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District Budget
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gine Company, for which $4,000 is
allocated.
9. Continuing construction of the
so-called walled group" at the re-
formatory at Lorton. Va, for which
$45, 900 is recommended.
Underpass Provided.
10. Construction of an underpass
in the line of Connecticut avenue un-
der Dupont Circle. The cost Is limit
ed at s480.000.
II. Construction of a 36-inch trunk
line water main from Eleventh and
NJ streets NV. to the vicinity of
Fourth and M streets NE. The budg-
ct allocates 100000 for this project.
r. Repairs and improvements to
buildings of the former tuberculosis
Hospital at Fourteenth ana Upshur
streets for use temporarily as con-
valescent ward for Gallinger Hospital
patients. The cost was fixed at
$1,000.
Scattered throughout the budget are
various other items designed to in
crease and improve services at Dis
trict institutions For instance, an
increase in personnel is provided for
the badly congested Gallinger Hos
pital and the new tuberculosis Sana-
toria at Glenn Dale, Md. Funds are
allowed for an increase Of 20 in The
undermanned guard sta1 at the Lor-
ton Reformatory. In addition, the
hospital at Lorton will be provided
with another physician and an occu-
pational therapy aide.
Commissioners Estimates Slashed.
On the other hand. there will be
many heartaches among some District
officials when they learn what the
Budget Bureau did to their recommen-
dations.
Customarily, the bureau slashed
heavily into the original estimates o1
the Commissioners, eliminating nu-
merous desirable projects and improve.
ments. The Commissioners, 1t will be
remembered, proposed budget calling
for $49.930,519. On the basis of the
net total approved by the bureau
their figures were cut exactly $2,585 .817
The public schools, as usual, bore
the brunt of the cuts, but even so, the
bureau allowed the Board of Educa-
ton more than $500,000 above the
amount it got this year in the appro-
priation act. The boards original
items were drastically slashed, both
for buildings and grounds.
The police departments estimates
suffered a similar fate. Maj. Ernest
w. Brown, superintendent. requested
funds to add l3l additional officers to
his force. He knew the Commissioners
trimmed the figure to rs, but the
Budget Bureau absolutely refused to
allow the department another nicke
for more policemen.
Hoped to End Crime Center" {
With the additional men, Maj
Brown planned to re-establish the oil
second precinct which police records
show is now the "crime center" of the
District. Preparations also had been
made to remove the Woman's Bureau
from the former second precinct sta
ton on Fifth street between M and N
streets NV. to the old Police Court
Building at Sixth and D streets NV
The budget carries an item of $40, 0,000
for remodeling the old court building,
but it is unlikely now that the Wom'
ans Bureau will occupy it. Tn.
building may be assigned to the public
assistance division Of the Board OF
Public Welfare, which occupies a
rented building at Fifth and H streets
NV.
Maj. Brown. however, can look for
ward to the new police headquarters
building in the Municipal Center, ane
thank the Budget Bureau for hall
dozen additional clerks it allowed him
as well as increased funds for the
purchase Of weapons and tear gas
bombs.
The Budget Bureau also turned
deaf ear to the recommendations o1
the Board Of Public Welfare for ar
appropriation for relief Of enployables
and instead proposed . curtailmen