Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1926, Page 20

FEDERAL AID WILL BE SOUGHT FOR NEW SCENIC BOULEVARD Merryman Plan for Drive Surrounding District Amid Natural Beauty Is - MONTGOMERY COUNTRY cLUB BURNING TREE CliUB s CONGRE SSIONAL ! Gaining in Favor. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Surrounding of the District of Co- lumbia with a beautiful, scenic belt road, taking in the natural wonders and man-made historical places of in terest, heading for a great national park at Great Falls, which it is pro- nosed to enlarge, is the proposal of those working for the civic improve- ment of the National Capital and its environs. This great project. which it is proposed to establish as a memorial to those citizens of Maryland who paid the price of war with their live: has been carefully worked out over veriod of three years by Charles H. Merryman of Bradley Hills, a mem- ber of the Maryland Parks and Plan- ning Commission, who prese tha Montgomery County Civie Fed- eration and urged that State and na tional forces get firmly behind with the idea of bringing it into early realization. It is 8o large In its scope that Mr. Mergyman said it could not be made » county affair, but reached out into the State and national dev t. and it is the hope to get all a working for the civic improvement of the Capital behind it, including the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Arlington County | Civie Federation As a matter of fact, the proposed roadway, which will be about 40 miles in length, will be a beautiful boule- vard, 100 feet in width, and for the most part already has been estab- lished and is being used. Start in Takoma Park. Under Mr. Merryman's plan tatively laid down he would h roadway stert in North Takoma Park. pass through Silver Spring and the Lee property, themce cown Rock Creek Valley and up to the west side, to connect in Chevy Chase with an extension of Bradley lane on the east side of Connecticut avenue. This part ted it to | is believed that there will be little | difficulty in this regard. as it is the | belief that Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of | Maryland will be strongly behind it. The present Bradley lane is sef down as the memorial boulevard be tween Connecticut and Wisconsin ave- | nues, when it will continue to follow | the present Bradley Hills road,! which has a 100-foot right-of-way past | |the Congressional Country Clubs | {where it would cannect up with an. | | other road for the additional two and | | & half miles to Great Falls. The right- | of-way for this road has been obtained, and, in fact, it has been partly graded, although not vet fit for traffic. This would provide a direct route to the | Falls through virgin territory, un- | surpassed in its Scenic beauty. | At the Falls it is proposed to es- | tablish as a fitting end to this section { of the boulevard a great park. taking in all the heauties of the Falis. The Government now owns approximately | acres at this place, but it is the |proposal of Mr._Merryman that the Government should increase its hold- ings there for park purposes. With! this end in view, it is proposed | | to also present the matter to the Ar-| lington County Civie Federation and the Virginia members of the Planning Commission to get their support to obtain additional holdings for a park there on the Virginia shore to pre- serve the historic places, including the bed of the old canal built there by George Washington. War Department Approves. the TFalls it is proposed 1o/ he roadway loop back and up with the Conduit road. {The War Department has approved, according to Mr. Merryman, and will have finished by 1927 a new section of | Conduit road, which ‘will follow the conduit from the Falls and along the | canal bank to connect up with the 5 . | way will need to be obtained. but iti From COUNTRY CL! BANNOCKBURN GOLF. CLUB The above boulevard plan, the Maryland section of which would be a memorial to the State’s dead in the World War, would create a wonderful auto drive in the District, Maryland and Virginia. The plan, conceived by Charles H. Merryman, is being considered with the many others presented to ithe parks and planning commissions of the District and Maryiand. Solid lines indicate already improved highways. Dotted lines indicate stretches which must be constructed. Bridge. in Georgetown, winding up to| cult to get the support of the Na-| Arlington and the Lee Mansion and |tional Capital Park and Planning | returning to Washington by way of | Commission for the project, and as| the Arlington Memoria! Bridge. now | the road within Maryland is to be a being bullt. memorial for all those State citizens | After crossing back over the Me- | who gave their lives during the World morial’ Bridge it would be possible to| War, that the State government will follow the new parkway through |not fail to get firmly behind it by ac- beautiful Rock Creek Park to its|quiring the land necessary for the northern section and to union with the | eastern projection and terminus and proposed boulevard. by improving the roadway promptly Eventually the unit proposed by Mr, | to its full width of 100 feet. . 5 i south of | g Merryman would be routed south of Holds Plan Not Elaborate. Washington to Forts Hunt and Wash. | ington, coming back in a_northwest- | erly direction to Takoma Park, effect- ing union with the boulevard now pro- | posed and providing a great driveway about the Capitai The whole project is so far ad- vanced from a road standpoint that it in belleved that its realization will not While the project, said Mr. Merry man, looks elaborate on its face, it is not so, because of the fact that the roadway for the most part is lai down and for the most part improved. It requires only the land on the east. ! ern terminus for the necessary road width, the additional land in Rock | Davis to Help Launch Ship Film Service Depicting Life in America to Newcomer, Secretary of Labor Davis left Wash-, given to Secretary Davis and i ington today to inaugurate with Will i John H. Finley, to be attended Mt H. Hays and