Evening star., 1933-06-25

avenue to New Hampshire avenue
SO 300; Fourteenth street, Juniper street
to Kalmia road, $4,000; Rittenhouse
street, Georgia avenue to Twelfth street
$4,000; Park place southeast, Twenty
fifth street to approximately 300 feet
east, $4,000; Palmer place southeast
Twenty fifth street to approximately 35C
feet east, $4,000; Twenty-third place
northeast, E street to approximately SOC
feet south. $500; E street northeast
Twenty-third place to alley east OF
Twenty-fourth street, $500; Seventh
street, Nicholson street to Oglethorpe
street, $4,000; Nicholson street, Sixth
street to Seventh street, $4,000; Long
fellow street, Second street to Third
street. $500: Tuckerman street Second
place to third street, $3,5OO; Tuckerman
street. Eighth street to Ninth street
$500; Dahlia street, Georgia avenue to
ninth street. $4,000; Eighth street
Aspen street to Butternut street. 81 600;
Ninth street, Aspen street to Butternut
street, $4,000; Randolph street north
east, Bladensburg road to Twenty
fourth street, $l1,500.
Quotes From Hearing.
To show the need for immediate re-
placement of the Calvert Street Bridge
Maj. Donovan quoted the following
from the executive hearings before the
Senate appropriations body:
Senator Copeland: 1T has been rep
resented to us in this committee and in
the Legislative Committee that that
bridge is dangerous and should be re-
placed. and it was because we had that
in mind that we voted the money for
1t this year, besides the question of en-
plOyment."
Again, Senator Copeland addressing
Commissioner Gotwals): do you share
the view that others have held before,
that the Calvert Street Bridge is un-
safe?"
Maj Gotwals: II certainly do"
Again, Senator Copeland: IT want to
know for myself about the danger of
that bridge. When you say it is dan
gerous. is it in such condition that if
some heavy truck were to go over it it
might fall through, that the bridge
might fall down? Is it actually men
ace to the public welfare as you see it?"
Mai. Gotwals: There are two ways
in which it is dangerous. The deck it
self is not capable of holding more than
9-ton truck on the Street-car tracks
themselves. Were a truck heavier than
9 tons to get on part OF the bridge
it could go through, and could
bring down the whole bridge, and we
have a great number of vehicles run
ming in Washington heavier than
tons We have the bridge limited to
tons and we supervise it in every way
we can
Holds Testimony Shows Need.
Senator Copeland-Then. Major. you
are impressing upon this body that We
are permitting an unsafe structure to
continue and your recommendation is
that scme action be taken to replace it
speedily?
Mai. Gotwals-Yes. sir.
Senator Capper-I do not believe
Congress can afford to take the chances
of letting that bridge 60 any longer
without some action.
This testimony, Maj. Donovan con-
tended. presents ample justification for
the $575,000 item for starting at once
the construction of new Calvert Street
Bridge He said this project would
give employment for about $50 men
directly engaged on the bridge con-
struction itself over period Of IL
months.
He pointed out also that all the items
contained in the program except LEGAL
street paving, were included and ap-
proved in the conference report on the
District bill for 1884 in the Seventy
second Congress. This measure failed
of enactment.
The estimate that the program a.
outlined would provide employment +
more than $500 men did not include
the estimate for the bridge nor for a
large number Of men needed for under
ground work, for which no estimate
could be made now.