Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1925, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1925. 25 portrait painter, he was equally as | skillful in other fields. Nothing de o |lighted him more than to paint the 1S heauties | the fields Ivywild, Former Home of Dead Painter, Becomes 'Mecca of Tourists in Illino BUDGET ASKS FUND weid of nature, scenes ir meadows and orchards and | TOLINK PARKWAYS Seeks $600,000 to Acquire Lands Between Rock Creek and Potomac Drive. _ (Continued from Second Page.) Three Sisters Island in the Potomac this land has not vet been quired. Now houses are being built the north side of Reservoir road, Forty-fourth street is being developed 1nd Louses are being built in the area west of Forty-fourth street. The Gov- ed pure lies be wiv-second and Forty-fourth | through to the river bank | would allow the development wn the valley of the with the Potomac | vay along the Res. | Great Fa as chway plan ists along the river Foundry Branch vads up the ra vever, tween F atreat alternative | connecting up the Glover k tracts, through the eastward and south of Observatory., to make a drive into the Rock | Potomac Parkway south of etts avenue and = methods ¢ and Archbold Norment tra the swinging street to is he ravine to Mon turn down the to the Lincoln north into Rock proposed connect would give a much de the b urleith sub. Massachusetts avenue the center of esent route 1l of Kinks ion has not as vet either of these | w Memor reek Park adway Still Another Pla lopment irnish a | the Dy is Massachu- | Glover tract ng Art Ad side ned by west side 10, al the 1 Friendship Edward B. McLean. on t Wisconsin avenue, dedicate enough land for a connecting park drive which would swing off the A Zona avenue develo ent about tween Rodman and gl and swing south of T! the south side of the Bureau of ards, pass under Connecticut and down into Rock Creek P: r its juncture with the Pinev Branch Parkway. This plan seems to be blocked by a fi Connecticut avenue. The next natural to tinue up Ariz avenue to north of Plerce Mill r and follow &tone Cr Albemarle and Connect venue. If this pla 1s ecarried o there would probal he A hiz at Connectient an and Alhemarle afford new monument fo the <o by at rou con o street | e street, real pu afford a Conneetic om this ihle cross the park might he road the old Mil Rock Creek Park just east of Piney | Branch terrace. This is the route| most favored { Another scheme of park drive de- velopment is to continue the Arizona | avenue development to Grant road, where it would swing to the north- e Connecticut a nue about at Ellicott street. This would afford a park drive connec- tlon with the proposed ideal com munity school. athletic and recrea tional plant about the old Fort Reno Reservoir on the highest land in the District, from which there is a view. for 60 miles. If this project is c: ried'out the drive will either swing southwestwar ecticut enue 1th into ng terrace. or ross Gat road into it 1st. cutting into a | | | | ad intc the nortl Preserve Watersheds idea the park driv lieve traffic on s and make short | arks from one | to another. i entire parkway section of hehind all tershec congested hi cuts throt section of Chis nlan for clty As i< e shows the th teny he wester was m ntioned bhefore, £600.000 | 1 this yvear by Col. Sher- | e the purel of land the parkway connection Rock Creek and Potomac 1t now there is heing spent nnecting parkway $30.000 nd building bridle lines of this connecting laid down by the act approved March 4, 1913, and amended and revised in 1916, Tt| w then estimated that the total| cost of land would be $1.300,000. All the land has been acquired thus far by direct purchases and none through condemnation p eedinzs. A consid erable portion of it was bought below the assessed value. For this land the Government has paid. from 1916 date, $1.166,000, twhile the ssed | value was $1.196.000 | ' The benefits to be derived from the proposed development of Rock Creek | alley can scarcely be overestimated. | The rapidly growing morning afternoon traffic in a general south east and rthwest direction is begin ning to present very serious prob. lem. Perhaps per cent of this| traffic could be diverted from the city | streets to the park vards, where | it would not have contend with eross.traffic | The Rock Creek YValley, naturally | heautiful, furnishes a fit subject for the hest efforts of the landscape archi tect. With comparatively small cost | it can be converted into a parkway of very unusnal beauty. It is believed | that development will cause an Immediate improvement in property | over a considerable area abutting on | both sides of the parkway | Rock Creek parkway development | bas had an interesting legislative | history. The earliest references to | the possibilities of the Rock Creek Valley being desirable for park pu poses was in when a Senate resolution directed that an inquiry be made in reference to the selection of @ site for a public park and for