Evening star., 1927-10-15
i. s. PROGRAM SET
TO CONDEMN SITES
FOR 3 BUILDINGS
Proceeding on Supreme
Court Location Is Next Step
in Housing Plan.
LACK OF OBJECTIONS
SPEEDS LEGAL ACTION
Department Of Agriculture and
Government Printing Office
to Follow.

With earlv acquisition Of square
$50 of the Bureau Of Internal Reve-
nue. Building site now assured by CON
demnation proceedings. Federal of.
ficials today let it be known that the
order of the next three condemnation
proceedings in the Government build.
ing program will be: Supreme Court,
Department of Agriculture and Gov
ernment Printing Office.
The S RENE Court site. which. sc.
cording to disclosures today. will bs
the next on the program. is immediate
y north of the Congressional Library
and east of the Capitol grounds. 1t
is known that the Supreme Court it,
self is anxious TO see this project
pushed along and il is believed that
all Federal agencies concerned with
the program will now concentrate on
this project for a. great monumental
structure. which has already been au-
thorized by Congress. for the tribunal.
Erection Authorized.
The Department Of Agriculture con.
demnation project is the square south
Of b street. southwest, Immediately op-
posite the site for the new Department
building, which shortly is to he erect
ed to join the two white marble wings
already standing. On the square to
be condemned. Congress has author
lied erection Of huge extensibie
building for the Department Of ASri.
cult :.
The Government Printing once
project is a small strip of ground
west of the present Office and is need
ed to complete the site, part of which
has already been acquired, for an ad-
dition to the printing office.
The successful condemnation pro-
ceedings in Equity Court yesterday.
when neither the Government nor the
property owners interposed objections
to the award of $S15,O00 for property
in the square bounded by Tenth and
| Eleventh, Little B and c streets.
proved highly gratifying today TO Off
| cials OF both the department Of Justice
and the Treasury, as this is the first
| of what may prove 10 be q long series
| of condemnation proceedings to de-
/ velop the building program in the
! Capital.
| Market Site Is Issue.
Had either the Government or prop
| erty owners protested the proceedings
would have been again thrown into
court and dragged out for a much
longer time. The ground will now be
purchased and paid for by the Treas
ury Department. and it is expected
that as soon as the old Farmers Mar
ket problem is solved by the District
rapid progress can be made toward
the new Internal Revenue Building.
The District Commissioners now have
in hand voluminous evidence and
arguments from a recent hearing as
to the proposed location for q new
Farmers Market.
The Treasury is known to be con-
sidering now the nature of bids to be
advertised shortly for rough excava
tions on the first two projects, the
Bureau of Internal Revenue and the
Department of Commerce.
Plans for these two buildings have
been officially approved by the Fine
Arts Commission and the Treasury.
and will be submitted with sketches
for development OF the entire Penn
sylvania avenue triangle TO the Pub
lie Buildings Commission at the next
meeting of that body.
1t was not known today whether
excavations would start on the De-
partment of Commerce or Internal
Revenue sites first. or whether bids
for both OF these jobs would be ad.
vertise0 together.