Evening star., 1940-05-25
Parkway Plans
OF Commission
Taking Shape
u More Contracts
For Land Purchases
Bring TotoI to Us

The right -of-way for the long
planned George Washington Me-
mortal Parkway between the District
line and Great Falls, Md, is grad
ually taking shape with apparent
expenditure of nearly all the
100000 available. so far for land
purchases.
With 148 properties in the narrow
strip bounded by the Conduit road
and the Potomac River already in
the name of the Government, the
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission announced yes
terday the approval of contracts to
buy an additional q properties at
a cost of $1,000.
This brings the total of properties
purchased to IT'S and although
commission staff members did not
say so, the 100000 raised half from
congressional appropriations and
half by a special Montgomery
County bond issue, is apparently
nearly spent. The commission did
not announce the acreage of the
properties involved or their location
They have been bought jointly by
the national commission and Mary
land National Capital Park and
Planning Commission throughout
the last three months.
\ Other Purchases Progressing.
Meanwhile, purchases of land with
S180,000 made available by Con-
gress, Virginia and Arlington County
were said to be progressing both
above and below Key Bridge in
Virginia.
The parkway, total cost of which
Is estimated at $7,OO0,000, will
stretch from Great Falls to Mount
Vernon on the Virginia shore of
the Potomac and from Great Falls
to Fort Washington on the Mary
land shore, passing through the
District by way of the Potomac Park
and Fort drive.
The commissions two-day May
meeting, which ended Yesterday,
was attended by all four of it's regu-
lar members, Chairman Frederic A.
Delano, j. c. Nichols, Kansas City
realtors; William A. Delano, New
York architect, and Henry V. Hub
bard, Cambridge Mass.) landscape
architect. Only ex-officio member
present was Engineer Commissioner
Col. David McCoach. Representa-
tives of other ex-officio members
were present.
Several Plans Approved.
The commission was unable to
wade through all the subjects sched-
uled to come before it at the meet
ing. but had time to approve pre-
llminary plans of the Capital Transit
Co. for a street railway terminal
building at Barney Circle, at the
western end of the new Sousa Me-
mortal Bridge over the Anacostia
River; plans for swimming pool
for Langston Recreation Center (ad-
jacent to the Langston housing
deVelopment, the transfer of land
recently added to the Hoover Play
ground in Southwest Washington to
the District Commissioners, recrea-
ton plans for Langdon Park in
Northeast Washington, preliminary
plans for a new bridge over Rock
Greek between Chevy Chase Lake
and Kensington and latest plans for
connection from Route U. S. No.
l to the new National Airport at
Gravelly Point Git is to overpass
the railroad tracks and the relocated
Mount Vernon memorial highway
Swimming Pool Plans Approved
Approval of the swimming pool
plans for Langston Recreation Gen.
ter was significant. The pool in the
plan approved is to be equipped
with removable glass sides and roof
and is to be attached to the pro-
posed senior high school for colored
of which the recreation center is
to be an adjunct.
This will permit the pool to be
used throughout the year, according
to Lewis r. Barrett, District CO.
ordinator of recreation. and T. C..
Jeffers, landscape architect for the
Planning Commission. They are
members of special committee on
recreation plans which has spon-
sored the attached pool scheme for
number of years.
Other swimming pools in the Dis
trict are detached and usable only
during the summer months. with
the exception of two antiquated
pools in the Easements of Central
and Dunbar High Schools.
If the Board of Education ap-
proves the attached pool idea, future
high schools may all be so equipped,
according to Mr.. Barrett.
Earlier yesterday the commission
approved latest plans for the pro-
posed Scott Circle underpass and
Fourteenth and Maine avenue S.W.