Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 6

H(’)O?VER'PLEDGES SUPPORT OF CAPITAL BEAUTIF[CATIONPR KERS OUTLINE Mellon, Acting as Lauds Interest Shown by President. __{ (Continued From Pirst Pag=) _ This is more than merely the making} of a beautifu cityl. Washington is not | oply the Nation s Capital; it 1s the sym- | bol of America. By its dignity and | architectural inspiration we stimulate pride in our country, weencourage that | elevation of thought and character which comes from great architecture. “Our Government in Washington has | grown greatly during the past 15 years. | We have a working foice of nearly| 70.000 employes. as compared with 35, | 000 a score of years ago. “War and economic recovery have de- ! Jayed us in providing even our bare necessitiés of office spac2. Nearly 25,000 employes” ard@ today in rented bulldings | or temporaty structures built during ths war. which were expectéd to last| but & year or two. Many of the build= | inge are insaniiary. Above ell, the de- | partments are divided among scores of | unworkable and: .scattered buildings. For instance, Agricutulre is housed in 46 different places in the city and the | Treasury in 27 places, Commerce in 20 places. We 'are paving rents and losing ! efficiency in sums far greater than the interest upon adequate buildings. Many | of the buildings we occupy are an-eye- | sore to the city. We have an author ized bujiding prografa for,”say, 18,000 employes,. yet if we would satisty even | our present need we should have new buildings’ to accommodate more. than | 30,000 Gevernment workers. Must’ Fit Program to Traditions. “Congress has’ authorized the begin- | ning of a great program which must extend oyer miany years. It is our pri- mary duty to do more than erect offices, We niust fit that progran into the tra- ditions and the symbolism of the Capi- tal. ~Our forefathers had a great vision | of the Capital for America, unique from | x.s birth in its inspired conception, I lexibility and wonderful beauty. No | one in 150 years has been able to im- Pprose upon, it. *The founder§ of the Republic:also | gals us a great tradition in architec- | fys. In after years we have held to it M some periods and in others we hive fallen sadly away from it. Al- theugh it is perhaps too early to envis- age such a glorious future, I do hope 10 live to see the day when we shall remove from Washington the evidences u&mou fl? from the high standards which would have been deplored by the fotnders of ‘our Republic and-havé peen deplored by the citizé¥is of good taste ever since these transgressions. y “Probably one of the major bulldirigs which we regret most is the State, War and Navy Building. I have been vastly interested to find that the Congress of | that day had a splendid taste, for they directed it to be the duplicate of the ‘Treasury Building, but the administra- PLANS AT MEETING Host, | THE EVENING Mudel of the propesed mew Archives Bujlding, one of a group of models of the new. Government buildings, shewn for the first time last night by Secretary of the Treasur: merce Building. - 'y Mellon at an exhibition in the United States Chamber of Com- Proposed home of the Department of Labor and Interstate Commcrce Commiss The beautiful triangle as it will sppear to an serial of Commerce Building is shown in the foreground. tion-of that day delivered it/ extérnaily | § over to an architecturg-orgy. ‘I have been lately advised that for & com: paratively modest sum we can stripit of fts function to represent the differ- ent types of architecture known to man | and bring it back to the sound classic | lines of the Treasury, as Congress in- points tended. And this again reésponsibility of thes istrati authority ai our part in design and m:mie(hn. Spifitual Tmpulse Colints. of the Capital:df America, that they | shall meet. ' requirements of utility, that they shall fulfill the stand- | ards of taste, that they shall be a last- ing’ inspiration.” ‘In architecture it is the spiritual . impulse that These buildings should cxwezuzhe ideals and standards of our times. They | ‘will'be the measure of our skill and| taste, by which we will be judged by our children’s children. | “Mr. Mellon has insisted that ‘the | great responsibility before us is not one | which can be discharged dividual. It must be t the common mind of many men, devout 0 secure for America the vast realiza- tion. of the expression of our Natjon.