Evening star., 1939-04-02
New Library
And Arnory in
District Bill
Six Major Additions,
Including 50 Police,
Tentatively Made
By JAMES E. CHINN.

Six major additions tentatively
have been made to the 1910 District
budget, 1T was reported last night
as the House Subcommittee on Dis
trict Appropriations whipped the
supply bill into final shape to report
to the House Thursday. They are:
l. An appropriation of s350,000
to start construction of the first
unit of new public library build
ing on Pennsylvania avenue be-
tween Fourth and Sixth streets
NV.
g. Funds for so more police
men for the Metropolitan Police
Force.
g. Funds to acquire a site for a
new National Guard armory.
4. Funds for construction Of a
new bridge across Rock Greek on
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
5. Funds for preparation OF
plans for new buildings for the
Wilson Teachers College and the
Abbott Vocational School. Both
of these buildings will be erected
on District-owned property at
Thirteenth and pshur streets
NV.
6. Funds for construction Of a
building to replace the National
Training School for Girls on Con-
duit road.
Library to Cost Million.
The ultimate cost of the new pub
lie library building is expected to be
81 900 ,000 Funds were provided in
the current appropriation act for
of the plans.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown. superin-
tendent of police, asked in his origi-
nal 1910 budget estimates last fall
funds to add $50 members to the
force. The Commissioners approved
an increase of so. but the Budget
Bureau denied funds for any addi-
tional officers.
Two years ago the appropriation
bill provided funds for acquisition
of a site for a new National Guard
armory to be located at the foot of
East Capitol street. District off,
cials, however, found it was impos-
sible to acquire the property within
the limit of the appropriation be-
cause of Improvements made in the
The armory now is To-
Gated in the old National Hotel at
Sixth street and PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue. NV.
The new bridge across Rock Creek
is intended to remove the last re-
naming traffic bottle-neck along
Rock Creek driveway. 1t will ena-
BILE District highway officials to dou-
BILE the width of the present park
roadway under Massachusetts, ave-
nue..
Building Repaired Periodically.
A new building for the present
Wilson Teachers College at Eleventh
and Harvard streets NV. was urged
because the present building has to
be repaired periodically to make it
safe The Abbott Vo-
cational School at Fifth street and
New York avenue NV. is said to
be too inadequate to meet present
needs for vocational training. The
school now is housed in one of the
oldest buildings in the District.
President Roosevelt has taken an
interest in removal of the present
National Training School for Girls
Several months ago he called Chair
man Collins of the House Subcom-
mittee on District Appropriations
to the White House and told him
he believed the training school in
mates should be quartered outside
the District where they would have
an opportunity to engage in out
door activities instead of being
"penned up"
Changes to be made in the Budget
Bureau approved estimates, it was
said. will not increase the original
SAT SOC, 900 approved figure for the
coming fiscal year because Of re-
ductions and shifts made in other
items by the House subcommittee
In fact, the total appropriation to
be recommended, it is understood,
will be about 100000 less than rec
commended by the Budget Bureau