The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-04
lIlansas City Starr


AS Il part of the task of compiling
the Thirteenth Census OF the United
States, the bureau AT Washington. ID.
c.. will publish Il report on the various
occupations by which men and women
in this country earn their daily bread.
Though ii will be many months before
this report will be given to the public.
a conservative estimate places the
number Of classiticationS of industry at
between seven and eight thousand.
II seems a safe prediction to state
that there will ne found but one mar
in tho entire country making Il living
from bottling the smoke OF burning
hickory wood. This man. who lives
i'll Kansas City. contends that his bot
compartment in which meat has been
placed, Will produce the same effect
upon meat as though cured by hickory
smoke i'll the usual II
Nor would the uninitiated expect to
find profit in raising bullfrogs for
their legs. Two New Jersey women.
however, are making Il good living by
woman obtains owe 500 an ounce
Wholesale for the seeds of petunias.
In some of the reports of the en-
sus enumerators in the field are found
fluctuations so unusual that they re-
quire no end of labor in properly
classifying them at the bureau. One
man frankly asserted that he was Il
booze tighter" II another, who
works in Il saloon. styled himself as
"A destroyer of men,"
Such occupations us "pouncer." i'll a
hat factory: "tohies." a maker OF
stosies; whittier" i'll a straw works:
dock wolloper." Il longshoreman;
vibrator" in a clock factory:
"~tonsuer," in connection With oysters:
%"teaser,N in a glass factory: 'scah-
hl"r." in d%uarrying: "tiosser," in a
corset factory, and 'duhber." in ship
building. are all unusual occupations
that must he listed.
In Washington especially are there 4
large numher of persons who earn
their living by performing unusual
tasks. The majority IF them are en-
rloyed by the government, There is
a young man iii the National Museum
Henry Hendiey--who is known as
the official portrait bustmaker of In
dian features for a unique portrait
gallery of the North American red
skin. The government is interested in
the preservation of types of the pure
American Indian and in the changes
in their facial characteristics step by
step as .h"v adopt civilized customs.
DurinS the course of a year many In
dams come Ia Washington To see the
- AiN vi III
dian affairs. II so persuaded, they
appear before MIR. Hendley.
To secure a lifelike hust for the gall
lerN Hendley has to make Il plaster
cast of ach Indians face and head.
For his services Poor Lo is generally
, Paid 81.
/. E. Millaer is an expert modeler in
rarier mache of things past. present
and future for the national museum.
Several ot his wonderful models are
an exhibition now. among them one of
a Hawaiian village. showing with
marvellous accuracy and beauty the
volcanic nature of the soil. a tiny
lagoon as blue as the sea. artificial fish
ponds. the method of irrigation pecu-
liar to the island. and a delightful per-
srective of trees. grass hous-
es and coral beaches. But the most
wonderful figure in the whole spec
tacle is thai of a girl swimming. Her
hair floats behind her IN the water as
she swims across the tiny lagoon. and
the waves that form as she glides
through the water give a most as
founding sembiance of motion.
Along similar lines is the work Of
Edwin Howell. a maker of maps. In
his workshop he evolves relief maps
Of certain sections of the country
which not only indicate rivers and
mountains and towns. but all the min
erals. rocks. flowers. trees and varying
soils o be found there. He makes
maps h Il enable the weather bureau
to more easily ascertain climatic
changes and atmospheric conditions in
different portions of the land.
The original of a relif map he made
of the lsthmus of Panama is at the
white house, where it was placed at
the request of President Taft. 1t cost
several thousand dollars and required
eight months to construct. In his
workshop he has a huge map of the
entire United States. showing with un-
questionable accuracy every depres-
sion and every elevation, rivers, har-
bors. etc, in the land.
one of the most interesting of his
maps was made for the marine hospi-
tai and public health service. II is
intended as a warming against allow
ing people ignorant of geological con-
ditions to dig wells. and as Il plea for
the artesian we'll. This was a painted
background of sky and trees. with two
wooden strurtures-one a dwelling
where painted figures gaZe from the
windows-ard the other q barn. Pigs.
cows and chickens disport themselves
in the, BARNARD. IN the Foreground a
cross section of earth reveals first q;
straight drop of soil. then a stratum of
rock. and lastly d substratum of sand.
Hero the we'll has been sunk. Evil
IDENTIFY the watcr must be pure be
cause it comcs up through rock" But
such is not the case. Nature has so
arranged the assures at this point that
they are slant from the stable toward
the we'll. And down through the soil
and rock to the sand goes the polln-
ton from the %barnyard to the water
supply.