Evening star., 1945-08-08
Planners Want
Industrial Home
For Playground
Will Ask Transfer
Of Calvert Street Lond
To RecreotionoI Use

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The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission today took
steps looking to acquisition OF the
grounds of the Industrial Home
School, at Wisconsin avenue and
Calvert street NV, for CONVEX
sion into recreational area for
this closely built-up section.
The commission was informed
that the District Commissioners
contemplate moving the Industrial
Home School to jolly Acres, q pri-
vately owned boys camp near Laur-
ell, Md, within the next six months.
Acting on this advice, it author
ized Maj. Gen. u. S. Grant III,
chairman, to ask the Commissioners
to turn the grounds of the school
over to the recreational board.
y About Az acres would be used for
playground purposes, If the deal in
volving acquisition of the nearby
Maryland site is consummated.
Planning officials said the buildings
/ of the Industrial School would be
used in connection with the recrea-
ton project.
Playground Land Approved.
Congress, in 1927, authorized the
District Commissioners to dispose of
the Industrial School ground, either
by sale or by converting it to other
purposes.
Norman C. Brown, land purchas-
ing officer, announced the commits
sion had approved substantial ac-
QUESTIONS" of land for the Jamaica
and Cardoza Fairgrounds in the
Northwest section. Both of these
projects have been under considera-
ton long time.
The Jamaica Playground, for
white children, is scheduled for To-
cation within the square bounded
by Church an P streets, Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets NV. The
Cardoza, for colored children, will
be located at Ninth and Rhode
Island avenue NV. in connection
with the Cardoza High School.
None of the property owners
within these two areas is to be dis
possessed until the Fairgrounds are
ready for construction. Mr. Brown
estimated the earliest possible date
for work to begin on the Jamaica
Playground would be January J.,
1916.
Budget Estimates Revised.
The commission approved its esti-
mates, under the District budget,
for administrative purposes as well
as estimates for land acquisitions,
which will be sent direct to the
Budget Bureau. AS reported pre-
viously, the commission will ask for
slightly more than $500, 900 for land
acquisitions in the 1947 budget, as
compared with $4,000 expended
during the past year.
The commission announced con-
struction of the first unit of the
projected Fort drive is approaching
realization. The drive, linking the
historic Civil War Notifications en-
circling Washington has been
planned and land for it has been
purchased over a period of Is years.
The first unit would cross Rock
Greek Park.
Preliminary plans for this vital
link in the extensive driveway sys-
tenn are in process of being drafted,
it was said, and will be presented
this afternoon.
The proposed link in the Fort
drive would start from Oregon ave-
nue. on the west side of Rock Greek
Park and terminate at Thirteenth
street in a general location close to
Military road. The Fort drive was
put on the master-plan of N. C. p.
P. c. in 1880 and since then practi-
cally all of the land for it has been
acquired.
Cooperate on Plans.
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, District
director of highways and the Ma
tional Park Service have cooper
ated in the planning and Capt.
Whitehurst's plans for the link
across the park are being whipped
into final shape.
The Fort drive was conceived in
connection with the planning of the
George Washington Memorial Park
way. 1t will extend eventually from
the Potomac River above George
town, where Nebraska avenue
touches the river" officials said,
circling the city to Shepherds Land
ing below Anacostia.
The Planning Commission moved
Its monthly session up one day and
expects to conclude it this afternoon.
Plans will be initiated, it was said,
to develop a comprehensive pro-
gram for the Washington water
front, as authorized in the rivers
and harbors bill approved March Q.
John Nolen, jr., director of plan
ming, will present request from Col.
John M. Johnson, United States
District engineer, for an EXPIRES
sion of views" on the somewhat
elaborate project. Public hearings
will be held soon by the District
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