Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1928, Page 19

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, | msn AW T0 FORN B PARK Army Engineers Prepare to Start New Project as Soon as Funds Are Ready. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. - Elimination of the largest of the Naticnal Capital's remaining unsizhtly and health menacing marsh land areas | and its beautification for an addition | to ths park system will begin July 1. under the item in the District of Co- | Jumbia_appropriation bill as it appears now. It is ths Anacosiia River flats nroject between Benning Bridge and ;l\“ District of Columbia-Maryland ine. All preparations have been made by Aa). Brehon Somervell, Army Engineer In charge of th> local river and harbor district, to bagin work at that time, e8 the pros~nt bill docs not carry the usual restriction against the use of any of the appropriation for work above the . bridge. While not all of the work has bean completed between the bridge and | the mouth of the Anacostia River, nevertheless the engineers have been ready to start work above the bridge for some time. There remains about a vear's work to be done below the bridge. but this can be completed sim- uitancously with the promotion of the project above the bridge. Park Will Be Unique. Completion of the project, which will require approximately nine years. will give the National Capital a park of a kind said to be different from any found anywhere else in the world. Purchase of praperty necessary in the reclaniation work has been going on for a number of years, and is practically completed. The necessary cquipment has been assembled. and the plans perfected for inaugurating the project at the bgin- | ning of the fiscal year. The Arm dredge Benning is now in the river ready to go under the Benning Bridge. The first work that will hiv> to be | done in connection with th~ project will be to change the piers in the chan- nelway of the bridge. - At the present time there is only & width of 26!, feet | clearance between the picrs. By re- moving these, and replacing the prese piers with smaller ones, ‘he (ngin»e: will have a clearance of 30': feek: which will permit the dredge Renning to pass through, without the nece: of building an expensive draw, has been found objectionabl~. b dredge has been specially designed that the superstructure may be easily ! dismantled to permit it to pass under the bridge with its present clearance, | and as it will remain in the upper | reaches of the river for nearly 2 decade, | the dismantling is not looked vpon as | ® serious or expensive proposition. | Once the bridge is prepared. and the dredge taken through and again fitted wp it will begin the work of rhrowing | up levecs over sea-wall foundations of | stone. behind which will v> pumped ne tons of dredgings from the channel. Will Displace Marsh Water. As it passes up the river toward the District line, the dredge will eat 2 channel 6 feet deep and varying width from 100 to 300 feet, which afte) I'E LANDS TO BECOME MAGNIFICENT D. C. PARK ard is to be deepened by. “cleaning. As the dredge deepens the chanrei throwing the cilit on the river banxks District line the situation is almost ns‘ Arm), l)il()t lo Fly the marsh waters will be dispaced and ' bad as it is now between Benning and | * drained into the new channel. | the boundary. ‘When the new pai will have a total area of 540 of which will be raciaim d end 140 of it so-called “fast land.” ture at its las “purchased to give the | Tha Legislatur Government riparian rights in the project. Of this 640 acres 180 will be .ties. Montgomery and Prince 2ter covered. There will be 40 acres |adjacent to the Di the river channel proper. 45 acres appropriated $100.000 of State Lake Kingman., on the western development werk, including and 65 acres in East Lake, which | quisition and improvemen 1l be on the east bank in the Mary- | tion that a similar amou Jand end of the project. {by the Federal Governmen In each of the two lakes will be two | this fund is to b spent in 2 Sslands, Island No. 1 in East Lake cov- ering 8 acres and Island No. 2 in the same lake 5 acres. Island No. 3 in Kingman Lake will cover 3 acres and Island No. 4 4 acres. Under the present plans it is pro- Ei‘:d to develop the southern end of ' of the Anacostia above parkway for recreation and the ted out. upper end is 1o be turned over to the from the mo Department of Agriculture for the d velopment of a national “water park.” | through the entire As this area is adjacent to the National | trict, and would give a pr Arboretum proposzd it will fit in With | of which could not be found the plans for that national project, | The fund i< to b> alsy under the Department of Agricul- ' reetion of the Ma ture. In the water park it Is proposed | jial Park and P to plent only trees and chrubs which | co-gperation with th cres, sion. County. Would Ald Big Area. ict of C in giving its ap; to the development of the two Half of ontgomery County and half in Prince Georges As a matier of fact, the| k is completed It | conditions there were called to the at- marsh land | tention of the Maryland State Legisia- | Expenditure of the Prince Georges share of this fund for the improvement the District line, would provide an With Legislator To Bedside of Son Anxious to be at the bedside of his 10-year-old son in Buffalo today. when a final diagnosis of the boy's iliness is to be made, and still at- tend to his congressional dutles without interruption, Representative James M. Mead has called the Army Alr Service to_his assistance. He was to leave Bolling Field at 5:30 o'clock this morning, in a new O-1 observation Army plane, piloted by Capt. Ross G. Hoyt, and expected to reach Buffalo in three hours. It is planned to return in the after- noon, but. if necessary, he can re- main until tomorrow morning, and make the trip by air in time for the ovening of the congressional session that day. WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE. WINS HARVARD MEDAL. |R. C. Weaver Captures Coveted | Honor in Debating Contest. | R. C. Weaver of 3519 Fourteenth | street northeast, a student in the class | of '29 at Harvard University, won the coveted Pasteur M: when he feated other contestants fn the an- ! nual Pasteur debate, held last wees, at Paine Hall. Honorable mention was | accorded to C. C. Alpern of Pittsburgh, a senior at the college. | The six candidates, composing two teams previously chosen, debated the | subject. “Resolved, That the United States adopt Forelgn Minister Briand's treaty outlawing war between France | and the United States.” Associate Prof. F. C. Parkard pre- | sided. 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