| And I am confident that we have | within the Nation th: taste, skill and | artistic sense to perform our task, for our architects have already given to| :Ymerlca the ledding place in their great t ‘If is on this national stage that the great drama of our political life has | béet played. Here were fought the political battles that tested the founda- | tions of our. Government. We ' face similar problems of our time, and here | centuries hence some other Americans Wwill face ‘the great problems of their time. For our tasks and their tasks there is need of a dally inspiration of surroundings that st t not only the feaditions of the past but the ‘greatness of the future.” Mellon Opens Discussion. H Secretary Melion, who s pesiding icer was the first speaker of the eve- ng. opened. discussion of the public iflding question with reference to & previous meeting of Federal ‘officials | Meld 25 years ago in the old Arlington Hotel. where, he said, circumstances | Were “almost identical” with those last Bight “Then as now,” he said, “it was'a | meeting of those representing the Gov: ernment, and it- wag held-for the pyrs ' se of considening plans to make more | autiful the ‘City “of Washington. The printipal speakef dn that occd: sion was President Roosevelt. The Con- gress of the United States was repre- Sented by' the ' speeches of Spesker Cannon and others: And Mr. Root. with bis great cloquence, championed the cause which he had.so much at.heart and which he -himself had done so much to advanee.” “On that historie occasion, the host | was the American Institute of ‘Archi- fects. It is most fitting, therefore, that' tonight we should have our guests he representatives of that great and in- to whose fore- ing efforts we owe not ohlK the re but the preservation End advancement of a plan for the orderiy and svstematic development of | the Nation's Capitdl “The mepting held in 1905 centered atténtion on the needs of Washington: At the same time it made certain that the future development of the city should conform to a balanced and comprehensive plan, based upon the spacious and dignificd- ideas of Presi- dent W ¢ Msi LEnfant with such f ns as might be required to meet modern condilions &nd ! the city's growth. ential organj: sight and unt Carrying Out Ideas. 1 “Now we are engaged in trying to| fan out thosz idehs reathed a stage where economy de- mands that the Government's active ities be adequately housed in buildings owned by the Government it- self: and, in order to meet this need, Congress has made the necessary ap- propriations to begin this work snd to proceed with certain other plans for the orderly development of the city. The esponsibility for the condemnation and purchiss of. sites and the erection of most of these bulldings bas been placed by Congress on the Tressury Depart- ment and has becoms, therefore, an gnicgral part of Teeasury. aetivities, The placing of these bufldings in- | ment of Washington. | to a decision, the Treasury obtained the | faith is near at hand,” he declared. by any one in- | i he product of { meet with your approval, so that we can | leaves,” ‘ mw‘ gllflk the Depurtment of Justice, which will rise on the faces west | s Wl 0iflf_§hllfidlhulfl. i s & = | volves & great responsibility, for the | unfailing faith” to see America’s Capi- | proper deterniination “of this question | tal City “the most beautiful city in the will largely influence the future devel: Before coming | - | world.” | “The realization of this desire and | advice of Mr. Edward H. Bennett of | Chicago, & weli known architect, whose | ;mnc have Mfln much to ldn w;lh{ to completion the plans for beautifying his native city. Mr. Ben- I nett was appointed consulting architect of the Treasury; and, with a small | group of other eminent architects from different parts of the country, has given unstintedly of his services in arriving st = solution of this problem. ‘These men have come to Washing- ton at fregeunt intervals ‘and have served without adequate remuneration | helping to work out & plan under | which the new bulldings chall be grouped pnd ed in such a way as to contribute in the greatest meas- ure le to the beauty of Wash- | ington. In evolving these plans ‘the Treasury has had the co-operation of | the Fine Arts Commission and its able | and devoted chairman. Mr. Moore, with | public buildings in the District of Co~ the Capital Park and Planning Com- | jumbia. Of this amount,” he contin mission, the Office of’ Public Bulldings | ued, ~$50,000,000 18 to be used for coz= | and’ Parks, and especially with those | struction of buildings and $25,000,000 | members of the Senate and House of for the acquisition of land on which Representatives who are most directly | these buildings are to be erected, Most concerned in this werk and who have | | of this latter sum will pe spent in ac- been 50 largely responsible for the de- | quiring Jand in the so-called triangle velopments now under way. area, extending along Pennsylvania c:v“‘ 2 % 1 ifteenth st th - s Comprahensive, nue from Fifteenth street to the Cap! “All of these developments have been tol, and bounded on the south side by | ! the Mall. The !orm:‘r sum lo;] ;}s]o.ueo-ll embodied in a comprehensive plan, and | 000 Will include a site which has al-| it is this plan vhlgh will be ':my nied | ready been purchased for the Supreme to you tomight. We want also to have | Court Buflding, facing the Capitol and | you view the model which has been | extending along East