Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 21

FOUNTS PLANNED AT NEW BUILDING Straus Memorial One of Two Beauty Features for Com- merce Department. Fountains may flank the new De- partment of Commerce Building, both on the east and on the north, it de- veloped today. On the east, located in what is known as the Grand Plaza, between about Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Ohio avenue and D street, there will be placed a memorial fountain and pool to Oscar S. Straus, the immigrant boy who became a cabinet officer. Designs for this fountain, approved by the Fine Arts Commission, include carved lions heads with their mouths spouting water, Leo 8. Rowe, Simon W. Rosendale, Sam- uet Schulman, Albert Shaw, Herbert Knox Smith, James yer, Lewis L. trauss, William R. W , Edmond E. Wise, Rev. Stephen 8. Wise and Owen D. Young. FORMER FOLI:.IES GIRL IS BURIED IN FRANCE Widower and Few Friends at Sim- ple Services for Peggy Davis, Killed in Auto Plunge, By the Associated Press. EZE-SUR-MUR, France, April 1.— The grief-stricken widower and a few intimate friends today attended the | simple burial service of Mrs. David F. | Townsend, former “Follies” beauty, who | was killed Saturday night when her car plunged over a 200-foot cliff near here. Crowds of curious collected as the small funeral cortege wound its way to the .communal cemetery. Villagers gathered also at the site of the tragedy, vhich the husband, despite a note hich to some indicated suicide, insists was an accident. %all jets of water to play about the | Police investigation of the death of fountain and other features. To the north of the Department of Commerce Building, in the smaller park | the former actress, who at, 25 was at the height of her beauty, has been given added impetus with discovery of a area where old Poll'§ Theater now is {man's hat and coat marked with the being torn down, between Fourtcentd and Fifteenth streets, E street and Pennsylvania avenue, it has just-been A the ‘Wat Department that | Although the man came forward and | Frdpose prohp explained the garments with & state- | there be erected the historical Bar- name of a French officer, Piei de Chauvene, near the wreck of her au- | tomobile. tholdi fountain, recently removed from |ment that he had left them in il the Botanic Gerden, at the foot of car the day before, police are combing Capitol Hill. In this- same plot, the | the surrounding ground for other clues. Poli block, there was once a movement | to provide a beautiful fountain as a gift from the State of Pennsylvania, and & | bill was introduced in_Congress to au- thorize it. But the legislation nev was enacted. The status of the mov ment from Pennsylvania is now unc: tain, according to the best information avaiiable at the Treasury Department, which is planning the park on Pol site, For the present the Poli park is to be leveled off, filled with good soil | and sown in grass. It now is rapidly being filled with good earth, even be- fore the remains of the old theater have | gone. Fountain's Famous Designer. | The Bartholdi fountain was designed | and constructed by the celebrated | French sculptor, creator of the Statue | of Liberty, in New York Harbor. It was presented to the United States | Government and erected in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, during the Centen- Tnial Exposition of 1876. At the close of the exposition it was brought to this- story hotel building, spre city and placed in the Botanic Gar- den, where it remained until a few months ago, when it was removed with | other structures. It is considered an | excellent specimen of the work of Bar- | tholdi, and if not erected in the Poli block park will be put up in some other park here in Washington. “The Straus memorial, in honor of the former Secretary of Commerce and La- bor, has been designed by John Russell | Pope of New York, who is also a mem- ber of the Treasury Board of Architec- tural Consultants. Allegorical figures, | depicting the life of Oscar S. Straus, | will appear in the memorial, and the head of the former Secretary will be earved in low relief, with fitting inscrip- tions filling the panel to tte right and left. Two groups of statuary, executed in marble, are to be mounted on pedes- tals at each end. “The memorial was authorized by Con- Oscar Solomon Straus in Bavaria, Germany, but came with his famil¥ to.the United States, settling first in Georgia and later in New York. He had an {llus- trious service in the public cause, ha ing done duty as United States Min- ister to Turkey, becoming in moel United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and being named as a mem- ber of the Permanent Court of Inter- _ mational Arbitration " at The Hague. During the latter part of his life he | was chairman of the New York Public Service Commission. He died in 1926, President Hoover Member. President Hoover is honorary presi- | dent of the association, the president | being William Loeb. Other members | of this organization are Henry Morgen- | thau and Alfred A. Cook, vice presi- | dents; David Hipsha®, secretary, and Archibald B. Roosevelt, treasurer. The | directors are Cyrus Adler, Lawrence F. Abbott, Eqwin Beer, Dr. Nicholas Mui ray Butler, Emanuel Celler, William Chadbourne, George' B. Cortelyou, J. J. Curran, Prederick M. Davenport, James | R. Garfield, "Wil] H. Hays, George S. Hellman, Elon H. Hooker, Hamilton | Holt, Miram W. Johnson, Robert Under- Johnson, Darwin P. Kingsley, Louis S. Levy, Moses D.'Mosessohn, Charles P. Neill, Adolph 8. Ochs, Mary | Mills Patrick, George Foster Peabody, ald in the search. Mrs. Townsend, known Davis” when in the “Follies,” is former Mary Margaret Laird of Bir- mingham, Ala. GUESTS FLEE HOTEL FIRE By the Associated Press. PATERSON, N. J., April 1—Damage estimated by fire officials at $250,000 was caused by a four-alarm blaze of un- determined origin which' swept the Manhattan Hotel and 11 stores near the heart of the business section last were accounted for. One fireman was overcome by smoke and taken to a hospital. ‘The flames, discovered in a clothing store on the ground floor of the three- quickly. Eaffavgue «A Nlost Beaut Expert climbers have been employed to | AS 11 STORES ARE BURNED |& night. The hotel's 85 registered guests | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIC T 1931. W. B. NMoses & Sons CHANGES RAPIDLY EFFACE OLD STREET “Louisiana” Avenue Named for Indiana, and Market Men Disappearing. ‘With the passing of its old name of “Louisiana” avenue, the street, which has been renamed for the State of In- (diana, is also losing its long-time tenants. One by one the market men on the avenue between Ninth and Tengh streets are vacating the old buildings in which they have been established many years, abandoning the stands in front and making way for the razing of the old buildings, which will give place to glit- tering structures of white stone on “Indiana” avenue, where once huck- sters and dealers sold their wares on “Louisiana” avenue.* It has been expected that most of the buildings and stands along the south side of the thoroughfare would be closed last night, the last day of the month, but it was said this morning that some of the merchants in and in front of the structures will remain until the close of the week. ©On the north side of the avenue some of the buildings were vacated about three s ago, although it was said this morning that some of the mar- chants will remain untir April 15, to which time their rent is paid. 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