Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 6

MAJOR TRAFFIC AVENUES URGED Park and Planning Commis- sion Sees Need of Classify- ing City Thoroughfares. There is In Washington and vicinity urgent need for the promotion of the mafor thoroughfare idea, the National Capital Park and Planning Commsision asserts in its annual report, made public today following its transmittal toPres~ ident Hooyer. “If streets of this type can be set apart from all others in the popular mind and in the minds of officials, a notable step will have been taken toward the crea- | tion of a more perfect Capital City,” the | report avers, “Franchises for car or bus | Toutes cannot be discussed intelligently without a major thoroughfare plan. “Traffic regulations, such as those re- stricting the movement of vehicles of certain classes to marked routes, must pe Telated to the major thoroughfare system. Street lighting plans, trafhic sig- nals, paving specifications, school and pleyground sites, location of neighb hood store centers, fire and police sta. tions, tree-planting policies, even deed | restrictions on private property, all are | dependent upon a designation of major thoroughfares. Benefits of Plan Cited, FORMER GRAND Princess of Russia Eagerly Awaits Chance to Hear Christmas Carols. Visitor Is a Descendant of Two Notable Royal Fam- ilies in Europe. BY COR! 'E FRAZIER. “Once upon a time a lovely princess visited a strange land at Christmas- tide. And more than any other thing, she wanted to hear the singing of Christmas carols—for in all her life this young princess had never heard a Christmas carcl chanted. . ., .” Not a fairy tale, but the true story of the former Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, lovely 2 ar-old daughter of former Grand Duke Cyril, cousin of the Prince of Wales, granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England and niece of Queen Marie of Rumania, who | s visiting America for the first time Deming Jarvis, former Washington wol , and who with her hostess will spend the Christ- mas season the National Capital | where she hopes to hear for the first time in her 20 years the singing of | Christmas carols, | “A subdivider must move somewhat in the dark if he does not know where the | thoroughfares of the district in which | he is operating are or will be. It will | be increasingly helpful to all Washing- ton to have an official major thoroug fare plan. “An important step executton of the plan was g th last fiscal y project for straightening Michigan avenue in | the vicinity of the Soldiers' Home and | Trinity College in accordance with the | plan. The change in alignment of this existing highway to carry out the plan | suggests the possibility of further action in some of the other more pressing cases where similar changes are needed. Discusses Crosstown Routes. “The commission has prepared careful studies to provide an adequate cross- town route in the vicinity of Columbia road and Harvard street from Sixteenth | street to the Soldiers’ Home. These studies indicate that the most ecanom- ical solution of this problem is t development of these two streets as tandem one-way streets—Columbia road for west-bound traffic and Harvard | street for east-bound traffic. To secure | the proper functioning of such a system of traffic it is necessary to remove the two offsets of Harvard street at Georpia | avenue and at Fourteenth street. The | commission indorses _legislation to authorize the straightening of Harvard street at these points. i “The exchange of traffic ‘between sections of the city separated by the Rock Creek Valley is impeded and made unduly expensive by the present neces- sity for such traffic going down as much as 200 feet into the valley and climbing an equal height on the opposite side. Moreover, the passage of a heavy stream of traffic over steep grades and across | the park roads is a constant danger and a detriment to the park. At least one of the projects for a high level bridge upstream from the Calvert Street | Bridge should be adopted at an early ate, Street Paving a Factor. “The paving of streets within the| District has in the past had little or no | relation to the development of & major | thoroughfare system. The widths of | pavement placed on streets has, of course, been adequate to present local | needs, but in thany cases has not borne any relation to the possible future func- tioning of-the street in the major thor- oughfare system. “Gaps and peculiar variations in pav- | ing.widths exist on the most important | streets,” thereport continued. “The pavements widths on Thirteenth street | change 12 times. In one section down- town the pavement has a capacity of eight lines. Above Iowa Circle it drops | to three lines, although the greater por- | tion of its length shows a capacity of | four lines. Two sections above Iowa | avenue are of two-line capacit; 1 “Condltions on Cleveland avenue and Calvert street, Benning road, Fourth street, Columbia road, Massachusetts avenue and Wisconsin avenue should also be noted. These changes of width amount in some cases to bottle necks in the tmafic channels and indicate clearly the need of minor