the presidential mansion. Maj. N. Michler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. r ported in 1867 in of the Rock (‘reek Valley region, extending north ed hetweer, Parks. in this in devel paths parkway of Con required for In L. Hoxie, Corps of Engineers. assistant engi neer commissioner of the District, | advocated the acquisition of ’\JIAIAI‘ wcres in the same region for park | purposes. A prominent feature of Capt. Hoxie's plan was the construc- fion of an immense dam across the lley just above Georgetown, for the pose of ineaasing the water sup- | Boa the | | by direction of Congr | when | mission composed of the | 1ands Shaded section on right is land ac quired since 1913 to connect the National Zoological Park and Rock Creek Park with Potomac Congress will appropriate $600,000 this y Dotted section at lower left shows Rock Creek Park and the Dotted lines in cen of ¢l Parks. This would also affo twee mac A a PIv of the city. By the execution of such a plan, a lake four miles lo would have been formed. entirely sub. merginz the valley cupied by the ical Park Six s later ter was again taker and Senate, and in $1.200.000 was app purn of purchas With this appropriation various tract from time mmong them the Park Up to December 13, 1 date the acquired are e turned ver to the Board Control 1.6 had been acquired at tota ncluding all organization ex- of §1.174,511.45. No land was ased below Massachusetts ave- the Georzetown Citi- ion urged that the are acquired be extended far P street. But little was in an official way toward in ting the 1 valley into system until ingineer he District, pursuz of the United July 1802 esimates for Vallex, below the T tts avenue. inio the valley hetw an. of which the setts avenue 200,000 1556 i the mat the House sum of the lands in wpriated for were to time purchased present Al at which be south the dated and anate plans nor » hanks M \ tand d the pure of part beginnine the induit. “After \frer the valley de. portion streets, and the balance His report showed square filled the land I cer ariginally tained for was to be sold that Capt. Rossell was quite to using ok -y\‘\ for sew poses. excepting for storm water The: in 1899, the Wast on rd of Trade prepa a plan upon which was shown an open valley nent extending from Massichu avenue to L street and thence to Potomac Park by way of Twenty- | ieventh street. A similar plan had been laid before the same organiza- tion in 189! Edson Makes Report. In his annual report in November, 1900, John Joy Edson, after emphasiz ing that “Rock Creek between Wash ington and West Washin n is al owed be a dumpinz round and pollute sewage o0 an the sun priation an ex report or treatment of that section h of Pennsyly et sonth conneetion b in hill for to Congress t sor north of R s for a suitable he Potomac and Zoological the administration Binzham. then offic public buildings and survey was made hy jr.. of New York borate plans cover improvement_in a an estimated cost between parks. Under Col, Theodore A in charge of grounds. the Samuel Parsor who submitted ing the proposed way, with 60,0 Senate sisting of Samuel H F. MeKim, August and Frederick Law Olmsted <ented a report about 1906 to the Sen ate District committee upon the provement of the park system of the District. This commission ‘fln*\t\”_f‘i!‘ the improvement of Rock Creek Val- | lev, both under an open valley treat- | ment and a closed or conduit treat- | ment, and after considerable study strongly advocated the open valley treatment. Tn 1904 Charles Glover dedicated to the District, as part of the park svs- tem, a portion of the land lving be. tween Connecticut Avenue Bridge and Massachusetts avenue Tn 1908 the District Commissioners, | <, prepared a full report describing in considerable | detafl three methods of treating the | valley. with their respective costs, and after fully considering each of the several plans, they recommended that the open valley treatment be dopted. | Authorize $1,300,000. | Nothing further was done until 1913. | Congress, for the purpose of | preventing the pollution and obstruc Park Commission. con Burnham. Charles Saint-Gauden ‘ jr.. pre | tion of Rock Creek and of connecting | Potomac Park to the Zoological Park | and Rock Creek Park. created a com.- | ecretary of | the Treasury, the Secrets of War | and the Secretary of Agriculture and | directed them to acquire, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, such lying on both sides of Rock Creek, including whatever portion of the creek bed might be privately own ed. and authorized the expenditure of $1,300,000 toward the acquisition of <uch lands. The act also transferred all lands belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia \within this area to be acquired, as part of the parkway system. Further legislation was passed at the Instance of the Commission of Fine Arts authorizing a surtey look- Ing toward necessary or desirable changes in the linking lines. This work was carried along under the administration of Col. W. W. Harts, then officer in charge of public build- ings and grounds. He was assisted by James G. Langdon, a landscape architect and city planner of consid- erable experience. The work was complicated by the fact that two large corporations—the Washington Gas Light Co. and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co.