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New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
At Work or Plav
Miss Dell Leads

1t is government practice to place
responsibility on the shoulders
which can stand the burden, but
the promotion in authority does not
always carry with it an increase in
salary. To-day Miss Dell receives
$1,000 year for her highly special
ized work. She was originally
placed In the branch handling legal
contracts because she showed an
aptitude for legal matters, and was
advanced as she proved that this
judgment Of her powers was sound.
Her force included only five per
sons before the war was declared.
The personnel grew to thirty-five
during hostilities, there now being
about twentysix girls and men un-
der her supervision. She declares
that the department would have
fallen down under the strain Of the
contract investigation work had it
not been for the loyalty and esprit
de corps Of her staff. There are no
military titles under Miss Dell, but
she deals with the military cxccu-
tlves largely. There are captains
who want information about con-
tracts they have made for telephone
service at the cantonmcnts. There
are majors who are delegated to
produce collers at seaport and
must have their Congressional ap-
preparations legally assured before
the ships can be built There are
colonels who want blankets in
hurry for shivcring men, and gen
erals who have wondered Why the
supply of roast beef kar tho trans
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Keeping Watch on
Details of Contracts

Officially, Miss Dell is principal
clerk Of the contract, examining
and records branch Of the Office Of
the director of finance. Brigadier
General Lord is director of this
Office. To state that she has ham
cled billions Of dollars worth OF
government contracts dealing with
the necessaries Of life for the men
IN khaki would be TO hazard a. con-
servative estimate.
No adding machine in existence
could total the amounts involved
even for the period covered by the
report made up by the director Of
finance for the information Of Con-
gress. The report covered the finan-
cial operations in contracts from
April 8 to May in 1913. It's bulk
In pages appropriated five or six
inches. On these pages were count
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Boys Camp on
Cooperative Basis

The boys perform the work oi
the camp on cooperative basis,
all OF them taking part in the tasks
OF pumping water, caring ior the
camp grounds, looking after tables
and cleaning the dishes.
Last year 1859 persons obtained
vacations of two weeks each through
the Henry Street Settlement, and
the demand was by no means met.
Miss Lillian Wald, head worker
of the house, who has Just returned
from France, where she represented
the United States government at
the International Conference of the
Red Cross, believes that the oppor-.
tunlty for service is greater tins
year than ever before. Voluntary
workers are needed to aid in the
summer time work at Henry Street
and at the other forty-eight United
Neighborhood Houses in the cityy :,
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touched by Miss Dell's cooperation
and advice.
The social work embraces every
form of recreation for the young
people working in the division, from
weekend trips to nearby points of
historical or scenic interest to
dances staged after the 4 80 o'clock
"quitting" hour. There is a special
recreation room where these dances
are held. But here, again, if one
asks Miss Dell anything about her
duties as director of the social
work, she will Immediately cite her
able assistants, who really do it
all, and attempt to give you the
impression that she is merely a fig
urehead in the whole proceedings.
l.. L. r.
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Miss Deli, of Georgia, Makes Good

less items of contracts for clothing
of all kinds, from shoestrings to
hats, and various sorts of equipment,
in figures whose digits rarely how
cred under six places. Single con-
tracts for s50,O00,000 were not
unknown. Those around the $780,
100000 mark were usual enough
to make the $500 contract of the
pre-war days seem a scrap of paper
to the woman who watched out for
Uncle Sans interests in these for
NAL documents.
1t is important that a watchful
eye be kept on the legality of
these contract papers. The Con-
troller of the Treasury can keep a
hatband manufacturer Of Fall
River, Mass, on tenterhooks for
months if some illegal detail creeps
into the contract he has with the
government agent. Unless the con-
tracts are strictly in accord with all
the rules and regulations there
won't be any check forthcoming for
the contractor. The post held by
Miss DELI is one requiring executive
temperament, with an intelligent
grasp Of legal phrasing. She must
have a lawyers knowledge, but
never has to write a brief.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Jessie Dell
Who grew with her lob Ia the
War Department

