Evening star., 1924-06-28

pleIlOn OF tne Lincoln memorial. con-
gress took definite action by creating
a commission to make and report a
plan, and furnishing it with funds
for that purpose. The members of
that commission are the President,
the President of the Senate, the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, the chairmen of the committees
on public buildings and grounds OF
the two houses. with the engineer
officer who has charge of public
buildings and grounds as It's ex-
ecutive officer.
President Harding, as the chairman
of the commission, was an earnest ad-
vocate of the construction OF the bridge,
and only last month President Coolidge
sent message to Congress transmit
ting the commissions report and rec
ommending that the work should be
undertaken without further delay. The
report is voluminous. 1t represents the
and Arlington national cemetery.
and artists of great eminence.
1T is not too much to say that all
of the artistic learning and culture
of generations is to be typified in the
structure which has so long been un-
der discussion, and which is TO con-
stitute the realization of the dream OF
Jackson, and of SO many think erS.
writer's and workers who have not
been willing to permit his dream to
be unfulfilled," Representative Moore
points out.
Win Cost $4,000. 900.
The bridge is to cross the Potomac
River between the Lincoln Memorial
and the Arlington National Cemetery.
The total expenditure for which au-
thority is asked is nearly $l5,0o0.Ooo.
The items of expenditure in round
figures are $7,500,Oo0 for the bridge
itself, $1,o00.oOo for the bridge plaza
and the construction Of a water gate,
81, 100000 for the Identification OF
Columbia Island, which will be
crossed by the bridge as 1t approaches
the Virginia shore. $1.400,0o0 for the
treatment of the parkway at the
Virginia end of the bridge, and more
than $2,000o00 for the construction
of the approaches on this side.
The work is not to proceed hastily.
but deliberately, and it's completion
will require less than one-tenth or
the time that has elapsed since JACK
son made his announcement. ana not
has elapsed since Webster spoke. if
it can be assumed that an initial ap-
preparation of 100000 will soon be
made available.
length and ninety feet wide, there
being a clear roadway OF sixty feet.
and walkway on each side OF
fifteen feet in width. There are to be
nine spans with a drawspan in the
center. The facing. of the bridge is
to be granite, and here we think of
the suggestion made by Mr.. Webster.
The ornamentation is to be simple,
but SO highly effective that, accord
ing to the opinion OF those who are
will excel in beauty any bridge now
spanning any of the rivers of the
world.
Memorial to United Nation.
The design in all of it's features.
will symbolic the disappearance of
all controversy respecting the integ-
rity and endurance Of the republic
and the complete reunion of the sec
tions under one common flag. 1T
is aot possible to think of a more
fitting memorial-of a memorial that
will make more impressive and con-
slant appeal to the millions of Amer
leans and citizens of other countries
by whom in the days to come it will
De seen anu uSeu, SdS . hcpi SScutA-
prom it they will view the Monu-
ment which commentaries the fame
Of the Master Builder of the Republic,
and dwell upon the cause of which he
was the leader during and after the
revolution. From 1t they will view
the temple commemorating the fame
of Lincoln From it they will also
view the home of the wonderful SOL
dier and stainless gentleman who
commanded the armies of the Con-
federacy. They will reflect upon the
struggles which preceded the creation
of our system of government, upon
the difficulties that the new republic
encountered. upon the dissensions
that arose and the harmonizing in
fluences that have brought peace and
tranquility, and they will be filled
with faith and hope that no danger
which the future may hold will I'm
peril the existence of what is now
the greatest republic that history has
known, and great because of it's peo.
plea people who revere and accent
as their standards the qualities which
were possessed by Washington and
Lincoln and Lee"