Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1926, Page 11

SESQU OPEN TODA NOW IS THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. ANACOSTIA FLATS RECLAMATION ABOUT HALF COMPLETE H BHIEFS SPI.” Am'"“"]‘ 12 Years Will BerNeedcd to Finish Entire | Project, Park to Benning Bridge Can Be Directors to Act on Sabbath Question Tomorrow—Fur- = .. Made Ready Wit mati Aaacostia flats . into parkwa s the eastern end ther Wait Seen. f the city. with lakes, riv@rside drives And recreation centers, s about half completed today. but it will take 12 vears ling the D rate of appropriating Br tie Auemcated | PHILADELPHIA Sesquicentan for the 3 However. the will be finished reclamation process as far as Benning rs, and the ing road ision on ide of the Anacostia River leventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Bridges has already taken on the appearance of a park and gives a partial vision of how the banks of the river will iook when the engineers huve finished their tedious task. This section has heen given landscape treatment and is already marked by 1d; several tennis Finietter i with its courts and base t Thus it will be possible for Mal. Grant. director of the office of public < and public parks. to proceed | the next few years with the embellishment of the area of Benning road. while the engineer office, under Maj. | \. O'Connor, goes on with the iming (h 'sh land | Femning road ' $2,120,000 Still Needed sun needed 1o reclamation work is the present time Congress and the udget authorities are allotting $170.- | 4 [ 000 @ vear to the s of building He | the seawalls, filling in the marshes | nd designing the lakes—a process will gradually create along the Anacostia_River an similar to Potomac Park 1 te of 12 years to completa yeclamation project is based on 2 ntinuation of this vate of making “ Hlu\rlr 70.000 a Year Iu past ars the engineers have recom mended that the work go forward at the rate of $300.000 annually, which, it followed from now on, would bring { about completion to the District line in seven vears { Since the World War the District | {has had an accumulation of essential work to take care of. such as the five chool building program. enlarge ment of the water supply and arrea) » muncipal Fequirements undoubtedly have made it ditficult to increase expenditures on ent undertakin strict officials say that with much < essential municipal work still awaiting attention. the prospects ave thut the Anacostia Park reclamation will continue the present rate of ppropriation the immediate fu ture still action CYCLISTS ON LONG TOUR. Al Bonia to area mr Bound York Pata- in Vera Cruz gentini From New twn “ROAD HOGGING™ ENDED. Berln Dr for 0il Trucks ivers With Delight New Plan Auto Two Large Lakes, Planned. of the essential features of the Park project will be twoe < on which the people of on will b able to enjoy and canoeing. and the com Jakes wust await the out of the reclamation work Benning road spropiiations for the sstricted work to the Benning Bridge. but en- | lave followed the proj-| the time has arrived | iminary work should » started above Benning road if the entire development is to be carried | on to a conclusion without interrup The o be One LONDON LIKES TROUBADOR Pletiieaq Much Lo M- murshes above Benning voad converied into park land done below that point, by from the viver and mak fills al the banks But before this can be done the vetaining wall must be built along the viver, and cngineers say that the foundation for the ould be laid vear or two before the top of the is built in order to allow time I settlement Since work below Benning road will be finished within two vears, the i engineers are desirous of “beginning now to in the foundations for the wall above that road. If Congress does uot authorize the preliminary foundation work above Bénning road all work below the road is fin the engineers have to while the sett is taking th of that point, or foliow native of erecting the sea | hotit waiting for the founda tion 1o settle. On the other hand, is poir ' if he foundations labove i could be started | | now process of building the sea | wall would ge on without interrup. e | tion Long-Haired Singer Souzht for Parties, necess: g o ) wall or natur b dinners. ished the wa would lement Home. W idows Needed. the flats ) it was thought ge would have to he! t considerable cost to dredzes to pass above in carrying on the work, | ftem of cost may have been ing the appro- south of the Bridge Change Not area however, s « engiueers now say they can ntle e superstructure of the flout them under the bridge <semble them on the upper| without remodeling or putting an in Benning Bridge lan only slight altera- »undation of the bridue ill this _sit Sweeping Lawns an Beautiful Shrubbery EDGEMOOR SATTERY PARK We Wire Well and Reasonably! ELECTRICAL SERVANTS Are Thorough, Quick, Economical We sell all the different Elec- trical Appliances and guarantee them absolutely. Prices are al- ways the lowest that are quoted on like grades. Electric Percolators Vacuum Cleaners Electric Grills Electric Laundry Irons Waffle Irons Electric Toasters Electric Urns Electric Fans Electric Curling Irons and Hair Driers THE Adjusto-Ray—The Violet Ray —A personally selected Stock Lasl;:';i'easnd of splendid variety and unusual value. e Home Stedtiic Shop 817 10th St. Joseph D, Campbell Main 6549 Washing Machines 1and Potomac ultimate completion of the Anacostia | project hin Two Years. be explained to Congress at the next of obtaining the preliminary session, in authority the hope 10 begin work