Evening star., 1945-10-04
Arthur Outlines
Work Slated 10
Cost SO Million
Engineering OfficioI
Lists School, Library
And Highway Plans

plan and begin construction of $50,r
000,000 OF highway, school, library,
hospital and sanitation projects in
the District, Col. Joseph D. Arthur,
jr., Assistant Engineer Commission
er, told the Washington Society of
Engineers last night at the Cosmos
Club.
Although this summary of prof.
ects includes only those for which
funds have been appropriated and
by no means is intended to be 8
complete list of projects which are
needed and might be included in a
postwar program, the grand total of
approximately $50,000,000 should be
of some help to the employment
problem"
Col. Arthur, who illustrated his
talk with number of drawings and
highway plans, said he was limiting
his talk to projects which come un-
der the Jurisdiction of the Commis-
sioners and did not include any
Federal projects. In giving the over
all District construction picture, Col
Arthur declared:
To summarize, funds have been
appropriated to prepare plans and
specifications, and in part to COM
mence construction, on a program
OF street and highway improvements
estimated to cost $22, 2,551 300 over
the next three years; of new school
building and accessories estimated
to cost S12, 2,425 600, various Board of
Public Welfare projects estimated to
cost $2,158,000, new libraries at
cost Of $4,000, 600, new buildings at
Gallii&er Hospital estimated to cost
$990,000 and new projects in the
Department of Sanitary Engineer
ing estimated to cost S7,169 ABS"
Refers to Federal Aid.
Referring to the Federal Aid High
way Act of 1914, Col. Arthur said
the Districts share would be ST.
974,602 year for three years. The
District is to match this Federal
aid sum, thus making $5,949, ,204
available for each of the three years.
Principal structures involved in
the program, he said, are $7,000,O00
to replace Highway Bridge; $500,00
for three bridges in Rock Creek Park
to replace the present Klingle Road
Bridge; 100000 for a Dupont
Circle underpass for Connecticut
avenue; $2,275,000 for. the K street
elevated highway from Key Bridge
to Rock Greek; underpasses beneath
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at
Riggs road NE, and Kansas avenue
NE, each estimated to cost 100000,
and a bridge and underpass to carry
the new Fort drive over Rock Creek
in the line of present Military road
estimated to cost 100000.
In reviewing the plans for schools
Col. Arthur said funds are available
and construction will begin this year
on the Slowe Elementary School,
Fourteenth and Jackson streets
NE: an addition to the Kimball
Elementary, Minnesota avenue and
Ely place Sc; Bell Vocational
School, in Brentwood Park NE;
Spingarn High, Twenty-fourth
street and Benning road NE: Ben
ming Elementary, Minnesota avenue
near Foete street NE; Van Ness
Elementary, Fourth and M streets
Sc; Richardson Elementary, Fifty
third and Blaine streets NE; a
junior high, Thirty-fourth street
and Minnesota avenue NE; an ad-
dition to Taft Junior High, Eight
eenth and Perry streets NE; Logan
Elementary, Third and G streets
NE; an addition to Banneker
Junior High, Euclid street and Geor-
gia avenue NV; Miller Junior
High, Forty ninth street and Wash
ington place NE; an addition to
Randall Junior High, First and
streets S.W., and a new elementary
school at Eleventh and G streets Sc.
The estimated cost of these IA
buildings is $7,038,250, and appro-
priations have been made for plans
for II additional schools at cost of
I 81, ,987 $3.50. Plans also are being pre-
pared for stadiums at Coolidge and
Spingarn Schools to cost $780, 900
each.
Plans for Welfare Work.
A. Col. Arthur outlined plans being
drawn for welfare institutions, in
Guiding $357 500 for a heating plant
/. at Blue Plains Home for the Aged
and a $1,250,000 300-bed infrmary
+, for the aged persons. He said
work would start in the next so
/ days on the $285 900 Receiving Home
ifor Children on Mt. Olivet road
near West Virginia avenue NE, and
( he added that plans now are being
prepared for two new dormitories
! at the District Training School at
Laurel to cost $265, 900.
COL Arthur said no funds are
available yet for planning, but
the Board of Public Welfare is
planning to shift the Industrial
! Home School from Wisconsin ave-
nue. to the Children's Center at
Laurel, as well as to transfer the
National Training School for Girls
at Loughborough road and Mac
] Arthur boulevard NV. to Jolly
Acres, near Laurel.
AT Gallinger Hospital, where a
new kitchen has been completed,
Col. Arthur said work will start
. during the present year on a $780,
600 laundry, $620,000 pediatrics
building. and $4,000 laboratory.
/ Col. Arthur said the first unit
, of the new $4,000, 900 Central Library
had been completed and that plans
for the remaining units are finished.
Plans are now being prepared for
two branch libraries, estimated to
j cost 100000 each.
| AS revealed in 1947 budget esti-
/ mates last month, Col. Arthur said
SAL ,000, 900 program for increasing
the city's water supply should start
in l947. The program, soon to be
submitted to Congress, is to go from
1947 to 1890.