Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-25
THREE PLANS PROPOSED IN
BILLS TO be PRESENTED TO
ASSEMBLY.
PLOTS FOR MONUMENTS
AND OFFICE BUILDING
Allison Commission co-opsrates and
Works Out Scheme by Which Monies
in General Fund Will Not Be Used
Tsn.Ysar Payment Plan Met BY
Very Small State Tax.

Des Moines, March 25.-Capitol inn
provement and capitol grounds extern
sion are to become reality unless the
plans of legislators are blocked in some
unexpected way. Governor Clarke and
others who have been hard at work on
the session have now completed the
preliminaries and today Senator Mat
ties presented to the proper committees
the detailed plan and project.
The extension, including the erection
of an office building and the location of
the soldiers monument and the Allison
monument, and arrangement of suit
able grounds, is to be accomplished
without the expenditure of dollar
from the general revenues OF the state
The Allison memorial commission is
responsible for working out the plan,
since it is absolutely necessary in order
that proper setting can be had for
the Allison monument. A skilled land
scapa architect has been at work on
the plans and they have been filed at
the state house where all may see them
Three separate plans are proposed IN
the bill. each one representing differ
ent area of land to be acquired. 1t Will
be UP to the legislature to decide. The
plan also includes the sale of Gov
crnor's square," which contains nearly
six acres.
To Add Twelve Blocks.
Area l contemplates the purchase by
the state of the following ground i'm
mediately surrounding the capitol
grounds; on each side of Locust street
for a half block westward to Pennsyl-
vania avenue at the foot of the hill;
ground west of Ninth street north and
south Of Grand avenue half block;
north of the capitol a half block back
| to the alley; the four blocks immedi-
ately east of the capitol, including all
| between Grand avenue and Walnut
street east to Thirteenth; then the four
blocks Immediately south of the CAPT
toll grounds between Ninth and Elev-
| enth streets clear to the railroad tracks
south: also the. one block southeast OF
the capitol to, Court avenue and East
| Twelfth street This would add about
twelve blocks in all to the capltol
grounds.
| Area includes all this and westward
| to East Seventh street south to Court
avenue and the railroad tracks; in
cludes also to Des Moines street at the
north between Ninth and Twelfth; also
| a block east Of the one rat the southeast
corner of the capitol grounds and south
of that block to1the railroad tracks. 1t
has about six blocks more imam the
| first described plan.
Area extends still further by taking
in the ground where Bryant school now
l ,l1-o
East Grand, thence north along Penn
| sylvania avenue to Des Moines street,
then the boundary would follow Des
Moines street to East Thirteenth, then
south on Thirteenth to the Rock Island
! tracks. This would make the capitol
grounds about six blocks each way.
| Ten Years to Pay.
| The bill opens the way for the state
| thru the state executive council to buS
Whichever one of these areas is decided
upon by the legislature. paying for the
same in installments covering ten years
or more: and to pay for the same there
| is to be millage tax of one-tifth of a
mill on all the property of the state
/; which is to be for the first two years a
half mill. Out Of this is to be pur-
chased the desired land, and If salts
| factory prices can not be obtained in
any other way then there may be con
domination.
| Out of this also is to be paid the
price for the new office building. which
under these plans would be located fac
| ing northward two blocks south Of the
historical building, SO that the two
| blocks between them would be an open
mall or park The council is to have
plans made for a s350.000 office build
ing and is authorized to expend of this
sum 100000
Either one of the plans would pro-