Evening star., 1933-12-21
New Span Is Proposed TO
Cross River at South
Capitol Street.
EXTENSION OF RIVERSIDE
DRIVE is ALSO SOUGHT
Boiling Field Development Would
Extend Road Along Congress
Heights Hills.

Proposals for construction of a South
Capitol Street bridge across the Ana
costa River and for extension Of the
Riverside drive in Anacostia Park from
Eleventh Street Bridge to the Ana
costa Naval Air Station roadway are
pending before the Public Works and
Civil Works Administrations, it was
learned today.
As part Of the new Boiling Field
development there also is a proposal
pending before Civil Works for extern
sion of South Capitol street along
the foot of the Congress Heights hills
past the present Boiling Field and the
new field area
Show Place Planned.
The three proposals, coupled with the
great construction program now in
progress at the new Boiling Field and
smaller program of construction and
improvement at the Anacostia Naval
Air Station, would give the Capital
new show place connected directly into
the present park system of the city
Construction of the new bridge and
park road, it is said, would cut the
distance from downtown Washington
to the air station and Boiling Field by
three miles. reducing it to less than
half the present distance and. at the
same time, providing a route far more
free from traffic congestion.
Construction work at the Naval Air
of its new commander, Lieut.. Comdr
w. K. Harrill, and his predecessor,
Capt. Warren G. Child, recently re-
lleved of duty here, has gone ahead 50
rapidly during the past year that the
station is scarcely recognizable as the
post Of two years ago.
Within the past month or two con-
structlon of large area of well land
scaped park area has been cleared and
planted at the south end of the station
on section which in the past has been
an unsightly, weed-covered and trash
Uttered dump. A small greenhouse and
nursery have been built there for the
propagation of flowers and shrubs for
Identification of the station. The rem
nants of the dump have been screened
behind a wall of trees and shrubs.
Seek Landscape Artist.
After making Intellectual efforts 70
! enlist the services of Federal park Off
cials in landscaping of the station Off
GERS there under Harrills leadership
are planning to engage the services OF
a prominent local landscape architect
10 lay out complete park and planting
plan for the area.
Enlisted men at Boiling Field have
just completed moving into the new
block-long colonial brick barracks build
ing at the new field and the wooden
barracks at Boiling Field, relics of the
World War, are being razed. Occupa-
| ton of officers and non-comnissioned
| othcers quarters at the new field is in
! progress and before Midwinter it is
hoped all field personnel will be in
the new quarters.
| Approximately 1900 civil works en-
/ PloYes now are at work on the new
Boiling Field area, most of them on the
grading OF the landing area. Work on
the grading Of roads through the build
/ ing area, preparation and seeding of
lawns and Improvement of the park
areas also is in progress.
Plan of Long Standing.
Construction of an Anacostia river
bridge is a proposal of long standing
| Such a bridge has been advocated for
many years by local civic organizations,
especially those in the Anacostia and
! Congress Heights sections. Though the
site has not been definitely established
/ it is expected the bridge would extend
| from Buzzards Point, where the new
| Potomac Electric Power Co. plant now
Is being completed, to the naval air
station grounds.
The riverside drive which would pass
through the area occupied by Camp
Marks, principal camp of the Bonus
| Army, already is in progress. several
hundred yards of roadway having been
graded and surfaced downstream from
the Eleventh street bridge.
The South CaOitol Street ov4are;o,,
project is contemplated as a part of
the new Boiling Field development and
plans for the project include prepare
ton OF a landScaped park area along
| the South Capitol street projection line
as the eastern edge of the Army post.