The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1907-10-16
WASHINGTON LETTER
TepecIaI SUPERINTENDENT

Plans for the Pan-American palace
to be erected in Van Ness park, at the
foot of Seventeenth street have been
approved by Secretary Root as presi
dent ex Officio of the governing board |
and John Barrett as director OF the |
bureau of American republics. The
building will be located near the cen
ter of Van Ness park and will face the |
east toward the executive grounds. 1t
Will have a frontage on Seventeenth !
street of 165 feet and a depth OF about
40 feet on B street. The style Of ar
chitecture is combination OF the
Latin-American with the classical. the
Latin-American style being intended
TO represent the interests of the Latin
American republics in the building
The Pan-Ameriean Palace.
The design will harmonic with the
general scheme Of Improvement of the
parks of the national capital The
building will be approached by a wide
driveway. Three large arched doors.
with Spanish grill gates, will open in
TO a handsome high studded corridor,
which opens into large patio Of the
Latin-American type, which I'm turn
opens into the main reading room OF
the library in the rear of the building.
The patio is covered with a sliding
glass roof. which may be closed in
winter and kept open in summer, per
hitting the growth of tropical flowers
and plants at all seasons.
Staircases and Assembly Hall.
Two grand staircases, one on each
side of the patio. lead to a Spanish
foyer, which opens at the rear to
grand assembly hall a hundred feet
long by seventy feet wide.
This hall is dignifed and elegant in
style of treatment and is designed for
the special use Of important interna-
tional conferences. On the north side
of the assembly room is a large Office
for the governing board of the bureau,
and on the other side are several com
mittee rooms. On the left or south
side of the patio are the offices Of the
director of the bureau and his imme
! diate staff and the Office of the secre-
tary and his immediate staff.
Fine Landscape Effects.
The building Will be surrounded by
fine landscape effects, with rear stair
way leading into handsome gardens
suitable for public functions in fair
weather The building will probably
/ be built of concrete, with an abundant
use of Spanish thing and decoration.
The roof will be of Spanish thing. The
outside foundations will be finished In !.
marble, and the upper portions Of the
building will have a stuccO finish SINH
lar to that In general use In Latin
countries 1t is hoped to begin work
on the foundations in August and to
complete the entire building in a year
! and a half The building proper will
cost 5000, 600, and the furnishings and
decorations will cost $150,OOO, making
total cost of $75O,OOO, all Of which
expense will be borne by Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie. The site of the bailding cost
$4,000 which was paid by the bu-
reau.
Historic Banner on View.
The historic banner which inspired
Francis Scott Key to compose The
Star Spangled Banner and which
hoated over Fort McHenry, in Chesa-
peake bay. during its bombardment by
the British on the night Of Sept. 10,
/ 1914, has been placed on exhibition at
the Smithsonian institution, in this
city. The flag is the property Of Eben
Appleton of New York, who has lent
II to the government 1t Is about % by
30 feet and will be draped on the wall
in the Hall Of History of the institu-
ton.
Uncle Sans Prisons.
Attorney General BOnaparte has di-
rected that hereafter monthly reports
shall be made showing the progress of
building operations on the new United
States penltentiaries at Leavenworth,
Kan, and Atlanta, Ca, after the plan
used by the navy department in re-
porting progress q battleships
Heretofore the department has been
able to keep in touch with the work
only by frequent trips by some of the
officials Of the department.
Visitor From the Orient.
Judge A. c. Carson of Manila, mem
Der Of the supreme court of the Philip
pine Islands, who recently arrived In
Washington. is here on three months
vacation. He is one of seven members
of the Philippine supreme court. The
Judge came to this country by way of
the Siberian railway, crossing the At
lantic to New York.
ut took just ten days to go from
Vladlvostok by rail to Moscow" said
Judge Carson. The trip was exceed
Ingly pleasant, and the sleeping car ac-
commodatlons were as good If not bet
Ter than those on the Pullman cars of
the United States"
Plan Stately Church.
That there may be a great national
Methodist Episcopal Church South in
Washington the Mount Vernon Place
M e. church has purchased a fitting