Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928. - Have You Noticed the Activity at 9th & E? Washington’s 42nd and Broadway! Great Crowds are attending FASHION SHOP’S D th ANNIVERSARY SALE! How car men keep from buying the Fashion Shop's famous stylings at these attractive Anniver- sary Sale prices Our many friends would be coming in for our celebrated Doublewear suits, Rondo topcoats and Rondo overcoats even if reductions weren't offered at this particular time. But fortu- nately, our 12th Anniversary Sale steps in just in time to save you a handsome sum. Washington’s 9th & E is looking like New York's 42nd & Broadway—and here's why— Hundreds of CHotlywood models in DOUBLEWEAR (They Hold the Press) 2 PANTS SUITS and our famous ONDO TOPCOATS and OVERCOATS Reduced ! W For Grades Up to $40 ¢ J { For Grades Up to $50 One and FACTS! The “DOUBLEWEAR” idea resulted from a deter- mination to offer fabric values that would be ob- viously superior, fabrics that would give extra wear and “hold the press.” Following that, but long ago, we introduced our now famous HOLLYWOOD models for the well dressed man of progressive ideas. The popularity of this style today aptly vindicates our MELLON | } By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH. October 19.—Plans | for beautifying and developing the Na- | tional Capital, especially Pennsylvania javenue, which he sald n~v presented a ! “distressing _spectaclo e detailed | here yesterday by Secretary of | Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, in' an ad- dress at Founders' day reises at Car- | negie Institute “It is perhaps our | street,” the Secretary id. in refer- ence to Pennsylania avenue, “And certainly there is no avenue of corre- sponding importance in any capital which can compare with it in sheer ugliness or lack of architectural digni- ty. It is the street over which great processions pass in triumph to the Cap- | 1tol Yet never, in the days of either the ancient or modern world, has an: one seen before a_great triumphal w bordered, ~throughout much of its !r‘n::?h_ by gasoline stations, lodging houses and Chinese laundries.” is state of affairs, I am glad to say.” Mr. Mellon continued, “will soon be remedied. Congress has determined that the Capitol shall be approached by an avenue commensurate in dignity with its importance.” The Secretary said an appropriation | of $50.000,000 had been mz‘:l’i? ‘,\upple» mented last Winter by an additional .000.000, and that other amounts 1 Would be forthcoming as the work de- | veloping the Capital progressed. The 'y of the Treasury, he said, was d to use this money in the or condemnation of land and the erection of pubiic buildings. The new structures, the Secretary added. will include a new and larger building for the increased activities of the Department of Commerce, a Su- preme Court structure, an archives { building and buildin; |of Internal Revenue, Department of Agriculture and Department of Labor. At the conclusion of the Founder's | day exercises the annual international exhibition of paintings was thrown open to the public, and tonight Secretary { Mellon was the guest of the institute | trustees at a din; | Mr. Mellon in his Pittsburgh address reviewed the original plans for Wash- ington as made by L'Enfant and later by_th n of 1901 Di this plan, most important Mr. 1ellon At the foot of Capitol Hil, looking toward the Treasury and the White House. the plan of 1901 contemplates that there shall be a great open plaza { with monuments and fountains | what like the Place de la Concorde in | Paris. It was intended that this space | should provide a_dignified entrance to | Pennsylvania avenue and also into the Mall leading westward to the Washing- | ton Monument, a mile away. The me- morial to Gen. Grant has been located in this space in accordance with these | plans, but there progress has stopped. | The development of the plaza and the | Mall has been delayed until arrange- ments could be made for the removal {of the Botanic Garden to larger and more suitable quarters on land to be | acquired on_the west front of the Capi- tol. The State of Pennsylvania has erccted a memorial to Gen. George Gor- | don Meade, as a companion to the Grant Memorial,'and in_doing so has also | provided for suitable landscape setting | in accordance with the Mall plan. Thus | these two memorials will stand in the great Union Plaza at the head of the | Mall and the way will be open at last to complete the developments