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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



earnest desire for the co-operation of this So- 

 ciety has been expressed; and 



Whereas, A Bill (H. R. 8668) has been in- 

 troduced in Congress by Mr. Kent of Cali- 

 fornia and has been referred to the Committee 

 on Public Lands, being a Bill to Establish a 

 National Park Service, and drawn by members 

 of the American Civic Association in Confer- 

 ence with representatives of the American So- 

 ciety of Landscape Architects; be it, and it 

 hereby is, 



Resolved, First: That the American Society 

 of Landscape Architects declares its confi- 

 dence in the present provisional administra- 

 tion of the National Parks; 



Second: That the American Society of Land- 

 scape Architects endorses the Bill (H. R. 

 8668), entitled a Bill to Establish a National 

 Park Service and pledges its utmost efforts, in 

 co-operation with the American Civic Associa- 

 tion, to secure its passage; 



Third: That the American Society of Land- 

 scape Architects pledges itself, and invites its 

 individual members, to co-operate in every way 

 possible, and consistent with the recognized 

 ethics of the profession, with the present pro- 

 visional National Park Service, and with the 

 National Park Service sought to be established 

 under the aforesaid Bill. 



to the erection of the proposed power plant 

 in Washington on the bank of the Potomac, 

 or in any other place where it will conspicuous- 

 ly mar the development of the Plan for Wash- 

 ington, and to any other such interference 

 with the full realization of that plan. 



February 14, 1916. 



Whereas, It is proposed to erect a Govern- 

 ment power plant of large proportions on the 

 bank of the Potomac in the City of Washing- 

 ton with four smoke chimneys, each about 

 two hundred feet in height, and in a location 

 where they will be seen conspicuously from the 

 Capitol, the new Lincoln Monument, and the 

 new East Potomac Park, and in relation with 

 the Washington Monument; and 



Whereas, Such a structure in this location 

 will seriously interfere with the proper de- 

 velopment of the great plan for the City of 

 Washington originated by the French engineer 

 L'Enfant, and recommended by the Park Com- 

 mittee of the District of Columbia and the 

 Senate Committee on the District of Colum- 

 bia, which plan in the judgment of the Society 

 should be scrupulously adhered to; be it and it 

 hereby is, 



Resolved, That the American Society of 

 Landscape Architects is emphatically opposed 



March 14, 1916. 



Whereas, A Committee, known as the 

 Comite Neerlando-Belge d'Art Civique, has 

 been formed at the Hague, under the patron- 

 age of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Bel- 

 gian Government, for the purpose of collecting 

 from all parts of the world, and carefully or- 

 ganizing for convenient reference and im- 

 mediate use at the close of the War or upon 

 the earlier recovery of Belgian territory, all 

 possible data — careful formulations of prin- 

 ciples and clear records of illuminating facts of 

 experience — which when placed in the hands 

 of those who at that time may be responsible 

 for and control the rebuilding of Belgian cities 

 partially or wholly destroyed, will help to as- 

 sure this rebuilding shall not from lack of 

 available information, be along the lines of in- 

 efficiency and ugliness so usual and so difficult 

 to avoid at such times of feverishly rapid re- 

 building, particularly of the homes of the 

 masses of the population, but be along the 

 lines in this case of utmost possible efficiency, 

 economy, and beauty, worthy of Belgium's 

 noble traditions of efficiency and beauty in 

 city-building, and of the recent and continued 

 brave struggle of her people; and 



Whereas, Through a personal communica- 

 tion from M. Louis van der Swaelman, dis- 

 tinguished Landscape Architect of Brussels, 

 and official City Planning advisor to Greater 

 Brussels, representing this committee, to Pro- 

 fessor James Sturgis Pray, President of the 

 American Society of Landscape Architects, the 

 professional aid of the American Society of 

 Landscape Architects is earnestly solicited in 

 the compiling and organizing of the said in- 

 formation in this great task of professional 

 "preparedness," and in any other possible ways 

 within the said Society's professional field; be 

 it, and it hereby is. 



Resolved, That the American Society of 

 Landscape Architects pledges its utmost pos- 

 sible aid to the Committee known as the 

 Comite Neerlando-Belge d'Art Civique in its 

 self-imposed task of professional "prepared- 



