Evening star., 1935-05-17
SULTAN LISTS a
RELIEF PROJECTS
FOR WASHINGTON
Thousands to Be Given En-.
pIoyment Under 3-Phase
Program.
ROADS AND CROSSINGS
TO GET $1,36O, 300
First Group of Operations Those
Which Can Be Completed in
Current Season.

With Federal machinery for dis
bursement of the $4,000, 100000 work
relief fund commencing its work of
ALLEGATION, Commissioner Dan 1. Sui
tan announced today list of A pro-
posed projects here expected to give
employment to thousands of Wash
ington's jobleSs population.
The Allotment Board yesterday
approved ALLEGATION of 81 1850, 300 to
the District for highway and grade
crossing elimination work. OF this
amount, $949,496 was for highway
construction.
The cost of all projects on the list
made public today by Sultan admit
tedly will be in excess of available
funds. Some of the projects are de-
pendent upon condemnation for dedi-
cation of the necessary right of way
and others on various contingencies.
From the list, however, it is ex-
pected will be selected the major
highway, street, bridge and grade
crossing jobs undertaken.
Two Phases of Work.
1t is proposed to divide the work
into two phases. The first will be
projects which can be started imme-
diately and possibly completed during
the current working season, and in
the second those that will require
considerable preliminary work.
The second group will include Jobs
in which extensive underground work
may be carried on to advantage this
Winter as an aid to employment.
The list of highway projects has
been confined principally to major
thoroughfares and includes three gen.
eral claSSifcationS-repla of
pavement. street widening and new
paving Commissioner Sultan empha-
sized that the list is subject to dras-
tic revision and that there may be
many omissions from it.
The grade crossing jobs mentioned
include an underpaSs at Eastern and
Minnesota avenues northeast; an
overpass at Varnum street northeast
from Brookland avenue to Puerto
Rico avenue, and elimination of the
crossing at Michigan avenue north
east The last named project viii re-
ceive less emphasis than the first two
since the 1886 District appropriation
bill contains funds for beginning this
work.
Replacement of the K Street Bridge
over Rock Greek is proposed.
Eight Street Widenings.
Eight street widening jobs are sug-
gested. They are Twelfth street from
Massachusetts, to New York avenue,
from 80 to 46 feet; Seventeenth street
from Pennsylvania avenue to H street,
4915 to 10 feet; Thirteenth street from
Florida avenue to Clifton street, 80 to
40 feet; Twelfth street southwest.
bridge to Water street, 40 to Sc feet;
Tenth street, Constitution to Penn
sylvania avenue. As to 10 feet; Elev-
enth street southeast, Pennsylvania
avenue to the bridge, 40 to Sc feet;
Wisconsin avenue, NJ to @ street, As
to Sc feet, and Independence avenue,
Fourth street southwest to Second
street southeast, new width not yet
decided.
1t is proposed to pave IL streets
which heretofore have never had hard
surfaces. They are New Hampshire
avenue from Buchanan to Kennedy
street: Lincoln road northeast from
v street to Michigan avenue; Reno
road from Yuma to Ellicott street,
and from Rodman to Tilden street;
Chesapeake street from Wisconsin to
Nebraska avenue; Nichols avenue
from Fourth street southeast to Mag
azine road southwest; Magazine road
southwest from Nichols avenue to
Chesapeake street; Nebraska avenue
from Forty-fifth street to Little Falls
road; Little Falls road from NebraSks
avenue to Conduit road: Minnesota
avenue southeast from Pennsylvania
avenue to Benning road; E street
from Seventeenth street to West Ex-
ecutive avenue, and Forty ninth street
northeast from Deane to Eastern
avenue.
Surface Replacement.
Surface replacement projects follow:
Twenty-Second street from E street to
Constitution avenue, Nichols avenue
southeast from the bridge to Howard
road, Water street southwest from L
to P street, P street southwest from
Water to Fourth street, Fourth street
southwest from o to P street, Four
teenth street on both sides of the car
track from Thomas Circle to Rhode
Island avenue and on the west side Of
Fourteenth street between Rhode Is
land avenue and U street, the south
side of Rhode Island avenue north
east from Fourteenth to Sixteenth
street and the north side from Twelfth
to Sixteenth street, Rhode Island ave-
nue. northwest from North Capitol to
Third street and for 200 feet eastward
from New Jersey avenue. G street
southeast, Fourth to Eleventh street:
Fourth street southeast from E to G
street, First street southeast from B
to E street, E street southeast from
First to Fourth street.
The following miscellaneous projects
also are suggested:
Constructing shoulders and iaving a
bituminous surface on Queens Chapel
road northeast from Bunker Hal road
to the District line; covering the pres
ent surface of Wisconsin avenue from
Massachusetts, avenue, to River road
and of Connecticut avenue from
Newark to Fessenden street; curb,
gutter and surfacing work on Massa-
chusetts avenue from Wisconsin ave-
nue. to the District line, and minor
street widening. curb corner ADJUST
ments and other improvements to re-
lieve traffic congestion and promote
safety where such work may be needed.