Evening star., 1925-03-16
FOUNDRY PARKWAY
SURVEYS PLANNED
Tracts Given by c. C. Glover
and Mrs. ArchboId to Be
Third Largest in Capital.

Surveys will be made this Summer
for the development of Washington's
third largest park-the 10s acres of
corner of the District contained in the
recent gifts of Charles C. Glover and
Mrs. Anne Archbold.
Col. Clarence 0. Sheriff.. officer in
charge of public buildings and
grounds, has announced that a thor
ough inspection of the tracts would
be made during the next few months
and systematic plans laid for one of
the most beautiful areas of city park
land in the country, a fitting COM
panion piece to Rock Creek and
Potomac Parks. No funds are avail
bale for actual construction work, but
complete cost estimates will be made
this Summer.
Two Broad BouIeyards.
The tentative plans call for two
broad boulevards, one on each side
of the park, which will constitute a
part of the city street deveIopme
and rank among the most beautiful
automobile drives about the Capital
In accordance with this idea all the
these streets will face the parkway
so that the wooded tract always will
be on one side and no unsightly back
yards will mar the lzndscaping OF the
park itself. 1t is probable. Col Sher-
rill says, that running through the
woods and connecting these boule-
wards will be a system of auto roads,
bridal paths and foot paths. In the
park itself athletic fields and picnic
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as funds are available.
The position of the area fits
naturally into scheme for the
further park development of the city,
with a great boulevard extending
from the Potomac River eastward to
Wisconsin avenue and thence into
Rock Creek Park. the greater part of
this distance being through woods
and embracing the most attractive
natural scenery and some of the
finest suburban homes in Washington.
Extends Two Miles.
The parkway itself extends for over
two miles between Reservoir road and
Massachusetts, avenue.
While all plans for development
still are tentative and dependent upon
funds which will become availab BILE,
the tracts themselves will be open
TO the PUBIC or washington for the
first time this Summer. The land now
belongs to the public, Col Sheriff.
says, as much as ever will be the
case. 1t is open for hiking, walking,
riding and picnicking. Many Wash
ingtonians will be able to take ad-
vantage of the practically unique
features offered. The woods may be
used even for camping overnight, II
permission is obtained.
In this respect the park, in it's
natural condition, offers something
unique on the edge of a great city.
Potomac Park, with its elaborate
landscaping, and even Rock Creek
Park, with it's man-made roads. fords
and bridges, have about them certain
unmistakable touches of the artificial
while the new tract represents nature
in its original beauty. On the banks
of the great ravine, through which
flow the water of Foundry branch.
Washingtonians can go back to the
District of zoo years ago, when
forests covered the present sites of
great buildings and populous streets
Interior Little known.
Few feet have trod these woodland
glades. The beauty of the place is as
tonishing, Col Sheriff. says, and a
few feet from the travelled road the
hiker comes upon vistas which would
hardly be ina gined. The most n ota BILE
natural feature is the great beach
groves These trees, clumped to-
gether, have attained great size
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