THY COBB comes from Georgia.
I So do choice peaches and
rattlesnake watermelons. But
these partners in Georgia glory will
now have to make room for the
admission of another member to
the hitherto "close corporation.
This is the person who passed on
the legal details Of all contracts
made by the quartermaster's corps
Of the War Department during the
great war just ended. She happens
to be a woman, Miss Jessie Dell, the
daughter Of the late John Crawford
Dell, Of a little town near Savan-
nah, Ga. Before the war Miss Dell
commuted to Georgia once a wear
during the fifteen years she had
been away, but five years ago the
contract business Of the quarter
masters corps increased 80 greatly
that she hasn't been able to make
the frir sirca
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

lucky illiterates to the drafted men
abroad. These books were also
widely used in the cantonments
here.
"The campaign to stamp out H.
literacy is growing every year." said
Mrs. Stewart during her visit to
Washington. Estates of the South
are appropriating money to reclaim
those men and women who have
been lost to it because of inability
20 read or write. New Mexico
opened it's campaign several years
ago. 1t has recently reported that
$4,000 adults have been taught to
read and write since their moon
light schools opened. North Caro-
Ina, Oklahoma and Alabama have
taken up the crusade. Kentucky has
set aside $4,000 for the work.
Educating Native
Americans
"This work must not be confused
with Americanization. We work en-
tirely with native-born Americans.
This comes about because there is
practically no foreign-born element
in the South compared with the
great urban populations Of the East.
There have been remarkable
changes from illiteracy to at least
partial literacy. There have been
cases of our moonlight school pupils
advancing to the fifth grade. There
was one instance of such a pupil
going through normal school and
afterward becoming a teacher. |
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
BY LILY LYKES ROWE

trips for those who care to go along
at 81 apiece. There, too, are placed
items about lectures soon to be
held and recreation possibilities
within the hotel for the girls. White
enamelled woodwork in this lobby,
as we'll as throughout the interior
Of the buildings, gives the Colonial
aspect. Windsor chairs and simple
hangings add their bit. Deep
wicker chairs, wide, broad tables and
standing lamps with silken shades
free the scene from the usual
boarding house or hotel atmosphere.
Back Of the main lobby is the main
dining room, where mattresses serve
at small tables. A second dining
room, with negro walters, has re-
Gently been added to accommodate
the full quota Of residents. The
project can be self-sustaining, &C
cording to the housing corporation,
which is conducting the business of
the hotels, and for the first time
made a $4,000 profit in April. Girls
who for some special reason, such
as need for a specialized diet, de-
sire to eat elsewhere are permitted
tc do so and retain their rooms.
There is always a long waiting list
for entrance, and the only refer
ence a girl needs is the word of her
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was converted into a weekend
house, where ten extra girls went
each week.
A friend of the settlement has
again given up her century-ol1
country home at Montclair for the
convalescent babies of Henry Street
and their mothers.
Opportunity for summer recrea-
tion for boys is provided at Camp
Henry, located at Mahopac Falls, IN
Putnam County, a combination Of
lake, woods, athletic fields, orchard,
gardens and sunny open places that
1t would be hard to equal anywhere
within fifty miles of New York.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

$500 children attended the play
grounds weekly last summer.
Every morning at least one anc
often as many as six day parties
composed of twenty-five children OF
mothers, start off for the country
and parks and beaches.
During July and August of last
year 1,459 persons went on these day
cuttings from Henry Street, 1850
from the 10th Street Settlement
and 789 from the Lincoln House OF
Negro Branch.
Friends of the settlements are
planning to throw open their coun-
try estates this summer for week
ly parties of children. At one OF
these homes bathing is the attrac-
ton, at another a model farm, and
at q third large field for base
ball.
The Henry Street Settlement has
six country places, two Of these
farms at Yorktown Heights, 1.-The
Rest" The convalescent home at
Grand View is open the year round
In addition, a farmhouse in Rock
land County is at the special dis
posal Of one of the nurses, and there
she sends many of her small Italian
charges.
The farmhouse in Yorktown
Heights is the Mecca of the smallest
children. Early last month the
little kindergarten tots were taken
there by their teachers.
This month and next parties of
older children in groups Of twenty
six at a time viii go out for vaca-
tons of two weeks.
Wcek-End Parties
For Girls
On the same grounds is the
House in the Woods" a vacation
home for older girls, where they
learn to swim in a large outdoor
swimming pool and play baseball
and 50 on hikes. The original ca
pacity Of the "House in the Woods"
to care for twenty-three girls has
been expanded to accommodate
weekend parties, and in addition
the older club members are given
permission to camp Saturdays and
Sundays on the grounds, sleeping
out of doors, bringing their own
food and cooking it themselves.
Rlverholm, at Grand Niew-on-
Hudson, is open in the summer
months for the senior girls. The
house is built by the side of the
river, with wide porches overhang-
ing the water, and there are op-
portunities for boating and bathing.
The house accommodates fourteen
girls, and last summer an old barn
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Short Order
Lessons

