Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1930, Page 9

~ STUDY WIDE TREE PLAN FOR CAPITAL % lmpor}ance of Shade Is Stressed at Meeting of Gar- den Club Committee. Looking toward & comprehensive in- vestigation of the “'ho!e question of the relation of trees to the architecture and growth of the National Capital, a dis- tinguished gathering at the home .of Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, 1239 Vermont avenue, yesterday afternoon discussed ways and means of developing & pro- gram of wide scope and long-range vision, to be supported by more liberal appropriations. 'l'hepimpurtlnce of beautiful trees to the Capital City was stressed by several speakers, including Mrs. Noyes, who is chairman of the Committee of the Na- tional Capital of the Garden Club of America; Maj. George C. Gotwals, Com- missioner of the District of Columbia; Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parking; Dr. John C. Merriam, resident of the Carnegie Institution of ‘ashington, and Dr. Frederick V. Co- ville, acting director of the National Arboretum, Department of Agriculture, who discussed the progress of the arboretum. Dr. Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, who is en outstanding member of the Advisory Council of the Committee of the Na- tional Capital of the Gardea Club of America, was present, and is much in- terested in th: Jevelopment of trees in ‘Washington to provide appropriate set- tings for public buildings. Later Increase Desired. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, who was unable to be present, will be conferred with in regard to a proposed study of the whole question. In the meantime, it was agreed that no efforté should be made to increase the present estimates for trees and park- ing in the budget before Congress for the year 1932, but to begin a general program of education designed to im- prove appreciation on the part of the public for the trees and to build conse- quent stronger support for increased eppropriations in the year 1933. Commissioner Gotwals said the Bu- Teau of the Budget had been so “ex- tremely fair” with the District of Co- lumbia estimates this year that he per- sonally thought it unwise to attempt at this stage to make any change in the 1932 estimate for trees, but recommend- ed m:tw\’;rkw? not too zuly(m hg&.l:; groun for & program to gef item increased in the budget for the Undesirables Counted. Expressing appreciation for trees flmty lves, lllj‘ ?ot\;ialf said that the government found it necessary at times to cut them down, but that he realized good trees could not be replaced dm;ly by money. The time element, he said, was a vitally important factor. Trees, he said, were an “element of city beauty we wish to retain. We cannot,” he added, “always enforce our ideals. But we do attempt to save our trees and to guard ourselves from being too utili- tarian at times.” Mr. Lanham pointed out that Wash- n today has more trees than ever fore, their number totaling 112,374 as of July 1. Included in this number, however, he said, were some 29,000 “un- desirables” which should be removed and were being removed gradually. Some quick-growing trees which were planted in the early program of the city, when speed of growth was more ntmlidne:‘4 than qunglfy of trees, Mr. l‘&'tul _were rioraf npléy. Silver ma; bardy poplars and other soft trees, he said, were thus disappearing, but the city was now planting hard maples, Norway maples, pin oaks, elms and other trees of long life and quality. Most of the old silver maples, he said, were now hollow and were undesirable. 22 Varieties on Streets. Among the new trees which are be! cultivated, he said, was the Amené:: elm, which now is being raised in the l:uy.nunerm ll::'e in threehynn from seed si eno to ‘nfiw:gfefi ug! plant along 22 varieties of trees now on the ,» Mr. Lanham said, “We have Plenty of trees in our nurseries to take gare of all planting.” But he said the highway division was eeding so Tapidly with opening of new streets extension of new curbs that the only way the sppropriations can be stretched to keep up with tree plant- ing is by negl; the old trees. Last . he said, only about 6,000 were . As contrasted to the appro- tion in Paris, France, of $125,000 for only 86.000 trees of that city, he said this city has an appropriation of $112,500 for 112,000 trees, and out of this fund must be used funds to mow 8rass and weeds on the public parking, Which should be kept up instead by abuf property owners. “We don’t get enough tions for trees,” he said. o Real Study Recommended. Dr. Merriam painted an attractive Word picture of the beauty and glory ©of trees and their importance to a great city. He suggested