Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 5

BOWERMANURGES LIBRARY PROJECT Henry K. Bush-Brown Joins in Favoring Memorial at Lafayette Square. Dr. George F. B{)werman librarian of the Washington Public L ihran and Henry K. Bush-Brown, were before the House District committee yesterday awaiting an opportunity to be heard in support of the bill introduced by tor Bruce of Maryland, which will be sponsoread in the House by Representa- tive Gibson, providing for a monumen- | tal branch library as a memorial to all the Presidents on the site at teenth and H streets, opposite John’s Church. Mr. Gibson referred to this in the report made by his subcommittee, which has been making a systematic survey of the municipal government. Because they were prevented by the press of other business from getting a hearing vesterday, Dr. Bowerman and Mr. Bush-Brown issued a joint state- ment today regarding the project. Bowerman Favors Plan. Replying directly to a published statement that this measure lacks his support on the ground that it is in conflict with the five-year building program of the library, Dr. Bowerman said: “I am in hearty sympathy with the measure provided the costs of buying this expensive site and the erection of a building of somewhat monument- «l proportions are met from the Fed- eral Treasury. If this is done and the branch library could then be turned over to the District I should then be heartily in favor of main- taining such a branch library as part of the Public Library system. “A separate branch library at this point was not contained in the origi- nal program, not because the proposal lacked merit, but simply because of the costliness of sites at this point, which I felt were outside of what we ought to propose. I do think that we very much need a branch library here, and if it could come to us on the basis proposed in this bill—that is. with the whole original cost to be borne by the Federal Government on account of the memorial character of the original project—I should heartily welcome such a proposal. The bill in- troduced by Senator Bruce does pro- vide for the original cost to be borne by the Federal Government. The board of library trusloex has not yet passed on this proposal.” Would Meet Artistic Need. In their joint statement Dr. Bower- man and Mr. Bush-Brown said: “The proposed branch is designed to be a memorial to all of the Presi- dents of the United States, and to be known as the Presidents’ Memorial Branch Library. Such a branch li- brary would meet the artistic need of a beautiful public building at this strategic point, and at the same time would furnish library facilities con- venient to the offices of thousands in the Government service and in prevate and semi-public employ. ““The latest available statistics show that nearly 50,000 persons are em- ployed in Government offices in the immediate neighborhood of Lafayette Square. In addition there are the students in the George Washington St University and other educational in- [ stitutions, the staffs of the National Geographic Soclety, . the .National ‘ducation - lon and similar bodies, together with many in private business offices, so that from 60,000 te 75,000 persons. could be-conveniently served by such a Prob- ably no point in the lected for 9? library ice. with greater ex- maximum serv- Would Cost $1,000,000. “Important, ‘however, as the use of such a library would be, its utility, is almost overshadowed by the artis- tic necessity for such a building of colonial architecture to balance St. John’s Church, completing the com- position of the north side of the square. This square was originally named the Presidents’ Square and it was changed to La Fayette on the occasion of that general's visit to this country in 1824 as a respectful acknowledgment. of his service to this country. It is thus the more fitting that this library should be dedicated to the memory of all the Presidents of the United States. On account of this memorial character the original cost should be met en- tirely from Federal funds. The total cost of $1,000,000 ($600,000 for this site and $400,000 for the building) is less than 1 cent for every inhabitant of the United States. “The central and branch libraries of, the District were all erected by Andrew Carnegie or the Carnegie corporation at a cost of nearly $700,- 000. This is the first time the Gov- ernment has been called on for funds other than the maintenance, to which the District has contributed its share in the past. This would also apply to the maintenance of this branch library. Such a library in lu(h a location will be a glory to library. : ity’ cbuld be se- By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 24.—Hearing that their wealthy client was ill, bank officials discovered Mrs. Ada Sawyer Garrett, known as “Chicago’s Hetty Green,” and at 71 possessed of an es- timated fortune of $5,000,000, living in a meager hall bedroom in a downtown hotel. The bankers summoned nurses and removed Mrs. Garrett to a hospital, while employes watched in astonish- ment. “Her have money!" exclaimed’a bell- hop. “Why, I always felt sorry for her—she didn't seem to have enough to keep warm.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Woman Worth $5.000.000 Found Living In Cheap Hall Bedroom in Chlcago . \Ioney is only figures to her,” the explanation given by a friend lor the straitened circumstances in which the wealthy woman was voluntarily livin, At':heu bank Mrs. Garrett was de- scribed as a lovable personage as well as one known for shrewd investment in r(‘nl estate. She was once known as “The Belle of the North Side,” and five Chicago streets are named after members of her family. Since the death of her husband she has lived in seclusion, except for regular visits to her bank. It was when these ceased that her financial advisers made in- quiries. :\JILTED GIRL ADMITS SHE KILLED LOVER Unfaithful Man Gave Her Pistol to Kill Herself, She Declares. By the Aesociated Press. CHICAGO, February 24.—Florence Stokes, a former sweetheart of James Glennon, who was slain Tuesday night, has surrendered and confessed the_shooting. The pretty switchboard operator told police she slew Glennon, whose affections she believed to have been attracted by another woman, with a pistol he laughingly handed her when she explained she feared dis d would end her life if he did not marry her. “I really wanted to kill myself, not him,” the girl said between sobs last night, “but he sneered at me when I told him I would commit suicide, and he handed me his revolver and said to go ahead.” Her story of the shooting did not explain to police how there came to be in her room a mail order house's instructions for use of a revolver, and shells similar to those that Kkilled Glennon. 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