Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 259, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 1925 Page: 7 of 14
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Bill Now Before Congress Requests Memorial Site in the
Potomac Rigion, just
Across From Arlington;
Within Shadow of the
Washington Shaft and
the Imposing Cenotaph
Recently Reared .
to the Memory
of Abraham Lincoln
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enduring stone or bronze are:
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Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Hamilton
General Lafayette
Commodore Barry
Justice Marshall .
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General Greene
John Paul Jones
Andrew Jackson
General Grant
General Scott
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“Theodore Roosevelt stands
out in strong relief against the
evening sky. It is an heroic
figure. It can be seen from
1 : everywhere.”
SIX years ago George Wharton Pepper,
R then in private, life, described the
great soldier-statesman in that impres-
sive metaphor at a memorial service in
Philadelphia.
Today, as a United State. Senator.
Mr. Pepper is endeavoring to translate
his metaphor into reality by pressing
a resolution in Congress which will open
the way for the erection of a dominating
monument to Roosevelt at one of th.
entrances te- Washington.
‘ If the resolution becomes a law—and
few doubt that Congress will approve
the memorial in some form--citizens
from all sections of America may see,
when they visit their capital, the sym-
bolic figure of one of the most dynamic
of Presidents silhouetted against the
green hills of Arlington in fulfillment
’of th. prophecy uttered a few weeks
after his death in January of 1919.
The resolution was introduced at the
request of th. Roosevelt Memorial
Association, a nation-wide organisation
' which has dedicated itself to the three-
/ fold task of erecting a monumental
memorial in Washington, establishing a
Roosevelt Memorial Park at Oyster Bay
and perpetuating the ideals of Roosevelt
by spreading the knowledge of his char-
acter and career. The recent observance NEHer Tn-daration.
of the freh anniversary of the death of involved in connection on the and
Colonel Roosevelt has aroused an added existence
interest in the plans for IT MIATNC: a man “-^ ma * importunes
rials, and particular. Washington of their correct solution make it im-
monument proposed for Washington. practicable to define the exact nature
the I ihrarv of the memorial and ths exact limits
THE resolution, now before the Library of ^ site desired until the whole -
' Committee, makes no specific grant of problem shall have been considered by
‘ : land, but gives permission to the Roose the architects to whom it is to be sub-
“ velt Memorial Association to procure st mitted.-----= -
danlana for it is equally impracticable to esti-
mate at this time the exact cost of *
the memorial. In. case the sum now
set aside’ by ths association for the
Concerning brave captains;
, Our age hath made known
For all men to honor.
One standeth alone,
Of whom, o'er both oceans
Both peoples may say:
“Our realm is diminished
“With Great-H eart away."
— —Kipling.
the association. Several sites within
the capital had been suggested.
Early in 1922 the association ap-
pointed a committee consisting of C.
Grant La Farge, Frederick Law Olm-
stead and Lbrado Taft to study them and
make recommendations. The committee
submitted a report recommending one
of two possible sites—the first in Poto-
mac Park on the southerly axis of the
White House, in triangular relation to
the Washington Monument and the Lin-
coln Memorial; the other on the
hills north and west of the city. It
, .a , committee, some Roosevelt direction from the Washington M emo.
sculptors, architects and landscape ar- the La Fares Savoeate the second, which rial, it might be near the center of Twin.
