Evening star., 1936-06-28
H|GHWAYPR0GRAM
FOR D. c. TO START
WITHIN TWO WEEKS
Gasoline Tax to Finance
Nearly All of $1,739, 900
Expenditure.
CONTRACTS AWARDED
FOR S373,369 TOTAL
$3.50, 900 Provided for New Chain
Bridge-0ther Projects
Listed.

Washington's 1887 fiscal year high
way improvement program, for which
Congress approved total expenditure
of $1,739 ,00o-almost all of which will
be financed out of gasoline tax reve-
nues-will be started within two weeks,
under plans announced yesterday by
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst. director Of
highways.
Prompt starting of the work on a
long list of streets was made possible
by preliminary planning and eStimat-
ing completed in anticipation of final
passage of the supply bill for the year
which begins wednesday.
The Commissioners to date have
awarded contracts for projects costing
$373,369. Others will follow during
the Summer, but some of the work
will be performed during the Fall and
Spring construction seasons.
To Provide Many Jobs.
Hundreds of jobs will be provided
IN these programs, which would have
been lost had the regular District
bill failed and had Congress passed
a continuing resolution as substi-
tute.
The Commissioners have awarded
o contract to the Warren F. Brenizer
Co. of this city for improvement to
IA streets which were listed in the
appropriation measure. In addition,
they have awarded contracts to AL
fred ]. Wise for S16.160 for grading
of miscellaneous streets and alleys; to
the Wilmoth Paving Co. for $l72, 300
for grading and paving alleys and
sidewalks and Improvements to streets,
and to the Highway Engineering &;
Construction Co., Inc, for widening,
paving and repaving other highways.
They also have ordered the i'm
provement to Third street between
Underwood street and Blair road;
Nebraska avenue between Forty-fifth
street and Indian lane and Third
street between Kansas avenue and
Peabody street. Contracts for these
will be awarded later. The estimated
total cost of the three is figured at
about s74,700.
S250,000 for Chain Bridge.
The total program Of s1,739 900 in
cludes an appropriation of S250,000
for planning and starting construc-
ton of new Chain Bridge. the maxi
Of rr,Ioi {e -
S350000. There also is an item of
S25.000 for drafting of plans for a
proposed new Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge and s65,0OO for repairs to
existing bridges.
The projects awarded to the Breni-
Der Co. follow:
Eighth street between Dahlia and
Elder streets, Harvard street be-
nue., Hemlock street between Four
teenth and Sixteenth streets, Sew
enth street between Quackenbos and
Rittenhouse streets, Runnymeade
place between Broad Branch road
and Nevada avenue, Nevada avenue
between Runnymeade place and
Western avenue.
Franklin street northeast between
Twentieth and Twenty-second streets,
Franklin street northeast between
Fourteenth street and Rhode Island
avenue, Franklin street northeast be-
tween Tenth and Thirteenth streets
and Franklin street northeast be-
tween Lincoln road and Sixth
street, Staples street northeast be-
tween Morse and Neal streets, Twen-
ty-second street northeast between
Queens Chapel road and Franklin
street, Shepherd street northeast be-
tween Twentieth and Twenty
streets and Third street northeast
between Douglas and Evarts streets.