The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-07-31
STREET IS PLANNED
Pennsylvania Avenue Drive
a Notable Feature.

Nearly all of the costly white struct- |
ures of stone ana marble VIII be de- |
voted TO the uses of the government,
but there will be one building for com
mercial uses solely which in no sense
will fall short Of the nations houses
either in dignity or in beauty
The union station under construc-
ton by the washington Terminal com
pany. corporation controlled ointly
by the Baltimore and Ohio ana the
Pennsylvania railroad. IS approachign
completion. The statement is fairly
forced from one who sees the build
ing, even i'm its unfinished state, that
Mr. Burnham has conceived an edifice
that will surpass in the beauty of its
outlines and in its impressiveness any
other building in the world intended
for like purposes.
Beauty a Leading Requirement.
The Union station of Washington
was planned on huge scale and with
beauty as one of the chief require
ments because the primary intention
was to make the building worthy of
its necessarily close companionship
with the capitol, the congressional
library and the other public structures
of Washington present and prospec-
tive In length and in breadth the sta
tion will be greater building than the
capitol
At the front OF the structure there
will be a parklike space containing
72O, COO square feet From this avenues
will lead out like the spokes from the
hub of wheel and at the end of the
lines of vision along these avenues the
eye will rest upon the capitol. the
library, the Washington monument
and other edifces of the nations legis-
lative city.
1t will be years before the plans
which had birth in the minds of
George washington, Thomas Jeffer-
son and Pierre LEnfant for the beau
tlfying of the nations capital viii be
carried to completion, but as far as it
is possible under modern conditions
the general line of their ideas will be
i followed
May Remove unsishtly Buildings.
between the capitol and the Wash
ington monument today there is a
mall. The stretch of green IL broken
4 by cross streets, and buildings, some
Oh them none too slightly. are scatter
ed here and there. When Beautiful
Washington becomes a reality this
mall will be much wider than 1t Is at
present and the buildings which it will
contain viii rise in beauty on the right
and on the left.
Between the north boundary line OF
the present mall and Pennsylvania
avenue are business houses, lumber
yards. saloons, lodging houses and
many places of unsavory name, II
the greed Of the Washington property
owners can be overcome the day Is
not far distant when the nation will
own all this territory. The govern
ment will then clear the ground of its
inoumbrances and there win be a great
park from the capitol to the Wash
lington monument and frcm Pennsyl
vania avenue south for about half
mile.
Weuld Sacrifice FostofiIce.
Today there Is only one government
structure on Pennsylvania avenue be
tween the capitol ana the treasur!
building. one mile away. This on
govepnment-owned structure is th'
postonice building. which stands Of
the north side of the avenue at tn
corner OF Twelfth street. The posi-
Office is huge affair, but It is non
too beautiful The hope is that, eosl
~ as a was, it win be taken down
sacriaced TO the spirit Of improvement
A municipal building is under COZ
struction on the south side of Penn
syivania avenue al Fourteenth stree
Near it may be erected a home for tn
Department OF State and the Depar
ment Of Commerce and Labor.
A new Agricultural Department
building has been provided for and
the days to come other 'governmer
structares viii rise on the south sid
Of pennsylvania avenue, lining th
great green space with its towerin
trees, which viii stretch away nopl
for a flll mile fronl the capitol west
the Washington monument
viii Create Grand Avenue.
North Of the capitol the Union 81
ton is rising and the day win CON
when an arriving traveller may dri'
from the doorway Of the static
l through one OF the grandest avenue
OF the world and on the right han
aud on the left hand may look npo
a succession Of buildings which 4