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the snow. appeared some distant spechS'
At last the musk OK!
CWIFTLY the mon surrounded the
- herd The musk OK herd closed 10
rether The men craWled forward 70
within 10 wards you cannot Or sure
of killing at any greater distance. any
YOU dare not nti66) The oxen cnaree9
SingIv. And each man as ne was charged
shot into the only fatal spot-~the splna'
Inst before the horns caught the huht-
ors the oxen fell dead
wherever musk oxen are found hleIe
are usually caribou nearby. The famous
Stefauseon Is one Of the most sSlliiu'
Of caribou hunters ,,,,
Ia 1919 he wandered. lost and WIN
out stores for FIVE months until tlme
came when he and his men c0uiu hlu
no living creature along the Shore, hs
turned inland. Finally he saw nero
Of timid caribou slowly moving SOUTH
ward as they ate. Stcians6on cncm it.
until he was IN the line Of Their drll.
and then lay fiat, motionie@ anu
cramped for many hours ,.,s
AT last they we're near. NO" HlA
shots had 10 be perfect II huh'tI
wounds one Of these creatures III OF
near the heart, IL VIII sprint 30 or 100
Yards at top speed Then falling Ioi1
ward. it VIII turn somershuit ai'a
/ dron dead. and this win frigntcn away
/ tho whole herd. Therefore 5teIanh.oll
shot them through the body back OF inc
! diaphragm the creatures either sank 70
! The ground where they were, or TAXING
( few steps forward. lay down hloW s,i
rs If merely Ia take rest. 5hootlhs
this way, he got all the herd
! In a land where IN one day man
can secure enough food for several
wrecks It may seen at fifst slRhl % u
The danger Of starvation and munger
/ we're ogefemphaszed But this u NOT
The case The few animals IN the frozen
region herd together, An explorer knows
I that while searching for one OF theae
herds he may undergo hafdshihh Or
snair even death As StefanHson has
aid no Arctic explorer should tehI
four OF FIVE days without food. Many q
man has had 10 go that long.
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The stairs and corridors are constructed ab-
Solutely 1reproof, with segments brick
arches sprung between rolled iron beams Tor
the floors. which are tiled with black and
white marble The ends OF the building are
covered with metal roofs the central por-
ton with green and blue slate, laid in tasty
patterns
The upper part OF The center BUILDING Is
crowned By a mansard roof. han&ed by Two
crarefuI bell towers with an in >ermediate
clock face and pediment. surmOunteo by
colossal bust Of Franklin. and has been eiSp-
GRATED with an eye to the utmost attainabi2
ELEGANCE and beauty in that lofty portion
which is visible from ali points of the COM
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pass Light form, beautiful color and brill
liant gliding are added.
What forms the most notable feature In
this school building is that the huge Yentt-
lating Aues. which generally form unSeemly
protuberanceS, have been grouped symmetri-
rslIy on the four corners and shaped so as
10 form the most prominent part OF the
decoration; that the sub-strsta OF the chaT-
artrrfstir bell towers perform the most I'M
nortant parts in the combined system OF
heating and ventilation. and that In short,
architecture itself constitutes the decoration
If the architecture. although there are also
a few minute carvings, not discernible from
n distance For these CARVINGS the motives
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~cal BACKGROUND Of Franklin School and the Square

