Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN,

THE Washington of tomorrow
will have four new memorials,
conlmemorating widely diver
4 gent events and times, to add
beauty and grace TO a city
that is world famed for its pulchritude.
Artists and organizations and indi-
vidualS are now buSily engaged in get
ting ready for unwilling this quartet Of
memorials. The devotion of his niece.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, who re-
SIDED for many years III the Nation S
Capital has made possible the erec-
ton Of memorial 10 President James
Buchanan. This will be placed III
Meridian Hill Park. between Fifteenth
Sixteenth W and Euclid streets. in one
Of Ire city's densely populated spots.
Along the banks of the Potomac
River, or not far from them, the other
memorials will find a place Costing
hah a million dollars, the Navy and
Marine Memorial as our first and
eyerlaStins tribute o! honor ard graft
tude 10 the men who have served, and
who are serving. the country on the
sea. viii oe placed in East Potomac
Park At the foot OF New Hampshire
avenue. on the banks of the Potomac,
there will rise the Titanic Memorial
appropriate as lasting tribute to the
heroes who sacrificed their lives that
women and children might be saved in
tie tragic catastrophe Of the sinking
Of the steamship Titanic"
In Potomac Park, WaShingtonS own
monument has been allotted a place
This District Of Columbia World War
Memorial TO those members of the
armed forces Of the United States from
the District Of Columbia who served in
the great war" will take the form of
bandStand, large enough 10 accommo-
date the Marine Band
AS q background TO each of these
memorials there is a story Of devotion
end the driving power Of an ideal. OF
these the President Buchanan is the
Oldest. perhaps. in conception. for II
hsd its beginning back in the nine
tcenth century before the grim Civil
War broke over the land. and when
the White House was occupied by Amer
lea s first and only bachelor President.
Aiding him as the executive mansions
gracious mistress was his young niece
Harriet Lane-in far later years to be
known as one Of the Capitals queenly
social figures.
THE President whose statue will grace
= Meridian Hill PARK had a remark
able career. having served both in
House and Senate before being called
To head the Nation. James Buchanan
was born April IS 1891. in Cove Gap,
rear Mercersburg. Franklin County, Pa,
end was graduated from Dickinson Col
lege in 1909 He studied law and moved
70 Lancaster Pa that same year, being
admitted to the bar in 1912. He prac-
ticad in Lancaster
he was one of the first volunteers in
the War OF 1872 and served under
Judge Shipper IN the defense of Balti-
more Buchanan was elected a member
of the House of Representatives of
Pennsylvania in I6i4-l5 and served as
Q Fcderalist in the Seventeenth. Eight
zenith. Nineteenth. Twentieth and
Twenty-flrst Congresses from March
1891 &c March 3. 1891. He served as
Minister to Russia from June. 1882, to
August, 1884, being credited with hav-
ing negotiated the first commercial
treaty between the United States and
Russia.
Buchanan was elected as a Democrat
b the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
William wilkins He was twice re- !
elected and served from December 6. /
1884. to March 5. 1645, when he re-
signed.
He served rs Secretary of State in /
She cabinet Of President Polk from |
March s, 1S45. TO March Z. iS49. Dur /
ing the presidency Of Gen. Taylor he /
retired from public life. but in 1858
Gen. Pierce. who was then President,
named him Minister to Great Britain
During those eventful DAYS he formed
friendships that were to have bearing