Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
FEDERAL OR TOLL BRIDGE URGED

Inter- Federation Conference Asks
Amendment to CramtOn Bill.
A request to Congress to amend the
Cramton park-purchase bill, now pend
ing in the Senate, 50 as to restore the
charter of the Great Falls Bridge Co.
which is planning q toll bridge, or IL
authorize funds for the financing ant
erection of free bridge by the Fedora
Government was made last night by the
INTERPRETATION Conference, compris-
ing the civic declarations Of Montgomer,
County, Md; Arlington Count, Va.
and the District of Columbia, In 9
meeting at the headquarters of the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States, Connecticut avenue and Il
street.
In passing this resolution the con.
ference gave its executive committee
authority to confer with the Maryland
and Virginia congressional delegations
The conference adopted articles under
which 1t will be governed, and these
will be placed before the component
declarations.
Impasse Solution Near.
n pAOPOoal Oh LIG lnlU6SSSk
in the development of the Virginia an.
proaches to the Arlington Memoria
Bridge is now pending, DR.. S. M. John.
son, General director of the Lee High.
way Association, informed the confer.
ence in a 10-minute address. He sale
1t Is proposed that northwest corner o!
the Fort Myer reservation be given III
for a part of the boulevard approach
and compensation in land would bt
secured by the Army near the radio
towers at the southwest corner OF the
post.
DR.. johnson ,ent into an explana.
ton OF the recently introduced swan
Son-Moore bill and insisted that "it /:
quite beyond the power of Virginia tc
build or maintain a highway, properly
Handicapped, designed to be a continual
ton Of the Mall into the countryside
of the Old Dominion" He pointed out
that the proposed boulevard approach
on the Virginia side of the Potomac
River would balance the boulevard ap-
proach to the Arlington Memorial
Bridge along B street, from the Capitol
to the Lincoln Memorial, which the
Federal Government proposes to con-
struct at cost Of more than $4,000 900
This boulevard approach on the Vir-
Setting for the jewel Of the Beautiful
bridge" Or. johnson said, would he
north and west Of the Fort Myer reser-
walton. The Virginia highway woulc
start in the vicinity of Porter's Woods
west OF Fort Myer, and be known ON.
cially as Route 711-project 501-oi
the State Highways Commission of Vir.
ginia.
Following DR.. Johnson's presenta-
ton the conference voted to indorst
the SWanson-Moore measure and left
to its executive committee the detail:
Of getting in touch with the interested
congressional delegations. This high.
way, on the north and west sides Of
Fort Myer. would be constructed BY
the Federal Government.
In adopting its articles the confer.
ence, at the suggestion of Mr.. Yaden
wrote in a provision requiring that new
business should be put in the hands O.
the secretary in ample time to notify
the delegates Of the agenda Of forth.
coming meeting.
Present at the meeting were Col. A. B
Barber, the chairman, who presided
w. B. Armstrong, secretary-treasurer
Col. j. L. Gilbreth and Charles S
Moore, all Of the Montgomery County
MD Civic Federation; MT. Yaden
representing the District, and William
C. Hull, Robert z. Plymale and Mrs
C. s. Semones of the Arlington County
(Va) Civic Federation.
The conference :, will meet again thu
third Monday in March.