Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
PARKS COMMITTEE
ASKED BY Citizens
Group Wants Special Body
b Named to Give Advice
= on Arrangements.

The Conduit Road Citizens AsSo
citation, meeting in the Potomac
Heights Community Church, las
night adopted a resolution urging
the creation of special committee
of three persons to serve in an ad.
yisory capacity in relation to the
artistic arrangement of trees and
public parks in the District of CO.
lumbia.
The three committee members
whom the association would have
serve without pay. in accordance
with the request made in the resolu-
ton, would consist of a landscape
gardener, a forester and another
member holding the position OF
chairman ex-officio of the highways
committee of the Federation of Citi-
gems Associations.
Maj w. l.. r, Covell, Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner was Endorsed
by the association to succeed Col. j
Franklin Bell as Engineer Commits
sioner of the District, when the lat
ter is transferred elsewhere under
Army orders in the near future.
To Seek Playground.
Mrs. Eugene Burr, chairman of the
association school committee. was
authorized to appear at "a hearing be-
fore public school officials Monday.
In company with other members of
the association, to urge the purchase
of large tract of land in the vicinity
of the Reservoir School to be used
for school and playground purposes.
The land named in a resolution
adopted at the meeting included the
tract between Eliot place and Res
ervoir road and between Clark place
and Conduit road.
Other resolutions adopted included
one opposing any increase in the
gasoline tax rates in the District and
resolutions calling for program of
street improvements and coming of
sections of Conduit road, within the
territory covered by the association.
The coming asked for in the reso-
luton included the sections of Con-
duit road between Foxhall road and
Eliot place between Dana place and
Edmunds street and between Galena
place and. Cathedral avenue to first
commercial zone.
1t also asked that the sections of
the road between Eliot place and
Dana place, between Edmunds place
and Galena place, and between Ca
thedral avenue and the District line
be named as restricted residential.
Asks Street Repairs.
Street improvements asked for
are as follows:
That Cathedral avenue be- inn
proved with concrete roadway from
Potomac avenue to Weaver place,
that concrete roadway be built
along Sherrier place between Galena
place and Norton street. that Sherrier
place be graded between Galena place
and Edmunds street and that the name
OF Sherrier place be changed to
Sherrier street, and that Klingle
street between Hawthorne place and
Macomb street be brought to grade.
The resolution also urged the
placing OF a brick sidewalk along
Chain Bridge road from Conduit road
TO Potomac avenue; the grading OF
SI1errier place from Cushing place to
Dana place: grading of Macomb
street between Sherrier place and
Potomac avenue and other minor inn
proyennenfs. Another resolution re-
qnested the reduction i'm the grade
from Conduit road to Foxhall Heights
station.
Nine new members were elected at
the meeting. They are: Mr.. and Mrs.
r. A. Linnane, Mitchell Lyon, Mrs. +.
III. Lore, Mr.. and Mrs. George Roth
well, Rufus Hardy, G. S. Bailey and
william A. Roberts r.. f. Adams,
president of the association, presided.