Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-08-19

new building for the bureau Of en-
craving and printing. Congress ap-
propriated $1,5O0,O0O for the erection
of the structure.
This new building will be the long
est in Washington and perhaps in the
country. The capitol is 754 feet long.
the new main hall of the naval acad-
envy at Annapolis is a trif1e longer,
while the new bureau of engraving
and printing will extend about $50
feet along the street. The structure
will be erected south of and adjoining
the present building on Fourteenth
street, Just south of the hall and will
be one of the dominant features fit
ting In with the general scheme of the
development of the territory about the
Washington monument designed by
the Burnham park commission.
The structure in the general archi-
tectural aspect will reflect the familiar
design of the treasury building. Its
distinguishing feature in point of ar
rangement will be six wings extending
to the rear, each sixty feet wide with
These wings will be built Of glass and
steel, thus affording the maximum of
light to the engravers and printers,
who do the delicate work Of making
Uncle Sans money. Only three OF the
wings will be constructed at first
They will extend up to the walls OF
the old building The structure at
- H.
then be torn down and the remaining
front and wings erected in its place.
The arrangement will enable the trans
fer to be made without interrupting
the regular work of the bureau.
Three other great building projects
IN this neighborhood also are being
planned. These are the new buildings
for the state department, the depart
ment of justice and the department of
commerce and labor. The last named
department will occupy by far the
largest home, and as these three struc-
lures will be in a row ON Fifteenth
street. facing westward and running
down toward the bureau of engraving
and printing, the commerce and labor
bureau probably will be set between
the two others. Congress has appro-
priated $8,000,000 for this work.A of
which 100000 is Immediately avaIl-
able for plans. The government az
ready has bought the land, which is
the square opposite the New Willard
hotel, bounded by Pennsylvania ave-
nue. on the north and Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets on the east and
west.
The records of the treasury depart
ment show that in the early days the
government, which was the original
owner of this tract, sold 1t for $4,000.
It has just paid $2,500,000 to get the
same land back.
1t is the idea of the commission of
fine arts that the territory fronting on
Pennsylvania avenue, now occupied
Chase's theater. the Regent hotel and
adjacent buildings shall be parked
This treatment. 1t is pointed out. will
give an uninterrupted view of the
beautiful new district building from
the treasury building, and also will
present a vista from Pennsylvania
avenue down past the Sherman statue
and tho Washington monument to the
Potomac river.
Another appropriation by congress
at the recent session provides for the
erection of a $2,500,000 building for
the use of the geological survey, the
Indian office, the general land office
tho naOv h,,raaY Of YYninnc
There was also an appropriation
for a $6,000,000 postoffice for the Dis
trict of Columbia This building is to
: be erected on land adjoining the new
union station and already owned by
the government. For many years the
city office has occupied the frs floor
of the postoffice department building
on the south side of Pennsylvania ave
nue. and Eleventh street. The growth
OF the department has made it neces-
sary for the city. or district, to have
quarters of Its own. In having this
new building erected alongside the
union station. the postmaster-general
is carrying out a plan postal experts
have long had in mind, that of having
a postoffice so situated with respect to
a railroad station that the mail cars
may be shunted into the basement of
the postoffice. If the Washington plan
proves the success the postal officials
expect II TO be. the department will
no doubt take a firm stand in favor
of putting all new postoffice buildings
in large cities near railway stations.
Congress did one other thing at the
late session along the line of develop
ing the scheme for the Identification
of the national capital II authorized
the purchase of the twelve blocks ly-
ing between the union station and the
capitol grounds. The act appropriates
$500. 600 annually for eight years. II
is the expectation that this s4,000,000
win enable the government not only
70 come into possession of these
twelve blocks of real estate, but will
enable Il to RAGE all the buildings on
the ground purchased and TO convert
the tract into beautiful park