Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-17
Fiscal Set-up and Other De-
tails Mastered as Aid
to Local Situation. sos
NAMES FOR NEW PARK
AREAS TO BE LISTED
Population Movement Watched in
Order to Plan Civic Develop
ments to Meet Demand. So


their recreation centerS viii be laid
before the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission by its landscape
architect, c. L. With, during its two
day meeting. Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. Wirth has visited a number Of
cities and gained first-hand infoEma-
ton, not only on recreational aspects,
but on the fiscal set-up Of recreation
canters. -. q
A number Of proposed names for
various park areas and recreation cen
tiers viii be suggested to the commits
sion when Lieut.. Col. u. s. Grant, Sd,
Its vice chairman and executive oflcer,
submits list. The commission has been
purchasing number Of park areas and
playground sites which never nave
been named oficially. Capt. 4. IN.
Chisolm, jr., engineer Of the commits
the problem that the proposed colured
recreation center near Howard Universal
ty has come to be known as the Howard
Recreation Center, but this never has
been adopted ofilcially. =
Study City Movement. e'g
Studies for a proposed colored center
and golf course on the Anacostia River
at Benning will be submitted to the
commission by Mr.. Wirth. A number
Of colored schools are to be erected In
that locaf1ty, and the commission Is
looking into the feasibility Of est&b-
fishing . colored community center in
| that region.
Charles w. Eliot, I'd, director Of plan.
ming for the commission, win advise
that body about the movement Of pop-
ulation in Washington. Because Of the
city planning involved, the commtsslon
wishes TO keep abreast of population.
movements here, 30 that 1t can make
It's plans in advance. Capt. Cl1isUlm
pointed out today that there is an ap-
prectable population movement to Ar
l1ngton County, Va, in the northWest-,
ern section OF the city. along Rhode
Island avenue and out New Hampshire
avenue. The commission expects ia
obtain mass of valuable information
| from the Eliot report. 7
The commission viii have before 1t
| again plans for the proposed Masonic
| Temple on the Dean Tract at Florida
and Connecticut avenues. The revised
plan, prepared by Harvey Wiley Corhett
famous New York architect, viii be con-
sidered. Objections we're raised to 4
l previous plan for the temple on the
ground that it was too much like the
Lincoln Memorial. Frederic A. Delano,
the commissions chairman, viii bring
the plans to the attention Of the or.
| ganization.
Capital Markers Wanted.
Further consideration win be given
by the commission TO the program of
the Garden Club of America for en-
frances to the District Of Columbia, to
be marked by suitable columns Mrs,
HFro nh 10 .1.k - L.
ter to the attention Of the Fine Arts
| Commission and the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission. Fur
| Their studies on this subject have been
made by Mr.. Eliot and by william r.
Partridge, consulting architects of the
commission. 1t has been proposed that
the columns to be taken from the State,
War and Navy building. at Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue be
utilized in the erection of the pro-
posed columns, as suitable landmarks
at the entrances to the National
Capital. 80
The proposed circle at Wisconsin ave-
nue. and the District line will be placed
before the commission again by Capt.
Chisolm. The Co-ordinating Committee,
| composed of interested District sand
| Federal governmental agencies, at its
| last meeting Endorsed plans prepared
thorities for a circle at Wisconsin, ave-
nue. and the District line. The Mary
| land National Capital Park and Fan
| ming Commission has expressed pref
erence for an oval rather than q ct1CAe
at this projected entrance to the city.
Further details concerning the plans
| for the Municipal Center will be brought
up by Maj. John G. Gotwals, Engineer
! Commissioner Of the District and @
<Nf he VSRfea
walls and Mr.. Delano served on conn
mittee that investigated the trafiic and
| transit problem that win arise when
| thousands of employees of the municipal
| government are concentrated in the
new center.
Study States Avenue.
Additional studies concerning the pro-
posed Avenue Of the States, that viii be
| formed along the present East Capitol
street, from the Capitol to the Ana
costa River, will be explained to the
commission by Mr.. Eliot. Under this
program, each State in the American
Union would erect public building on
this new avenue, which would termi-
nate at the Anacostia River in . pre-
! tentious stadium. The Folger Memorial
Library, being erected as q Shakes
pearian Center, just east of the Con-
gressional Library, and the new SUI
preme Court Of the United States
Building. would be considered IS the
first units along the Avenue OF the
States.
DIR. Miller McClintock of the Erskins
School for Trafic Research OF Harvard
University. trafnc consultant TO the
commission, will render q report, based
on the findings of the recent District
TRAFFIC Committee, headed by ii. G.
Whitehurst, District co-ordinator and
chief engineer.
The commission viii investigate plans
for the use Of Conduit road as d unit
In the George Washington Memorial
Parkway. Maj. Joseph d. Arthur jr..
district engineer for the War Depart
ment for the Washington area, ,has
prepared study Of the proposed en-
larging of Cabin John Bridge and the
Improvement of Conduit road, to care
for additional trafic. This, It Is be-
neyed, VIII be accomplished by putting
cushion" between the road ana the
conduit, through which washington's
water supply comes down to Dalecarlia
from Great Falls.
The commission will be advised Of
the progress being made by the Navy
Department In its quest for . new
model ship basin to replace the present
antiquated equipment at the Washing
ton Navy Yard. Models Of naval and
merchant marine vessels are tested in
the basin. Engineers Of the United
States Engineer Once have recently
been conducting borings In the vicinity
OF Cabin John Bridge, In an effort to
obtain suitable rock base for the
basin.