The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
THE LINCOLN MEMO f L A L
SHOULD BE A BOULEVARD
AND NOT A GRECIAN
TEMPLE.

Their is row1 bil before the House
of Representatives f3r an appropriation
to build memorial 10 Ex-President
Lincoln
This is very important BIZ 10 The
peop Of the State O: Maryland The
question has been agjtated for several
years and it must soon be determined
There is a wide demand that this men,
orial be a great boulevard rom Wash
ington to Gettysburg, two of the most
historical points in our country. This
road, is 10 be built by the Ma
tioual government. This boulevard
would, of course, RIM through the Dis.
trict OF Columbia and the State of Mary
land and Pennsylvania, and Incidentally
through Frederick City. Since the de-
mand became stronger for The coustruc-
ton of boulevard, the Washington City
people and parcel of societies. and real
estate Spectators and dealers. have
formed a lobby 10 influence the House
of Representatives and the Senate to
reject the bill to construct this great
boulevard. and instead OF that to build
Grecian Temple down on the Potomac
flats in Washington CITY which is down
southwest OF the Washington Monument
The real object behind il is in reality to
boom the lands in that part Of Wash
ingten City, which IS not desirable part
OF the city, and the real estate is not
very salable at any price in fact.
On last Saturday night this lobby
called a public meeting IN Washington
at which number OF speeches were
made in favor of the Grecian Temple
and against the construction Of a boue
ward
Now, we urge the MARYLAND delegation
in the House aud also in the Senate 10
use their utmost effort and ability to pass
bill in favor of The construction Of the
boulevard aud to defeat the construction
OF Grecian Temple The arguments
urged by the meeting referred to, were
that if "A Grecian Temple was con-
structed it would be d thing Of beauty
and would help to beauty Washington
City, and especially that part of Wash
ington that had not been b-autied to-
wit, the Potomac Flats. Now. then
Washington City is full of monuments.
The city has monuments all over it-so
many that they are becoming SO COM
mon as not to attract attention any more.
There are two or three statues of Lin
coin in Washington already, and one Of
them is right down ON the edge Of the
Capitol grounds, near Pennsylvania
Avenue. Why spend more money on
another statue or a Greek remDle? It
would be, after all, erecting another tenn
pie, and ii would only be the mere imi-
tation OF heather temple that would be
admired. and not the statue Of Lincoln
And even if it was = beautiful temple and
the statue of Lincoln, it would never be
dime Of benefit to the people Of the
country or to Washington City, but the
two and half millions of dollars that
it would cost to build the temple and the
statue, would be an annual expense to
the government to keep it in repair and
the additional cost of watching it.
Whereas the construction of a boulevard
from Washington to Gettysburg would
F.. be of immense benefit to the whole coun-
, try, and especially to Washington City.
4 The people Of the country need public
roads, and especially post roads. And
this fine road from Washington 10 Get
tysburg would be travelled by the people
from all parts Of the country.
There would be no road in the
country 50 beautiful, and at the same
time so historical. 1t would pass through
4 the battlefield Of the Monocacy and close
to that of Antietam. 1t would bring
Immense numbers of people from Wash
(, ington to Frederick and then on to Get
(, tysburg, and it would be source Of great
pleasure and interest to the people from
all parts of the country. There was an
:. other objection urged against the boul-
evard, and that was that there was
Il scheme on hand TO build road. houses all
along the road for the purpose Of selling
drinks all along the road This seems