Evening star., 1933-05-27
|GRANT OFFERS new
|S12,oD0,0D0 PUBLIC
WORKS PROGRAM
Supplemental List of. Work
Projects to Be Given
Federal Board.
elimination OF SLUMS
WOULD GIVE 500 JOBS
Construction of Five Proposed
Bridges, Estimated at Sc, $50, 900,
Would Employ 2,425.

A supplemental list Of proposed pub
lie works projects in this region u
which the District Maryland and Vir-
ginia are interested, will be sent to the
Federal Employment Sterilization Board
by Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, 3D.. director
of Public Buildings and Public Parks,
covering program that will cost up
ward of s12,O0OO0O.
Elimination of alley slums here is es-
timated to cost s1,500,000 and this.
Col. Grant said, will be co-ordinated
with District of Columbia authorities.
Legislation designed to eliminate alley
dwellings now is pending III Congress.
Col. Grant estimated that S750000
would be necessary to acquire the sites
of the slums and that a daily average
of 500 men would be employed on a
30-hour week.
Construction of road from the Ar
ington Memorial bridge to Rosslyn,
Va, would cost 100000 and employ a
daily average of 100 men. This project
is to be co-ordinated with the Virginia
authorities Col Grant said land for
this highway is about 80 per cent owned
by the Federal Government. He es-
timatsd it would cost S75,0O0 to ac-
quire the necessary ground for this
project.
$1,300,000 Bridge Project.
A Virginia bridge, between Chain
Bridge and Great rails, as an initial
step in the George Washington Memo
rial parkway project IN that area would
cost $500,000. This would be co-ordi-
mated with the Virginia authorities and
District residents as to cooperative
financing and donations of land for
the project. It is estimated that a
daily average of 300 men would be di-
rectly. employed in this enterprise.
Construction of a bridge at Great
Falls would entail S1,3O0.000, Col.
Grant estimates, and of this about s4o,-
900 would be speEt to acquire the site
for this bridge linking Virginia and
Maryland. An estimated daily average
of 425 men would b: employed in this
enterprise, which would be co-ordinated
with Virginia and Maryland authorities
with reference to the approaches.
A bridge at South Capitol street
would cost $1,500,000, with $4,000 of
this estimated as the cost of the site.
This would be co-ordinated with the
District authorities, and the daily aver
age of men directly employed on it
would be ESQ.,
A bridge from South Capitol street
to Boiling Field would entail expenGi.
ture of $250,000 and would employ q
daily average of 200 men. The District
Commissioners would be likewise con-
cerned with this project.
Job Would Employ 140.
For improvement of the Fort Foote
parkway, the cost is placed at S500,000
and the District and Maryland" would
be concerned. The report estimates the
ground needed would cost 1000. One
hundred and forty men would be di-
rect,y employed daily.
For high-leveI bridge along Tilden
street, spanning Rock Creek Valley, the
The estimated cost of the site is $85, 900
and the report places the average daily
number of men to be directly employed
at $50. This would be co-ordinated
with the District authorities.
A new high-level chain bridge across
the Potomac River would cost $780,
600. The report places the estimated
cost of the site at $1,000 ard this en-
terprise would be co-ordinated with
District and Virginia authorities. An
estimated daily average of 500 men
would be employed.
For Wilson Memorial drive, northern
approach, Lee boulevard, in Arlington
County, Va, the report estimates a cost
of 100000. OF this, 100000 would
be spent to acquire the site and this
project would be co-ordinated with Vir-
ginia authorities. An estimated daily
average of $50 men would be employed.
Four Highways Planned.
For grade separations at Fourteenth
street and the Mall. the report estimates
a cost of S1,100,0CO This would carry
forward the Mall project, as approved
by the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, underpassing Four
teenth street beneath the overhead Mall
highway. Present plans call for four
highways down the Mall from the pro-
jected Union Square near the Capitol
to the vicinity of the Washington Mon
ument. This project, likewise, would
be co-ordinated with the District au-
thorities and daily average of $50
men would be employed in its realiza-
ton.
For similar grade separations at
Twelfth street and the Mall, the report
estimates expenditure of ST 100 900 and
this program would also be co-ordi-
mated with the District authorities. It
is estimated that a daily average of
1926 men would be employed on this
project.