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culiar facilities for part-time nurs-
ing among persons living in rooms
and in boarding houses: offering it's
services in this respect as its contri-
button to war work, and requesting
the department or bureau heads tc
call the attention of employees to the
existence and availability of the So
ciety.
An appreciative and affirmative re-
sponse was received from about 80
per cent of the following list: State.
Navy, Treasury. Agriculture. Com
meree. Justice. Labor and Post Office
departments: Council of National De-
fense, American National Red Cross
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Shipping Board. Fuel and Food ad-
ninfstrations. Civil Service Commits
sion and War Trade Board. The War
because 1t was installing its own
service.
In some cases the governmental
branch asked for circulars to dis
tribute or post: in others it re-em-
bodied the substance of the informa-
its own stationery to be given to each
emptoye, new or old.
It 10 to be enabled to maintain.
without halt or abeidgment. such
essential war service al this that the
society is sending out 4 small repro
uUGllOu VI pO8IeEs bearing On it8
reverse the following brief appeal:
The. home care of the sick Of
Washington is the work Of the Visit
ing Nurses Our share Of war work
IL keeping the families Of the soldiers
well We need the services Of another
nurse. WIN you heIp?''
The whole city Is one big hosnital
to the Z v. N. s.. explains the latest
superfntendent's report. The eleven
districts into which Washington Is di-
vided are the vards." she says, and
the homes visited by the skaK repre-
sent the beds q the widely scattered
patients.
In 1877 there were 47,s32 visits paid
by the nursing star to these bed
Sides" and in 1a18 the society would.
il it could. double this number. Calls
are answered. by the way. from any
and all sources.
Those unable to pay are cared fer
without charge: others. the great ma
joRity. are asked to pay according to
their means The sum Of 50 cents
pays the actual cost Of q visit from
one OF these organization backed
nuplea.
'Ths demand fer nurses this winter
is unparalleled." wrote the snperin-
tendent as tar hack as last December.
One can think what it is now and will
be in the near future.
The society, nevertheless. wants to
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expand not only the amount. but the
scope of its work. 1t looks on any
possible curtailment as unthinkable in
these times, and yet this deplorable
situation will arise unless war-gen..
erous Washingtonians prevent.
The socfety's work as regards ins
dustrial life. heretofore not a great
factor in the National Capital. but
now an ever-increasing one. is Of
the war angle" The " shineton
Steel and Ordnance plant lays tho
cost of the entire servi As OF one
nurse for its many employ and their
families,
The Iiiinois Steel Company, a SUBJ
sidiary of the United States Steel Corr
poration, as long ago as 1915 was
paying more than $1,000 a year in
salaries. supplies and cArfare to two
visiting nurses. The cost system Of
yet its experts calculated that. while
these nurses cost less than SO a day.
the company was being directly ben.
Gifted to the extent of more than
double that amount in the Increased
enhanced efficiency Of employees.
The purpose of the organization, as
set forth officially, really tells the
whole story. 1t Is:
sick persons In need Of nursing caro-:
to care for them in their homes. and
to teach the families the simple rules
Of nursing and hygiene"
II to the average Washingtonian
this sounds Like q good thing to ba
doing and to keep on doing, he or she
will undeahtedly respond cheeffully
and quickly On recsipt OF little poster
from tho society. OF, II oeeriooAed hA
can send his welcome contribution to
thia particular form of war Work to
Mrs. A. P. Gardner. 1s17 81 street narth-
west.
II It's q good Investment to q big
Industrial concern. why not to . big
community that just now fs the most
important war capital in the world?
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Nothing in tt

CT HE German broad ration has
been cut down again"
The speaker was q representative
from Nebraska.
81 saw in q Sunday magazine Sec
ton the other week" he went on. shat
there was NO wax in seahng-wax. ns
rice In rice paper. and no cat in eatsat.
The Germans hy the same token. ROW
see thanks to our rigorous blockade.
that there ts no fare In warfare.
either"
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A SICK CHILD.

