Evening star., 1935-08-18
CITIZENS TO SEEK
LOW-LEVEL SPAN
Other Projects Announced
by Conduit Road Group
for Coming Year.

abandoned by the Conduit Road Citi-
zens' Association, Frank Shull, newly
elected president of the association,
announced yesterday. Instead the
association will concentrate its efforts
on obtaining new lowlevel structure.
One Of the main projects for which
the association has been campaigning
for several years. the Chain Bridge
replacement, will again occupy an i'm
portant part n the associations &C
tivities this coming Winter. A bridge
about 8 or 10 feet above the present
structure will be adequate. Shull be-
lieves, and will also do away with the
danger Of flood water washing away
lower bridge. He is also of the opin-
ion that the association has a better
chance Of obtaining low-level bridge
than it has Of getting q high-level
bridge.
Road Widening Sought.
Another project connected with
Chain Bridge which the association
will push is the widening of Canal
road and raising the level of the road
to meet that Of the proposed bridge.
Capt. Ellis r. King, past president Of
the association and now chairman of
the Streets Committee, has cam
paigned several years for this work.
He has also asked that the sharp left
turn where Canal road meets the
bridge be eliminated.
This Winter King will again press
the Canal road project and an addi-
tional proposal that the road be car
ried past the bridge and on to the
Dalecarlia Reservoir. If Chain Bridge
is replaced by slightly higher struc-
ture, new approach will probably be
built to connect it to Potomac ave-
nue., and thus allow bypass through
the edge of the District on to Rock
Vile, Bethesda and Northwest Wash
ington. eliminating the necessity of
going through Georgetown and down.
town Washington to get to these
points.
As president of the association. and
later as chairman of the Streets Com
mittee, King has advocated the paving
of alleys in the neighborhood to keep
cinders and dirt from being washed
away. He has been successful this
Summer in having several alleys paved
and another in process of being paved
Parkway Seeding Wanted.
Out of the $1,000 deficiency ap-
preparation the association is seeking
an allotment to have the parkway in
the center of Conduit road seeded as
this project is too large to come Out
Of regular District funds Shull plans
to seek p. w. A. allotment for the
work If funds are not made available
from the deficiency fund Last Winter
the association asked to have hedge
, or small shrubs planted in the park
| way, but this request was refused be-
cause even a small hedge would make
driving hazard. Part of the park
way has been cleaned and raked BY
c. C. c. workers this Summer, but il
still needs to be sodded or planted
with grass seed, Shull claims.
The replacement of the old branch
library on Conduit road is another
matter for which the association vii
work this Winter. The replacement
of this library has been advocated b!
King for several years, and at ont
time he even offered to have privat'
architect draw plans for a new build
ing to save the District an architect
fee. This offer was refused. however
because it was feared the plans woult
not be of the style wanted by tn
Commissioners or the Board of Librar,
Trustees.
School Grounds Improved.
Through efforts of the association
School Committee, cooperating witt
parent-teacher and other groups il
the community, the ground surround
ing the Francis Scott Key School ha
been graded and resurfaced. Honey
suckle has been planted on bank il
the rear of the school so that rail-
will not wear gullies in the soft soil.
Mrs. J. r. Lyddane, chairman Of tn
committee, has been active for SOM
time trying to get an appropriation
for a field house and playground Il
Palisades Park, and hopes to hav'
enough money set aside from the sec
ond deficiency appropriation to a
least start work on this project. Abou
$4,000 is needed.
A night school at Western Higl
School is another matter Mrs. Lyddan
has been pressing, and she plans II
call a meeting soon of special com
mittee of which she is chairman II
formulate plans for a campaign thi
coming Winter.