Show U S building legation on the summit of cape monrovia liberia work is underway on cin a new united states legation building under un der direction of lester A walton united states minister to liberia the building is being built on the th summit of a cape extending into the atlantic and will face the ocean weeks of dynamiting were necessary to level huge boulders on the rocky site soil was then spread so that trees and flowers may grow the legation will be about halt half a mile from the british legation which stands on the south shore of the cape the cape is the coolest part of monrovia but had never before been used for dwellings because of its rugged state |