Mrs. Stewart told of the work of
the commission during the war,
when teachers were sent to meet the
trains Of soldiers who might even
be in town for one day only. A
young lad who had just married and
was on his way to camp happened
to learn OF the opportunity to have
teacher for the fundamentals of
reading and writing when he
reached q certain station. He had
what the teachers call "tho immc-
diacy Of an inccntive," for he
wanted more than anything else
just then to be able to write bacl,
to his bride. He went to tho teacher
at 10 o'clock that morning, and by
dilgent application and stopping
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

of dances given by the United
States government for the nearly
two thousand girls living at the
only hotel of its kind in the world
the Station Plaza Hotel, main
tanned at Washington by the United
States Housing Corporation. Here
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Moonlight Schools in the Mountain

only for luncheon and supper by 10
o'clock that night he was able to
pen a four-line message to his wife.
His train left the next day, but
the 1lliteracy Commission rejoiced
that it had laid the foundation of
the work to be done later at the
cantonment " T~olc Sam in re-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

lunbus statue in front of the Union
Station, has a wide piazza, with
deep rocking chairs, like a summer
hotel.
Activities for the whole hotel are
directed from the lobby of this
building, where above stairs the ex-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

Az music of the jazziest sort
ID foated from the second story
window Of one of the stucco
buildings near the United States
Capitol grounds into the soft air
of June night The neighborhood
was rich with historic associations
dating back to the time of the
harpsichord roundelays. Before the
government bought the Union Sta
ton Plaza ground for a parkway
leading to the great white home of
Congress nothing more blatant
than the strains of "Robert z. Lee"
on a phonograph might have re-
sounded through the wide avenues.
Automobiles parked within range
of the brilliantly lighted halls Of
the Station Plaza ground, whence
came the dance notes. Girls with
other girls, folks from home"
army and navy officers-yes, and
even Representatives in Congress,
we're entering the portico and con-
tinuing up the wide stairs Of the en-
trance lobby. Two belated news
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

are rooms and refectories for eigh-
teen hundred girls and women-a
gigantic boarding house spread over
twenty-four temporary buildings,
erected at a cost of approximately
$1,o0o,0Oo.
Each girl has her own room, ex-
cept in the case Of corner rooms,
which are large enough for two per-
sons. For the sum of $45 month
she is given her room and two meals
daily, the privileges of a kitchen
cite and the electric iron, and up
to-date hotel service at the desk
downstairs.
In designing the buildings an effort
was made to harmonic them with
the setting Of the Capitol as we'll as
could be done with temporary
structures. With their Colonial COL
umns, their white cupolas and
weathervanes and the small window
panes they suggest the Independ-
ence Square buildings in Philadel-
phia. The chief administration
building, which overlooks the Co.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

moving illiteracy still further from
the bridegroom.
The government sent over about
fifty thousand Of the primers writ
ter by Mrs. Stewart for the Ken
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
UNITED STATES without a
/ single adult who cannot read

or write is the dream absorb
ing the life Of Mrs Cora Wilson
Stewart, founder of the Moonlight
Schools Of Kentucky. She has been
carrying her dream before Congress
sional committees recently to get
the Smith-Towner bill creating
Department Of Education passed.
Officially Mrs. Stewart is chairman
Of the llliteracy Commission Of Ken
lucky, the first board of it's kind in
this country. She is also chairman
Of the illiteracy committee of the
National Educational Association
But the title she likes to claim first
of all is that of a mountaineer.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
HOUSE ON HENRY
4 STREET" has gone

s1-HOllUd llAS. u u4y oAlO
August are the playtime months of
the children of the Henry Street
Settlement, and during that time the
house workers do their best to bring
some of the joys Of the country to
the children of the city streets.
The Henry Street Settlement is
one Of the forty-eight community
centres affiliated with the United
Neighborhood Houses. This sum-
mer it has launched a scheme of
work on a more extensive scale than
in any past years.
The roof of the Ncighborhood play
house on Henry Street is the down
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

boys, their pockets heavy with the
pennies the mint has to work over
time to make in sufficient quanti-
ties, remarked the unusual scene.
"What's the big noise?" one of
them queried.
CAV, it's only Uncle Sam giving
his dormitory girls all the comforts
CT home," replied the other.
On the upper floor tall girl,
with the dark eyes Of the South and
in her prettiest pink evening dress,
was beaming with happiness. She
leaned toward a silver haired cha
peron and whispered:
~ have just danced with a real
Congressman"
The girl in pink was a war worker
who had dreamed perhaps of meet
ing a really truly member Of Con-
gress when she packed her satchel
in answer to the Civil Service tele-
gram to come to Washington. This
was one of her big nights. The oc-
casion was the second in series
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-16
NEW ORLEANS RESULTS.

