Evening star., 1929-12-15
ANACOST|A PARK
/. PROVIDED FOR IN
BUDGET ESTIMATE
$15O,000 Allotted for Pur-
chase of 1874 Acres, IncIud-
ing Part of Ross Tract.
ADDITIONAL $4,000
is FOR CONSTRUCTION
Completed Project Will Stretch
from Prince Georges County
to Boiling Field.

Further expansion of Anacostia Park
is provided for under the Budget Bu-
reau estimates, now pending before Con-
gress. An item of $l50,0O0 for land
purchases will provide for the purchase
of 184 acres, including some "a acres OF
the Ross heirs tract, at the foot of M
street northeast, E. A. Schmitt, engineer
of the United States Engineer Once,
which is headed by Maj. Brehon Somer-
veil, explained yesterday. An item of
$180,000 is included by the Budget
Bureau for the program of construction
by Mai. Somervells Office, in reclaiming
the marShy stretches and pushing de-
velopment forward toward Construct
of another of Washington's major parks.
This will complete purchase of all land
for the park.
Government Loses Claim.
A recent decision of the District Su-
preme Court, in which the Federal
Government lost in its contentious,
necessitates the purchase of the tract of
the Ross heirs, as the high water line
in this case was determined by the
court, in derogation of the Government
claims To push forward reclamation
and fill in a gap in the park plan. it has
become necessary for Uncle Sam to pur-
chase this tract, and the money for this
will be taken out of the $150,000, which
Congress is expected to make available
soon.
While it will be seven years more be-
fore the Anacostia Park development
reaches maturity, at the present rate of
appropriations, another stretch will be
completed during the coming fiscal
year, starting next July l. with the
$180,000 expected to be made available
by Congress. This seven-year program
4rrff ION
work will be completed by 1887 or 1888.
The steady construction work being
maintained by the United States engi-
neer Office, Mr.. Schmitt and his as
sistant, P. G. Dorr. explained yester-
day, will provide for the completion of
reclamation, the construction of a sea-
wall and rip-rap foundations for con-
Quits to insure proper circulation OF
water in the lakes, as we'll as other
needed work.
Place SeawaIl Foundation.
Under the $18O,0OO appropriation the
work of reclaiming the marshes will be
continued and a large amount of rip
rap stone for the seawall foundations
win be placed. This will not provide
for seawall construction nor for other
structures. This work will be done up
stream of Benning road.
Downstream of Benning road all the
! basic construction WOrk mas peen COM
pleted except for minor parts that can
not be accomplished at this time, due
to collateral work that remains to be
done Sections and F, across from
Gallinger Hospital and the District Jail,
and the lower section of Lake Kingman,
stretching from Pennsylvania avenue
Bridge to Benning Bridge, have recent
ly been turned over by the Secretary of
War to the jurisdiction of the ONCE of
Public Buildings and Public Parks,
under the direction of Lieut.. Col. u. s.
Grant. Sd.
When Anacostia Park is completed it
will contain 1,772 acres, of which 1905
will be land and the rest a water park.
This park will stretch from the Prince
Georges County, Md, line to Boiling
Field.
These estimates of the Budget Bureau
will be carried in the District appropri-
alton bill, under the section for the
United States engineer Office.