Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05
WOULD BEAUTIFY CITY
REPRESENTATIVE STANLEY'a
TRIBUTE TO U. s. CAPITAL.
Address Before Northwest Suburban
Citizens Association - Business
Matters Considered Last Night.

Representative Augustus o. Stanley of
kentucky was the guest of honor and prin-
clpal speaker at the regular monthly meets
ing last evening of the Citizens Northwest
Suburban Association at the Masonic Hall,
Tenleytown. Mr.. Stanley gave his ideas as
to model capital city and its suburbs In
his mind such a city should not be a COM
mercial center. with smoking stacks and I'M
cieanly streets. The people of the country,
he thought, purposed that Washington
should be dedicated to the memories OF the
struggling days of the republic-to art, pa
trotism and law.
The speaker noted the pride of the English
In their capital city, London; the French
In Paris; the Germans. in Berlin; the
Italians. in Rome. etc. The people of all of
these countries, he maintained, are willing
that their governments should expend enor-
nous sums of money in identifying those
cities and the adjacent suburbs. MIR. Stan
ley noted with regret the seeming apathy of
Americans in the improvement of the capt.
tai city and its suburbs He thought this
was not due to any desire that the govern
ment should save its funds, but to sheer
Ignorance of the proprieties. The people of
the United States, except those who visit
Washington, know but little, the speaker
said, or the improvements needed in Wash
ington and the surrounding suburbs.
Washington. continued the speaker, is the
greatest capital city of the greatest nation
on the globe. He though the people of the
United States. IL properly informed of ex-
listing conditions. would gladly urge their
respective representatives in Congress to
vote for appropriations for improvements
for the city. He is willing that the city and
suburbs shall be beautified to the greatest
possible point. This city, he said. should
not be bounded on one side by a morass and
on the other by a wilderness, nor should it
ma r. mo NJ
houses The suburbs should be beautified,
in order that the city proper might be
spread out and the residents permitted to
commune with nature and enjoy fresh air.
Representative George A. Pearre of Mary
land. who. 1t was announced. would deliver
a talk on the Duties of the Nation to the
Capital City, was not present. he having
been called out of the city Unexpectedly. A
letter of regret from him was read to the
assemblage.
Commissioners Endorsed.
The association. by unanimous vote. gave
it's hearty Endorsement to the views of the
District Commissioners in the matter of ap-
propriations to defray the expenditures of
the District for the fiscal year. 1905. and
pledged the united support of the
membership before Congress in an ef-
fort to secure the Legislation recommended
In the estimates. In a resolution bearing
upon the matter. which was adopted, 1t was
clare thtS extraordinary improvements
should be separated from current expendi-
lures and should not be paid out of current
revenues. but that Congress should provide
an advance to the District to cover these
extraordinary and necessary improvements
to be met by the annual payments from the
current revenues or by appropriation for a
sinking fund
Fort Reno Reservoir
Mr.. Thomas J. McNamee offered a reso-
luton, which was adopted, urging the Dis
trict Commissioners to request Congress to
pass bill providing for the condemnation
of the land embraced in the Fort Reno
Park reservation, as proposed in the plans
of the System of Parks and Boulevards for
the District of Columbia" The reasons
for the need of the passage of such meas
ure are set forth in the resolution as fol-
lows:
That the public health imperatively de-
mandS immediate action, there being q
public reservoir in the center of said Fort
Reno Park reservation. in full operation.
which reservoir is surrounded by squalid
village, without sewers or other sanitary
safeguards, a great and constant menace
to the public health.
''On account of patriotic consideration.
Fort Reno being one of the remaining
forts of that historic chain of defenses
which surrounded and defended the ma
tional capital during the war of the Union.
'On account of the intrinsic beauty of its
situation, not only being the highest point
in the whole District of Columbia (427
feet), but commanding an unparalleled
panoramic view of valley and mountain
for distance of sixty miles, and thus
easily made the most picturesque of all the
parks in the District of Columbia.
"On account of the important fact that
the land embraced in said park can now be
secured for very low sum, while years
hence 1t will certainly cost an enormous
outlay" A form of bill was attached to
the resolutions.
Rates of Insurance.
The association Endorsed the suggestion
of the Business Mems Association and 9TH
ers that an investigation be made into the
prevailing rates of fire insurance. The sec
rotary, DR.. J. w. Chappell. was instructed
to acknowledge the installation of new
chairs in the first grade room of the Ten
ley School and inform the board of educa-
ton that the association renews its re-
quest for new chairs in the other grades of
the school.
The address of Representative Stanley
followed the transaction of routine mat
ters He was introduced by President
Charles c. Lancaster, who presided.
Dr. A. p. Pardon also delivered an ad-
dress on the needed Improvements in the
suburbs.