Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
RECREATION PLANS
To Be CONSIDERED
D. c. PARK GROUP
Landscape Architect to Pre-
sent Layout for Brook
land Center.
FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL
PARK ALSO COMING UP
Proposal to Bring Dewey's Flag
ship Here. on Calendar of
Commission.

The National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission will be asked at its
! meeting on Friday to approve the first
of a series of recreation centers over
| the city in a program designed to utilize
| a combination of school buildings and
| Fairgrounds. A map and detailed re-
! port on the Brookland recreation center,
prepared by c. l.. Wirth, landscape
architect of the commission, will be
approved, will be forwarded to the Dis
trict Commissioners and the municipal
architect, as well as the school board,
for approval.
The Brookland recreation center, to
be located on South Dakota avenue,
Otis street, Queens Chapel road and
Eighteenth street, would be developed
in conjunction with the proposed new
junior high school to be built in the
area near where the extension of
Quincy street would intersect at Eight
zenith street. The Wirth plan calls for
one area for major sports, another for
basket ball and minor sports, q SWIM
ming pool and bath houses, wadine
pool. croquet courts, facilities for horse
shoe pitching, three tennis courts and
small childrens playground back Of
the proposed new junior high school.
Entails Trading Land.
The new school building would face
the playground area, under the pro-
gram, which contemplateS economy of
land and extensive recreational facili-
ties for the children. A swap of small
parcels of land would be entailed in
the development. The pending District
appropriation bill would authorize the
appropriation. of $4,000 for the i'm
provement Of the Brookland recreation
center.
Another major project to be consid-
cred by the commission at its one-day
April meeting is the general question
of what is to be the future of the Ma
tional Geological Park in Rock Greek
Park. Expansion programs are being
considered, as well as the proposal to
provide for through highway to en-
able motorists to get through the Zoo
grounds to and from the Rock Creek
and Potomac Parkway. More adequate
approaches to the Zoo will be consid-
cred and the commission is expected to
go into the whole general question Of
what program it desires to map out.
The committee on standard paving
widths for different types of develop
ment is expected to make report This
committee consists of the two commits
sion members, j. G. Nichols of Kansas
City, Mo-, and Frederick Law Olmsted
of Brookline, Mass. This report will be
in the nature of preliminary program,
1t was explained today by Charles W.
Eliot, I'd, city planner of the commits
sion.
Engineers Report.
Capt. E. N. Chisoln, jr., the COM
MISSIONS engineer, will bring to the
attention of the commission the pro-
poSal now pending in Congress to pur-
chase a portion of the Dean tract at
the conjunction of Florida and Con-
necticut avenues. 1t is proposed to
develop this for park purposes, particu-
larly along Connecticut avenue.
The legislative proposal to bring the
U. S. S. Olympia, the famous flagship
of Admiral Dewey, to Washington will
be considered, and In this connection
a report by the co-ordinating commit
tee on the subject will be laid before
the commission by Capt. Chisolm. This
report has not as yet been made public.
The report of the Board of Trade
committee on streets and avenues will
be considered by the commission. Dur
ing the past seven weeks this commit
tee has been cooperating with the in
terested authorities on thoroughfare
development plan and this is now ready
to be submitted to the commissioners, to
the Board Of Trade and to the District
Commissioners.