Evening star., 1937-07-07
FUND Of $64O,O)O |
|. AWARDED T0PAvE
49 NEW STREETS
Commissioners Approve Or.
der for Part of Years
Highway Program.
WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE
ON MANY OF THE JOBS
Others to Be Held Over Until
Spring-Contracts Have Been
Let on Some.

FOrty-nlne new streets in the Dis
trict will be paved at cost of s640,2OO
under an order approved today by
the Commissioners. 1t is only part
Of the highway program for the new
fiscal year for which provision was
made in the 1888 District appropria.
ton act
Work will be started promptly on
many of the new streets, but por-
ton of this program will be held
over for the Spring working season,
it was announced by Capt. H. c.
Whitehurst, director of highways.
Contracts already have been let ccv-
ering some of the work.
This list of new paving includes
those projects specifically designed in
the supply act.
The following are those in the
Northwest section:
New Hampshire avenue, Buchanan
street to North Capitol street, $4,000:
Hamilton street, New Hampshire to
Kansas avenues, S20,500; Second
street, New Hampshire avenue to
Hamilton street, s1l,3O0; Farragut
street, New Hampshire avenue to
First street, s4,5oo; First street, Con-
cord avenue to Longfellow street,
Sl0,500 PoWhatan place, Fifth to
Seventh streets, s9l00 Sixth street,
Tuckerman to Van Buren streets,
$4,000; Seventh street Tewkesbury
place to Whittier street, $1,000;
Oglethorpe street, Seventh to Eighth
streets, $4,000; Gallatin street, Geor-
gia avenue to Ninth street, $500;
Western avenue, Rittenhouse street
to Broad Branch road. s24.2OO, and
Elder street. Seventh to Eighth
streets, $4,000
Crittenden street, New Hampshire
avenue to Fourth street, S5,300 Third
place, Crittenden street to Decatur
street, $4,000; Decatur street, New
Hampshire avenue to Fourth street,
$4,000: Fourth street, Decatur street
to Emerson street, $4,000; Delafield
| place, Third street to Fourth street,
S6,8O0; Third street, New HAMPSHIRE
avenue to Emerson street, slO.5O0;
| Third street, Farragut street to Kan
sas avenue. s28 500; Gallatin street,
Third street to Fourth street. $500.
In the Northeast section the follow
ing streets are listed for new paving:
Seventeenth street, c street to E
street, $4,000: D street. Seventeenth
street to Eighteenth street, $4,000:
Eighteenth street. C street to D street,
| $500; E street, Sixteenth street to
Seventeenth street, S4800 Kolbrook
street, Morse street to Neal street,
$500; Seventeenth place. K street
to L street, s5,400; Seventeenth street.
K street to M street. $4,000; Lang
street, Seventeenth street eastward,
$4,000; Lyman street, Seventeenth
street eastward. $4,000; R street, Bla-
densburg road eastward, SlO5OO;
Evarts street, Twenty-second street to
TWenty-fourth street. $4,000: Nine
teenth street, South Dakota avenue to
Bunker Hill road, $4,000; Randolph
street, Eighteenth street to Twentieth
street, Sl6,500; South Dakota avenue,
Eighteenth street to Nineteenth street,
s2l 1900; South Dakota avenue, Four
teenth street southwark, $4,000;
Thirteenth place. Taylor street to
Michigan avenue, s5,300 Taylor
street, Michigan avenue to Fourteenth
street. $4,000; Fenwick street, New
York avenue to West Virginia avenue.
S18,000 and Franklin street Michi-
gan avenue to Lincoln road, Sl6,500
In the Southeast section, the fol-
lowing streets are listed:
Branch avenue, Alabama avenue to
Denver street, s26,OOO; Minnesota ave.
nue, Pennsylvania avenue to Twenty
seventh street, $4,000; Denver street,
Branch avenue to Thirty-fourth street
$15,000; Sixteenth street. Ridge place
to @ street, sl0.500; Nineteenth street,
Minnesota avenue to P street. sl0.500;
R street, Sixteenth street to Seven
teenth street. $4,000; @ street, Six
teenth street to Seventeenth street
S8,300; @ street. Nineteenth street to
Minnesota avenue, $4,000: P street
Eighteenth place to Nineteenth street
$4,000; Eighteenth place, Fairlawn
avenue to P street, $500.