1 * chitects of the country be invited to admirers, st the memorial in the extreme ing Lake. In that event an island might r
enter. Their report urged that before would placet Washington, be raised as a base for the monument, -
- the competition was held the assoen- northwe .of. several reasons which and the body of water used as part of
tion should appeal not for designs but There were tion of the Potomac the design. The idea offers a wealth of
for ideas. 1 by Elihu prompted "A. the petition to Congress material to those who will participate
Later, a committee headed by Elihu Park S that spot is a part of the In the competition for designs. I
Root, honorary president, visited the Ye meeeeteds iason plan of 1901 in which The second site suggested by the L. +
pilous sites suggested in commission of Lionel Roosevelt was greatly Interested, Farge committee is not without its pro-
members of the National Commission “ . Tends itself admirably to the filling ponents. Today it is a wooded knoll,
: "Toe. datteivnccomctlitten osmecumelee mere Indseape des gb now in one re- sthnetrem and ofiothlstreet, nor ,
* acAnite selection of the in spect incomplete. oughtare running west from white
pomi the panee Tie executivecommit. ‘Third's-.?. View Of Washington today House, and destined some day to be
- Pet adopted the recommendation, out of would show an interest ins treatment of known, as “The Avenue of the Preal-
• hich Frew the resolution to ask Con- the parkland known as the Mall. At dents.". .
which &TY der for the use of the asso- eastern extremity stand the halls of Con- it has, say its advocates, many ad-
rrcks to sonnide esirea for the me: gress, impressive and beautiful. On a vantage. Situated on a hill on the
- iation the ^ line west of the Capitol rise the tower- heights that skirt the northwestern bor-
onFarae committee also recom- ing white shaft of the Washington Mon- ders of the city, a monument would
The A. Minton c Medary, Jr., noted ument and the majestic Lincoln Ms- dominate both the capital and the sur- .
mended that architect, and member of mortal. This is the first, or long, axis rounding country. Standing alone, it ,
Emission of Fine Arts, be invited of th. Mail plan of composition. , douldaspire to • solitary dignity, un-
the Coras professional architectural ad- 1 f dwarfed by the proximity of the sky-
to PN, association in determining NORTH of the Washington Monument reaching Washington Monument. Like
vises, daries of the site and in ar- I are the White House and Executiv. the Potomac Park project, it would stand
the inr and conducting the competition. Mansion grounds. To the south lie part of at an entrance to Washington. If the
TanMedary accepted and entered fitame- Potomac Park and a lovely small body monument faced westward, its advocates
. . union his task. At present the of water, known as Twining Lake: Under say, it would be expressive of a particu-
diate and the necessary preliminary ap- both the original L’Enfant plan for larly happy idea—the interest if Roose-
Plantations have been approved by the Washington and the later Park plan of velt in the great West, where he spent
PrOPEtive committee, and fourteen ar- 1901,. the erection of a monument, to much of his youth and which he glori-er
chitects sculptors and landscape archi- balance the White House in the general find always. Virtually on the slopes of •
tecta who are to be asked to compete composition, was planned for this site. Rock Creek Park, it would symbolise also
been selected. As soon as the bill Whether the monument should commem- the Great Nature Lover's interest in that
orate a group of men, as, for example, meet beautiful jof city woodlands,
the founders of the Republic, or one out- Thus the proposed monument to Theo-
standing figure, worthy of inclusion la a dors Roosevelt lends itself to two high
central composition dominated by Wash- purposes: the erection of a memorial
THE Board of Award will consist of ington and Lincoln, was never definitely symbolic of the great moral slatur. and
1 one distinguished architect or sculp- decided. The Roosevelt Memorial Asso- the wide human interests of one of the
tor selected by the association, one se- elation believes a monument to the Colo- most popular of Presidents, and the con-
lected by the competing artists and a - nel-might be fittingly erected on that tribution to the architectural beauties of
third chosen by the other two. Six site. Washington. ,
months after the plans and drawinn areThe ultimate approval of the site r -
MR. MEDARY, who will take so im-
A portant a part in conducting the
competition for designs, believes the sub-
ject justifies something comparable in
dignity and bsauty to the impressive
J Ports del Popolo of Rome. Certainly
I few opportunities could sxist more fitted —
— to inspire both artist and architect than
1 an invitation to design a proper entrance
to what may some day be the most beau-
tiful capital in the world. * ,
The Roosevelt Memorial Association
has thus far made no public request for
the submission of competitive designs.
