Evening star., 1935-06-14
S7,26,75 ASKED
FOR SEVEN ARMY
PROJECTS IN D. c.
Largest Request Is for S.
397,634 for New Build
ings at Walter Reed.
S1,562,613 IS REQUESTED
FOR 18TH BRIDADE UNITS
1918 for Boiling Field and
$1,121, 900 for Army War
College Is Sought.

Allotments totaling $7,848,735 for
seven more construction projects IN
the District have been requested by
the Quartermaster Generals Office
of the War Department and filed with
the division of applications and in
formation Of the works program, 1t
was announced last night.
The largest of these was a request
for $3,397,63 for new buildings at
the Army Medical Center at Walter
Reed Hospital An additional $1l5,-
385 was asked for Improvements in
buildings and roads there.
A total of $1,562,613 was asked for
new buildings and other improvements
for the Headquarters Company, 18th
Brigade, garage for Army and White
House cars and for the Washington
Quartermaster Depot. An added item
of $4,000 was asked to reconstruct
buildings at 10th Brigade Headquar-
ters.
$l,SSl,s5o For Boiling Field.
New buildings and improvements
at Boiling Field to cost 81 ,531 $50;
similar projects at Fort Humphreys,
formerly known as Washington Bar
racks, to cost $l,12l 900, and general
repairs at Fort Humphreys to cost
S112.253 also were included in the
requests.
The requisition for the Army Medi-
cal Center would, If granted, virtually
complete that project of the War
Department. The separate items in
cluded in the plans for expansion
there include the following:
Roads, $22 ,435; general repairs to
buildings and utilities, $92,950; bar
racks. 100000; quarters, $3.50. 200;
completion of nurses quarters, 81 1884;
gymnasium and post exchange, $780,
600; heating plant extension, $780,
900; quartermaster utility shops, $75,-
600; electric system and refrigera-
ton reconditioning, $4,000; library
and museum, $2,086. 900, and tele-
phone construction, $2,500.
Land Is Needed.
Projects for the 10th Brigade. now
Eighteenth and c streets, just west
of the Pan-American Union, include
the purchase of additional land to
cost a total of $573,188.
The present site is Immediately
south of the proposed new Interior
Department Building, and Secretary
Ickes has asked that it be kept
cleared so that the new departmental
headquarters may be seen without OBJ
struction from Constitution avenue.
The exact location Of the land TO be
acquired was not made public, but
the present site of the temporary
building Is marked for park develop
ment.
Barracks for a detail Of 407 men
and garages for the White House and
the Army and quartermaster depot,
all in a single structure, would cost
s989, ,425.
New Quarters Needed.
At Fort Humphreys, which houses
the Army War College, plans call for
for general repairs, e950,000
for a new apartment house for officers,
$l66,000 for non-commissioned Of
ficers' quarters and $4,000 for tele-
phone construction.
Plans for Boiling Field improvements
include $l69.600 for additional quar-
ters, $147, 900 to complete the heating
plant, $4,000 for a quartermaster
warehouse, $46,000, quartermaster ga
rage; $6,100, to complete incinerator;
$230,000, sea wall and fill; $3.50,
telephone construction: $97 200. head
quarters and administration building;
$5S5 900, hangers, including sprinklers
and insulation; $4,000, field shopsi
$4,000, to complete warehouses;
$685. 900 for a photo, radio and para
chute building; $3.50, paint, oil and
cope storage building; and $16,650 for
gas and oil storage and distribution.