Evening star., 1934-07-06
e-YEAR BUILDING
PLANFOR WELFARE
UNITS IS DRAF TED.
Street Proposes Improve
ments to Cost $9,214,000.
New Jail Provided.
LOOKS TOP. w. A. FUNDS
FOR 3 BIG PROJECTS
Construction at Gallinger and
New tuberculosis Hospital
Included in Program.

A six-year building program for
various agencies under the Board of
Public Welfare, having a total esti
mated cost of $9,214,80o, was drawn
up today by Elwood Street, director
of public welfare, to guide District Of
ficials in planning construction pro-
grams for the current fiscal year and
the succeeding five years.
With the exception of 1884 800
worth Of construction provided for in
the 1885 District appropriation act,
the program is only tentative. Street
hopes three major items, costing ST.
100000. will be made possible in the
near future under funds to be pro-
vided by the Public Works Admins
tration. as authorized in the special
legislation passed by Congress at the
last session. These three are con-
Struction of a new hospital for adult
tuberculosis patients, completion of
the walled group at the Lorton Re-
formatory and an additional ward
building at Gallinger Hospital.
The outline of needed improve
ments for District penal and welfare
agencies, not provided for in either
the 1885 budget or in the authority
for P w. A. loan, calls for con-
struction program having an estimat-
ed cost over a six-year period of $5,-
$4,000.
New Jail Is Sought
Heading this list is an item of ST.
100000 for the construction of a new
Jail building. either to be new struc-
ture on a new site or a large addition
to the present Jail in East Washing
ton. officials say the present jail is
inadequate in capacity and is not of
modern type, and recalled that an
item for a new Jail was incorporated
in tentative flve-year building pro-
gram drawn up in 1929 by Maj DAN
1el j. Donovan, District budget Of
fcer.
For years there has been agitation
FOR new jail and some years ago a
representative of The Star spent some
days at the institution as an I'm
mate" to get information as to in
adequate facilities there.
Women's Building Included.
Other items in the tentative build
ing program are as follows:
A Woman's building at the Dis
trict Reformatory, costing $4,000;
additional dormitory and shop build
ing at the reformatory. to be built in
a staggered program over six years,
costing 100000; new ward building
for Gallinger Hospital, S750,000; a
chemical laboratory building for Gal
linger, $4,000, and home for doc
tors and internes at Gallinger,
S155 900.
The following improvements for the
District Training School: Improve
riod, 100000: new cottage type of
dormitory, $4,000; a school and GYM
nasium, $l60000; a cottage for chill
dren of low-grade ability. 100000; a
hospital building. 100000 and a
number of small utility buildings.
which will bring the grand total for
this agency to S978.000.
For the Industrial Home School
for colored children the tentative
program calls for construction of two
homes for inmates costing $4,000
and cottage for the superintendent,
costing $4,000
New Industrial Home.
For the Industrial Home School for
white children. now located at Thirty
seventh street and Wisconsin avenue.
the program calls for construction of
building on new site, at a cost of
100000
Improvements suggested for the
Home for the Aged and Infirm are as
follows: Replacement of the admin
istration building. $4,000; enlarge
ment of the dining room. $4,000; en-
largement of the dormitory, 10000,
and an addition to the colored wom-
ems ward, $1,000. Construction of a
new building for the municipal lodg-
ing house, estimated to cost $3.50 900,
is incorporated in the tentative pro-
gram, as well as plans for a new
building for the Receiving Home for
Children, to cost 900.
The 1885 appropriation act con-
tains items for the following improve
mentS: A water filtration system at
the Lorton Reformatory, $4,000 for
continuing building construction at
the Lorton Reformatory for miscel-
laneous buildings and roads, $4,000;
construction of the two wings of the
Children's tuberculosis Sanatorium at
Glendale, Md, and for drawing of
plans for the proposed new hos
pital for adult tuberculosis patients,
S500000, and for completing construc-
tion of the new ward building at
Gallinger Hospital, already under con-
struction. $290.o00.