he goes out evenings-and sometimes
in the mornings. when he returns
early-he turns off and halts at the
large and handsome residence of the
Secretary of War. on K street, and
holds conference there. If in his ba-
rouche. 1 can see from my window he
does not alight. but sits in the vehicle
and Mr. Stanton comes out 10 attend
him. Sometimes one of his sons a boy
Of 10 or II. accompanies him. riding at
his right on pony In the Summer l
occasionally saw the President and his
wife, toward the latter part Of the
afternoons. out in barouche, on a
pleasure ride through the city. Mrs.
Lincoln was dressed in complete black,
with a long crepe veil. The cquipage
is Of the plainest kind only two horses.
and they nothing extra. They passed
me once very close and saw the Pres
ident in the face fully, as they we're
moving slowly, and his look though ab-
stracted, happened 10 be directed stead
lily in my eye. He bowed and smiled.
but far beneath his smile I noticed we'll
the expression I have alluded to. None
of the artists or pictures has caught
the deep though subtle or indirect e8-
preston of this mans face There ts
something else there. One Of the great
portrait painters of two or three CEN
turtles ago is needed"
~
FRANKLIN SQUARE received slight
L attention until after the Civil War.
About 1852 1t was graded and inclosed
with wooden fence, and there in 1861
the 18th New York Volunteers, COM
manded BY Gen. Daniel Butterfeld,
made their temporary camp. Allen G.
Clark in writing Of Abraham Lincoln
for the Columbia Historical Society,
speaks of this square as follows: When
in front Of Secretary Stanton's, Mr..
Lincoln now and then saw a large
crowd-and husiastic-arranged in a
circle in Franklin Square. Great shouts
rended the air Mr.. Lincoln knew the all
out daily occurrence was not raising on
a mighty staff the national colors. The
shouts came when brilliant play was
| made or A clOut over f1elders head in
| the national game Very likely he was
/ close to the amusing and exciting
! scene in June. 1862. when the Jeffer-
/ son and the Monitor base ball clubs
/ contended with the close and exceed
/ ingly small score Of "A 10 AZ"
/ OF course you know of the series OF
/ springs which once furnished water to
/ the downtown section of Washington.
pended exclusively upon pumps until
close to 1888. as did the executive de-
partment No one familiar with the
conditions hereabout was in the least
surprised when recently. in the WIDEN
ing of Thirteenth street. large brick
reservoir was exposed 10 view between
/ l and K streets. which no doubt had
been hidden away for the better part OF
a hundred years
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Marion TODD.
~0IAR hunting is the most excit-
ing In the world For IN the
frozen North the hunter Is an
eyrIoreY whose life depends upon
his skill. and the land from
,,hirh ne must wiring an existence Is
the most difficult and peTilous oi nuht-
inc grounds. II is barren waste o.
Everlasting snow and ice. against whose
SHORES foes and Jagged ice PACKS ats
driven day and night by WINDS ano GU
rents. Nothing grows except ND.
iichen and tiny Arctic poppiss oot ing
the three short Summer montns. hI.1~
mails are 50 scarce that often the eA~
nlorer hunts hours. days-6omeflnle
even weeks-before seeing single nv
tnS creature. When at last ne finds one,
snyiously he stalks it. intently he aims.
For II he should miss II may mean Gays
IF hunger while ne hunts again. II may
mean even starvation.
starvation. 81 all polar dangers, Is the
one the explorer fears most. 81 course
he takes enough canned and dried loodH
III last the expedition, but this Is noi
enough. IN the first place, Elen ana
dogs become afflicted with scurvy unless
fnev have the yltsmins Of living foods
e,1ch as fresh meat. Also, unless me
expiorer depends somewhat on hunting
ne dogs must carry heavy loads, when
slowg 10 the expedition. Inls means
that the men have 10 eat lightly ana
are worried every time that there is a
DELAY for fear their stores VIII not last
In addition no seasoned explorer
would dare trust entirely 10 me stores
he brines with him For hardly man
no has been much IN polar regions iaaa
not ~ some time seen his snip ana az
knr al
without provisions for weeks, or even
months
EOR instance. IN 1903 ! saw my com
nsnd the America smashed IN
polar ics Jam Tnf crew and escaped
without stores over rough bay ice u
ahere There ve waited all Winter lot
tne relief ship which was ~ have cofne
In the gpfing BIZ instead Gt comma
men IL missed ~ ~ = year. Hunting
saved US Stefsnsaon 10 1919, was hilnb'
Ing On shore with two companions WnsY
he sew their ship caught IN dfiftlns
ire foe, disappear into the mist Hf
Bved for I'VE months by hunting anc
Travelled almost 900 miles N safety
There vas Bob Bartlett, captain d
Pesrys North Pole ship, who sa@ hii
command the KaTluk crushed and SUM
Dy fostina ice packs For months n
and all his crew wfung living out o
snow-ocyered. Ice bound HefsheIl Island
As far n0Ftnward as land extend
animals can be found tn time by tn
skilifsi and wary hunter Once u
1904 / found myself with several com
panions. on Cape Flora Our ship bai
rssn sunk two years before Our store
wsrs gone. There %as no sign hi IN
relief ship Ths winter night Va
coming on Unless We ans Il sap
DlV If food before Il grew TOO Oar
Id ftlnt Ne faced starvation
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This. knew. was walrus country.
50 ! had my men build two little SKIN
boats In one Of them / sent party
ont To sea In search of food. One
hunter, with rife and harpoon, stood
at the bow peering into the water
Day after day he searched II for sight
of the cleaning i3-inch tusks and
ugly, black head of walrus. AZ last
he saw one. He shot and instantly
hurled out his long harpoon. BY the
harpoo1 rope he pulled in the dead
sinking creature.
Just back of the skull Of a walruS
is it's one vulnerable spot. The hunter
must never miss IT, For wounded this
denizcn Of the Arctic wilds will attack
a boat and rip it TO pieces with his
long tusks.
Meantime and The others had traV-
eled far down along The shore ice Al
last we discovered q herd Of Wairus
wing asleep on a distant pan. We
covered ourselves with white clothing
Then watching the drift Of the cur
rent. We picked out A course for our
boat We lay metionless in IT. hour
bv hour and slowly drifted down on
the herd. oAs long as the hunter IL
dressed IN white and motionlcss the
wa!rus thinks he Is part nj the land
scape.b Finally We we're beside the
pan on which they lay
#4+
CCARcELY moving. we hit the ice
- with an oar a few times until the
animals were used 10 the sound Of a
shsrp crack. Cautiously then ] raised
myself and standing m0tioniess, fred
Al each shot the nerd lifted their
heads. looked about and, seeing
nothing move. soon slept again. We
killed them al Bill suppose they had
seen one of ua move. OT suppose ! had
wounded one instead Of killing u out
right Instantly all would have diYeo
! INTO the water the winters night
/ might have fallen before We found an
other herd And when the long dark
ness had made 1t impossible 70 wander
sbout We would hase turned back lf
] our SNOW huts empty handed
This because IT takes 80 long TO fnc
his pfcy-~is why the polar hunter
spends hours approaching IT, Hf aafe'
rot take 4 chance,
More valuable even than the "alin
! is tho musk OK. for sometimes one %
these viii have as much a. ~ pound'
If rich fat on his back Eut tx
nausk m frneuents only the northern
most tips NJ the continents Greenland
J snd one or two nearby islands.
III 1909 these animals saved The llft
Of my friend. Mlkkelsen ~ he wen
through East Greenland 10 the rescue
Of Miles Ericsson. who, with ail hli
party was stranded there There hat
been some delays and Mikkelben1
stores we're giving out The offshofi
ice Was chopped and broken INTO
thousand geethIna fragments 80 tina
no seal on Wairts could be found 81
Mikkelsen set ont inland with SOM
companions
For days iheg searched the SNOW
feids With spgglbaes They Were aiinos
ready 10 give up. Inen. black egana
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When It Comes to the Problem of Living Off the Arctic

