Evening star., 1934-12-21
FIGHT FOR BRIDGE
FUND IS RENEWED
BY TRADE BOARD
$4,000 Urged for Location
Survey Before House
Subcommittee.
new HIGH.LEvEL SPAN
HELD VITALITY NEEDED
Old Chain Structure Source of
Constant Approximations
Ask Social Service Aid.

The Washington Board of Trade
today renewed its fight for replace
ment of antiquated Chain Bridge dur
ing hearings on the 1886 District budg-
ct before the House Subcommittee
on Appropriations.
The entire Bridge Committee of the
organization, headed by George c.
Shinn, chairman, appealed to the sub
committee to recommend an appro-
priation of $4,000 for an engineering
survey to determine the proper loca-
tion for the proposed new bridge. The
plea was supported by Clyde S. Bailey
of the Conduit Road Citizens Associa-
ton, which has been actively cam
paigning for new bridge across the
upper Potomac.
Urgent Need Stressed.
Shinn and Bailey both stressed the
urgent need Of new high-level span,
pointing out that the present struc-
ture, which was built in 1873, Is obso-
lete and "a source of constant appre-
hension.'
A group Of prominent Washington
women urged the subcommittee to in
sert in the appropriation bill an item
of $11,240 for establishment of a
social service department of the Gal
Inger Municipal Hospital.
The delegation, headed by Mrs.
Prentiss Wilson, president of the Wom-
ems Auxiliary of the District Medical
Society, declared the social service de-
partment is an acute need and would
benefit the entire city. The sum re-
quested, it was explained, would pro-
vide one chief medical social service
service worker, four assistants and
one clerk.
With Mrs. Wilson were Mrs. Lester
Neuman, Mrs. Anne Archbold and
Miss Irene Grant of the American
Association of Medical Social Workers.
Evan H. Tucker, president of the
Northeast Washington Citizens Asso-
citation, asked the subcommittee to
provide funds to begin the replace
ment of the Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge across the Anacostia River and
to be liberal with the Community
Center Department of the public
schools. -.--
Plea for S21S,00O School.
A vigorous plea for an appropriation
of $4,000 for the erection of a new
building to replace the Dennison Vo-
cational School was made by Mrs.
Harvey Wiley, president of the Dis
trict Federation of Women's Clubs,
and Mrs. Edward Chaplin of the
American Association of University
Women.
Mrs. Leslie Wright, member Of the
Ben Murch Home and School Asso-
citation, urged an appropriation of
$4,000 for stadium at the new
Woodrow Wilson Senior High School.
She said she believed the Budget Bu-
reau had already approved an item
of $4,000 for completion of construc-
ton at the school and grading of the
grounds.
Mrs. Wright also asked an appro-
priation for second wing at the
Alice Deal Junior High School, which,
she said, is overcrowded.
Hearings on the budget will come
to a close after civic and business
leaders complete their arguments for
public improvements, and the sub
committee will spend the holiday Pc
riod in marking the 1896 appropria-
ton bill Chairman Cannon expects
to have the measure ready to report it
to the House few days after Con-
gress conyenes January 8.
Rufus s. Lusk, secretary Of the
Washington Taxpayers Association;
Dorsey Hyde of the Georgetown Citi-
zens' Association and E. Claude Bah
cock, president of the American Fed
Grafton of Government Employees, were
among the witnesses heard by the
subcommittee late yesterday, after it
had finished taking the testimony Of
District officials.
Lusk reiterated his demand for mu-
nicipal economy.
Babcock urged elimination of the
7-day week for guards at the District
Jail and the 12-hour day for orderlies
Liberal maintenance and equipment
funds for the Georgetown branch of
the Public Library, now under con-
struction, was requested by Hyde.