Evening star., 1917-11-16
PLANS FOR HOUSING
j. FEDERAL WORKERS
Commission of Fine Arts Con-
sidering Needs of the Gov
ernment in Washington.
ALLOWING FOR EXPANSION

Proper and adequate housing faCilf-
ties for the officials and employees of the
various government departments ant
establishments. both in government
owned and private-owned buildings in
this city, engaged the major part of the
attention of the members of the Ma
tional Commission Of Fine Arts at their
meeting at the Lemon building today.
IE that matter they are acting in an
advisory capacity to the public build
ings commission created by Congress
last year, with a view ultimately to
providing permanent. suitable govern
ment-owned quarters for all govern
mental activities in the city of Wash
1ngton. ...."
That commission is directed to inves-
tigate and ascertain what public build
1ngs are needed to provide adequate
and suitable accommodations. with al
1owances for future expansion, for all
of the offices. establishments and pubic
services of the government in the Dis
trict of Columbia, together with the
probable location and cost of such
buildings. The consideration of this
important subject involved visits of In
spection to various public buildings and
reservations.
Other Questions Considered.
Other questions affecting the de-
Velopment of the National Capital
were considered by the art commits
sioners. Gen Sharpe. quartermaster
general of the Army, who has charge
of the national cemetery at Arlington.
Va. submitted designs for several new
memorials to be erected in that reser-
walton. The commission of fine arts
great deal Of study to the proper de-
veiopment Of this gre. national ceme-
terry, which in course of time Will be
more intimately connected with the
National Capital than ever before. In
the close cooperation between the
QuartermaSter general of the Army
and the commission restrictions have
been placed in effect covering the size.
style and design of monuments to go
up, SO that instead of a heterogeneous
mass of designs, monuments more in
keeping with the military character OF
the cemetery will be placed. In the
same way the interruption Of the long
lines Of simple headstones over the
soldiers graves by more pretentious
monuments has been prohibited.
Sketch Model of Memorial Fountain.
At its meeting today the fine arts
commission considered and approved a
preliminary sketch model of the pro-
posed memorial fountain to take the
place of the bronze statue of Admiral
Dupont in Dupont Circle Congress has
given the chief of engineers, United
States Army, permission to remove the
statue and pedestal and foundations of
the present monument to Admiral Du-
pont in the circle and replace it with
more suitable memorial to the admiral.
The present statue and pedestal. by di-
rection of Congress, is to be turned over
TO the donors of the memorial, and is to
be relocated outside the District of Co
1umbia soon as the new memorial
has been completed. The site and de-
sign for the memorial must be approved
further injunction is that the United
States Shall be put to no expense in or
by the removal of the statue and ped
estal. and by the erection of the said
memorial complete.
The memorial will occupy an area
not greater than the small circle
within which the statue now stands.
Daniel Chester French is the sculptor
and Henry Bacon is the architect. Mr..
Memorial in this city, and Mr.. French
Is the sculptor of the statue to be
located inside that memorial.
Members in Attendance.
The members present at today's
meeting were: Charles Moore. chair
man. Of Detroit. Mich: Frederick Law
Olmsted. vice chairman. of Brookline.
Mass. Herbert Adams. sculptor; J.
Alden Weir, painter. and Charles A.
Platt. William Mitchell Kendall and
John Russell Pope, architects. of New
York city. Col c. S. Ridley. officer in
charge Of public buildings and
grounds. and secretary and executive
officer of the commission. also was
present.