and seas and lonely. primitive danger.
They are the worlds last frontiers,
where the elements are mans greatest
enemy and man Is the enemy Of every
living creature.
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son, and until 1869, when he died. and
it was there that he was frequently
visited by Lincoln. Speaking of these
visits. Walt Whitman in his '
men DAYS" says: often I notice as
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EARTnER north. beyond The country

FARTHER north beyond The country
of the musk ON OF caribou, the seal
and the polar bear continue 10 pc
found II Ia the seal which feeds the
explorer most often Along The Arctic
islands wherever the 0tfhhofe Ice ~
broken into leads their heads may nov
and again be seen bnbbine IN the water
giit The skilled explorer does not shoot
them then For dead seal usually
SINKS and besides, II would be refk'
less chBnfe for man 10 take with the
ammunition on which his life depends.
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and is always roaming the Ice. pans
In search Of them When he spies a
sleeping seal the white bear flattens
himself against the ice so that he is
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He must catch them when they lie on
the ice.
But the SEALS enemy, the polar bear,
knows they love To sleep in the sun,
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Wv YHEN Thirteenth street was
n widened from I street to
wv Massachusetts avenue 1t was
found necessary to cut away
the parking and steps OF the
Franklin School, at Thirteenth and x
streets. and rearrange the approaches
TO that building, which Is regarded by
many an old resident as an interesting
andmark-interestin to many Wash
ingtonians because here in their youth
full days their scholastic education was
entirely or in part obtained. Indeed,
some even received here the finishing
touches In the normal school, later to
become instructors themselves.
However, only q small percentage OF
those who went to school here pursued
the available course to the end and be-
came teachers, but instead a large ma
ioritv tooks up other activities for their
life work. Many of these have for years
daily passed and repaSSed this pic
turesque old building, which means so
much to them in recalling the old school
DAYS. when life was young and the
wpr1o seemed gay,
n is diffcuit to believe that some
people seldom. II ever, give thought to
the past. and, Of course, it is just as
true that an equal number rarely, II
ever. think of the future. but rather
live entirely in the present. For only a
comparative few sentiment means moth
ing. while with the great army OF the
majority it means everything. And so
when the girls and boys Of years gone
BY pass this silent reminder of youth
full attachments their thoughts turn ito
some teacher they loved or some COM
psnion that became pal, who dropped
of OF the earth. as il were. leaving
Ksse If q
face, = charming disposition.
-
A s buildings are regarded, Franklin
School is not an old structure. hav-
k1c been first occupied in 1859 As an
attractive building. few in the District
are as artistic, and from an external
view II il hard 70 see Just in what re-
spect We have improved in school con-
siruction during the 50 years OF Its
existence. When this building was
erected il was in every respect the
last word in school construction. It's
designer. Adolph Cluss. man OF much
experience and wide reputation as an
architect. designed. besides this build
ing. the Wallach, Sumner. Seaton, cur
tis and Cranch School Buildings, to-
gether with many other structures III
Washington that even today stand as
monuments to his planning skill.
An early description of the building
Indicates the almost suburban condi-
tions existing in this neighborhood. at
least I'D to 1859. It begins by saying:
situated at the intersection OF Thir-
tenth and K streets-two wide roads
n presents q picturesque aspect from
every point of approach" Continuing,
this description says:
All the principal partition walls are also
Of hard burnt bricks of abundant strength.
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Food Scarce the Frozen North and When Explorer Lucky Enough
Locate Fresh Meat He Stalks Quarry With Caution and Aims With Care

almost invisible Then he creep,
forward and suddenly springs upon hi:
quarry So the seals have learned tc
be cautious. Twenty or thirty of them
will scatter themselves over wide
foe where they can see far in all di-
teetions. Each one lies close To a blow
hole. and at the first hint Of danger
he dives beneath the Ice To safety.
Seals never sleep more than 80 on
10 seconds at a time After each nap
they raise their heads, look about. then
flap their tails two or three times. as II
signaling to each other, "All is WELT
