Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1930, Page 37

4 The New Washington A Magazine Article Presents a View of the Federal City That Few Americans Ever Obtain. The article a; ring below, by a ent Washingtonian, aj Irs the current issue of the Tech- Review and is reprinted here BY GEORGE A. RICKER. ‘Washington occupies @& place in the list of the world's most cities is & fact well known to all Americans; that it hes also at- tained an enviable position by virtue of its achievements in city engineering and city planning is a fact not so well or understood. The city beau- tiful has become the city useful; its jpulation of a half million or more no longer expected to exist on beauty alone. In this era of unregulated city growth with its concomitant evils of noise, congestion and stench, Wash- ington is emerging as the antithesis of all of this—a livable, healthy, useful eity. When in 1701 Maj. Plerre C. L'En- fant’s Washington included only 9% of the District’s 100 square miles and his plan covered thousands of unoccupied acres, the problems of sanitation and communication were comparatively sim- le. President John Adams could bathe o "the waters ‘of the Potomac in- the back yard of the White House and Bouthern Congressmen guided their mounts between ash heaps and around mud holes on Pennsylvania avenue to the Capitol. After “Boss Shepherd” took the town by the nape of the neck and shook it down for a few millions of needed im- provements, it was a much healthier place to live in and had what every well regulated town today has—a good sized mortgage to pay off. The town soon outgrew its L'Enfant clothes and stretched its legs and arms out into the lovely hills and vales of the District. Unguided, misguided, it grew, for the time being misshapen and disorderly until sheer necessity brought forth the MecMillan plan of rearrangement in 1901. As so often occurs, the plan seems to have allayed discontent and nothing much happened to put it into effect. Many years passed and the big, overgrown village, the stepchild of Con- gress, needing its streets straightened, connected and paved, its sewers enlarged and lengthened, a new water supply, more parks and bathing facilities, found itself all at once the Capital of a world &t war. Awakening Then Came, ‘Thousands on thousands of patriotic young men and women and “dallor-a- " men came and camped out. It Wwas an era “no meat” “no heat” days every week, and then the flu. Who can it? Two or three of the five in the one room were gone in a or two; the boys, mostly those winnowed out of the draft as unfit for order evolving from the some was ::naotmmdayumz. the of necessity was vlflu:i-r:nmd e camp began ‘demobilize. the war growth had and made operative for a great- increased permanent population and an enlarged business community. Pub- lc utilities, which before the war had reached their maximum of usefulness, demanded immediate extension and ;:: largement. The overgrown village in two short, hectic years a 3 1] manded physical and spiritual improve- ments ezmmmunu with their new life. Above all, the health-gi and th-insuring utilities which ‘been overworked had to be immediately en- larged to meet the new needs. Planning Is Revived. Realization that Washington needed more and better parks led to the crea- tion, in 1924, of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which two years later was given power to ecquire additional lands and was charged with the duty of supervising the McMillan highway plan of the District eand the ration of & complete and plan of the Nation'’s Cap- ital and the region surrounding it through co-operation with the adjoining Btates of Maryland and Virginia. A other elements of structural Washing- ton. The Mall, Lafayette Square and the Triangle are other units of the gen- eral scheme which in time will testify ’(:’m.her to the excellence of the 1901 lea. ‘The avenues of the L'Enfant plan bearing the names of the States have now been extended beyond the limits of the original city, in some cases all the way across the District to the Mary- land line, making connection with the main roads of that State and thereby affording ready entrance and exit to and from the center of the District for she thousands of tourists who from East, North and West must cross Maryland to reach the National Capital. Straighten- ing and widening these thoroughfares has greatly facilitated the constantly increasing volume of traffic. A notable case in point is Rhode Island avenue, which by agreement with “The Old Line State” has now been projected to the eastward to provide for more direct connection with U. S. Route No. 1, over which thousands of cars pass daily between North and South. Another important extension now in process of development is that of Sixteenth street, which leads direct- ly north from the White House and Lafayette Square, in the center of which is located the extraordinary statue of Gen. Jackson, mounted on a prancing steed with curly mane and tail. Where Sixteenth street crosses.the District line into Maryland it is planned to build & beautiful gateway with a triumphal arch or other suitable form of memorial. Old Trees Replaced. In the old city, now downtown Wash- ington, many of the “gridiron” streets devoted entirely to business have had their roadways widened from 30 or 40 ] 223555 i The lone aqueduct which, since nu';, L gééi | ernment’s bull program, can merely refer to, is now well under way. It is of such magnitude and beauty as to fully satisfy the thought had brought water from Great Falls, the upper Potomac, to the Capital had “It is the of President Hoover when he said: wish and demand of the feet to 60 and 80 feet. This, accom- plished by borrowing sidewalk space, which was often 25 or 30 feet in width, Wwas done against the noisy sts of older Washingtonians, who were grieved at the removal of many trees that had been planted and nurtured