It feels that the fitness of the design
depends greatly on the ultimate site so- 1
lected. If it is granted the permission
it seeks to erect the monument on the
Potomac Park site, a design in harmony t %
with the formal arrangement of other
memorials in existence there would be
necessary. Such a design, too, would
have to take into consideration the pres- *
hawives the approval of Congress and
of the President the machinery of the
competition can be set in motion. -
site.'
avmuue —.... — ,---------== —-The ultimate approval of the site
was this committee also that recom- submitted it is expected the verdict of might offer interesting problems to
mended that a competition be held for a the Judges will be announced. , ..both artlot and engineer. If placed is
designer rather than a design and that Although the association adopted the the position where it would actually bal-
ill run into millions of dollars. Out fourteen of the most notable of the first of the two sites recommended by ance the White House in distance and
of its funds the association has already
set aside $1,000,000 for the furtherance F
of its purpose and will, of course, add
to this as occasion requires.
James R. Garfield, president; Herman
Hagedorn, secrotary, and other eminent
members of the Roosevelt Memorial
Association have stated their purpose
and problem clearly in the following
extract from a petition to Congress:
The association respectfully submits
that it is peculiarly fitting that his
memorial should be an important face •
tor in the realization of the plan of
1901. It desires to carry this plan
forward by placing the national me-A
mortal to him on a site so situated
that the creation of the memorial will
mean the development of one of the
hitherto undeveloped but major por-
tions of the plan.
The association is aware of the prob-
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ence of Twining Lake.
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its own expense plans and designs for
the erection of a permanent memorial
on that portion of the territory included
in the parkcommission rian of 1901,
lying between the Washington Monu-
“ment and the Potomac River and
bounded by 15th and 17th streets, includ-
ing the waters of Twining Lake.
It provides that the ----"
procured or selected by the. -p*wp---y---...---
shall take into account the traffic and be necessary. The association does not
. recreational facilities now existing in the
area designated, and that no authority
to proceed with the erection of the pro-
posed memorial shall be granted until
the plan is approved by Congress %----------:----G57-RE
No one knows just how much will on the site near Fotemac Park came
be spent on the memorial. Certainly after long consideration by members of
erection of the memorial should prove
insufficient for the purpose, and in case
the necessary further funds should not
E. Lake s be otherwise contributed, the associa-
plan, of design tion may request the Congress te
association appropriate such further same as may
at the present time request any
such appropriation.
The decision to ask Congress for per-
mission to procure plans for a memorial
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If the proposed site for the Roosevelt Memorial is accepted it will be situated in the square,
marked by the arrow, on the margin of Twining Lake. The points of the compass on the
etching are, approximately, north at the left, west at the bottom, south at the right and east
at the top. Fleeter the Roosevelt Memorial, as indicated, will complete a parallelogram
Copyright. 195. by Public Ledger Company
If it were found impossible to use the
site near the Mall, and the monument
were erented in more rugged country,
a wider variety of design might be pos-
sible. It was for that reason that the
association asked for the introduction
of the resolution, which if approved
would justify it in inviting designs ap-
propriate to the present composition of
the Mail group. NOT---------------------—--------—
In its report for. 1922 the association
announces that it will include in the
competition, without prejudice or favor, ry
a design submitted in 1920 by Carl E. ,
• Akeley and James Brite for a symbolic-----
monument in the form of a huge, mono-
lithic lion. This is the only suggestion /
for the form of the monument which
thus far has been publicly discussed.
The memory of Colonel Roosevelt has
boon honored in many lands and in —
• many ways. Churches, statues, parks
and endowments for charitable and edu- F
. rational purposes now bear his name.
‘ In the old Roosevelt house in New York >
" a library of his writings and of articles
and books written about him has been .
established. Recently a monument m r 1
him as Colonel of the Rough Riders
was unveiled at Santiago, Cuba.
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