Evening star., 1945-10-04
Arthur Outlines
Work Slated 10
Cost 50 Million
Engineering OfficioI
Lists School, Library
And Highway PIuns

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Funds have been appropriated to
plan and begin construction of s5O.-
000, 900 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 a
complete list of projects which are
needed and might be included in a
postwar program, the grand total of
approximately 0,000, 900 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 Commits
sioners and did not include any
Federal projects. In giving the over
all District construction picture, Col.
Arthur declared:
ITO 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, 1851 300 over
the next three years; of new school
buildings and accessories estimated
to cost $12 2,425 900, various Board of
Public Welfare projects estimated to
cost $2,158,0 900, new libraries at a
cost OF "A. .400, 600, new buildings at
Gallinger Hospital estimated to cost
$3.50 900 and new projects in the
Department of Sanitary Engineer
Ing estimated to cost $7.169, ABS"
Refers to Federal Aid.
Referring to the Federal Aid High
way Act of 1914, Col. Arthur said
the Districts share would be s2,-
974,602 a 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 $1,000, 600
to replace Highway Bridge; $500 900
for three bridges in Rock Greek 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 g. Ohio Railroad at
Riggs road NE, and Kansas avenue
NE, each estimated to cost 5000, 900.
and a bridge and underpass to carry
the new Fort drive over Rock Creek
IN the line Of present Military road
estimated to cost $500, 900.
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
Me-. an. addition to the KimbalI
Elementary, Minnesota avenue and
ELY place Sc: Bell Vocational
School, in Brentwood Park NE:
Spingarn High, Twenty-fourtfa
street and Benning road NE: Ben
ming Elementary, Minnesota avenue
near Foote 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
zenith 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
inston 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 s7,038 $50, and appro-
priations have been made for plans
for II additional schools at a cost of
S4,987 $780, Plans also are being pre-
pared for stadiums at Coolidge and
Spingarn Schools to cost 5000, 900
each.
Plans for Welfare Work.
Col. Arthur outlined plans being
drawn Tor welfare institutions, in
Guiding 1857 500 for a heating plant
at Blue Plains Home for the Aged
and $1,250,0 30o-bed infirmary
for the aged persons. He said
work would start in the next GO
days on the s285, 900 Receiving Home
for 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 s265 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 $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
cost 100000 each.
As revealed in 1947 budget esti-
mates last month, Col. Arthur said
a 81, ,000. 900 program for increasing
the city's water supply should start
In 1947. The program, soon to be
submitted to Congress, is to 60 from
1947 to 1890.
Arlington Building Drops.
$200, 900 in September