Evening star., 1932-01-22
OREGON|ANS WANT
CONCORD RENAMED
Tell Planning Commission
Change Would Honor
State More.

Concord avenue, from Georgia ave-
nue. to North Capitol street, would be
renamed Oregon avenue, under a
recommendation adopted today at the
instance of Representatives of the
State of Oregon, by the National Capt.
tol Park and Planning Commission. An
act of Congress will be required to
bring about the change.
The present Oregon avenue. only a
couple of blocks long, extending from
New Hampshire avenue to Nineteenth
street is too insignificant for the SOW
ereign State of oregon, Senator Stei-
wer Republican of that State, wrote
the commission.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, vice
chairman and executive officer of the
commission, read a communication
from the Roosevelt Memorial Associa-
tion, advising it officially of the pre-
viously published purchase of Analos-
tan Island, downstream of Key Brldgs,
and expressing the wish that 1t be
preserved in its natural state, as bird
sanctuary. Legislation is now pending
in Congress designed to permit the
Federal Government to accept the
island as part of the National Capitals
park system, and changing its designa-
tion to Roosevelt Island.
Underbrush to Be Cleaned.
Underbrush will be cleared away, so
that picnic parties may use Analostan
Island, and bridges will connect the
island with Columbia Island and up
stream with the George Washington
Memorial Parkway development,
The commission put over untl the
next meeting the problem OF decldlng
whether Constitution avenue shall be
72 or 30 feet in width between Vlr-
pinia avenue and the Potomac River.
Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape
architect of Brookline, Mass, member
of the commission, is proponent OF
the 72-foot width, but it is understood
that most of the commission faVorS
80 feet. The opening of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge will mean tnat TINS
problem will have to be solved lmme-
diately, and the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Commission is now at Work pre-
pairing plans for the widening.
The commission voted in favor OF a
stadium at the end of East Capitol
street at the Anacostia River, Volclng
its opposition to the location OF sta
dium in the central portion OF tne Guy;
The commission decided TO recomHlenu
to Mai. Joseph D. Arthur, Jr., Dlstrlct
engineer for the Wax Department Ior
the Washington area, that the Unlteo
States Engineer Office proceed with the
filling in along the adjacent bank OF
the Anacostia River, as recommended
by the Co-ordinating Committee, Wltn
a view to future development OF the
stadium.
A number of recommendations LOT a
stadium on GoVernment-oWned lana
in the downtown section was placed
before the commission, but 1t turned
thumbs down on these. The commits
sion likewise urged that there be no
university or other stadium on the
Brightwood Reservoir, but suggested
that in the future, some sort of recrea-
tional treatment might be accorded that
area.
University Plan Opposed.
George Washington University, 1t is
understood, is seeking a location LOT
stadium and suggested the possibility
of the Brightwood Reservoir site Al
one time the university was considering
the use of Analostan Island for this
purpose, but the Roosevelt Memorial As
sociation has since purchased this land
and will donate it to the Federal Gov
ernment for parkway purposes.
The COMMISSION arranged lOT 1uIuIc
conferences with the Washington Gas
Light Co., over the erection of gas
tanks at Fort Totten in the Northeast,
near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
tracks The commission has the least
objection to the low type of gas tank,
its engineer, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr.,
said yesterday, and feels that the type
of tanks proposed by the gas company
is Objectionable, particularly If they
violate the coming regulations, as seems
indicated The commission conceded
that it is at loss to suggest at pres
ent a place better suited for the gas
tanks.
Low Tanks Advocated.
The tanks the company suggested are
1870 feet high, but the low type of tank
is within the coming regulations, COM
mission officials said.
Should erection of the gas tanks at
Fort Totten go forward, they will be set
back of the street. There will be a
highway change on Hamilton street, as
recommended by the Co-ordinating
Committee.