hind the lines" that ranges all the
way from dressing wounds received
in action to the fulfilling Of an insis-
tent national demand for child con-
servation and care as national war
asset, and the members OF the STAN
of the I. v. N. s. take most Of tho
care Of the mothers and children Of
the poor Of our cities.
Especially has the local society en-
deavored to make itself available for
service among governmental en-
ployes. many Of. them young girls
away from their homes. And suc-
cess has attended its efforts. Early
in the work its board Of managers
addressed an offer to most Of the
large government departments and
bureaus. calling attention to its Pc
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they put It. Of running freight cars
on bogfes.> It has opened French eyes.
They consent to the change on their
own rolling stock Henceforth the
French lines will use the airbrake on
all their own freight trains.
They had it. OF course. for many
years, on all passenger trains.
This detail was given out first
through the French press. Another
such detail shows the perfect union
and understanding which exist be-
tween US. American freight cars al
ways used the central automatic or
seh-coupling system. while the French
have always used chain coupling. To
be agreeable. we have accepted this
latter.
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,iai Correspondence of The Star.

July /, 1918.
IN VERYBoDY wants to know de-
S' tails of the American miracle
N the running of our trains on
our trunk lines in Franco.
American civilians in Paris and
American soldiers at front and rear
have talked about it as a mystery.
ana only now are facts and figures
Permitted to emerge.
AT great center of the American
.. " s. zone. where the old French
streets are full of our soldfe,s ana
.ne permanent clerical force "three
times az lasge as was the War De-
pa1e"ent at Washington before the
wa" nave been permitted to inter-
view the most famous of American
rahfoad specialists now militarized-
zen Atterbury-who up to accentfnx
ms commission was arst vice presi-
oene OF the Pennsylvania railroad.
IN vast old rectangular stone bar
.1eks OF past centuries. inclosing an
immense parade ground, up two
nfsnes or worn oak stairs. in white
vasned walls, met the most modern
OF railroad men become a general
+ =
fes. we are putting together
american locomotives. brought over
IN parts" said Gen Atterhury. "I
think we, have already turned out
more than 400 locomotives. and we ara
going to bring 900 into this country.
As for American cars. we are putting
them together rapidly. We hail
bring over $4,000 cars before we are
through"
DO you use French 1abor?" I asked.
mo; it is so scarce that we ourselves
have patc more than 1880 American
mechanics into French railroad shops.
alone. for French use. We are bring
ing over large number Of railroad op-
Grating men In order to assist the
French. You must realize that the
French railroads. when the war broke
out. were denuded Of their young men.
then. Therefore, II is the same old
men who started to keep the French
railroads running when the war broke
out who are operating them still
Their number is gradually decreasing.
by age. sickness, death. etc. Quite
gradually dropping out: so that at the
present time the French railroads are
very short of operating personnel and
we must make 1t up to them"
"All this is apart from our trains on
our lines in France?" said
He nodded. He gave no figures for
construction. but this Is what he said:
For operation we must have $4,000
Americans employed here nov, inciud-
ing docks This does not include con-
struction, but only operation, stevefores,
tralnmen. engineers and men engaged in
erecting cars and locomotives We have
completed ten large docks handling
from 5000 to 10000 tons per day at one
port. and we are engaged on docks at
another port that will handle equal
amounts These. of course. are all
brand-new and additional to the mass
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A third detail concerns signals.
French signals are not the same as
American signals. nor are they uni
form on all French lines. So the
French and American chiefs got to-
gether and put out a booklet in
French and English for the use Of
French and American locomotive en-
gineers. In special schools for the
purpose, It Is used as text book. and
time has proved that a three-month
course turns out perfect interna-
tional engine driver.
The last detail given out by way of
the French press concerns the Amer
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a LMOST every public service
h\ agency in the District of CO.
IN lumbia. whether municipal or
q & otherwise, has of necessity
been curtaiIed because of the war.
while the population has grown by
leaps and bounds. The average Wash.
inxtonian will. on slight provocation.
descant fee1ingly on how inconvenient
and even dangerous these reductions
are, because good many OF them ar
feet him or her very directly.
There are not enough policemen. not
enough fremen, or street cleaners. ASH
collectors, clerks or street. ear opera
tors. There are not, it seems. enough
Of anybody" whether they are NUM-
bered by dozens, hundreds or thou
sands, In many cases the number has
been reduced actually; in others pro-
portionately because OF the tnnux OF
new residents.
The larger a category is the more
important 1t is generally considered.
There is, however, one comparatively
very small group of semi-public aerv-
ants which has always occupied an
important niche in the scheme OF life
proportionately reduced and which. it
is feared, may soon become further
actually reduced In numbers.
~
This is the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society. the only organization
in the District which does hourly or
psrt-tinne nursing. especially heurly
IA ~h
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American Trains and Crews ON the American Trunk Lines of France