Capi‘ol street, cov- | made of public buildings to be erected | €FiNg an area approximating that of the | slong Pennsylvania avenue. This model | Congressional Library. on the south side | is on view tonight in & room adjoining | Of the street. A commission, of which | the one in which we are now, and will | the Chief Justice is chairman, is now be taken later to the Treasury, where | S€Curing a design for the building.” it will be left permanently on exhibi- | Blocks Involved. tion for all who care to view it. “It was to place these plans before | Concerning the acquisition of sites, you and also to make something in the Senator Smoot reported that “there are nature of & visual presentation through | 23 blotks involved, and of this number motfon plctures * that have been pre- four have been purchased. nine are now pared that we have asked this dis- | In process of condemnation and con Unguished audience o come together demnation proceedings will be started | tonight. 1. hope ithat the plans will | for six within the next month. This he said, “only four blocks yet to be appropriated for, and it is expect- Glad Appropriation Failed. Recalling that the late Senator Hey- | burn and himself 21 years ago had | thought, the time had arrived to pur- | chase the privately owned land in the | triangle to make it the center of the | | Nation’s activities, Senator Smoot said | an apropriation of $10,000,000 was ask- | | ed for the purchase, but he was glad it | | b for if we hand succeeded,” thing to compare with the plans now fully under way. “A $20,000,000 appropriation in 190: he said, ‘15 fairly comparable with | $200,000,000 today, the amount that will | be required to complete the present tri~ nnil; bullding program.” { plaining the broad outlines of the | program, Senator Smoot said Congress “has already authorized $75,000,000 for proceed with ‘carrying them out, forti- ! fied in the knowledge that we have your |¢d that shortly after the next Tegular | said, had been author! d sanction and support. 1 am sure in seasion of Congress convenes an appro- | vance of your deep Interest, for it is a | Propriation will be made to complete | work which makes a strong appeal to | the purchase of the land in question.” every one and gives us all an oppor- _ ‘The construction program was out- | funity 1 do something of permanent | lned by Senator Smoot, who said that | valuc for the country. | under “the $50,000,000 authorization “No one has taken p deeper interest | $43,500000 will be expended for con in this great undertaking than has tuction, the balance to be expende President Hoover. In all the things | fOF sites for certain of these projects. | that have beers done and are now under | 8Some of this work, Senator Smoot ! way he has given bhis counsel and! explained, was already under way, m-‘ support, and behind the plans which | cluding the Department of Agriculture, have been made for the future he has | where an ldmlnl&trlllu'n bulldlng_ L&‘ placed the full force of his administra- | Being bullt at a cost of $2,000,000. This | tion. It is a great privilege to have deparument, the Senator explained, will him here tonight. and to have the AlS0 have another building. to be con- honor of announcing the President of ";“‘"l":‘l‘haf"! Ly u;t south side of the administration building. t:; United States, who will now address 2R IEEHOD bud - | Printing Office, the speaker said, would | Takes Little Credit. be mlfl'le l.lh.ll‘;‘“ of $1,250,000 and a | *beautiful ullding” for the Internal In his brief address Mr. Mellon took P liitle OF no credit to himself, Praising | Lont at £ eest of 810 e 0 e g | o Eteciation ot st ondung | $3Dected (o be completed in 8 lite over the function of .the great part being "0 YoA'S vlaged in the public building program Will Be 1,000 Feet Long. by the eminent Secretary of the Treas- | 7The Department of Commerce Build- ury. who was the host of the evening. | jng now under construction, and to cost Senator Smoot, chairman of the Pub- | §17500,000, Senator Smoot characteriz- lic Buildings Commistion, which. has | ed as “the largest building that will be large responaibility in the public housibg | constructed in the Triangle area, and Conditions have ' program, who followed President HoOVEr | will be over 1,000 feet in length along | on the program, predicted $200.000,000 Pifternth street and will extend from would be required to ccmplete the tri-| the Mall to Pennsylvania avenue and angle project. He sketched “i.