Evening star., 1947-01-10
Budget for Parks Here
Provides for Ground
improvements Only

n SCi0, S1V P1O64 oAn Va P"AN ".AN
playground Improvement Tor wash
ington, limited to ground improve
ments In view Of continuing building
material and labor shortages, Is
asked in the 1947-8 budget.
The District Recreation Depart
ment, which requested $2.094, 900
from the Commissioners last fall for
capital improvements, was cut to
S22O, 500 for such improvements In
today's budget. The latter sum
would cover only grading and other
land improvements. Buildings would
have to wait until later.
The Once of National Capital
parks. which draws funds both from
the District taxpayers and the Fed
eral Government, is allotted $159 ,240
in District funds for park improve
ments in a wide range OF areas,
mostly small park triangles at street
intersections. In addition, $S2,Suu
in Federal funds is asked to draw up
plans for six future park projects
Requests Made Last Fall.
The park Office asked the District
last fall for $685., ,240 for land i'm
proyements. The sum was to have
financed a more ambitious program,
including development of Melvin G.
Hazen Park and $4,000 worth OF
work on the Brightwood Recreation
Center, which lies on park land at
Sixteenth and Kennedy streets NV.
Federal planning money Tor parks
carried in the budget would finance
drawings and specifications for the
repair of historic Great Falls Tav-
ern, construction of a boathouse at
Fletchers Landing on the Potomac
above Georgetown, restoration OF
the c. & o. Canal lockhouses, repairs
to the bottom of the Rejecting Pool
(marsh gas forces the bottom up
ward now, so much so in fact, that
when a hole is bored in the bottom
enough escapes so that 1t can be
lighted, a canoe house on the zen,
taeon Lagoon and a new centrai
shop Of park maintenance.
. The District money asked Tor
parks, $159,240, would be spent as
follows-$25, 900 to improve new park
reservations at intersections, $4,000
to make land improvements at the
Brightwood Recreation Center, $l9,-
240 to run underground conduits to
the Beach drive. Joaquin Miller
Cabin and Sixteenth and Kennedy
streets NV. park comfort stations
and 100000 to improve park reser-
vations at the following intersec-
tions:
intersections Listed.
Van Ness street and Nebraska
avenue NV, Illinois avenue, Nlnth
and Gallatin streets NV; Sherman
circle, Grant Circle, North Capitol
and L,ongfellow streets and new
Hampshire avenue NV; Michigan
avenue, and Randolph and Tweiftn
streets NV; Michigan avenue ano
Shepherd and Twelfth streets NV:
Rhode Island avenue and First and
IT streets NV, two reservations
Rhode Island and New Jersey ave-
|nues and s street NV; Florida ave-
nue. and p street NE; New York
avenue and M street NV, New
York avenue and N street NV:
New York avenue and North Capitol
street, New York avenue and First
and O streets NE; New Jersey ave-
nue. and Fourth and o streets NV;
New Jersey avenue and Third and
N streets NV; New Jersey avenue
and I and Second streets NV, two
reservations; New Jersey avenue and
First and g streets NV: Pennsyl-
yania avenue and Thirteenth and E
streets NV; Nichols avenue and
Portland street Sc; Pennsylvania
avenue center. parking from Elev-
enth to Fifteenth streets Sc; West
Garfield Park and Logan Circle.