Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1925, Page 3

‘ Lessons From Buenos Aires and Rio. SPUR TO CAMPAIGN OF WASHINGTON What Avenues de Mayo and Rio Branco Teach Us. BY THEODORE W. NOY Editorial Correspondence of The Star As tour of the result of a comprehensive South America last year and| of inspection in hints to Wash- concerning the upbuilding of City Beautiful are indelibly im. upon memory. esent consideration of these hints is peculiarly timely. The nation-wide campaign for the full development of | the National Capital, encouraged and | inspired by last vear’s successes, is in| full swing. The organized forces that fizht for Washington are in the mood to welcome and to utilize wise sug- gestions concerning city planning and capital upbuilding. Moreover, the Pan-American Conference on Capital | Cities arranged by the Washington | Committee of One Hundred on the| Federal City is now in session in Washington, and the words of the| speakers at the conference, the mo- tion tures of pan-American capitals | and the exhibits of the accomplish. | ments and attractions of these capi-| tals, now subject to inspection at the | Pan-American Union Building, con- firm and emphasize and render vivid these hints to Washington from our next-door neighbors, the South Amer- ican republi Several South e their superiority over their northern neighbors in city planning and building, in artis taste &and appreciation of the city beautiful, but most pointedly tau Aires and Rio de of a similar certain visit helpful ssed my American cities em- phasi in the past lesson Buenos the it by reiro The hints given by these cities to American municipalities” in have a special application to W. ton, for both Buenos Aires amd Rio are, like Washington, national capi- Is in federal district The southern republi is adopted this AND STOKING. 1414 V st. n.w. 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Va. welve o'clock noon. ‘on Thursday. the for the purpose of 10rs 10 serve for the year: taking action on amendments aws duly adopted by the board of z the office of chairman of defining his duties: changing the regular meetings of the board. and transacting such other business As may properly come befora the meeting Transfer books will be closed on April 27th at four o'clock p.m. and will be reopened on May 12th at ten o'clock a.um. By order of the board of directors. W. ARTHUR SELLMAN. Secret. ensuing 10 the h directors the the and | sai | planned for 1920 contemplated an in- | 51 acres, and the carrying out of pre- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. SOUTH AMERICAN HINTS FOR US IN CAPITAL UPBUILDING, IN AVENUE, HARBOR AND PARK DEVELOPMENT feature of our Constitution: but have improved upon their model, showing in their treatment of the capital, from its birth, greater wisdom, greater fair- ness and greater national pride. South America Fosters its Capitals. Of recent vears America, in sharp contrast with its reglect of the in- fant capital, has developed Washing- ton into the most attractive of American cities. Argentina and Brazil have never ill-treated or starved their capitals, but have consistently treated them with proud and affectionate con- sideration. While spending millions to develop and adorn and maintain the national cities, they have not as a condition of such appropriations deprived the people of the federal districts of representation in the national government, or of the in- reasing means of self-support which accompany growth as prosperous com- mercial and industrial cente In stead of crippling Buenos Aires and Rio as business cities, Argentina and Brazil have fostered their capitals industrially and commercially, in creasing their wealth and taxable | values.” While retaining control of the nation’s city in national hands these nations have not found it neces v in protection of their control to disfranchise the capital’s residentsand | to shut them out from participation in | either the national or municipal gov |ernment. While thus treating the {people of the capitals as full-fledgec Argentines or Brazilians the South American republics have not used this |fairness as a pretext for Shirking financial responsibility in respect to the national cities. Argentina anc Brazil have spent millions to creats and improve and maintain the na tional cities, without once referring to the people of Buenos Aires and Rio as mendicants, or depriving them as defective Argentines or Brazilians of any of the rights or privileges of national citizenship. Buenos Aires and Avenida de Mayo. The greatest works of capital build. ing in Buenos Aires, begun in 188! had been completed when I was ther in 1910, and in that year an expensiva improvement, which will appeal e: pecially to Washingtonians, had been perfected. It consists in the destruc tion of whole rows of buildings to reconstruct and broaden one end of the Avenida de Mayo, the Pennsyl vania avenue of Buenos Aires, and to make an environment worthy of the imposing new capitol building, with its lofty marble dome. The Avenida de Mayo, like Pennsylvania avenue, connects the buildings of the execu tive and legislative branches of the national government. The new capi tol stands out in the vista at one end of it; the Casa Rosada, corresponding to our White House, dominates the other end. The avenida, unlike Penn- sylvania avenue, lined