Evening star., 1939-01-05
S3,900,000 Allowed
D. {. for Capital
Improvements
Budget Bureau Figure
Excludes Highway and
Water Departments

An outlay of $4,000 for capital
Improvements by the District gov
ernment is approved by the Budget
Bureau for the next fiscal year,
under the general fund account, ex-
elusive of items in the Highway and
Water Departments.
This total is some 100000 higher
than that proposed by the Commis-
sioners, but this is due to hike in
amount the bureau would require
the District to pay next year on its
debt for the Capper-Cramton park
extension program. The figure is
about $800,000 less than the capital
improvement program in the gen.
eral fund appropriations for the
present fiscal year.
In his recent digest of the fiscal
situation Budget. Officer Daniel j.
Donovan said:
Appropriations from the general
fund for capital improvements have
in recent years been made in sig
nificantly smaller amounts. During
the nine fiscal years between 1925
and 1888, inclusive, general fund
capital outlay appropriations totaled
about SS2,0O0o00, or an average of
100000 year."
Offset by Works Program.
This new recession in such capital
outlays, however, is much more
than offset by the Districts $780,
coo public works program.
Mo ior iteroc of poY,ito1 i,,,rrovo
ment included in the budget are:
Repayment of District P. W. A.
debt, $462 500, this being the last of
the loan repayment under the Dis
trict's original F. w. A. program;
for sewer construction, 100000; for
school buildings and grounds, ST.
100000; construction of new police
station house at Fifth street and
New York avenue NV, $4,000; for
enlargement of the old No 2 police
station as home for the Woman's
Bureau, $4,000, this sum to be added
to the $4,000 already available; for
new fire fighting apparatus, S55 900;
for completion and addition to the
District Jail, $125,O00; for continu-
ing construction of women's build
ings at the reformatory and work.
house. $4,000; for improvements to
the prison section of the Lorton Re-
formatory, $4,000; for a water
reservoir and other facilities at the
reformatory. $1,000; for an in
f1rmary at the Home for Aged, SIS
600; for continuing development of
the Anacostia flats, $65 900; develop
ment of the Washington Channel,
$4,000, and for repayment of the
park development debt, 1887 500.
New Receiving Home Disallowed.
The Budget Bureau struck from
the capital improvement list the re-
quests of the Commissioners for
S1750 for the construction of a
modern new Receiving Home for
Children, to replace the inadequate
rented building, the facilities of
which have been condemned during
the past two sessions of Congress.
Construction of a modern new
home for the child wards of the
District, some of whom are charged
with misdemeanors and some of
whom are innocent of any misbe-
havior, has been urged by special
cousultants and advisory groups
which have made survey of child
welfare programs of the District in
the past six months at the direction
of Congress.
The bureau also ignored proposals
of the Police Department for con-
struction of a police substation on
Benning road NE, planned to give
more adequate protection for the
wide area of the far northeast and
southeast sections now covered by
No. IL precinct.