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* Fundsfor Housing U. S. Diplomats Almost Exhausted; 170 Buildings Are Owned * (Continued From PFirst Page.) de la Concorde shall not exceed a cer- tain height and that it shall conform generally to the original plan of the great French architect, Auge Jacques Gabriel, who in the time of Louis XV designed the facades now standing on the northern side of the square. The commission has paid particular attention to posts where living condi- tions at present are difficult—that is, where the minister and his staff find it hard to obtain satisfactory quarters. On July 1, 1926, it authorized a grant of $60,000 for the legation building at ‘Tirana, the capital of Albania. This is one of the small and inaccessible cap- itals of Europe and the living condi- tions which face the representatives of the American Government are unfavor- able, as compared with those in nearly évery other European capital, Upon the recommendation of our minister, Charles C. Hart, the State Department turned over the construc- tion of the new legation to the Alban- ian Vocational School under the direc- tion of its supervisor, Harry T. Fultz of the American Red Cross. The building is well on the way to completion. The furnishings of the building follow the same general plan used in furnishing the London embassy. Building Designed for Tropics. Posts in Central and South America have received prior consideration for the reason that living conditions in the Lmflcs are difficult for American diplo- mats, ‘The commission has had designed a standard building for tropical use, to include offices for the legation and res- idences for the Minister and members of his staff. lar.2gua, capital of Nicaragua, where American marines have been maintain- ing law and order, was one of the first Central Arfferican capitals selected. The commission appropriated $100,000 for a new legation there and it has purchased an elevated tract 2,100 yards from the center of the town. The arehitects for the projects are Aldrich & Chase of Boston. The plans call for a central building, as the residence of the Minis- ter, connected by colonnades with two smailer structures for use as the secre- tary’'s house and offices, all to be built in the Southern Colonial type of archi- tecture. A sum of $75,000 has been allocated for the acquisition of land ang the con- struction of buildings in Tegucigalpe. Handuras. The property, though owned by the Honduran government, has been occupied by squatters. It consists of 3¢ acres and should prove .admirably adapted to the use of the American Government. Corinto Plot Purchased. ‘The commission has already made provision for a number of other Cen- tral American pests. Corinto, Nica- rague, is one of these. The structurc there will be used for a consulate and a triangular plot on the waterfront ?s been acquired. On October 17, 1927, $150,000 was allocated for the demoli- tion of the present Government-owned building at Panama City and the con- struction on the same site of an offica building and the erection of residentim quarters for the consul on the Point of Paitilla. Bluefields, Nicaragua, is like- wise on the list of projects under way. A site has been acquired on El Bluff, acrcss & shallow lagoon from the town, near the customs office. Two American buildings are under way in Cuba. Matanzas is one of the points selected and the commission has granted $42,000 for the purchase and initial modeling and repair of a new consulate. Santiago de Cuba is the other Cuban city so far selected. For a consulate at this important port the commission has voted the sum of $53.- ' . The site selected overlooks the beautiful harbor .and the consulate mmm to Nm the most at- tive in the an area. The commission has voted $90,000 for especially those with families. | M the purchase of the building now occu- pled by the American Minister in Teheran, Persia, and this will be re- modeled and refurnished. At Aden, Arabia, the commission has allocated $18,000 for an American consular build- ing. Negotiations have been completed for a site on the water front. The commission has granted the sum of $750,000 for the purchase of an office and residential quarters for the Ameri- can Minister at Ottawa. There are two very old brick buildings on the site which will have to be demolished before the new project can be completed. Cass Gilbert of New York has been selected as the architect for the construction of a new office building. In a year or two the American Minister to Canada will be housed as well as American repre- sentatives abroad. Site Owned In Rio. The country owns a site in Rio de Janeiro and the Ambassador's residence there, The commission will now erect an office building for the consul gen- eral and the commercial attache on the site adjoining the embassy. The allo- cation for this building amounts to $260,000. The buliding will be five stories high and an American firm of architects in Rio, Preston and Curtis, has drawn up the plans. . ‘The commission has given special at- tention to the needs of the Far East. Government-owned buildings in the Far East add to the prestige of the United States in what now is one of the great- est battlefields of commerce and diplo- acy. The commission has allotted $750,000 for the erection of a consulate at Shanghai, gateway to the populous Yangtse Valley. The consulate will be located on the river front and will be It will house all official American activi- ties in that city, with the exception of the consular court. Chairman Porter and other members of the commission are particularly anx- jous to have the United States repre- sented by suitable offices throughout China in order that the Chinese may feel that the United States recognizes the importance of their country in FRr Eastern affairs. The commission has under consideration plans for a $75,000 office building at Mukden, together with residential quarters for the consul and his staff. About $63,000 has been ap- propriated also for a consulate at Amoy. Builds Tokio Embassy. ‘The commission is erecting a hand- some embassy in Tokio to take the place of the building destroyed by the fire and earthquake in 1923. In addition to offices, the building will contain suitable quarters for staff of the embassy and the military, naval and commercial at- taches. A’ consulate. will be built at Yokomama and another at Nagasaki. There will be a new consulate at Pen- ang, Straits Settlement. So far as pos- sible, the furniture selected