Evening star., 1925-06-28
PARK OVER BORDER
TO BEAUT|FY CITY
Great Metropolitan District
Ultimate Aim of Plan
Maryland Supports.
By WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.

MARYLAND is ready, able ana Wiling
to join the triumvirate of au-
tonomous geographic subdivisions
which is to develop the National Cap
ital and it's environs into great
metropolitan district.
There is about to be established
right outside the District. and extend
ing through Montgomery County to
Howard County, a park. rival
ing in beauty and attractiveness the
Rock Creek Park of the Capital City.
1t will be the Northwest Branch Park.
and will have bordering on it on either
side fine automobile roads through a
section that few people, except the
natives, have seen. 1t is about to
become a reality in the general scheme
Of preservation of a watershed in line
with the development of this section
az part of the plan for big
metropolitan district around the Cap
ital City.
Maryland. and by this is meant
those who are directing the destines
Of this sovereign State out of which
the District of Columbia was carved.
realizes that she is on the border of
the most beautiful capital In the
world today. 1t was once her own
soil and she realizes that the pop
ulation of this city is overflowing into
her hills and valleys.
To help it grow. to make 1t attrac-
tive, and so weld its boundaries that
it will appear as one great city.
Maryland has stepped ahead. Her
government and her citizens foresaw
the possibilities. and while still there
were fields separating Washington S
expanding population and the Mary
land State line, law was passed by
the Maryland Legislature giving au-
thority to direct the way streets
should be laid. parks marked off,
building lines drawn.
With all this being done, she Is
ready now to join hands, just as soon
as the invitation is received. with
National Park Commission and with
the Arlington County Civic Fedora
ton and the State of Virginia, in
working together in planning this
great metropolitan district.
Governor Ready to Act.
Gov. Albert f. Richie of Mary
land will act as soon as his people
ask. Maj. Z. Brooke Lee, Secretary
of State of Maryland, the governors s
right hand man and a power in the
political operations of the State, and
T. Howard Duckett of Hyattsville
chairman of the Washington Su-
burban Sanitary Commission of
Maryland, both say that the governor
will act and name a committee to
cooperate with the others as soon
as they ask him to.
While already the counties bor-
dering on the District have been 60
ing ahead with their own big plan
ming. they also have looked after
other things.
The new park now under considera.
ton will extend from the point on the
District line where the Northwest
Branch intersects 1t through Mont
gomery County and w to the head
waters in Howard County. It will be
preserved to protect the watershed
for the water system of this sanitary
district, the plant for which has just
, been opened at Burnt Mills, Md. on
the Colesville pike, and from which
pipe lines will radiate throughout the
section. Many of them already have
J been laid. To this extent it also will
protect the watershed of athe Ana
costa River or Eastern Branch, and
reduce the pollution. for the Northwest
branch Is one of the main feeders OF
the Anacostia River.
Though the land has not yet been
obtained, plans are being made for
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