other motion picture | representatives of more than 100 on officials an Americanization film pro- | ganizations interested in the educa: gram on vessels coming to the United | tion and citizenship of the foreign States. The first pictures depicting | born. typical scenes of American life will| In the future not only the Levla: ! be shown on the Leviathan tomor- | than but the President Harding. the row York harbor. Films will be furniched gratis by the motion picture industry. In addition to Secretary Davis and Mr. Hays, the party which will in. augurate the Americanization film service for Immigrants will include Gen. A. C. Dalton, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation: David A. Burks, acting general manager of the United States lines; Benjamin A. Day, commissioner of immigration of New York. Immediately after the Leviathan docks a dinner will be RELICS FOUND IN ATTICS. Charleston. S. C., Museum Adds to Collection of Oddities. CHARLESTON. S. (.. November 6 (). —Concerted rummaging through some of the old attics of Charleston, sponsored by friends of the Charleston Museum, resulted in the institution's collection of oddities and antiquities being considerably increased. | Among the items obtained were: A brandy bottle of Louise Phillippe, a child’s dress worn in 1850, an eve- | ning dress of gold and garnet striped satin, and portions of weddipg gowns | worn many years ago. | X s i “Immoral” Play Revived. I Correspondence of The Star. PARIS, October 17 A play by Ed- mond See called “Saison d" Amour,” | is being revived at the Maturins Thea- ter. When first produced a few ago at the Theater Michel. it was con demned as highly immoral. 1& passed as innocuous and pleasant. as the liner steams into New | Today it | Gieorge Washington and the Pre | dent Roosevelt will have the Ame: | icanization film service. Contrac's { with the International Mercantilq | Marine. the Cunard Line and tha | North Atlantic Steamshtp Conferenc | indicate that the service will shortis be extended to their ships as well. | " Announcing the new ship film ser {ice, Secretary Davis said: “It is | fine thing to be able to present iy | motion pictures the heart of Amwe:. | ica to those who intend to make thiy | their home." ART SALE SUCCESS. | Works From 36 Nationalities Be- | ing Auctioned in Paris Correspondence of The Star. Octoher 17.—The opening lon du Franc” at the Gal- useum. where artists from ries are displaying their works to be sold at auction for the henefit of the fund for the rehabilitation of th franc, was the most notable artist event of the early social season. committee consisting of prominent French officials,” ambassadors and other distinguished forelgners was re sponsible for organizing the benefit | "The American representatives in | cluded Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, Mis« y an and Brig. Gen. Charles . Sherrill. ‘Among the American_exhibits the | bronze bust of Anatole France by .« Davidson, was much noticed. as wel as his portraits of Field Marshal Foch land of President Wilson. _Othe American exhibits were Paul Berlin's Still Life,” flarold English's *Trag hetto,” Frederick Carl Frieseke's “Yel | due, as the Cri de Paris puts it. to the { jow Tulips.”” Clinton 0 general “inflation in immorality” | “The Green Dress,” Alexander prevalent in modern France | inson Excursion E ¥ — Storr ude de Formes. i —— | Thorndike's “‘Landscape. bull's “Olive Trees” and a Eugene Ulman “nude" but of the District of Columbia as features., - would Aside from its memorial Dickens' Decency Praised. LONDON, November & (®).—I decency makes him stand o ed to some of the ma of the project contains a provision | present Conduit road at the Anglers' that the National Capital Park and|lub. This would make a level road, Planning Commisgion should purchase | instead of having those using it tur additional land for extending Rock | right and go up over the hill as at Creek Park across the District line | present into Marvland. in accordance with its| #rom this point authority to purchase land needed to | protect the watershed of this stream 3 As a matter of fact. this is the only [he would have ‘it follow the Conduit rt of the roadway which needs to | road or the proposed cliff highway he laid down and for which rights of 'overlooking the Potomac to the Key completed, 1t to the efforts of ¢ in preventing an | belt from heing thrown » city in the dow of be far deferred. It runs through a {Creek for the extension of the present | when | territory so rich in scenic beauty that | park in Maryvland and for the addi- it is not believed that the city and |tional park land around the District | » N park planners can fail to get behind |of Columbia’s water supply source at|Velopment, as this section. like others it promptly, both for the purpose of | Great Falla. But it was made appar-|in the District and Maryland, is show saving this virgin growth and a | ent that prompt steps must be taken |ing a phenomenal growth. and it will ¢ r y dow e A 1 o part of the plan to protact the water- | new to acquire land there if the nat-|not take many years to wipe out some | sion. Will givé a drive of about 40 |proposed belt line, and an ind is the opinion expre: Poads of Rock Creel and Potomac | ural scenie wondars are to be pre.|of these beauties, unless the govern-|miles through a beautiful territory | of their appreciation of the civie beau- | by mest | WWild, in his prea River. Mr, Merryman saya that sarved for all time and kept without |mental asencics act promptly in the | and past some of the points prominent { ties which they alone preserved for ) dentinl addross o the Dickens does not believe that it will be diffi- ithe advancement of commercial de- | matter, in the history not only of the country ' posterity and its home | Jowship here The HUB, Seventh and D Sts. N.W The whole roadway propo: tak- ng in the Conduit and Bradley Hills ections; running also to the Lee Man- ens’ cording to Mr. submitted to Montgomery unty Federation, The HUB, Seventh and D Sts. 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