Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
D, c, WORK PLANS
TO PROVIDE Jobs
!: SEEK &,9)0,0t)
Filings Fail to Come in Rap
idIy-SeWers and Roads
Outlined.
DEPARTMENTS URGED
TO SPEED PROPOSALS
Clark and Allen Want to Insure
Employment of $4,000
for Year.

The Districts works program began
to take definite shape today as OFF,
Gals had on file more than a half
hundred proposals calling for expendi-
lures of more than $4,000, 900 in the
next IL months.
At the same time general claSSiflca-
lions were revealed for the sewer and
highway work to be done under the
presidential allotment Of $2,0l7,000 for
the first seven projects.
District and Federal department
heads, however, are not submitting as
many projects, or as fast, as had been
hoped by Commissioner Allen, District
works progress administrator. and
they may be crowded into greater
planning activities.
Would Employ $4,000.
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Howard r. Clark, deputy works ad-
ministrator, plans to tell the depart
ment executives to put more pressure
on the proposals, since there must be
a continuity of work for about 10000
men and women for a year.
He had hoped to have list OF a
cost totaling about $40 900, 900, out Of
which Allen could select the most
likely for the actual program.
Many suggestions already received
will have to be eliminated or altered
because of restrictions In the Federal
works program
One of the rules is that the projects
must not cover work for which local
funds are currently appropriated or
work generally included in the normal
governmental operations.
Some of the suggestions fall into
this difficulty.
Clark had on file today new pro-
posals, one of which Is for spending
$275,000 for improvements at the Zoo.
Oficials of the Zoo asked approval
for development of a monkey island
which would be surrounded by moat.
They also proposed to open up a
quarry and would use stone taken
from it in the new projects, such as
the monkey island, new restaurant
building and one-story sheds for
equipment.
School officials have made known
they will send to Allen plans for i'm
provement of school grounds costing
$500, 900.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, schools super
intendent, has filed a proposal for
study of colored juvenile delinquency.
the cost of which would be $4,000.
A move to reduce pollution of Rock
Greek is a part of a plan for sewer
improvements to be performed under
the first allotment made by the Presi-
dent. This would involve completion
of the conversion from a combination
to separate system of sewers in
Luzon Valley, the area north of
Walter Reed Hospital.
$50 Jobs in Project.
The cost would be about 100000
and would give work to about $50
men for a year, it was estimated by
j. B. Gordon, District sanitary engi-
neer.
Seven years ago Commissioners
ruled that thereafter houses built in
the section must be provided with a
dual sewer system, one for storm
water and one for sanitary sewage.
Gordon estimates there are several
hundred houses built prior to the
Commissioners order which would be
affected by the new program. New
laterals would be run to their prop
critics and additional sewer mains
would be laid in the street.
Streets which have been laid or re-
paved in the last seven years already
have been equipped with the dual
system of service sewers and they
would not be disturbed under this
program.
Details Of this program will be sub
mitted to Engineer Commissioner Sui
tan next week.
The highway side of the 100000
program approved by the President
gives this breakdown of classical
tons:
Clearing and minor grading Of
roads, alleys and sidewalks, $l06, SIG.
Roadside Identification, as illus
trated by the emergency works prof.
ects at the Harvard street entrance
to the Zoo, $451 ,636.
Minor street repairs, $217,068.
Planting about 1000 trees along
District highways, $4,000.
Breaking and spreading of all high
way materials and the surfacing Of
newly graded roads with macadam,
1891 1893.
The final list of streets in the sur
facing program has not yet been an
nounced.