consistently and harmoniously for its more than a mile of lensth with a fine type of buildings, and as a result is one of the most impressive thoroughfares in the world. Buenos Aires has many other ‘show” avenues, including Avenida Alvear, the Massachusetts avenue or xteenth street of Buenos Aires, the broadest of the city’s thoroughfares, traversing the most, fashionable quar- ter, lined with the city’s finest resi- dences, .with stretches of public gar- den and with palms and flowering| trees. Buenos Aires has been steadily ex panding its wonderful park system. For example, the municipal program rease of the area of public parks by vious plans. of diagonal boulevards crossing the city, originally intended to radiate from the Plaza de Mayo, but suspended for a time on account of the heavy expense involved. A resolu- tion has been adopted for city super- vision of all buildings to be erected on these diagonal avenues in order to in- sure proper embellishment of the city Buenos Aires already has more than | 100 parks, promenades and plazas. | Transformation of Ri | The work of capital building done in Rio between 1902 and 1910 is even more impressive and inspiring. Be- | fore 1902 Rio consisted of a series of disconnected villages stretched along | a narrow shore strip and creeping be tween steep hills which here approach close to the edge of the bay, which constitutes the city’s harbor.” As a general result of the rebuilding cam- paign these disconnected villages have been united. Hills have been removed or cut through, whole blocks of squalid tenements have been leveled, narrow streets have been broadened, great avenues have been made and lined with fine buildings, and a new Rio has been « created, harmonious, homoge. neous, one of the most beautiful capi- tals in the world. The city in plan and execution is made worthy of its loca- tion on a magnificent bay. picturesque OTICE is hereby ziven that certificate No. 10 for five (5) shares of the capital stock of Washington Gas Light Com- v of Washington. D. C. issued in_ the name ‘of Mary o A”'Riordan or surviror. has been lost. stolen of ‘destroyed. _Application has been made o the said Was Gas Light Com pany by”the American’ Security ‘and Triisi “ompany of Waeh D for 'the issuance of a duplicate certificats of stock in lien of the one lost. Any person having or coming into possession of said certificate of ‘stock is herehy warned to return fame to the Trust_Compan: AMERICAN SECURITY_& TRUST CO., By HOWARD MORAN. Vice Pres i5th & Pa NW (Seal.) Attest i " J.A. DARNEILLE, Excavating. FOUNDATIONS. ROAD GRAD- FOOTINGS, ING. Phone Hyattsville 806-F-31 . 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Among the features in detail of the Rio Improvement plan were the construction of a quay followig the shore Mne, 2 1-6 miles long, - costing from twenty-five to forty-two millions, according to vary- ing estimates (a hint to us in our pro- jected harbor improvement); a broad avenue parallel with the quay and of the same length; rectification and pro- longation to the sea of the Mangue Canal, with an avenue on either side nearly 2 miles in length and 131 feet in breadth; elevation of steam railroad beds; enlargement of city’s water sup- ply and revision of sewerage system: construction of a bayside drive 41 miles long and 115 fcet wide, the beau tiful Avenida Beira Mar (the Massachu- setts avenue or Sixteenth street of Rio), @ boulevard lined with artistical- ly designed residences set in gardens of palms, bamboos and bright flowers, and a driveway unsurpassed in th whole world for picturesque beauty: the broadening (with the result of de stroying 1,200 houses). embellishing and repaving with asphalt a multi- tude of old streets and avenues; and of especial interest to Washingtonians the construction of the great Avenida Rio Branco (the Pennsylvania avenue of Rio), 1'5 miles in length, 108 feet broad, running in a straight line from sea to sea and serving as the prin. pal outlet of the congested business section, especially of the quay and the river front. Over 600 buildings were demolished in preparing the way, 3,000 laborers working night and day. Its construction was commenced No- vember 15, 1905, and completed in 22 months at a cost of about $11,500,000, which covers clearing of the ground. paving, construction of electric lighted buildings and opening of avenue to traffic. Among the fine buildings on this made-to-order avenue are the Municipal Opera House, costing about $5,000,000; National Library, National School of Fine Arts and the attrac- tive Monroe Palace. Fine Example Set by Rio. Rio expended $600.000 on model homes for laborers. Between 1904 and 1906 it made large expenditures in municipal sanitation. The great period of pulling down and rebuilding was between 1904 and 1908, when, on those two objects, $60,000,000 was ex pended. The total expenditure is es timated at $200.000.000. In condemning land for the Avenida Rio Branco the government secured the building lots on both sides of the new highway. Sale of these lots con. tributed a considerable amount toward the expense of the work and through their ownership the government was able to control the general architec tural design of new buildings. Pur- chasers were obliged to observe cer: tain rules in the construction of facades and to submit all apchitec tural designs to the approval