THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON 
FRIDAY, APRIL 
1938 
flee—Administration Building and 
land, $7,000,000. 
National Training School for Boys— 
New facilities and remodeling, 
$515,500. 
Columbia Hospital for Women—New 
building for nurses’ home, $300,000. 
Treasury Annex No. 1—Extension of 
present building, $4,000,000. 
Public Health—Extension to rear of 
present building, $900,000. 
Howard University—Remodeling and 
jnew building projects, $2,087,000. 
Coast Guard—Land and new build- 
ling, $2,550,000. 
Maritime Commission—Land and 
|new building, $2,250,000. 
Second Term Program. 
The items proposed in the second 
|five-year program follow: 
Land and building for files and rec¬ 
ords of General Accounting Office and 
|War Department, $8,000,000. 
Film storage and preservation, land 
land special buildings, $500,000. 
National Arboretum, first portion of 
development program, $500,000. 
Partial sports field development at 
East Capitol street, supplemental to 
W. P. A. project, $500,000. 
Completion of stadium and buildings 
at East Capitol street, sports field de¬ 
velopment, $5,000,000. 
Agriculture greenhouses to replace 
facilities in the Mall, $300,000. 
Zoological Park, new buildings for va¬ 
rious exhibits, $840,000. 
Great Plaza development, $500,000. 
Treasury garage, $232,000. 
Procurement garage, $950,000. 
Headquarters company—depot quar¬ 
termaster and garage, new building, 
$1,350,000. ' / 
Agriculture—extension to present 
building on block No. 326, $2,300,000. 
Second wing, National Museum; $4,- 
350,000. 
Smithsonian Institution—new build¬ 
ing for industrial collection, $6,000,000. 
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital—new build¬ 
ings to complete program, $2,250,000. 
Howard University—new buildings 
to extend facilities, $2,160,000. 
Zoological Park—improvements to 
grounds and aquarium, $800,000. 
National Arboretum—completion of 
program, roads and buildings, $1,500,- 
000 . 
National Training School for Boys 
—various buildings and facilities, 
$407,500. 
Internal revenue extension and de¬ 
molition of the old Post Office Build¬ 
ing, $5,250,000. 
Circular Plaza development, $150,- 
000. i 
Purchase of the District Building, 
$3,700,000. 
Total for second five-year program, 
$47,539,500. 
Grand total for 10-year program, 
$142,257,000. 
District Projects Included. 
A $51,940,000 supplemental program 
for projects in the District of Colum¬ 
bia contemplated in the future was 
included in the report. It was empha¬ 
sized, however, that these projects 
were included “for information only, 
as the committee considered these 
projects outside the scope of its 
authority.” 
This supplemental program, with 
estimated costs of construction, fol¬ 
lows: 
Municipal Center: 
1. Administration building for all 
activities in the District Building and 
other quarters, $6700,600. 
2. Municipal Court Building, a com¬ 
parison building to the Police Court 
Building, $1,500,000. 
3. Recorder of Deeds and Juvenile 
Court Building to replace inadequate 
rented quarters, $500,000. 
Health Department: 
4. New building and sites for four 
health centers to provide facilities for 
clinical activities and public health 
workers, $1,000,000. 
Public Library System: 
5. New buildings for central library, 
$2,500,000. 
6. Six new buildings and land to re¬ 
place certain branches and to establish 
new branches, $710,000. 
Hospital: 
7. Additions, extensions and re¬ 
modeling proposed for Gallinger Hos-| 
pital, $1,110,000. 
District Jail: 
8. New buildings or remodeling anl 
extension of old building adjacent to| 
Gallinger Hospital, $1,500,000. 
Board of Education: 
9. Ten-year program of buildings I 
and land for new schools, additions! 
and remodeling, $33,000,000. 
Fire Department: 
10. Three new engines or truckl 
houses for new fire stations, $285,000. 
11. Land and building for repair! 
shop and storehouse, $300,000. 
National Guard: 
12. Site and new armory building| 
for District of Columbia National! 
Guard, $2,750,000. 
13. Repair program for presentl 
buildings, $10,000. 
14. New buildings and other facilities) 
proposed for target range, Camp 
Simms, Congress Heights, D. C.J 
$675,000. 
More than 300 United States firms 
are expected to exhibit at the 1938 
fair at Milan, Italy. 
