Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1921, Page 58

" COAST ~ o°_ (Continued from First Page.) division of thé survey. Mr. Fischer. Jt was from this office that hundreds %g instruments were turned out for lie Army and Navy during the late war. In the machine shop skilled Workmen. fashion the -delicate and sccurate instruments needed by tne Sdrvey.. To the right of this is the ‘woodworking department. where rods are built and repaired. The rods used for the survey have a metal center strip composed of “invar.” a combination of steel and nickel. upon t or cold has no effect— far as surveying is con- < " For a long time it was im- possible to secure a lamp that could Dbe seen at a great distance, but Mr. Fischer designed onme that threw a ‘beam of light in the manner desired. * % x ¥ THE thousands of maps that are i sold to mariners are the result of many heartbreaking hours of la- bor, likewise the’maps used ou land. wnd after the draftsnien had drawn the original on vellum it must then §o "to the plant where lithography and printing take up the work. The larger maps are photographed in four plates and, after these have been gone over by skilled artisans. they are then transferred to aliumi- pum plates. Great: care |Is taken that the plate will receive every out- line, dot and cross. -just as i: sho: d appear. After this,work is done the plate ia placed on a-whirling device to eliminate all forelgn matter. It then goes into a large boz, upon hich are shed the rass of two pow- lectric lampa. f’l‘{“u’ then turned over to the men who prepsre the plates, and after} passing severzl hours under the, manipulation of the r exnert fin=r:} 1t goes to the press and the map | is printed therefrom. The sheets 1 dried and carried to the storeroom | ready to be dlnmgehed to different { parts of the country. The printing dipision is under the airection of D. P. Barnett. Back once more to the new bullding,; to look at the new vault. the cost} of which was $10,000. Here each; original map Is placed in & tin cyli der :and numbered so that if it needed it can be secured without de- | Jay.; This vault may be fireproof, but ! 4n the judgment of the writer it} would not be a.bad idea to heavily seinforce it. -more especially as it would take about a billion dollars and no end of time to replace the con- 4tents of the vault as it stands today, seven if it could be done at all. Again we twist, turn and climb lnnnmenblel mtairs until we- arrive at the photo- | ‘gTaphic section. presided over by that: AND GEODETIC SURVEY A "™ 100-PER CENT EFFICIENT BUREAU |ing him in time. Delays mean . a waste of money, and Mr. Grifin does not permit any money to be wasted. As you leave his office’ you note that ! there is on the wall a shining copper tablet. It is placed there in honor of that hero who. while commanding the ' survey’s steamer Patterson, saved the crew of the revenue cutter Tahoma, which was wrecked in Bering sea. Capt. Lusitania was sunk. * x x X CEVENTY-THREE per cent of the men in the fleld live in camps | they make for themselves; the balance | stuy on the ships. All these men where the other fellow won't go. Their -life is never a bed of roses.| Just who are some of these men, who are devoting their lives to the serv- ice? The director of the survey'is Col. E. Lester Jones, a native of New Jersey, born in April, 1879, was a student at the Baldwin School. Newark Academy, the High School, and has the degree of A. AL from Princeton Unliversity, Chlef occupation, hydrographic and geodetic engineer. 'In addition to being director of the United States coast and geadetic survey he Is commissioner of Interna- | tional boundary, United States, Alaska and Canzda. Col. Jones fighters, men who participated in the | Indian wars as well as the revelution; | In 1776. That he places country above | comes from a line ol'l ‘I'HE" SUNDAY STAR.