Evening star., 1926-11-28
Officials Favor Saving Land
Behind District Building for
Municipal Expansion.
BIG WAREHOUSE THERE
WOULD C0NGEST TRAFFIC
Study Reveals Locations Announc.
ed for Structures Are Tentative.
Some Changes Pending.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Either the General Supplies Build
ing, now charted to be erected south
Of the District Building and the South.
ern Railway Building. between Thir.
teenth and Fourteenth streets, 9 and
d streets. or wholesale market or
building. with provision
on the ground floor for a farmers
market, is likely to be built on the
large undeyeloped square in Ecking-
ton between First and Second streets
N and o streets.
If the Federal Government does not
take this square, which contains
over five acres, as an ideal
location for its warehouse for all Gov
ernment supplies, the District Com
will endeavor to acquire it
for immediate and future needs, which
would include the possibility Of To-
eating the much discussed farmers
market there for the next 20 years or
so. 1t is the opinion of Federal and
District officials who have been study
ing the public buildings and market
center problems. and of Baltimore and
Ohio officials who have been making
a special intensive study Of the pos
sibilities of relocating the market cen.
ter that this square is the best ware
house site available, and will probably
dominate the solution Of the market
problem.
Wood Advocates Site.
Representative VIII r. Wood, Re-
publican, of Indiana, chairman of the
Republican congressional committee
and a member OF the House appropria-
tions committee, and who for more
than five years has been urging the
of a central warehouse
for Government supplies in the in.
terests Of economy and efficient serv.
ice, advocated erection Of the general
building on this lexington
site rather than on the proposed site
south OF the District Building, which
is needed for expansion Of housing Of
agencies.
District and Federal officials will
discuss the public building program
and the reloaction Of the market ecn-
ter at the next meeting Of the Ma.
tional Capital Park and Planning Com.
on December 10. In the mean.
time q special committee Of that or.
ganization is looking over the triangle
between Pennsylvania avenue and Il
street, Third and Fifteenth streets.
owned land in this triangle Congress
Is to be asked to authorize an expendi-
ture Of SIS, 100000. Within this tri-
angle 1t is contemplated that depart
mental and other Government build.
ings Of a museum or library type will
be built.
Preliminary to that conference of
the city planners on December 10, the
following facts have been established:
Favor Purchase Now.
There Is unanimous support Of the
to acquire all of the triangle
property now, under an appropriation
Of SIS 200, 900, and no other considera-
ton will be allowed to impede that
legislation.
The proposed location of public
buildings in this area-Justice at
Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue: Commerce, south of Justice
to B street; General Supplies. between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth, G and ID
streets; Labor, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets. facing Il
street; Archives, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets, Pennsylvania ave.
nue. and G streets; Independent Estab.
between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth, B and G streets; Internal Rev.
enue. between Tenth and Twelfth. B
and G streets, and General Account
ing, between Ninth and Tenth, b and
G streets-has not yet been approval
by either the Public Buildings Com.
mission or the Planning Commission.
1t Is a tentative layout sketched by
III. Bennett OF Chicago. re-
Gently employed as consulting special.
ist in architectural matters by the
Treasury Department. and is likely
to undergo considerable change before
the buildings are actually put up.
Fer example, no provision Is made
for expansion Of District business,
which is already overcrowded in the
present Municipal Building. Authori.
zation already has been given for a
new Police Court Building and record.
er Of deeds office. But with the carry.
ing out of the Federal building pro.
gram some seven other important Dis
trtct activities will be driven out OF
their present quarters. The Gibson
subcommittee of the House District
committee is pledged by its chairman
to support legislation TO provide for n
municipal group of buildings Just
south Of the present District Building
yet this area has been allocated to
the General Supplies Building and La