FIRST RACD-Six fuIlongs Rory O'Moore.
III CButwclD. 5 to 2. even, ! to 2: Dolph, lie
tGroth), to S, 4 to 5; Grove A. liz tRowan).
4 to s. Time. i:lt IS Move On. Princess Lou.
Riddle. Modste. Richard ". Ciceiy Kay. Jack
Pryor also ran.
SECOND RACE-siI furiongs Nab. lu
tstsrensl. to /. even. l to 2; Miss Howell.
l07 (Judge), 10 to /, to /; Rosemary, lo1
tColtilettl. 7 To s. Time. iii +S Milda,
Miss Herman. Valerie West. Ideal. Lady
Eileen. Little Princess. Margrry. My Oracle.
Satisfied. Esther L.. safranor also ran.
THIRD RACE-six furionEs Fsrb-iow. lis
tRoblnson), 5 to .. even. to S; Lady in
Black. 10 (Coltiietti), 10 S. I TO Q; Swirl.
Ito QRowan), 2 to s. Time. LA 2S. Bone
Dry. Sweet Apple. IndisTetiou. Accelerate.
Red Domino. Heavy Weapon also ran.
FOURTH RACE-six furlongs, Green Gold.
10 (warrinstonI. s to !. s to l. 8 70 s; Bon
Tromp. ITO tRodrguez), to !, to 5; Tristy.
Ito (Gamer), Q TO s. Tine. l:i3 IS. Fiji ID,
War Garden. Pigeon. Dairyman, Pullux. Fort
Bliss. JACK Mount. HAPPY Go Lucky. Assume
also ran.
Sailor. rIls (ButwelD. II to S. to s. l. to 5;
Honolulu Boy. los tSterns), 3 To $. i to Z;
Merchant, lcs tObert), I 10 Time. is.
Game Cock. Brownie McDawell also ran.
SIXTH RACE-ope and one-sixteenth miles
Frank Shannon. lo2 tcoitiletti), 10 l. to l.
evcn; The Gallant. i1 Wright. to !. eyeni
l.G rs Mand bacon. Audrey, H.. Brown
Favorite. Aztec. VIII Do. Contestant. Brian
Bori also ran. .
SEVENTH RACE = One and one-sixtsenth
miles. wadsworth's Last, los Morris. to 2
6 to s. TO S; fodder. ~ (yida). 6 to 1. 5 10 I;
l:sf- courceiles. Piuyisda. Betsy. Miss Fiiley.
Aidebaran. 'Bubblins Louder. Mary Belle
Co, nterbalance. Dancer. Chico Bsrkley, Philis-
tine. Httlc Spring also nan.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-16
QUAKER MAGNATES
NOT BOOMING CLUB

Philadelphia. Pa. Dec. E.-oue OF
the matters that concern baseball is
the attitude OF the Philadelphia base
ball maguates TO the game In general
Baker and Mack seem to be content
with the role of parasites. Neither
the Phillies nor the Athletics seem
to be making any efforts to strengthen
their teams. Win they be content
to live on the other teams In their
leagues. as they have been doing. and
will the other teams Of the league
stand for this?
Mack wrecked the greatest baseball
machine the game ever knew, beljev-
ing that he could build up another.
Baker. on the start Of the world war,
flew into panic and sold half of his
team when he disposed Of Alexander.
He dropped Pat Moran, the manager.
and would have left him Nat am.
jobless II John McGraw had not taken
him up and then released him when
he was offered the Cincinnati OBJ
portunity. Naturally, the Philadel-
phia fans are not enthusiastic over
the owners Of the two PHILADELPHIA
teams. The Quaker City may not be
able to revive interesting baseball
until 1t gets a new set of owners
for the teams.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-16
W. C.. SMITH BUYS
INDIANAPOLIS CLUB