= WaYS| Pourteenth street. and means” by which the Government | “Ap Archives | hopes {0 ateomplish the great program. | Smoot continue Senator , “has be While explaining in detail much of | at & limit of cost of $8.750 | the work that is now going on and un- | be one of the most important bulldings {der way, the Senator laid down the in the triangle group. It will house the ‘mmiplc that the whole program will archives and .valuable records of the “make it possible to operate the Gov- Government which are now scaitered | eroment mote efficlently and, in the | in many buildings, some of .which are | end, more eeonomically by putting an | not fireproof. |end to the large Tent bill which the | “Designs are being made” sald the Government is now paying.” Senator, “for other buildingg 'n the For A quartgt,of a century, Senator triangle group. for. the Dey ts of B8moot said, he l:ld had & “desire and Justice and Labor and the Interstate be provided for the legislative branch the Government | 000, This will | observer looking east from Fifteenth street. The Department yiey site of what Is now Center Market. I STAR, WASHINGTON, . .C. FRIDAY, APRIL 92 &! 9 6, 1929. A view of the circular pla with the proposed monum:nt in the center which wit now Twelfth street between C and D streets, of some of the buildings which are Department of. be the largest building in Washington. s Looking eastward from Fifteenth street alpng the FPennsylvania avenue of the future, showing an exc to house our governmental activilies. C J-MEDARY EN stand in the center of what is Photos. by Theo Horydezak. cllent group ommieree Building, which is now under construction. When completed this witl | HOOVER SE ESFILM - DEPIGTING CAPITAL 52 ‘Past, Present and Future |'Scenes of -Washington At- | tended by Notable Audience. A vivid and entertaining description of the past, present and projected future development of the City of Washington is' shown in entertaining fashion in the A view of the triangle, looking west along Pennsylyania avenue, - The twin towers are on the proposed Department of motion picture, which Secretary Mellon | Justice Bullding. A4 yet, the use to which the building in the foreground will be put is undetermined. Commerce Commission and other inde- pendent establishments. When finally | completed, the triangle area will con- | tain a most magnificent group of build- ings. These buildings, by grouping to- gether related governmental activities, will greatly add to the convenience of those doing business with the Govern- ment. They will also make it possible to operate the Government more effi- clently and, in the end, more eco- nomically by putting an end to the large rent bill which the Government is now paying for offices to house the Departments of Justice, Lakor, Com- merce and others.” JIn addition to the Triangle project, nator Smoot said it was gxpected that additional accommfodations would f the Government by censiructing an ddition to the House Office Bullding on the south side of the. Capitol at an estimated cost of $7,500,000, and by en- larging the Senate Office Building, thus | completing the quadrangle, of which the resent building formsthree sides, the cost of which he Qlllmllcdo;guld prob- ably be somewhat over $2, 000. $4,912,414 to Complete Park. An_appropriation of $4.912,414, he ized for complet- ing the park between the Capltol and Union Station and also carrying out the long-delayed plaxs for development of the Mall, “At the western end of the Mall" he sald, “the Arlington Memorial Bridge | when finally | completed wilk represent a total cost of $14.750,000. This will include, beside the bridge, the construction of & plaza west of the Lincoln Memorial, the im- | provement of Columbia Island in the | Potomac, a formal terraced avenue on the Virginia side, leading to Arlington Cemetery, and the widening of several streets in Washington to give sultable approach to the brid, “All of these plans,” he said. “when carried out, will add greatly to the con- venfence and beauty of the city. - They will not involve a very great outlay each year. For the great triangle de- velopment it has been est/mated that only $11.000,000 will be exvended this year. and next year only $24.000,000. The nlans have been carefully made and will, T believe, meet general ap- proval. I am a strong believer in the necessity of carrying forward this great | work in an orderly and systematic man-.| nér and.am confident .that in so doing | we will merit the thanks and appro- | bation of future generations who will | | come here to view the ‘work which we have done.” Traces Legislative History. | Chairman Elliott of the House com- | | mittee on public buildings and grounds ed the legislative history of the Fed- | eral City development, praising both | former President Coolidge and President Hoover for their part in what he called “the great reconstructive period in the | National Capital ™ » | The Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Con- | gresses were highly commended by ! Representaiive Ellloit, who | the remaking of the National Capital | District of Columbia to the amount of predicted | beginn’ that they “will go down in history as | building program’ ed by :our doing more in a constructive way for ‘ ernment. It not'only took into con- handle bars controllin and the providing of adequate public bulldings throughout the eountry than | all of the preceding Congresses had done in