Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-13
UNCLE SANS WoMEN
FLAG MAKERS.

man pays good money when the fishing
fever is on him and the trout pool lures
him from his office in the city. Along
rather similar line, one might almost
say. is the work of Evelyn Goesbeeck
Mitchell, the author OF various entomo-
logical articles. She is a representative
of modern scientific woman. and the
modern scientific woman is OF growing
government employs many of these skill
full workers to good advantage. For In
stance, there is Mrs. Mica Zesta Heide-
mann. who makes enlarged models OF
insects for the Department of Agricul-
turc
\ woman who has won fame that win
last as long as the statue OF Abraham
Lincoln i'm the rotunda OF the Captol Is
in existence. and that is likely to endure
for many generations to come. is Mrs.
Winnie Ream Hoxie OF Washington Her
genius as a sculptor was early recognized.
and she was commissioned by Congress
to make a life-size statue of Lincoln. who
sat for his bust in the White House
Later another commission for the statue
of Admiral Farragut was given her, and
the result now stands I'm Farragut
Square. Washington. She has modelled
from life portrait busts or medallions OF
Gen. George B. Mcclellan. Thaddeus
Stevens. John Sherman, Ezra Cornell,
Gen. j. D. Fremont, r. Buchanan Read,
Elihu B. Washburn, Horace Greeley and
Peter Cooper. Besides these Americans.
such prominent foreigners as Cardinal
Antonelli. Pere Hyacinthe. Spurgeon.
Franz Liszt Gustave Dore and Kaulbach
have all sat for. Mrs. Hoxie.
At present there are hundreds OF wom-
an doctors and a fair number OF surgeons
But how many women have nerves strong
enough to do the work I'm which Miss
Diana Blair and a very few other artists.
either male or female, are engaged? Miss
Blair makes beautiful paintings of sur
gical operations for the Harvard Medical
School. She attends all the operations
and sketches the fncisions and the various
conditions which the surgeons find i'm
their work and wish to preserve for fu-
ture use and reference.
The Navy Department has trained a
group OF fifty expert needlewOmen in the
New York navy yard to cut out and nm
ish the varied flags for the American bat
tleships. amounting to some 10000 in a
year. The thousands Of white stars used
on the nags are cut out by an ingenious
machine. especially devised for this pur-
pose, operated by electricity. Only a few
years ago the stars were cut out by hand.
Now plunger. fitted with steel knives
the shape and size of the star wanted.
with single down stroke cuts out from
Some eight different sizes of stars are
used, each having a special cutting die.
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A good idea of the number OF flags that
must be carried by a large battleship can
be gathered from the considerable pile
fifteen feet long and almost shoulder high.
recently finished and sent aboard the
United States battleship Wyoming. The
foreign flags are incased in thick paper
bags. The name Of the country is stem
ciled on the bottom. The remainder. in
GLIDING the flags for ordinary use, signal
sets, the international code. etc, are not
wrapped, but tied in round bundles and
lettered.
The pile contains 40 different nags. the
regulation number every large war vessel
of our navy has to carry, the material
and making of which cost the government
just $500 for each ship. Ii is necessary
to equip them for all forms OF ceremo-
NAL and official occasions. saluting and
signaling, both at home and in foreign
waters. The largest flag made il the
United States ensign No. I, with forty
eight stars. which is 80 feet long by ~
wide and cost $40 to make. The Presi-
dents Nag requires the longest time of
any to complete, as it takes one woman a
whole month to finish it,
Copyright 1918. by r. D. HeinI.)