Evening star., 1932-11-27
OF %1,25
IN YEAR REPORTED
BY GRANTS OFFICE
Public Buildings and Parks
Director Gives President
Review of Operations.
LINKS PLAYED by TOTAL
OF 412,8O1 GOLFERS
Ball Games Watched by 433, 800.
2S1 ,031 Use Tennis Courts, 103, ,5S7
Bathing Pools.

The Office of Public Buildings and
Public Parks, in the fiscal year ended
last June, made SAL 1856 on rents,
concessions, lost and damaged property
and the sale of scrap wood, Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant, Sd, the director, revealed
in his report to President Hoover, made
public yesterday. The report showed
being devoid of illustrations, thinner
than the account of the previous year
and published on cheaper paper.
During the IL months covered by the
report, the new Department Of Com
merce Building was occupied and Col.
Grant explained the increase of 488
employees over the prior fiscal year as
being due largely to the need for proper
maintenance of the new structure,
which is one of the worlds largest Office
buildings. On June 80 Col. Grant had
3,432 employees on his rolls. His office,
through the buildings division, main
tanned and operated As buildings and 5
memorials.
Improved Methods Listed.
The colonel listed as improved meth
DDS and economies the installation OF
better lighting equipment, new drink
ing water cooling system for the Land
Office and old Patent Office Buildings,
discontinuance of electric generating
plant in the State Department Building,
elimination of the heating plant in the
Winder Building, Seventeenth and F
streets, by hooking this up with the State
Department heating plant; reduction in
the cost of electricity; continuation of
fo nf
paint grinding mill, operating an avn
ing shop, and an increase in the number
of signs produced in a short time by
utilizing the silk screen stencil method
of painting signs.
Col. Grant advised the President that
he is co-ordinator of motor transport
in the District Of Columbia, executive
and disbursing officer of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge Commission, member
and executive and disbursing officer of
the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, member, executive and dis
bursting officer Of the Public Buildings
Commission, member of the Zoning
Commission of the District and member
of the Federal Real Estate Board. The
colonel reported that "the regular ad-
mihistratiye and technical Office force
of Public Buildings and Public Parks
is utilized as far as practicable to per-
form all overhead work, not only for the
seven regular divisions of the Office,
but also for the commissions or other
special duties assigned to the director" "
412,so1 Play Golf Courses.
He directed attention to the point
that seven unimproved reservations
were improved by planting trees and
MI 0t-fn hat Ia 81 y{v1% 20 In
Of $50 men, detailed each week by the
District of Columbia Employment Com
mittee, cleared 637 acres Of dead and
down timber-a grave fire hazard
and 696 loads of wood were salvaged
and sent to the Districts woodward
as result of these labors.
Concessions of the Park Amusement.
Co., which operates the golf courses
and ficld houses in East and West
Potomac Parks, at the Lincoln Me-
mortal and the Rock Greek Park golf
course and clubhouse, will expire De-
cember 81 of this year. Col. Grant
reported.
The director informed the Chief
Executive that golf Is the most popular
recreation In the domain under his
jurisdiction, from the players view
point, and base ball from the specta-
tors angle. During the year, 412,801
golfers played the public courses, while
435, 500 spectators witnessed the games
on the base ball diamonds. The picnic
groves, with 258,000 participants; the
tennis courts, with 281, ,o31 players, and
the bathing pools, with 103,587 listed,
were the most popular forms of recrea-
ton after golf. Trailing base ball in
the parks for popular appeal were:
Foot ball, with 189 300 spectators; polo,
with 10000 spectators, and band con-
certs, with 74,150 auditors.