The Washington times., 1922-06-23
Pretty Nurse Of % Chooses Career Among Eskimos
Of the Arctic Circle to Existence IN Big Cities

Point Barrow, Alaska, Amos'
Under North Pole, Holds
Lure for Girl Reared Near
Metropolis.
NEW YORK, June 23.--
Miss Augusta Mueller, who
is only twenty-three and
wears her hair bobbed, to.
day became a voluntary ex-
lie from her home at No,
l56 Fifth avenue, Astoria,
and started on a journey to
Point Barrow, Alaska, q
thousand miles this side OF
the North Pole, there to re-
main five years, enduring
the hardships of that far
northern district, for the
sake of nursing i'll and dis
.tressed Eskimos in q hos
pital.
Big Responsibility.
The hospital is conducted under
the auspices of the Presbyterian
board Of home missions, and the
physician in charge Is DIR. Henry
w. Greist, who lives at the insti-
tuition with his wife and daughter
Some weeks ago DR.. John A.
Marquis, general secretary Of the
mission board, made known
through the newspaper organ OF
the church. the great need/ for q
nurse at the Point Bafrow Hos
pital to aid the only woman nurse
now in the institution, Miss Flor
ence Dakin. of Brooklyn. Miss
Dakin has been at the hospital
the past two and half years and
Is near a breakdown from over
work. .a
Miss Mueller informed DR.. Mar.
auis that she would gladly volun-
teer for the post. When he
learned her age, he threw up his
hands in CONSERVATION and de-
clared that she was far too young
for so heavy q responsibility.
"Why, yop would be the young.
est nurse that ever went so far
north" he declared. a.F
"Well, I want to 20. like the
work." insisted the intrepid young
Contract Il Signed.
DR.. Marquis gave Miss Mueller q
contract and told her to take II
home with her and talk II over
with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Mueller, and her sister, Evelyn.
Then think the matter over
very carefully for two weeks and
II at the end of that period you
are still of your present mind. come
back to me-" he added.
Miss Mueller followed his instruc
tions and went back to the offices
of the board at No. 156 Fifth ave
nue. with the signed contract.
The Inhabitants OF the distric,
about Point Barrow include zoe
Eskimo and seven white families
Miss Mueiler's expedition 10 being
financed by Glendale Presbyterian
Church, of Cleveland, Ohio, OF
which the Rev. DIR. Arthur Henry
Limouse 10 rector. Al the mem
bers of DIR. Limouse's. congregation
have never seen Miss Mueller and
are anxious to meet her DIR. Ii
muse has arranged q reception at
his church In her honor next Mon
day night.
Travel BY Packet.
After her brief stay in the Ohio
city Miss Mueller viii 60 by train
to Seattle, WASH, where she viii
board packet which makes iti
first stop on the Yukon river n
Nome.
At Nome, IL she had good fortune
the young nurse will take passage
on the United States revenue cutter
Bear for Point Barrow. II the Bear
II late. however. she probably viii bs
stuck in the ice between Nome and
Point Barrow, and the remainder OF
the journey will have to be made b,
dogsled.
Miss Mueller told n reporter tha,
she had no thoughts of matrimony.
"All I am thinking about Is tn,
good / can do those poor sufferers In
that cold, bleak region" she said.
The young woman declared thai
she expects to enjoy her new worl
80 much that, after taking 4 vacation
at her home In Astoria. at the enc
OF the first five.year term. she vii
return for another tour Of duty ol
the same length.
Members of the church mission
board are loud In their praise Of ths
young woman's heroism in, accepting
an assignment that might daunt 3
much older woman. E
Miss Mueller's mother said she 1,
perfectly contented with her. daugh
ter's decision to go to Point Barrow
for such an>extended sojourn.