above Benning Bridge, When the entire project has heen completed it will constitute the third great link in the park system of the | A glance heautiful Rock west and Poto- | mac Park, with its river drives National Capital, map of the city sho Creek Park along th the south. been, area Legislation enacted to acquire necessary to join Parks, and, has the park chain w been continued along the portion of the District Here is what the Anacostia project A strip of park land along the eastern bank of miles long. from the bridge will include when finished the river 5 A at ‘ross Iready the Rock Creek with in S the | have eastern AUGUST 15, at Eleventh street southeast to the|the river on the eaust side has been District line: a similar strip of park | named East Lake and will come as area on the city side of the river ap-| part of the future development north proximately 3'; miles long extending | of Benning road. from Gallinger Hospital to the Na- i While East Lake will lie entirely { tional Training School for Bovs, at {north of Benning road, Lake Kingman the District line: a lake on the city{ will extend north and south of that side’ paralleling the river for a dis- [highway. Tt had been planned orig | tance of 13 miles northward from |inally to erect an elaborate orna near Gal r Hospital: another lake | mental bridge at the approximately 1 imile long and Iving |lake is to pass under Benning road in the area east of. {he river and north [but a few vears ago the entire project of Benning road was revised in the interest of econo- mizing wherever possible, and one change was to substitute an inex pensive culvert for this bridge. This culvert would be 30 feet wide ample for the water to circulate and for pleasure boats to pass north and south of the road in the lake. The | 300-foot width of the lake at that | point would not be reduced. Viewed trom Benning road. no direct evidence of the culvert substitution will be apparent and the desired effect of a Wide expanse of water passing under a bridge will be preserved. The land area of the Anacostia Park, which will surround the lakes {and ‘the river. will vary in width {from 400 to 2,000 feet wide, but will {average about 1000 feet. One of the | largest stretches of land area is that | extending from B street southeast to Benning road, a considerable portion of which is near Eastern High School, and which is in the portion where i improvement for park purposes soon be possibje. Islands for Pienics. The lake on the wesi, side of the park has been tentatively named after | the late Gen. Dan Kingman, who was chief of engineers when the, project was first conceived. With four islands dotting its surface. Lake Kingman will be one of the beauty spots in the park and an attractive place for boat- | | ing. The islands will be of ample size | for picnic parties. There will be a | lock at the lower end of this lake to let pleasure craft in and out. The sea wall around Lake Kingman will rise less than 2 feet above the sur- face. and the level of water in the lake will be kept constant by a system of conduits and control gates at the up. per and lower ends. Thirty per cent of the foundation for the lake sea- wall is in, and during this year one of the control conduits for the lake will be installed. The other body of water paralleling point where the | 1926—PART 1. Development of the Anacostia Park | it an admirable location for an ur.’ project above Benning road links in | boretur closely with the proposal to establish { ;1™ - a national arboretum for the Depart- | ment_of Agriculture on the {Hamilton and Hickey Tiill | which are adjacent to the Schmitt. associatéd with Ma). | A reclamation project. estimates that Mount [\\he‘n the job is finished the unit cost tracts. | of convering this marshy area into | northern | park land from the Anocostia Rridge | portion of the Anacostin marshland. | 1o the District line will be about § The arboretum bill. which passed | the Senate last May. and will be pend {ing in the House when Congress re convenes. contemplates purchase of | the Mount Hamilton and itickey Hil area. to which would be added an | | cqual area of the adjacent Anacostia | { marshland to be. reclaimed | , The portion of the Anacostia flats that would form a part of the ar ispateh to The Star | boretum includes the famous Shaw, p I Rl Algast 1Pt wm ponds already in existence, Which | hax & condition that has nevee oc- | | would become an attractive feature of [ cuyrred before in the history of the the arboretum city, ploneer residents state. The city "The arboretum would be a spa-|and county jails were both empty in clous outdoor laboratory in which ex- | july and Atgust. Many are wonder- | perts of the Pepartment of Agricul-|ing at the turn of affairs in this com | ture would carry on scientific re- | munity Heretofore, Pratt was search of plant and tree life usually the scene of one or two mur The experiments carried on in the | ders every harvest arboretum would make the work of | Last year few avrests occurved from | | the Departure of Agriculture mmo,‘..m.m the harvest hands that came | valuable to the nation in many ways year not an arrest | especially through plant breeding, | was made of harvest men. Chiet of | development of faster-growing timber | Police J. W. Farmer believes this is trees, improved fruits and studies of |due largely to the fact that the com methods of combatting diseases that |bine machines now v timost | attack treesand plants. A survey con- | possible for and | fore ‘ | per acre. 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