Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-13
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Hagedorn, the detailed plans and
specifications have not been drawn,
and until that is done no estimate can
be given of its ultimate cost. Only
the designs of the memorial was sub
mitted yesterday. If the design and
site are not approved by Congress the
successful competitor will receive
$4,000 for his work, but if accepted
he viii receive the commission to
build it.
Gives Description of Design.
James r. Garfield, president Of the
Roosevelt Memorial Association, made
public the following statement. regard
ing the design, site and the architect:
AT the center of an island of white
granite, set in a circular body of
water, thanked by majestic colonnades.
living shaft of water rises with pro-
dlEiouS power to 200 feet. From the
base Of the fountain. symbolical ships
carry the message of Roosevelt's life
to the four points of the compass.
That. in brief. is John Russell
Popes design for the National memo
rial to Theodore Roosevelt. No tablet
and no guide book need explain why a
spring Of living water was chosen as
the symbol of that source of mex
haustible vitality.
Roosevelt was a son of the South
as well as the North; and his memo
rial has been designed to be. in a
sense, a gateway between the two sec
tons. The curving colonnades, set
TO East and West. offer no obstruction
TO the eye looking southwark from
the White House to Virginia. The
memorial. therefore. commentaries
not Roosevelt only, but also that final
closing of the breach between the sec
tons. when the son Of Northern
father and a Southern mother became
President Of more perfect union
Typifles Americanism.
But that living column rising out
of Potomac waters has a wider and
| more profound significance. Roose-
VeltS spirit sprang out OF the deep
sources of his Nations history and
| sank back into them only to rise anew.
cleansing the air and inspiring his
countrymen with It's power, its sparkle,
its simplicity, its essential beauty.
The fountain, ever changing in it's ris.
ing and falling, now flashing in the
sunlight, now scarcely visible In q
cloudy dusk. is always the Potomac;
even as Roosevelt, legislator, soldier,
Governor. President. apostle Of civic
! Righteousness and the square deal. of
national defense and national unity
| and the helping hand across the sea,
| is alwayS-America.
"A son of the North and the South
| of the East by birth, of the West by
adoption. knowing no barriers OF race
or creed or class, at home In every
State, among friends amid all manner
of men-through the confusing details
of multtfariouS life rises clearly and
powerfully the living, radiating spirit
Of his Americanism.
1T is to Roosevelt the American,
exemplar Of patriotic devotion, that
this design is dedicated; not to exalt
an individual but TO recall the basic
American principles which that indi-
vidual upheld and defended.
Proportions as Great.
1.-THE island from which the fountain
rises is $50 feet in diameter, the basin
500 feet; from the center OF one colon
made to the center of the other is 500
feet; the colOnnadeS themselves are
each go feet long and 60 feet high
| The column of water IS forced upward
| by modern automatic electrical
| power pump, and Is entirely independ.
| ent of the Washington water supply
The water is from the Potomac River
entering the Tidal Basin on the west
passing through the pondS TO east anC
| west of the central feature of the plar
and cleansing the Washington Chan
mel through tidal gates.
The design meets the stipulation l.
the Joint resolution of Congress per
hitting the association to secure :
design with this site in view in tax
ing into account the requirements
traffic circulation and of recreational
facilities. The traffic has been diver
ed TO the rear of the colonnades
The style of architecture and sculr