New Floor Laid in Alamo

New Floor Laid in Alamo
San Antonio Express, Sunday, December 6, 1936.
Workmen will begin laying the concrete base for a new floor in the Alamo Chapel Monday and the entire floor will be completed during the week, representatives of the contractors told Mrs. Lieta Small, custodian, Saturday. A flagstone top will be laid on the new base.
Contractors had hoped to close the Alamo during this work but Mrs. Small refused. She pointed out San Antonio is every day host to visitors who have but a brief time to spend here and may be unable to return and she would not have them going back to their home to report they were unable to see the Alamo because it was closed for repairs.
Show cases and relics are to be moved from one side of the chapel to the other as the work progresses and it will not interfere with sight-seers. Mrs. Small said. Outside workmen were progressing rapidly with the demolition of buildings standing on recently purchased property, in spite of the protests of two architects and some members of the Conservation Society against the removal of some of these buildings and against the plan to build a new museum.
Influential members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas viewed the latest controversy more in sorrow than in anger and, in hope the thing would blow over, refused to comment officially lest they add fuel to the fire.
One official of the organization, who are custodians of the Alamo, said it might be well for the public to know the Daughters of the Republic are completely in accord with the program of the board of control and added, "This is the best board of control the state ever had."
Another official said, "You know the board of control is not going to do anything unless Mrs. Sevier approves it." Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier of Corpus Christi is chairman of the Alamo committee of the state organization.
Members of the organization also unofficially gave a vote of confidence to Henry Phelps, architect who has designed tentative plans for the park and who is acting here for the board of control in carrying out contracts for preservation work and for removal of obstructing buildings.
Phelps was confined to his bed Saturday by illness.

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