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Excerpt from Central Heating, Lighting, and Power Plant on the Mall, in Washington, D. C: Hearings Before the Committee on the Library, United States Senate, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session on S. J. Res. 92 The chairman. I would like to inquire, preliminarily, have any of you gentlemen thought this matter out far enough to have any definite ideas concerning where that plant that is to furnish this heat, power, and light could be placed? Mr. Cass gilbert. I am only here as representing the Commission of Fine Arts. Mr. Jennings asked me if I had studied it. I will say that the matter has not come before the Commission of Fine Arts. The chairman. That is the gist Of it, for everybody is agreed that we do not want the plant there. It is unsightly in itself, and mars the landscape and destroys the beauty of the whole situation, and yet a public building has got to have heat and light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.