Show yu rard k I 1 RIF ar t alf at ti X aw 4 av cpr yta az am I 1 41 I 1 F wnm uka X 13 LAMM IN CENTRAL PARK ON IL 4 if ti WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST central park has ha been chosen as a the site cite for new york cites wr war memorial which is i to be neither an arch nor a building after the plans have hare been passed upon by committees committee the board of estimate Etti mate will hold pubic hearings hea if you were a now new yorker what tort sort of me mor monal al neither arch nor building would you aget suggest to the board of estimate KW EW YORK CITY welcomed ilk T home the nations victorious IN soldiers with enghu castu it decided declined to set amr up a war memorial the board of estimate ampro printed a fund and a memorial committee of which redmun wanamaker wann Is has collected about 1 hv in addition rut but somehow or other the memorial been set up and until tery ery recently it hail had not been decided what sort ort of memorial would be must most fitting or u where here it should be set up until very recently there seemed to be two rival plan 3 one plan win to make permanent the lie temporary tenpo arch arab erected at fifth avenue and twenty fourth street in ili whatever form t the 11 e it artistic r and architectural powers tit that tit be should decide upon as adequate the other pa ann lan was wall to erect I 1 lo 10 n central park a sculptured group croup surrounded by a sunken garden lagdon swimming pool etc ftc p te now it appears that t ll 11 a t central park has been chosen us as the site for the memorial niM norla and that the garden and sim swimming ming pool will III be eliminated the itself it 1 it to be neither arch nor building in fact under tinder tile the present plans central parte will g biln aln thirty amen SM en acres of landscape and a clear vista arros arro s tw the park from the museum of III aty to thi ann new yorks Is 1 to it nie than alinn local Int emst every good amerlean american Is delit desirous purt that it he a BUt cesa cess oud cad that the of the cites shoula be adequate uil equate for twiner sooner or later mo mout borga amerl american cities will set up ip it ilc memorial and tuny profit fly new success or fall failure urs rodman oilman It Is of the committee fiad and abo fol lowing lowan low ln exil experts erts hinr beatri to tn seratt as on nil chison adil nh ison sor committee girt tiley president of the architectural J rogers president duct of the iveaux arts society john mead howells president preal ilent soviets Bo flite clog lc architects DIp lowes pur par le ie eminent nt Ifer illan A Mi teNell lim in Na Naton tonnI nl sculpture and clinkles Clin rles butler pre pr r mont of the new york of if tho llin american of central marx Is owned ly by the file city and is IH it the only rite bite of 0 its aind to ti he be obtained on manhattan island it divides the city for two miles anil and one half from fifty ninth street to one hundred and tenth street ining between fifth rind eighth avenues it contains acres of woods grass water and roads the accompanying airplane lew jew talen by maj maxwell gives a first rate visualization of tile the pal pa it t of central park in question in the foreground Is the west branch of the artificial lake in the center Is the small reservoir and in the background tile larler larger one new yorks re deerve erve water supply in case of it accident to the new catskill Cats kIIl water ss system on the right of the park is in fifth avenue one of the worlds famous streets near eighty second street Is the metropolitan of art with its in egyptian architecture to i Cleo patras needle which stands close by at the h arft ft Is central park west continuation of eighth avenue with its ninny massive and it luxurious apartment houses at seventy seventh street Is the museum of nathinal his tory a splendid group of buildings and nearby Is the new york historical socie So cletYs tys building new yorkers apparently have lieve a rooted objection to the erection of art an arch in central park there Is how ever an odd add rind and interesting collic tion of inside its boundaries these include maltie nic mortal morial a li bi once soldier erected by tle seventh in memory of its fiend in the civil Coun nerce the pilgrim indian hunter mentor menior ills to the lie following general sherman AlexI alexander inder hamilton sir water scott columbus daniel W e bs t r samuel morse burns bui cs beethoven schiller Th oiling fi moore foore cervantes simon bolivar and hallock central park will gain the 37 acres of landscape under it a plan for the conversion ot of the lower reservoir into park space on the suggestion of park commissioner francis D gallatin the proposal to have a sunken suen garden on the reservoir site has been abandoned and the entire area will be leveled and made a part of the park proposals to build it a swimming swit ming pool and other features that bave aroused objections from park lot lovers ers also hae bern been dropped the entire area will be landscaped with a lagoon about lw feet in width nt at its northern end anil and a war nit nic at th tho bend of f tle lagoon tito tho ur or according to thomia Thim nf ft who Is out ont the ile sign ill III lie delther nn an arch nur nor a building the will be lenity in about six hs w weeks mr host hastings said and they win will too bo submitted W 19 to tile advisory committee tor for discussion and criticism plans for the landscaping treatment are being worked out by charles downing lay former landscape architect of the park department and charles N LoA lowelle Lo werle erle they call for the lie tearing down of the reservoir walls and the leveling off of the entire space with mith natural planting mr hastings said that the complete plans would be ready in about two months month and that they first would be submitted to mr air wanamakers Wana makers committee which in turn would submit them theiu to the board of estimate public hearings will be held let to give the public nn an opportunity to ev itress opinions on var various lotis features of the plan commissioner gallatin who hai been stend steadfast fast in Ms his opposition to some of the suggestions fur for cainey island I 1 R land features on tile the reservoir s site ite said he was much gratified at the de decision cislon of mr hastings and hla his colleagues regarding the treatment of 0 the site it will be it great addition to tile the park he said paid incidentally the area under tinder discussion Is not a part of the park and the park commissioner and the inrid landscape architect of the park department have no jurisdiction over it the I ind hind Is under tinder the jurisdiction of the board of water supply 1 1 I I nia alit particularly pleased tit nt mr hastings decision to work out a plan that call for the leveling of the bite and the inking down of the hie walls there will then be it beautiful vista clear across the lie park front from HIP museum of natural history to the lie metropolitan nn museum I 1 should lile to see an inter walk connecting the two places the lagoon that Is planned Is a very small affair and it will blend la in with the other features of tile lie re claimed area the plan in to place a memorial at its 18 head bead while I 1 am against the placing of buildings in the park this will not I 1 understood he be a building the lagoon mr hartings sold mid aviu alu he a narrow shallow hotly of water about 1 1200 aw feet in length feet wide and not dot more than two feet deep it will be similar to one recently completed in the mail at washington as aa an approach ni to lo the he new lincoln memorial mr wanamaker has been in consultation sul sui tation with will sir hastings and paul IV hartlett the sculptor with re rd to 0 o the memorial the site alte mr hastings t said provide provid eq an opportunity alty for interesting desh designs as few others in the lie city could give in the I 1 of the proposed playground at the ho northern end of the even area mr hastings will he be g guided by audies made in ili europe last summer of f ninny many parks slid and gardens i |