Evening star., 1935-07-17
$823,5OO WORK
GIVEN APPROVAL
Alexandria to Pay 55 Per
Cent and Rest Is Gov
ernment Grant.
BY a staft correspondent of The Star

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ALEXANDRIA, Va, July IA
new public works program calling
for the expenditure of 1928 500 In
construction of permanent improve
ments here was given definite approva
by City Council last night before the
body adjourned until September l.
OF the total outlay, SIS per cent. OF
$452, 1926, is to be paid by Alexandria
and As per cent, or $370,575, viii be
a Government grant.
The program, which was approved
with the understanding that separate
projects of it will be undertaken al
sufficient intervals to permit the
absorption Of Alexandria labor with
out bringing in outside workers, was
divided as follows:
Two hundred and seventy-two
! thousand five hundred dollars for
streets, roads and roadways, including
100000 for reconstruction Of Russell
road with o 32-foot macadam sur
face and 4-foot curb and gutter sid
ings, $4,000 for construction of q
new freight truck route paralleling
the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Po-
tomac Railway Co. tracks, and $44,-
800 for improvement of Braddock
road.
Two hundred and seventy-six thou
sand dollars for storm and combined
sewers, including s165,000 for drain
ing the old canal basin via st. ASaph
street to permit discontinuance Of the
North Washington street dump.
One hundred thousand dollars for
new buildings, including $35, 900 for a
16-room annex to the city hall; $780,
900 for a new fire engine house and
$35, ,0e0 for an incinerator for city gar
bage disposal.
One hundred thousand dollars for
additional curb and gutter work, $5o,-
900 for sanitary sewers and $25, 1000
for improvements to school grounds.
In adopting the program the Coun-
Gil omitted a previously discussed
project for the erection of a sewage
disposal plant, estimated to cost $780,
600. The neglection Of this project
leaves Alexandria as the only locality
in the metropolitan area that has not
taken steps to end pollution of the
Potomac River
Although Mayor E. c. Dawson
classed the report of the city's three
jail commissioners, which recommend
ed extensive improvements to the
Alexandria lookup, as sentimental,
and Councilman j. T. Ashton declared
he did not favor IAN air-cooled hotel
for jailbirds," the Council directed
City Manager E. G. Dunn to make
whatever recommendations necessary
to put the Jail in "a safe and sanitary
condition"
The sum Of $500 was appropriated
to pay expenses of the Citizens Band
to the Virginia State Firemen,s Con-
vention in August, and $4,000 was
allocated for construction of sewers
on Monroe avenue, in vicinity OF
Hume Springs, on Glendale avenue
! and on the block bound by West,
Payne, Madison and Wythe streets.
To reimburse the general fund for
construction projects carried out In
1884 and proposed for 1895, city
council authorized the issuance oi
$150.000 funding bonds to be amor
tized over a period of years. The
bonds will cover expenditures OF
$4,000 made in 1888, $31 800 in 1894
and $62,700 proposed for this year.,
City Manager Dunn reported
$35,000 as an estimate for the erec-
ton of two comfort stations In Alex
andria. He was directed to report on
the cost of an understreet comfort
station, and on the suggestion Of
altering the basement of the Alex
andria Post ONCE Building for rest
rooms.