The evening times., 1896-10-21
OCCUPY PROMINENT PLACES
Miss Hasse Stands ut the Head of
Them In Point of Rank-Miss Sulli-
vans Paintings of chronological
Treasures-Miss Fletcher and the
Indians.

tlfic research anu DeiIlB mace welcome there
By cur discerning government. There is
only one public building here where she
has not yet found place. and that is the
Army Medical Museum, wnere no one in
petlicoats or even boomers has yet found
"a position. The ungallant doctors la charge
seem to be rather prond of the fact, too.
Miss Adelaide Hasse enjoys the distinction
of ranking higher officially :h.ln any other
woman n government employ. Snc stands
neNttothe chief in her department, ana acts
for him during his absence. She is a very
handsome young woman OF the blonde type,
and is decidedly Junoesque in her proper
tions.
Miss Hasse was born in Milwaukee in
1865, her parents being from the Father
land Wniie she was stll a child they
movcd to Los Angeles, Cal, and this is che
uIace regarded ty Miss Hassc as homie She
received her education there. Shr did not
go through college. on being graduated
from the high school she obtaiIrrd lie posi-
tion of librarian OF the Los Angeles Public
Liprarv, and so distinguished herself there
n as an organizer and manager that i'll March,
500 when IT. was first decided to establish
library OF public documents here, MISS
Hasse was sent for to take the place IT
librarian, which she has held ever siEcc.
HER DUTIES.
I'm TO that time nobody knew how many
pubic documents there were nor where they
were except thatthere was great accuuu-
lation of them piled up pell-mcll somewhere
in the depth of the Interior Department
building Somebody. who was supposed TO
, he an expert in the matter, gave II as his
npinjon hat the new library should he made
to accommodate 10000 books. THEN all
. the papers, bound books and Pamphlets were
] taken over in carts and simply dumped, en-
| tir,Iy without system, on the floor OF the
sixth story in the Fsstoffice building. all
dusty as they were, and this is the state of
affairs tue new librarian found when she
| took possession of her new quarters
"Thcre was nothing for me to do said
| tue pretty librarian, but to put ON tiS
| brown eingham aprpn and get down on the
| floor too, and go to work She had no
| skilled assistant whatever, but simply a
| couple of Iaboriug men who moved about
| the heavy volumes under her directions.
! There are now l 500 volumes in The library,
| and there is room for 100000. They are
| all arranged with wonderful method AMI
| cxactness, and the catalogue is the most
complete affair imaginable.
BY its aid the smallest and most iDsig-
nificantpamphiet can be foundin "a III momcnt.
| These books comprise everything that comes
| from the government presses. The Agri-
! cultural reports, the Congressional, the
PustOfrice, those from the department Of
| tie Interior and those from the Army, Navy,
add State Departments, as Well as those
of the Fish Commission and the Smith
Sonian and National Museum. They are
all for sale, and, therefore, kept in numbers
| About 81 80 worth are sold each month,
! and as many of the booklets only cost .
cents it takes 4 lot to make up that sum.
over III "A large, nrighi room IA .!,' nth
| west corner of the annex II tin. tertciii; Jral
| buIldu Miss Lille Sullivan sits. She has
two desks -nne where she keeps 'ier paint 5
| aud pencils and the other bearing u micro
! scope of the most approved and latest pat
tern Here al so are such cntmnCiuGt'ai treas
| urcs rs the left hind leg of a flea wasp >
| business end" baby Eiite, and a Ep.'lr: s
head.
LITTLE MISS SULLIVAN
Miss Sullivan is a particularly 'Wnei-'Dok-
ing little woman with shy browd eyes ana
a charming smile. She does not n. hil I'LL
ones idea OF the ne w woman, and yet Tor al
that she is intensely scientific. Miss sun
vans business in life IS painting bugs Ii
order to paint them well she has to di>sect
and study them. 1t is said that there is no
one i'll this country who can dep'ct insects
so accurately and SO beautifully oi
there is no one i'll the world. And Yet MIS-
Sullivan is so modest that she says she is
sure nobody would care TO hear anything oil
her career.
Miss Sullivan. who is n Wasii.ngt-'n IN giri
studied art and spent her time painting i'ot
traits until she one day saw friend paint
ing insects She became at once Inffiuate
with the study and began deyotinE hcrseil
to it, She has been in the SoveThtn"h, SER
vice for nearly fourteen years ''he pi nei
recent drawings is of family ot cariou
little mites that have of late been daiii"g gint
the pineapple crop.
Isn't that baby mite just loo fat hnt
cunning for anything asked Miss Snliivai
as she displayed her drawing IN trump
to your correspondent. But unfof.tnatei.
the writer is not scientific, ana 50 ohi
thought it a nasty little bug. She aad some
exquisite pictures Of moths, too, Just r'hcfe
iBg from the cocoons.
MISS FLETCHER.
Mss Alice Fletcher is one ni the inost IN
teresting wonenin Washington, hestud!
| of her life has been ethnn1ogy. After inak'a'
herself familiar with every availaoie tool
On the subject, she Went into the field .tnt
took part in the opening of many indiai
mounds, from Florida 10 Maine
Then she took a daring resolve. sac mad
I'D her mind that the real way to s:'idy tn
Indians " as to ogoandliye ainonsiheni. I'M
project met with no entoura gement ia scien
| tificc circles. The most Encouraging tang SAT-
toheron the subject wasth ercinarS Of gen
ileman. who declared it would DE grea
| thing for science but death for her Never
theiess the young enthusiast persisssd enc
watching her opportunity went and TOOK N
her abode among the Dakotas This wa
| nearly twenty years age.
The life was very Hard one. necessarily
| At that time there were no railroads deros
the plains, and the only way oil traveitn
was in s,ayes. Never from first 10 :as
, did Miss Fletcher meet with anything fu
kindly treatment from the Indians
+ When asked If she did not suffer yer
4 much from the dirty habits OF the aoorig
nes Miss Fletcher said she n vi fcuna thci
cleaner and neatcr than white :,coi'.c si'n
l larly situated.
.sYou must remember" remarked tAe stu
! dent, that there are no stationary batt
t tubs, with hot and cold running water out O
the plains. and nobody washes SO tnn n VINE
every dropof water must tbefetched from tn
, nearest creek. In order to understand th
l difficulties Of the life Of the, ln'iians. yo
: must realize just how they are piac-d. TT
toiInagine Just how You would get nIif 70