The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-15
ARMY HEAVEN
A'BUILDING
HERE
Apartment House \ for
Service Folk to Have
attributes OF Club
By JEAN ELIOT

WASHINGTON, admittedly the
place to which all good army
and navy officers go when they re-
tire, is to have sort of a service
Seventh Heaven" in the handsome
apartment house now abuIlding at
2540 Massachusetts ayenue-over
the protests of some of the wealthy
and exclusive residents of The sec
ton who tried their best to invoke
the coming law against the intru-
sion of any apartment house. how
ever glorified, into the neighbor-
hood.
A cooperative affair, the building
is-to be run much after the manner
Of a club, with a board of gov
errors rather than a board of di-
rectors as the ultimate power; and
the roster of the army officers who
viii make their homes Herewith
an occasional officer and a very
few lucky civilians-reads like the
membership list Of a smart service
club.
There are no less than four
majors general in the group
Major General Hanson E. Ely,
Major General Frank Mcintyre and
~
with Brigadier General Edgar Jad-
win. assistant chief of engineers.
General Ely, commandant of the
Army War College, has all along
been one of the prime movers in
the enterprise and is, I believe,
president of the board of governors.
His son, Lieutenant Hanson E. Ely.
u. s. N. retired, also has taken
an aparement; and among the
others in the group are Colonel Z.
A. Saxton. Major Mark Guerin,
Colonel Lawrence B. Fraziers Major
Philip Worcester-he and Mrs.
Worcester are now in Newport for
a year at the Navy War College
Colonel N. d. Ely. Colonel Herbert
d. Crosby, Colonel Irving 5. Carr.
Colonel William p. Wooten. Major
Henry HI. Pfeii, Commander Carl
Jones, Captain Milton o. Boone,
aide to General Ely, is acting as
a sort of haison officer between
the tenants and the builders
The statement attributed to a
former British envoy-when the
present embassy was built "out IN.
the country''-that fashion always
followed the British flag and that
he could afford 10 move where he.
pleasedx doubtless was-and is--
true But in this instance the
builders of the army apartment
house antedated the Britfshers
whose new embassy is TO be bit
two blocks further out Massachu-
sets avenue.
Twenty-Five forty Massachusetts,
avenue is next door to Mrs. Syl-
vanus Stokes pink Venetian-or is
il Moorish 2-palace: and it is one
record that she, with Mrs. Quinby
among the most ardent obje1tors to
the invasion of MassaE husetts
avenue by the mere military.
The Minister of Hungary and
Countess Szechenyi, Mrs Robert
Mccormick and ever so many other
lsotables have houses in the neigh
borhood.
But it is the charm of it's
physical setting rather than the
''sEnartness'' Of the neighborhood
OF which the hackers of the apart
ment house movement are Boosting.
It overlooks the new parkway
which will connect Potomac Park
with Rock Creek and it will one
day be skirted by waterside drive.
FFem one side the windows look
off to the white shaft of the
Washington Monument and toward
Georgetown the view embraces
Clifton, Montrose Park and Lovers
Lane winding down the creek.
The japanese Ambassador Tsunee
Matsudaira was guest of honor at
a dinner given last night in the