Evening star., 1935-04-13
PLANNERS GIVEN
PROGRAM Of Il
SWIMMING POOLS
Eleven for White and Six for
CoIored in Various
Parts of City.
RECREATION SET.UP
INCLUDES SKATING
Commission Takes Project Under
Consideration-Bridge Hear.
ing Asked.

A comprehensive program for con-
struction of II new swimming pools
for white persons here and six for
colored, was laid today before the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission by T. c. Jeffers. land
scape architect member of its staff
Thomas S. Settle. secretary of the
commission, said these will be dis
tributed over the city and be built
after the pattern laid out at the Ia
koma Recreation Center at Fourth
and Van Buren streets and the Ban
neker Recreation Center, opposite
Howard University. The exact loca-
tions of the swimming pools were not
divulged as in some instances It may
be necessary for the Government to
purchase land.
Kinks Are Included.
A number of skating rinks also
were included in the proposed recrea-
tional set-up suggested by Jeffers.
The commission took the program un-
der advisement, but it called special
attention to the fact a new and ade-
quate swimming pool should be con-
Structed in East Potomac Park, near
the old U. S. Engineer Wharf.
This would replace the pool in the
Monument Grounds, slated for demo-
lition shortly. The commission felt
the new East Potomac Park pool would
serve the same population that has
enjoyed the Washington Monument
pool.
Bridge Hearing Asked.
Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham.
chief of Army Engineers, was aGked
by the commission to call a hearing
for a proposed bridge across Gunston
Cove in conjunction with the ex-
tension southwark of the park drive
along the Potomac River that now
ends at Mount Vernon The general,
who is an eX-officio member of the
commission, has previously expressed
a friendly attitude toward the propo-
sition. Maj Robert w. Crawford,
district engineer for the War Depart
ment for the Washington area, would
actually hold the hearing to deter
mine popular sentiment toward the
bridge. Prior to getting eu:h1:iza-
ton to construct the new highway,
which would run along Fort Belvoir.
historic home of Lord Fairfax. to
Gunston Hall. the home Of George
Mason, the commission desires to
map out the road.
The commission members later will
determine what their attitude will
be toward the sample pylons, erect
ed at Fourteenth street and Con-
stitution avenue, which they inspected
yesterday afternoon; the fuure of the
tuberculosis Hospital site at Thir-
teenth and Allison streets when the
institution is moved to the new area
at Glenn Dale, Md, and the aban-
doned reservoir at Sixteenth and
Kennedy streets, which they also
viewed.
There are strong indications the
commission will reiterate its previous
ly-expresSed position opposing the
pylons as a menace to traffic and
serving no useful purpose.
To remedy this situation in the
future, the commission voted yester-
day to ask Secretary Morgenthau to
appoint a representative from the
Supervising Architects Office of the
Procurement Division to pc a men,
Der of its co-ordinating committee.
The commission wants to insure that
future street widenings affecting Gov.
.ernment buildings and other impor-
tant information will be exchanged.
John Nolen, Jr, director of PLAN
ming of the commission. laid before
it report from Harland Bartholo-
NEW of st. Louis, its traffic expert,
on coming in Washington. This re-
port has been mimeographed and
given to each member of the COM
mission for study and report to the
May meeting, but it has not been
made public.
The need for parking facilities for
Government employees was stressed
by Nolen in another report. He sub
mitted to the commission data OBJ
tanned from the Division of Govern.
ment Space Control, Buildings Branch.
National Park Service and from a re-
cent traffic survey made under COM
mission auspices in collaboration with
civic and business interests here.
showing where Government workers
are parking.