Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-01
18TH ST. EXTENSION
URGED AS LINK
Would Connect Gettysburg
With Mt. Vernon BouIe-
ward as Memorial.
Dispatch to The Star,


SILVER SPRING, Md, May Steps
toward the construction and extension
Of Sixteenth street to the national bat
tlefield and cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa,
as a Lincoln Memorial Highway, which
would connect with the new bridge over
the Potomac and the Mount Vernon
Boulevard. memorial to Washington,
were taken last night by the Silver
Spring Chamber of Commerce when a
resolution was adopted indorsing the
project and committee was authorized
10 confer with Federal authorities and
the congressional delegations from Penn
sylvania and Maryland in an effort to
crystalline the proposed project into
definite form.
1t was pointed out by speakers that
this project had been called to the at
tentlon OF Congress years ago, but be-
cause OF the attitude of the national
body at that time toward the beautifi-
cation and development of the National
Capital nothing was ever done. In the
last few years. however, it was pointed
out, leading Government officials and
members of Congress have changed
their views and now every effort is being
made to carry out the original plans
Ior the building and development of
the National Capital.
Favorable Attitude Seen.
Recent speeches of President Hoover
Secretary Mellon and other leaders of
the Nation and the appropriations Con-
gress has recently made for the GOV
ernmental projects in the District of
Columbia and for the new bridge over
the Potomac and the Mount Vernon
Memorial Boulevard were all cited as
reasons why now is the logical time to
revive this project of a memorial high
way TO Gettysburg and to seek the CO.
operation OF the PENNSYLVANIA and
maryland delegations in Congress to
legislation. N-A
The resolution was offered nv Dr p
y. Poston and was seconded bv .Tohn
M. Hunter. Every speaker heartily and
Enthusiastically praised the project
oeVefa! speakers pointed out that Con-
gress mad already appropriated more
IMAM Sl5,000,000 for improvements in
nearby Virginia and declared the near
by Maryland and Pennsylvania sections
surrounding the National CAPITAL
should also be beautified and improved
with confornlance with the broad nlan
Tor development and extension of the
Capital
1t was pointed out that ii the project
should cost 100000 a mile, which
would provide for the construction of
a 200-foot boulevard, the total cost of
the memorial highway from the White
House to Gettysburg would be approx
mately $5,000,000, or about one-third
the cost of the Arlington Memorial
Bridge.
Historic Significance.
BY connecting with the Memorial
Bridge and the Mount Vernon Memorial
Highway, the boulevard would connect
the memorial highways of two presi-
dents and also the Memorial Highway
for Gen. Robert E. Lee, which extends
to Richmond. At the same time it
would also directly connect the nation
al cemeteries at Gettysburg and Ar
lington.
The discussion and action on the pro-
posed memorial highway followed a
banquet of the chamber at which Presi-
dent Charles w. Hopkins, presided.
Plans for an active year by the Chamber
of Commerce were discussed. the speak
ers being j. Donald Claggett, DR.. L. M.
Christie, DR.. P. D. Poston, Capt. Frank
l.. Hewitt, John J. Dolan, I. c. /.
Evans and Albert Buehler
The nominating committee reported
that it had made the following nominal
tions for the annual election to be held
the second Tuesday in May They were:
For president, John j. Dolan; first vice
president. DR.. P. D. Poston second
vice president, DR. L. D. Christie; Sec
rotary, Walter Funderburk, and treas
urer, Frank Proctor