Evening star., 1925-05-26
APARTMENT HOUSE
AREA OUTLINED
Development of Capital Sec.
ton on Picturesque Lines
Discussed by Speakers.

Possibilities for future development
of Washington along picturesque
lines lie greatest in that portion of
the city west of Seventeenth street,
and south of Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. This sums up the
opinions of Col. G. .. Sheriff. super
intendent of public buildings and
public parks, and Dorsey w. Hyde, jr.,
chief of the civics bureau of the Ma
tional Chamber of Commerce, as eX-
pressed at an old fashioned Dutch
supper given by the West End Citi-
zens' Association in Concordia Lu-
theran Church. Twentieth and 6
streets, last night.
Great Apartment Area.
Development of the section into a
great apartment house area should
result because of the proximity of
the riverside drives. with numerous
parks and recrea tional facilities, Col,
Sheriff. declared. He said the erec-
ton of the memorial bridge to Ar
lington. with the widening and beau
tifying of the approaches to the
structure. would be of great benefit
to the West End. No other section
sof the city has as many important
and constructive projects under way
or in contemplation, he stated, citing
a list of monuments and buildings
which would require several years to
complete, including the Titanic me-
moral, to be located at the foot of
New Hampshire avenue, and band
stand to be erected to the memory of
District men who died in France.
OF the 100000 appropriation by
Congress on March for park eX-
tension and improvement in the Dis
trict this year $4S0.000 had already
been spent. most of which went for
the purchase of land to prevent en-
croachment thereon by private en-
terprise. Final estimates for sums
sufficient TO complete the Rock Creek
and Potomac parkway projects will
be made up this Summer. he said.
Cites Potential Possibilities.
Mr.. Hyde compared Washington s
potential possibilities for picturesque
development with the great cities of
Europe. The extent to which citizens
visualize the future, he said. will gov
ern the success of development He
deplored the passing of the buck to
future generations, declaring the need
Tor responsible citizenship to lie in the
establishment of a budget system to
cover years of development.
President William P. Herbst of the
association was POSTMASTER. Rev. Dr.
George Enters, pastor of Concordia
Church, gave the invocation. After
the dinner a business session was held.
Resolutions of sympathy were adopted
on the deaths of Commissioner James
F. Oyster and Capt. George w. Evans
Capt Evans was one of the organ
izers of the association and was its
first president, which Office he filled
for three years.
Car Loading Platforms Urged.
Citing numerous accidents recently
resulting from automobiles running
into the Illuminated posts at safety
zones, the association reiterated its
plea for the erection of loading plat
forms at various car stops on Penn
sylVania avenue west of Nineteenth
street. The Traffic Bureau will be
urged to abolish all-day parking on
the Avenue between Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets. 1t is desired that
no parking be permitted between
and 8 am. and limit of two hours
be enforced during the rest of the
day. Endorsement was given to Pc
tition signed by several hundred par
ents urging the establishment of a
seventh grade in the Weightnan
School The association adjourned
until the fourth Monday in September.