Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25
CAPITAL STADIUM
PROGRAM SPEEDED
Trade Board Group to Confer
With Memorial Foundation
in Gotham.

A definite step in the campaign to
bring the S5,000,000 stadium, designed
as memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, 10
Washington was taken yesterday by the
/ executive committee of the washington
Board of Trade at its meeting in the
organizations Office, in The Star Build
ing. with the appointment OF Speclai
committee to confer with the Roosevelt
Memorial Foundation in New YORK the
latter part of next month. Lieut.: Col:
u. S. Grant. 3d. director of the once o!
Public Buildings and Public Parks OF
the National Capital. will go with the
Board of Trade committee to New York.
Efforts will be made to obtain the CO.
operation of all interested bodies IN
Washington to secure the stadium Tor
the CITY: The special committee, headed
by Claude w. Owen, chairman of the
ORGANIZATIONS committee on community
affairs. consists of Maj. Gen. Anton
Stephan and Robert j. Cottrell, eXecu-
tive secretary.
The stadium would cover some rs
acres, 1t was explained, and would be
a welcome addition to the city.
Trip Is Delayed.
The trip of the committee to New
York is to be delayed to give other
civic organizations here an opportunity
to voice their approval Of the plan and
to send letters to this effect to the
Board of Trade.
The board last March began consid-
Grafton of the Roosevelt Memorial,
when a survey was made showing that
there is no memorial here OF any con-
sequence to Roosevelt, though all otheT
outstanding Presidents have been nom
ored here with suitable memorials.
In urging this type of Roosevelt me-
mortal members Of the Board OF TRACE
noint out that such a stadium would
serve not only as a municipal facility,
but as a place where outstanding events
of national or even international i'm
nortance could be held, such as the well
come that was given here to Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, addresses by the
President, great athletic programs OF
military reviews.
At a meeting of the community al
fairs committee of the board IN Marcn
Mai. Carey Brown, engineer OF the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning CoIi-
mission, spoke in favor OF the plan
and listed a number or possible sl.es'
the most attractive of which. he said,
would be a large tract on the axis OF
East Capitol street, near the Anacostla
Parkway. now being developed. Here,
he said, would be available SO or more
acres of land having adequate parking
space, good street car ana railroad
transnortation facilities and the asset OF
location near a beautiful Government
parkway. The Patterson tract and other
locations also were suggested as pos
sibiIities. such as near the Washington
Base Ball Park and in nearby virginia
Col. Grant to Go.
Col. Grant is to accompany the spe-
sial committee of the board to New YORK
In an advisory capacity, to explain 70
members of the foundation features Q!
various locations, how the stadium woulo
he managed by the National Capltai
park and Planning Commission ana
other phases of the question:
Mr.. Owen is to go to New YORK PROP
ably next week for conference WIN
William Loeb, who was secretary 10
President Roosevelt and who now is
member of the Roosevelt Memorial
Foundation. This trip is to pave the
wav eor the later visit of the full special
committee, when the matter formally
will be laid before the foundation.
Officials of the board feel that Con-
gress will be willing to provide the
necessary land for the memorial 10
Roosevelt in the event that the 1ounoa-
ton decides to erect the memorial mere.
Members Oh LIE DOdAO Va AoNS 49,
that MANY more people would visit the
Roosevelt Memorial, should it take the
form of a mammoth stadium in Wash
ington, than were it given another form
and erected in another city. Tney
emphasize the national and interna-
tional prominence as city and point
to the fact that many thousands come
here annually to visit the National
Capital.
turning its attention to the carfare
controversy, the executive committee
set it down as its opinion that Wash
ington should have uniform street
railway fare and recorded it as the
sense of the body that 1--WE believe that
all public utilities in the District OF
Columbia are entitled to fair return
on their approved valuation.
Adkins Makes Report.
"Any increase in carfare, if granted,
should apply to all street railways car
rying passengers in the District Of Co
Iumbia," the committee declared. This
action of the executive committee Will
come up for action before the full
membership of the Board of Trade at
a meeting to be held october IT.
Yesterdays decision followed discus
sion Of report submitted by Jesse c.
Adkins, chairman of the public utlll-
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