Evening star., 1923-05-02
National Stadium, in Capital
Indorsed by Board of Trade
Col. Vidn,er Explains Project as One
That VIII Bring Thousands Here.
Citizenship Work Indorsed.


concentrations were made for increased
both inside and outside the schools
at the regular meeting Of the Wash
ington Board of Trade at the New
Willard Hotel last night.
The stadium, as a means OF attract
ing thousands OF visitors here, and
that would get every one of the
country interested in it as q memorial
to tho youth of America, were out
lined by Col. George Vidmer, United
States Army.
Representative Joe J. Manlove OF
Joplin, Mo-, q new member Of Con-
gress, told the board how the city
could attract hundreds Of thousands
of people with millions Of dollars 10
spend by advertising throughout the
country. He cited instances Of how
1t had been done in the west.
Making Of Citizens.
How better citizens are being made
out of aliens under the program OF
AmcricaniZatiou and the new natural
iaztlon law were explained by Justice
Frederick L. Siddons and Miss Maude
Il. Alton, the latter principal Of the
Am ericaniZation schools
The board. by Il rising vote, adopt
ed a memorial resolution to the late
Thomas Bradley. former president OF
the board. presented by John JOY
Edison, chairman OF a special COM
mittee appointed to draw up the
paper. Addresses eulogizing the life
and work of Mr.. Bradley as a citizen
and civic worker were delivered by
l.. G. Brandenburg and Odell S. Smith
members of the committee.
Francis Weller, chairman of the
committee on water supply. briefly
told the board Of the progress Of the
new Washington aqueduct. Maj. Gen
Beach. chief Of engineers; Maj. Bes-
son, acting Engineer Commissioner
of the District; Maj Wheeler. assist
ant engineer commissioner. ana MAI
Max Tyler, in charge Of the work on
the new aqueduct, were on the plat
form and were presented. Maj. Tyler
delivered AN illustrated lecture, III
which he traced the history of the
present aqueduct and the activities
leading up to the provision of FUNDS
for building the tunnel now under
way. and explained the methods used
in supplying Washington with water
Civic bodies Invited.
President F. f. Colladay, who pre-
sided. announced that the officers ni
all the citizens and other civic as
sociations had been invited 10 at
tend this meeting as the guests OF
the board II was. he said. part OF
Il program to bring the civic boQles
in closer contact.
Charles S.mmes, George Pitt anc
Charles J. Columbus made appeals foi
the support Of the civic bodies anC
the citizens in general in preparing
for and entertaining the crowds a
the Shrine ,pncllNe.
Reporting on the stadium. Perry Is
Turpin, chairman of the committee or
community affairs. urged as com
mittee action the support and promo
tion of this enterprise so far as pos
sible.
Wants study Made.
Many phases of the matter" the re-
port said, I'VE think. lap the functions
of the committee on law and the com
mittee on public buildings anC
grounds. and this committee recon.
mends that the Board of Trade ap-
prove the need for and desirability OF
erecting such stadium here as soor
as possible, and that the subcommittee
Of this committee appointed to con-
slider means of carrying out this prof
ect be authorized 10 cooperate with
similar subcommitteeS appointed by
the committee on law and the com
mittee on public buildings anC
bility of carrying out the project ant
the means to such end. and to report
the result of their deliberations tc
this committee on presentation to the
board a the subsequent meeting"
The report of the subcommittee
which was headed by Ethelbert Stew.
art, was made part Of the whole
committee report. Said this report, il
part:
subcommittee Report.
There was full agreement as tc
the advisability of providing the city
OF Washington with an athletic
stadium of adequate seating capacity
The capacity of the stadium woulc
be such as to take care of severa
years of growth in population of the
city The subcommittee would alst
call attention to the fact that Wash
ington can draw much larger
crowd of people from the outside
than probably any other city in the
country. except New York, and Ger
tainly larger than any other city OF
it's size.
Full consideration should be made
of this fact in determining the seat
ing capacity to be provided for. At
tention was called in the committee
TO the fact that the State University
Of Columbus, Ohio. erected An ath
letic stadium of $4,000 capacity anG
at it's opening. which was foot bal
game between the teams of the Ohio
state University and the Michigan
state University. it was necessary tc
put in temporary seats TO accommo.
date well over 10000 persons.
The subcommittee would therefor,
respectfully call your attention to tn,
fact that should two universities
both outsiders. hold their contests il
drawn would be full strength Of tn.
two universities plus those who
would attend the game because i
would give an opportunity to see tn,
National Capital, in addition to the
local population that would wish Il
seating capacity could be assured. A
the same time the subcommittee i.
not quite ready to recommend 81
high number as 100000 for the
regular permanent seating capacity
of the stadium. 1t might be well t
mum. including temporary seats
however"
Potomac Park Site.
tomac Park should be the site ant
that Congress should be asked tc
donate the ground. However, the sub.
committee felt that the first thins
to do was to ascertain whether or moi
the whole committee on community
affairs was III idNoI oi d SlauiuLi
next to determine whether or moi
the Washington Board of Trade would
get sQuarely behind a movement fol
stadium. This being determined
the next step or steps could be
planned in more detail.
After praising the beauties of the
National Capital and the fore
sightedness Of the French engineer
who had laid it out, Col. Vidmer said
that he had spent all Of his spare
moments while here in trying to see
as far as L'Enfant did.
Col. Vidmer said that his idea was
not primarily stadium.that was was
found that there was one group to
whom had not been erected q me-
mortal and that was the youth OF
Amertca-of which there was no