of a special “‘commissfon, with the result that the avenue is described as the handsomest_business thoroughfare In the Western world The public improvement in which Rio is now engaged is that of com- pleting the project of leveling the Morro do Castello, a higtoric hill in the heart of the old city, rising abruptly about 200 feet and covering n area equal to about 20 city blocks. The business district of Rio is to be enlarged by leveling the hill and by ng In part of the bay with the earth that is thus removed mpare these vast works, so rap- v completed, with the neglect of Washington’s original magnificent plan, and of the city itself for three- fourths of a century, and with the delays, waverings and occasional picayune methods of dealing with the problem of transforming and re- | creating Washington, which pre- | M. 1267 enabled to purity. to use or to ery Milk, insured by experience Our own Jiestnut i me C vailed until a recent date, though the Nation has been under the partner- ship obligations in capital building imposed by the equitable agreements of 1878 and 1922, and though the whole American people are affection- ately proud of the Nation's City. Washingten's Building Problem. The ' modern builders of a_city beautiful on the banks of the Poto- mac have had a simple problem to solve compared with that set by Buenos Aires or Rio. In the single item of broadening and straightening streets they were spared millions of expenditure necessary in the south- ern capitals. he forefathers pro- vided a magnificent street plan be- fore there was a city. The owners of the soil donated a greater area for streets than was reserved for building lots. As late as Charles Dickens’ visit in 1842, the most notable thing about the Capital was its pretentious plan, characterized by the great novelist as the vast design of an aspiring Frenchman, displaying as its leading features “spacious avenues that be- gin in nothing and lead nowhere; streets miles long that only want houses, roads and inhabitants; -public buildings that need but a public to be complete, and ornaments of great thoroughfares, which only lack great thoroughfares to ornament.” Our modern capital builders have had as thelr task: (1)Protection of the original streets and avenues, parks and parklets of the city’s plan; (2) ex- pensive maintenance and development of the original streets and avenues covering a vast area, suitable for the thoroughfares of a populous and wealthy capital, ludicrously out of re- lation to the resources of a self-sup- porting. self-developing Maryland vil- lage: (3) extension of the city's origi- nal plan, s far as possible, to the new Washington outside of the original limits, which is spreading urban con- ditions to the boundaries of the Dis- trict: (4) removal of conditions which have sprung up to mar the original plan and the harmonious development of the city beautiful: and (5) acquisi- tion and development of all the com- ponent parts of the new system of connected outer parks which did not enter into the plans of the forefathers, but which are essential to the ade- quate and rounded development of the modern capital. Redeeming Pennsylvania Avenue. The special immediate labor under the fourth heading is the removal of ugly and discreditable conditions affecting Pennsylvania avenue, the great historic thoroughfare and parade street of the Capital, 160 feet wide, with Capitol Hill and the Capitol building with its swelling dome in vista at one end, and with the Treas ury Department and White House at the other. Between this avenue and the public garden of L’Enfant’s plan, the Mall. is a triangle, containing at this time between 20 and 30 acres of land not owned by the Government, which when the process of transform ing it began furnished an entirely un worthy ing and environment_for one side of Pennsylvania avenue. Th spac clearly devoted in the very nature of things to public purposes, to the sites of public buildings with park approaches and surroundings. The law has already placed within it the Capital's Municipal Building apd the Nation's Post Office Department, and in prospective the State Department, “Ccmmerce and Labor Department and Department of Justice. Years ago three blocks in the triangle were con- demned and bought by the Govern- ment specifically as the sites of new buildings for these three then-existing departments, but the new structures contemplated have never been erecte BILL—JACK—RALPH SKILLED OPTICIANS e T PR Jdick and Hi S s L th Street N.W. Franklin 171 S COLUMBIA PARK One Block 14th St. Cars Price, $6, Inspect Today or Tonight 5th and Ingraham Sts. NW Open Until 9 P.M. D. J. DUNIGAN, Inc. 950 up 1319 N. Y. Ave. ?" Nursery Milk---Raw We have recently completed arrangements by which we are supply Raw Ntirsery Milk'of the highcst degree of For those who desire prescribe Raw Nurs- we offer, beginning Friday, May the flrst. a superior product. the quallty of which is years of training and in production by an organization under the direction of a financially disinterested medical milk commission. J unexcelled facilities and the reputation of this busi- ness for supplying the best in qua71ty merits your order. @armsDairy omecticut FRANKLIN4OOO - Ave. Obviously the wise and economical method of handling the situation was to condemn the whole triangle at once, that the public bulldings to be placed