The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-09

Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C.-WNu Service.
ffTT LOOKS just like the
postcards!" typical
L sightseer's comment on
the Washington scene, is still
true. The Capitol dome is still
the same as in the newsreel
backdrop for senatorial snap
shots. The Washington monu-
ment at night is still a loom
ing landmark in peaked white
hood with red airplane beacons
for eyes.
But behind the scenes and indoors
are many changes which prevent
last years two and three-tourtns
million visitors to the District OF
Columbia from feeling they have
seen everything.
The triangular block east OF the
Archives building, where motorists
have been staring at blank wooden
enclosing walls while waiting for
traffic signals at Constitution and
Pennsylvania avenues, has at last
been unveiled to reveal the Apex
building. This new home for the
federal trade commission is named
for its position at the apex OF the
Federal Triangle group of glorified
Office buildings. already housing ten
important bureaus and commissions.
The new seven-foor Apex structure
has a ''fatiron" foorplan, with its
rounded columl-lined tip pointed
down Pennsylvania avenue toward
the capitol, five blocks east.
As soon as the Apex building shed
it's screen of gray boarding, up went
a larger wooden barrier across the
street and two steam Shovels be-
gan to bite out the foundation for q
National Art Gallery to house the
Mellon collection. Art students may
amuse themselves while waiting fol
its completion by visiting the recent
ly opened Museum of Modern Art
fifth art museum of Washington
Beige and ivory backgrounds anc
furniture of blond woods lend ar
atmosphere of freshness to the Dis
trict's affiliate to New York city.
Modern Ant museum. The new gal
lery, in the Metropolitan Club build
ing at Seventeenth and H streets
presents changing exhibitions in
stead of a permanent display.
For Financiers and Animals.
A recent addition to the sterl
facades of Constitution avenue i
the Federal Reserve Bank Boart
building at Twenty-first street. 4
pair of splashing fountains in shall
low black granite bowls flank th'
entrance to the spacious low build
ing of polished white gray-veinee
Georgia marble. Over the front doc
broods a stone eagle four yard
tail. Within, the two-story marble
hall, with roof of nodded glass
has a double stairway leading to th'
IL doors tagged with the names o
the IL member banks.
Other new buildings on the distric
official scene are the additions t
the National Geological park-th
| Pachyderm house for giraffe, ele
| phant, rhino, hippo, tapir, and but
falo tenants; and the air-conditone'
Small Mammals house for monkeys
civet cats, otters, and such Httl
creatures as squirrels, gophers
chipmunks, and kangaroo rats.
Strictly businesslike is the ap
pearance of the History remodele'
quarters of the Home Owners Loal
corporation, at First street and In
diana avenue, with tidy limeston
front covering almost 100000 squar
feet of Office space. Nearby rise
the new District Court building wit
its eight streamlined courtrooms
Among unusual new structures Il
Washington are several which wi
take their places in the official d
rectory under the obscure title o
annexes. The Agricultural annex
also known as the Standardizatio
building of the bureau of agricultur
al economics ("Cotton building" TO
short) is long six-story rectangl
of tapestry brick at Twelfth and