Evening star., 1935-10-18
Swimming POOL
SITES APPROVED
BY PARKS BOARD
Locations Will Be in Ana
costa and East Poto-
mac Parks.
MELLON ART GALLERY
PLOT TO BE INSPECTED
Building Will Be Placed on Con-
stitution Avenue Between
18th and 14th Streets.

Locations for two new swimming
pools to be built with P. w. A. money
were approved today by the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion. They will be placed at the field
house in Anacostia Park and at the
field house in East Potomac Park.
Both pools will be for white bathers.
Meanwhile, members of the COM
mission planned this afternoon to visit
the site of the proposed $4,000, 900
art gallery to be given the city by
Andrew Mellon. The building is to be
located on Constitution avenue be-
tween Twelfth and Fourteenth streets
opposite the Labor Department. Inter-
state Commerce Commission Building.
Official action on the site IS ex-
pected to be taken tomorrow, accord
ing to Thomas S. Settle, commission
secretary. The commission has no
official plans for the gallery before it,
but wants to acquaint itself with all
developments.
Museum Wings Studied.
Settle made it clear the Mellon
Art Gallery must be distinguished
from the proposed National Art Gal
1ery under the Smithsonian Institu-
tion. Plans are being studied for con-
struction of wings on the new Ma
tional Museum, Tenth street and
Constitution avenue, to house the Ma
tional Art Gallery.
The old Public Buildings Commits
sion, the functions of which were
taken over, under President Roose-
velt's reorganization of the Govern
favored the Fourteenth street and
Constitution avenue site for the Mellon
art gallery, Settle disclosed today.
Sanction of the site by the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion is forecast by observers.
In connection with the swimming
pools, the sentiment Of the commits
sion was that new pool for colored
bathers should be constructed without
delay as part Of the Works Progress
Administration program here, said
Thomas E. Settle.
Miss Sibyl Baker, director of Dis
trict Fairgrounds. proposed construc-
tion Of number of swimming pools
under the Works Progress Administra-
tion. Under the law, Settle explained,
his commission must give final ap-
proval on these and further study will
be necessary.
Under President Roosevelt's orders,
bids must be out by next Tuesday for
all Public Works Administration pro-
jects, and for this reason the commits
sion felt the need for immediate ac-
tion. On the Works Progress Admin
stration program, however, there is
no deadline.
Final approval for the new Public
Works Administration swimming pools
IN Anacostia Park and East Potomac
Park indicates these will be in opera
tion by next Summer, to replace the
municipal swimming pools on the
Washington Monument Grounds, re-
Gently eliminated by the flood con-
troll program. The park authorities
propose to construct these new pools
by private contract and will call for
SAAc Ii VIC l1ChO lcW QdyS.
Inspection Trip Today.
The afternoon session was to be de-
voted to field inspection trip, IN
cluding the site of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing annex, particu-
larly with reference to the height of
the new structure; the I'd Division
Memorial project; the projected sites
for new swimming pools; the low-cost
housing projects, one under sponsor
ship of Government employees and the
other for colored persons north of
Benning road near Anacostia Park;
Theodore Roosevelt Island and the
work of Civilian Conservation Corps
at Fort Hunt, Va.
Coordination of recreation develop
ment by the National Capital Parks,
the Playground Department of the
District government and the Board of
Education was the subject of a part
OF this mornings deliberation by the
commission. Consideration was given
to the best locations in which to spend
Public Works Administration and
Works Progress Administration funds.
Participating in this discussion were
G. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
of the National Capital Parks; Lewis
r. Barrett, newly appointed co-ordi-
nator of recreation; John Nolen, IT.,
the commissions director of plan
ming, and T. c. Jeffers, the commits
sion's landscape architect.