A seal hunter In action is a rather
ridiculous sight, for he has to play
the Arctic game of seal" This hunt
of mine in 1904 on the north coast OF
Franz Joseph Land is typical OF all
hunts
After DAYS Of searching | sighted q
herd OF about 30 lying asleep on the
ice Silently | approached within so
yards OF the nearest Seal~-they cannot
see farther than that There l flop
ped down on the ice Every time the
seal raised his head I raised mine.
When he Tipped mis- tail, signaling, /
held my legs together and raised them
In an answering signal, When reaS-
sured the seal would fall To sleep for
his a0-seoond maps. During these
periods l would spring, run 80 feet or
so and then tiop down again. AT last
| got within S0~odd Yards | shot. and
then slid for the seal az II l were
making third basel
Unless | had rushed In and grabbed
II almost instantly, II would have skid
ded into q hole In the ice and would
have been lost
AT this time, while / was mapping
: Franz Joseph Land there was
always the smell Of seal meat about
our camp And. although We rarely
went bear hunting we shot several
hears, For led BY the smell of meat.
they would blunder into camp at
night They would sec our dogs sleep
ine The smell OF the meat was In
their nostrils and the dogs looked like
sleeping seal So the bear would creep
forward ready to leap upon them
When this happened the Arctic saw
something startling in hunting cos
TUNES
For We, with our clothes laid off
would be sleeping In bags inside the
tent As the bear creeps upon the
dogs some one hears the crunch OF
his feet in the SNOW and, simultaneous
". the barking nf The dogs, lie shouts
'nearl" Instantly We all are awake
We Jump out Of cur sieepine bags,
grab guns. plunge naked~~or nearly
SO outside, shoot The bear and are
hack again within half q minute Next
"a our guns, our dogs are Our most
precious possessions, 1hev are more
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! than worth plunge into the Arctic
air
Around the most northerly of the
| Arctic Islands the sea Is frozen solid
and is snow covered. There are nc
| bear No seals lie baSking in the sun
No life seems 70 survive,
But ! discovered that beneath the Ice
seal still exist AS we travelled along
the shore ice I noticed that occasionally
my dogs would sniff the snow, | learned
10 dig down where they shifted Below
The snow would be a seals blow hole
Every seal has Or 10 such holes, all
fairly close tOcethcr- We would un-
cover as many as We could find Then
I would station man above each hole
with a harnoon in his hand ready tc
hurl. Sometimes Il would be Ave hours
but sooner or later the seal would
come to one Of .thc holes 10 breathe
In such ways as these does the Arctic
explorer lives But the Antarctic adVen
turer faces even greater difficulties, For
the North Pole is more friendly than
the South. Instead Of lying IN the
midst OF q fertile sea the South Pole Is
surrounded by thoGSaud-odd miles Of
ice capped land on which not one llv-
ing creature has ever yet been seen
Amundsen and Scott are the only men
who have reached this pole
Comdr Byrd, from what these men
have told us. will find, when ne sails
on his expedition 60 explore and ily
over the South Pole, first the Great
Barrier" a lofty ice elf extending for
miles and rising sheer out of the sea.
IL stands at the gateway OF the Ant
arctic, AT its base he Will find
wealth Of food. The animals are fear
less because there are no polar bears
to prey on them and they have never
seen man
THE seals hask close together in the
sun, They merely wave their ftp
perS II you touch them. and roll over
80 be- scratched mere comfortably The
tat pengulns standing ahnlt or to-
boganing in parties let you Seize them
IN your hands, or steal their eggs, half
covered IN the snow. from underneath
them
The whales alone are dangerous
Killers and humnhaCkS rise 60 the 81
face now and then Sometimes one VA
rest his head on the edge OF "A Zoe white
his wicked little rcd eyes look about tor
seal or penguin Then IL he sees one,
or mistakes man for one he dives be-
meath the foe and comes rising up
under It, smashing the ice So that The
animal falls into the water where nc
can swallow t.
In the Arctic all animals plunge into
the water for safety, here they climb To
land This is q rich country for the ex-
plorer To live in, but when he climbs
the Barrier he leaves all life behind.
Beyond the cliffs tie tagged, mountain
Gus ice peaks For four days he elimhs
through them. Somewhere here. about
900 miles from shore and living food,
Byrd plans Ia build his base eamp
Farther stlli over the mnnotonous ice
lies the Pole across which he plans to
fy
To-day the Arctic and Antarctic alone
remain regions OF undiscovered lands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-05
BY ANTHONY FIALA.

