The Washington times., 1903-06-07
Not a Single House Is Offered for.
Rent in This GO-AheQd COnnunitu
OF the Middle Classes, qnd Builders
Are Tdxed TO Keep Pace With the
Demand for New DWELLINGS. D. D.

the tomb OF some eminent martyr. From
this crypt another underground corridor
leads to the subterranean Chapel of the
Poor Souls of Purgatory, which is in
tended for funeral services, and whence
two stairways lead back into the church
near the Holy Sepulchre.
Every niche and corner and every
wall of the church and monastery is
adorned with beautifully executed
works of art-mosaics, bas-reliefs, pan
els, replicas, statues and paintings,
many of them the work of James T.
Farley, of Washington. 1t is undoubted-
ly the finest, the most beautiful, the
most rich in reminders of holy history
of any religious edifice in the United
States, and besides those who frequent
it Tor purposes of worship it draws
thousands of sightseers TO it, who carry
away an impression of it as one OF
Washington's most beautiful and un-
usual attractions. Within the last five
years seven million dollars have been
spent on these buildings, and the Do
minicans are now breaking ground for a
$3.50. 900 building
Although not within the geographical
limits of Brookland, the Catholic Uni
versity of America is considered as 10
Gated in this town. This university,
with its eight separate colleges, knows
no equal among institutions of higher
education under ecclesiastical manage
ment, and but one secular university.
Johns of alrsaa
equally strict requirements of candi-
dates for entrance. It's size, enrolment,
accomplishment, scholarship. and sphere
of influence are too well known to re-
quire comment
Site for Carnegie Library.
A striking manifestation of the in
telIectual activity and the interest in
educational movements is exhibited by
the people of Brookland. in their en-
thusiastic response to the opportunity
presented them by the provisions of the
Carnegie Library fund AT the dedi-
cation of the main public library. Mr..
Carnegie announced himself as ready to
contribute $3.50 900 for the foundation of
branch libraries in any suburban dis
teres. warrant the establishment of such
a branch library, the community TO
manifest substantially its desire for the
library by contributing the land for
the site. II was expected that there
would be eight or ten such communities
in the District that would want libra
ries. SO that each library, If equal divi-
sion of the fund were made. would be
worth. from thirty to forty thousand dol
lars. AS yet no arrangements have been
concluded in any case, though sites have
been offered in several suburbs. these
sites being offered by Individual owners.
and the preference of the trustees of
the Carnegie fund being for sites pur-
chased by popular subscription in the
communities concerned. Brookland is an
exception to this, the lots which she
offers having been purchased by general
The lots are valued at
=, 500. and 81 900 has already been sub
scrfbed by about one hundred and fifty
On next Wednesday even
ng reception will be given to promi-
lent Washingtonians interested in the
project
The "Brookland Citizen" the official
organ of the Brookland Citizens Asso-
'iation, thus comments on the event:
The evening of Wednesday. June 10.