b ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 



Mr. Charles Grafly, of Philadelphia. He has designed a memorial 

 that will stand with the Grant. Memorial, and will be an adequate 

 monument to 'Gen. Meade. 



Senator Knox. Has its site been determined? 



Mr. Moore. Its site has been determined and fixed by the commis- 

 sion created by Congress. 



Senator Knox. Where is it to be located? 



Mr. Moore. In the Botanical Garden area, near the Grant Memo- 

 rial, so that Meade and Grant shall stand together. 



Senator Knox. It will be within the garden? 



Mr. Moore. Within the garden ; yes. 



The Chairman. What is the map to which you just pointed when 

 you showed us the location of the statue ? 



Mr. Moore. That is the plan of 1901 for the development of the 

 Mall in accordance with the L'Enfant plan of 1792. 



The Chairman. The plan of 1901 adopted by what, or whom? 



Mr. Moore. Never adopted by anybody. 



The Chairman. Proposed by whom ? 



Mr. Moore. It was a report made to the Senate by the Senate 

 Committee on the District of Columbia for the development of the 

 park system of the District of Columbia : never adopted at all by 

 Congress, but Congress has never gone contrary to the plan during 

 the 19 years which have elapsed since it was submitted. 



Senator Knox. By whom was it prepared? 



Mr. Moore. It was prepared by Mr. Burnham, Mr. McKim, Mr. 

 Saint-Gaudens, and Mr. Olmsted, the latter of whom is here this 

 morning. He is the last surviving member of the park commission 

 of 1901. 



Senator Knox. That was my recollection. I was in Mr. Roose- 

 velt's Cabinet at the time that report was made. 



The Chairman. Is there a report now in print which describes 

 the locations shown on this map? If so, will you not identify it so 

 that we can have a reference to it in the record '. 



Mr. Moore. The report is Report No. 166, on the improvement of 

 the park system of the District of Columbia, Fifty-seventh Con- 

 gress, first session. 



The Chairman. Was it printed as a Senate document? 



Mr. Moork. Yes: the document consists, first, of the report of 

 the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, prepared by a 

 subcommittee made up of Senator McMillan, Senator Gallinger, and 

 Senator Martin, and. second, the report of the park commission; 

 that is. of Daniel H. Burnham. Charles F. McKim, Augustus Saint- 

 Gaudens, and Frederick Law Olmsted. 



Both reports proposed, in the first place, the development of the 

 Mall according to the L'Enfant plan adopted to the new area re- 

 claimed from the Potomac marshes. In carrying out that plan they 

 drew a line from the dome of the Capitol to the Washington Monu- 

 ment, and prolonged it to the Potomac River, and there located the 

 memorial to Abraham Lincoln: they also made a general recom- 

 mendation as to the design of that monument. 



The first trouble came over the location of the Agricultural De- 

 partment buildings, and eventually they were located according to 

 the new axis of the Mall. Xext the National Museum was located 

 according to the new plan of the Mall, and the development has gone 



