The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-26
STONE-AGE QUARRY
NEAR WHITE HOUSE
sAnericans," Who Say New World Is Really Old One te
Mset With Pan-American Congress-Tweve Learned So
cetes to Meet Monday, December q, in Washington

bold joint sessions with the Second
Pan-Amertcan Scientific Congress
opening hero on Monday December
10 one composed Of noted savants
Df nearly every civilized country OF
Lhe world. who are all devoting their
lives to the study OF America with a
View to obtaining new evidence that
the Western hemisphere Ia really older
ALPHABETICALLY than the so-called
Old World. These men, forming the
international Congress of American
tste, after having met every two years
since 1857 in nearly all OF the great
capitals of the world, are this year
foregathering in Washington simply In
order TO carry on their discussions
with the anthropological section OF
ths fan-American Congress
Within three miles Of the White
House, in the neighborhood of which
the session of the Congress viii be
held are the remains of a great
quarry which it is said was worked
by the prehistoric stonemasons OF
america a long time before the pyta-
miis of Egypt were built. Here be-
side a branch of Rock Creek is an
extensive area flied with the refuse OF
the aboriginal workshops. fragments
chips of quartZite and quartz broken
I'm partially shaped implements,
hammer-tones and anvils. in places
TO depth of ten feet, The ancient
excavations are covered with debris
from the low bluffs above. but
trenches have been dug and the visit
hnS Americanists will be able to make
Satisfactory studies, under the direc-
kion of Professor William II Holmes,
head curator OF the Smithsonian In
Intuition. who has thoroughly explored
the auarres. DIR, Holmes beside he-
kn- one OF The leading America MIST
himself. is member OF the executive
20 nmittee OF the Pan American Con
kr. IS and chairman of the section on
Hnthropoiogy.
To Consider Racial Problems.
In connection with the deliberations
pf the anthropofogical section. the
Americanists Will consider racial pro-
bl"ms, which are said 10 he among the
most important with which science
has TO deal at the present time. and
which are most acute in this half of
he world or account OF immigration
AMI numerous different races living to-
e.her In the same section Fugeuists
will present = method for intelligently
directing thr process OF raciai ANAL
gamation SO as to produce better IN
diStdusis and peoples. and thefe VIII
be a full disucSston Of an the various
anthropological. chronological ard
Archaeological questions which have
special hearing on Pam American
problems.
After the Congress 'hc American
sts are To make a t~o weeks tour al
h. country. visiting the important
museums in Philadelphia New York
h}oston Chicago and st Louis where
here are collections of particular IN
le~est 10 them. and the classical
mound regions Of ohio. Illinois and
Missouri The trip VIII wind up win
lie
dwellings of New Mexico - Well as
The living Indians OF that region.
Folk Lore ~ We'll
other noted societies which Viii
hold john sessions with the anthtepo-
logical section II the laH- American
Congress are tie American Folklore
society. tha Archaeological Institute al
America and the American Anthropo-
logical Association. The section on
u-lic health and fuedical science ~
which surgeon General William I.
kioreas. t. =. y. is chairman. viii
hold Joint sessions with the America
Psychological Society THO American As
40. istion for la e,y Legislation, ana
o,her organization which have ar
rSnged 10 mold their annual meetings
I'm Washington al the time Of thu Con
grsss.
The American Association FOR tbs
Advancement of Science. Il haS 1hS'
been announced, Is 10 entertain tnt
Pan-American Congress st spfeia
meeting of It's own on January II
Memorial Continental Hail. the beau
kifni national headquarters Of the
Daughters Of the American Resotu-
tion where the formal opening ano
CLOSING ceremonies OF the Congress or
December e. and January ;, respec'
lively. also will be held, \ joint ses'
sion with the international law sec
kion Of the Congress Will be held b,
khA American Society OF lnternationa
law. of which Flihu Root is president
ana by the American Society Tor tins
Judicial Settlement of internafiona
Disputes. and the American Hisforica
association Other organization
witch will hold joint sessions VIII
one or more of the nine general sec
HONS of the Congress are the Anert
cal Economic Association, the Amer
bean Civic Association and the Amer
ican Statistical Association.
Forty-fivc Subscctions
The nine sections of the Congress
have been suhdivided into forty -hv'
subsections and their discussions VII
cover practically the entire range O
human activities The delegates from
this country will number upward O
ZOO, and from the twenty Latin Amer
acAn republics nearly zoo. most o
whom already have arrived and regis
-, a at the New Willard Hotel where
two fioors rooms were reserved fol
thcm and which will be the oificia
Headquarters of tho Congress, for TN
rNa Son that the Pan American lnfoi
Buildinx one Of the show places o
The capital. is not large enough Z
house ali the affairs. With ahou
900 delegates and their wives. ant
Tamiiies. and about half as man,
nncn,bers of the various association
to hold joint sessions with the Con
xress Washington will he filled L
0verflowing with distinguished eduea
tors. scientists and publicists Hard,
! room can be had at any Of the hotei
and. as for convention space, prac
tically every square foot anyWh mere II
the city has been taken IN advance
tho Nifty or more meetings that Will ~
going on simultaneously during tn
thirteen days OF the Congress neees
stating the chartering of universit!