Evening star., 1935-10-16
$949,4%C.C.R0AD
FUND IS RELEASED
IN WORKS SET-UP
President Puts 0. K. Stamp
on $500, 900 Allotment on
Grade Crossings.
.$36,274,750 is FREED
IN NATIONAL PROGRAM
District Street Improvement
Plans, Speeded to Action,
Call for 6S7 Men.

1876 for long-needed hlghWay ana
street improvements in the District
we're released today by the Bureau
of Public Roads in announcing dis
tribution of s36,274,750 for similar
work in a Nation wide program.
At the same time, it was announced
President Roosevelt had approved a
100000 allotment previously appor-
toned to the District for elimination
of the grade crossing on Eastern ave-
rue, between Olive street and Mime
sofa avenue.
The highway program for the Dis
trict, submitted early last Summer,
involves six projects on extension Of
the Federal-aid highway system into
the District at a cost of 1868, 900, and
l6 general projects for paving at an
estimated cost Of $685., ,596. District
officials said the eStimates had been
prepared on the basis of providing a
years work at security wages for 687
men now on relief rolls. If the work
is to be completed in less than year,
the number employed would be In
creased correspondingly.
sl90,S04 Left for Later Work.
The allotment for elimination of the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore g. Ohio
railroad crossing, which will be made
available when Controller General
McCarl countersigns the order, was
taken from the s4l0,804 apportioned
to the District for such work. There
remains. therefore a balance of $780,
804 to be covered by a later program.
SloWness of State highway depart
ments submitting projects had led
Harry L. Hopkins, workers progress
administrator, to consider canceling
some allotments. The District Com
missioners, however were not among
the tardy ones. Their program for
highway improvements. long consid-
cred in advance, was among the first
to be submitted. Weeks elapsed with
out any definite assurance until today
as to when funds were to be made
available.
Work has been practically COM
pleted on three of the local highway
improvements. 4LCoC lllSiuQC lAC
paving of Tenth street from Pennsyl-
vania avenue to Constitution avenue,
Twenty-second street from Constitu-
ton to E street and Rhode Island
avenue northeast, from Twelfth to
Sixteenth street (north side) and
from Fourteenth to Sixteenth streets
(south side). Funds from the Federal
allotment will reimburse the District
for this work. which had been started
when the city-wide program was sub
mitted.
Many Projects Approved.
The s949,496 released today covers
the entire amount earmarked for
local street improvements from the
5000, 100000 fund set aside for high
way work in the 48 States. The
Bureau of Public Roads announced
that it had approved highway prof.
ects from Al States and the District,
involving s27.557,700 and grade cross
ing elimination work in 81 States
from another s200,000000 allotment
reserved for such purposes.
State quotas from the entire S400,-
100000 allotments we're assigned sew
eral months ago, but work could not
start until specific projects had been
approved py the bureau and State W..
P A. administrators
The bureau announced that con-
tracts for highway construction total
ing $8,532,4l2 had previously been
awarded and $2,478.864 for grade
crossing elimination. That involves
all the expenditures to Gate under the
program.
Simultaneously. the bureau an
nounced that President Roosevelt had
approved programs submitted by four
States in addition to the District Of
Columbia, totaling $6,828, ,487 for high
way and grade crossing eliminations.
The presidential allotments included
Colorado, $2,170,000, and South Caro-
lima, $1,207,000 for highway programs,
and grade crossing programs costing
S699, ,691 in Rhode Island and 81 $685.
800 for Washington State.
Projects and Amounts.
The detailed list of projects fol-
lows:
Widening and replacing of asphalt
surface on Eleventh street southeast
from Pennsylvania avenue to bridge,
$124,00O.
Replacement of asphalt surface on
Twenty-second street from Constitu-
ton avenue to E street. $22,500.
Replacement Of asphalt surface on
Rhode Island avenue from Fourteenth
to Sixteenth street (south side) and
Twelfth to Sixteenth street (north
side), Sal 800.
Replacement of asphalt surface on
Rhode Island avenue from First to
Third streets and from New Jersey
avenue to 200 feet east, $33,700.
Asphalt surface on Wisconsin ave-
nue. from Massachusetts, avenue to
River road, $4,000.
Curb and gutter and bituminous
surface on Massachusetts, avenue from
Wisconsin avenue to Nebraska ave-
nue., $69, 900.
Widening asphalt surface on Tenth
street from Constitution avenue to
Pennsylvania avenue, $35 800.
Widening asphalt surface on Thir-
teenth street from Florida avenue to
Clifton street, $21, 400.
Widening asphalt surface on Twelfth
street from Constitution avenue to
Pennsylvania avenue Excluding cir
cle), $29, 800.
Replacement of asphalt surface on
G street from Fourth to Eleventh
streets, $4,000.
Fourteenth Street Work.
Replacement Of asphalt surface On
Fourteenth street from Rhode Island
avenue to U street, $40.500.
Replacement Of asphalt surface on
Fourteenth street from Thomas Circle
to Rhode Island avenue, $26,500.
New paving concrete on Chesapeake
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