- WfifiINGTON.' D. «C., AUGUST 21, 1921—PART 4 |DINING ROOM WEEK . by the survey is of vast impantance and but nop least, because, we have at the head of our bureau s man who is ansolutely squste; a mam, Who is not only our chlef, but 2 man Who is our true friend, If any of us have a suggestion to make we do rot bave to bother with red tape, bu r=| dlrectly to him ‘and state our, case. I want to mention the case of a'char- | Miller lost his life when the ; woman. who some time ago, through a slight misunderstanding, :thought! she was prevented from seeing the | director on a certain matter. “The director heard of it and sent for her. She arrived at his office, aooofd- ing to her statement, In rather an excited condition, but was soon put at ease by the calonel. In a very! few minutes all misunderstandings . had been cleaved away, and she went | beck to her work, - happy (n the Rnowledge that 4he lowliest empibye’s rights were as carefully safeguarded ! as the chief of any divisjon... Tt 18| chis trait of fair play that makes all | of us willing to work overtime or | Sundays and_holidays. | 'k ok % . ¢« HE director never asks a myn to{ = do anything that he wpuld not do | himself. He never asks a man in the | fleld to take a chance that he would | not take. When there was trouble ! j regarding increase in rents several af t us-who suffered at the hands of land- | ords who wanted to get &ll of our meager salaries, Jaid our ciscs be- fore the coloncl I don't kmow how iall is evidenced by the fact that when he was called before u committee to | he did it, but he hciped all of us. Why. investigate the air service he stated | he-knows every emplaye of the surv. that at that time only one plane had:bY name, and when any one is sick ; i sults. He has been | been shipped to Eu-ope, and when he | More than a day or two he makes it | i was cnlled to account for the state- ment by government officials, occupy- | 8n¥thing he can do for him. ing high positious at that time he stuck to his guns and proved the truth of his statement. He rose from the rank of private to major in the Dis- trict militia, entered the regular Army —temporary as a lleutenant colonel and was made, a colonel in the world | war—mjlitary” aeronautics. He saw | active ‘service in thé United $fates,! France and Italy, was decorated by, the King of Italy with the highest honur that country’ could give “for| conspicuous - civil and military s ice,” was recommended for the distin- guished service medal and for the French Legion of Honor. He was awarded the diploma of honor by the Aerial League, is one of the ploneer advocates for the use of the aerpplane in surveying from the air—this has already given excellent practical re- invited by- the Franklin Institute o deliver an ad- dress on this subject.. Col- Jones promulgated the first draft of the constitution of the Amer- ican Lexion; he is known as the “fath- ! weizard of the lens, Mr. L P. Keyser.: {7 © This division In located up in the | 13, He was one of the Incorporato garret of the hotel building. _The | ol '5eyi "R merican Legion post. was natural light js not sufficient for any | gt commander of the “pioneer post” practical purposes aund artificial ights | 354 the first commander of the first have to be used al] the time. There|gepartment. He is a8 member of the nd that, splendid things on which to b ¢pe bamp o head. The ventilation' wars, and is a member of the first Rere is practically nil. and yet. despite | gerial coastal patrol commission. these handicaps, Mr. Keyser and his! He is Hasistants turn out about 4.500 nega- | works, among which are: tives a year. to say nothing of the|vestigations,” “Hypsometry, 40.000 or so photostats that are called | ments of Chart Makin ‘Neglected for each twelve months. Back once!Waters of the Pacifl afeguard the friore to Mr. Fischer's department, to:Gateways of Alaska,” “Aecial Survey- ®ee the best sounding device In the|ing.” He is & mem hington ‘world. = 7 Soelety of Engineers, Princeton Uni- .Up until a ghort time ago, the ma- | versity Engineering Association, Me- Jority of sounding tubes used in this | teorological Socety of Amerca, Mam- sountry came from England, but a!mologsts Soclety of America, Seismo- Society of Cfticers of Foreign “Alaska In- careful study made of these disclosed | logical Society of America, Washing- | the fact that they were not accurate, | ton Academy of Sciences. Alaska His- &nd this. coupled with the knowledge | torical Society, Camp Fire Club of That they could be used but once,[Am.rim. American Bison Club, Amer- caused the survey people to devise an ! ican Fisheries Society. Pacific Fish- fnstrument thatwas absolutely accu-;eries Society, National Press Club, er of the American Legion in Amer-i ve iron trusses projecting this way | veterans of the Forvign Wars, also-of | Sioux- City to St. Louls. the