Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
PLANS CONFERENCE
WITH MELLON OVER
BUILDING PROGRAM
Fine Arts Board Turns Atten-
ton to Federal Projects
in District.
STATUES FOR ARLINGTON
BRIDGE ALSO DISCUSSED
Designs for the Completion of I'm
known Soldiers Tomb Are
Approved.

Swinging into its second days ses-
sion today, following the Summer re-
cess, the Fine Arts Commission turned
its attention to details of the Federal
buildings program, now going forward
in Washington. The commission ar
ranged to confer with Secretary Mellon
and other Treasury officials and the
Board of Architectural Consultants of
the Treasury and go over with them
various problems that have arisen and
on which the commissions advice is
desired.
The tentative sketches for several
buildings, prepared by architectural
members of the board, were to be pre-
sented to the Fine Arts Commission
in their incompleted state. The archi-
tec.s under contract with the Treasury
Department, are preparing sketches
upon the basis of which the Treasury
will make estimates for submission to
Congress.
Among the plans known to have been
submitted to the Fine Arts Commission
were those for the Department OF Labor,
Intersae Commerce Commission. In
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Justice. It was. understood that plans
were also discussed for development
of landscape architecture Of the Federal
triangle.
The Board of Architectural Con-
sultants will remain in session here
for a few days.
Four statues for the Washington
terminus of Arlington Memorial Bridge
received the attention of the commission
yesterday, as tentative plans were laid
before it by Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant
Sd, executive officer of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge Commission, and his
assistant. Mai. j. c. Mehaffey. The
program contemplates two figures en-
blematic Of war at the Washington end
Of the bridge itself and two figures OF
peace at the entrance to the Rock Greek
and Potomac Parkway. A competition
Is to be held in the near future tc
select designs and sculptors for this
work, which will be one of the features
of the Arlington Bridge plaza.
Discuss Arlington Program.
The commission met yesterday after
noon with Mai. Gen. B. r. Cheatham
uuartermaster general of the Army, and
viewed a plan for Arlington National
Cemetery, showing the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier and the Arlington
Amphitheater in relation to the Airing
ton Memorial Bridge. A program is tc
be developed making this whole plan
harmonious and artistic unit.
Charles Moore, the commission's
chairman, who presided, explained to-
day that plans are to be made so that
visitors may get from the amphitheatel
to Arlington House more expeditiously
The approaches to the tombs of the
Unknown Soldiers of the Civil War are
to be made more beautiful. Approve,
was given the draft of plans for the
completion Of the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier.
The commission had before it Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, and Robert Laf-
ferty, New York architect, and dis
cusSed with them designs for the
Samuel Gompers Memorial to be erected
by the federation on the triangular plot
at Massachusetts, avenue, Tenth and
Eleventh streets, under authority OF
Congress.
To Select Sculptor.
Considering that it is faced with the
necessity Of choosing q sculptor who
will produce q statue Of Lief Ericsson
worthy of the United States, the COM
mission yesterday took UP the question
Of selecting an artist to be commits
stoned to complete this statue, which
will be presented to Iceland in 1880 at
the 1,000th anniversary Of the Parlia-
ment of Iceland, but has not yet reach
ed a decision. Sculptors of Scandinavian
ancestry are being considered and Mr
Moore said today that this statue will
have to compare favorably with the
noted work done by Eimar johnson OF
Iceland, the noted sculptor.
The commissions approval was given
to a design of statue of Henry Clay
to be erected under authority OF Con-
gress, at Caracas, Venezuela. A design
for the memorial flagpole at Fort
Sumter, s. c., was approved.
Further study was agreed upon for
the Amundsen- Ellswcrth-Noble medal
designs, submitted to the commission
by the director of the mint, Treasury
Department, and for the NC-4 medal
submitted by the Navy Department.
Last night Col. Grant entertained at
dinner Assistant Secretary Heath Of the
Treasury Department, in charge of the
public buildings program; members OF
the Board of Architectural Consultants
and members of the Fine Arts Commits
sion.