Evening star., 1934-08-02
TREASURY DIVIDES
AUTHORITY OVER
FEDERAL BUILDING
Eight Districts Set Up to
Pass Upon Local Engi-
neering Problems.
H. S. M'ALLlSTER HEADS
OFFICE IN WASHINGTON
c. H. Branscombe, Herman J.
Bounds and Others Also APP
pointed to Posts.

To decentralize authority and AZ
ministration, and to speed the Gov
ernment's building program through
out the Nation, the Treasury Depart-
ment has Just completed a reorgani-
zation of its field forces of the public
works branch, procurement dlvlslon,
dividing the country into eight Chs
tricts, one Of which has headquarters
in Washington.
H. S. McAllister, who for many
years has been an inspection engineer
at large, detailed from Washington
to building projects in the field, has
been assigned to head the local office,
to be known as district No. 8.
This district headquarters, which
temporarily has been established In
the Government construction office at
Thirteenth and c streets, in the heart
of the Federal building triangle. will
supervise construction and maintain
and repair all Federal buildings under
Treasury control in the District,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Delaware, Pennsylvania and North
Carolina.
Other Men Appointed.
Other officials of the local district
include two men well known to the
local Federal building field. C. H.
Branscombe, former senior conStruc-
tion engineer, has been appointed as
sistant district engineer. Branscombe
represented the Treasury as construc-
ton engineer in charge of the gigars-
tic Department of Commerce, Depart
ment of Justice and Archives Build
ings.
Herman j. Bounds, former inspec-
tion engineer, has been appointed
mechanical engineer. He is well
known here, having inspected and su-
pervised the mechanical equipment
in the new Internal Revenue Build
ing, Post Ofice Department, Inter-
state Commerce Commission, Govern
ment Auditorium, Department of La
Dor and Government Heating Plant.
Horace Rose, former associate con-
struction engineer, who has recently
been on Federal work in Florida, has
been made inspection engineer.
McAllister has been i'll at Norfolk,
Va, where he recently underwent an
operation at the Marine Hospital, but
has returned to Washington and will
report for duty soon.
Has Wide Jurisdiction.
The new decentralization will enable
district offices to pass on many prob
lens which previously had been re-
ferred here to headquarters. The
local district already has under its
jurisdiction 181 completed buildings,
on which it is responsible for main
tenance and repair, and has about
10 buildings, belonging to the Treas
ury Department here in the city. Most
OF the other Federal buildings here
however, are under care of the Ma
tional Park Service. The new district
engineers Office will direct compile
tion of all new buildings here under
the Treasury supervision, and all new
buildings in the nearby six States.
Fifty new buildings are under con-
tract, and about 10 authorized, max
ing a total of more than 800 build
ingS under control of the new district
Office.
Throughout the country, the eight
district Offices will have charge of
more than $500 buildings, including
1900 old ones, so new ones under
contract, out of the 465 authorized
by P. w. A. money, and 300 more
authorized under the emergency ad-
ministrative act
The other seven district offices,
with the district engineer in charge of
each are as follows:
No. l, Boston, e. G. Schurig, disr
trict engineer; No. 2, New York, A. B.
McCulloch, district engineer; No. 4,
Atlanta, H. G.. Richey; No. S, Chi
acago, A. A. Packard; No. 6, Kansas
City, M. N. Collier; No. 2, Dallas, Tex,
l. D. Porter; No. 8, San Francisco,
w. A Newman.
0. r. PoSs, former inspection engi-
neer in WASHINGTON, was named me-
chanical enginee. ct the San Fran
cisco Office. PosS inspected several of
the new buildings here during the last
several years, on mechanical equip
ment.
Federal buildings under the super
vision of the new district engineers
include post offices, parcel-post build
ings, Federal Office buildings, marine
hospitals, quarantine stations, border
patrol stations, heating plants and
monumental structures.