Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

enue Building and Archives Building;
appropriations we're also made avail
able for plans for the Department of
Justice and the Department of Labor
Buildings and for the independent Offices
building. which will be in the triangle.
Congress also appropriated the nee
essary funds for completing the Depart
ment OF Agriculture Building in the
Mall. provided for a great extensible
building of the Department of Agricul-
ture south of the administration build
ing and for completing the Liberty Loan
Building of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing.
Joining the Federal building plan on
the south side Of Pennsylvania avenue
/ will be the municipal center development
on John Marshall place. between Third
and Sixth streets, on the north side of
the Avenue. This was authorized: in the
closing days of the Seventeen Congress,
to take in the four squares i'll this local
ity from Pennsylvania avenue north to
Judiciary Square The municipal CEN
| ter, aside from being most desirable
establishment in a city plan, was neceS-
STATED by the great need for a recorder
of deeds office, a new Police Court and
Municipal Court Building, and also a
site for new Municipal Building, since
the triangle plan did not allow for the
expansion of District of Columbia Of
flee buildings there.
I'm the meantime the Arlington
Memorial Bridge has been undergoing
rapid development, so that it is now eX-
pected the Memorial Bridge will be
completed by 193l-at any rate by 1882,
the 200th anniversary of the birthday
of George Washington, for which a
Nationwide celebration is being PLAN
ned, and for which Congress has created
the George Washington Bicentennial
Commission, of which the President Of
the United States is chairman. An out
standing feature of the celebration in
1882 Is to be the dedication of the
Mount Vernon boulevard. This. after
lapse of 40 years, was authorized by
the Seventeen Congress, and $2,5000 600
was made available Immediately for it.
Another feature of great historic in
tereSt in connection with the George
Washington Bicentennial is to be the
dedication of Wakefield Va, the birth
place of George Washington, which is
being restored, by authority of Congress,
by the Wakefield National Memorial
Association, incorporated.
Old Bclvoir Estate.
about two miles south of Mount
Vernon is the site of the old Belvoir
estate, the home of Lord Fairfax. now
/ known as Fort Humphreys. and where
the United States Engineers School is
located. The Seventeen Congress made
funds available for construction of new
buildings at Fort Humphreys and the
development of plan for the grounds,
the design for which was approved by
the Commission of Fine Arts.
THE Seventeen Congress also made
provision for the development of the
Army Medical Center at Walter Reed
Hospital. Among other projects in
which the War Department and the
Commission Of Fine Arts have been
particularly concerned is the completion
of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
CONGRESS- having enacted the necessary
legislation for its completion, the
Seventeen Congress indorsed the design
which was accepted by the Secretary Of
War and which had been approved by
the commission.
THE SEVENTEEN Congress provided