Evening star., 1925-03-15
Sublime Boulevard to Link
Capitol and Graves of
Americas Dead Heroes
PLANS HERE DEVELOPED
LIKE PROPHETIC VISION
B Street to Be Widened, Mall
Beautifed-Preliminary Work
Started Yesterday.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

which is included in the Arlington
Memorial Bridge program, and which
within the next 10 years means the
most extensive work done in any
similar period of time for idealized
and symbolic beautifcation of Wash
ington.
Few have visioned the magnitude
of the project commonly known as
the Arlington Memorial Bridge plan.
The bridge itself is but a small part
of the general development and
Identification program provided for
in the legislation which passed Con-
gress in the closing days, and for
which an initial appropriation of
$500, 600 was made.
The project includes these other
features:
Widening of Streets.
ID Widening B street north from
the Lincoln Memorial TO the Capitol,
cutting across Pennsylvania avenue
to the north side of the Capitol, clean
ing out the unsightly shacks that
| have been an eyesore and providing
a great governmental boulevard from
the Capitol for corteges across the
new memorial bridge to Arlington
National Cemetery.
ca Widening Twenty-third street,
at right angles from street, north
from the Lincoln Memorial to Wash
| ington Circle, as the most important
north and south route for the entire
northwest section OF the city 10 the
Lincoln Memorial and across the
memorial bridge to the Nations
| shrine at Arlington.
Columbia Island Plan.
(3) The most beautiful island de-
velopment in the world, on Columbia
! Island, reclaimed by dredging opera
| tions, along which there will be a
magnificent boulevard drive at right
| angles to the memorial bridge, and
which will connect across an auxil-
isry bridge with the great Lee high
| way.
/ a. Erection of the Titanic and
John Ericsson memorials equidistsnt
from the entrance to the bridge from
B street, on either side and on the
! waterfront, thus fanking the bridge
| and beautifying the entrance to the
| Capital from the South.
(5) Continuing the development OF
| the river drive and parkway west of
| the Lincoln Memorial and beautifully
| linking the Rock Creek and Potomac
| parkwsys, with the river drive moved
closer to the river and raised s feet
| higher than at present.
Creation of Great Plaza.
is) Creating a great plaza between
| the Lincoln Memorial and the bridge,
| including an attractive water gate
| fronting the Lincoln Memorial.
Cd Giving Washington. on the
| Virginia shore, the most beautiful
gateway to any city in the world.
(S) A magnificent memorial en-
| trance to the bridge from the South.
90 A beautiful plaza and park
| from the southern end of the bridge
on Columbia Island to and including
| the entrance to Arlington National
Cemetery.
(10) A memorial gateway into the
| Arlington Cemetery.
So the entire project as authorized
| by Congress has many important
| features. which, taken together. make
| 1t the greatest single memorial prof.
ect undertaken by any nation in
| many years. 1t supplements and
| completes the great Lincoln Memorial
| in finishing the landscape in its
vicinity and it carries the Mall treat
ment of Washington and LEnfant
across the Potomac TO Arlin gton and
! up to the last resting place Of the
designer of the original plan of the
! Capital at the portico of the Lee
mansion.
Route of Fallen Heroes.
There is also the compelling patri-
| otic motive in the project of a broad
boulevard from the Capitol through
B street extended and widened, by
! way of the Lincoln Memorial and
across the broad and dignified bridge,
as a route for the Nations fallen
heroes to their last resting place in
Arlington National Cemetery.
There is a third great motive in the
complete plan-provision for a mag
nificent entrance to Washington from
Virginia for the Lee highway COM
! ing across the entire continent from
Los Angeles. Calf.
The fourth, and perhaps the great
est of all, is the symbol of the bind
! ing together of the North and the
South in one indivisible Union, know
| ing no sectional lines.
| Bursting of Panorama.
| AS the traveller approaches Wash
| ington over the brow of Arlin gton
Heights in Fort Myer, there will
burst on his view a panorama that
has few equals in all the world. Once
seen 1t will never be forgotten, and
will live in the memory of the be-
holder foreve~ as d perpetual inspira-
| ton to loyalty, patriotism and de-
Votion to country.
| The most immediate effect of the
new bridge upon the Mall develop
ment is the completion of the area
around and to the west of the Lincoln
Memorial, on which Lieut.. Col. Clar-
ence o. Sheriff.. the engineer officer
/ in immediate charge of the entire
project, will have work go ahead at
| once. This affords a much needed i'm
proyen1ent OF that section OF the Wash
ington waterfront.
Titanic Memorial Plans.
Fitting in as one of the important
| features of the entire development is
the Titanic Memorial at the foot of
New Hampshire avenue at the juno
ture of Rock Creek and Potomac
/ parkways. This memorial is to the
| heroes of the Titanic disaster-the
ment who stood back saying, Women
and children first Work on this
memorial started yesterday. This
means the early cleaning up of that
| unsightly area near the Rock Creek
and Potomac parkways.
Preliminary to the erection of the
Titanic Memorial, in order that II
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