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Evening star., 1915-01-24
Race Not Dying Out.

1T is common, even among the we'll
informed. to regard the American In
dian as a rapidly disappearing people.
Among the popular paintings at n re-
cent art exhibition was one represent
ing an Indian encampment with a back
ground Of hills behind which the sun
was setting-emblematic of the depart
ing Indian The picture was called
The Dying Race" and was widely
copied as indicative of the fading con-
dition of the aboriginal redmau.
AS matter of fact. the Indians are
u! no means dying out; on the con-
trary, they are multiplying at a rate
that proportionately outstrips the rest
of the population of the United states
The following figures, taken from the
United States census and the bureau of
Indian affairs. show how erroneous is
this idea of the disappearing aborigine
In 1880 there were 243,000 Indians in
this country. In 1910 they had in
creased to 100000. an increase of $1,000.
or something over % per cent. In 1850
the total population of the United
States was 63.000,000; in 1910 il was 3
little over 92.000,000. But in calculating
the net increase of the country regard
must be had for the immigrants. or
these there came into this country be
tween 1880 and 1910 about 100000.
\ deduction from this of one-third, or
f,Vop,VVU, WHO 10 iileiT
lands. is most liberal. That leaves
S.000.0n6 immigrants as part of the
100000 increase in total population
from 1880 to 1910, reducing the net in
crease of our home population to H..
100000 for the twenty years just
passed. which is a trife over II per
cent increase. as compared with the
Indian increase of rs per cent for the
same period. The percentage of Indian
increase Is therefore nearly so per cent
greater than that of the other Ameri-
cans.
Nor is this increase local in character
or due to any specific reason attached
to any particular tribe. In New York
the Senecas have increased from under
5000 to nearly 5000. In Minnesota,
Wisconsin and the Dakotas the increase
has been substantially the same every
where, and in Kansas and Nebraska the
percentage of increase in this twenty
years has been about 40 per cent. The
southwest also shows substantial in
crease.
From all which II may be gathered
that the sentiment and tears shed over
1.-The dying race" are wholly misplaced.
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manner or condition will develop the
combativeness in a man, and any suS-
Eestion of inferiority in station is apt
to call down on you a patroniZIng re-
ception Those who have followed the
Rambler for years in his wanderings
must know that he has carried his
camera into many places posted with
that inhospitable and forbidding sign
NO Trespassing Under Penalty of the
Law and has concerned himself with
many bits of family history which
strictly are none of his business.
And having rambled for years. and
hoping to rambe for many more years
and not yet having had dog set on
him. he feels that his experience in
meeting strange persons in strange
places gives him d reasonable excuse
for expressing opinions on the matter
mentioned here. He has met a few rich
people and great many poor people.
A few of these rich people have been
very rich and many of the poor have
been very, very poor. Some of his ac-
quaintances have been wise people and
some of them fools. Some of them have
been very keen and bright and some
very dull and heavy. Some have been
very proud and some very humble.
Some have been arrogant and super
cllious. but even these are interesting
in way if you can study them or
rather reflect on them in an imper-
sonal way.
The Rambler has met a number of
people he does not like and feels that
he never could like. but it may be that
the fault is not in them, but is be-
cause of some defect in the Rambler's
apprehension or appreciation of them.
The Rambler has met great many
people he does like and will always
like. The Rambler has met with many
experiences in this pleasure-work, the
memories of which are priceless.
Not everything heard and seen
these rambles goes down in the note
book to be spread before the publics
eye. Discretion and good feeling have
to be mixed in with this work of ram
bling and writing. In looking at a
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JOHN SARTEN.

neglected box hedges, common pic
ture, which tells a sad story of faded
grandeur or comfort and of a prosper
Gus family gone to seed, man does not
want to look at the broken shutters or
the cracks in the poor old walls. but he
wants to reconstruct in his imagtnat ion
that dear old house when cheerful
flames leaped and played in the fire
place and happy people danced on those
creaking floors.
The Rambler has collected thousands
of pictures and has great piles of those
things which photographers know as
negatives" The heaps of glass some
times look to him like junk. The tons
of negatives interfere with orderly
housekeeping, but it is hard to part
with them. Only small percentage
of these pictures have ever appeared in
a newspaper. The Rambler looks on
those as personal souvenirs and relics
and not as objects of business. Every
time he puts his hands into these piles
of negatives he draws out one that
brings up recollectlons of d trlp-per-
haps a laborious and weary trip, per-
haps a. gladstone sort of fairy trip.
The road might have been cold, bleak
and dreary and deep in mud: it might
have been blister-hot and ankle-deep
in choking dust, or it might have been
a road lined with roses and apple bios
SONS.
A few nights ago the Rambler drew
forth at random from the glass pile
four negatives on which are pre-
served the features of friends made on
rambles. The old lady is, or was, Mrs.
Lucinda Dogan. The Rambler has
written many stories about her as
THE Belle of the Battlefield. Mrs.
Dogan lived at Groveton, the bloodiest,
ghastliest point of the second battle
of Bull Run. She owned the Peach
Tree farm and the land through which
that part of the railroad cut ran where
was the heaviest fighting. Many times
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ONE OF THE RAMBLERS OLD FRIENDS.

