Evening star., 1933-09-21
|ARMY POSTS HERE
|GET BUILDING FUND
Much New Construction
Planned Under $6,050,514
for Public Works. /

News Of the allotment Of $54,709, 1853
from the public works fund for the War.
Department housing program was re-
ceived with . great deal Of satisfaction
today at Army posts in the District Of
Columbia, nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia, where total Of $6,050,5l4 Is to
be spent on much-needed construction
and reconditioning.
Boiling Field, the Army's big aviation
center in the District, where the i'm
pounding Of appropriations some time
ago tied up work on 80 buildings, will
share to the extent Of $3.50, 400. This
will be sufncient, 1t was said, to remedy
existing conditions at the flying Held
and complete the new quarters for
personnel.
Fort Myer, Va, is to receive $345. POI,
which win be spent in the construction
Of barracks, officers quarters, garages,
a veterinary hospital, chapel, radio
transmission building and completion
of an addition to the commissary. Re
pairs will be made on roads, electrical
system and buildings.
Plans for Fort Humphreys.
The largest allotment, $2,2s3,7S7, goes
to Fort Humphreys, Va, where the
Army maintains its Engineers School.
This fund will carry forward building
program which will make Fort Hum
phreys one Of the best-equipped stations
in the East. The money will be spent
on construction Of officers quarters, fire
station and guard house, warehouse.
childrens' school, bakery. garage, mag
azne, fuel and scale house. Repairs
will be made on roads and buildings.
Al l. 1< khA
Tank Corps School, similar construc-
ton and reconditioning will be made
possible from a fund of $610,597. New
officers and non-commissioned officers
quarters. long needed at the post. will
be built.
Arlington House, the reconditioned
home Of the Lee family in Arlington
National Cemetery, which is under the
administration Of the parks service,
has been allotted $12,470 This will
complete rehabilitation work already
started.
The Army Medical Center in Wash
ington will receive $53,339, which will
be expended on a nurses home.
Fort Washington Ignored.
Fort Monroe, Va, which was dam
aged to the extent Of $1,000 900 during
the recent storm, has been allotted
SAL 500. This will be used to repair
the Coast Artillery defenses, badly
damaged, and to take care of other
emergency work which cannot be de-
layed longer. Langley Field, Va, will
receive $l,786,l00 for a large variety
OF conditioning and construction work.
benefited from the public works fund
are Edgewood Arsenal. Nd, s4,999;
Fort Hoyle. Md, $5,028; Fort Howard,
Md, $7,6l5; Holabird Quartermaster
Depot, Baltimore, $9,377.
Fort Washington, about II miles
down the Potomac, was not listed
among the stations In this section as
being within the allotments. This was
taken to mean that this post, an i'm
portant defense Of Washington In the
early days Of the republic, might be
abandoned eventually.
The work authorized at Boiling
Field comes at time when conditions
at the flying field were a sore problem.
Thirty beautiful buildings, among the
finest on any Army post. stand empty
IN . wilderness on the site Of the new
Boiling Field, due to lack Of roads,
grading and electrical connections to
make them habitable. Oficers and en-
listed men on the post, meanwhile, are
living in dilapidated wooden shacks
from which they recently were driven
by flood waters.
Means Many Jobs.
Contracts for new construction work
held up by the impounding of funds,
now will 60 forward Grading and paw
ing will be completed so the empty
buildings can be occupied. A dispensary
and officers mess also will be completed.
approximately 81, ,0O0, 900 has been ex-
pended on the new projects at Boiling
Field during the past two years. The
81 buildings now standing include two
quarters for field officers, IL quarters
for company oficers, II double houses
containing % quarters for non-com-
m1ssioned officers, q barracks building
containing quarters for 357 enlisted
men, warehouses q combined post ex-
change. gymnasium and recreation
room; and combined fire station and
guard house
No estimate has been made of the
number OF workers to be given employ
ment on the various projects in and
near the District. At Boiling Field, the
last Of the 600 employees engaged on
the work were let out some time ago.
Many OF these will now be re-emploved