Evening star., 1935-11-09
CITY HEADS PLEAD
FOR ?. v. A.FUNDS;
WOMEN NEED Jobs
Prepare to Forward Another
Appeal for White Collar
Projects.
PRESIDENT APPROVES
$419,O84 FOR NEW WORK
Improvements at Zoo Medical
Center and National Training
School Sanctioned.

District officials prepared today to
send a new appeal to the Works
Progress Administration for approval
of a long list Of projects declared to
be needed to give employment to hun
dredS Of white collar workers and
women on the relief list.
Many Of these works proposals have
been pending at Federal relief head
quarters for weeks, caught in a log
jam of plans from the States, it Is
explained.
Work programs under w p. A.
having a cost estimated at S4,l90,000
now are in progress here. Some 1900
persons are engaged in them. Most
of these are in the common labor
class. District officials say there is
pressing need for projects for women
and white collar classes. The District
has sent to the w. p A. plans for
works costing some s12 100000.
Presidential approval of a number
of new projects, costing S4l9,084 and
giving jobs to about $50 workers, was
reported late yesterday. These now
await approval by Controller General
McCarl and an allotment of funds.
Other projects costing S915,000 have
the same status, officials said.
The President was reported to have
approved the following plans for work
at the Zoo:
New buildings and cages and re-
pairs. s229,632; drainage work and
sewer construction, S66,002; building
and improvement of roads and walks.
s24S72, and supplying stone for con-
struciton of buildings, Sl3832.
Funds Expected Soon.
Life at the Zoo, for both the ex-
hibits and guests, will be made much
more pleasant under these plans.
Allotment of money for the new
developments is expected soon, after
Controller General McCarl has passed
on legality of allotments.
Stone shelter houses will be built
for deer, yaks and other hardy, large
outdoor animals. This will make
possible elimination of most of the
unsightly wood structures of ad-
vanced age, which would need costly
repairs in years to come, if not re-
placed, Zoo officials say.
Human guests of the Zoo would
have a restaurant housed in a new
stone building. under another item in
the approved list. Also the appearance
of numerous buildings would be en-
HANGED by project for painting struc-
lures. officials planned this also to
prevent deterioration.
The frame wing of the lion house
would be replaced with stone struc.
ture and the old portion of the build
ing would be reroofed. Construction
of a concrete building to be used for
storage of hay and grain is another
project.
A monkey island would be built near
the lion house. The silver gull cage
would be rewired. officials found the
present wire fabric in very bad condi-
ton.
Pond to Be Refenced.
The American water fowl pond
would be refenced and a variety Of
repairs would be made to the small
Enclosures and the pools in the ravine
back of the restaurant from the
home of the seals to the places Of
the wolves and coyotes. The prof.
ects also propose repairs to numerous
other cages, including those above the
reptile house.
The Zoo administrative staff also
would not be forgotten. The program
calls for construction of a stone and
brick garage in the hillside by the
directors Office and erection of a
stone building on the present site of
the stable near the Zoo office. The
latter would be particularly designed
for the raising of mice, rats and other
small animals and for the operation
Of incubators.
The present structure used for this
purpose Is said to be fire menace
and otherwise unsatisfactory.
Medical Center Jobs Approved.
There were projects approved also
for the Walter Reed Medical Center.
These were construction of tennis
courts and incidental work on
grounds, to cost s16.752, and planting
of trees and shrubs and other land
scaping work costing S9,802.
For the National Training School
for Boys were projects to cost $39, ,988.
These were to include drainage and
other improvements to grounds Of the
main athletic field and work on six
Fairgrounds and improvement of ap-
proaches from Bladensburg road
northeast.