this behalf.” - Washington, Mr. Elliott declared, “is | what our forefathers interided it to be, | the home of our Federal Go¥érnment, | and Congress should make.it a model city, the greatest capital in the world.” Tracing the history . of = legislation forming the Capital, Mr. Elliott said the first was when Congress, meeting in Philadelp] in 1790, passed an act moving the National Capital' from the Quaker City to the District of Colum- | bia. The speaker pointed out that the | city was laid out by Maj. Pierre Gharles L'Enfant, a French army engineer, and in accordance with an act of Congress | under.the supervision and direction ol, President George Washington. The plat of this same city, he said, “could well be used by any great city planner of today and reflects great credit upon its authors.” T history of public buildings in Washington was traced by Mr. Elliott | throiigh the construction of the Cap- | itol, White House and Land Office, the partial destruction of the Capitol and the White House by the British army in 1814, and their reconstruction and enlargement since. Various Plans Advanced. While many various plans were ad- vanced after 1790, Mr. Elliott said that no great forward step was taken in rebulldifig of the National Capital until Congress passed the public building law of May 25, 1926, which authorized the construction of public buildings in the $50,000,000. This law, he pointed out, was quickly followed by the so-called triangle bill, which authorized the pur- se of all land bounded by Pennsyl: vania avenue, Third street, Missouri | avenue, B street and Fifteenth street. Praising the. triangle plan of “mag- nificent buildings,” the speaker said they would be “easy of access to the people -who have business to contract with the Government.” “For instance,” he pointed out, “the Department of Agriculture has been oc- cupying space in 47 different and widely | scattered rented buildings in the Dis- trict of Columbia; the Bureau of Inter- nal Revenue has occupled space in 19 | buildings; and all departments of the Government. have been likewise con- gested” ‘The fire hazard, even to “rec- | ords on which our glorious history rests, | containing the records of the World | War soldiers,” was deplored. Some of the buildings authorized un- der the 1926 act, he sald, were the De- partment of Agriculture, Labor, Justice, | Bureau of Internal Revenue, Archives Building and additions to the Govern- ment Printing Office and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Says Act Marked Epoch, “The passage of this gcl,” the speak- er declared, "marked an epoch in the history of the public buildings of our country for the reason that it was the 8 ot theodrst comprehensive sideration the need for public buildings mn the District of Columbia, but pro- vided for much-needed public build- ings throughout cont‘nental United States and its dependencies.” Referring to the Supreme Court, which he said “has never had a satis fectory or adequate home,” Mr. Elliott redicted its new structure would be in keeping with its dignity and im- portance.” The_Arlington Memorial Bridge act Mr. “jmportant_act,” of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, who insisted that there should be a bridge of enduring granite spanning the broad bosom of the Poto- mac as a symboj North ‘and_South, “A magnificent boulevar “has been authorized, west end of the Arlington Bridge with Mount Vernon, the home of Washing- ton. B street is to be widened to the he said, width of 120 feet from the Senate Office Building to the Potomac River. Twenty-third street northwest will be widened as far north as Washington Circle. B street between the Govern- ment buildings and The Mall will be the great thoroughfare over which pro- cessions going from the National Capi- tal to Arlington Cemeter - will travel.” Signing by President Coolldge of the | latest building act, providing for a boulevard from Columbus Monument, in front of Union Station, to a point where it will intersect with Pennsyl-| vania avenue at Second street, was said by the speaker to be the last offcial act of President Coolidge. By this act, Mr. Elliott said, Mr. Coolidge showed himself to be “a great friend, seeking to improve and rebulld the National Capital.” “His administration,” declared the speaker, “will go down in history as marking the béginning of the great re- constructive period in the National Capital.” - Mellon and Aides Praised. