The Washington herald., 1910-11-13
LAUDS CAPITAL IN
LONDON CONGRESS
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Model workingmen's homes would DO
quick development and the problem easily
cared for.
Alphabetically, 1 consider Washing
ton to embody more of the distinctly
American than any other city in Amer
lea. Our White House. together with nu-
merous other old structures about the
city, reflect the early development Of a
home architecture. modelled In part from
the Italian and Georgian school, yet In
reality embodying features all our own
1.-THE buildings of state are possibly OF
a heterogeneous character. yet, upon the
whole. they embody all that Is best in
the effort 10 combine architectural har-
mony with problems OF embodying enor-
nous space Our Treasury, with ! = mas
sive columns and simplicity of &c sign, is
familiar to you all The Library of Con
gress Is, in fact of its plans. schemes OF
interior decoration, and details having
been diffused throughout the world in
various publications, probably better
known 10 most OF you than 10 many
Americans
Modern Efforts Good.
Modern construction at the Capital is
fully on plane with all that has gone
before. With pardonable pride. may
say that I have only a few weeks since
finished the designs for a new city post
Office. TO total in cost several millions. It
will adjoin the central railway station
completed within the past year and OF
which ! was also the designer,
In both of these tasks / was faced
with the problems / have Just previously
discussed as relating to the city. In the
railway station great problems OF trans
portation were 10 be solved, and in the
post-office / am even yet working over
questions of economical distribution OF
space and ability 10 provide for future
development OF resources.
"Our Treasury officials. who, under our
governmental scheme, have charge of the
design and construction OF administrative
buildings. have within the week Just past
opened a competition in which more than
eighty American architects have signifed
their intention of entering. Three new
buildings, totaling in cost close to eighty
millions of dollars, are TO be built within
the next few years for the use Of three
departments Of our government, namely.
State. Justice. and Commerce and Labor.
The scheme does not involve entire design
OF the buildings at once, but the success
full architect viii be engaged by the Civ
eminent to study the concrete needs in
their various phases. His resultant work
VIII thus embody the highest type OF hu-
man endeayor"
Need More Parks.
Calling attention to the rapid multiple
caAon Of parks throughout the world, Mr.
Burnham urged the town planners TO con-
serve and further this movement in every
way possible. do this he said, ''be-
cause of the effect of nature upon citizen
ship. Other things being equal a person
accustomed to living in nature has a dis
tlnct advantage all his life over the pure
~ stown-br man. Allure your city deni-
zen to sylvan nature. for 1t is there he
finds the balm his spirit needs.
Where a town lies near the water keeT
all the shore for the people NeighbOT-
hood parks are magnificent both from the
standpoint OF hygiene and the standpoint
OF moral purity. Those who grow up be
fore the eyes Of the community escape
those poisonous practices that lurk in Sc
cret places"
The speakers peroration was an apo
theosis Of enthusiasm, imagination. and
hope In city building He said: Make no
little plans; they have 10 magic TO stir
mems blood and probably themselves will
not be realized. Make big plans. aim
high In hope and work, remembering that
a noble, logical diagram once recorded
viii never die, but long after We are gone
will be living thing. asserting itself with
ever-grOwing insistency Remember that
our sons and grandsons are going 10 do
! things that would stager Us. Let your
watchword be order and your beacon
beauty"