I'd and NJ streets southwest. to the
northern boundary of the town of Car
rollsburg, which extended from James
creek on the west to the Eastern
point to the meeting place of those
waters. which was called. and still Is
called, Buzzard point.
=
West of Abbey Manor was the largest
tract of land within what was to be
the National Capital. 1t was called
Bealls levels. It was irregular in
form. It's north boundary follows gen.
orally the line of New York avenue
and 1t extended south to line south
of the Mall and along Virginia avenue.
Then there was bootleg formation.
which took in a considerable part OF
South Washington and extended down
to the northwest corner of CAROLS
burg. Pennsylvania avenue. from I'd
street to the Treasury runs through
BealFs levels. The Treasury, White
House. Star building, patent office, pen
sion office. judiciary Square. general
land office, government printing office
State, War and Navy building, Corcoran
Art Gallery. Continental Hall and the
Pan-American building are on what
was Bealrs levels.
divided and the easternmost farm ex-
tended from Goose creek on the east to
a north and south line which ran down
the middle of the blocks between 9th
and 18th streets to Louisiana avenue.
1t belonged to Benjamin Oden. but no
house is shown on the land. West Of
that farm was one belonging to James
Burnes. and the site of his house was
somewhere about H street, between
10th and 11th streets northwest. The
farm of David Burnes was to the west
of that, and his house or cottage, near
the intersection of 18th street and Vir-
ginia avenue. is remembered by many
WASHINGTON people.
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7N strolling along highways and by
III ways and in exploring paths
through field and wood or even in
x field and wood where no path leads
the Rambler says "Howdy' to many
people, and in the course of the years
he has made unusual number of
acquaintances and, he hopes, few
friends. In that sentence he had al
most written good friends" but the
pen was saved from that slip, for all
friends must be good friends.
When you ramble in this way, and
rambling is a form of delightful vag-
abondage, you meet about all the types
of men there are. Perhaps that word
type" is a trifle too large and per-
haps the words varieties of men or
variants of men would be better. for
the difference among people, if you
keep your eye on human mortal es-
sentials, seems after all to be rather
slight There are differences in ac-
cent. intonation and vocabulary, dress,
carriage and manner, differences in
birth, environment and experience. diff
ferece in degree of understanding,
reading, observation and the habit OF
thought. aud difference III degree of
Self-apprC val or self-esteem and in the
thinness of the disguises which self
esteem puts on. but, taking off the
physical and the mental vestments of
man and getting down to his bare
self. you are apt to find him very
much like yourself and therefore very
much like all other men.
In uncovering the real man a great
deal depends on your manner of ap-
proach. Generally man will take the
color of his manner from yours. Fair
and outspoken words will nearly al
ways bring the same in reply. The
slightest assumption of superiority in
Evening star., 1915-01-24
The Answer.

HTHE women of Europe. when told
they're not fit to govern. have
a good answer ready-they point to the
war which man government has brought
about
The speaker was Miss Edith Nynns
Matthison. the actress and suffragetts.
She continued:
A good answer that. AS good an an
swer as the young bride made.
"A young bride. a few months after
the honeymoon, sat up till in the morn
ing for her husband.
AT the young man entered the
vestibule with a. crash. then came up
stairs slowly and silently with his
boots under his arm. He opened the
bedroom door very, very quietly, and.
seeing his wife seated by the radiator.
he said:
Ibid you sit up for me? Sorry. m
dear. Detained-important business
office
.'Oh, try some other excuse, Bill.
said the young wife That's the kind
father used to make"
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FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT.
Assistant secretary Of the navy.