required | to make the Mall into a beautiful park. To Raze Buildings. “First, it will be necessary to demolish the temporary buildings and the smoke- | stacks erected during the war. Then a great avenue of greensward, bordered | by drives and lined with four rows of stately trees, will b projected through the Mall, leading westward from the Capitol and the Union Plaza to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln | Memerial beyond. Along this avenue, at intervals, will be such buildings as_the | Agricultural Department, the Freer Gal- lery, the National Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. This avenue will | end at the Washington Monument, and | beyond the Monument, at the point | where the new axis meets the Potomac, has been placed that beautiful white marble structure, the memorial to Abra- ham Lincoln. | “From the foot of the Lincoln Memo- rial a great bridge, commemorating the | union of the North and South, is now | in process of building. When completed | it will lead across the Potomac to the slopes of Arlington, where, surrounding a mansion once the home of Gen. Rob- | ert E. Lee, are the graves of those who died in their countr: rvice, including | that newly erected national shrine. the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. From Arlington a boulevard will stretch to | Mount Vernon, the home of Washing- ton, and all of this region and the sec- | tion known as Potomac Park, with its | river drives and famed cherry trees, will b2 joined, under plans now being car- ried out, with Rock Creek Park and tion of the city where the great cathedrel rising on the wood- izht of Mount St. Alban. Pennsylvania Avenue. ?Secretary Calls Pennsylvania Avenue “Distressing Spect Mode of Dignifying Thoroughfare. the | for the Bureau | OUTLINES PLANS TO BEAUTIFY WASHINGTON acle” in Detailing | | | monious design and grouped around | two large Interior courts or plazas | somewhat after the arrangement of the ' Louvre in Paris. | “It is easy to see what the will be. As one proceeds down Penn- | sylvania avenue toward the Capitol, on the south side will be a succession of beautiful and harmonious buildings, |all of a design in keeping with the semi-classical tradition so well estab- | lished in Washington. On the north side vistas will be opened up, o that | groups of buildings, such as the beauti- | ful District of Columbia Courthou: on John Marshall effect | | place, shall cl brought into the general plan of Penn- | sylvania_avenue. At the same time the Mall will present the spectacle | |of a grea’ park bordered on one side | by the new boulevard lined with beau- tiful buildings. and on the other side | Iby a wide parrway of greensward with | | its four rows of trees, its drives and | | walks, statues and reflecting pools, all arranged in such a way that long vis- tas will be opened up for views of the | Capitol in one direction and of the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial in the other. Will Take Time. “All of this will take time, of course. | But Rome was not built in a_day, nor | | for that matter was Paris. Paris has | passed through many stages, each dis- tinct from the other. The Gothic Paris | is as different from the Paris of the Renaissance as the Paris of Louis XIV | the differs from that of Napoleon IIL. Go about in modern Paris and it is with difficulty that one can trace the land- marks of the past. Yet. somehow, in spite of her vicissitudes and of having no fundamental plan from the begin- ning as Washingion had, Paris poss s that sense of unity and completeness so rare in any great and growing city. All its principal buildings seem to fit generel plan so magnificent in con- ception and execution that it makes one wonder whether an cffect equally | satisfactory and on a scale and design suited to our needs, can ever be pro- | duced in Washington. “And yet, Washington has many ad- vantages in so far as its future de- velopment is concerned. Its life cen- ters around the Government, as those who planned the city intended it should do. There is no manufacturing, and engineering and industrial prob- lems, which have to be met at such expense_and effort in great industrial centers like Pittsburgh and Chicago, are entirely absent. Washington is still a city of moderate size, notwithstanding the fact that its population has grown from %5000 at the time of the Civil War to about a half a million today. But 50 long as it remains chiefly a seat of