author of numerous} “Eleg| | He-'was in charge of the divl rate and could beused for month after #ifonth. * Two_veéty interesting mem- ers of Col. Jones' cabinet, for there s a cabinet that'sits every day or two ! and talks over matters with him, are i Capts. Wainwright and McGrath, the former cofning % the service in 1870 and the latter in 1878. Despite the fact that Capt. Wainwright had re- tired, he came back for service during ! %lin: :adr ‘-ndt hIs seill \;md;rln‘l valua- ! il 0 e iwvice he loves =o Well. Mr. McGrath iy ng. and hearty and as loyal &s-ever. ‘he survey is -#ike one big family, and Mr. Griffin, ‘who presides over- the financial sec- tion, has arrahged matters so that no man, while out in the field, is ever delayed by redson of funds not reach- Cosmos Club, Sons of the Revolu- tlon, Society of Mayflower Descend- ants, Director - Federal Club, repre-| senting _the Department of Com- merce, Princeton Club of New York his business.to find out if there lIs| T-don't know what kind of a siory you are gceing, to. write about the survey, but you can say with all- truthfuiness that one of the reasons that a great many of us have stayed on is because | ol Jones has ever been a true friend o us. There are no’ rubber stamps used | fu_answering letters sent, to the| survey, Col. Jones proceeding on the | theory that if a letter I8 weorth an- swering at all {t-ds worth a ,genu- ine; not a facsimilie, 'signature.’ It is a standing rule of the coast and geo- detic suryey that' all letters regeived | must either be answered ’within | twenty-four hours, or, If the reply re- quires mor¢ time, mus: be acdknowls edgod. So that the writer of. the let- ter either gets his angwer within a short time or is infofmed. that. his letter has been received and that the data requestas are being prepared and will be furnished him, within & .cer- u_ll_n time. - b5 'he assistant director is Ropert. L. Faris, who was born at Cardthers- ville; Mo., in 1868. (He was ‘educated In the public schools ang at the Uni- versity of Missouri, graduating- in 1890 with the degree of civi} engis! neer.. The first year after gradiation he rved as assistant engineer on the survey of the Missouri river, frorn . Since May, 1891, he has been with the ites States coast and’ geodetic survey a. fleld engineer and served in branches of the fleld work on the Atjantic and ®ulf coasts, in the West Indles, in Alaska and the coasts ‘of Berin e on of terrestrial magnetism of the Wash- ington office. for eight years, and he has been . assistant director since: March; 1915. Mr. ber of the Mississippi river cammission sirice August, 1919. He is also a mem- ber of the board of surveys and maps. There are other men of great scien- tific attainments in the survey, men| whose names will ever be remiembered by a grateful public when it realizes the .character of the work they have been doing for their country. The recent wreck of the steamer Alaska, with its dreadful toll;of lives, is a warning that every “safeguard should be taken to protectthose who travel by sea. I we are’ t0 secure and the Princeton Club of District of knowledge that will aid' in; making — WEEK W discount furnitare sale ’ INCE our entire stocks of furniture are involved in this sale it is impossible to present more than a cross-section at a time. This week, therefore, we are spétializing in , Dining Room Furniture, and this page hifits of . the opportunities that are here. E o But ‘remember that our entjre stocks are included and that discounts are This 552250 dining suite. s e . 9390 This $262-50 dining room suite ; 20 piscon) iz $195 This” magnifeant Tudor Gothio ten-picce dining 5 2 . - room suite, in either mahogany or walnut. It includes brings it dosy 19 v 60-inch buffet, new style oblong extension table, in- closed server, large grill china closet; five, side and The above illustration shows its artistic lines. Massive buffet, large --one arm (‘}I‘ll. : ;‘hinn cabinet, server and extension table, with 5 side chairs and arm- chair to match. Solid oak, in golden finish. . Buy in August and buy RUG e them for 10 to 25% less August is no rug month, but we don't intend to let our rug department remain idle. That’s why we are giving 10 to 25% discount on every wool rug in our entire stock. The identical rugs must sell at regular prices at the clote of this month. Here're examples of how the discounts work. . Tapestry Brussels rugs ,'Wi'ltqu "uglve,t & velvet $22.50 9x12 ft. rugs..............816.88 “rugs $15.75 8.3x10.6 ft. rugs...........