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and “his able corps of assistants,” Mr. El- liott said, had been working hard to arry out the great work, and “they | deserve great praise and credit for the start they have made in carrying out| the mandate of Congress.” Turning to President Hoover's part in the program, Representative Ellott declared that “we are fortunate in hav ing 2s Chief Executive of the Nation a man who is a trained engineer and builder, one whose life has been devoted to the handling of large affairs.” “President Hoover, by reason of his great ability and industry,” the speaker declared, “will have many constructive achievements to his credit at the end of his administration, and he will no doubt go down in history as the great builder, and the monument to his ad- ministration will-- be - Washington, the finest capitat m the world.”" - t I A An _English inyentor's one - man dirigible balloon- is " driven “by bicycle mechanism geared to a propeller, its rudder. Elliott characterized as another fulfilling “the dream | of the union of the connecting the | presented last night at the distinguished | gathering of officials at the Chamber ot | Commerce of the United States. | The picture, which the Secretary ex- | plained in his introduction is the firsf ever made under direction of the Treas- ury Department, was a feature, not only highly informative, but also delightfully | entertainin | Washington. | The story developed through the film, | which will be displayed again tonight | at the second evening's meeting at the same place, runs about 40 minutes, and | is & graphic description of the founding, the development, the advances and mis- | takes in architecture, and the present | great plan of 1928, which is in the building. Written- and directed by ex- | perts of the Treasury Department, the fllm takes up the plan of \L'Enfant, | showing its excellencies, the McMillan plan of 1901, and how it was based on the original, and the plan of 1928, with splendid views of the artistic model of the triangle buildings, now under con- | struction. g The photography is artistically done. containing views of Washington’s splendid buildings so well prtsen&d as | to draw applause from the€ audierice There are many views of action, lntehJ esting sketches of old prints connected | with the past, views of the oldest build- “ ings still standing in the city, and sgenes |of some of the most unpresentable bulldings now on Pennsylvania® avenue. as contrasted to the majesty and beauty | planned for the future. - Music for the picture was® presented | by the Marine Band, which alse played | | an opening concert, and “Hail to the | | Chief” at_the entrance ,and. exit of | | President Hoover and his party. Presi- | dent Hoover remained throughout the exhibition of the picture. He hear himself roundly applauded when his picture was shown on the screen. | s, \GRAF ZEPPELIN RETURNS FROM 3,400-MILE TRIP| Next Venture of Dirigible Expect- i ed to Be Voyage to the United States. By the Associated Press. | FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, April | 6.—The glant dirigible Graf Zeppelin| _was back in its hangar today sfter a flight “of ' more them 5% hours aver | Southwestern . Europe, ; the Mediterran- | ‘can”. and- Northern Africa. Its: next | venture {am home was expected to be| another transatlantic ‘erossing to Amer. | fca to begin about May 15. i It was estimated the dirigible traveled about 3,400 miles since its departure’ | early Tuesday . afternoon. It landed| | here at 10:24 o'clock last night. | | | | {2 Texas Newspaper Man Dies. .DALLAS, Tex., April 26 (#).—Tom Finty, jr. 61, & director of the A. H. Belo Corporation, - publishers of the Dallas Morning News: and the Dallas| Journ®l, and of ‘the mokt widely knowm # in Texas, died here. erday 4 It is called “The City of | C: futy CRAM VISTONS CAPTAL OF FUTLR ‘Distinguisfied Audience Told | L’Enfant Plan Still Domi-’ | ‘nates City Beautification. Criticizing one early period of “artis- tic illiteracy” in the development of ‘Washingten, Milton B. Medary, member of the National Capital Park and Pian~ | ning Commission, last night told the distinguished audience of Government officials at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States that “the majestic simplicity” of the “L'Enfant plan” stiil dominated the ‘great plans now under way for beautification of the Capital through buildings, bridges and parkways. | “No eity can have dignity, beauty and | distinction,” he declared. “or be & great | city in the best sense of the word unless its every element is an appropriate part of a greater whole.” Mr. Medary spoke at the meeting called by Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon for a comprehensive report %o the American people on progress of the.re- construetion program of this city. ‘The period of “artistic illiteraey.” Mr. Medary said, “governed the devel- opment’of Washington during the pe- |riod between the Influence of the L'Enfant plan and the plan-of 1901, known as the McMtllan plan.” One no- table exampic of the age -eriticized, he sald, was “the introduction of railroad | tracks and stations in the great park designed by L'Enfant and known as the Mall.” Shows Lack of Economy. “The cost and .manner of correcting this mistake,” he said, “illustrate both the lack of economy. resulting from um- guided development and the value tofa city of the orderly disposition of its utilities in their true relation fo a great basic plan.” . While the McMillan pian of 1901, he said, had never been officially’adopted, “its intrinsic merit has given it force and-carried conviction.” Both the Na- tional Commission of Pine Arts and the National Capital Park and Planning | Commission, Mr. Medary said, had been formed since the McMillan plan, and “have been governed in their advice and decislons on all individual projects by the relation such projects bear to the <city as one great unit.”