Government, it will retain its unique Mecca of Visitors. i “More and more it will b isited by people who will go to Wesh'ngton be- cause of its beauty and their feeling o pride and personal ownership in the | rapid | ago for the city which he founded, but at the same time we are justifying that | | faith which he had from the beginning Nation's Capital. With the growth in the use of automobiles and of aeroplanes, larger and larger num- ers will visit Washington each year. As it becomes more beautiful and its fame grows, people will visit it from all parts of the world and Washington will find, as Paris has done, that archi- tectural and. landscape beauty can be | satisfaction, to a city. “But there are weightier r®esons tiocnal Capital. racter among the cities of the coun- | 7 | realities of existence to have much time for the amenities. But now we have the opportunity and we have also the resources to raise the standard of taste m this country, and the extent to which ‘lhls is being done has no parallel at present in any country in the world Nowhere are the arts of architecture and landscape engineering being prac- ticed more extensively and successfully | into the landscape and to be part of a | than in America. | Evolve Skyseraper. | “It has been said that in evolving the skyscraper we have made the only |original contribution to architecture | since the Gothie. Certainly, in adapt- ing architecture to the needs of mod- ern conditions and crowded spaces, we 2. L. GANBIN BURIED. Retired Federal Worker Had Been Chief Pension Clerk. Speeial Dispatch to The Star, { ERENTWOOD, Md., October 19— Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon for Orville L. Ganbin, 53 years old, a retired Govern- | ment employe, who died Wednesday | after a long {lines. Ganbin entered ths | Government service as a messenger boy in 1883, and was chief clerk of the Pension Office when he retired on ac- | count of bad heaith three years ago | THRCE BURAED TO DEATH Mother and Two Young Childr.n | Perish in Texas Fire. GREENVILLE, Tex., October 19 (), —Mrs. P. Carter and her two young children were burned to death yester- day, when fire destroyed their home, near here The bodies of Mrs. Carter, her - year-old son Otis and her 5-year-old daughter Nora were removed by neigh- bors from the ruins. During a recent strike at a Belgian have produced something that is ex- | He is survived by his widow, two sons | firearms plant 6,800 employes were press of human _aspiration and human need. Judged by that standard. | the Wooiworth Building is a work of | art, both because it is beautiful in itself | and because it expresses the needs and | | aspirations of a great people. If we can give to our office buildings something of the beauty of Gothic cathedrals or | model our bonks and railroad stations | after Greek temples, we shall, in time, | provide a magnificent setting for the | requirements of modern civilization. “But we must remember that just as | these things are architeciural expres- | sions of the Nation on its commercial | side, so should the city of Washington. | as President Coolidge has said. express | the soul of America. We do well, there- fore, to give to it that beauty and dig- nity to which it is entitled.” In doing |50 we are not only carrying out those plans which Washington made so long in the future greatness of America.” Church on Temple Site. Recent excavations for the purpose of | a source of profit, as well as pride and | making repairs to the foundations of the | magnificent Roman Catholic Cathedral | in Mexico City, resulted in the di |and three daughters. thrown out of work. WARDMAN DINNER DANCES EVERY SATURDAY 7:30 to 1 A. M. Also a la | than that why we should give our sup- | covery that the building, erected in the | iport to the effert to rebuild our Na- | early part of the sixteenth century, was Until recently America | built on’ the site of an ancient Aztec has been In the frontier stage as nations | temple. The dimensions of that ancient | go. We were too busy about the hard house of worship are unknown. Whether Just Think of an upf‘ight piano for only $22! Or a player-piano that sold for $600 now only $98! Or a guaranteed grand piano for only $350! Nowhere else could you begin to get anything like such values! It is only because of the enormous volume of our business that this great number of pianos is available for this sale. These are the greatest values we have ever offered in our long business career. