Evening star., 1933-08-06
U.S.FUNDS TO SPEED
HIGHWAY PROJECTS
District Will Share Benefits
With Dozen States at
Early Date.

Feue al funds made available under
the national recovery program for high
way improvements soon will stimulate
employment in a dozen States and the
District of Columbia. where the 1irst
proiec-- are about ready to BE- started.
The Public Works Administration es-
tircated last night that 1900 men who
have been without employment for
months viii BE- at work on highways
within a few weeks and that by LABOR
Gay the national S400U00,0 900 road pro-
gram will be in progress in most states
The District has received an allct-
ment of S1.9l8, 400 out of the Federal
fund and the first three individual prof.
ectS. estimated to cost about S335o0
have been approred 1t IS belize ed Vo!k
Gil all three will be started by 'oarly
September.
Fridge Projects Listed.
The thee projects are construction Of
q new P street briSge. 10 cost about
s290,Ce0 and to provide employment for
about rs men for period OF one year;
tl-z replacement of Sixteenth street
from Columbia read to Tiger Bridge,
just above Spring road. to cost $4,000.
est mated to provide work Tor $50 men
for three months. ana the paving and
othsr Improvement Of Foxhall road BE-
tween Rcsery DIR road and Nebraska
avenue to cost about $4,000. and to
provide work for about LOG men for
three months.
Thomas H. Macdonald, chief of the
Bureau Of Public Roads. has informed
the administration that 1877 national
highway projects have been appro-ed
and that construction will begin Gs
rapidly as CONTRACTS can be awarded.
Nine of the projects are in Delaware,
one in Idaho. seven in Iowa. one in
Lou .s;ana. &c in Nebraska, 90 in New
York, 20 in Ohio, thrce in Texas, 81 in
Utah. five in Vermont IL in Washing
ton and 33 in Wyoming
Preference in selecting workers is be-
ing given TO unemployed on relief rolls
chosen from lists prepared by the Labor
Departments Emplo; ment Service.
Peak operations are expected By the
bureau to b. reached by the end OF
September with 100000 men engaged in
road work. Many other thousands as
ISOLATED in the road building industries
will be benefited indirectly. officials say
Other Work Underway.
The three District projects and the
others to come under the Federal allot-
ment of S1,9l8.400 will stimulate the
Districts own road improvement pro-
gram which now is running at full sea-
scnal swing. under the limits of local
appropriations.
The District now is finishing. start
ing or working on about 40 street or
road projects of all classes under avail
able local appropriations. Some are
from funds appropriated last year and
others are under the 1884 supply bill
which provided 81 ,260 900 from District
gasoline tax funds. plus Sl50000 for
sidewalk and alley improvements.
One of the largest of the projects
paid for out of District funds IS the
repaving OF F street from Ninth to
Fourteenth streets, which will cost
about 100000 1t is to be completed
about September l. The street railway
similar cost The NUMBER of workmen
has ranged from 60 to 100, in the three
shifts being employed
Another of the larger projects here
Is the paving of Water street. between
G and NJ streets. at a ccst of about
$4,000. which will be completed about
September l. AS many as 1876 men
have been at work on this project
which involved removal of street rail-
way tracks there.
Georgia avenue between Barry place
and Rock Greek Church road is being
repaved at a cost of about $4,000.
The work will be finished about Sep
tenber Is. Prior to the street i'm
provement. the street railway tracks
were reconstructed.
Piney Branch Improved.
Fifteenth street between Florida ave-
nue. and Euclid street. along Meridian
Park. is being widened and repaved,
at cost of about $4,000. The project
providing employment for about 100
men is to be finished about Septem-
Der l.
Another of the larger District prof.
ects. not a part of the Federal high
way program. is the improvement Of
Pinev Branch road from Blair road
to the District Line. costing about
$4,000. the work now being nearly
finished. As a part of this project an
underpass was completed in June at
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad inter-
section. at cost of about 100000
Another is the replacement of the
paving of Nichols avenue southeast be-
tween Sheridan road and St. Eliza
beti1's Hospital. to cost about $4,000
September Is is set as the date for
completion.
The District is completing the laying
of new reinforced concrete pavement
in First street between H street and
New York avenue northeast. at coSs
OF about 100000 The work provided
employment for 100 men.
Three projects recently completed
were the resurfacing of K street be-
tween Seventeenth and Twenty-sacOnd
streets Fourth street northeast between
Fra nklin street and Michigan avenu .
and Eighteenth street between K and
NJ c.rnotS