Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13
PLEA MADE To SAVE
BEAUTY OF VIRGINIA
coost Given to Development
at D. c. Board of Trade
e., Special Night.
BY LESTER N. INsKEEP.

imposed Of members of the Washing
n Board Of Trade and visiting Viz
mans at the Virginia Night" cele-
.ation Of the trade body at the Will
I'd Hotel last night. Representative
nuis c. Cramton of Michigan made an
agent plea for the preservation of the
stural beauties of Washington and
earbv Virginia, declaring that they are
ing destroyed by the march of indus
sal progress.
The preservation Of the beauties of
srginia Palisades from Rosslyn to
reat Falls and to the timbered sections
lat are particularly suitable for parks
as stressed by Representative Cram
n as action that must be Immediately
ken or their present beauty lost.
TAT the present time the dynamite of
encerns engaged in blasting building
one from the Virginia shore is fast
sstroying beauty that can never be
placed by man, he declared.
The Federal Government is at the
resent time spending S1l6.00o,0 900 in
ie construction of Federal buildings
I'd developments in the District. but
otlling TO purchase and preserve the
sauties that only nature can provide
I'd that cannot be replaced by man"
: said. Il say let these buildings wait
necessary. They can be constructed
st as well 5 years or so years from
ew."
Representative Cramton assured the
sSemblage that there is every indica-
On that the Cramton park bill. for the
zYelopnent Of park areas in the Dis
let, Virginia and Maryland, will be
assed by the Senate early in the next
:5sion He stressed the important part
lat Representative r. Walton Moore
Virginia. a political opponent. has
ayed in the passage of the bill by the
iouse.
Moore Speaks.
Representative Moore called the at
ntion of the Virginia delegation to the
cent suit against a resident of Airing
N County who used as his defense to
event collection of back taxes by the
tate that retrocession of Arlington
ounty to Virginia was illegal and that
ferefore he owed no taxes to Virginia.
Evidently somebody has overlooked
re fact that the same question was
resented to the Supreme Court of
lie United States more than so years
20. when the court decided that at
asst Virginia was the de facto gov
snment and entitled to collect taxes.
he time will never come when Ar
ngton County will cease to be a part
L the State Of Virginia. and l DO
OF believe that any such change would
>s favored by sentiment on either side
Il the river" he declared.
Representative Moore Endorsed the
Cramton bill as containing promise
+ an adequate highway to Great Fails.
1 well as the development of the banks
Il the Potomac into a park, and re-
erred to the bill signed by the Presi-
lent authorizing bridge at the Falls,
: dding that he has seen the design for
he structure and that 1t will be a
>eautiful bridge just east of and in
iui view of the cataract.
Speaking In behalf of the Arlington
County Chamber of Commerce. Presi-
dent Keith A. Brumback declared that
Arlington County has shown a growth
OF 500 per cent since 1900 and 100
per cent in the past eight years. The
three most beautiful highways into the
Capital are to be in Virginia, he said,
declaring that the Mount Vernon
Boulevard, Lee Boulevard and straight
to-the Bridge routes will be finished by
the time the new Arlington Memorial
Bridge is ready to be opened. Senator
Frank L. Ball of Virginia. also prom
;sed the construction of the Mount Yer
non and Lee Boulevards within the
next 30 to "a months. adding that
Virginia now has 2.400 miles Of hard
surfaced roads and that they are all
paid for.
e, H. Allen, chairman of the high
ways, parks and planning committee
Of the Fairfax County Chamber OF
and J. c. Goodnow, presi-
dent Of the Alexandra Chamber Of
Commerce, each urged the develop
r1ent of their sections, Goodnow stress
ing the industrial advantage of his city.
In his speech of welcome District
Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro made
the prediction that there would be an
APARTMENT house on the Virginia side of
the river within the next 20 years.
List of Guests.
The following were the special "Vir-
ginia night guests: Representative
Louis c. Cramton, Representative r.
Walton Moore, State Senator Frank l..
Bali, Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro.
Mai. Carey Brown, National Capital
Park and Planning Commission; Fred G,
Coldren, National Capital Park and
Planning Commission; Charles H. Eliot, 1
National Capital Park and Planning
K. A. Bruuback, president
Arlington County Chamber of Com
r,erce: F. C. Goodnow. president Alex
andria Chamber of Commerce; Martin
T. webb, president Fairfax County
Chamber of Commerce: Paul Morton.
city manager of Alexandria. Va: P. P.
Woodbridge, secretary Arlington County
Chamber of Commerce; J. r. Preston.
Alexandria Chamber of Com
nerce Mrs. Margaret c. Vosbury. secre-
tary Fairfax County Chamber of Com
n1erce: Carroll Pierce, president Citi-
zensN National Bank, Alexandria G. T.
vice president Arlington
Trust Co., Rosslyn; William C. Cloth.
Virginia commonwealth attorney: Judge
Howard w. Smith, Judge Sixteenth Jul
dtcisl Circuit of Virginia; Judge William
?. Woolis, Corporation Court of AleXan-
dria; Mark Turner, chairman Virginia
state Grange; E. Wade Ball, treasurer
Arlington County; George F. Downham,
cashier Citizens National Bank, Alexan-
dfia; Fletcher Kemp, superintendent Of
schools, Arlington County: George c.
Smith. chairman Mount Vernon District
School Board: r. l.. May. proprietor
Bancroft Washington Rapid
Transit; Edmund II. Allen. chairman
parks and highways committee, Fairfax
County Chamber of Commerce; j. Sid
Co. Thomas N. DE l.ashmutt,
engineer Arlington county;
Arthur II. Buell., A. Is. lionts. Nd. A.
CartiWell. Thomas j. Crack, Il. K. Buck
ley. j. w. May. &. Is. Swan. Frank &.
Campbell, ii. carlton lianes, Hubert
Williams. LEO T.. Harlow. William ii.
CraSens. Willie SipeS, George f. Gar
rftt. Frank Lyon. DR.. w. G. Wclborn,
Ashton G. Jones, George r. Harrison,
Frank w. NoXon. " f.. Gentry, Rich
ard A. Harlow Harry Hammond. E. r.
T!eer, z. c. Gibbs, Edward D Vosbury,
C. H. Powell, Charles r. Jesse, Harvey
S. Clapp, Franklin Williams, Q. H.
Gasch.