Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1929, Page 30

80 . PARK VALUATION SET AT 1847549 + West Potomac Is Listed as Most Valuable, With Worth Fixed at $26,081,350.69. ‘The estimated value of the Capital's principal parks and reservations under Jurisdiction of the office of public build- ings and public parks last June was $185,877,649.47, it was declared yester- day by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, di- rector of gubllc buildings and public paris, in his annual report to Presi- dent. Hoover. While scenic Rock Creek Park is valued at $5,064,036.58 and Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, rep- Tesenting the undeveloped section south of Massachusetts avenue to the Poto- mac River, is worth $1,649.715.62, the most valuable piece of park property, the report holds, is West Potomac Park, am Welalch an estimate of $26,081,350.69 aced. e value of the improved tracts of acres, while that of the unimproved tract is placed at $1,890,140.30, com- prising 796.53 acres, and miscellaneous resevations com squares and prising tentatively valued at 23221 acres are $34,612,120.03. The major parks and their estimated value follow: East Potomac Park, 327 acres, $20,091,068; outer portion grounds south of the White House, 52.44 acres, $11,420,865: Lafayette Park. facing the White House, 6.97 acres, $10,621.250; Monument Grounds, the Mall, south of the White House, 106.01 acres, $24.- 588,978; Smithsonian Grounds, the Mall, west of Seventh street, 59.41 acres, $21,886,268. and Seaton Park West, and the Mall” between Four-and-a-half and Sixth streets, 13.04 acres; $2,414,637.50. Unimproved Tracts Cited. The unimproved tracts, with their acreage and estimated value, are: Ana- costia Park, east shore, Anacostia River, (Section C), 64.08 acres, $82,739.74; Archbold Parkway, Arizona avenue and Reservoir road, 17.75 acres, $23,190.05: Chevy Chase Recreation Center, Branch road, Quesada and Thirt; streets, 5.62 acres, $78,044.50; Commo- dore Barney Circle, Pennsylvania a: nue and Seventeenth street southeast, 5.23 acres. $113935.50; Fort Davis, Pennsylvania avenue and Alabama ave- nue southeast, 13.33 acres, $17424.59; Fort Dupont, Alabama avenue and Burns street southeast, 97.66 acres, $127.621.89; Fort Dupont Parkway, Massachusetts avenue to F street southeast, 214.14 THE EVENING acres, $43,317.09; Fort Slocum, between Second, Third and Oglethorpe streets, 14.21 acres, $162,632.26; Fort Stanton Park, Butler street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets southeast, 16.68 acres, $25434.01; Fort Mahan Park, nesota avenue, Benning road, Forty- second and Foote streets northeast, 26.14 acres, $43,521; Glover Parkway, Arizona avenue, Forty-fourth, Fulton and U streets, 78 acres, $92,146.37: Klingle Valley Parkway. Klingle road. McComb street and Connecticut ave- nue, 593 acres, $111759.70; Lower Foundry Branch Valley, Arizona ave- nue, Reservoir and Conduit roads, 21.51 acres, $133.795.06; Reservoir Parkway. ‘Wisconsin avenue, Forty-second, V and T streets, 21.65 acres, $227,373.76; Shep- herd Parkway, South Capitol street and Nichols_avenue southeast and south- west, 154.62 acres, $127,972.62; Soap- stone Valley, Connecticut avenue and Yuma street, 20.73 acres, $84.257.12, and Takoma Recreation Center, Under- wood, Sheridan, Fifth and Third streets, 16.76 acres, $189,796. Gas Kills War Hero. TORONTO, Ontario, December 11 (). —Capt. George Fraser Kerr was un- | jt harmed in the war by gas, shrapnel and the like. He won the Victoria Cross, the Military Cross and Bar and the Military Medal. Carbon monoxide fumes killed him while the motor of his automobile was running in his garage. T STAR, WASHINGTON, FLOWERS FLOURISH IN DEEP COAL MINE 2,00 Feet Below Earth's Surface. GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia (Spe- cial) —Flowers growing and flourishing 2,000 feet underground seems like fairy tale from the “Arablan Nights but, far from that, it is a reality at No. 1B mine, at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. No. 1B is pointed out as the most modern coal mine on the continent. Completely electrie, from the huge fans which keep the air circulating through the winding tunnels to the hauler which raises the coal to the surface, no ugly cloud of black smoke hangs over . ‘The miles of tunnels, some of which go out under the stormy Atlantic for a distance of a mile and a half, are all cement lined, dry and declared to be completely free from “fire dam One of the men who work below the surface planted a garden in the mine. Lighted by electric lights, garden and D C, Garden Planted by Miner Thrives| MEXICAN CONSULATE | BECEIPTS REPORTED| Laredo Leads in Revenue Collected | | During Year, With New York | Office Second. MEXICO CITY (Special). —The Mexi- can consulate at New York City held second place in the amount of business transacted in 1928 among all the Mexi- can consulates in the world, statistics just released by the ministry of foreign relations here show. | | __The consulate at Laredo. Tex., leading ] TONSILINE The National Sore Throat Remedy™ [\ % | | 'Curs,nd SCRATCHES | Stop the smarting and hasten the healing by prompt application of Depend up- on the tried % proven sore WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 1929. Rich Beggar Banished. NEW YORK, December 11 (#).—Edna Townsend, beggar who had a flat and a . maid, has been ordered to leave town by Y+ Magistrate Dryer. Theodore Burk and i Alton Tolsen, boys whom she brought from Baltimore to wheel her about the streets, testified that she collected from $10 to $25 a day. port of entry by land to Mexico, held | Paris, France; Antwerp, Belgium; Los first place, collecting 7,198,144.96 pesos | Angeles, Calif.; San Diego, Calif.; Glas- (about $3,589,072.48) during the year for | gow, Scotland; Calexico. Calif.; Phil official business. The Ne% York con-| delphia, Pa., and Naco, Ariz. sulate collected 5,306,068.33 (about $2,- The total collected by Mexican con- | 653,034.16). sulates in foreign countries in 1928 was The smallest income was reported by | 31.772,680.03 pesos. In 1921 the total | the Mexican consulate at Bari, Italy, | was only 13,305,052.03 pesos. who took in 2.50 pesos (less than'$1.25). .3 Consulates leading in transactions T and ranking just below New York City Climbing Heavenward. were Hamburg, Germany; Liverpool,| . There are 377 skyscrapers more than high in the United States. LANSBURGH & BRO 7th, Sth and E Sts—FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—National 9800 The Irish Free State is to take an | industrial production census, Resinol Gas is just being dences of Calcutta, Ine house flowers grow there as well as they acres, $205,218.30: Fort Reno Park, Fes- i do above ground. installed in resi- senden streef est on Reno road, 2.49 dia. Washington's - park system is set at $149, 38! comprising 967.22 LANSBURGH & BRO 7th, 8th and E Sts.—Glorifying the CHRISTMAS GIFT—National 9800 Every small boy and girl likes animals—and the ones shown in Toytown World's Fair Zoo are so cunning that older folks will be tempted to buy them for every little folk on their gift list. ; 16-Inch Roxy Dog, $3.75 Such a lovable barking pup—even grown-ups like his big brown, soulful eyes; brown, blue, pink and black with white. BASEMENT STORE Teddy Bear, $1.00 The bigger teddy bears are the better kiddies like them— this one’s 18 inches tall with a voice and a collar with bells. 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