not take the time of the committee to review that now, but I would be very glad to put them in the record. Senator ADAMS. Yes, sir; the reporter will take them. (The material referred to is as follows:) PHYSICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS ON W. P. A. PROJECTS Although recognition has been given to the fact that the work done on W. P. A projects has made great additions to the national wealth, the tremendous extent of the project accomplishments is difficult to visualize and not generally known. However, the preliminary results of an inventory of accomplishment covering the 150,000 W. P. A. projects operated from the beginning of the program up to October 1, 1937, is now available and is summarized below. Road work since the beginning has been an important element in the W. P. A. program. Over 146,000 miles of roads and streets have been improved. A large portion of this mileage represents work on secondary roads in rural areas, often referred to as farm-to-markets road. In addition, almost 44,000 miles of new roads roads which either did not exist previously or existed only as roads of a lower structural type-had been built by October 1937. Farm-to-market roads also constituted the largest proportion of the new roads, although much work was done on city streets. Other work completed in connection with the W. P. A highway program included more than 19,000 new bridges totaling some 612,000 feet in length and the repair or improvement of 13,000 others; the construction or repair of some 7,600 miles of sidewalks and paths, 4,800 miles of curbing, 1,700 miles of gutters, and almost 800 miles of guardrails and guardwalls; and the installation of 183,000 culverts with a total length of more than 4,900,000 feet and improvement of 30,000 others totaling 774,000 feet. Roadside work completed included 39,000 miles of landscaping, and roadside drainage work involving 11,500 miles of new ditches and the clearing and improvement of almost 32,000 miles of existing ditches. W. P. A. work on public buildings also has been extensive, having been completed on about 43,000 different structures by the beginning of last October. This figure includes 11,000 new buildings, almost 31,000 buildings on which repairs or improvements were made, and over 1,100 additions to existing buildings, such as the addition of a gymnasium to a school building. Schools were outstanding among the buildings repaired, numbering some 16,000. In addition, 1,600 new schools were built. The most frequent new construction work, however, involved recreational buildings. More than 3,700 of these stadiums, grandstands, gymnasiums, auditoriums, pavilions, bathhouses, etc.—had been completed by October 1937. Work was also done on a large number of other public buildings such as courthouses, hospitals, dormitories, garages, firehouses, aircraft, hangars, warehouses, and armories. Recreational facilities, other than the buildings already mentioned, that have been constructed or improved through W. P. A. projects make a great contribution not only to the national wealth, but also to the health and well-being of the population. These included some 2,500 athletic fields, about 4,700 playgrounds (most of them connected with schools), and hundreds of swimming pools, wading pools, tennis, handball and horseshoe courts, golf courses, skating rinks, ski jumps, and similar facilities. More than 3,600 parks also have been built or improved. Residents of many localities have become aware of W. P. A. project accomplishments through the improvement of local sanitation and the extension of water supply. Work to improve and extend water-supply systems has included the installation of nearly 3,900 miles of new water mains and distribution lines with 108,000 consumer connections and the repair of 1,400 miles of existing mains with over 154,000 connections; completion of 1,150 new storage tanks, reservoirs, and cisterns, and repair of 300 others, with a total capacity measured in billions of gallons; and construction and improvement of thousands of storage dams and wells. Under the heading of sanitation work is recorded the completion of about 5,700 miles of new sanitary or storm sewers with 145,000 service connections and the repair of another 1,600 miles having about 20,000 connections, and also the construction or repair of 216,000 manholes and catch basins, some 790,000 sanitary toilets, most of which were newly constructed, 33,000 cesspools, and 3,500 septic tanks. In addition, several hundred treatment plants (other than cesspools and septic tanks) and pumping stations have been completed. The sealing of thousands of mine openings, drainage of hundreds of thousands of acres for mosquito control and for other purposes also contribute to the improvement of sanitation and public health. Too extensive to mention in any detail has been the work completed in the many other fields indicated in summary in the table. These range from the construction or improvement of several hundred airports and the building of hundreds of thousands of feet of new runways, to the improvement of river, stream, and shore lines thousands of miles in length; from fire towers to fish hatcheries; and from the establishment of bird and game sanctuaries to the destruction of rodents and eradication of noxious plants. The work done by the thousands of workers on various types of white-collar and women's projects may be described in terms of the millions of garments for men, women, and children produced in sewing rooms to be distributed through public relief agencies to the needy; millions of school lunches served to undernourished children; thousands of branch and traveling libraries established; millions of books repaired; millions of records indexed or tabulated; hundreds of clinics conducted; or thousands of pictures, etchings, and other art works produced, and the thousands of theatrical and musical performances given. This summary does not cover the projects operated by other Federal agencies under the Works Program. It likewise does not include a vast amount of similar work completed under the earlier programs of the C. W. A. and F. E. R. A. TABLE 1.-Physical accomplishment on Works Progress Administration projects through Oct. 1, 1937 TABLE 1.-Physical accomplishment on Works Progress Administration projects through Oct. 1, 1937-Continued |