. The influence of the L'Enfant plan was _praised throughout Mr.. Medary's | address, which dwelt ‘eloquently upon many phases of the development of ‘Washingten, Discussing the cost of- Government bullding, the speaker referred to the huge plans for the early Capital. which he said “did not seem extravagant to Washington and the group of his ad- visers who dictated that plan v Capitol Notable Building. ‘The McMillan plan, made*in 1900, he sald. “is, after nearly 30 years, only partly realized. It would seem reason- able, therefore,” the speaker recom- mended, “to anticipate.a period of 25 to.50 years in any comprehensive plans for .the future. - And in so doing. they | should represent the normal annual de- velopment multiplied by 25 or 50 with- out implying any increase im- normai | average. expenditure.” | _ Declaring the public mind was some= what confused on the cost of public | works, he sald: “We- are not mocue | tomed to compare the costof-the Capi- tol .on the hill, symbalizing the whele r::‘b:l with the m!:anf single units 1 aval program. or.to the ‘navies: * dozen have ' been serapped while “the Capitol. serving the Nation, and t inds today, as through its whol ftgtory, one of the notable buildings of “world.” Tracing the establishment eral City as “belonging to aj | the whole Nation,” Mr; Ty q 5 séem wise fof us to think of the Washington of the future as it wes thought of by its founders and in all public works or legislation affecting the city to have in mind the dignity and distinction of its ultimate character as a National City, distinguished from the great commercial cities, which justly and fittingly express their raison detre elsh Ats ‘own, way.” i &hould . not 4n] t seat of the Ngtlonal - A Mr. o als0 invite as 8 organizations and sciences “protection and Seén 4s if a plan et ably be de by wg!ch bfleu‘eutlo I and local interests could finitely segregated, permitting the a) to as 'rm'ff myw lu it may of e le Nati without complic#tion with the flnunrn:; of the District, reaffigming the original hove that. Washin d never be- come a competitor of 0! and industrial centers n?*lfi ?S"u'fi%"» Praises L’Enfant Pi Praising the L'Enfant,_pla; :’t “l‘:: ldclont;glnn; prmcbbx;bu}:htukig 2y modern: plannin rerEuhllonx. Pl 8 and zoning ven the great Federal triangle be- tween Pennsylvania averue, P'igrm‘nth street amd the Mall, he said;” conformed to the original L‘lnh.ntrlln. The triangle B cescribedias designed to create a monimental and effective separation of B street- and Pennsyl- apex of tle trian- many other obligatios eriiment, and it woul could \-?nhn;sfsnue ;: the gle, a; ) make a fitting elosure of the Ccross-vista from the Mall to the De- partment of Justice Building. It gives # facade to Pennsylvania avenue worthy of ‘the importance of that thoroughfare and creates on B street & part of the great frame of the Mall enyisioned by L'Enfant, holding the city back from the great central motif in which the Na- tion’s tributes to Washington and Lin- coln are enshrined as no other location, however commanding, could enshrine them. Imiagine these same.two monu- ments erected anywhere in the built-up part of the city and deprived of their reverent isolation! “By the application of the principle that, no matter how important the proj- ect, it must take its place in the treat- ment of the whole, it has been possible to make every office in the proposed group of departmental buildings not only serve its own purpose in the most efficient way, but do_its part in paying homage to the great central motif of the city and ta the majestic simplicity of the L’Enfant plan. This treatment points the way for the location and de- sign of such bulldings as will be needed in the future to the west of the Monu- ment and for the completion of the frame on the south side of the Mall” Watts Navy Building Removed. ‘The Navpsand Munitions Buildin, vLeere cru ‘as marring the Mall, an mgfi;iremmended their removal. ‘The thsontlan group, he said, should be studied, “in order that its e _constructions from time to time ltimately give its true relation to the L'Enfant plan.” ‘The municipal group proposed for John Marshall place was praised as an “interesting illustration of the multi- “pll‘;d values resulting from good plan- nl A “There is no more beautiful example of early -republican architecture-in-the country,” he deéclared,”“thanthe Dis- trict ~courthouse; ‘now somewhaty lost in .mdit‘:& Square and seenr by {Ro r oni ident: - e chofee of & T =