$11.82 $15.00 7.6x9 ft. rugs. .....811.25 $15.75 6x9 ft. rugs..... .....$11.82 $58.50 9x12 ft. Wiltons.. $33.25 9x12 ft. Velvets... $53.50 8.3x10.6 ft; Wiltons. . $28.75 8.3x10.6 f§. Velvets. + $37.50 7.6x9 fr. Wiltons.. This $89 buffet—of quartered oak, Colonial design with mirror, 54 inches 568 75 long ... This* extension table—solid oak in golden fin- ish. Extends 6 feet 517'75 : B i - : e . - ft. Wil tes. ... $31. Axminster rugs $55:00 03 1r. Velvers. cores- - S31-88 $45.00 9x12 ft. rugs..............8$36.00 Many small rugs Columbia. safe journey by water, we must give The director is held in high regard|support to the branch of the govern- by the employes of the bureau, all of | ment that knows how to loéate and them swear by him and the reason |record these danger spots. for their fidelity can besi be qummed | ‘We have hundreds and hundreds of wp in a statement made by one of |millions of dollars invested In ships; $42.50 8.6x10.:6 ft. rugs. ....-$34.00 $33.75 7.6x9 ft. rugs... .....$27.01 $25.00 4.6x6.6 ft. rugs............$20.00 $9.75 36x72-inch Velvets......... $7.75 36x72-inch Axminsters. ..... $3.95 27x54-inch Axminsters. $3.95.27x54-inch Velvets. ... .. them to the ‘writer about two menthv 0, when he said: “Th ve people of the s 'y have stuck to the job as long as we have, when promise after promise made to us has been bruken, is because we love our country. We feel that the work donc { AROUND THE CITY | One of the fine_ things about a,va- | cation is the getting back to cherio greetings and lettérs that are so many talks. Here are bits of some that have come from out of the Iriendly unknown: “Don’t bréak that pig bank; use a thin-bladed . table knife. The object 1s.to get the coins on top of the blade and slide them_ out. It takes pa- tiepce, but it works. . I had one for mboyt thirteen years until it fell off the mantel and was smashed., Yours, J.H. R” iy “Plan’t somebody -ofice remark that 93 was an unlucky._number? “¥You mentioned an ox team, which J.think> must have been the one in Wwhich Mr. and Mrs. Berrang are traveling from Connecticut to Cali- fornia. I am sending you a clipping feom my favorite farm paper. which I7hope you will-find interesting. Yours truly; Mra. H. C. H., McLean, W E ! 3 s there may be others who saw that ox caravan last month without Xnowing how it got here or where ‘4t _was going, it may -also interest them to know that the tourists reached ' the-District about dark and pitched camp in #n- open grove on Florida avenue. “Not belng satisfied with the location, ‘as there. was no @Fazing for the oxen,'we moved away early next morning and located at Camp Meigs—where there :was plenty mf . grass, plenty of room, shade trees #nd oOther conveniences, and as the thermometer - hovered around the mety-degree mark daily for eighteén , we toek advantage of the situ- mtion to: let. the rest while some So far, the trip been one grand picnic.” ouldn’t you' just -love along? Especially i .you -have amemory that reaches back to bumpy 3rips along a deep country road with wuts in it—with & pair of.red steers “wabbling through the .ruts in prefer- suce, and ‘a patient and sunbeamy <olored driver walking beside. them, | + with a whip that never stumg and a thunderous volee that boomed out every-foot’ of the way: “You, Red- mond! _You, Rich-mond!” Besides, think of all the sights:Mr. and Mrs. Berrang are going to see before they et back to where they started! Some zflkl sure are-lucky. g to *"Dear of your cor- i re of sending her a copy: #tay down in the meadow, where the lily first Ahire tne wind from the mouatains ne’er rut- _fles the rose: food Evelina, the sweet, ittle dove, ‘ride of the valley, the girl that I love. ®e's. faie like & rove, like » Tamb she is And she never was knawn {o put paint on her ooebeek: - 35 ‘the ‘most jraceful jcurls hangs her raven|pag 3 Black hair, - &6 she Bever requires;perfumery there. jan and:T one fine eveaing. in June by -the light of the 9ok & all alone " moou: © % plancts all shone, for the heavems wers ‘rofnd ‘the Deart tremendously Ay Teit ygtvondents e s micie fI o e Or of un l.;“vmn.:." and._ I have the ’u--thln 3 - Evelina still lives in that green, grassy hotlow: Although § am fated