will be of steel and aluminum, materials calcu- lated to resist the ravages of the white ant. The sum of $100,000 has been allocated for a new legation at Bang- kok, capital of Siam. White ants have seriously damaged the old legation. In 1927, the commission woted $500,000 for a consulate at Calcutta, where American consular-officers have found living con- ditiens trying. Both offices and resi- dential quarters will be vided here. When completed, the Calcutta project will offer American foreign service offi- cers one of the most attractive homes in that part of the world. Sees Gain In Prestige. ‘The program in the Far East has al- ready justified itself. Commenting on the situation in that part of the world, our commercial attache at Peking, Jul- ean Arnold, said: “Seldom has our Congress enacted legislation more fruitful in furtherance of America's prestige and trade abroad than that carried in the provisions of the foreign service buildings act. “The dotting of the world’s map with many beautiful edifices representing the one of the finest buildings in Shanghai.| American construction id equipment will exert a tremendous influence in the encouragement of the use of American ideas, methods and materials in the con- struction and furnishings for building purposes throughout the world. Each one of these American Federal buildings will stand out in the communities where they are erected as happily symbolic of American architecture, building con- struction, equipment in plumbing, heat- ing, lighting and ventilation. Viewed as Model for Chinese. “In Shanghai the new consulate wil! stand out as typifying the latest ideas us developed by & Nation signally advanced among the peoples of the world in build- ing construction and equipment. Thou- sands of Chinese will come to that building with the idea of appraising ths architecture, building materials, con- struction and furnishings in the light of using in a suggestive sense such of the American exhibit as may be adapted to | tio duplication in the construction of the new China. Chinese' are now looking for models and there our great Shang- hai Federal building will stand out in the skyline of this great commercial capital of the most populous of nations as the last word in American building construction and equipment. “Shanghal is now a city of 3,000,000 inhabitants and is rated as the sixth rea equivalent to that of the State of Tilinois, the lower Yangtse Valley has an estimated population of 40,000,000 It is to Shanghal that hundreds of thou- sands of tourists from other sections of the country come each year and carry back with them tm?reulmu which this, the most modern of all communities ir China, leaves upon their mind during their sojourn in that city. Models for Manchuria. “So with Mukden, the capital of the northern empire, embraced within the three eastern provinces of Manchuria It will help American prestige and in- fluence in that region to have our Fed- eral buildings objects of architectural beauty and to have them equipped in such a way as to furnish the people of that great frontier empire with models not only of building constructign, but of equipment and furnishings as well. “Manchuria is more like our Middle West than any other section of the world. Chinese are migrating there ai the rate of 1,000,000 a year. Tens of millions of acres of new land are being opened up to development and exploita- tion in the three eastern provinces. . “In Canton, the capital of a province of 25,000,000, America is the only one of the great trading nations of the world which has not as yet its own Federal building to house its represent- atives. As early as 1783, our Conti- nental Congress commissioned to Canton as consul general, Maj. Shaw. Thus Canton represents in our relations with the outside world one of the first trad- ing posts to which we commissioned an American representative. Now, after nearly 150 years we are still in that im- portant trading center relying upon rented quarters, distinctly inadequate, to house the corps of American officials who are functioning there for our Gov- ernment. Canton Linked to United States. “We must also remember that, with the exception of the Chinese students who have come to this country, most of the Chinese who have migrated to the United States come from Canton and vicinity. Thus, the Canton region represents in a more emphatic way than any other section of China the Amer- ican impress upon the Chinese republic. Certain towns in the interior of the Kwantung province are fashioned after American ideas of building construc- f?rlesl city in the world. Within an %o?imflgad:;ds h:( Chlnm&ora, hl‘.h the | helps n! ve return: ese | abundant ; gives i 1 Sk 0 Rttt An i s e rlvrilh’anlinm‘w“ it more lustre than velopments representing China’s transi- M‘n;\ from a medieval to a modern so- clety.” Architecturally, the commission's pro- gram is an interesting one. For it pro- poses to make the bulldings thoroughly and typically American. The commis- sion has already tentatively selected a number of Colonial sions as models. These include the homes of Jefferson. Madison, Monroe and several signers of ’ the Declaration of the mm'l:lbe f our Latin-Amer the exterior of one of -Amer- ican posts—an appropriate selection, in view of the importance which the doc- trine of Monroe has had in the of the New World. The interiors, of course, will not be exact duplications of the Colonial days, for they must be constructed with a view to present-day needs. New England may not be forgotten, for Mr. Porter is anxious to use the Longfellow house as a_model for the exterior of one pf our foteign buildings. 1t may be used for Ireland or northern Europe. ‘The commission has still much to do, but in the last three years it has completed or started more than forty projects It has made a good begin- ning, and can look forward confidently to the completion of its program, which calls for an American-owned building for every consulate, embassy and lega- n. Independence. used as & model for Havana's Building Plan Big. Hi Cuba, is preparing plans for public buildings which will cost at least $10,000000. They will include a new Palace of Justice, a Palace of Interna- tional Law, a national theater.and a public fibrary. Work on the Palace of Justice, which will be on the present site of the jail and barracks at the foot of the Prado, soon will be started. The Palace of International Law will be Dg- posite. 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