Evening star., 1945-02-23
Planners Back
Site Plans for
Two Hospitals
East Capitol Street
Again Recommended
For Studium

Site plans Tor the new George
Washington and Georgetown Uni.
versity Hospitals overcame an im-
portant hurdle late yesterday when
they received the approval of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The commission reiterated Its
opinion that the 150-acre Govern
ment tract at the end of East Capt.
tol street was the ideal site" for
the proposed national stadium and
will so inform the newly created
Stadium Commission.
Along with the hospitals, stadium
and other projects, the planning
commission met with Federal build
ing officials and discussed various
phases Of the general building pro-
gram for the District. Removal of
the temporary buildings on the Mall
and the old Navy and Munitions
Buildings after the war will restore
to the Office of National Capital
Parks certain areas withheld from
park development since the World
War.
|. The planning commission was not
concerned with architectural as.
poets of the two hospital plans,
which had been referred to it In dus
course by the Public Building ADJ
mlnistration. The George Wash.
ington Hospital will have its enc
trance on Twenty-third street.
south of Washington Circle. 1t will
be six-story building, and the en-
trance will be set back, =
Entrance on Reservoir Road.
The Georgetown Hospital VIII
have its main entrance facing Res,
ervoir road, on line and immeS
diately east of the present medicals
dental school building of the uni-
versity. The front of the hospital
will be three stories high, while
main parts of the building will be
seven and six stories, officials said.
| The planning commission saw no
objection to the proposed layout
OF either hospital building. N
Each of the hospitals will cost
more than s2,500,0o and will have
4o0-bed capacities, making them tho
largest private hospitals in Wash
ington. They are to be operated in
conjunction with the medical schools
OF the two universities, which will
defray part of the building costs.
w. E. Reynolds, public building
commissioner, discussed plans for a
Federal building program in every
State. program to which postwar
projects in Washington are to be
tied. No details we're made public.
Development plans for the Ja-
maica, or Church street, playground
were approved by the commission
latter earlier action authorizing the
start OF condemnation proceedings,
1.-The playground-for white persons
will cover about half the square
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets on Church street. 1t will
have the usual courts for outdoor
games and shower room.
River Pollution to Be Studied,
Pollution of Anacostia River is to
be made special subject of study.
Harold Kemp, director of sanitary
engineering, conferred with the
commission on the problem. More
than 100000 persons live in the Ana
costa Basin, and it still is growing
rapidly in population. At present,
officials said, too much of the Ana
costa sewage is inadequately treated
and some of it is not treated at all,
In 1888 and again. in 1888, when
Anacostia pollution was under study.
it was suggested that the District
government should take over the
treatment of all sewage. Sewage
originating in Maryland now is pro-
viding a serious problem for the
area, and District officials believe the
time has come when something
should be done t. correct conditions.
Secretary Thomas S. Settle will
discuss the new urban redevelop-
ment bill, which was introduced
yesterday afternoon by Senator Cap
per, Republican, of Kansas on behalf
of the planning commission. Major
amendments were made public when
it was offered in the Senate.