to marry her never, I've sworn that I'll love her for ever and ever. CHORUS: Dear Evelins, sweet Evelina, My love for thee shal never, never die. Perhaps youtr correspondent is not familiar with the following alleged circumstance: A party of musicians went out one cold dark night to sere- nade a young lady named Evelina, ing in_doubt about the exact they drew up in front of a ing one which was brilliantly lighted, iut with the shades down, and starte to sing “Dear Evelina.” Immediately a shade flew up and a man .in. his shirt sleeves. leaned out of the opened window and sang in & fine bass voice: “Two doors below here, two. doors below here, dear Evelina now resides.” Down went the window and the doubly-chilled serenaders moved on| to the right address. Very respect- fully, F. G. McK. Dear Miss Lancagter: I am so_ glad to be able te send the words of “Evelina’” for Kate B. I greatly ap- preciate the songs that. come t6 me through our columns, and whenever I can do so am glad to send them. Most' cordially. M. R. F. Cherrydale, Va. ‘Words, and jn one instance notes, also were. kindly ‘forwarded by J. J. K., “Mary Eliza” and Henry H. C. She is a fine young woman of splen- @id figure—"with arms like the Venus de Milo" (if Venus had them). she possesses views which she pefined to a scholarly relative, who. in. turn, has forwarded them for judgment,|coca’ palm. and which are hereby passed on: . “Your talking about expecting 8o much from being with educated, ar- tistic people, Somehow. I find that they are a very selfish kind of & bunch, and that everyday. living with people who don’'t know much is more satisfactory. The enlightened bunch are too- wrapped up In gthemselves to pay any attention to an ordinary persgn, unless they get something out ‘of it, s0. for éveryday life just give me ordinarily intelligent peo- ple. They wear better and are more eager to put themselves out to please than the self-sa ed ones, sure of Women in the divorce themselves. ‘::ourls say an artist, or a person of enius, i a dreadful sort of person to get along with every day. Patches of real pleasure, just every now and then, and the most part taken .up with the disagreeableness of getting along and. overlooking genius in its selfish as s, and utter for others and their right: The . scholarly -relative, f & reciuse.in his sylvan home, as! “Is this true?- She has had a fine oppprtunity of msaking & jug ent. ther giving sdvice to his son on the latter'’s going_ out iato - the worl member, _John. y is the best policy—I've tried Like the old bot! falr bar .before which ‘to try * cated, artistic peopl’," No - judge condemns & community becauss he its members " to sent some’ of Jail,” and no confessor blames out- siders for sins that are voiced at his knee. - “A person of genius” may be hard to get I-lon!"'nh but, on the other hand, if eople ~who don’t know - much” are so- delightful, why is ‘it that Isonnpo is° universally. considered the worst evil in ‘the ‘warld? When thst little critic grows ghe will allow for genius the same leniency we 'grant to the hoi”polloi, n that| chant marine, disregard { who' Is ' wad oft - A "divorce court - seems hardly .' we are trying to build up a Feal mer- . and yét we ‘expect a bureau that 'is loyally serving nul H H i g country to get along on less than one- half the money that is necessary to earry on this constructive and humane work. - sl . i - 0xrouml thak “There in_ the wbrst of 1 know where there is a ‘green place. with frees and a spring.’ | but it is a long way off. unless. you go by : auto. If you dike, I wiil drive you there, ! and we-could put up*cabins with*just a i strip of garden between—and a friend of § mine. will join us. . Yours, affectionately, i Adaline E. D."”_ It sounds alluring, Ada- jline, but if you own a car and have never been there, you go ‘why down in ] southern Maryland until you come to Point Lookout. A little way back there is a shaft that rises above thé sand -and | pines to 16t you know that the téngue of land was once the prison of 3,334 south- ern prisoners wiio dled there. And when you have thrilied over that. go-stand above the old gray wharf and look and look at"tHe Chesapeake bay-that billows out to the skyline, as if natyre knew only how to make waves and sky! ' Then you will gprobably comq homs - &nd drop a line this way to say: “Let’s go to the answer will be—? ' * H * ‘Dear Lady of the Arounds: I have | been ferreting among books for nelrly| two months trying ‘fo’ find that - poem | aboug the ‘Purple Judas Tree,’ not only | to help out your correspondent, but be- cause I'love to get hald of unusual | verses. Please ask your readers to. look ; up_their collections for it. Karnestly, ! Julia Dé F.” : ¢ e r Nannie Lancaster; repedt that plantation so: Old Hare? I want it spec! 8ure.. But you know, ¥ 2 ,. . Joseph L., it takes a little time to get the big bil-* 'way-down " Chesapeake out of | one’s eyes. i P. 8.