Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-06
TWO NEW WESTERN
DC. GATESPLANNED
Fine Arts Body to Consider
Massachusetts and Wiscon-
sin Avenue Approaches.

Establishment of two more great
cateways to Washington AT the Dis
trict end of Massachusetts avenue and
Wisconsin avenue are To he consider
ed by the Fine Arts Commission at
its meeting tomorrow. Maj L. :.
Grant. I'D, engine er officer in charge
of public buildings and public parks.
will sit with the commission. and will
discuss his entire program of improve
ments in Washington.
At the same time Charles Moore
chairman of the commission, made
known today the opposition of the
commission to construction of per.
manent building on the site of the
tourist camp in East Potomac Park.
The tourist camp. Mr.. Moore said,
should never he in its present loca.
ton.
Plan Swimming Pools.
In its place the commission has Sc
lected the site for the construction of
municipal swimming pools. to be con.
sidered as adjuncts to the srea: play
ground system developing in Potomac
Park 1t has obtained figures on the
cost of constructions OF the pools. with
lighthouses to be erected along the line
said to he in entire sympathy with the
Mall development plans which have
been favored for many years. and have
been progressively improved from the
basis of the L'Enfant ideas.
The commission, Mr.. Moore said
has not vet proceeded to consideration
of a southern approach to Washing
ton. With work proceeding on tn
Sixteenth street extension that Will
assure Washington of an adequate APP
proach along the Georgia avenue
Brookeville Pike extension. II will take
up now the matter of proper gate
ways at the District line intersections
of Wisconsin avenue and MaSsa chu-
sets avenue.
Gateways TO BE Similar.
Mr.. Moore indicated the treatment
Of these two gateways would be SINH
lar.to the plans drawn for the north :
ern portal" or Sixteenth street route
by James l.. Greenleaf. the landscape
architect member of the commission.
These plans call for great plaza
and parkway onehalf mile in length.
with driveways running on each side
of a wide parkway to semi circular
parkway areas at either end. The
Sixteenth street northern portal
and the other western approach to
the city-at the west end of the Ar
linSton Memorial BridCe-are the
only city approaches which the COM
mission has considered.
The west approach over the new
bridge has been approved by both the
commission and Secretary of War
Davis. 1t involves improvement of
the Rosslyn approach, construction
of 120-foot roadway, running from
Rosslyn to Alexandria and Mount
Vernon, and construction of plaza
and roadway on Columbia Island con-
Meeting with the east end of the Lee
highway. running through Falls
Church to the Valley of Virginia and
then through the south to the Pacific
Coast.
Touring Camp Location.
The tourist camp. in the opinion
of Mr.. Moore. should not have u
permanent location, and certainly not
a location in the great playground
of Washington-Potoma Park He
advocates it's transfer to a site near
the projected Anacostia Park. near
the roads, leading to Baltimore and
Annapolis. and would make it flexible
and capable of movement as soon
as communities near it become set
tied. Construction of permanent
house for tourists would be inadvisa
BILE. Mr. Moore said.
The Fine Arts Commission head
does not view with favor placing of
the poles carrying electric current for
street car use on either side of Con-
necticut avenue and their removal
from the center of the street. The
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