that & comprehen- sive investigation and study should be made of the entire problem as relates to the devel ent of the National Capital and its trees. He preposed such questions as whether the butld- ings of the city are more impor- tant or the trees, whether the trees are to disappear from the parking along the curb and be relegated to long, fin- ger-like parks extending deep into the various sections of the city, and numer- ous others. Such a study should extend over two years, Dr. Merriam suggested. “Trees give us elements of extraor- @inary beauty,” he declared, “They let h the yellow light in Summer, and their bare branches help us to en- oy the sky in Winter.” The speaker stretsed the “cultural influence of trees” and raised the question of whether, in the long run, Washington ever would become such a city as New York, when demands for automobiles, wide roads and sidewalks crowd the space and leave no ground for trees. Trees Galning Support. “What 1s going to happen to Wash- ington?” he asked. Dr. Merriam thought it might be generally a problem in the first place of finding trees which would properly accommodate themselves to the condi- tlons and, second. to accommodate the engineering of a city to the trees. This, he thought, would be a “give-and-take" proposition. “What we need is light Sturtevant Blowers FOR BURNING BUCKWHEAT COAL Will Cat Your Fuel Bill 40, Fries, Beall & Sharp 734 10th St. N.W. NA. Telephone National from an investigation,” he declared, “and more from the of rais- passed the Senate and was now before the House Committee on Agriculture. It has the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, the Secre- of Agriculture, President Hoover, and, he added, “There is no reason why | fi it should not through.’ In the w:;';-sgn of the National Capital Committee of the Garden Club of America to remove billboards from the- Garden Glub of America | th en of Am referred with high m:elcm of the Washington Bicenten- highways leading into Washington, %:s, Noyesyreporwd progress. She had promise from Sol associate nial Commission, she said, that the billboards would be pushed back from the | the District line into the adjoining States for 2 miles by the bicentennial year 1932, Mrs. Noyes proposed a campaign of education to begin 's‘r;oruy w‘::llmul.:]t; the public to a greater appreciation mflupumwct for the beautiful trees of Washington, designed to build up such support for a city of trees that larger appropriations could be obtained in the uture, A The gathering was one of ‘a series this Winter called by Mrs, Noyes and her committee, its advisory council and other officials to improve and beautify the National Capital. She announced that at the next meeting the project to mark the entrances to the city in dig- nified manner and with appropriate plantings of trees and shrubbery would be taken up again for consideration. Einstein to Broadcast. NEW YORK, December 6 (#).—Prof. Albert Einsteln yesterday radioed to the Jewish Telegraph Agency from the liner Belgenland, which is bringing him to the United States, that he had ac- cepted the invitation of the Avukah, the American Student Zionist organiza- tion, to deliver an exclusive interna- tional radio address under its auspices on the Palestine problem. HEIRESS SETS SAIL ON LATE HONEYMOON Millionaire’s Ward Had Been Se- cretly Married for Nearly Two Years. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 6-—Miss Mary A. Kelly, revesled yesterday as the principal. beneficlary of the $3,000,000 \ - *ICOURT QUIZ IS FACED 3 reappear BY FAMOUS ARCHITECT Frank Lloyd Wright Agrees to Tell of Failure to Pay Judgment to Ex-Wife’s Estate. By the Assoclated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., December 6.— Frank Lloyd Wright, famous architect, ledged himself to appear today for urther questioning concerning his in- ahliity to pay a judgment of $7,018 to the estate of his ‘divorced wife, Miriam Noel Wright. He was arrested yesterday just before hemwmm-n"m He prom- Noted Drama Writer Dies. LISBON, December 6 (#).—Paul Brandao, Portugal’s best known dramatic writer, died yesterdsy of heart disease. \ 8 waciips February had five Sundays in 1880 and will again in 1948. Ruth Nichols breats Womens Const lo Coast record ustng AMOCO products attling against the worst of weather conditions, fighting B head winds for a large part of the trip Miss Ruth Nich- ols landed at the United Airport, Burbank, California on December 1st with a new woman'’s transcontinental record. KOO OO Her flying time from New York was 16 hours 59% min- utes--breaking the former record held by Mrs. J. M. Keith- Miller by 8 hours 44% minutes. 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