Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Employment Program win
Array Avenue With Line of
Federal Buildings.
BOTANIC GARDENS ARE
TO BE SHIFTED SOUTH
Work of Remodeling War and
Navy Edifice to Resemble
Treasury to Be Pushed.

CenIeT Market VIII De torn down IN
January, 1t was disclosed last night by
the Treasury Department. Bids will be
asked next month for razing the famous
old structure. located between Seventh
and Ninth streets, B street and Penn
sylvania avenue. On this site will rise
the monumental Archives structure, Q
beautiful feature Of the Governments
new public building program. located
on the axis Of the Mall.
Surprise to Merchants,
News that the Government actually
intends to begin razing the old Center
Market in the first month of the new
year comes as a surprise to the many
merchants In the market, who had been
hoping that the time might be ex.
tended, despite legislation which pro-
vides that the building shall not be
used for a market after January /.
Several private projects for q new Gen.
ter Market have been proposed, but NO
new Center Market has yet been
started.
Tearing down of this old landmark
Is the outstanding new feature of the
Governments progress in its new public
building program. President Hoover
under the spur of necessity, to provide
further employment by public works
which have already been authorized by
Congress, has ordered speed go
Not only are plans under way which
look to a clean sweep of the old stric-
avenue from the Treasury to the Capt.
toll, but several projects on Capitol Hill
are being pushed. The new Capitol
Plaza between Union Station and the
Capitol Building Is under way, q new
avenue is to be cut through from Union
Station to Pennsylvania avenue. Down
on the Potomac River rapid progress is
being made on the monumental ArlingA
ton Memorial Bridge.
Plan Archives Building.
When Center Market Is razed work
will start Immediately on excavation
Of the huge site, on which the Archives
structure is TO be built In the mean
time plans for the Archives Building
are going forward, and q special Ar
chives Commission appointed by the
President has the matter generally in
hand.
Center Market is only one Of sew
eral blocks in the Federal triangle which
within the year 1891 will fan before
wreckers. Many other areas are con-
demned and 1t was learned that the
plan now is to go forward with all
speed CONSTANT with sound Judgment
to put the Governments great building
program In as good shape Is possible
for the bicentennial.
Condemnation proceedings have
virtually been completed to prepare
for the new Post once Department
Building, which will probably be the
next new building to arise In the Fed
eral triangle. Building plans are well
along for this structure, and as soon
as title to the land is vested In the
Government, the buildings on the site,
bounded by Twelfth, Thirteenth, Penn
avenue, will be torn down.
Land for the Department of Justice
is being condemned on the site bounded
by Ninth and Tenth, B street and
pennsylvania avenue, and 1t Is ex-
pected the awards in this case may be
completed early in December. Old
buildings on this extensive square thus
new year to make way for the Depart
ment OF Justice.
Twin Structure Considered.
r.ext in the Federal triangle probably
will come the new Department Of Labor,
which is to 60 on the site now occupied
by the Potomac Electric Power Co., ut
COuEtCGubkl anu % SITCcGS, ODDOSIV9 L0e
gigantic new Department of Commerce
The electric company Is completing
its new home at the corner of Tenth
and e streets, and will move there
when it is done. The substation work,
with its numerous underground con-
duits, will be transferred to other sub
stations in downtown Washington. but
it is likely the old conduits will not be
nm Tho olaHfriO haa
contract with the Government, by
which 1t is to occupy its buildings. al
ready purchased by the Government,
until March l.
At the same time the new Depart
ment of Labor Is going up, 1t is likely
that the twin building to the Depart
ment of Labor, to be constructed along
B street at the corner of Twelfth
street for the Interstate Commerce
Commission will also be built. In be-
tween these two twin buildings will be
an auditorium, facing B street.
Two other blocks on the interior Of
the Federal triangle, known as squares
257 and 258, to the east of the Depart
ment of Commerce Building, bounded
by c and D streets, Thirteenth and
Thirteen-and-a-half street, are under
condemnation. When these blocks are
acquired, all the ole buildings, includ-
ing a fire station, will be torn down
and the sites leveled for the grand
plaza Of the Federal triangle.
Park Near Treasury.
Meanwhile wreckers are den.olishing
the little irregular square bounded by
Pennsylvania avenue Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets. and E street. All
buildings, with the exception of Polls
Theater, which has been in litigation
since Poll filed suit for an injunction TO
prevent the Government from tearing
it down. will be RACED.
This corner Is to be turned into o
park, so as to open to view the new
Department of Commerce Building, ana
also to afford better traffic facilities.
e street is to be cut through the park
way in front of the District of Column
bia Building, to join with e street be-
tween Thirteenth and Thirteen-and-a-
half street in front of the building
formerly owned by the Southern Rail-
way, but sold to the Government. -.
Taking an imaginary drive down
Pennsylvania avenue from the Treas
ury, one may see the magnificent de-
velopment that the Government Il
planning from the Treasury to the
Capitol Building. First comes the De-
paTtment of Commerce and the little