Evening star., 1935-12-28

Pension Office Building, now housing
the General Accounting Office, has
been delayed until Congress comes
back. Although $4,700,000 was ap-
propriated for this remodeling, and
designs had been completed for the
Job, Controller General McCarl. head
of the accounting Office, found that
he needed more space than the S4,7OO,-
900 could reconstruct out OF the old
building. So the job was indefinitely
delayed, until Congress can decide
what to do about it.
The Treasury Department is going
forward with plans to build another
structure for the Home Owners Loan
Corp. adjacent to its present home,
formerly owned by Acacia Life 1nsur-
ance Co. The land has been bought,
and a new building, to cost about
81 900 900 or more, will be erected
there
New buildings contemplated in near
by Maryland include the proposed
biological research center OF the Ma
tional Institute of Health. on do
mated site near Bethesda, and an
experimental station for the Bureau
of Mines at College Park, Md, for
which a contract already has been let.
Plans are under way for the health
building near Bethesda, but bids have
not yet been asked.
In addition to completion OF the
major part of the Archives Building
during the year, progress was made
on other important Federal buildings.
The most extensive of these is the
new Interior Department Building, to
cost about 100000, now under
construction between Nineteenth and
Twentieth, C and E streets. 1t is be-
ing rushed so as to be finished by the
end of 1886.
The Federal warehouse extension in
Southwest Washington was completed
during the Spring and occupied in
June.
More Work For Triangle.
Much work was done around the
Federal Triangle during the year in
the way of building of walks, install
lation of sprinkler systems, grading
and planting, but still more is to be
done
At the Department Of Agriculture
Extensible Building, construction OF
two bridges is under way to connect
the third stories of departmental
buildings on opposite sides of indie
pendence avenue southwest.
Since an old laboratory building has
been torn down from the center of
the site of the new extensible build
ing, construction has been resumed
on the two remaining incompleted
wings and part of the head house OF
the extensible building.
At the Governments big Central
Heating Plant in Southwest Washing
ton four more electric, precipitator
systems" are being installed to pre-
vent smoke.
The municipal government during
the past year completed the new
woodrow Wilson High School, at
Chesapeake and Albemarie streets,
and the Anacostia Junior Senior High
School.
Bridges Built.
The municipality also finished and
opened two big bridges, over Rock
Creek, at P street and Calvert street,
and, started work on a $4,000, 600
sewage disposal plant at Blue Plains,
D. c., and an adult tuberculosis hospi-
tai building and an addition to the
Children's tuberculosis Hospital at
Glendale, Md.
During the year, both the munich
pality and the Federal Government
made substantial progress in improv-
ing and developing street, highway
and park facilities. Notable among
these was opening of another link In
Rock Greek and Potomac Parkway
between K and P streets. A low
level bridge over Rock Greek beneath
the new high-level P Street Bridge,
is under construction and will be
completed this year to carry the park
way traffic.
Much progress was made in de-
veloping the Mall especially in the
new Union Square facing the Capitol