Arizona republican., 1920-12-19

 higher than the grade of Potomac park. circular terrace. 1000 feet in diam eter, first rises above the park. On it's outer edge stand four concentric rows Of trees, leaving a plateau in the cen- ter 755 feet in diameter. In the center of this plateau. surrounded by wide roadways and walks, rises an eminence supporting a rectangular stone terrace wall 14 feet high, 256 feet long and 1S6 feet wide. On this rectangular ter race rises the white marble memorial. All the foundations of the steps, ter races and memorial are built on con- crete piling which extends down to solid rock.
 Rising from this rectangular terrace three steps. each 8 feet high, form a platform measuring 204 feet in length and 134 feet 1n width. On this plat form stand the 36 columns synbolizing the Union, which enclose the memorial hall walls and support the upper DOT tion of the building bearing the fes- toons representing the existing 4S states. This colonade is 1S8 feet long and 11S feet wide, the columns being A feet high and ' feet inches in diameter at their bases.
 Within the coIonnade stands the white memorial hall measuring 1856 feet l in length and S4 feet in width. Inside the building the central hall where the statue of Lincoln stands is 50 feet wide, 70 feet long and 50 feet high, while the halls where the memorials of the speeches are placed are 57 feet long, 37 feet wide and 60 feet high, four Ionic columns separating each of these halls from the central hall. The colonnaded entrance to the memorial hall is 45 feet wide and A feet high. To the eastward of the memorial, at | the foot of the series of steps leading from the entrance, and extending to- ward the Washington monument is a l lagoon, or reflecting basin, 2,000 feet | long and 400 feet wide. In It's waters l is reflected from one end the Lincoln memorial and from the other end the Washington manument is picture. It is from ? to 3 feet deep and it's floor is of dark material making the water as reflective as d mirror. Splendid elm trees line both sides of the reflecting basin.
 The grounds surrounding the memo rial slope up gently to the windinl walk which encircles the entire struct- ure. Rare specimens of boxwood trees nesting in the corners of the temple | are each nearly 100 years old, and cost about s1,000 apiece. Other trees planted about the memorial are selected speci- mems of great age.
 The movement for the construction of the memorial was begun in 1902 anc in 1910 the late Senator Shelby M Cullom of Illinois, a friend of Lincoln introduced in the senate the bill for tn, construction of the memorial. The bil
 was approved by congress Feb. 9, 1911
 The law created a commission anC
 named as its members William H. Taft
 Shelby M. Cullom, Joseph G. Cannon George Peabody Whetmore. Samue
 Walker Mccall Hernondo D. None,
 and Champ Clark.
 The commission was authorized | produce and determine upon a location plan and design for monument O memorial in Washington. The aid o the government Commission of Fin Arts was invoked in the selection c the site and plans of the memoria On the 105th anniversary of Lincoln birth, Feb. 12, 1914, the late forme Senator Joseph c. s. Blackburn, the resident commissioner of the memoris 9 commission and who was a Souther officer during the Civil war, brok ground for the memorial saying as h E did so:
 This memorial will show that Lin coin Is now regarded as the greatest \ all AnerlcanS ana that he is so hel by the South as well as the North" The corner stone was laid on Lir E coins birthday, in 1915 without cert \ monies. Among the articles place \ within the corner stone was a histor of Lincoln. signed by his living SO Robert T. Lincoln. The building of il memorial was somewhat delayed dul ing the World war and its constructfo which was expected to be completed
 three years time, has taken almost S years.
 N A memorial bridge across the Pott X mac river from point nearby the Lfr \ coin memorial and extending to il Arlington National cemetery is COT E templated in [ tle plans as well as
 boat landing on the river directly ca of the memorial.
 \ Temporary buildings erected in Pot, mac park for war purposes and occl
 pied by the navy department have CT U croached upon the memorial grount
 as planned by the Commission of Fiji
 Arts which declares:
 Until the buildings are removed il
 memorial will be dwarfed and made
 small importance, and the developmel
 Of the landscape features upon whit
 the memorial depends for effectivene
 will be made impossible. The continu;
 ton Of the buildings works sacrilege
 the memory of Lincoln"