Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-04
AVE.
FUNDS TO Be ASKED
or NEW CONGRESS
Next Section for Development
Probably From North Capt.
toll to Sixth Street.
EXTENSION PROGRESS
STEADILY GAINlN G
Ceremonial Thoroughfare Now in
Use From Sixth Street to
Western Terminus.

The next part of Constitution avenue
to be developed probably will be that
section requiring the most new con-
struction-from North Capitol to Sixth
street, cutting through considerable ter
ritory now occupied by buildings.
This developed today as it was learned
that Congress will be asked in the next
appropriation bill for the fiscal year
1888 for funds to go ahead with this
part Of the great ceremonial avenue
which Is being cut through the section
of Washington most improved by the
huge Fe6eral building program.
When work can be started on this
section depends on the action of Con-
gress, as funds are not yet available.
Items are to be requested of Congress
by the District of Columbia to be made
available Immediately. 1t thus depends
upon the date Of enactment of the Dis
trict appropriation bill and whether
Congress will make the funds available
Immediately" as to when the work can
get under way Unless funds are thus
made available at once, the work could
not get under way until July /, the be-
ginning of the next fiscal year.
Through Two Blocks.
The next part to be completed will
cut through at least two blocks now
occupied by buildings between Third
and Sixth streets on either side of the
intersection of Constitution avenue and
Pennsylvania avenue.
Already the property between Fourth
and Sixth streets on the south side of
Pennsylvania avenue has been pur-
chased by the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Commission as part Of the
project.
Where Constitution avenue passes be-
tween Third street and Pennsylvania
avenue is part of the new Municipal
Center project, and some old buildings
now are being torn down there in con-
nection with the development of the
Municipal Center.
Some other preliminary progress
looking toward extension of Constitu-
ton avenue also is going forward, such
as between Second and Third streets,
where property has been purchased by
the Arlington Bridge Commission.
There the Standard Oil Co. is now COM
plotting its new building. Between First
and Second streets property to be used
in developing the Avenue belongs to the
Government already, and north of First
street between First street and Arthur
place property is being acquired by the
architect Of the Capitol for the entry
VI blAC lew 1OulSldud dfeHuc lIOHu
Union Station into Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
Purchase Being Completed.
Meantime the Treasury Department
is completing the purchase of the rest
OF what is known as reservations A and
B, along Pennsylvania avenue on the
south side between Third and Sixth
streets. Part of Reservation B was
t1xr de fw.A, 10 ALI
Bridge Commission. All of this area
soon Is to be RACED of its buildings and
leveled of, to be turned over to Col. u.
S. Grant, Sd, in his dual capacity as
executive officer of the Bridge Com
mission and director of the Office of
Public Buildings and Public Parks of
the National Capital. Part of these
reservations will be turned into Com
stitution avenue and part will be turned
into parkway of the Mall.
Thus the progress of Constitution
avenue goes forward in the hands of a
number of different agencies of the
Government. with prospects that at
least another section, that between
North Capitol street and Sixth street.
will be started as soon as funds are
available. The next sections to be de-
veloped probably will be from Sixth to
Tenth street, or from Tenth to Four
OC6Il6Al oIEccb, QCpc1Qulk upon the
progress of the public building pro-
gram in the triangle area facing the
Mall between Sixth street and Fifteenth
street
Constitution avenue is now disable
from Sixth street west to its end. in
GLIDING the places where contractors
are building the traffic connections to
the new memorial bridge.
First Big Public Event.
Throngs which crowded Constitution
avenue for the first great public ceIe-
bration there on Halloween constituted
the first great public event of the ave-
nue., which is designed to be the Capi-
tails great ceremonial avenue of the
future. This section of the new avenue
between Fourteenth street and Virginia
avenue was recently widened to its full
width and newly paved
While property for Constitution ave-
nue. and its adjacent lands is being pur-
chased by different agencies, the cost
of the actual physical development of
the street itself devolves so per cent
upon the District of Columbia and 40
per cent on the Federal Government
through the Bridge Commission The
paving work is done by the District of
Columbia Highway Department.