lean railroad repair shops. 1.-THE greats
est railroad shops in France" they re<
ooice. Somewhere in France, near
city of the center" the Americans
have built 'rffroad line of nine miles
around the town. They have thrown
and another across the canal. Here. in
vast factories of reinforced eoncretes
the Americans make their own res
pairs. in all security.
return to Gen. Atterbury.
You have had a fine reception- !
We have had a wonderful recepA
ton" he answered "Our relations
with the French labor organizations
are perfect. There is not place where
our men go. in French car shops and
elsewhere, but what they are welA
coined"
''I saw the American express go by
the other night" said
Yes" he smiled, cit has Pullman
porters from Chicago.
And, apart from our great trackage
rights in France. we are building
about 1.200 miles OF new lines, ala
together. when We get through our
program. As far as I am concerned
war. nd think that it is the feeling
Of all our people at home"
DO our heavier cars and locomoa
tives run over French rails all rights
They are absolutely interchange4
able.
Then, IT Is all a permanent ina
provement. these lines, cut-ons. sida
ings.> rolling stock and docks - said
"A permanent Improvement, yes,S
he said we cannot take them homa
with Us. All these things. I take IL
viii be subject to adjustment afteR
the war.
"Howr'
The French themselves have an
arrangement with their railroads by
which a piece Of track which is put in
for military purposes is paid for by
the French government. But If. later.
the civil requirements Of the railroad
ever grow up to the use Of that pars
ticular piece of track. then the French
government is reimbursed by the rail<
road. Nov, In this matter. we are in
the same position as the French gov
ernment At the end Of the war all
these improvements which we make
will be surveyed II they are useful
to the French railroads. we shall he
reimbursed our expenditure ON them.
If not. we shall be at liberty to take
up the stun, clear the ground and do
what We please with it"
It seems an unlikely contingency.
obviously. the greatest American
railroad authority in France deems
that France will be fortunate after
the war to be able to pick up 80 much
ready-made improvement and new
rolling stock all ready for operation.
France will be short Of labor-
said.
He nodded
with great wear-and-tear to make
goodr'
Like all Europe" he added. cor.
recting.
So, the American miracle continues.
1t is a word invented by the French
themselves. Think of these thousands
and thousands Of practical American
railroad men continually engaged.
henceforth. in keeping up these new
American and old French lines and
rolling stock in France,
STERLING HEILI0. .
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of French docks, of which we have the
use.
"And our railroads in France?"
Our project comprised the construc-
ton of about 1900 miles Of lines. but
not continuous. France already had
very perfect system Of railroads de-
signed for military purposes where the
commercial interests were not such as
to come up to the capacity of the lines.
France did wonderful things in this way.
The result h that France controls On
these lines such facilities that she was
able to support her great military bur
den, yet not break Those lines have
been developed for years. through the
Industrial centers. and all their local
development in the way Of sidings, etc.
are naturally In big towns They were
developed for small engines, cars. etc.
and to meet our larger conditions it is
necessary for US to establish terminals
outside the towpa These terminals are
for two purpeses-ths change Of en-
gines. etc. End for our large storage
warehouses. So it comes about that the
greater part Of our railroad construction
in France. apart from eut-od lines, Is
In the way Of storage yards and sid
ingS"
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And yet we have our own trunk lines
in France" 1 said.
"Yes, two-we have the use of them
{The general turned to a great map on
the walL) Here, you see. is the line
from - to -. Here is the line
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LMOST every public service
agency in the District of CO.
\ lumbia. whether municipal or
. otherwise. has of necessity
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11
PROOF OF FIND
 TAKEN OUTSIDE
 BY SUPERVISION

