Federal Commissions
Building.
Meantime the Treasury within day
or so plans to advertise for bids to fill
in and grade off the whole area on
the south side of Pennsylvania avenue
between Third and Seventh streets.
These contracts probably will be split
up into three, one for each of the blocks,
and will include a fence for the in
closure.
These operations will thus clear
Pennsylvania avenue on the south side
from the Capitol to the site of Old
Center Market between Seventh and
Ninth streets, where work is going for
ward for the Governments new Archives
Building.