| Indianapolis. Dec. 15.-Controlling in
terest OF the Indianapolis American
Association baseball club has been
transferred to William c. Smith. OF
South Norwalk, Conn. formerly part
owner of the club. James c. McGill.
former president OF the club, an
nounced last night.
w. c. Smith. Jr., n son of the new
owner. will be made vice-president Of
the team and will come to indianapolis
in January to assume charge of the
club.
The sale Of McGill's interest was not
entirely unexpected, as McGill an
nounced some time ago that he ex-
pected to retire from baseball, Jack
Hendricks will remain manager of the
team and William E. Claruer, present
secretary of the club, will continue In
that capacity.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-16

on May 6 held Boston TO a pair OF
binsles. But on June I6 Bernie Boland
kept the Nationals from making more
than two hits and again on September
IL LEFTY Williams. OF the White Sox.
held them to two singles.
On July l the Athletics kept Boston
from making more than two hits but
Il required the efforts Of GreveI, Sci
bold and Kinney to do IL.
Boston. Il will be seen, were the
losers In two games of this description
while Cleveland lost a game on August
IS In which Mays for New York held
them to two hits.
me following table show the date, the
sznes were played the pStehers and oIspooeuts:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
No-HfT GAMES
ssps- lo-Caldwen t0erelandl " New Tort
oSEHIT GAMES
May Ssha~key CNs- 1ortn " Athletics
June s-Shawkey (New HockI " Chiczsp
June D-Ehmke (Detroitl W Cleveland
August ls-Liebeb (St Louizl 70 Boston
TwoHIr GAMES
May s-HaTper-Craft Cvashinstonl W Boston
Nay u-gohnsou (washins7oul " New Yo-t
nz innines)
Juns ls-Boriand Detrodtl W Washington
J0iI I-Grerel. IAthIrtiosD 70 Boston
Sribnh 4 Kinney
AuEus D-Mays NV Yorkl " Cleveland
S<pt- u-Wulisms tCzicagol 70 washington
CTo be continued.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-16
NORWAY PRODUCES
RIVAL FOR THORPE'S
ALL-AROUND RECORD

Norway has a new athletic won-
Ger who is being heralded as the
superior OF Jim Thorpe. the Amer
lcan Indian who won the ALA around
annette championship In the OIvmnIc
meet at Stockholm seven wears acc
HIS name is Hedge Loveland and
among other Sensational nerforr,-
ances in Scandinavia of late was bis
improvement on Thorpe's OlvmDjc
pentathlon record
IN the point score basis recor-
nized in international conpetjtjon
Loveland in the last Norwegian men.
tathlon championship totaIed 41s
points, or 145 more than Thorpe scored
in 1912.
A comparison of the performances
shows that Thorpe was better In
three of the five events that are in
GUIDED in the pentathlon program, but
LoVeland Was far superior in the
other two. In the javelin throw the
Norwegian showed n mark OF 1s0 feet
70 inches. as against Thorpe's Il;
feet inches. ana in the discus tbrow
the difference is also marked in Love
lands favor. 127 feet inches to ZIG
feet inches. The American covered
2 feet 27 inches in the broad Jump,
while the Norwegian's jump was n
feet 77-S inches. Thorpe was also
faster in the 2oa-meter dash, 22.9 sec
onds to al seconds. and in the 800
meter run. 4 minutes 49, seconds to
4 minutes 52.S seconds.
The Norwegians will in all probS-
bility be the heaviest point scorers
In the Olympic pentathlon at Amt
werp next August, for. in addition
to Loveland. they have r. r. Bic.
who finished second to Thorpe In the
Stockholm Olympics.
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negotiations with Pennsylvania
Princeton. Georgia Tech, Nebraska
and Washington and Lee.
Dartmouth wants Harvard and
Princeton. but has turned down Col
gate OH fimsy excuse.
Washington and Jefferson has syria
cuse. Carnegie Tech. Pittsburs and
West Virginia. Columbia has Penn,
Brown and Yale for a nucleus.
Centre Invades East.
Centre College. sensation OF the past
season. will break into elite East
ern circles with Harvard. The Ken
tuckians are trying to get games also
with Notre Dame. Georgia Tech.
Ohio State. Navy, West Virginia and
Colgate.
LehiGh is after Penn, lafayette.
Penn State. Syracuse. Rutgers and
West Virginia.
Ohio State. one of the king bees
OF the West. also will mfnCIe will,
Eastern notables. Princeton claims
a date with the Buckeyes on October
Is. The Tigers also want the Navy,
West Virginia. Colgate. Dartmouth
Rutgers and lafayette.