Evening star., 1933-08-16
DELEGATION SEEKS
| $25,61,9)0 FUND
| FOR D. c. PROJECTS
Gotwals Heads Group Which
Will Confer With Public
Works Directors.
THREE CLASSES MAKE UP
PROPOSED UNDERTAKINGS
City Heads Call $1,719, 500 Sewer
Items Vital Element in Un-
employment Relief"

The District Commissioners are send
ing delegation of officials this after
noon to confer with the Public Works
Administration in an effort to obtain
alottmentS of S25. 5.261 500 of public
works money for various projects in the
District.
Engineer Commissioner John C. Got
walls, who would be in charge of any
construction work to be done here, heads
the delegation. He was accompanied by
Maj. P. A. Hodgson, senior assistant En-
gineer Commissioner. and John Blake
Gordon, director of the department of
sanitary engineer
The Commissioners had a last-minute
conference with officials of the District
National Guard this morning at which
they received details of a request for
81, 100000 for construction of a Nation
al Guard Armory here. The city heads
previously had sent up a supplemental
request for this sum out of public work
funds.
Three Glasses of Projects.
The long list of projects which make
up the s25000 900 request is split into
three classes. The first group comprises
projects for which the District asks
grant Of only 80 per cent of the tota,
cost and undertakes to furnish the bal
ance OF the money itself. In this grouE
are contagious disease ward for Gal
llnger Municipal Hospital S150000;
Anacostia Junior High School. S12O 900;
woodrow Wilson High School, $4,000
and Calvert Street Bridge, s36O,000
The second group comprises those on
which grant of 100 per cent of the
cost would be necessary and on which
work could be started at once
In this list are the following:
First unit of the Municipal Center
group on the east of John Marshall
| place, between D street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, S4 100000; small mammal
house at the Zoo, 5000 900; Georgetown
Branch Library S175.0 600: new District
Morgue. S105,000; additions to Alice
Deal, Eliot and Browne Junior High
Schools, sl55,000 each; conversion from
coal burning to oil burning the boiler
/ plant at Mcmillan Filtration works and
| replacement of direct current generators
with alternating generators, s82 900,
and reclamation of Anacostia River
fats, sa6o,00o.
s1,280,000 Sought for Jail.
Projects listed in group three. those
| which are worthy Of construction. but
/ on which work could not start for slX
| months. are:
New District Jail. $1,000 600: complo-
| tior of construction of walled" group
and other construction at the District
Reformatory at Lorton. Va, $500 900;
new ward building, GaNinger Munich
pal Hospital, $500 900; combined heat
Ing plant for Gallinger Hospital and the
District Jail 100000: tuberculosis
Sanitarium for Adults. $1,000 900: new
! building for the Industrial Home
4 School c6On
Municipal Lodging House, $4,000:
building for the District Training
School, $4,000; second unit of the
Municipal Center, S5OOO,O00; Michigan
avenue viaduct over the metropolitan
branch of the B. & O. Railroad, s4OO,-
! 600; addition to Truesdel School, $780,
900; completion of Young School, $780,
600; vocation school in Southeast Wash
lngton, 100000; plans for a Manor
Park senior high school. 10000: high
school for colored pupils at Twenty
fourth street and Benning road north
east, 81 100000; additional class rooms
for Roosevelt High School, SI25, 600. and
repairs and Improvements to play
grounds and school grounds. $500 900:
replacement Of obsolete heating plants
II school buildings, s12O,0O0: new Pet
worth Branch Library, $4,000; en-
largement Of the Central Public Library
Building, S500000; new fire engine
house on Rhode Island avenue north
east. $4,000; completion of bird house
at the Zoo, 100000: new monkey
house, s25o,0O0; new elephant house,
200. 900.
There is set of sewer projects total
ing 81, 1,719,500, which, according to the
commissioners request, would provide
| the vital element of unemployment re-
/ lief, both local and in the manufacture
ing field" it being estimated that the
projects would provide local employ
ment for more than 1000 men for one
| year.
These include Northeast boundary
sewer extension, s853,00O; Anacostia
main intercepter extension. $3.50, 900:
Piney Branch relief sewer, s40O, 900
! tthis principally to relieve floods during
heavy transforms at Fifth and Ingraham
streets; outfall sewer extension in con-
nectlon with proposed sewage treatment
plant, s220,500, and Upper Potomac in
terceptor, $4,000.