ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 21 



thing. To combine them all into an organization on a purely volun- 

 tary basis would be extremely difficult and it is so closely related to 

 the work which the Department of Agriculture has been doing for 

 the agricultural and horticultural interests of the country that it 

 logically connects up with that in some form. 



Xow. I do not know that there is anything more that you want 

 me to say : I do not know that I have said what you want. 



Mr. Johnson. Mr. Chairman, with your permission I would like 

 to ask a few questions. 



The Chairman. Certainly, Mr. Johnson. 



Mr. Johnson. Do I correctly understand Mr. Moore to say that 

 you were the author of the park plan for the District of Columbia? 



Mr. Olmsted. Yes ; I was member of the commission, and that por- 

 tion of the report which dealt with the outlying sections of the Dis- 

 trict and the rural parks and park connections was chiefly my work. 



Mr. Johnson. Was that a congressional commission ? 



Mr. Olmsted. That was a Senate commission ; it was a commission 

 appointed by and reporting to the Senate Committee on the District 

 of Columbia. 



Mr. Johnson. How many members were there on that commission? 



Mr. Olmsted. There were four. 



Mr. Johnson. I have heard their names, but I forget them. Will 

 you please recite them ? 



Mr. Olmsted. Mr. Burnham, Mr. McKim, Mr. St. Gaudens, and 

 myself. 



Mr. Johxsox. Was that a paid commission? 



Mr. Olmsted. That was a nonpaid commission. 



Mr. Johx\sox\ All work being done without compensation ? 



Mr. Olmsted. Yes. 



Mr. Johxsox\ When was the work done ? 



Mr. Olmsted. Most of it was done in 1901. 



Mr. Johx'sox*. How long did it take? 



Mr. Olmsted. I think it was about a year and half or two years 

 before we turned in our final report. It dragged over a long time 

 after that, after the commission went out of existence. I remember 

 that I maintained correspondence with Washington and came down 

 here often in response to requests. 



Mr. Moore. In order to keep the record straight I will state as 

 part of the answer to Mr. Johnson's question that the resolution was 

 adopted by the Senate March 8, 1901; the report was made on the 

 loth day of January, 1902. 



Mr. Johnson. There was much work done, however, by you after 

 the report was made, as you just said? 



Mr. Olmsted. Yes ; quite a good deal. 



Mr. Johnson. Were there any other members of the commission 

 engaged as you were ? 



Mr. Olmsted. Yes. 



Mr. Johnson. They did work subsequent to the making of the 

 report ? 



Mr. Olmsted. Oh, yes ; from time to time. 



Mr. Johnson. That is all. 



Senator Kx^ox. Mr. Burnham and Mr. McKim were architects? 



Mr. Olmsted. Yes. 