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity. RK LOTEL Music by Wardman Park Orchestra SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES “Diner Parfait” $2.50 carte service— Beginning Tomorrow Morning—OQctober 20 | The addition of the Mason & Hamlin, Chickering Pianos and Ampicos to our own line of Knabe and Fischer has brought a condition in our building which amounts to congestion. or not, we are absolutely COMPELLED to get rid of scores of pianos; get them out of here quickly and relieve the “jam” we are in. Prices are of secondary importance to us. tically YOUR OWN PRICE and YOUR OWN TERMS. we like it You can buy your choice at prac- style judgment. BANKER MODELS For Conservative Business Men VARSITY HALL MODELS For the College Man $400 Haines . 2 $400 Whitney ................$135 $400-Droopic...ciiiliv. ..o 25105 $450 Brambach . 3 $150 $450 Weser ... $130 $475 Whitney .. $185 8875 Steinway .... .$150 Kranich & Bach. .$200 Price & Teeple. . .$225 Conway A .$195 75 International ... $155 Armstrong . S198 Knabe $450 $600 Hanover ...... $700 Norris & Hyde $550 Solo Concerto .. $600 Sherer $550 Solo Concerto $575 Thomas ...... $550 Solo Concerto. . $650 Leonard ..... $600 Ardinger .... $575 Miller . G $575 Anderson $550 Solo Concerto $600 Pfeiffer . $600 Solo Concerto “Now, T must ask you to return for a m t to a consideration of another $ vast project which will eventually real- | ize L’Enfant’s dream for a great avenuc | bordering the Mall and leading from | the Capitol to the White House. You | are familiar with the distressing spec- | tacle which Pennsylvania Avenue pre- sents s perhaps our most im- portant street, and certainly there 1s no avenue of corresponding importance in any cepital which can compare with v ugliness or lack of archi- It s the street over For Grades it s | tectural dignity. Up to $65 . $ { which _our processions pass in . 9 triumph to the Capitol. Yet never, in Soiionis s ainn ity | the days of either the ancient or the world, has any one scen before triumphal - way bordered, ut much of its lengih, by gaso- 25, lodging houses and Chi- $57 for grades up to $75 Reductions on the finest WWZRUMBOS CVERCOATS America’s Greatest ... 5310 $385 airs, T am glad ‘o soon be remedicd. Congress aed that the Capitol shall by an avenue commen- e in dignity with its importan or Smoot, who has such a clear cpticn of the future possibilities of Washington, has taken the lead in this work, and he has been ably scconded by Senator Swanson, Se Bruce, | Riepresentatives Eiliott, Lanham and others. An appropriation of $50,000.000 has been made, supplemented last Win- ter by additional $25,000,000, and | other ints will be_forthcoming as | the w ses. The amounts al- ready appropriated will be used to in- 3 the most importent features of plans for Washington's development. r all and Reductions on a special group of Suits . . . Topcoats and $22 Overcoats NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS The Taskion Shop 9th & E construction at this rare price. Styled in a manner that befits the Fashion Shop! 501 Ninth St. At Washington's J 2nd and Broadway BRING THE LADIES —they know style and value! Remember This We will take back within one year any piano purchased in this Sale and allow full value on any new upright, Grand or Player se- lected from our stock, NO EXTRAS FREE DELIVERY - HomeR L.KitT Co. 1330 G STREET N.W. OPEN EVENINGS Until 9 P. M. During This Sale! 350 H. C. Bay, period medel. .$485 Apartment Grand .. 5385 Apartment Grand ........$445 Baby Grand .........5:. 15195 $525 $600 $575 Buitding Plan. artmental buildings are to be ag the south side of Penn- | nue from the Treasury ol In addition to facing nia avenue, these buildings | will face alzo on a grand houlevard, which to be cut through the city.bordering e Mall and stretching from the Capi- | i tol to the new Memorial Bridge on tne | Polomac near the base cf the Lincoln | Memorial. Plans being made to secure a com ive treatment | of this entire arca ba.ween Pennsyl- | vania avenue and the new boulevard rds the location and the various buildings. A e ng archite of the been formed to study this and to submit designs for all ings in this area. It is in- hat”theze buildings, whil> hav- § 03 cach a distinative ar- ! cluteciural treatment, shall be of hare $ on Pe Open Evenings A Reserves Your Selection Private Parking Space on F shopping . our Clothing Dept. t 1 Washington’s Camplete Music House Washington’s Complete ¢ Heuse