Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-17
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

evening at o'clock in the Chamber
of Commerce, 18th and F streets north
west.
Judge Parker has sent out more than
700 personal letters to Hoosiers en-
ployed in the government departments
and elsewhere. He says an endeavor
will be made this season to get the
younger contingent to attend the meet
ings.
The recent cleaning of the F street
front of the building has met with
great approval. but there also have
been those who admired the steps with
all their dirt.
The building should be let get black,
as the buildings in England do" re-
marked one of the latter.
Louis ]. Simons. motion picture ope-
rator of the government exhibit board,
together with a representative of the
Department of Commerce. went to
New York this week to take movies"
of the lighthouse service in that state.
The collier Caesar is to transport the
government exhibit for the Panama
Pacific exposition to San Francisco.
The exhibition is rapidly nearing COM
pletion. and when the vessel is ready
to leave. about the middle of Decem-
Der, all will be in readiness.
A tremendous smell of jelly or some
other such seductive sweet in the
morning.
Miss Annie E. Smith returned to the
department Wednesday after a vaca-
ton of sixteen days.
Robert Sims. typewriter repairer. left
yesterday on vacation to extend
through the last of the month.
Waterman John H Wolff returned to
the department Tuesday after a short
vacation.
Charles A. Clements of the Secretary's
office left Monday on vacation. to ex-
tend through November s.
Patrick o'Keefe, captain of the watch
of the pension office, was on leave the
first three days of the week.
Charles P. Gleason left Monday on
annual leave, to extend through No
vember 4.
Waterman William ]. Delaney will
return to the department Monday. after
a short leave of absence.
Miss Minette Thompson, clerk in the
Secretary's office, returned yesterday
after twenty-five days annual leave.
Lloyd Prather, a clerk in the office
of the Secretary. is on leave this week.
Harry L. Collier Of the Secretary's
Office returned to duty Tuesday, after
an absence of week.
Waterman George w. Lewton of the
pension office was away several days
the middle of the week.
Samuel J. Mills, clerk in the Secre-
tary's office, took vacation yesterday
and today.
to the department Thursday, after ten
days vacation.
Geological Survey.
The members of the field force OF the
United States geological survey are be-
ginning to drift in to Washington, es-
pecially those from Alaska. where the
field season Is short, as well as others
from some of the high mountain re-
gions of the United States where early
snowstorms stop field work. In some
of the southern states the field season
holds as late as Christmas. Before the
first of the year, however, the great
majority of the men are in town, and
the crowded F street office has the ap
pearance of a freshly opened sardine
can.
Alfred H. Brooks, in charge of the
Alaskan mineral resource work, has
just returned from his sixteenth annual
Swing around the circle" in Alaska
Mr.. Brooks reports increased gold min
ing activity in the territory.
c. C. Martin has returned from Alas
ka, where he has spent the bulk of the
field season in geologic Investigations.
H. D. McCaskey, one of the precious
metal biologists, has returned from an
extended trip among the metal-mlning
camps of the west.
Joseph S. Diller. who visited the Las
sen peak California; volcano. has re-
turned to Washington. Mr.. Diller
brought some interesting photographs
showing the recent eruptions of Lassen
California. The photographs show i'm
mense clouds of dense smoke and steam
rising from this 10.O00-foot mountain.
Hoyt S. Gale, who has been conduct
ing the field operations in the search
for the potash which the geological
survey is making in the west, has just
returned from the Black Rock desert.
Nevada. and Death valley region, Cali
fornia. Mr.. Gale has some interesting
photographs showing Searles lake. the
nearly dried-up desert basin, which
was in prehistoric times an enormous
lake GOO or 700 feet in depth. The pres
ent remaining lake is the scene of pot
in part at least. supply the country with
American potash
N. C. Grover, chief hydraulic engineer,
has recently returned from a general
field inspection of the work of the
water resources branch.
Hersey Munroe has returned to
Washington from Maine, where he has
been engaged in the resurvey of the
Portland and Casco bay quadrangles.
Miss Airline G. Weeks is spending a
Chicago and Lawrence, Kan.
William H. Griffin has returned to
Washington for the winter, having
completed the survey of the Liberty
quadrangle in Maine and a part of the
Belfast quadrangle. Mr.. Griffin is now
confined to his home in this city by ILL
ness.
Sledge Tatum. geographer of the
Rocky mountain division. who has
been i'll for two months with perito-
nitis, is now sufficiently recovered to
resume his duties at Denver, Col.
Albert NJ. Walker has arrived in
Washington after a trip visiting topo-
graphic surveying parties in Virginia,
Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Wis
conSin.
J. c. Hoyt. hydaulic engineer, has
just returned from an inspection of
the western field stations of the sur
vey. Systematic measurement of the
volume of streams is carried on by the
survey at many hundreds of different