The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10

which a beautiful sketch design was
made, and in a memorial bridge across
TO Arlington. with driveways along
the river shore.
This site the government already
owns and the influence of the Ameri-
can Institute OF Architects and sym
pathetic bodies so far has been suffi
cient to keep new building operations
within the plan, though congress was
at one time very close to giving the
Pennsylvania railroad a great terminal
site in the very center of the proposed
mall. halfway between the Washington
monument and the capitol. calamity
that was only averted be IT said, by
the public spirit and generosity of the
late Mr.. Cassatt, president of the road.
At another time the department OF
agriculture's new building was designed
TO be placed in the center Of the Mall.
though better sites adjoined 1t.
The Union station was finally placed
on Capitol hill about a quarter OF
mile 10 one side of the capitol. and a
little back of it's transverse axis Be
tween the station and the capitol
there is a broad. straight avenue, so
that the visitors first sight of the city
is a clear and imposing view OF the
gray pile with its magnificent dome.
The Capitol square reaches half way
to the station. and two of the sub
sidiary buildings are erected along its
boundary. The senate committee
| building is toward the station. The
/ proposed site for the Lincoln memorial
! is beyond this building toward the sta
| tion. and ii is very obvious that. being
| thus near the station. II would not add
| in any way to the beauty or majesty
of the capitol or the capitol group.
would not in fact be a part of II. and
| would obstruct the view of the capitol
| and thus rather tend to detract from II.
On the other hand It would be a
/ truly magnificent decoration for the
| railroad station. as all admit. but senti-
\ ment is decidedly against using a
| great national memorial to such a
| man as Abraham Lincoln for any such
| purpose. nor Is the station so unlove-
| ly as to need hiding in this fashion
/ A proposal to place the smaller Colum-
]
ever met with popular acquiescence
! Such is the situation. On the one
hand is the station site. championed
by Speaker Cannon. and on the other
site chosen by the famous Washing
ton park commission. and which will
unquestionably be approved by the
council of thirty" as 1t has been by
practically every architect OF note in
the country. Here is the personnel
of the council:
Architects-Cass Gilbert of New
York, C. Grant La Fargo OF New York.
S. B. p Trowbridge Of New York.
John c. Howard of San Francisco,
Glenn Brown of Washington. Thomas
r. Kimball of Omaha, John L. Muren
OF st. Louis. ID. A. Burnham, director
OF the Chicago exposition; John NJ
Donaldson of Detroit. George B. Post
of New York. Arnold w Drummer
president of the New York Chapter of
the American institute: Robert S. Pea.
body. president OF the Boston Society
OF Architects; Charles F. McKim. OF
McKim. Mead & White: Villa II S
Eames OF St. Louis. James Bush Mar,
shall. president OF the Washington
Chapter Of the American institute
Adam Garfield of Cleveland. William
b. Mundie of Chicago. Frank Miles
Day of Philadelphia, and c. Howard
Walker, editor of the Architectural
Review.
Painters-John La Fargo. F. ID. Mil
let, f. II. Blashfield and Kenyon Cox
all of New York.
Sculptors-Daniel Chester Frer-h
Earl Bitter. Herbert Adams ~ II. A
MacNeil
Landscape architect-Frederick Law
Olmsted. Jr.