roadway Carol Singing Chief Attraction. | “I am anticipating your carol sing- ing above all else as I celebrate my first Christmas in your wonderful coun- | try,” said the former grand duchess | with a_wistful smile as she received the writer informally in Mrs. Jarvis day, | suite at the Carlton Hotel yester chatting with an utter lack of self consciousness. “You know, I have never | heard a carol sung in my life as you people sing them and I am looking forward to it eagerly.” | There was nothing in her manner to | indicate that this was her sixty-first| interview sing3 she arrived in the United States (although the first she had | granted to a woman, she confided). It might have been a ' tete-a-tete: with | her first caller, so genuinely interested did she seem. Surprise was expressed that the Rus- sians, with their well known love of music, did not follow the custom of singing carols, familiar to every child in America and England. Whereupon the grand duchess explained several differences in our celebration of Christ's natal day and that of her countrymen. Russian Custom Outlined. “Yes, we have very beautiful Noel music sung in the churches and cathedrals in Russia,” she agreed, “but | not the house-to-house caroling that you have over here. comes 13 days after see,” she continued—' occasion. Oh, yes, we have Santa Claus—or his equivalent—and he brings gifts to the kiddies, but not to grown- ups. Christmas trees? Not in Rus- sia, perhaps, but you know I haven't | bleen in Russia since I was 8 years old.” A shadow passed over the young face | and was gone in the flash of a magnetic smile. “My own family has a tree, a very gay one with lots of candles on it, | every year in Northern France, where | we are living now, and we love it so that we light it on your Christmas day and keep it lighted through the ‘twelfth night,” until our Noel dawns. Longer, too, if it will lasi he added | with a musical chuckle. “I won't let | them discard my tree until it literally falls to pieces!” Descendant of Romanoff Line. Mlle, Kira, for all the old-world T mance about her personality as a de- cendant of the royal Romanoff line, is a very modern young person with a keen love of sports and a passion for art inherited from her talented mother whose flower pictures in both ofl and water colors are well known throughout Europe, The daughter is exfimmg her artistic talent in charcoal sketches, her principal subject being the horse. “I | love horses,” she confided, “and my greatest ambition is to draw my horses well—to catch something of their vital- | ity and grace wth my charccal. I am sketching entirely in charcoal, now— ‘croques,” we call them in France, quick | sketch impressions, It is the first step of my art training. I have been study- ing under a French artist, a friend of | my family, for the past three years. I hope some day to be able to make my horses live on paper.” ‘widenings. “In connection with the street tree program, it is especially important that the major thoroughfare plan should be considered. The plan indicates the streets which may be widened in the future and along which it may be better to plant two rows of trees or to origin- ally set a single row of street trees back from the curb to allow for such widen- ing, without destruction of trees.” SOL HERZOG, Originators of the BUDGET-BUYING PLAN IN WASHING Present you Gift—to be remembered! There’s no denying the fact that you’ll feel better when you make CHRISTMAS DAY CALLS . . . in a brand-new OVERCOAT . . . and especially that this offer allows Special Group! Regular $45 , ] 0’Coats * Light and dark patterns— all the latest models an every size is included in one atyle or another—YOU WILL BE GLAD THAT YOU CAME DOWN . . . if you come only ts look them over. Sor HeRzo Princess Loves Horses. | Her love of horses is evidenced in her | own superb horsemanship. She was scarcely in Washington an hour before arrangements were being made for her to take her first canter through the | bridle paths of the Capital. She had just come in from a ride yesterday at | the time of her interview. and made | graceful apologies for a brief delay while Inc. TON rself with a inducing is the fact an unusual SAVING! Y, d YULETIDE GUEST IN CAPITAL | never come. THE EVENING DUCHESS KIRA FORMER GRAND DUCHESS KIRA. —Harris-Ewing Photo. she exchanged her habit for an informal gown of black velvet, unadorned save for a crescent pin of pearls and a single rope of the same jewels entwined about her neck and falling to her waist. The somber black brought out the extremely youthful contour of her and the ivory pallor of her flawl skin. Violet blue e with a lurking twinkle in their depths and a hint of tragedy be- hind them were shadowed by "long lashes and the soft waves of hair like spun gold. Enjoys Golf and Skating. In addition to riding, she enjoys golf, skating and swimming, at which latter an expert. ? he exclaimed. “I like it tremendously.” “What do you——" “Don’'t ask me! That's a subject best not discussed!” she laughed. “It's a private little matter between myself and my score card!” “I enjoy tennis, too,” she added, “but do not play the game myself. I have followed the in- ternational _matches at Wimbledon closely, and I think the Frenchmen and your Tilden are wonderful.” Answering a comment upon the vis- itor's faultless English, spoken with scarcely a trace of an accent, Mrs, Jar- vis nodded.