Evening star., 1933-10-13

this Chevy Chase fountain 1t may well
be propheSied:
"'Ihou, too, one day shall win proud
eminence
Mid honored founts.'
Pay Tribute to Designer.
Coupled with the name Of Newlands
man and wife, we pay tribute also to
the skillful designer. Neighbor Edward
w. Dom. and to the garden clubs OF
Maryland, who, inspired and Spurred
by the indefatigable Mrs. Frank Noyes,
furnished and supervised the appropri-
ate landscape setting, and also the
boundary markers that follow the de-
sign of the stones used by Maryland
and Pennsylvania to mark the historic
Mason and Dixon line.
Worthy of commemoration as Mr..
Newlands is in connection with Chevy
Chase. his service to Washington as
the Nations Capital was of transcend
ent value and Importance.
Born in Natchez in l848. the same
year his parents settled in Quincy,
Adams County, ILL.,, town beautiful
for situation, perched high above the
turbulent waters of the Mississippi
Schooled in Chicago. at Yale College
ington) Law School, he practiced his
profession in San Francisco for 18 years
1870-1888) and in Nevada for years
before the latter State sent him. at the
age of As, first to Congress Q893-l903
and then to the Senate Q903-191O.
During the "a years of his legislative
career his ability, his close attention to
public business, his conSiderate diSpO-
sition won for him the confidence Of his
fellow legislators. and thus gave him
potent influence among Republicans as
we'll as with his Democratic colleagues
In time he became power in matters
relating to the District Of Columbia
and so was fitted to play successfully
his part in the development of the city
Of Washington.
Three Epochs Mark History.
"Three epochs mark the history OF
the National Capital. Washington and
LEnfant imposed on this Territory a
city plan so grand that nearly a CEN
tury and half have been required to
measure its adequacy and ragnif1cence
So ambitious was that plan that for
more than quarters Of Q century
yond the means of Nation intent on
preserving its very existence Then
after the Civil War had brought unity
and stability to the country. Alexander
R. Shepherd, with the support Of Pres
ident Grant, lifted Washington from a
struggling village into the dignity OF
a modern city, albeit incumbered with
a staggering debt that but for grudging
and belated help from the National
Treasury would have plunged Washing
ton and its residents into bankruptcy
Not until the Government had func-
toned in its Capital for full century
did the opportunity and the will come
to undertake that 'aggrandizement'
which L'Enfant foresaw as the sure re-
suit Of the growth of national power
and national wealth.
In 1901 the neglected and mutilated
plan of Washington and L'Enfant was
as it we're. rediscovered by Glenn Brown
and the architects. 1t was like unto
Ezra. standing in the street that was
forgotten law to the eager Israelites
after their return from bondage in
Babylon.
Championed Cause.
"At the behest Of the United States
Senate. a new pan was made on the
basis of the century-old one. And when
the people saw this new plan, prepared
by artists of the first order in expert
ence and skill. they called on a reluc-
tant and skeptical Congress and indif-
ferent and often hostile officials to
carry it into execution. Long hard and
often bitter was the struggle over al
most every one of its salient features.
But it was a good plan. well presented.
The determined opposition met even
more determined champions. Among
the most determined. the most persist
ent, the most successful Of those cham
pions was Senator Newlands From the
inception of the plan of 1901, for 16
years. until his death at his post in the
Senate, he gave Of his time. his energy,
his experience as a legislator and his
persistence to the task. making Wash
ington one Of the finest capitals in the
world.
After the death in 1902 of Senator
Mcmillan, from whom the plan Of 1901
takes its familiar name. Senator New
lands became that plans strongest and