that would fall upon the naval estab-
lishment when all the ships have re-
ceived their full complement of men.
These duties. quite as important as
fighting, should be performed without
robbing the fleet of regular officers and
men to perform them. They are duties
that can be readily taken over in
large degree by a reserve, provided
that reserve has had its measure of
training and knows precisely what it
is to do.
1T is obvious that the creation of
great organization of this character
can be accomplished more readily be-
fore war than after hostilities have
actually begun. 1t can be done at ex-
tremely low cost in time of peace, and
maintained at a minimum charge. .
charge that would be low interest on
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wounds received in action. Death from
natural causes, men taken prisoner,
disability through illness, all these
come under the head of casualties.
This. however, is only beginning.
There are many sorts of duty In a
naval establishment aside from the
mere fighting of the ships. Shore pa
troll. motor boat patrol. operation of
wireless plants ashore. the manufac-
ture, purchase and inspection of ma
terial. including clothing. food sup
plies, fuel. ammunition and guns; the
matter of transportation by rail OF
naval forces and equipment: mine lay
fng-these are but few of the duties
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which stands on Quantico creek be-
tween Washington and Fredericksburg.
The old gentlemen and the Rambler
have talked about many things. such
as horses and dogs. hunting and the
crops and things that are very hard
to write about because few persons
seem to care to read about them
The quaint old man under the cape
was friend of the Rambler quite a
number of years ago. The snapshot
was made in the streets of Alexandr. "a
though the subject of the picture lived
somewhat back from that city. His
name was John Sarten and he was a
good Confederate soldier, brimfull of
war stories. The Rambler has lost
track of him, and, as he was pretty
we'll along in years when the picture
was taken. perhaps he, too, has gone
far, far away.
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have we taken any forethought as to
the use of our fighting forces 4 COM
bined whole.
'Co-ordination of effort did not exist
in the revolutionary war, for example.
Each state had it's own navy and its
own army, and combined efficiency was
secured only by tremendous effort so
1t took us eight years to blunder
through that war to ultimate success.
During that war we had under arms at
various times in this country a force
nearly ten times great as the force
sent against us, and yet we suffered d
number of defeats.
During the war of 1912 we had fully
ten times as great a force under arms
as England sent against US, and yet
England was able to seize and burn our
capital. The reason for all this is OBJ
vious. We had not taken forethought
and had not prepared and had not ar
ranged for that intelligent cooperation
which is vital to efficiency.
Nov, laying aside for the moment
this question of regarding the whole
problem of national defense as single
problem, let US consider the needs of
the fleet with regard to it's personnel.
The first fact that confronts us is
that we are short some $4,000 men of
the force necessary to man our exist
ing navy on war footing. Where are
we going to get them? BY voluntary
enlistment, of course. but with no as
surance of getting trained men, and
modern naval service requires much
training. Since the present enlisted
strength of the navy is about $4,000.
the imposition thereon of one recruit
for every two trained men gives too
great proportion of the unframed.
"One reliance we have is the naval
militia of the several states. aggre-
eating now some 1000. Some of this
militia is we'll trained; some not so
well trained. But even then we have
a shortage of $4,000.
The bill which Secretary Daniels ad-
vocates will, If enacted into law, help
US partly out of the difficulty in pro-
viding a means of keeping in touch
with discharged enlisted men and get
ting them back to the fleet in time of
need.
This problem of reserve personnel for
the navy is different from the problem
of a reserve for the army. There is
definite limit set on the navy. That
limit is in the number of ships we have
requiring men. In the army there is no
such limit. Some authorities tell us
that we would require half a million
men in the army; other authorities run
the estimate up to ten million, not an
extraordinary figure when we consider
the population of the country and the
experience of other nations. But in the
navy we need number based solely
on the size of our feet, and warships
are not built in a day. SO our problem
in reality is simpler than that of the
army.
when ] said that we would require,
to bring our fighting force up to war
strength, $4,000 men, l was referring
only to the actual combatants. But for
war of any considerable duration,
taking into consideration the limita-
tions imposed by the size of the fleet,
we would require many more.
ITO begin with, when we have sent
our $4,000 men to sea, due caution
would require Immediately to set
about preparing at least $4,000 more
to fill ranks thinned by inevitable cas-
ualties. Casualties is a term covering
many things in addition to death and
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and for hours at a time the Rambler
has sat under a black locust tree in
front of the little house at Groveton
and jotted down "reminiscences as they
came from the lips of Mrs. Dogan. She
was living there with her brood of
children when jackson and Lee and
Pope met in one of the long and
fierce encounters of the civil war.
When the guns ceased she. with her
daughters carried water by the bucket
to the wounded men, who, writhing and
moaning among the dead, thickly
strewed her fields. Many of the things
which The Star readers have read
about Bull Run, the Stone bridge, the
Henry hill. the Chinn place, the Mat
thew farm, Groveton Corners. Sudley
and the fighting along the Warrenton
pike between Centerville and Gaines
vile came from Mrs. Dogan and were
jotted down by the Rambler. But, the
old lady is now at rest, and has been
for several years.
The girls sitting at the old door,
way. if still in the land of the living,
are now grown, perhaps the little
child is married and has children of
her own. The Rambler has not seen
them since, somewhat against their
protest. he made the picture.
The doorway is the south one of
Pohick Church five or six miles south
west of Mount Vernon. The Rambler
stopped that way. 1t was spring
morning. 1t was too early for the
average run of church-goers. Sunday
school would not take up for an hour
or SO, and these young people were
the first arrivals. Perhaps they have
sometimes talked over the stranger
who took their picture-and sent them
prints as per promise-and the Rambler
re 10 iYlX ri ca rlf
the meeting.
The old gentleman on the horse with
a sack of meal is a friend made at
Dumfries, village full of buried ruins
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6(5HF RAmBLERssae

