ings and Grounds, and Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Lack of building space had produced acute conditions, Col. Sherrill told the delegates. Continuing, he outlined the situation in various depart
ments in Washington as, for
example, the Bureau of Internal Revenue which occupies 636,000 square feet of floor space in nine buildings scattered over an area of one and a half square miles. More than 10 per cent of the entire space of this important bureau is in temporary, non-fireproof buildings, said Col. Sherrill.
“While the most elaborate precautions are taken to prevent fires in these structures, there is no doubt that should a fire get a good start the building or probably the entire group of buildings would be destroyed. The loss to the government from such an event would probably be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, representing income tax returns which could probably never be replaced.”
Explaining the policy of the public buildings commission as contemplated in the Smoot bill, Col. Sherrill added:
“Hot only will it be the policy of the public buildings commission to carry on this construction program in accordance with the l’Enfant plan,
the McMillan commission plan and the public buildings commission plan of 1916, but the com
mission will in the design of these buildings carry out the existing provision of the law in reference to securing the advice of the commission of fine arts on matters relating to the location and design of these buildings, in order that the development may be made not only to carry out the needs of the government for adequate space for its business activities, but also that the beauty of Washington may be maintained and enhanced by an orderly program of building construction in furtherance of the park and building plans.”
Brig. Gen. Lord made an appeal for support
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PAST PRES. FAVILLE
by the profession of architecture for the continuing of the nation’s business on a business basis. As a result of the budgetary system, he said, government was costing less. One year ago, for example, according to Gen. Lord, corrections by authors on proofs cost the government $240,000. This year this expense will be cut to $160,000 and, he added, the latter figure will be , slashed in half “even if we have to split every infinitive in the language to do it.”
During this day’s session, a resolution was passed, urging Congress to adopt legislation for the purchase and preservation of the Oldroyd
Lincoln Memorial Collection. Another resolution adopted declared the pur
chase and preservation of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, to be the most important enterprise of this character now before the American people.
The convention further endorsed in principle the program of industrial mobilization laid down by the War Department, and offered its co-operation.
The afternoon session closed with an illustrated lecture by Albert Kelsey on “Rome, Radiating Rome.”
The evening session, at which N. Max Dunning, first vice president presided, was given up to the report of the Committee on Education, when papers were read by William Emerson,
George C. Nimmons and Ellis F. Lawrence. The work now going forward in the field of architectural education was very lucidly discussed by these chairmen of sub-committees, particular stress being paid to that of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. An urgent appeal was made for financial support of this important educational movement.
Delegates to this convention will return to their respective homes with the most pleasurable recollections of the occasion. Due to the fine
work of the special committee appointed to insure a more intimate acquaintance among delegates, much of the aloofness that previously marked the hours at the headquarters hotel when the conven
EDWIN BERGSTROM
N. MAX DUNNING
STANLEY PARKER
ments in Washington as, for
example, the Bureau of Internal Revenue which occupies 636,000 square feet of floor space in nine buildings scattered over an area of one and a half square miles. More than 10 per cent of the entire space of this important bureau is in temporary, non-fireproof buildings, said Col. Sherrill.
“While the most elaborate precautions are taken to prevent fires in these structures, there is no doubt that should a fire get a good start the building or probably the entire group of buildings would be destroyed. The loss to the government from such an event would probably be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, representing income tax returns which could probably never be replaced.”
Explaining the policy of the public buildings commission as contemplated in the Smoot bill, Col. Sherrill added:
“Hot only will it be the policy of the public buildings commission to carry on this construction program in accordance with the l’Enfant plan,
the McMillan commission plan and the public buildings commission plan of 1916, but the com
mission will in the design of these buildings carry out the existing provision of the law in reference to securing the advice of the commission of fine arts on matters relating to the location and design of these buildings, in order that the development may be made not only to carry out the needs of the government for adequate space for its business activities, but also that the beauty of Washington may be maintained and enhanced by an orderly program of building construction in furtherance of the park and building plans.”
Brig. Gen. Lord made an appeal for support
EDWIN H. BROWN
PAST PRES. FAVILLE
by the profession of architecture for the continuing of the nation’s business on a business basis. As a result of the budgetary system, he said, government was costing less. One year ago, for example, according to Gen. Lord, corrections by authors on proofs cost the government $240,000. This year this expense will be cut to $160,000 and, he added, the latter figure will be , slashed in half “even if we have to split every infinitive in the language to do it.”
During this day’s session, a resolution was passed, urging Congress to adopt legislation for the purchase and preservation of the Oldroyd
Lincoln Memorial Collection. Another resolution adopted declared the pur
chase and preservation of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, to be the most important enterprise of this character now before the American people.
The convention further endorsed in principle the program of industrial mobilization laid down by the War Department, and offered its co-operation.
The afternoon session closed with an illustrated lecture by Albert Kelsey on “Rome, Radiating Rome.”
The evening session, at which N. Max Dunning, first vice president presided, was given up to the report of the Committee on Education, when papers were read by William Emerson,
George C. Nimmons and Ellis F. Lawrence. The work now going forward in the field of architectural education was very lucidly discussed by these chairmen of sub-committees, particular stress being paid to that of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. An urgent appeal was made for financial support of this important educational movement.
Delegates to this convention will return to their respective homes with the most pleasurable recollections of the occasion. Due to the fine
work of the special committee appointed to insure a more intimate acquaintance among delegates, much of the aloofness that previously marked the hours at the headquarters hotel when the conven
EDWIN BERGSTROM
N. MAX DUNNING
STANLEY PARKER