Noted explorer and lsseer Of mani sxpeoi-
Marion TODD.
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~OLAR hunting is the most excit-
ing In the world. For IN Inc
frozen North the hunter is an
4 explorer whose life depends upon
mis- skill. and the lano from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-13
LEAF CLEANUP URGED
City to Start Pre-POst Drive
Wednesday to Clear Streets.

Charles A. GroSSart, street COM
missioner, will begin the annual pre-
frost street cleaning drive Wednes-
day.
Citizens are asked to clean their
lawns of leaves before the city-wide
drive is started. The $40 miles of
paved streets will be cleaned, pre-
paratory to cold weather, which
handicaps the department. The
drive will continue about two weeks.
Workmen will begin on the north
side Wednesday and in the south
east section Monday.
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Apartments for Rent

BROADWAY, 1sOs-Upper duplex, 4 rms,
in-a-door bed; Al condition; hardwood
floors; $40 Ha. 0302-W. after p. m.
CAPITOL, N, 2611-Lower rooms, bath,
conveniently located; heat and water
furnished; reasonable. Ia. 1901.
CENTRAL, 3810-Lovely 5-rm. apt. high
class neighborhood. SIS. Ii. 66l2.
CENTRAL 3205I2--5 rooms, bath, heat,
water $50. Ia. $3.50; Wa. 0948.
CENTRAL 1915 RMS, FINE LOG.
EXCEL HEAT, WATER, LG. YARD,
PORCH. CONVENIENT TO BUS. REAS.
CLIFTON 2947-Small- apartment, heat.
gas and water furnished. Ii. 6412.
CENTRAL, 1872. 8. or large pleasant
rooms, bath. furn. or unfurn. Suitable
for man and wife or several business
women. Ii. 1857. He. 1887, Sunday.
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USED TRUCKS

We have started a separate store
for the sale and display Of trucks.
There you may see at all times the
most complete assortment of new
and used truck transportation. All
recOnditioned.
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Miscellaneous Wanted

HOUSE CLEANINGP-Yo Your surplus cloth
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Industrial Home. Phone for wagon ri
1922. l27 W, Georgia 81.
IF YOU HAVE-Household goods for sale.
call LEW SHANK AUCTION CO.. Ri
HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID-For furni-
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