1336 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Of the remaining 35.34 acres in the park site, 34.49 acres will have to be acquired 
through condemnation proceedings, which are now in progress, and the balance of 
0.84 of an acre is already the property of the Government. The commission has to 
acknowledge the tender to them as a gift of 5.10 acres of land from the Woodley 
Park Syndicate, represented by Mr. H. P. Waggaman, which was legally acquired 
for the nominal consideration of $1. 
On November 21 the survey of the park was completed, and a careful and accu- 
rate map thereof was furnished by the Director of the Geological Survey and filed 
by the commission in the public records of the District of Columbia, as required by 
law; and your commission believes itself justified in the statement that the site is 
commodious, accessible, and adapted by nature to the special ends it is intended to 
serve in a degree beyond any belonging to any other city. ; 
On November 22 the commission submitted to the President, with a copy of the 
map of the park showing the tracts condemned for public uses, a schedule of what it 
considered to be just compensation in each case, and this compensation the President 
approved on November 26. The commission is now proceeding to settle as rapidly 
as it can with the owners whose lands are to be acquired by mutual agreement. 
In the following schedule the land to be acquired by agreement is shown distinct 
from that where the owners have refused the commission’s prices and where the 
land remains to be acquired by the process of condemnation specified in the act: 
Land acquired by agreement with the owners. 
. : Price agreed 
Owner. | Acres. upon. 
Wigs AS. Se TVRNS cosa ocor lee te ccas sosee atest eee es chee lens ser aseeee eres | 94, 050 $94, 860. 00 
Soman’ D. Walbridge tie . fo Fs RE eee SY ee eh ee seas eee 14. 450 14, 450. 00 
Woodley Park: Syndicate: .. eshte Us <stesio se sll atthe eee | 5.103 ¥ 1.00 
The Messrs: Waseamans.. 35 sic Lu Saath es eke feo one kebeeuee deat aes 2.350 | 5, 875. 00 
Henny CuBoltt .. altace ccdo spbacese> sawtaene ce eenlcaee nnn aie See 13. 360 40, 000. 00 
Mrs Ganev et cet ae aw ches Sten as coma de ietemes ne ae 1. 440 | 3, 000. 00 
Mirah: an eae lee Se 58° 2eo Ser e he ee Uo te eee . 392 | 170.76 
Motel Ae Ol ee gee eck ete ot Neglet, ae a eb he ee 131, 145 158, 356.76 
List of property which must be acquired by condemnation. 
Valuation of- 
fered by com- 
Owner. Acres. mission and 
approved by 
President. 
PARCINCUBIORG 32225 de: Sus Ss deans fo ee. RE bee are Sn 24. 570 $9, 828. 00 
JP Riinple-o5 6 .tht 3s oe ce B aijee Pog knees so ehineeeeeie- pames sae eee ~ 6.180 4, 994. 00 
Part‘colored Gemeétery): = ..<'=- 33 jets > Pace kn ashes sere eeeeperte saaerineeeee = 1.700 3, 000. 00 
Ey Ee Biay@en 205. o eee ioe 25 see eae sane ORO eee eee . 670 800. 00 
McPherson a Winlkeyes. ste ic. 0 teolupes se tan Peete sea te eer eset eee eee. .315 200. 00 
33. 435 18, 772. 00 
Quarry Troad)(public property)... .i0.sccscecsh- 2. seeeeeekecee aweehne cesianien FAG |p S52 teeters 
Section in stream bed of unclaimed ownership ..........--.-----------++- 1 O60} era as samenrese ae 
Total. .2... ....- Se eee. Le Se eee Ce eee eae T5906 {)sc-0c 22 eee 
Grand total ... 02.2.5 5008 5 o0sees osu caes Se bee ee ee 166, 486 177, 128. 76 
The commission calls attention to the fact that the accuracy of the estimates of the 
probable cost of this land, submitted by the Smithsonian Institution to the appro- 
priation committees of both Houses of Congress, and repeatedly referred to in debate, 
has been verified by the cost of the purchases made up to date. Of the site of 121 
