Show washington T 0 it A y lim Z N federal triangle in washington rep m by iho the national society washington D a service HH annual inual iii spring rush of tourists the to washington Is on in aliu nations capital even the perennial visitor Is greeted with something new to enjoy this year new buildings recently opened in and near the great triangle between the capitol and the will be a feature of a tour of the city gaze down upon the modern washington ln ton from an airplane As alwa always y 8 the simple grandeur of tile the white while house alouse the capitol the lincoln I 1 memorial and tile towering washington monument draw the eye find and make the heart beat faster cut but near them new wonders have appeared quietly arid and sten steadily dily with so little fuss that residents wore were hardly aware of it thousands of carloads of stone and metal whole mountains in the aggregate have been hauled into the alie city and reared into monumental buildings I 1 acres and acres of old unsightly structures have bare been razed on capitol hill around its base and along broad historic pennsylvania avenue in their place stretch parks wide boulevards or iong ion handsome houses of government in the angle formed by the intersection of pennsylvania avenue and the new constitution avenue beautiful champs or rue hue de divoll of washington rises a mighty wedge ot of masonry the famed federal triangle eight blocks long in this single group Is the most amazing collection of government buildings that mat the world has seen they make their own weather in hottest sum summer mer the air inside Is cooled to the temperature of a fine spring day beneath the roofs of 0 this triangle work nearly dearly government elii floyces plo ploy ces about as many as the entire population of batavia Ua tavla N Y ot daytona reach beach fla every day dozens of people get lost in its 20 miles of corridors massive and beautiful in sneer sheer size elze the cluster of buildings Is staggering even from high above it Is as it if half a dozen or more of new yorks tallest skyscrapers have been laid on their sides formed into a ill blunted tinted arrowhead and cut and ed cd to make courts and wings one unit the commerce department Is longer chati the chrysler building Is tall cut but it Is not merely ari an impression of bigness that one has in the wandering plane long ranks of majestic columns graceful arcades a wide plaza and solid rock walls give a beauty and simplicity that make these enormous newcomers lit fit companions for the classic white louse house and capitol the airplane turns and far oft off in the distance beyond the capitol dome a appears a gleaming white marble temple c comparable omil arable in beauty even to the noble lincoln memorial this Is the new united states supreme court cobit building the only real home of its own that the nations highest court has had for the first time in american history a citizen now might gaze upon the separate permanent abodes of the three branches of his bis government le legislative Islat lve the capitol executive the white house and now for the judicial cl alon long sheltered to in the old senate chamber this temple whose dignity and impressiveness match the majesty of tile the law itself suspended in history As you cruise about other splendid white buildings appear new jewels in the familiar setting along the potomac beyond the lincoln shrine the new anilu arlington ton memorial bridge links north and south down the vir virginia finla shore of the Nin winding ding river a wide applan way the mount vernon lemorl Me morl i highway leads to tile the home and tomb of the father Fathe fetherof of his country from the steps of tile capitol all the way down to the river two and a third miles away sweeps a broad stretch of tree dotted park land gone Is much of the mushroom growth of kf temporary wartime structures their re moval boval gives new beauty to this mall main feature of the grand plan conceived by the revolutionary soldier artist maj pierre charles lenfant LEn tant when he be laid out this city with broad sweeping prophetic strokes to be the lie capital of a vast country hanging between earth and sky you seem suspended in history halfway between the past and the unfathomable future how would the city look a hundred icare hence or twenty or a thousand the senate office building off there nt at the left has had its face lifted rind and a handsome face it now Is with a long row of roman doric columns A street car line that once marred the scene dips discreetly underground beneath a broad lawn is a subterranean garage in which senatorial cars can be parked supreme court building but to look upon the latest crowning glory of capitol hill one should stand eland on the front steps of the capitol where presidents are inaugurated I 1 and see the new supreme court building its beauty heightened by the green of trees and grass it occupies a historic site early patriots in powdered wigs forgath ered at a famous old hotel run by william on this spot before the war of 1812 after the british burned tile the capitol in 1814 a building erected here housed congress until tb the marks of the torch were erased in civil war times it was used as a military prison everything about the supreme courts home borne Is on a majestic scale look at those blocks of marble one nt at each side of the steps each block weighs 45 tons they are two of the heaviest marble blocks ever brought into washington the two bronze doors weigh pounds apiece the eight corinthian columns are 51 feet high the pediment above them catches the eye not alone for its size but for its interesting sculptures in which the features of historic or living men are recognized nihed inside the massive bronze portals a main hall lined with 36 stately columns each made from one solid piece of stone leads to the courtroom where the nine black robed justices sit at their own request the room was made only about GO CO per cent larger in floor area thin than tile the old supreme court room in tile the capitol behind the courtroom are the terca oak paneled offices of the justices each of whom will have about as much space as all had together in the crowded capitol only three had offices there at all and most of the members of the court do much of their work at home to assure the justices privacy the 06 new buildings corridors can ie be closed by big bronze gates wonderful libraries in the folger shakespeare library down the street reposes a fine collection of books and elizabethan treasures even the supposed corset ot of queen elizabeth solemnly stowed away in a vault and shown only to a chosen few behind the library of congress an annex almost to double its capacity is being built although already it Is the largest library in the world with wort more than books pamphlets pieces of music and other items at the latest count down from capitol hill past a shining new house office building lately reared beside the first one the trail of the new washington leads to pennsylvania avenue in some of its now vanished buildings masses of rubble nibble and ruined walls then the first bricks hew flew in the bonus army riots of 1932 halfway along the avenue between the capitol and white house there stretched off to the left in tile the early days of the city a dreary swamp where washingtonians Washington ians were wont to shoot later the swamp was oiled filled in and the old center market dubbed the marsh or nami SI ash market was erected there five years ago the ramshackle market buildings still occupied the spot and thousands of rats inhabited the premises which had long been for them an energetic government hit bit upon this location as a key point in its building program here would rest the tip of the federal triangle wrecking operations began scientific pled pipers from the agricultural department disposed of the rats which at first devoured the work mens lunches on this unlikely site now stands a structure in many ways unique tile the national archives building alere for the first time I 1 Is a worthy safe and permanent home for the precious records of the nation some scrawled in faded ink on yellowed paper by early patriot hands others punched out on modern typewriters or even contained la in sound motion pic ture films which will be preserved and shown here to guard against deterioration to keep father time at boy bay as long as possible both sunlight and natural air are barred from the archive storage which are window less |