Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1931, Page 7

" SMIALL PARK COST [BY U. 5. 0PPOSED - L. Wirth of Planning Body | Favors Property Owners Bearing Upkeep. ‘The cost of maintalning small park ®paces which are a part of Washing- %on’s street system should be borne by owners of property in the neighbor- | hoods in which -they are located, in the opinion of C. L. Wirth, landscape wrchitect for the National Capital Park end Planning Commission. Mr, Wirth's opinion was given in the Supplement to the commission’s annual * yeport, which was made public today. Declaring the Government should not be “burdened” with the maintenance of the reservations, as the parking spaces are known, he said: “Perhaps it would be better not to allow these small parking areas where they are not necessary,” The «cost per acre for the maintenance and operation of Washington's park system is below the average, he added. Need of Policy Seen. 1 Mr., Wirth’s views on the subject Sollow: “I believe some policy regarding the acceptance of these small reservations from subdividers should be adopted. Although it is true that the layout. of the Washington street system is the main cause for many of the small Teservations, however, in some cases, small reservations are. being turned over to the Government that are un- necessary as far as the general welfare of the city is concerned. “I refer to small center parkings and circles within a subdivision that are not a real necessity or of any practical use, except to help the subdivider to sell his progrty. Of course, they are pretty in themselves for the abutting property, for if they were not they Wwould not be of any help to the sub- divider in selling.” Many Small Reservations. Mr. Wirth pointed out that Washing- ton has 438 reservations of a guarter ©of an acre or less, of which 349 are improved; 105 reservations from one- quarter to one acre, of which 72 are improved, and 42 reservations between one to five acres, of which 23 are im- proved. This shows that out of 626 reserva- tions, 585 of them are less than five acres each, and of the total 461 im- proved reservations, 444 of them fall into this class, he explained. The cost of cutting of the lawns averages $289 per acre per year. College Building Burns. JONESBORO, Ark., January 13 () — The three-story administration building of Arkansas State College was destroyed by a fire of undetermined origin early yesterday, causing damage estimated at $175,000. There were no students quar- tered in the building. Advancing years are the glory of Chinese, and it is said to be polite to suppose your Chinese guest to be much older than his or her stated age. IMPORTANT CHANGES* | inB &0 train cerpicc from Washington to! PITTSBURGH CHICAGO TOLEDO DETROIT CINCINNATI ST. LOUIS Effective Jan. 18th % ko The Baltimore & Ohio will make a number of important changes in train schedules- on January 18. Some of them are shown below. However, you are advised to see the new B & O time-table or your nearest B & O ticket agent for complete details. % A NEW FORT PITT LIMITED TO PITTSBURGH AND CHICAGO Lv. Washington Ar. Pittsburgh. .... Ar. Chicago...... The new Fort Pitt Limited car- ries, besides the usual comfortable Pullman equipment. an attractive Club-Lounge car from Washing- ton through to Chicago. And, for the benefit of the traveler who desires the most economical trip together with unusual Day Coach comfort, we have added the new type Reclining Seat Day-and- Night Coach to this fine train. % IMPROVED SERVICE AND SHORTER SCHEDPULE TO PITTSBURGH-TOLEDO- DETROIT . ... THE AMBASSADOR . 4:10P.M. .11:29 P.M. 6:53 AM. . 8:40 AM. . Washington .. . Pittsburgh . . Toledo .... . Detroit The Ambassador carries Pullman Sleeping car and Reclining Seat Day-and-Night Coach through to Detroit: Parlor car to Pittsburgh: and Sunroom-Observation-Lounge car to Detroit # THROUGH SERVICE TO CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS ‘The Ambassador also carries through Individual Seat Coaches and Sleeping cars to Cincinnati and St. Louis. and Observation- Lounge car from Cumberland to -120 Skiers Suffer ‘Broken Bones as Crust Covers Snow By the Associated Press. VIENNA, January 13.—One hundred and twenty man and woman skiers broke legs, arms, ankles or fingers Sunday around Vienna and the courtyard of an emergency hospital here resem- bled in some ways a first aid sta- tion back of a battle line. Hun- dreds of other injuries were re- ported throughout Austria. Ice crust forming over the snowfields accounted for the ex- traordinary number of accidents. GEN. WASHINGTON’S WRITINGS ON PRESS Government Printery Engaged in Production Original Manuscripts. of Volumes of One of the interesting operations now under way at the Government Printing Office is the printing from original manus:ript sources of all the writings of Washington, under the di- rection of the George Washington Bi- centennial Commission, George H. Car- | ter, Public Printer, said today in his annual report, in which he outlined the scope of the work and told of the present status. The definite edition will consist of 25 volymes, more or less, and include all the written and printed words of Wash- ington, except his famous diary in_print, together with all of his ge eral orders during the Revolutionary War, which latter are now to be printed for the first time. The principal sour®e of material for the publication will be the original Washington papers, which have been | preserved by the Government for mahy | years, and are now in the possession of the Library of Congress. These manu- scripts contain about 98 per cent of the writings of Washington that have survived, and constitute 75,000 folios of written records, bound in 400 large| volumes. The printed edition will con- tain all these papers, as well as every other writing of Washington that a world-wide search may reveal. Several years will be required to fin- ish the series. Congress has ordered 3,000 sets, 2,000 of which will be put on sale, and the rest reserved for official -distribution. PLAN OF L'ENFANT SET T0 TOPOGRAPHY made in the order of President Washington, mnlfinfiom in the lay- out were also made by L’Enfant’s.suc- Neither Versailles Nor London | fro Affected Washington, in Belief of Partridge. The plan for the City of Washington, prepared by Maj. Pierre L'Enfant, was fitted to the topography here, rather than an adaptation of Le Notre's Vier- sailles, and of Evelyn's plan for a new London, Willilam T. Partridge, consult- ing architect of the-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, con- tends in a supplement to the Com- mission’s report, made public today by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, its execu- tive officer. “A study of L'Enfant’s plan, as well as a careful reading of his descriptions, shows the effort made to mold his de- sign to the existing topography,” says Mr. Partridge. “No mention can be found of Versailles or London as an inspiration. He reiterates again and again in his letters that this plan of bis was ‘original’ and ‘unique’ In a letter to Jefferson requesting some Old World city maps he deprecates any copying and asks for this information only as a_means for comparison or to aid in refining and strengthening his Jjudgment. “There has come down to us only a single manuscript plan which students have accepted as the original design and ng which they have based all their com: ts. This drawing depicts only an intermediate stage of the plan. The first plan was much altered by L'Enfant himself at the request of President Washington, but by a careful study of internal evidence of the later drawing the designer’s masterly original may be restored. [Existing documents tell us that not only were considerable changes Subscribe Today It costs only about 1% cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly every evening and Sunday morn- ing. ‘Telephohe National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- ately. The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month. Druggan Pleads Guilty. CHICAGO, January 13 (#).—Terrance J. Druggan, former millionaire bootleg- ger, pleaded guilty “with reservations” yesterday to four indictments charging violation of the income tax laws. Sen- tence was deferred until March 2. 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