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such memorial projects the architect
Is required to furnish plans for de-
velopment Of the surrounding area,
but that the cost Of carrying out those
plans is not included in the cost of
the memorial itself.
For example, he said, the authorize
ton for the Lincoln Memorial was
s20O0,O 900 and the final cost was 81
939,72o, in addition to which Congress
appropriated 100000 for roads and
walks and s5s4.O00 in four installments
for the rejecting pools.
Privacy Asked for Reports.
AT the opening of the hearing Tread
way drew from Cammerer an admis-
sion that the Memorial Commission
had asked that the reports to it from
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission and the Fine Arts
Commission should not be made pub
lie.
Cammerer told the committee the
commission had the power to make a
contract with the architect Both
Chairman Keller and Treadway re-
lterated that they will stand firmly
aaginst any attempt to interfere with
that contract and declared their en-
tire confidence in Pope.
Cammerer said the LEnfant plan is
not sacrosanct and that because many
changes have been made the McMil-
Ian Commission was appointed to
bring that up to date in 1901. He ad-
vised the committee that eventually q
decision will have to be made regard
ing the Tidal Basin site because both
of those fundamental plans provide for
a major memorial on that south axis
from the White House. He expressed
confidence that future years will see a
very decided change in that section.
Rock Expected at IS Feet.
Nagle testified that core drilling
showed the base for the proposed
memorial may find rock bottom at 80
feet, but certainly at IS feet. At the
Lincoln Memorial. rock foundation
was struck at 55 feet. The Washing
ton Monument never went to rock,
but is on what is called 4 floating
foundation"
Cammerer said Frederic A. Delano,
chairman of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, per-
sonally favored locating the memo
rial in Lincoln Park, where the Len
FAINT plan intended to have a his
toric column.
Representative Treadway ques-
toned Mr.. Cammerer regarding other
sites, especially in the Soldiers Home
ground on the line Of North Capitol
street with a vista Of the Capitol.
Representative Wearin Of Iowa sought
ruling that II the selection by the
commission Of an architect is bind
ing, 1t should also be binding regard
ing the site Both Keller and Tread
way refused TO admit that.
Treadway said Wearin's proposal
for an architectural competition had
been thrown out and that the testi-
mony regarding the ultimate cost Of
the Jefferson Memorial throws this
plan out the window also as far as I
am concerned"
Removal Of All Trees Expected.
In reply to questions, Cammerer ex-
pressed the opinion that practically
100 per cent of the cherry trees
around the Tidal Basin will have to be
removed and that the larger trees,
which have a span Of life of about
10 years more would die if an attempt
to replant them was made.
Willard M. Kochenderfer, executive
secretary Of the Hotel Mems Associa-
ton, said the cherry blossoms draw
more visitors to Washington than any,
thing else. He said the hotel men are
vitality interested because this means
business for them. He urged that an
other site be selected for the Jefferson
Memorial.
Others who pleaded for preservation
of the cherry trees included Mrs. Ernest
w. Howard, for the District Federation
OF Women's Clubs: Mrs. Frances jack
son Stoddard, who read . poem, plea
OF tho Cherry Trees; Mrs. w. F.
Rands, representing the Sixteenth
Street Heights Citizens' Association:
Mrs. Katherine Tabney and Royal H
Carlock, Brookmont, Nd, who dis
played artistic pictures of the cherry
blossoms.