Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-04
Theodore P. Artaud Chosen
as Appraisal Engineer for
Land Purchases.
ABANDON ORIGINAL
PLAN FOR SELECTION
Property Planned for Park and
Recreational Centers Will Be
Evaluated by Expert.

Two additional steps were taken today
under the program Of the Capper-
Cramton park and playground develop
ment act, that will set up the George
Washington Memorial Parkway on both
sides of the Potomac River and give to
the National Capital adequate play
ground facilities.
Lieut.. Col. u. S. Grant, Sd, vice chair
man and executive officer of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, announced that he would ask
the Board of Supervisors OF Fairfax
County, Va, to nominate member to
serve on the board of appraisal that
will purchase land in Virginia for the
parkway, and at the same time he made
public the name of Theodore P. Artaud,
land valuation expert, who will serve
as the commissions appraisal engineer,
a new post created In conjunction with
enlarged land purchasing activities.
Original Plan Abandoned.
Land for the George Washington
Memorial Parkway north of Alexandria,
Va, will be purchased by Keith A.
Brumback, nominee of the Arlington
County, Va, Board of Supervisors; the
person representing the Fairfax super
visors, and Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr.,
engineer of the planning commits
sion, representing that body. These
three will make up the board of ap-
praiSal. If it is found necessary later
to purchase land southwark of Alex
andria, Col. Grant believes that the
commission will ask the municipality
to suggest a nominee to serve on the
board. The original plan Of having Mr..
Brumback and Capt. Chisolm choose
a third neutral member has been aban-
doned.
Mr.. Artaud, the commissions new
appraisal engineer, who begins his work
tomorrow, has long been a resident of
Washington. A number of the COM
missioners of the Interstate Commerce
Commission recommended him to Col.
Grant for the new post.
Mr.. Artaud served as assistant gen.
eral manager of the Hudson Manhattan
Railroad Co. of New York from 1902 to
1914. He was research director of the
Washington Office of the National AS
ISOLATION of Railroad and Public Sc
curity Owners, and from 1914 to 1927
he served as executive assistant OF the
Bureau of Valuation of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. From 1921 to
1927 he was supervisor of land ap-
praisalS for that commission.
VIII Assess Property Value.
Mr.. Artaud has had a large share in
the work of the Bureau Of Valuation in
assessing railroad properties over the
Nation. This bureau, officials said to-
day, has undertaken "the most monu-
mental appraisal in the history of the
world" its work mounting well up into
the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The new appraisal engineer will assess
the real value Of property, 20 be utilized
as prospective park and recreational
centers, not only in the District of CO.
lumbia, but in nearby Maryland and
Virginia, as the work of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
demands.
Col. Grant explained today that later
it is proposed to set up a board of APP
praisal in Maryland, to cooperate with
the Observation-Disclosures Capital Park
and Planning Commission, to supervise
land purchases in that area.