Evening star., 1933-05-26
VAST PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM
HERE OUTLINED BY COL. GRANT
Submits Projects to Federal Employment
Sterilization Board Anticipating Pas
sage of Industrial Recovery Act

An ambitious program of public
works here. contemplating expenditure
of s6.029695, was laid before the Fed
eral Employment Sterilization Board
today by Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. di-
rector of public buildings and public
parks. in anticipation of the early pas
sage of the national industrial recovery
act
Under the Arlington Memorial Bridge
Commission, in the program, improve
ment of Constitution avenue from Vir-
ginia avenue to the Potomac River
would entail expenditure of 5000 900;
purchase and planting of trees and
hedges along Memorial avenue from
Boundary Channel Bridge to the East
Gate of Arlington National Cemetery
would cost sec. 900; bride path at the
water gate. near the Lincoln Memorial
would cost $1,000; sidewalks. etc. for
the parkway approach, leading up to
the Lincoln Memorial plaza, would cost
S25,000; the plaza on Columbia Island
would entail expenditure of S165 900,
while gates and a fence at the Memorial
entrance to Arlington National Gene
! terry would cost $40 900 and grading and
landscaping on Columbia Island is es-
timated at 100000.
| $4,000 For Flood Control.
| The report shows that flood control
here would cost $4,000. Improvement
of the Rock Greek and Potomac Park
way between K and P streets would
entail $166,000, while improvement OF
| the Rock Greek and Potomac Parkway
| thoroughfare to skirt the National Zoo
logical Park would cost $342 2.000 I'M
provement of the parkway from street
! to the @ street bridge would cost
s75 900, while improvement in the park
way to create suitable underpass be.
meath Massachusetts, avenue would cost
| $25Q,0 y
! Addition to the Federal warehouse
the report asserted, would cost $780,.
600, while the improvement of Unior
square, Just west Of the Capitol, woule
cost $383.625. improvement of Ana.
costa Park would entail $4,000.
Development of the Mall would cos,
S450,000; improvement of Piney Branch
parkway would cost $127,000 while fur.
ther Identification of Meridian Hill
Park would cost $17l ,000
| Construction of an addition to the
present library wing of the Interior De-
partment Building, to provide space for
the consolidation of the various libraries
of that department, would cost $185 900
Banneker Center Project.
For improvement of the Banneker
| Recreation Center, near Howard Uni
versity. the report estimates cost OF
| $160,000.
Improvement of Anacostia Park. near
| the District line, would cost 100000,
the previous item of $4,000 being for
the road to Boiling Field
Improvement of Takoma Manor Rec
reation Center would entail $145.000,
while that for Chevy Chase would cost
$4,000.
Construction Of items necessary to
complete the existing unit of the Fed
eral Ware House-including electrical
work. heating, plumbing. storage racks,
cooling tower, etc.-would cost $25 600.
Under the Fort Drive program, con-
templating construction OF spacious
motor highway, linking up various Civil
report estimated the cost of the COM
ponent parts as follows:
Reno to Connecticut avenue, SIS, 900;
Stevens to Slocum, from Paul Junior
High to Kansas avenue, $4,000; Rock
Creek to Stevens, $47,500 at North
Capitol, $4,000; Madison street to Fort
Totten, 100000; around Fort Mahan,
$85 900; Maddox Branch, Conduit road
to Forty-siXth street, SIPS 900; Pennsyl-
vania avenue to Good Hope road. $780,
600, and Bladensburg to Kenilworth,
$575, 1000.
Road Projects.
For the center section of the East
Potomac Park field house. the report
anticipates expenditure of S205 900; for
the Klingle Road Bridge, $4,000; for
a new road between Seventeenth street
and the Lincoln Memorial, s43,570, and
for central garage. $520,000.
For installing chilled drinking water
service in the old Post Once Depart
ment, $ll 900 is contemplated. while for
repairing and pointing up the exterior
stonework in the State Department
Building, $4,000 is anticipated; for re-
pairing and pointing up stonework in
the old Land ONCE Building, $1,074 is
estimated, while for similar work in the
old Patent Once Building, $l,020 is
estimated.
For cleaning and pointing up interior
stonework at the Lincoln Memorial
$3.50 is needed, the report says, to
prevent further deterioration.
For repairing exterior doors in the
Navy and Munitions Buildings. $672, and
for resurfacing the roadway in the rear
of those buildings $2,340,O00 is antici-
pated.
Resurfacing the pavement in the
courtyards and driveways of the State
Department Building would cost $1,000,
while for replacing the flagstone side
| walk surrounding that building $4,000
Is needed.
Constructing an exterior wall and
concrete floor to form room for storage
in the courtyard of the Interior De-
partment Building would cost s. 900,
| while for removing the old cast-iron
chimneys from the State Department
Building $4,000 is estimated
Painting Interior Building.
Painting the exterior woodwork and
metalwork CT the Internal Revenue
Building necessary for preservation,
| would cost SIS, 900.
Replacing 10 obsolete elevators in the
Interior Department Building $3.50, 900.
Installation Of an incinerator in the
| new Department of Commerce Build
| ing would cost $4,000
Connecting the old Post Office De-
partment Building electrically with the
Internal Revenue Building would cost
| Sl8,840, while doing the same thing in
| linking up the old Southern Railway
| Building at 1900 E street with the new
| Post Office Department Building would
cost $4,000.
Increasing the capacity of the elec-
| trio feeders in the Interior Department
| Building would cost $500. Installing