A Protest 
Contracts have been let and work begun on a Central Heating, 
Lighting and Power Plant to be built in Washington on Washington 
Channel and Fourteenth Street. 
Write at once to 
The American Institute of Architects 
The Octagon, Washington, D. C. 
Ask them to send to you a pamphlet giving all the details of this 
outrageous project. 
Are you willing to see the Washington Plan ruined, the Washington 
Monument flanked by twin smoke stacks two hundred feet tall and 
sixteen feet in diameter, the Capitol overshadowed by such unneces- 
sary ugliness? 
The following paragraphs tell you what you can and should do. 
Surely this is a time when the Garden Club of America should bring 
all possible influence to bear. 
" Public sentiment will prove the greatest factor in making visible 
the handwriting on the wall, and we therefore urge you — after a 
careful study of the facts we herewith present — to write or wire or 
both to the President of the United States, your two Senators and the 
Representative from your district, that, you vigorously protest 
against proceeding with construction of the power plant on a site to 
which experts in all qualified callings have taken exception. Even 
if, in the interim, the resolution should be defeated, do not cease 
activities which eventually must win. 
Do not postpone this action nor consider that your co-operation 
will not count. It will, when exercised in the light of knowledge of 
the situation; and we who are giving our disinterested service in your 
behalf have the right to ask that you support us in a crisis which 
involves the future of your Washington. 
The American Institute of Architects." 
The Editor. 
Notes 
The Garden Club of Princeton will hold its Second Annual Flower 
Market at Thompson Hall Park, on Thursday, May 8th, from eleven 
to seven o'clock. The result of last year's market is a School Gardener 
or Horticulturalist, and the proceeds this year will be devoted to 
making this arrangement permanent. 
