Evening star., 1933-04-15

jobs, which otherwise would have been
done, will be postponed:
& street from Rock Greek to Twenty
fourth street, Twenty-eighth street
from Olive street to Dumbarton avenue,
Olive street from N street to a point
between Dumbarton and Twenty-ninth
streets, Eighth street southeast from
Pennsylvania avenue to M street, II
street from North Capitol to First
street, Alley of Square 237, L street
from Ninth to Tenth street and alley
of Square 369. South Carolina avenue
southeast between Third and Fourth
streets.
The item for suburban sewers is
even more savagely slashed. The fig
ure in the bill is S175,000 A COM
parable figure for 1888 is S601 900.
This reduction, amounting to S426,-
600, will mean cutting out all paving
IN advance Of highway construction,
Jobs totaling s174,790, and also the
following jobs:
Stormwater sewers between Forty
sixth and Brandywine streets and
Forty-fourth and Alhemarle streets; in
Fourteenth street northeast between
Michigan avenue and Randolph street:
in Legation street between Thirtieth
street and Thirtieth place; the Stick
foot Branch stormWater sewer in Sher-
idan road between Elyans street and
Jasper road; in Nebraska avenue be-
tween Daniel road and Rittenhouse
street; in Brandywine street between
Forty eighth street and Asbury place
and in Asbury place between Brandy
wine and Chesapeake streets; in Kama
wha street between Nevada avenue and
Chevy Chase Parkway and in Chevy
Chase Parkway between Kanawha and
Jenifer streets; and an outlet sewer in
South Dakota avenue between Allison
and Decatur streets.
The item last on the above list was
intended to allow settlement east of
the B. &, o. Railroad tracks near the
Eastern Star Home connection with
the sewer system which it now lacks.
The appropriation for sewers to be
built under the assessment and permit
system In the bill is SIS, 900. A COM
parable figure for 1888 is S303,000. of
which it is expected, however. that only
S243 600 will be spent during the 1888
fiscal year
This is the class of work which is
done at the request Of property owners,
and the cost Of which is assessed
against the properties abutting the
sewer. Therefore, an increase in the
amount of this Appropriation would not
mean that the taxpayers as a whole
were being called on to pay any more
money, and conversely. a cut in the
appropriation saves the general tax
payers nothing The net result. as far
as can be determined, is that a num-
Der Of persons who want sewers and
are willing to pay for them will not be
allowed TO have them. The Sewer De-
partment is now at work divising some
standards to guide it in deciding which
OF the applications TO accept, and which
Of them to refuse. It now estimates
that it will have calls TOR about S146.-
900 worth of this kind OF work in 1884,
and that it Will have TO reject applica-
tions for S7l0 worth.
The appropriation of Sl60,000 for
salaries for the department is the
equivalent of giving every employe a
12k4 DAY furlough. This will not be
done. however, and the money will be
made up in variety of ways. Two en-
ployes will retire during the year and
their places will not be filled. The pay
of two foremen, now on 'whole-cost
work" will be charged against the jobs
they are doing, instead of the salary
appropriation, and one other mainte-
nance foreman, considered indispens-
able, will be transferred to one of the
working appropriations.
The biggest reduction in employment
caused by the cut in Sewer Department
appropriations, however, is in the work
items A rule-of-thumb method of CAL
culating, often employed, Is to esti-
mate that every laborer makes ST ,000
for II months work, and that OF the
work appropriations. half geSs to local
iabc- and haH to the materials The
average working season in the depart
ment is six months, so that every S1,o0C
cut in working appropriation depriyes
one local man Of a job through the
six months working season. The cuts in
the working appropriations outlined
above amount to S724 900. and should
therefore, be expected to deprive 724
!. men of employment for six months.