may be interested in the inclosed map.
Although the 1892 view was not SUI
f1ciently accurate to register exactly
with the present-day map of the city
this combination by overprint GER
tainly shows some remarkable changes
in the century and a quarter"
In the extreme eastern section of the
old city of Washington the map shows
triangular tract bounded by Florida
avenue and the Benning road on the
north, the Anacostia marshes on the
east and a line beginning at Florida
avenue between 18th and 18th streets
east and running south by east to the
Eastern branch and cutting diagonal
ly across the Jail and old workhouse
reservation, including the Jail, but not
including the old workhouse building
the line passing behind them to the
river. Robert Morris and Nicholson
appear as the owners of that land in
1892.
The next tract on the southwest is
a farm of Abraham Young, and
house, presumably Young's house, is
shown where South Carolina avenue,
Massachusetts avenue and 18th street
east intersect. Another dwelling house
is shown at a point which is now the
southwest corner of the intersection of
Tennessee avenue and Il street north
east.
On the west of this farm lay a tract
called Hop Yard. which appears di-
vided into two farms by an east and
west line, which the south line of Lin
coin Park follows. The norlnerly part
of this tract is given to George Walker
whose house is shown as having been
near the corner of and 9Th streets
northeast. The southerly part of Hop
Yard Is shown as owned by Abraham
Young and George Walker. The east
erly line of this tract starts from near
Sth and l streets northeast and passes
southeasterly to the Eastern branch,
striking the shore of that stream about
where Pennsylvania avenue does. From
the east side of Lincoln Park the line
roughly follows the course of North
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Farms Washington Is Built On.

THE Rambler has received from
George Otis Smith, director of the'
geological survey. a map called
view of the City of Washington in
1892 and in 1911 A view showing
the farms on which the city was laid
out is overprinted by a map of the
Washington of 1911. The old view
is printed in green and the overlay in
brown. One can see at a glance the
relation of the streets, public reserva-
tions and important buildings to the
farms or fields which were here be-
fore the city was. In describing by
words the bounds of the early farms
it is not easy to do this by streets,
because the city plan was, of course,
determined without reference to farm
boundaries, and a farm line may cut
diagonally across many streets and
city squares. The map Is of great in
terest.
In sending it to the Rambler, Director
Smith wrote:
"As citizen especially concerned in
the development of Washington, you
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Tells What the
Needed
the Governments Civil Establishments Which With Maritime
History
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Carolina avenue to the river. On the
southeast front of this farm and ex-
tending to the Eastern branch. about
the width of one east-and- west square,
Eastern branch. 1t is marked down as
the land of the Widow Wheeler, relict
of the Eastern branch ferryman about
whom the Rambler has often written.
to be in the line Of Virginia avenue
where NJ and 18th streets intersect.
Arjoining these farms on thhe west
was one, the northwest corner of which
was near what became I'd and H streets
northeast. The north and south bound
ary of this farm followed genrally
the course taken by I'd and Sd streets
south to the Eastern branch. and in
cluded within its limits the navy yard,
the marine barracks. the Old Naval
Hospital Stanton Square and the reser-
walton on Pennsylvania avenue east be-
tween 4th and 9Th streets. This prop
erty is put down in the name of Will
liam Young and a house is marked in
the line of sth street between L and NJ
streets southeast.
The next farm on the west was Abbey
Manor. On this farm came to stand
the Capitol, which was built on the
eminence called Jenkins Hill; the
Library of Congress. the office build
ings of the House and Senate, Union
station and about one-holf of the Ma
tional Botanic Garden. 1t was the farm
of Daniel Carroll of Duddington, and his
house stood back on the south side of
E street between 1st and I'd streets
southeast, east and north Of Garfield
Park. 1t remained standing until few
years ago. This tract extended from NJ
street north to the Eastern branch. its
west line generally following the
course of Goose or Tiber creek to I'd
and + street northwest, and then to
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pendence in time of national peril is
our citizenry."
And then the private secretary
ushered in group of admirals and
captains. heads of departmental bu-
reaus. for their daily conference and
the talk was at an end.
ASHMCN BROWN.