since the village days. The extraordinary necessary surgical opera- tlons to meet the demands for business and to relieve traffic congestion. To the everlasting credit of the Federal and District Governments immediate re- placement of the trees has been made and, wherever possible, trees of a finer T were planted, carefully guarded and District forester. In the decade the District has made rapid strides in the matter of securing of five or six girls in a|MOre and better ications. On the same date in June, 1929, the record was 8,606,000 & net increase of over or 17.1 per cent. been the rule, by custom and law, that streets in the District, once paved, shall be renewed with the hfares through new territory the new pavement has been proved, 369 miles are of asphalt, con- crete or macadam, 67 miles are of various kinds of blocks and other mis- cellaneous types, and 183 miles tem- }nfl.flly maintained with gravel sur- faces. Parks Well Developed. ‘The parks of the District have been Bridge, on Connecticut avenue, and into Potomac Park at the great circle about the Lincoln M gate now bel end of the Arl a driveway joining the so-called Speed- way around Hains Point with Water stree t. It is entirely feasible to combine com- mercial and boulevard features in Water street, which borders the Washington RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. subcommittee of the commission, known as the “Co-ordinating Committee,” made up of District and Federal officers and & representative of organized eitizen- ship, devoted itself to the modification of the way plan to provide better traffic facilities and adjustment of the street system to natural topography and boundaries. park b L in describ - .Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, Mtnhg Anasuitable. dovelopment of its naturel besuties, will make it ‘express the soul of America’ and when viewed by an American citizen will arouse his imag: aft 2 in 1791, the city, street (now Florida otherwise carried inevitably resulted in a patehwork puz- gle of property, wholly out of relation to anything else in the District. The street plan developed was so out of Joint with sctual city requirements that Congress in 1803 ordered the prepara- tion of a highway plan which would rn the remainder of the District. L'Enfant gridiron and superim- | m—umw bring about desired changes in lapo(nphy.nsrnlmn conditions, or street and park boundaries. Many ad- ditional changes in existing terrain will be required befcre the major street plah for the District is carried cut to a suc- Eldeonclu::nn By virture of the 1901, the Lincoln Memorial, Station and Aflmm Bridge have been brought sucCess- and harmonious relationship with ! ROOM AND BATH WITH MEALS now §G 9L claily TIC CITY'S NEW- :"fmccn'ruALLv LO- ACCOMMODATIONS SURPASSED CUISINE: SA WATER BATHS: SOLARIUM: SUN-DECK. $2.50 UP DAILY, EUROPEAN FREE FIREPROOF GARAGE i IFDY | THANKSGIVING | _Week-End at f olten Maner One of rhe Finest Hotels In Atlantic City ILAN now to mn‘ thiv delightful week- ‘end at Colton inor,one of Atlantic City's finest and newest fireproof hotels. Cuisine, nationally famous. Booklet. Phone, w! o wire for reservations. 200 moows OVERLOOKING THE OCEAN A WATER BATHS Em A.qzsm GALEN HALL - ATLANTIC CITY i €000 FOOD =+ m?g?'iu e . been carefully guarded during the war lest its destruction by the act of an enemy bring disaster. Washington was using its capacity flow and suddenly awakened to the narrow escape it had had. Another conduit of greater capacity was planned and bullt and a filter plant and pump! n constructed, which more than led the available supply of pure water, The old conduit, built into one of the famous aqueduct bridges of the world, the Cabin John arch, afforded a flow line aqueduct from intake to outlet. ‘The most striking feature of the new waterline is the crossing of Cabin John Creek by a reinforced concrete siphon of circular section, with an inside diameter of 9 feet, which conforms closely to the natural surface and leaves the historic bridge untouched and the view of its graceful arch unobstructed. Over the old and new aqueducts, which lie side by side in this Federal- owned strip, is the Conduit road, which will be reconstructed as a boulevard from Washington to Great Falls, in Maryland, affording a most attractive drive with enchanting views of the upper river, the Virginia Palisades and the Great Falls, of which Lord Bryce wrote, “No European city has no noble a cataract in its vicinity as the Great Falls of the WPotomac, a magnificent plece of scenery h you will, of course, always preserve.” Big Sewer Expense. The most vital of public utilities, sanitation, unseen and unknown by the average citizen, has in the past 10 years called for an outlay exceeded by three times that spent in the preceding dec- ade. In the five years just past there has been expended for large mains and pipe sewers in the District of Columbia more than $6,000,000, as compared with $2,250,000 in the five years before. To- day there are more than 200 miles of main concrete sewers in Washington. ‘This increase in expenditures reflects not only a normal growth, but also re- flects closer co-ordination of sewer construction with city planning. No street in Washington is now paved or repaved until the necessary sewers are installed, or, if required, enlarged or reconstructed. This, as it may readily STEAMSHIPS. FLORIDA BY SEA FROM BALTO. Large, new ships. Faresinclude ‘meals and berth, ¢ Low round trips e — o Fla. to Nov. 30. 8ail from Pier foot 8. Gay St. Folder. MERCHANTS & MINERS Transportation Co. 1338 H 8e.,N.W. AROUND E WORLD RESOLUTE TH THE Ci Commission, the “Co-ordinating Com- mittee,” is included a drainage and sewer expert. . Another small factor, but one which makes Washington more livable and which has recently been as municipal activity, is mosquito control. 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