Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-25
A CROWN Of GLORY.
Continued from first page.)
capital of tho nation to the tomb OF its
great founder.
Campaign for Connected Parks.

campaign AOI NOuuoCSoO a AS'
mo other labor Of the centennial year
Is more inspiring or more promising OF
notable results in increasing the attrac-
tiveness of the capital than that of de-
veloping Washington as the city OF parks
and the forest city by a vigorous CAM
paign for the series Of connected reserva-
lions above outlined. utilizing at every
step Washington's diversified natural adj
the larger reservations which furnish an
tmerald setting for public buildings. the
heights to the north and west, and the
beautiful rivers to the south and east,
whose banks are changing. and should
be quickly and thoroughly transformed
from marshes and malarious wastes into
beautiful landscapes with shaded drive
ways and with lawn surfaces, diversified
by attractive lakes.
There would not be. in Vienna or
Budapest, or anywhere in the world, a
fgrander ring street or boulevard than that
which would take its start on the
westward grassy slopes Of the Capitol
grounds. sweep through the Mall and
Potomac Park and UP Rock creek to the
Zoo aid Rock Creek National Park:
thence by the boulevard to the Soldiers
Home, and finally by boulevards and
Anacostia Park back to the eastern sward
and shade trees and impressive dome OF
the Capitol. It's only rival would be the
boulevard drive which should sweep from
| the Capitol through the Mall and Poto-
mac Park, across magnificent memorial
boulevard along the Potomac to the tomb
OF Washington and Mount Vernon
1.-THE old Washington Is q series OF
parks. connected by broad. park-lined and
tree-lined thoroughfares In whose YER
buildings are framed.
1.-THE park system which thus permeates
the original city is to pervade In like
| fashion the new Washington. and the
lying between the Capitol and the White
House and touching the Potomac Is to
merge into q great river park system.
which will include. as already suggested.
both banks of the Potomac, the valley
Of the Anacostia.
LET us of the Washington Of today. in
building up the nations city OF the second
century of its life.. emulate the breadth
execution which were displayed ct the
end Of the last century and In 1900 by
the founders of the capital"
Gave Impetus to Idea.
The celebration Of the National Capital
centennial in 1900, as urged by the Board
of Trade in 1893 and 1899, gave strong
additional impetus to the park develop
ment idea. Interest in the capital, in its
adornment and prosperity, was intensified
throughout the entire nation as result
Of this centennial, and in park develop
ment attention was specifically attracted
to the reclamation and Improvement OF
the Mall by a Centennial avenue, to the
erection Of a new Or enlarged White
House and to the connection OF the river
side parks with Rock Creek Park:
diately succeeding 1899 vigorously pro-
NOTED the project Of systematic park de-
velopment through its committee On
parks and reservations and through Its
successive presidents and directors as well
as through the action Of the full board
Itself.
December IA, 1900, the Board Of Trade
unanimously adopted the following reso-
luton:
whereas 1t has long been manifest
that a comprehensive and symmetric plan
Of treatment for the parks and reserva-
tons, public building sites and bridges OF
the District could no longer be deferred
without detriment to the original designs
of President Washington and his asso-
ciates; and
whereas at the dawn Of the new CEN
fury it, has been clearly demonstrated
that love Of country included love for
the counrty's capital; and
Whereas we believe that no sentiment
Is more ardent or more universal than
that Of pride In the permanent seat OF
government Of the United States. There
| fore,
Resolved. That the Washington Board
of Trade earnestly recommend to both
houses of Congress than an appropriate
| legislative act be passed at the earliest
| practicable date to authorize the Presi-
dent to appoint q commission of three or
| Ave bu iding and landscape architects, each
eminent and experienced in his profession.
whose duty it shall be to devise and re-
! port to Congress suitable and adequate
plans for the development OF the Capital
city in subordination to the plan Of its
founders and yet sufficiently expanded in
dimensions to typify century's growth
of the republic"
Park Commission Appointed.