The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-26
Say Scientists, Who Will Study
Stone Age Quarry Near
1 3 the White House. iAs

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25-Among
the twelve learned societies which are
to hold joint sessions with the second
American Scientific Congress.
opening here on Monday December
27) is one composed OF noted savants
of nearly every civilized country o.
the world, who are all deyoting their
lives to the study of America with .
view to obtaining new evidence that
the western hemisphere Is really Ode.
anthropologfcally than the so-called
old world These men. forming the
International Congress Of American
lists, after having met every two years
since 1857 in nearly all of the great
capitals OF the world, are this year
fore!gathering in Washington simply
in order to carry on their discussions
with the meteorological section o.
the Pan-American congress.
Within three miles of the White
House, in the neighborhood Of which
the sessions of the congress will be
held, arethe remains OF great quarry
which it is said was worked by the
prehistoric stone masons Of America
a long time before the pyramids %
Egypt were built. Here beside a
branch OF Rock creek is an extensive
area filled with the refuse of the abor-
iginal workshops, fragments. chips Of
quartzite and quartz, broken and par
tally shaped implements, hammer
stones 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 visiting Americanists
will be able to make satisfactory stud
les, under the direction of Prof. Will
liam H. Holmes, head curator Of tho
Smithsonian Institution, who has thor.
oughly explored the qaurries. DR..
Holmes, beside being one OF inc lead
ing Americanists himself, is men,
her OF the executive committee of the
Pan-Amerlcan congress and chairman
of the section on anthropology.
In connection with the deliberations
Of the anthropological section, the
will consider racial
problems, which are said to be among
the most important with which sci
ence has to deal at the present time,
and which are most acute in this half
OF the world on account of immigra-
ton and numerous different races liv-
ing together in the same section. Eu-
genists will present method for In.
diligently directing the process Of
racial amalgamation so as to pro-
duce better individuals and peoples,
and there will be a full discussion o:
all the various METEOROLOGICAL, eth
biological and archaeological questions
which have special bearing on Pan
American problems.
After the congress, the American.
lists are to make a two weeks tour Of
the country, visiting the importan.
museums in Philadelphia, New York
Boston, Chicago and st, Louis. where
there are collections of particular in.
terest to them, and the classical
mound regions of Ohio, Illinois and
Missouri. The trip will wind up with
q visit to the pueblo ruins and cliff
dwellings of New Mexico as we'll, az
the living Indians Of that region.
Other noted societies which will
hold joint sessions with the anthro-
biological section Of the Pan-Amer-
lean congress are the American Folk
Lore Society, the Archaeological Insti-
tue of America and the American An
thropological Association. The sec
ton on public health and medical sci
ence, OF which Surgeon General VIII
liam G. Gorgas. is chairman, will hold
Joint sessions with the American So
Geological Society. the American asso-