—This is to thank Miss H: for the armful of golden-glory gladiolus out of her garden. ANNIE LANCASTER. . Useful Cocoanut Trees. One of, the very. useful trees-is the, It is be}ll.vfil_lhfirthl' tree is put to a greater variety of uses than -any .other, and- it fur- 'nllhu the people who live under it or mear it with all they need and with some things which perhaps lhl}_’ do not need. The sweet sap or nectar jof the flowers if boiled mal fand :if - bolled . to a. gres makes sugar. It this sap and distilled it becomes .that potent spirit .of the tropics called arrack, which may be made as stfong as ap- ple brandy. .Food and drink are ob- tained from the green nut, and. oil} that ean be applied for lighting, héat- ing and lubrication comes’from it The fiber 0f thie husk of the nut is woven into cloth. Topes, afnd other useful things. Th used as dishes and conta'fiers, and the dried meat of the‘cocoanut is'the “copra” - of commerce, used in con- fectionery, - in muking soap,” butter Trades unionism is not old, but 1t is 28 0ld in the United tSates as;the'goy- ernmment, ‘and the first of the-unions wis one of pinters. Itis'writtefi that the first frade union ,in. the "United States of which there is tecord was n organization of Journeyman print- re New York city iny} ‘In 1785 twenty-sixyprinters iy 9“‘“" phia .refused. to' werk for--less .than six dollarg. a week and formed. association pledging - th 5 > an nét to -accept less’ than that amount of ‘wages and to give -and ‘su .to In: the.port. of New York satlors’ stril 808, each other. X 3 ‘Rug dept.—Fourth floor.) A special sale of U. S. Navy canvas | This $324 dining suite, i discount sale $2 4 3 brings it to A William and Mary design of rare beauty. Se- lected American walnut buffet, large grilled china cabinet, 54-inch mfion table and server. -~ Hammocks $ l -95 Cost the Government about $5.00 ' As all the worh-i knows . U. S. Nivy hammocks 0dd dining chairs. are extra strong, extra . [J e, oo Simmeons steel cots $7 .39 e ame il go at 40% discount “Gob” hammocks ~of “Uncle Sam” paid $5.75 for.them ‘. extra white ‘canvas. ’ All e : . 3 ~ Period and modern designs—various cords are extra tied and Constructed with continuous post—Simmons patented, galvanized finishes as mentioned below. Note these ' - twisted spring. Folds perfectly flat; dark japanned finish. 26-ft. size. r spreader rope - spliced. Can be easily enameled white. examples: and the hammocks can Slightly rusted or possibly “hurt” but nothing to affect -their. $7.25 oak chair, be taken apart .to cledn durability. X N $7.95 oak armchair, and reassembled .in ‘a $12.50 Jacobean chair}* R b - Cot pads and mattresses $14.75 walnut chair, For the porch or lawn, Sizes- to fit above cots—priced exceptionally low. $15.00 walnut chair, or all outdoor use they ~ Special jute pad.........$196 2Z4-inch box felt pad....$5.75 $19.75 mahogany chair, 7 are excellent.” Over' 6 feet long and - about 3 feet wide. . Spécial cotton pad......$2.85 ' 5-in. box cotton mattress $5.95 214-in. box cotton pad, ..$3.95 5-in. box felt mattress..$7.95 “ “(Third flcor.) (Fifth floor.) BEHRBROS. player-piano, 495 Nationglly: Known-Player-Piano of Established Réputation s10 3@ . deliverlsli! b weekly- pays for it ; S | - "r:hi's 321250 dining suite, 5] 69 { | William and Mary design, in walnut or mahogany. ! china cabinet, serving table and 48-inch extension table. Be.l\nr Bros. player es every feature found in the finest play- INCE 1881, Behr Bras. have begn -making- . pianos. They make every - own factory--specialize on'a S o intin ke 1k . sndy above s1L, caso'in play. lower coat.: " : LN ug e : _6I8F Straet S,gor'e.. Open Monday. E'vqningl Until 9'PM. - . - ~ cht Co. that P Wi o ew pmdfy 7th af F This $392 dinin "uii:'e.-' 04 This 52 dining sulte. 5204 Bt e o YL o b A B S BT