SEATTLE.-Blond hair from the blond Eskimos, alleged proof of the existence of that strange far away tribe-is being brought back to civilization by the explorer Vilhjal- mar Stefansson, according to P. C. Lepetich, miner who recently ar rived here from Fort Yukon, Alaska where he saw the explorer. Stefans- son, it is believed, will arrive here shortly
 Stefansson is credited with the discovery of the light skinned nat ives far up on Canada's Arctic rim. He found the tribe in 1908, while commanding an expedition fitted out by the Canadian government and the American Museum of Ma tural History.
 The party penetrated into the white lands, marked "uninhabited" on the maps, far east of the Mack enzie river, and in 1910, on Coro- nation Gulf, found Eskimos who had never seen white men from the Outside. According to Stefansson, they numbered probably 2,O0O. Un- like their dark hued brothers of Alaska, they had white skin, many had red hair, the men wore full boards and all had light eyebrows.
 News of the discovery was brought back to the Outside world by Stef. ansson in 1912. In 1913 he set out again for the North on the trip he is now bringing to close. From Lepetich's statement, it is belived that Stefansson, during the past two years, made another trip to the land of these little known natives.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

paid into the treasury in the form of taxes returns only in the form of results obtained overseas.
 It is to be hoped that the govern ment will not be forced to levy additional taxes. It is to be hoped that the people will realize, before it is too late, that the floating of the Fourth Liberty loan is as inn portant as any of the previous loans-that the money will be needed by the government even though hostilities are suspended before all of the loan payments have been made.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11
MARINE NEWS
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. . . . . . . . . . ls 1a . . . g . . Julia Blown Marshal, 10th.
 Reliance-In Gibbon; leaves this morning for Nenana.
 Seattle No. 3-At Circle.
 Alaska-Up Fort Yukon 9 a m., yesterday.
 Washburn-Up Eagle 8 a. m.
 Tanana-Got into Panama river during the night enroute to Nenana. Yukon-Up Rampant p. m. 10th There is work for every person to do in this war-food is ammuni- tion, are you wasting it?
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE

United States of America, Fourth District of Alaska, ss:-
 Public notice is hereby given, that by virtue of writ of Fieri Facias tor execution) issued out of the Dis trict Court of the United States for the 4th District of Alaska on judg- ment rendered in said court, on the 26th day of June, A. D. 1918, in favor of Kuskokwim Commercial Co.,, corporation, and against Thomas Robin, I have on this 22nd day of August, A. D. 1918, levied upon the following described real estate, situated in the precinct of Innoko, and Territory of Alaska, to wit:
 All the right, title and interest of the defendant Thomas Robin in and to that certain mining claim known as the Bonanza Association" on Little Creek, in Innoko Pre- cinct, 4th Division of Alaska, and all of the right, title and interest of the defendant in and to claim Number one below on Little Creek, aforesaid in Innoko precinct, 4th Division of Alaska; and that I will, accordingly, offer said real estate for sale, at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, for cash, on the 4th day of November, A. D., 1918, at 10 o'clock A. M., at Front door of the Marshal's Office, at Flat City, Alaska. Dated, Flat City, Alaska, August 22nd, 1918.
 L. T. ERWIN
 U. s. Marshal, Fourth Dis
 trict of Alaska.
 By G. G. GERAGHTY,
 Deputy. CHAS. E. TAYLOR, Plaintiffs Attorney. First publication Sept. 13. Last publication Oct. IS.
 
