Evening star., 1935-10-27
BUILDINGS SOUGHT.
BY LINCOLN PARK
Association Would Like
"Avenue of States" in
Its Section.

The erection Of more beautiful anc
spacious public buildings along Eas
Capitol street from the Capitol tt
the banks of the Anacostia river /,
being advocated and is the aim OF
the Lincoln Park Citizens Associa-
ton.
The latest aspiration of the group
Is to have the proposed $10,000,00C
structure for the housing of the art
collection of Andrew w. Mellon built
there. A resolution asking that q
site along East Capitol street be given
consideration was adopted by the
body last week.
Want Avenue of States.
The association is also backing the
suggestion of Col. Robert N. Harper
to have a building. constructed for
each State in the Union to house
its own exhibits and the street be
known as the Avenue of States receive
consideration from the city officials.
With the new Supreme Court Build
ing, the Congressional Library and the
privately endowed Felger Shakespe-
rean Library already on the wide shady
East Capitol street, the citizens be-
lieve it is ideally situated for more
of the public buildings to be in the
shadow of the Capitol.
For many years the Lincoln Park
Citizens Association has been work
ing, not only for improvements in
the eastern section of the city, but
for all that would benefit the tax
payers and citizens of the city
In radio speech some time age
Mrs. Helena D. Reed, secretary oi
the association, outlined some Of the
accomplishments of the body ano
some of the projects now sought, az
follows:
Aims Reviewed.
"The Lincoln Park Citizens Asso.
citation. since 1910, has had a part in
the development of many meritorious
civic movements. Its presidents have
ben substantial and honorable citi-
znes. 1t was one of the first citi-
zens' associations to encourage mem.
hSASAAAP oAIAO1S WOAlCA dIlu W clcCl
them to Office, the first I believe ir
the city to elect a woman to the vice
presidency. The late Mrs. Helen
Nelson DOGGY was the first to receive
that honor. She organized Parent.
Teacher Associations in the eastern
section of the city and brought in.
creases in pay for park police and parE
employees. She also worked zeal.
ously for Casualty Hospital anc
brought many members to the Lin.
coin Park Citizens Association.
"As early as 1920 the Lincoln Park
Citizens Association was at work on
the problem of an equitable adjust
ment Of gas rates. At that time the
records show the Federal Government
was paying 10 cents per 1000 cubic
feet for gas; the District government
about 40 cents and the private con.
sumers S132. The association went
on record at that time as strongly
condemning the unjust and inequita
BILE discrimination against private
consumers of gas and indorsed the
efforts Of the Federation of Citizens
Associations to remedy the unfair dis.
elimination.
Eastern High Obtained.
"The association worked for many
years to secure an initial appropria-
ton of s15oOOo from Congress for
the erection of Eastern High School
and for eight years afterward to gel
1t completed. We are now asking for
a new white high school in the South
east section and for a primary white
school to be located at Twelfth and
D streets northeast.
The association helped to bring
about half fares for school children;
the establishment of civic centerS;
supported the present method of Sc
1ecting the Board of Education; in
crease in pay for principals of elemen-
tary schols; installation of mail boxes
on the front doors to facilitate mail
deliveries; merger of street car railway
system as the solution of street car
problems, as far back as 1921, and
has urged the utilization of Great
Falls water power as is done in our
Western country.
This Years Projects.
THE projects the association has
been chiefly interested in this year are
the stadium at the end of East Capt.
tol street with the armory included; ;
the widening of Twenty-first street
from East Capitol street to the Ar
boretum; the erection of three bridges,
one urgently needed at Seventeenth
and Eighteenth at the junction of
West Virinia and New York avenues,
q bridge over the Aanacostia River eX-
tended from the end of East Capitol
street and a new bridge to replace
the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge; i'm
provement of traffic conditions; i'm
provement of street car and bus serv-
ice and enactment of bills requiring
police and fremen to live within the
District of Columbia and a District
of Columbia inheritance tax for
estates over $25,000."
One of the chief objections a mem
Der of the association has to the
building of new public buildings in
the northwest is it is adding to the
present traffic hazards.