in it might with their approaches and greensvard environment be located in proper relation to one another and to the Mall on one side and the broad Avenue on the other. Congress, how- ever, having acquired only a frac- tion of the land, attacked the prob- lem plecemesl, increasing by each con- demnation the price to be paid for the remainder ard constantly strengthen: ing the impulse of narrow, short- sighted economists to abandon the campalgn . for the redemption and adornment of Pennsylvania avenue and to confiscate the people’s park of the Mall as free sites for public build- ings. Hints of Rio Branco and de Mayo. Adherence to the spirit which an: mated the forefathers and whicl has been and is so strong in Buenos Aires and Rio today and the expend- iture of a few million dollars would solve for all time the problem of pub- lic building emplacement in Washing- ton, and would make of Pennsylvania avenue one of the most magnificent thoroughfares in the world, worthy to compare with the Avenida de Mayo, the Pennsylvania avenue of Buenos Aires, and the Avenida Rio Branco, the Pennsylvania avenue of Rio. Argentina spent millions in tearing down blocks of houses at one end of the Avenida de Mayo, merely to make 2 suitable environment for its new capitol. Brazil leveled 600 houses and spent many millions in developing into a harmonipus and consistent thor- oughfare Rio's’ Avenida Rio Branco. With a far simpler task to accom. plish, can we not bring to the solu tion of our problem a patriotic liber ality. and an artistic sense like those animating the Argentines and the Brazilians? Push Vigorously for Success. The first duty, then, of us Ameri- cans is to transform from ugliness into beauty the south side of Pen 1- vania avenue, and at the same time to meet adequately, without encroach ment on the public parks, the Gov ernment’s urgent need of sites for public buildings. The law recently enacted authoriz ing the building of the Lincoln Me morial Bridge and appropriating half a million dollars as a starter on the project, carried also authorization of the broadening and extension of B this sale. Friday. 'C., MONDAY, APRIL , 1925, street across Pennsylvania avenue. ‘This provision, in effect, eliminates part of the Avenue's ramshackle dis- creditable building environment on the north side as well as the south and gives fresh and vigorous impetus to the project of purchasing at once the remainder of the Mall-Avenue triangle for the placement in a park setting of architecturally impressive Govern- ment buildings. A bill providing the money for this purpose is to be con- sidered at the beginning of the nex Congress in December, and in con- nection with this proposed legislation the bill authorizing the appropriation of $50,000,000 for the erection of needed Government buildings in Washington, which made some head- way in the last Congress, rounds out the Pennsylvania avenue improye- ment plan into a practical, systematic and_hopeful project. Great things for Pennsylvania avenug are expected Tom the next Congress. Perfecting the Outer Parks. Then should follow the perfecting of the system of outer parks, like those of Buenos Aires, which was outlined and urged by the Board of Trade 27 vears ago, and which the McMillan Park Commission has so skillfully, artistically and attractive- Iy elaborated in its report. The main features of this park system, which shall utilize and con- nect existing park areas and create new ones until both banks of the Poto- mac and of the Anacostia and of Rock Creek shall be merged into a single great park, are (1) connection of Potomac Park and the Mall by Memorial Bridge with Arlington, and by Loulevard along the Virginia Potomac Heights with Mount Vernon, thus bringing into a harmonious whole the public grounds on both banks of the Potomac; (2) connection of this Potomac Park system by parkway and boulevard with the Zoo and Rock Creek Park: (3) connec- tion of the R FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS [ WASHINGTON | IS GROWING by boulevard and Soldiers’ Home with the parks now in process of formation on both banks of the Ana- costia, including St. Elizabeth’s, with its fine view, and (4) vigorous de- velopment of the Anacostia parks and the connection of this system by boulevard with the Capitol Grounds, the Mall and the Potomac Park sys- tem. Vital Connecting Parkway Links. Of primary importance in develop- ing this project i3 to secure the vital | connecting links above noted, first, the Memorial Bridge, which will con- nect the riverside parks on the two banks of the Potomac, Mount Vernon and Arlington on the south and Poto- mac Park on the north; then the parkway ~connection along lower Rock Creek of the riverside park system with the Zoo and Rock Creek Park, and then the parkway connec- tion through Soldiers’ Home of the There are “loads” of satis- faction in a bin filled with “AGNEW COAL." No guessing about quality —every ton guaranteed. 'John P. Agnew & Co. 728 14th St. Main 3068 Do YOU Own a Home in This Wonderful City? G0 HUr At 36th and [EITH R Sts. N.W Built for Better Living Over 200 Already Sold Price, $8,500 Up HANNON - & LUCH INC Members Operative Builders' Association of the D. C 1319-1321 F Street STORE NEWS at 25 They’re the regular $40 values Yotang.ens Yogp Mothers, ‘- Attention! 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