Evening star., 1936-03-22

slandscape at the rear of the Navy
and Munitions Buildings. The dixie
crossing Seventeenth street, south OF
Constitution avenue, will be removed
next week and the Washington Monu-
ment grounds will be restored to their
recently raised grade.
After the sandbags, facing the dixie
and topping it, have been removed,
the earthen embankment will be al
lowed to become thoroughly COM
pacted. Later, this mound will be
seeded and planted, so it will not be
an eyesore on the landscape. Finnan
declared that IS per cent of the ex-
listing dixie will remain as permanent
flood-control measure, which was plan
ned eventually anyway.
Military Posts Hard Hit.
The greatest damage probably was
wrought at naval and military posts.
The Naval Air Station, the Navy Yard,
Boiling Field and the Army War Col
leee were without power. lights or
heat and hundreds of men we're kept
busy throughout the day cleaning out
buildings which had been plastered
and fioored with mud.
Buildings at the Naval Air Station,
Boiling Field and at the Navy Yard
were coated to q height of 4 to 6 feet
with thick black oil, which will have
to be removed with scrub-brush "and
elbow grease" since no indammable
cleaning fluid can be used around
the field.
Boiling Field came out of the food
with damage only to its buildings, as
Col. William Ord Ryan, the comman-
der, had ordered all planes and other
material removed before the high
water struck.
The Naval Air Station was not so
fortunate. Among material damaged
were Is auxiliary plane motors. These
motors were loaded aboard the Wash
ington and Norfolk steamship North
land yesterday afternoon and taken
to Hampton Roads, Va, for overhaul
ing. Some Of them may have been
irTeparably damaged. it was said at
the station.
planes left at the station when other
craft was removed before the food
hoated around In their hangers and
suffered no damage, it was reported.
East Potomac Park Damaged.
The most serious damage to the
park system was in East Potomac
Park around Hains Point, where mud.
silt and debris were left to a depth
of several inches.
Driftwood was piled up as high
as 20 feet in places around the point,
some of the electric lamp posts hav-
ing been torn from their stands by the
force Of the current. All along the
golf course water still stood in ponds,
thousands Of sea gulls feasting on
small fish and other foods trapped
by the food.
Hundreds Of workers were busily
engaged In removing the mud from
the speedway, but several days will be
required beforc the roadway is cleared
and 1t probably will be several weeks
before the grass, flowers and shrubbery
around the famous parkway regains
It's former beauty. Where verdant
grass and beautiful flowers once grew
on the riverside of the parkway there
is now only field of mud, piled high
with logs, uprooted trees and matted
dead grass.
All along the parkway from the tip
OF Hams Point to Rock Creek the
roadway is Shiny and undiscovered.
Around the Titanic Memorial, near
Rock Greek parkway and F street, the
force Of the water tore up pavement
and made rutted, yellow eyesore of
what once was greensward.
Water on Boiling Field.
At Boiling Field great lakes Of water
still stand on the airdrome, and build
ings that were the acme of military
cleanliness before the food now have
the appearance of a ghost village.
Hundreds of men are working to clean
out the debris and make the buildings
habitable again. No effort has been
made, however, to remove the great
bands of sticky, tar-like oil from the
outside.
In many parts of the market sec
ton of Water street southwest mer-
chants kept employees busy through
the day cleaning up and washing out
their establishments, where the mud
was caked two and three inches deep.
Around the vicinity of K street in
Georgetown industrial concerns put
men to work clearing up the debris.
Hundreds Of bags of cement. wet by
the high water. had to be thrown
away, as they had become blocks of |
solid concrete.
Estimating damage by the flood
waters everywhere was merely guess
work. Not q single military or naval |