The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-01
D. C, DEFICIENCY
BUDGET REQUEST
TOTALS $76O,79O.
WPA Projects, Housing
For Girls Included

Request for approval Of def
cheney and supplemental appro
priations totaling $760,79O was
forwarded by the District Com
missioners today to the Bureau Of
the Budget. -.
Included among the items were:
To provide maintenance, tempo
fary quarters and personal serv-
ices for go girls, mostly colored,
incarcerated at the National Train
ing School for Girls, Conduit Road
and D. c. Line, $86,700 for re-
moval Of Receiving Home to the
old tuberculosis Hospital, $31 1893;
and District sponsored cost of GER
tain WPA projects, including the
school lunch program, $189, 800.
BACKWARD CHILDREN
BY provisions of the 1899 Dis.
trict appropriation bill, the train.
ing school for girls on Conduit
Road Northwest, must be closed
July /. At the school, 81 colored
girls and six white girls are
housed. All, according to welfare
board officials, are in the major
classes Of juvenile delinquentS.
The half dozen white girls, ac-
Cording to the plans, are to be
housed at the Industrial Horne
School for White Children, Wis.
cousin Avenue and Calvert Street
Northwest. The institution now
houses backward children and de-
linquents of the minor types.
BLUE PLAINS
Confronted with the problem of
finding quarters for the 81 colored
girls, the Commissioners recon-
3nended to the budget bureau that
an item Of $35,500 be approved
FOR building temporary quarters
at Blue Plains, site of the In
dustrial Home School for Colored
Children, which now houses minor
type delinquents. They also asked
$21 500 for maintenance and $780,
700 for personal services.
"BARBARIC" CONDIAIONS
The Conduit Road institution,
doomed by the appropriation bill,
in recent years was improved at
q cost of $685. 900. The improve
ments came after Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt inspected the prem
Uses and aroused congressional in
tereSt. Several Senators described
the conditions prevailing at the
time as "harbaric.
Junking plans to house the Re
ceivng Home, now located at 816
Potomac Ave. S. E., on the top
floor of the old Police Court build
ing, Sixth and C Streets North
west, the Commissioners recon-
Inended to the bureau items total
ing $31,393, which would enable
reconditioning of several buildings
at the old tuberculosis Hospital,
Thirteenth and Upshur Streets
Northwest, for the home.
FIRE HAZARD
The Commissioners yesterday
received an informal report from
Fire Marshal Calvin G. LAUDER to
the effect that housing prisoners
overnight in the old court build
ing would create a fire hazard.
The ruling snagged the plans of
Of the city heads to move the
Women's Bureau into the court
structure.
The District asked for a total
Of $189 500 to pay sponsor charges
for seven major WPA projects.
This will secure $1,165,7 ZOO in Fed
eral funds and provisions for a |
total Of 1857 relief jobs.
For the school lunch program,
the District proposed to pay $67,-
900, so that $9S,500 in Federal
funds might be forthcoming to
provide school lunches totaling
1896, 900 at the rate of $500 a day.
This also involves employment of
205 persons.
AUTO STATIONS
Among other items was one of
$190,397 to establish two motor
vehicle inspector stations at Tenth
and G Streets Southwest, and
West Virginia Avenue and Mount
Olivet Road Northeast, under the
compulsory motor vehicle inspec-
ton law. OF this, $4,000 is to
be spent for construction of the
two station, and the rest for hir-
ing personnel.