* “She speaks five lan- guages like that.” “Oh, no,” protested her young guest, “only four and a half—really! You see, I learned my Spanish through a cor- respondence school.” Early Days of Revolt Recalled. Although she was but a small child, 8 years old, when the red wave of revolu- tion spread over her land, driving her and her people first to Finland, Grand Duchess Kira recalls vividly the early days of the revolt. She can remember, she says, the horror of guns firing in the street—the terror, the want—flight, with but a few personal possessions the rest left behind “until their return. It was thought by her family then that it would be all over in 'a few months. But that day of “return” had ‘It is an unpleasant story, best forgot—and now we are quite settled in our home in France"—and she dismissed this dark page of her life with an expressive motion of the hand. “Now we are settled, quite set- tled, in our home in France at San Briac-by-the-Sea.” PROF. HURLBUT, 64, DIES. Harvard English Instructor and Former Dean Ill Three Weeks. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December 20 (®)—Prof. Byron S. Hurlbut, 64, of the English department at Harvard Univer- sity, died here late last night after a three-week illness. Prof. Hurlbut once was dean of Harvard College. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE RUNS SHORT With Three Days Remaining to Raise $40,000 Quota, Total Is $26,000. With but three days remaining for the sale of 1,400,000 remaining Christ- mas seals to reach the goal of §29,000, the Tuberculosis Association soul its final appeal to the public tnday for as- sistance. Only $26,000 of the $40,000 needed to finance various health activities in their fight against tuberculosis for the current _year has been collected by the association through sales of ) seals. The association points out that there are thousands to whom seals have been forwarded who have failed to reply to the appeal to buy. Officials hope that many of these will respond favorably during the remaining three days. Although store and bank seal booths were closed yesterday, with exception of the Junior League booth and Wood- ward & Lothrop's department store, the ladies of the Starmont Ald, captained by Mrs. Andrew Stewart, notified the association they would continue their booth at the American Security & Trust Co.,, Fiftenth and New York ave- nue, until after Christmas. PARENTS HEAR TALKS. Child Training Experts Speak at Friendship House. Dr. G. Hardy Clark and his wife, Dr. Margaret Clark, addressed & meeting of parents held last night in F‘l’lendlhlg House, 324 Virginia avenue southwest, in which they outlined a comprehensive plan for training children. Dr. and Mrs. Clark, who live in Long Beach, Calif., have spent many years in study of this subject and in teaching parents more about the best methods for training children. The meeting was preceded by & sup- per for the children. HEALTH STUDY GRANTED. U. S. Association Answers Appeal From Porto Rico Governor. SAN JUAN, P. R., December 20 (#).— Gov. Theodore Roosevelt yesterday received word from Washington that the National Child Merica Association of the United States would make a sur- vey of juvenile conditions in this island. The project is a result of the appeal which the governor made for the under- nourished children of Porto Rico. Going Out of Business At 1209 Pa. Ave. (LEASE EXPIRES) High-Grade MEN’S SUITS, AND OVERCOATS At Below Cost $35 and $40 Values at #1975 Fixtures for Sale BRITT’S 1209 Pa. Ave. N.W. designed for Spring, Tans, pearls and tones. G[rm F Street az Qth Stetson’s New Shapes In Men’s Soft Hats and Derbys $10 Fancily Boxed If You Want Them for Gifts They are the new shapes Stetson has in the shades which will be the vogue then—released now as a special holiday feature. grays in the Stetson All sizes and all proportions. The Avenue at Ninth Arabian Peasant Does Duty, to Learn “Mum Is Word” By the Associated Press. JERUSALEM, December 20 (Jew- ish Telegraphic Agency).—An Arab peasant plowing at Alkura in Trans- jordania discovered & number of sealed cases in the field. Believing them to contain firearms, he notified a local Arab official, who sent for y found that the four cases contained 10,000 Turkish gold pounds. The cases were confiscated and the peasant who found them was arrest- ed on a charge of concealing other cases. D. C. Men to Judge Contest. Eight Washingtonians have been ap- pointed judges and committeemen in a contest for the best sale slogan for coal, sponsored by the National Retail Coal Merchants’ Association. Judges are R. H. Aishton and Dr. Julius Klein, while the following have been appointed to the committee on arrangements: Ira Cochran, H. L. Gandy, Joseph E. O'Toole, J. F. Callbreath, Edward Shaw and_Holly Stover. Organized Responsibility Use Yellov\; Cabs Black and White Cabs Owned and Operated by Brown Bros. 20, 1929. 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