Evening star., 1939-12-31
District 10 Get
$780,000 Road
Fund From U. 5.
Maryland Listed
For $1,367,490,
Virginia 2,916,34l

The District receives $780,000 in
Federal highway funds for 1910
under apportionments of $l56,000,-
600 for the States. territories and
possessions announced yesterday by
Federal Works Administrator John
w. Carmody.
The money is set aside, in general,
for highway improvement and elm
ination of grade crossing hazards.
The Districts fund includes $780,
600 under the allotment for i'm
provement of the Federal-aid sys-
tenn and its extensions through
cities; $73,l25 for secondary or
feeder roads, and $146,250 for grade
crossing improvements.
The general appropriation was au-
thorized by an act of June 8, 1898,
which provided $115.O00,0OO for i'm
provement of Federal aid highways
sl5,000,000 for secondary roads and
$30,000,000 for elimination of hazards
at railroad crossings.
The fund was divided among the
States in proportion to population
area and mileage of rural post roads
Under Roads Body Supervision.
The expenditures will be under the
supervision of the Public Roads Ad-
ministration of the Federal Works
Agency, in accord with the Federal
aid highway plan in operation since
1916. Projects are initiated by the
States-locally by the District High
way Department-and they prepare
plans, let contracts and supervise
construction. all subject to Federal
approval. The first two items in the
ALLEGATION must be matched locally
The third is an outright grant.
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, head OF
the District Highway Department,
said yesterday that a tentative plan
for expenditure of Washington's al
location for 1910 had been drawn up,
but would not be made public until
1t has been approved by the Public
Roads Administration.
The Districts 1910 ALLEGATION is
slightly higher than the amount
awarded this year, which is true
of the entire program.
The District has worked out, with
the approval of the Federal agency,
a general plan of improving streets
and connecting highways on a
classification similar to that of the
States. While open grade crossings
here virtually have been eliminated,
many needed Improvements in pro-
tected crossings have been made
and are going forward under the
Federal-aid program.
Virginia Gets S2,916,000.
Virginia was apportioned s29l6,-
S41 and Maryland will receive a
total of $1,367 400 Grade crossing
eliminations in Virginia will call
for an expenditure of S558.59l, and
in Maryland. s300034. The sum of
S2085,702 will be given to the Vir-
ginia Federalaid system and $272.-
O48 for its secondary roads. In
Maryland the same apportionment,
respectively, is S944 .288 and s123, 1853
Administrator Carmody said the
funds make possible the continu-
ance of the Federal-aid program on
substantially the same scale as in
the past fiscal year. That program
resulted in the improvement OF
9,786 miles on rural portions of
system in the United States, 2,971
miles on secondary or farm-to-
market roads and 725 miles were i'm
proved in municipalities. A total
OF 382 grade crossings were elimi-
mated and 86 obsolete elimination
structures were rebuilt.
New York, with $5,572,11S, will
receive the largest allotment of
funds. OF this amount, $4,000 ,719
will be spent on grade crossings.
The Districts share of $78O,OOO is
duplicated for Hawaii, Delaware,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and
Vermont. Puerto Rico will be given
$857,957.