Evening star., 1932-08-06
S14,qO IS LOW BID
TO EXCAVATE SITE
OF HEATING PLANT
Treasury to Let Contract
Soon for ProjeCt-Bonus
Area to Be Cleared.
FILLING OF LARGE SPACE
IN SOUTHWEST PLANNED
Dirt Taken From Other Operations
Will Be Available-Health
Officer Asks Action.

The Government moved forward to-
day in several phases of its public
building program to coordinate various
factors to provide for excavation in one
place, filling and grading in several
others, and cleaning up of debris left
by the bonus army.
Bids were opened by the Treasury
Department for excavation of the site
for the Federal Central Heating Plant,
between c and D, Twelfth and Thir
teenth streets southwest The low bid
der is P T. McDermott Co., Inc, 1914
Wisconsin avenue. who offered to exca-
vate the site and surround it with a
fence for $14940. Edward Radtke,
POS Ninth street southwest, was sec
ond low bidder at $16,3 300, with Knopp
e. Wise. 1912 Twenty-eighth street,
Mount Rainier, Md, third at Sl6,740.
The contract probably will be let within
q few days.
Bids to Be Opened.
Meantime the Treasury advertised
for bids to be opened August 10 for
filling grading and fencing a large
area known as Reservation G, bounded
by Maryland and Maine avenues, Third
and Four-and-a-Half streets southwest.
The property has been purchased by
the Government, and most of the old
buildings have been torn down. The
bids will include also clearing away
some buildings, but will leave two oil
stations on Third street, and few
buildings on Third street to be used
by the Government for storage.
Another site to be cleared, graded
and filled soon Is square 46l, between
Sixth and Seventh streets, Pennsyl-
vania and Missouri avenue, for which
bids will be opened August II. One
large building will remain standing in
this site, until its status is determined
in court condemnation proceedings
Contractors also are busily engaged
in clearing up the Pennsylvania avenue
sector occupied by the bonus army
from Third to Sixth streets, which will
be not only cleared, but filled and
graded.
Dirt Is Available.
Dirt for these various filings Is now
available from the excavation under
way for the new Extensible Building of
the Agriculture Department, which
eventually is to extend from Twelfth
to Fourteenth streets, B and c streets
southwest AS soon as the contract is
let for the central heaJlng plant eA-
cavation nearby, more dirt will be avail
able The Government co-ordinated
these various jobs SO as to be able to
have the dirt available at the time 1t
was needed for fills
While this general program was
under way, the Treasury received from
the District health officer, DR.. w. C.
Fowler, a request to clean up several
sites in the downtown area left Uttered
by the bonus army. Some OF them
were in areas already planned for clear
ing, and the Treasury is taking steps
Immediately to clear the remainder.
DR.. Fowler said his sanitary inspectors
had found accumulation of unclean
papers, rags and miscellaneous refuse
on the property, which is under control
of the Treasury Department.
Some Of the areas, both north and
south of the Mall, which are being
cleared and graded will be used soon for
storage of materials for two large build
ings now under construction in the
Federal triangle-the Archives, between
Seventh and Ninth streets, PennSyl-
vania and Constitution avenues, and
the Department of Justice, between
Ninth and Tenth streets, Pennsylvania
and Constitution avenues.