Evening star., 1931-12-17
PORTAL TO BE STUDIED.
Planning Commission to Study Massa-
chusetts Avenue Circle.

Plans for circle at Massachusetts,
and Western avenues, as portal to the
city at that point, and the program for
a new highway from the south to
Mount Vernon from Woodlawn, Va,
will come before the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission at its
two-day meeting, starting tomorrow.
Capt. E. N. ChiSolm, jr., engineer Of
the commission, said today that Charles
w. Eliot, I'd, director Of planning, will
report on the progress of plans for the
new road to Mount Vernon. He as
serted the commission has had the CO.
operation of the Virginia authorities and
prospects are very bright of getting
this highway, which is most necessary,
in the opinion of the staff" THIS
probably will be 200-foot right Of
way, similar in character to the Mount
Vernon Memorial Highway with which
1t will connect, but not as elaborate,
the captain said.
Will Discuss Ball Act.
Discussion will center around the
Ball act, designed to set up a planning
commission for the northern section CT
Virginia adjacent to the Capital. The
national commission has long felt that
Virginia planning commission would
ton and Fairfax Counties and the city
OF Alexandria from a planning view
point, and would enable it to have q
medium through which to reach the
people of Virginia
The commission will consider further
land-purchasing agreements with the
Maryland-National Capitol Park and
Planning Commission. These deal with
purchases in Sligo Valley and in Rock
Creek Valley in Maryland.
Construction Of wings on the National
Museum, the proposed annex to the
Congressional Library and the future
location of shops Of the once of pub
lie Buildings and Public Parks, which
will soon have to move out Of the Mall
area, will be considered.
Will Talk About Trees.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, executive
officer Of the commission, will speak
about street trees The commission is
anxious to place an exhibit before the
meeting Of the American Road Builders
Association at Detroit next month, and
Capt. Chisolm will make the detailed
plans for this. William T. Partridge,
consulting architect of the commission,
has been at work for some time prepar-
ing exhibits for the George Washington
Bicentennial celebration, to be placed
in the Smithsonian Institution, illus
trating the commissions work Mr..
Partridge will give progress report.
w. NJ. Russell Of the Washington
Gas Light Co. will appear before the
commission to tell of his firms plans
for gas tanks in the vicinity of Fort
Totten. in the northeast, near the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
A report on the activities Of the
Recreational Committee, which has
sought to coordinate the land purchas-
ing activities of the various public
interests in the District, will be made
by Mr.. Eliot. The committee Is now
nearing the end Of its work, and a pro-
gram of land purchases for schools,
Fairgrounds, libraries, parks and other
interests have been mapped out, in an
effort to avoid friction.
Maj. A. D. Dawson, Assistant Engineer
Commissioner. will lay before the COM
mission sketches and drawings for the
proposed new Calvert street bridge,
spanning Rock Creek Valley
Legislation affecting the Commits
Sions work will be discussed by Thomas
S. Settle, the newly appointed perma-
nent secretary of the commission.