 Rent and Sale. Sim sons.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

Considerable worry is caused by the fact that shipments of canned, salted and other prepared fish are being, delayed an unreasonable time by lack of transportation, says the Juneau Dispatch. Out of 26,OOO,- 900 pounds of salt fish to go out of the territory this fall, only 2,OOO,- 900 pounds have been moved or are in transit. Also over 3,000,OOO cases of canned salmon must reach the States. As the government has communicated practically all the canned salmon pack, it is sure to be moved, but in the case of salt fish, it is feared that the shortage of steamships will make the task im- possible.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

Michael Jackson, a native, two Indian women and some small child ren were found shipwrecked on the beach about three miles south of Point Retreat on Sept. by Special Agent J. F. Mcdonald and Game Warden J. Lund, Jr., when they were returning from Sitka in the game warden's boat. The natives were in starving condition and MT. Mcdonald and MT. Lund left them all the grub they had aboard their boat and offered to tow them into Juneau. Jackson said they would be picked up and lowed to Funter Bay, and refused the tow.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

The management of the Coliseum is nothing if not enterprising. The latest of the many recent big-town innovations is lusty addition to the theater orchestra, in the form of drums and traps, which add con siderably to the enjoyableness of musical program under the skillful manipulation of Manager Rosburg.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

The steamer Shusana was sched- uled to leave Cinema for Nenana this morning. A train carrying freight and passengers for the boat left Fairbanks at eight this morning.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11
VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY

past several days, tiat the Ameri- can people are not giving their sup port to the Fourth Liberty Loan in a manner commensurate with the showing that is being made at the front by our boys. The people at home are not doing their share. They are depending upon the army to win the war for them: they are not providing the funds needed to whip the Hun into final submission. They do not realize, seemingly, that money is as necessary as fighting men to insure the successful con- clusion of the war.
 The war department, according to General March, has asked for eight billions of dollars to carry out a war program greater than any ever undertaken by world power. The money is needed to double the fighting strength of the present great American army and to equip that army with suitable weapons to insure the speedy and definite de- feat of the kaiser's fighting ma chine. The war department is not doing things in a small way. It real izes that democracy is at stake and that it is not boys job to force the kaiser to his knees, ready to accept the terms of peace which have been outlined by President Wilson.
 German peace overtures, which have reached us from time to time, have not disturbed the plans of the war department. There has been no modification of our elaborate war program in consequence of the receipt of these messages, however hopeful they may have seemed on the surface, and we may rest assured there will be no letup to our pre- parations until the Germans have been forced from all Allied territory now occupied by them, until they have ceased to menace the seas with their submarines and until they have accepted all of the other terms insisted upon by President Wilson and the Allied governments.
 This is the view American people at home should take of the war. They should continue to give finan- cial support to the government until appeals for funds cease to be issued from Washington. We should not presume to know more about the re- quirements of our government than the heads of departments which have the war preparations in hand and so long as our government con- tinues to ask for financial assist ance, just so lonc should we strive to supply the demands, even to the advancement of our last penny We may be sure the money would not be requested were it not needed
 And there is another point which the American public should heed. Now that we are in the war, with fully developed determination to defeat the German war machine, not even the failure of war loans will cripple seriously our fighting machine. For if the money is not forthcoming from one source, means will be found to get it from some other source. In other words, if the people do not contribute volun- tarily, by investing in gilt-edge Liberty bonds, the government will be forced to make up the deficiency by increasing taxes. The money will come out of the pockets of the people in either case, the only diff erence being that the purchase of Liberty bonds means a return of the prin cipal with interest, at the end of few years, while the money
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

Mushing several hundred miles over lonely winter trails to answer Cupid's call, David Brown, an old time mining man from the Iditarod district, was recently married at Seattle to Miss Anna McCaffe-y of Spokane. MT. Brown crossed two mountain ranges and mushed 400 miles to get to salt water.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11
WANT ADS

CABIN FOR SALE-Cost $500; will sell for $50. Inquire News office
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

FOR RENT-Upstairs residence,
 four rooms furnished. See Slippern
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

R. J. Boryer, for several years an attorney for the Copper River rail way at Cordova, is now working in the shipyards at Seattle. He goes on duty at the shipyards at D. m. and works until 12. He gets to his office at 9 a. m and stays until 3 p. m. He averages $25 per week from the yards and says he will stay until the war is over. The Seattle yards are short of men and many businessmen are working in them after business hours.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-11

FOR SALE-Panoramic views of the town of Nenana in 1916 and 1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair banks, from hill overlooking the town. Apply at News office.