Evening star., 1933-11-22
NEW CIVIL WORKS
PROJECTS STUDIED
AS 5000 GET Jobs
1000 Start Regular Tasks
Here Today, With Quota
Now at 10000.
FIRST OF PAY CHECKS
TOBE GIVEN SATURDAY
Property Survey Will Give Posts
to 10O-Topographical Study
Authorized.

District Civil Works officials today
we're mapping out additional projects
which will place in steady employment
a greater number of joblesS men and
women. made possible by increase in the
job quota to 10000.
Approximately 1000 men formerly on
part time work under the emergency
relief programs today began work on
new Civil Works programs here. bring
ing to about 5000 the number given
steady employment since the President S
plan for employment was inaugurated
here last Friday. Some 1000 others will
be transferred from the relief roster to
Civil Works jobs here before Saturday
In addition to these laboring and me-
chanical workers, about 6OG of the
"white collar" and professional classes
have been set to work regularly and this
number will be moved to close to 1000
before the week ends. officials estimate.
5000 to Get Checks.
The first fruits of the new employ
ment program. in the form of Govern
ment pay checks. will be distributed
Saturday to the 5000 persons already at
work here under C. w. A. status. They
will receive wages ranging from 40 cents
to sl1O an hour for their time since
last Friday. The checks will be dis
passed to the individual workers by
officers of the local administration.
Meanwhile, Commissioner George E.
Allen arranged for a conference late
today with officials of the women's
division of the Federal Civil Works Ad-
ministration. seeking suggestions for
possible jobs for additional unemployed
women.
Capt. Howard F. Clark, chairman of
the District Work Planning Commit
tee, was consulting with heads of nu-
merous District and Federal agencies
regarding specific plans for a wide
range of improvements to buildings and
grounds on which civil works employees
will be engaged.
One immediate effect of the new
program has been to tighten the finan-
cial burden of the District emergency
relief division. Last week there we're
$4,000 cases on the relief roster. Be
fore the week is ended it is expected
the relief roster proper will be re-
duced to about 5000 cases. On this
list will be the aged and infrm or
others unable to work.
Sharp Cut Is Seen.
IN recent weeks tbs weekly relief ex-
penditures have amounted to as much
as 100000 AS result of the transfer
of many of the recipients of civil works
employment, this expenditure from the
District relief funds will be greatly
diminished.
The field of opportunity for unem-
ployed, who are being drawn from the
lists of applicants on file with the Dis
trict Employment Center, 480 Indiana
avenue, was enlarged by the Commits
sioners late yesterday in two new pro-
grams.
These call for making compre-
hensive Typographical and property
survey by the District and a survey OF
housing and rental conditions through,
out the District. One hundred men ana
women will be required at once on the
latter project suggested by James Ring,
rent research assistant to the Pubic
Utilities Commission. which is making
a rent study for the Senate. twenty
five men will be placed in the held at
once to make the Typographical survey,
and at least an equal number OF GRATIS
men and computators will be needed at
desk jobs.
Dent to Direct Work.
Edward A. Dent, the new District
surveyor. was placed in charge of the
Typographical work. Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen, who sponsored this
program, pointed out that the DlStrlct
government never before has made
such a technical study and that the
District has had to depend on one mace
in 1889 by the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey. -,
Undeveloped areas of the District Will
be surveyed for street extensions ana
permanent markers will be established.
Cross sections and grades for projected
streets also will be made.
Commissioner Allen today announced
the appointment of a special comm1ttee
to direct the rent and housing survey
This consists of Assessor William p.
Richards as chairman, Health Omcer
William P. Fowler, Surveyor Dent and
Mr.. Ring.
The survey has the following OBJ
iectives: To determine the extent OF
occupancy of rented quarters the char-
ecter of these accommodations, rents
Maid for various classes of housing units
the location, extent and character OF
housing vacant and for rent and to col
lect data on alley dwellings.
program UlVen hppIONdi
This program has the specific ap--
nroval of George S. Wilson, director OF
the Board of Public Welfare. and Leroy
A Halbert. emergency relief director.
Ring said the housing and alley sur
veys would not entail as much work as
did the 1880 census, which required the
service of 404 persons. He believes the
results will be of real benefit to social
planning agencies and by Government
units concerned with housing and alley
conditions. He said:
According to the 1880 census, there
were living in Washington in 1880
total of 1924 tenant families, occu-
pying 1928 rented, non-farm homes.
This total includes approximately 3,5O0
apartment buildings and rooming houses
which contain some 10000 living units
THE plan of survey which I have
prepared would make 1t possible for
the enumerators to obtain all informa-
ton concerning given apartment
house or rooping house from single
individual. No detailed information
concerning homes occupied by their
owners, persons housed In hotels,
schools, military and naval posts and
institutions will be necessary for the
proposed survey which is directed
primarily at determining the cost and
character Of housing in rented prop
critics."
Two Months Needed,
He estimated the work would be COM
pleted within two months.
The District originally had been as
signed a quota OF $4,000 jobs under the