—occupied very nearly the entire section of the valley Iving between the river and Pganaylvania pose show proposed outlets |in valy | from the rim of the valley at points NAVAL g OB SERVATORY | e ase of all land needed. on desires to acquire between Forty-second and Forty at Fall to complete the pi land the Park Comn d palisade d ves from A\l much needed ir ith Subdivisi lover and Norment tracts into Rock Creek and Poto- By the Associated Press HAMILTON, 1IL, Decem! though he has paseed in the spirit of George Upp, the pa lives on in the quiet heauty treat he established years heart of these opulent fields. than half a century, most until he died last Upp fashioned a studio of refuge from the bustling Ivywild farm, near here, become known to the end country. Upp was buried friendly trees on lawn of Tvywild life-sized lion in made. Nearby structed and in and yea heneath the flo cement, which mar Park. It is expected -fourth streets, to make connection he W. L. Douglas’ name and the retail price, tamped on evers pair at the factor: s your Avenue four up in this vicinit ttled entrances the Pennsy ) the west end nd hy means of Twenty third i In the Massac drive the completely ing it are m W It of were hermit on ¥ Avenue the P = a v loop Twentyf hetween avenue This s comprom s ide by R dies 1 submitted Po; by Parkway f the House on Februar 1k nd huset fur t end nishes near ar the pr nue hridse ovid ail and 11 Just | secondar er emmission call rest M that n pm the a Uni sn needed remaining 42 the United and reserva d that funds iately, under that the id be the called at 2 steady rise and the add onsequent plac hould there | : b enttwe i ) It is hoped ind W il provide $60.000 to continuity complete the purchases this vear ths and walkways The present plan of the connecting fford tion 1o has been developed by Trv t » about 3 o nort for dy the roa the Woodley furnish per cent bLeinz ‘oms. They further made available the $1.300.000 authd actual begun parkway tention to the th Mas wchusef wh street ert nary cit setts avenue it is Massach delay unobst parkw will and r the 1 ing pedestrians neral wanch Favors Border Drives JOSEPH HARRIMAN DIES. Vanderbilt Newport. Brother of Suc- cumbs at NEWPORT. Harri K proper Memorial he late Oliver Tree Cottage, en i night. after pnet moni; ; had beer Newp actively i altho a connection with the Ha tional Bank, w Joseph Wright Harrima and director. vard already in in connec Zoolo; ipted wenty to th polnts of*al down siness ged and K streets el vard is had arkway ive, which various means 5 dips cousin is founder ondary dr where the configuration of the ground “What finer gift? RPETETY LT 7 an idea for a Christmas gtf! Beautiful, useful, lasting. Extra heavy aluminum griddle— Pillsburys PANCAKE FLOUR D7/ 20, YL iz PILLSBURY FLOUR 207 McLachlen Bldg., WASHINGTON, D. C. 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R0 a1 tir clasm | best pictures have a permanent home. | fowerland At| Visitors by the hundreds flock to| Though flesh, the | Tvywild to see the zallery, fo plenic |death, his inter. stiil | under the trees and to talk with mem nf of the re- | bers of the household of the white planning new 20 in the haired artist whose presence still future. 1 | seems to hover near the treasures destroved | he left behind. Inside, in_the lonz zallery, with its | mirrors ' reflecting the rows of pic- | tures through interminable vistas the last work of the artist is dis- played, a simple sketch of the sur- rounding fields and orchards, poign ant in its unfinished state. Close at hand is the palette and hrushes with which he mixed his last colors his long career Upp painted inds of pictures. They are to all parts of the United and even to foreign coun- Although he specialized as a past the er 3 ally the fire tive al r, € world at has s of the the cool E wer-swept | side were lor { colorful ments for | 1ainment her the amusement and he on his which tates sests, who f tries free to come and g0 as thev p 1y ouglas Shoes Smart Styles in Shoes of Known Quality PICTURE will tell you all that you care to know about the style of a shoe, but in determining the quality you must depend upon the reputation of the maker. When you purchase a pair of W. L. Douglas shoes you get smart style in good-fitting shoes of dependable quality. The model illustrated is one, of a large number of sturdy Oxfords for Winter wear now ready for your selection. Heavy Sols h boys give their W. L. DOUGLAS WASHINGTON STORE. e, N . W. Evenings B A— 5 3 D A A D B 5 Pennsylvania Av munications to W. M. Hornstein, President, 2325 18th N. 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